Obi-Wan Kenobi: Is Young Leia Showing Force Sensitivity?
«I am inside your mind.» These are the first words that the phony Jedi Haja Estree speaks in the second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, pretending to read the thoughts of a customer he's conning. And later, he gets a sort of comeuppance, as the Third Sister performs the same feat on him for real. Throughout the Star Wars canon, the Force has long granted mental powers to its practitioners, from the ability to read others' thoughts to the classic «These aren't the droids you're looking for.» And in the franchise's latest series, one essential character is showing audiences what these abilities look like in a raw, untrained state.
In the show's first episode, we meet Princess Leia Organa at ten years old. Young actress Vivien Lyra Blair Even nails the character's sass and free-spirited nature, undoubtedly making the late Carrie Fisher proud. As a child, Leia is already something of a rebel, fitting for the alliance that she'll lead one day. Despite young Leia's insistence that she doesn't want a noble role, she's already showing qualities that will make her a great leader. She's clever, brave, and incredibly perceptive — the latter to an almost uncanny degree. Considering her parentage, it's not too great a stretch to guess that Leia's heightened empathy, her ability to read the feelings of others, stems from sensitivity to the Force.
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Leia was raised an Organa and considers them her family — even her mother says she takes after her father, Bail, in personality. However, she still has Skywalker blood running through her veins. In the Star Wars universe, some individuals have a deeper connection to the Force, and this sensitivity runs in the Skywalker line. Not all Force-sensitive
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