Beru Whitesun, introduced to us briefly in Star Wars: A New Hope only to be burnt to a charred skeleton a half hour later, could be seen just as a purveyor of blue milk and mild disagreements with her husband's discipline. But lets look a little closer. How, exactly, did she come to parenthood?
"Okay. So here's this baby. He's related to you in the most tangential way. In fact, he is the grandson of your father-in-law's late second wife. But please raise him as your own, even though his father, a telepathic mass murdering psycho who's sliced his way through a thousand year old organization of the greatest warriors in the galaxy, might show up one day, slaughter your entire household, and take the kid back to the stars. I, a lone survivor of this organization, am going to try to make sure that doesn't happen, but it won't keep me from living somewhere at least half-a-day's landspeeder ride away. I mean, the rent around here is terrible."
Despite all this, Aunt Beru still managed to find a place in her heart and her home for the young Luke Skywalker, ensuring that he grew up with a fierce sense of morals and an even fiercer hatred for the Empire. That said, Luke does an awful lot of growing up over the course of the original Star Wars trilogy, without his aunt.
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