On the woes of being a female OC

[lady_calrissian]

Look, hon, don't let it get you down so much. You already knew I was going to be a tough sell, got too much working against me as it is. You knew that going in, and it ain't your fault that someone told you the place was something it wasn't, or maybe there was something lost in translation.

It doesn't matter either way. You'll find a place where I'll fit.

In the meantime, put me out there, there's memes we can agree on, and eventually we'll get more than just a cursory nibble, right? I'm not usually the optimistic sort, but even I know how the statistics have to work. Sooner or later.

I can be patient, but you've got to work with me, you can't just box me back up again because one thing didn't pan out. I mean, you could but I think we'd both regret it if you did.

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[twelve_not_fourteen]

"It was a tough sell."

A thoughtful 'entrepreneur' such as Han Solo knows when it's going to be difficult to unload something when he's observing it. The smuggler's game has always been a high-risk, high-reward endeavor and you need to take some chances to hit those really good pay offs.

Not that anyone needs to explain any of that to a Calrissian.

"You doing alright, kid?"

[lady_calrissian]

"Yeah, I'll live. Temporary setback, that's all." She grins, and that smile is 100% Calrissian, "You know me, I'll bounce back, and better than before."

Truth be told, he probably doesn't know her, and she knows it, but she is very much her father's daughter, and that includes a certain familiarity with certain parties.

[twelve_not_fourteen]

The history between Han Solo and Lando Calrissian is complicated.

Not a lot of people realize that who have seen them interact the way they do now, so many years after the Battle of Yavin, would never know that they spent a number of years hating each other. Not with the way they talk fondly about the old days and laugh over glasses of Corellian Reserve.

Han always felt like the actions following Bespin said a lot about the Calrissian patriarch. Take Chewie out of the equation and there isn't anyone else that Solo considers himself a closer friend to. In that respect, it's hard to imagine the two old rogues not talking family matters once in a while.

"I expected nothing less." He says with a smile that's more in his eyes than his face.

[lady_calrissian]

Aside from anyone actually involved, Han was probably the first one to hear about the wedding, and about the pregnancy, and maybe, just maybe, the fact that Lando's little girl -not so little anymore- had the same taste in women as her old man.

Which really should have been a surprise to no one, since she also had her mother's taste in men. It evened out, most of the time.

"Oh, really?" She was fighting back a smile, trying for standoffish, maybe even offended, and still falling far short of either, "And would you have expected anything more?"

[twelve_not_fourteen]

As if this old man would judge anyone else's preferences/conquests. He still walks into cantinas across the galaxy and gets greeted with slaps to the face.

"More than you dusting yourself off and getting back out there?" Han regards the question with as much thought as he can spare. "Seems like enough to me, but then, you're probably aiming for the stars."

[lady_calrissian]

That's a greeting she's familiar with, both giving and getting.

"Shoot, right now I'm just aiming for a place to get out and stretch my proverbial legs for a while." And there's the laugh she was biting back before, simmering easily to the surface. If the grin is her father's, the laugh, warm and bubbling and amused, is her mother's, "Literal ones too, come to think of it."

[twelve_not_fourteen]

It's good that he knows that's not an offer. Though, he certainly does appreciate the woman's ... flair. We'll go with flair.

"I think you missed the nicest time to get to Corellia, the weather is starting to get cold, but I hear Naboo is nice this time of year."

[lady_calrissian]

'Flair' is a good word for it, Alanna herself tends to use 'panache', especially when she's feeling fancy.

"Yeah, mun found a new place to throw me, we'll see how it pans out. Places like this don't tend to last long, but I'm an optimist."

[twelve_not_fourteen]

There is a tendency to be a big grandiose among certain families in this galaxy. Some personalities just seem to demand it after all.

Han waves his hand. As if he could gesture somehow to the entire multiverse in a simple wave, though traces of the old skulduggery can be seen in the gesture. "You mean around here."

He can't say that she would find the things she's likely to be searching for in his meta haunts.

"The things we do to entertain ourselves."

[lady_calrissian]

Now that was a little more like the 'uncle' Solo she knew, and it amused her to think on, because they clearly weren't the same person, but maybe close enough to it.

"She did manage to get a couple bites so far, so we'll see how it goes from here, I guess."

Despite sounding cynical, she's actually pretty optimistic about it.

[twelve_not_fourteen]

It's interesting how all those years and the experiences in them, after the Battle of Yavin, had changed the man. In the same way that it could be interesting that thirty years after the Battle of Yavin might have hardly changed the man at all, if things had played out differently.

"I'd wish you good luck, but I don't think you need it."

In his mind, that was always what separated her father and he back in their smuggling days. Lando was calculating and confident - something that seems to be in his daughter too, where as Han was brash and ... fortuitous.

[lady_calrissian]

"Oh everybody could use a little bit of luck at least. Planning and reading people and acting like I know everything will only get me so far." Another easy smile, "But then again, luck will only get me so far too, need a bit of both to balance everything out."

And she had both in spades, even if sometimes her luck was the kind she made herself, and if sometimes her acting like she knew everything came off as being bull-headed, she made it work for her.