#JunkTraders

[sidonius5]

[typewriteringalaxy]

if Rian Johnson made miramir as sabé's daughter and if she was badass like her mother and daughter rey

If you're the same anon from the Dathan Kenobi ask, I love your galaxy brain. Padmé's handmaidens and especially Sabé is a woefully unexplored part of the prequels—her role as body double, bodyguard and companion, her loyalty that persisted after her queen's death, her previous life as Tsabsin! I don't know so much about the Legends, but this is a part that was worth keeping. She's a badass indeed.

I cannot imagine Sabé stepping down from her duties and leaving Padmé even for motherhood. As for who she might have a child with it could be either a one-night stand/short dalliance or someone fine with being a secondary priority. In the latter's case, it'd have to be someone with a more peaceful life, able to care for their daughter as Sabé would be absent for long stretches of time as her duties demand. Maybe that present parent would tell Miramir heroic tales about her mother, making her want to follow her footsteps with combat training etc. (And if she became a bodyguard for hire, looking for her own Padmé, she might've met mandalorian warrior Dathan this way! and Rey would grow up in a 100% fighter/diplomat family!)

If, on the other hand, there wasn't such a patient long-distance partner, it would be quite idyllic if all the handmaidens could raise Miramir together, but practically improbable, as their priority would have to always be Padmé. Nannies must be easy to hire on a queen/senator's handmaiden's salary, right? But it wouldn't be the easiest childhoold—Miramir might feel neglected and rebel against her (more on that later). (Ironically, that would make Miramir a great aunt for Ben Solo. Random thought, moving on.)

For her part, Padmé would in any case be the star wars equivalent of Miramir's godmother, lavishing her dear goddaughter with gifts, making sure she receives the best education, the best of everything. Miramir's view of Padmé however would depend on how she views her own mother, how jaded she might grow up to be with her absence. Worst case scenario, after Padmé's death, Sabé goes to hunt down Darth Vader with the Amidalas and Miramir joins the Empire in some fighter/diplomat capacity to spite her. (Which would also mean a great opportunity for enemies-to-lovers with Dathan!!)

(If we were to add another canon divergence and have Padmé survive giving birth, Miramir and the twins would be playmates from the moment they learned to crawl—and Dathan too, as Satine's son. Bonus childhood-friends-to-lovers!)

There's a lot of ways this could go, all shaping Miramir into a much more interesting character than a junktrader with 0.5 seconds of screentime. And with this lineage for Rey, the cohesiveness with the prequels would be astronomical. In a very peaceful AU, Reylo would even be childhood-friends-to-lovers and matchmade by their grandmas. So much food for fic!

Oops, this got out of hand. Thank you for the intiguing asks anon💕

[oldfatwarlock]

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[zenosanalytic]

I guess there's three parts to this? Like:

it suggests the size and character of the setting. Like: it's common for someone to have an utterly unique blaster, even though there's also clearly mass production, of particular models by particular manufacturers, out there. But it leaves WHAT that suggests up to the reader: it's a mystery, a frivolous one in this case, which invites the viewer to headcanon, while at the same time making the point very subtly that this is a universe floating on OCEANS of history and context, and both of those are a big part of the appeal of Star Wars to me.

NOT explaining it helps establish The Vibes and verisimilitude. Partly this ties into the above; there's allot going on, those oceans of history, but those are foundational to the characters so why would they need to explain it, but also Like: we all use Stuff everyday, most of us have Favorite Things, and the story behind them isn't something that comes up often, that ppl are typically curious about, or is even really that relevant. There's been this impulse since the originals, which started off harmless enough as just fun self-referential stuff, to give everything a backstory and thus write everything into the history of the franchise. Like having c3po and R2, who are clearly mass-produced droid models in the original trilogy, be built by Anakin, or effectively turning "Hello There" into Ben Kenobi's catchphrase(or the constant need to "Explain" Vader's student-master comment in the first film via fights in the followup stuff. Or the whole concept of the Solo movie).

It's economy of storytelling which, beyond being good in-itself, is also something I think of when I think of Star Wars. Like: we learn so much about the setting just in the incidental happenings of the opening boarding-action of the first film; just having C3PO respond to it with "Oh what a BOTHER!" and spend the whole sequence having a tiff with his navigator-friend establishes so much about the setting. And, unfortunately to my mind, allot of the recent Disney+ stuff has instead been dedicated to explaining aspects of canon which don't really need explanation. Like: What is the point of writing an inquel adventure where kid!Leia works with Ben Kenobi? Why was this a worthwhile addition to canon? Why, in the context of deciding to do that, did we need a whole episode dedicating to showing us Leia's a bit of a troublemaker when we already knew, and loved, this about her? Why did she need a miniarc in the, I think third(? the one on the crimecity planet), episode about learning to overcome her suspicion of Kenobi when paranoia and suspicion aren't established aspects of her character? There's just this desire to explain things, from basic conception all the way down to in-episode story beats, which doesn't really share in the fantastical "And now here's some gnomish desert junktraders who live in a giant tank" charm which once characterized the series, and which having a random cool looking utterly unique blaster that no one so much as comments on very much does.

[shmisolo]

look rey’s character development in tlj absolutely involves kylo ren--as his involves her.  but the whole goshdang point is that he is not the be all and end all of her development and that she is choosing herself, the life she has cobbled together for herself after years of scavenging following her abandonment by her “filthy junktrader” piece of shit parents, the resilience that is at her very core, the lives of her friends and found!family over him and his vision.

she wanted to include him in that.  he said no.  so she said no.

he was not the point of her character arc.  she was the point of her character.  she chose herself.  she chose herself.  she chose herself she chose herselffffffffffff.  

that’s a damn good arc that’s ~~not about him~~.  it’s about herrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!@#@!O#I12prqfewajoisdzvxckl

[stillsalvaging]

someone smarter and more eloquent than me write a thing about how snoke tells kylo he’s only worthy because of his genes ( “i saw what all masters live to see [...] something truly special, the potential of your bloodline” / “the finest sculptor cannot fashion a masterpiece from poor materials. he must have something pure, something strong, something unbreakable, with which to work” ) and kylo telling rey she’s nothing ( “they were nobodies, junktraders” / “you have no place in this story, you��re nothing, you come from nothing” )

[reylotrashpiler]

Anyway if you think you're not good enough at parenting think of how

Palpatine, Emperor to the Galatic Empire raised his son to be a junktrader .