#Padme Amidala

[gffa]

SOMETIMES BAIL GLIMPSED PADME IN THE CRINKLE OF BABY LEIA'S BROW SHUT UP I'M GONNA CRY [Star Wars: The Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed]

[anstarwar]

Legend tells that Commander Thorn died one tragic night while accompanying Senator Amidala on a diplomatic mission to Scipio.

What I’m proposing is: No he didn’t.

[mirrorofliterature]

padme amidala loved anakin skywalker, canonically.

she was not mind tricked, she did not pity him, she was not naive, she did not 'ignore' his red flags, she saw a man who was inherently kind and human and honest and messy, as all humans are, and wanted the man who saved her world, twice, who respected her as a person, not just as a figurehead

anyway padme definitely was the one who proposed to anakin I don't make the rules

[cryptidtheism]

this is genuinely insane. oh my god

“Keep me sane, my love.” [x]

[icarian-avis]

Obsessed with @galactic-rhea ‘s au padme design

[gffa]

IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN BAIL ORGANA AND HIS UNWILLINGNESS TO FORGET ABOUT A HORRIFIC INJUSTICE [Star Wars: The Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed]

[lbibliophile-sw]

This implies that Padme was so bored and lonely that Ventress kidnapped some of the girl gang for her. (Dormé has been posing as Senator Amidala for months and now half the support network is gone. She is eternally internally screaming.)

Clearly the solution is for 'Senator Amidala' to be periodically kidnapped so they can swap out which body double is on duty.

AU where Obi-Wan's response to Dooku's "You should join me in the Dark Side" thing is "yeah okay sure why not" because he is running on none sleep and all adrenaline and vaguely hoping that he can improvise his way into sabotaging things/figuring out what the hell is going on/who the hell the Sith is

He half-manages it but mostly he's like. Just. panicking. Fucking around. Hitting on Ventress just to see what happens.

From @atagotiak on discord:

Dooku: what Obi-Wan: well you just said Qui-Gon would want me to be evil, and I guess I can’t argue with that logic. How does Anakin respond?

Sobbing, crying, screaming. Shows up on their doorstep like "I killed babies but also Obi-Wan is here so clearly--"

Anakin, with the puppy eyes: I just killed like thirty people, can I follow Obi-Wan into being a bad guy?

Obi-wan can’t say anything at the moment without revealing himself but he sure wants to

Mostly I just. I really want a fake villain AU with the same "I don't know what I'm doing but I'm failing upwards" energy as R2-D2 Saves the Galaxy (Okay, so Obi-Wan helps a little) by @feybarn

[awkward--watermelon]

my piece for "High Ground: Star Wars Prequel trilogy Zine"🥰

[headcanonthings]

Padme, about Anakin: Those aren't red flags those are little fun facts about him <3

[jarenka]

Prequel to this comic strip.

That's why Anakin was kicked out by his rich wife.

[nightowl-125]

Exactly! You gotta understand that Padme is a huge pile of trauma, co-dependency, and a desperate need to be loved as Padme (as opposed to being loved as Amidala).

This girl was also manipulated and groomed by Palpatine, she was Mayor of a whole ass city at just 13, and was ruler of the whole damn planet during an invasion when she was 14! And then she led her people through the aftermath and clean up! This girl is an emotional disaster!

Padme and Anakin are BOTH disasters. But there tragedy is that they weren’t doomed. If they’d had slightly better support, if their society hadn’t set them up for failure, and if they’d made better choices, they could have grown and healed together. They could have made it work. They could have been a beautiful happy family.

Instead they tumbled to their destruction together.

I will die on the hill that to understand Anidala you have to accept that Padme saw the red flags clear as day and went for it anyway. Why? Because Anakin was honest with her. Because Anakin, for all his idolising and putting her on a pedestal, still saw and treated her as a human being, even argued against her at times without fear or without hiding behind clever words. Because Anakin made her feel the youth that was taken from her at a young age. She was captured by the boyish charm and the awkwardness and the blunt honesty, and so when he came to her with a billion red flags, she went for it anyway. He was a breath of fresh air to her.

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

‘The red flags are mass murder’ and the point still stands.

[skywalkcranakin]

You made him happy, when nothing else ever truly could.

[missbehave-onnaboo]

I'd die to see this scene on the big screen!!!! And, this song??? It's one I use for my current fic so this gives MAD inspirations

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Credit to Sky Varrette, the maker of the vid 💓💓💓💓💓

[mirrorofliterature]

if people keep on writing padmè as someone who only married anakin out of pragmatism and does not match his passion I will -

like stop. that's one of padmè's main character beats, I fear, her mutual unconditional devotion and love for anakin

'I only married anakin because I appreciated his honesty, love for me and wanted children'

that is not words padmè naberrie amidala would realistically say because it does not make sense that she would choose a secret marriage with a jedi on the frontlines out of pragmatism

I'm all for aro rep but god. people aren't trying to make padmè aro, they're making her dick who tricks anakin into thinking she loves him back through marrying him and that's simply not padmè, or frankly good aro representation