#Moteé

[skywalkr-nberrie]

hey kia do you have a fav handmaiden <3

Hey Auri! ♥️🥰

Yes!! In fact I do! My favourite Amidala handmaidens are Ellé and Moteé! They’re the two handmaidens alongside Sabé and Dormé who knew of Padmé’s marriage to Anakin. They’re super supportive of her and Anakin. Moteé even knew of Padmé’s pregnancy and she would step in for Padmé to take her place so that she could have more time to meet up with Anakin, and their support is so clearly shown over one or two comics, and even in the ROTS data files on Padmé’s handmaidens.

Ellé and Moteé were like a duo >:D both were so loyal to Padmé, and they give off such a “girl’s girl” vibe with how they supported Padmé and her relationship to Anakin, that I can’t help but feel drawn to them 😆

They took on a more “traditional” role as Padmé’s handmaidens (e.g: cooking, cleaning, helping Padmé get dressed, tending to her personal care.)

The one on the left is Ellé, and the one on the right is Moteé:

[marinamar4]

Another thing that has been wasted in Star Wars: Amidala's Handmaidens.

1000% of them would have heard the name "Luke Skywalker" and would have stood up to the Rebellion, demanding to know why Padmé's son wasn't raised with them.

Imagine a dozen women around Luke, asking him questions, touching him and cooing, saying "his father's ears, his mother's chin, his father's color, his maternal grandfather's body" and Luke not knowing what's going on and wondering if he runs away, if these strange women will follow him, and if he'll be safer if Vader finds him.

[handmaidensofnaboo]

Kristy Wright (Moteé) and Jay Laga’aia (Captain Typho) on the set of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

[jewishcissiekj]

you know what? I don't *transparent pngs your handmaidens*

[sweet-christabel]

One Dress a Day

Day 148 November - Purple Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - Moteé (Kristy Wright)

This beautiful dress is worn by Moteé to attend a Senate session. It’s one of those rare handmaiden costumes that doesn’t have a hood, but its shape is still loose enough to create a uniformed look for Padmé’s ladies. The back is prettier than the front, I think! I really like the cascade effect with the different fabrics.

[thetorturedlover]

Moteé

[alexversenaberrie]

Moteé ~ handmaiden of Senator Amidala, loyal aide and bodyguard

In the search to recruit new handmaidens, Amidala decided that the new recruits would serve more as traditional Senatorial aides.

Moteé accompanied Amidala and Dormé on a diplomatic mission to the planet Clabron. She also attended the Senate meeting in which Supreme Chancellor Palpatine announced that the Galactic Republic was to be reorganized as the Galactic Empire.

She was discreet, able to keep the secret of the relationship between Amidala and the Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

#star wars paintings  |  SW Paintings | #star wars handmaidens

Handmaidens: Yané I Sabé | Eirtaé

[juliearchery107]

And then there's Dooku...

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at The Emperor*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws two at the Fetts*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at the assassin lady that failed to kill Padme*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws eight at all of Padme's handmaidens*

Lucas: And you get a name *throws one at the dinosaur Jedi that did nothing but get shot down by Jango*

Dooku: What about me?

Lucas: You don't

[yellow-faerie]

I have just come to the horrifying realisation that I have been spelling Moteé's name wrong this entire time....

[elizabethwydevilles]

Honestly nothing can make me give a fuck about Sabé or Dormé any more. Fandom burned me out wit their ~specialness~ (coughplayedbyactresseswhowouldbecomefamouscough) in like 2008.

Let me see Cordé who, if the logic goes being being decoy = trusted, was obviously important. Or Teckla, who at least has something interesting going on re: class. Or Moteé and Ellé — I doubt Bail set up Padme's funeral and dressed her, etc all by himself 👀👀

[ontherocks21]

Thoughts From Hyperspace:

I have this absolutely ridiculous Anidala headcanon that I am also kinda in love with. In the hopes that it'll finally stop haunting me (pun intended), I'm going to share it.

Whenever Anakin finds sand anywhere in his immediate vicinity (clothes - no layer is immune 😏, bedsheets, boot treads, the ground he's standing on, his starfighter's pilot's chair, etc, etc), he sends Padmé a picture of it with the same caption: Literally everywhere. This, of course, makes her laugh, especially when he edits the holo with arrows to point out specific grains from specific planets that are still showing up weeks and months later. The hilarity of it all forever confounds her handmaidens...

Dormé: I take it he sent another one?

Ellé: Yep.

Moteé: I don't get it. She showed me this one and it's just a holo of dirt.

Collectively, all three shrug.

...because that is a memory of her husband Padmé finds far too precious to share.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Do you have a list or a chart of Padmé’s handmaidens? I love them all but it’s difficult to keep the names straight…

Sure! I did read a sort of guide book a long time ago that listed all the previous handmaidens Padmé had but that was awhile ago and will take me some time to dig back up. But overall there were 13 handmaidens:

There was Sabé, Rabé, Eiraté, Saché, Yané, Cordé, Dormé, Versé, Karté, Moteé, Ellé, Duja, and Teckla Minnau.

All for different reasons. Some played the role as Padmé’s decoys (mainly Sabé) some were in charge of Padmé’s wardrobe and makeup, putting together her whole looks, some were in charge of personal care e.g hygiene and grooming, some were there for their combatant skills, and some for domesticated reasons e.g cooking and cleaning, and some were just there to serve as Padmé’s personal escort.

[handmaidensofnaboo]

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 

Handmaidens Ellé and Moteé

[jewishcissiekj]

on one hand, the love for the Handmaidens guide wip is motivating me to continue working on it and on the other it also kinda makes me want to post everything I have so far so meanwhile have the messy document with partial information that I made to get some information straight

[astromechs]

fill for the three-sentence ficathon prompt Star Wars, Padmé, armor

It should be a wonderful thing, shouldn't it, Padmé thinks, to feel her child kick for the first time? Sola still fondly regards the moment she'd first felt a sign of life from Ryoo, still, to this day, has wonder in her eyes and gentle awe on her face as she speaks of it.

In another life, one in which luck would have better been a friend to her, the first flutter of a kick that Padmé feels inside her wouldn't come as the HoloNet broadcasts live from the Outer Rim sieges, would make her gasp in surprise instead of in fear; in another life, the tears that sting in her eyes now would be from nothing but uncomplicated joy, and she could sit in the moment, absorb it.

That, though, isn't the life she lives; in this one, she sees Moteé enter the room behind her in the mirror, has plain view of the concern knitted in her brows as she asks, "Are you all right, milady?"

In another life, one not constructed over a delicate web of lies, perhaps she could provide an honest answer instead of a placid smile and an equally placid, "Of course" — armor that she dons to wage a battle of her own.

[nabooro]

Oh my god I cannot express how much I love this conlang, I have so many questions and it makes me so inspired to write things based on Naboo (which is also me asking if I may use the things you've created here (with credit of course) in my own writing?).

(also if ever you want an (almost) comprehensive list of Naboo terms I do actually have that list somewhere because I myself spent three days making it and...never used it)

But back to the fact that you have taken a world that's seen a little bit in the films and made it so beautiful and big and added meaning to things said in the films - I find myself absolutely amazed at the hard work and thought you've put into this.

I do have...a lot of questions lol which I made note of as I was going through the blog, but I won't ask them all now - but there was one thing that's been bugging me and that I haven't been able to think of a satisfying answer for yet and that is about Duja, Teckla and Motée's names.

So why Duja and Teckla keep their original names and not take the é at the end? And why Motée is spelt with an extra e? I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that!

Anyway, thank you for sharing all of this I guess?? I have had such a good morning going through it all lol

Hi! Thank you so much for your interest and enthusiasm for this silly little conlang of mine. I've been seeing your notes come in and I am genuinely so delighted to see how keen you are on it!!

Re: the three names!

Teckla isn't from Naboo. The name changing thing is common practice for handmaidens because of the interchangeability of identity and the sort of giving up of their individuation. It's a cultural practice that none of the others - even someone like Dormé who takes up the role for Padmé's senate role and not her period as queen - would really question doing, just naturally. However it's not something that'd occur to Teckla, not something Padmé would ever ask her to do, and sidenote she's never actually acting as Padmé anyway as far as I remember.

Duja... I'll be honest, I had just never heard of her until your ask! There are a lot of sort of canon-ish characters from all these novels and comics and audiobooks and I don't listen to them or read them so I just don't know them.

From a Doylist perspective, I assume it's that somebody forgot the pattern. That quite bothers me, actually. All of Padme's royalty-era handmaidens rather famously have that é ending.

From a Watsonian perspective... it does say on the wiki she was a former handmaiden of Padmé's, so it could just be that after she gave up being a handmaiden, she went back to using her original name. I think this would be a practice that quite a few people went to if they were no longer acting in capacity as a handmaiden, or for a number of other personal reasons, including but not limited to having had a harrowing time as a handmaiden or not wanting to be identified as one of Amidala's people.

Re: Moteé... the name I've assigned her, Motil, is derived from the phrase "to grow wings", and the original phrase mohu tenote, when it is used to construct a name in the é form, maintains the e which gets turned into i in Motil. So there you go!

I'd love to answer any other questions or curiosities you have! Thank you again for your enthusiasm!