Cassian has been to Coruscant before. It's just never been under his own name. As far as the galaxy is concerned, Cassian Andor is another adopted war orphan of Bail Organa, but he couldn't be kept away from the Rebellion when the Rebellion is what saved his life as a child. Leia was the more public face, the future politician, while Cassian's expectations were more versatile. Official explanations have him traveling the galaxy for leisure, for business, to call on his father's old friends, and he carries out his missions in secret. The attention is all on Leia, which he prefers. It's calculated to be that way.
The planet always feels too busy and too Imperial, but the next few weeks, if not months, of his life are going to be drowning in Imperial nonsense and he hates that Bail successfully put him up to this. It feels like a much more personal that causal mission, but he owes too much to Bail to have dismissed it. She could be an asset, Bail had insisted as if it would offer him more incentive, and he passed along all the files and documents they had on Galen and Jyn Erso.
K2 with him is as much of a comfort as it is a concern, but at least his droid doesn't look out of place in the city. If anything, it adds some credibility, gives Cassian an air of importance and a buffer to keep some potentially nosy people away. He'd received home tutelage on Alderaan alongside learning to fight for the Rebellion, so his journey into academics is not entirely fabricated, even if his thesis is.
He doesn't miss the way both father and daughter take in his appearance during official introductions, and it makes him internally fidget, but he's used to weaponizing his looks sometimes. If he's supposed to try and win Jyn over, it's probably a point in his favor.
He watches her lean against the door and finds it genuinely amusing. Not quite cute, but close. "Perhaps I am not what your father expected."
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The planet always feels too busy and too Imperial, but the next few weeks, if not months, of his life are going to be drowning in Imperial nonsense and he hates that Bail successfully put him up to this. It feels like a much more personal that causal mission, but he owes too much to Bail to have dismissed it. She could be an asset, Bail had insisted as if it would offer him more incentive, and he passed along all the files and documents they had on Galen and Jyn Erso.
K2 with him is as much of a comfort as it is a concern, but at least his droid doesn't look out of place in the city. If anything, it adds some credibility, gives Cassian an air of importance and a buffer to keep some potentially nosy people away. He'd received home tutelage on Alderaan alongside learning to fight for the Rebellion, so his journey into academics is not entirely fabricated, even if his thesis is.
He doesn't miss the way both father and daughter take in his appearance during official introductions, and it makes him internally fidget, but he's used to weaponizing his looks sometimes. If he's supposed to try and win Jyn over, it's probably a point in his favor.
He watches her lean against the door and finds it genuinely amusing. Not quite cute, but close. "Perhaps I am not what your father expected."