I find it really funny that in Star Wars, Han is canonically about the same age as Kanan & Hera (only a few years younger even in old canon), but because of how they grew up they veiw people 10y younger than them completely opposite ways.
Like Kanan & Hera grew up in active war zones with Generals as parents. They were forced to grow up FAST. They had to be functionally adults before they got a chance to be teenagers. And resultingly they look at anyone young enough to not remember the Clone Wars as babies. They see an angry Mandalorian teenager as the toddler she was in the Clone Wars, drawing on walls to express emotions she can't otherwise express. They see a force sensitive street rat as the tiny crecheling who wasn't even born till the final days, and wouldn’t have even entered the temple until a few years after the war, but who would have ended up his Padawan eventually anyway. And they adopt both in a heartbeat. They're in their 20s and see these teenagers, and are just like "Ah yes, our kids," and they are VERY much parental figures with an obvious generational gap.
But while Han does remember the Clone Wars vividly, he wasn't on or anywhere near the front lines. And he didn't have anyone actively raising him. He didn't have a chance to grow up and got stuck in a mental standstill during adolescence. So he looks at Luke & Leia, and he sees peers. It doesn't matter that he lived through an entire war before they were born, cause he sees very little difference between that one and the one they're currently in. He sees them as his own age group just a little younger and treats them accordingly. He treats them as friends and equals. Leia isn't a kid in his eyes, she's a spitfire woman who has seen more war than he has. And there's a little bit of big-brother-ing to Luke - but more based on Luke's naïvety than age. Theres nothing to suggest he views any real age gap between them, let alone a generational one.
But they're still the same age, and from what we see of their interactions are very much peers and friendly rivals themselves. Which makes me laugh at the confusion Han would react with to realizing that Hera's children are older (even if only by 2 days) than the twins and childhood friends with Leia...
Kallus being like U know what a bitch is tired of losing to a spraypainted teenage Mandalorian obsessed with explosives, a cringefail father figure with low self-esteem, a hotshot pilot with daddy issues and a murderous old junker of a droid/bestie, a scrappy blueberry child with sixty different aliases, and a lavender cat man who has a case of resting bitch face SO HE JUST JOINS THEM. congrats guys u have added a gayass ex-Imperial with muttonchops to your motley crew simply by being annoying.
Garazeb Orrelios’ role in the Ghost crew family is the chimera/wild card. He constantly alternates between several roles depending on who he was with when the shit hit the fan.
If he’s with Hera and Kanan (or just Hera) when trouble strikes, he’s the gruff uncle, sternly disapproving alongside mom and dad of whatever shenanigans the kids dragged everyone else into.
If he’s with Ezra and Sabine (or just Sabine), he’s the surly older brother who’s tired of getting into trouble because of his younger siblings and is trying to guess which of mom’s lectures he’s going to receive this time (he always gets the brunt of the blame, so he has her lectures memorized).
If he’s with Ezra alone, he becomes Ezra’s slightly older twin who he shares a single brain cell with.
If he and Kanan are left alone together, he becomes Kanan’s wild best friend/adopted brother. No matter how hard they try not to, they always end up in a Hangover style misadventure because this pair, like him and Ezra, shares few brain cells. They have two or three more than Ezra and Zeb, but the difference is kind of negligible.
And if Chopper is involved, he becomes the exasperated uncle who is just done with everything.
Upon rewatching rebels recently and getting back into the fandom, I've been picking up layers to Sabine's character I hadn't see before as a kid. She's introduced in the show as this brilliant, cool, older teen (at least to Ezra), with brightly dyed hair and a love of color and explosions. Her art is bright and loud, filled with every color of the rainbow. She's a mandalorian, and paints her armor bright colors and covers it with fun doodles.
But as the series goes on, and we see more of her, we see that while confident, she's also deeply hurt and insecure. We learn she abandoned the Empire in sea 1 because she was burned by their cruel principles, she was betrayed and abandoned by her closest friend and confident in sea 2, and lastly that she was abandoned by her family in season 3---Family, children, are everything to Mandalorians; hell, in their culture children can disown their parents, but parents cannot disown their children, but Clan Wren did.
Additionally, from what we see in the show, Mandalorians highly value one's own ability to contribute to their family and clan. To explain: when Sabine sees her mother again, while she does show concern and love for her daughter, all Ursa does the entire visit is criticize and lecture Sabine for her actions, choices, and friends. When Kanan argues with Ursa over her criticism of Sabine, she dismisses him, calling Sabine a child. And even after showing concern for Sabine, and expressing her worry for her, Ursa still criticizes her, telling Sabine that she's "not the warrior she'd hoped" for. And later in season 4, after being recused, the first thing Alrich says to his daughter is how her art needs work. The Sabine we mainly see is confident in herself and her abilities, but all that vanishes the moment she's back under her parents' gaze and words---he mother is harsh in her tone, her father gently cutting.
Sabine grew up on a white, colorless planet, in a grey, lifeless, and rigid "ancestral home". Later she joined the Imperial Academy, and moved from one set of colorless, pragmatic halls to another. On Mandalore, with her family and in the Empire, Sabine was a bird in a cage.
On the Ghost with the other Spectres, she's free. She's colorful and loud. She's confident and sure of herself. Her mother and father figures praise her and treat her with respect, her family freely jokes with her and supports her without the expectation that she be perfect in return. She paints her room with bright doodles, dyes her hair neon colors, paints her armor every color of the rainbow.
Sabine at her best is all color and bright and free and loud. And it was with her found family that she really got to grow up and be that.
Rebels fans have been consuming anything and everything in relation to our Ghost Fam for years, yearning for more, grasping at strings, tearing through fan fics
It's like oxygen to us, it all we think and breathe