Something about traveling with these kids makes Han feel very old, and he’s not even that much older.

Sure, the princess is pampered and the farmboy can be painfully naïve, but they’ve each lost their homes in a pretty horrifying way, so it’s not like they’re strangers to hardship, and they face it with the same dauntless idealism. That’s the thing, though, they’re too young to have lost what they have, but they don’t ever give up, not for long, they just fight to make the star sector a better place, and they shouldn’t have had to make the choices that they have.