This article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett episode 2.

Star Wars has subtly suggested Luke Skywalker wouldn't have survived life on Tatooine had he not left the planet. There comes a time when every person looks back and imagines how their life would have worked out if they had made slightly different choices—and the more influential the person, the more tempting the siren song of nostalgia becomes. Even Luke Skywalker wasn't immune to the tantalizing question "what if?"

Jason Fry's novelization of Star Wars: The Last Jedi reveals Luke most certainly succumbed to nostalgia during his exile on the remote water world of Ahch-To. Luke dreamed of an alternate timeline where he never left Tatooine, and it may well have simply been his own mind inventing a scenario given his dissatisfaction with how his life had turned out. In this imagined reality, Luke saw himself living on Tatooine with his wife Camie, fulfilling an Imperial quote and paying water taxes to Jabba the Hutt, because neither Jabba nor the Empire had ever fallen. But The Book of Boba Fett episode 2 subtly suggests even this chilling glimpse of a timeline where Luke Skywalker never became a hero may have been optimistic.

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The Book of Boba Fett episode 2 includes a scene in which Luke's childhood friends Camie and Fixer were threatened by members of a swoop gang. Fixer made the mistake of standing up to the thugs, who proceeded to beat him up, reveling in the pain they caused him. Fixer was only saved by the intervention of Boba Fett, who turned the tables on them. The scene is a reminder of just how lawless and untamed Tatooine can be, and it strongly suggests Luke Skywalker—impetuous and headstrong, even more inclined to step up in the face of an obvious injustice than Fixer—simply wouldn't have survived on the inhospitable desert world.

Owen Lars seems to have gone a little too far trying to shelter his nephew Luke, and thus he was ill-prepared for life on Tatooine. Luke's naivety is actually suggested in the first Star Wars movie, in one telling scene in which he couldn't even last five minutes in the Mos Eisley Cantina without needing Obi-Wan's intervention to keep him alive. Had he stayed on Tatooine, he'd have come into contact with the seedier side of life there sooner or later, and he'd have soon died. Luke's daydream in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi novelization was actually overly optimistic.

In reality, it's entirely questionable whether Luke would have ever married Camie had he stayed on Tatooine—assuming, of course, that he wasn't killed along with his aunt and uncle during the Empire's search for R2-D2. She and Fixer first appeared in a deleted scene from A New Hope, where they were already a couple, and it's notable they seem to have stayed together. While it's quite likely Luke had a childish crush on her, there's been no indication she ever returned his feelings. It's possible Luke Skywalker would have married before he died in this dystopian alternate Star Wars timeline, but Camie probably wouldn't have been his wife.

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