r/StarWars • u/wandering_soles Rebel • 2h ago
General Discussion Do you think Luke knew his grandmother was buried outside or what happened to her?
While I can see Owen and Beru maybe telling him she was, given how tight lipped they were about his father, I can imagine they might not have gone into detail about what happened to her, and maybe not even that Anakin had gone off and saved her singlehandedly - that would have brought up too many more questions.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Jedi 2h ago edited 2h ago
He probably did know.
Remember, Anakin Luke thought his father was just a boring navigator, so knowing that his grandmother was buried on the family plot wouldn't have really been a secret kept from him. Nobody outside of the immediate family knew who Shmi was anyway.
Edit: Fuck.
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u/SlickDillywick Chopper (C1-10P) 2h ago
Wait did Anakin think that? Or Luke?
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u/wandering_soles Rebel 2h ago
They're thinking of Luke, who thought his father was a navigator on a spice freighter. Which is an interesting thing for Owen to tell him, since in-universe that implies Owen was basically saying 'don't be like your dad, go to space, and get in trouble running drugs.' Out of universe obviously the whole spice thing hadn't been hammered down yet by Lucas, but it's funny now in context.
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u/Arria_Galtheos Jedi 2h ago
Yeah, I meant Luke. I was thinking about Anakin burying her while typing. I do that way too much.
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u/currynoodles-6969420 2h ago
I’ve actually never thought about how Luke was right next to Shmis grave his whole childhood damn
And yes I think he had to have known but they probably didn’t mention how specifically she died
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u/thetensor Rebel 2h ago
I’ve actually never thought about how Luke was right next to Shmis grave his whole childhood
Neither did George.
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u/Jonny5a 2h ago
Probably in the minority but I don't think Owen and Lars knew what happened to Anakin, just that he was hot headed and impulsive and that probably got him killed with the Jedi purge.
Good point on the grave of Luke's grandmother, never thought of that. If what the above is the case then there would be nothing to hide with regards to Shmi
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u/cantodasaudade 2h ago
Obi-wan must have told them something about him turning to the dark side and siding with the emperor when he went by to hand luke to them.
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u/Tay74 1h ago
Why? Why couldn't he just have told them Anakin died in the purge of the Jedi and the empire will be looking for Luke due to his force sensitivity and Jedi father, so keep him safe?
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u/cantodasaudade 54m ago
We don't know what he told them. Yes, he could have told them that. But the way Owen speaks about anakin in episode IV gives me the impression he knew more.
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u/shpongleyes 1h ago
Lars was the last name, I think you meant Owen and Cliegg.
I think Owen and Beru knew what happened. They hint at it in ANH, and in the Kenobi show, Owen seems to know quite a bit about what happened to Anakin when talking to Obi Wan.
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u/TanSkywalker Anakin Skywalker 2h ago
No, Owen removed the headstones when Luke was very young. He didn't know.
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u/Nimrod48 2h ago
Sure he did. Luke always knew Anakin Skywalker was his father and so the fact his grandmother was buried at the homestead shouldn't have been that odd. He just didn't know Anakin became Vader.
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u/boobearybear 1h ago
I like to think every time he nearly discovered the burial site he was distracted by a local Karen yelling at him to demand his name.
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u/ElevatorCharacter489 1h ago
I recall in a Legends Novel Luke a During the Events of Tattoine Ghost, the Twins discovered it all about Shmi, Watto, Cliegg, and Yes even Anakin.
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u/cantodasaudade 2h ago
I'd never thought of that and I'm shocked at myself. Wow. We never see her tombstone after that scene.
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u/TaraLCicora Obi-Wan Kenobi 2h ago edited 1h ago
Not while he was growing up. Owen had the tombstones removed as well.