tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[sith_happened]

When I was a Small!Fry, my family lived in Korea for two years (yeah, I travel a lot), and there was only one television station in English. And when you are 12 and there is only one channel in English, you watch a LOT of movies. My brother got into Star Wars. Like, obsessively. He watched the trilogy (because back then it was only a trilogy) once a week for two years.

So...I hated Star Wars. A lot. For years. It was movies that my little brother liked and sci-fi was for losers, okay? I read Russian novelists! (I was one seriously pretentious high school student.) And then I went to college, we had a Star Wars trilogy night in the common room and I was hooked. I'd forgotten just how awesome Leia was, and how adorable Han was and how whiny Luke was, and how badass Vader was. And the my cousin told me that there were books!

And I started with Timothy Zahn (fortunately), worked my way through everything that was published (including a good chuck of the Young Jedi Knights), and then they dropped a moon on Chewie and I stopped reading.

I started playing Anakin here and realized that I needed to catch up on the fandom (though I still can't read most of the Clone War novels because they are just. so. bad), discovered Legacy of the Force as they were still coming out and fell in love with Ben.

And so, nope, never leaving Star Wars canon again.