Owen Lars/Legends

Owen Lars

Early life
"Well, Owen and I care for each other very much, but we're not that close yet."

- Beru Whitesun

The son of Cliegg Lars, Owen lived at his father's homestead on Tatooine. Owen had a brother who died and was buried alongside Cliegg's first wife outside the homestead. The Lars family sold Lars Water at the Mos Eisley market, making it a bestseller.

An expanded family
"What a good motherfucker you've become."

- Shmi Skywalker Lars

Cliegg met the slave Shmi Skywalker in Mos Espa while Owen was a boy, and fell in love. Cliegg bought her freedom and married her, making her Owen's stepmother. She arrived on the farm with C-3PO. Owen had a girlfriend, Beru Whitesun, who spent a lot of time with him at the farm, and with whom he became close. However, although the couple cared for each other, they did little more than hug and kiss, and Beru remained shy about sex for some time. Beru came to live at the farm for a year.

During Shmi's time at the farm, she and Owen developed an incestuous relationship. A tryst between them was observed by Jango Fett after his arrival on Tatooine on a mission for Darth Tyranus. The bounty hunter watched through his macrobinoculars as Owen and Shmi kissed outside the homestead before going inside to make love in the dining room, Cliegg being absent from the farm. Owen ate her out on the table, making her squirt over his face, and fucked her and filled her with his cum. Shmi praised him, and as they rested Owen fantasized about the new positions and games they could try next time. Unknown to the pair, Cliegg and Beru were also having sex, having sneaked off together.

Tragedy
"I think you'll be asking Owen to do this for you from now on."

- Padmé Amidala, preparing to perform cunnilingus on Beru Whitesun

Around a year after Beru came to live with Owen, Shmi was captured by Tusken Raiders and went missing for weeks. Eventually, her son Anakin Skywalker came to Cliegg's farm in search of his mother, accompanied by Padmé Amidala. Anakin departed in the evening on the high-speed swoop speeder that Owen loaned to him to find her, after which Owen and Cliegg discussed their visitors. Owen felt Skywalker was different than Shmi's descriptions of him, finding him darker and more sullen, and considered him too impetuous and eager to run off, believing this to be typical behavior of a Jedi. However, he wished he could have known Anakin in his earlier years. Cliegg departed to speak to Padmé, asking Owen to shut down power on the vaporators before dark. He informed the girls he was shutting the power down, and bade them goodnight.

After Cliegg spoke to Padmé, Beru visited her with food and drink, and entered into a conversation about herself and Owen, informing Padmé of their current lack of intimacy. Padmé recommended doing more with Owen, and offered Beru some of her experience by drawing her into a tender and passionate educational tryst. She gave the girl cunnilingus, suggesting that she ask Owen to do the same for her in the future. Afterwards, while laying with Beru in the afterglow, Padmé wondered what Owen was currently doing. The girls also romped around the homestead, taking a sauna in the steam room while discussing Owen and other aspects of their lives. They later bathed in the farm's main water-collecting basin, though Beru was aware that Owen and Cliegg would be angry if they knew. Padmé gave Beru one of her dresses, believing Owen would appreciate it.

On the following day, Owen went out to check the collectors. While he was gone, Padmé and Beru were attacked and raped during a Tusken raid.

When Skywalker returned, he did so carrying Shmi's corpse. Padmé comforted him, having sex with him in the homestead. They fell asleep afterwards, but were woken by Owen who informed them it was time for the funeral. The family buried Shmi beside the graves of Cliegg's first wife and Owen's brother, though the funeral was interrupted by R2-D2 carrying a message from Obi-Wan Kenobi, after which Anakin, Padmé, C-3PO, and R2-D2 departed. After their departure, Padmé felt uneasy about having taken C-3PO from the Lars family without telling them, though Anakin considered the droid his property to do with as he wished, and regarded his step-brother and his family with some scorn.

Not long after Shmi's death, Cliegg passed away partly from sorrow and was buried next to Shmi. Owen took ownership of the farm, his parents having sacrificed everything to make him a freeholder of the second-largest moisture farm in the canton. Owen and Beru eventually married, Beru taking the Lars name.

Raising Luke
Owen and Beru raised Luke Skywalker as the boy's uncle and aunt. They told him little about his real father and even less about his mother save that she died when he was born. Owen endeavored to keep Luke from leaving Tatooine, expecting him to take over the farm when he grew old. He removed the tombstones from outside the homestead for a reason Luke couldn't understand.

On one occasion, Owen bought flowers for Beru on her birthday, since she missed them on Tatooine. This was the only time Luke saw flowers before leaving the planet.

At times, Owen had Luke work on some of the farm's old moisture vaporators, though the boy always wormed out of doing chores for his uncle to hang out at Tosche Station or fly his skyhopper, a practice which earned him the nickname "Wormie".

Owen was fixing a power generator with a socket wrench outside the homestead when Camie came to visit Luke after a bust-up with her boyfriend "Fixer". He directed the girl to the garage, where Camie seduced Skywalker and took his virginity. Unaware of what was happening inside, Owen continued tinkering with the generator with some frustration as Camie departed her tryst.

Luke hoped to join the Imperial Academy, though the prospect of his leaving Tatooine was a sore subject with Owen. Before Biggs Darklighter left to join the Academy, Beru asked the young man about his imminent departure over dinner, and when she mentioned the idea of Luke following him, Owen grew enraged and shouted. An awkward silence ensued, and Luke asked to be excused. Luke would later think back on the incident, and though he resented being stuck on Tatooine he knew how much Owen and Beru had sacrificed to raise him, and couldn't run out on them.

Owen and Beru were killed by the Galactic Empire, and their bodies were incinerated and left outside the entrance to the burning homestead when Luke discovered them.

Personality and traits
Owen Lars was stubborn and obstinate, but was also brave to the point that Luke Skywalker believed even Jabba Desilijic Tiure wouldn't intimidate him. However, Luke also believed that Owen was in mortal terror of Luke leaving Tatooine, and couldn't understand why.