#but we all know padme

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

Hehe just rewatched Obi-Wan Kenobi. And he gives Leia the holster and she is disappointed there’s not a blaster in it and he says “you’re ten, Leia” and I just know he’s having a flashback to nine year old Anakin “accidentally” flying a Naboo fighter up to destroy the droid control ship.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

A little part of Padmé always wanted to settle down and have a family before that craving enhanced after she had met Anakin again, but before that point, she never indulged in any of her personal affairs because she felt a strong sense of duty. However I want to point out that this wasn’t the only reason. It’s true that Padmé is a workaholic and never found time to settle down. But this is also due to the fact that in her life, nobody ever peaked her interest enough or quite literally ever for her to want to “choose” them over her duty, the way Anakin does.

Padmé mentions in AOTC novel that the men who took an “interest” in her were never genuine and mostly always had an ulterior motive with her due to her status as a politician. This was one of the main factors why she never took interest in anyone till someone with a big heart as Anakin came along:

Padmé didn’t only neglect her personal desires because she was inclined to her duties but also because she wasn’t impressed with anyone that came around her, and most likely was waiting on the “right one” whenever that time came, or she just simply didn’t think much about this topic again (despite that she desires a settled life.) till of course “the one” {aka Anakin} unexpectedly came back into her life.

Padmé needed someone who was like her and in that sense, I mean someone who is as genuine, passionate, kind, generous, wears their heart on their sleeve, loving, loyal, etc and shared the same sentiments and emotional energy as she did and see her for who she was (as “Padmé” and not as Queen or Senator.) and only Anakin Skywalker fits the criteria Padmé desires. To put it more bluntly, only Anakin Skywalker could’ve truly won Padmé Amidala’s heart. He was the only one that can match her heart and soul, and love her as she is and not as whom she appears as. In conclusion, nobody else ever stood a chance, cause it wouldn’t have worked with anyone else. It had to be Anakin.

I think Catherine Taber (the voice of Padmé in TCW) said it best when she mentioned how Anakin is the only exception in which Padmé thinks with her “heart” instead of her “mind”. Anakin was the only one who had this affect on her and vice versa.

To top it off, Padmé confirms this as well in Queen’s Hope.

[jessicas-pi]

hear me out on this ok. ROTS AU where Anakin still turns to the dark side but that's Palpatine's problem.

So, Palpatine decides last minute that ehhhh maybe dooku could come in handy later and he doesn't encourage Anakin to kill him, and Dooku gets arrested and imprisoned in the Jedi Temple awaiting trial. (Also he didn't get his hands cut off because of uhh plot reasons?)

Fast forward.

Palpatine is encouraging Anakin towards the Dark side, tells him about Plagueis the Wise, etc. etc. But see, the thing is, Anakin is at the end of his tether, probably hasn't slept more than three hours over the past week, and has no remaining impulse control or inhibitions, and upon hearing that the Dark Side can save people from death, his first thought is, "wait a sec, we've got a Sith Lord in-house at the moment!" and he sprints out of the space opera and books it back to the temple.

Now, Dooku has been calmly waiting in Temple custody, confident that Darth Sidious will arrange his escape. But THEN Anakin barges into the cell like OMG THE CHANCELLOR TOLD ME THE SITH KNOW HOW TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING AND I'M HAVING DREAMS ABOUT SOMEONE DYING AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THEM

At which point, Dooku realizes Palpatine's plan. He's going to tempt Skywalker to the Dark side and REPLACE DOOKU. this is totally uncool.

So he's like "...who are you dreaming about, exactly?"

Anakin freezes. He can't admit it's Padme because their relationship is top-secret and he can't admit how important she is to him so he tries to think of a good fib and goes "uhhhh OBI-WAN! Obi-Wan, it's Obi-Wan, I'm dreaming about Obi-Wan dying-" and he just throws himself into the drama because now he IS imagining obi-wan dying because Obi-Wan is fighting grievous at the moment and he MIGHT ACTUALLY DIE and that's in addition to Padme dying and he's totally spiraling at this point- "pleasepleaseplease you gotta help me he's like the only father i've ever known I don't know what i'll do without obi-wan I have to save him YOU GOTTA TELL ME WHAT TO DO I'LL DO ANYTHING--"

Dooku begins to smile.

(Would stealing Skywalker out from under his Master's nose be petty? Oh, yeah.)

(But it would also be very, very satisfying.)

---

Obi-Wan calls in to a council meeting to report his defeat of Grievous, but before he can say so, Mace announces that Dooku has escaped and the Sith Master has been killed.

Silence falls between the eleven councilmembers (eleven, not twelve, because their newest one is conspicuously absent. Obi-Wan wonders just what Anakin's up to now. Honestly, that boy will be the death of him.)

Obi-Wan clears his throat.

"...indeed," he says, trying to handle the shocking news with composure. "Well... at least we're down to one Sith, now."

Another awkward pause.

"Yeah, about that--" Mace begins.

[sadiecoocoo]

Padme was so badass in the clone wars. She got her uncle to join the republic, she solved her uncle’s murder case as well as stopped future murders, she played a man while undercover, she dealt with several assassination attempts, survived poison, survived capture a few times, she survived a newly revived extinct plague while FIGHTING BATTLE DROIDS, she dealt with the other senators and that one old giraffe motherfucker from the clone’s homeworld that i totally didn’t forget the name of what are you guys talking about im a real fan i promise i just forget a lot of names for stuff, she played the same man AGAIN on ANOTHER undercover mission, AND she changed outfits every episode she was in :)

You could say, she gaslit, gatekept, and, quite possibly, girlbossed

Also she married a Jedi, and did a MUCH BETTER job of keeping it secret than Anakin did (I mean she pretended to not know him when she had to pretend to like that one separatist senator [his name doesn’t deserve to be remembered])

[noweakergirl]

dare I say... superior trope

[ontherocks21]

Thoughts From Hyperspace:

I think it's pretty widely accepted in the collective AU headcanon that Anakin would be the "fun" parent while Padmé would have to be the default disciplinarian. But I can't help thinking that after she doles out whatever timeouts, reprimands, or groundings are likely deserved, Padmé retreats to their bedroom to hide and to cry from the parental doubt that plagues her in the immediate moments thereafter.

Was she too harsh? Is she doing this thing right? Why is being a mom so hard?

(If you don't think this is a real thing mothers (and likely fathers) deal with, I'm here to tell you, IT IS 😭)

Not long after her disappearance, Anakin finds her, his own chagrin driving him as much as her dismay resonating like outward ripples in the Force.

As he rounds the corner, Padmé looks up at him, eyelashes wet and betraying her even as she swipes viciously at them in an attempt to hide her falling tears.

His heart goes out to her instantly, as do his arms.

"Hey c'mere," Anakin says, tucking her small, quivering frame under his chin.

She goes to him easily, willingly. Necessarily.

"They hate me, Ani," she sobs miserably into his chest.

"They do not hate you," he soothes. "They're just mad right now because they didn't get their way."

Padmé sniffs in his embrace, and mumbles, "You could help once in a while, you know?"

"And suffer the wrath of little Leia?" Anakin shakes a little with smothered laughter. "Ummm, no thank you. Have you seen her death stare?"

Padmé glares up at him, thoroughly unamused. Anakin's tries and fails to flatten his growing grin.

"Well," he shrugs, the smile turning devilish at the edges. "Can't say she doesn't come by it honestly."

His pretend shudder finally makes Padmé laugh as well.

Which was really his goal the entire time.

[ayceofcard]

do you think there was a specific moment where one couldn't recognize the beloved they were arguing with

(scene redraw) i've been getting my friend into star wars & we were on rots the other day. naturally, i made it my mission to inflict them with as much emotional damage as possible :)

[pandora15]

friendly reminder that yes I still want an animated series set between tpm and aotc focused on the jedi, I just think it would be really fun and there's a lot to explore

[fullmetal-angelgrace]

pffff wow, i love these disasters

Bonus:

[go-see-a-starwar]

We all know Anakin must use some sexy force powers in bed with Padme 😏

I know it’s never explicitly stated that Padme is force sensitive but I like to believe she is and that combined with Anakin being a literal son of the force had to make things … intense to say the least.

[ringwraithmd]

had some convos tonight im a little buzzed but here are my takeaways. these might start some fires.

somehow they person I talked with is both Anakin apologist and Anakin critical. Idk how they have that exist at the same time, but I'd like to say this to him: the Jedi were victims, the Jedi were not evil, no Obi-Wan isn't evil, Obi-Wan didn't repress and abuse Anakin, no Qui-Gon Jinn was not the bestest Jedi who did things differently than any other Jedi and if only he lived he would've saved Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker did not fall because he was sleep deprived and had one bad day, he fell for a number of reasons, including that he made choices, which choice as a theme is something George Lucas very deliberately has chosen to emphasize repeatedly in Star Wars. Also, Jyn Erso is an actually interesting character and I think she does care about rebelling, the problem is the repressive totalitarian regime she lives in. It's understandable she'd be a little cynical and despondent after 20 years of Empire. TLJ is not the best sequel trilogy movie, Kylo Ren's a little bitch and should've died sooner. Dave Filoni can kiss my ass. "within the context of the prequels it's hard to see the jedi as the good guys --" no. absolutely not. get some reading comprehension you moron. that's the whole point. the whole point is the jedi were the victims of a plot designed to force them into a position where all they had were bad choices. Anakin chose to murder men, women, and children long before he ever became Darth Vader which is a fact so many people seem to gloss over. "they killed his mother -" and?? he didn't just kill her torturers, he killed children, too. your boy committed massacres and genocides in canon. im not talking about legends or any recent books in comics, but solely about the movies. I get still liking him as a character, but to say that Anakin has done nothing wrong is a take that I just can't understand.

folk music is different than country music. im sorry but it is. yes there are similarities. no I can't explain the differences. but country music is not necessarily folk music, or "stomp-clap" music as you called it. tell me you don't listen to country without telling me. arguably the best argument you could've made about the push back of country music pop-ification is the rise in popularity of artists like Zach Bryan, but you didn't, you started talking about fucking Mumford & Sons. my good dude. no. google them. they're literally described as a folk rock band.

edited 6/23 bc I realized I was drunker then i thought and this was semi-incoherent. hopefully that clarifies things.

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

attack of the clones is so funny. anakin and padme having their forbidden romance thing, whilst obi wan is conducting a whole investigation then like. shot at. shot at again. captured. attacked by creatures. etc.

[firefly-fez]

look i didn’t have “riyo chuchi says clone rights” on my star wars bingo card but i am so delighted my girl, one of my absolute favourite star wars characters, she was in like two arcs but i was OBSESSED with those two arcs, my OG blorbo, my MVB (most valuable blorbo), she is here, she is back, she is saying clone rights!

[thebirdandhersong]

Also to be completely honest--warning: I have been obnoxious about names since I was a kid (which is why I gave up reading the Green Ember series... I remember reading it in high school and being Incredibly Frustrated by the lack of consistency in the way the writer chose his characters' names, so despite the fact that I liked the story somewhat, I just never read the rest of the series based on this sticking point)--it really bothers me that Paige and Rose are named Paige and Rose

[lauransoverthinking]

Thinking a lot about the female characters is Star Wars, and I realized something:

Without fail, the only female characters without very vocal detractors within fandom are the ones who lose their clothes

Leia and Padme are the only female characters who do not have people devoted to just hating them and I think it is because they are the only ones who lose their clothes at some point.

In a fight where the two male characters come out with their outfits intact, Padme artistically loses just enough of her outfit to not change the movie’s rating.

Leia gets degraded by a slaver and forced to wear what would barely count as undergarments.

As a child, I just loved the movies.

As a teen I saw the difference and just though “well they are hot”. (I hate that I had internalized gorgeous women in movies are not allowed clothes so much at this time.)

As an adult, I can’t stop thinking about the men behind the scenes who made that decision. Who just decided a bikini that didn’t adapt to the shape of the body (Carrie Fischer addressed how it gapped and exposed her when she had to sit because of its inflexible material) was the correct move. Or stared at a shirt deciding what the appropriate amount to have torn off but not make it seem gratuitous was.

The other female characters in the movies where these things occur stay mostly clothed, but they also barely speak.

Then Star Wars started fixing its female characters problem. And we got Rose and we got Rey and we got Admiral Holdo and we got Reva and we got Ahsoka and the fanboys lost their damn minds.

Actors were attacked on social media. Actors had to take a break from public life because of the vitriol thrown at them.

Hell, even the actor who played a younger Leia was torn down by the fanboys. A literal child. And grown ass men felt the need to comment.

According to the fanboys, a woman does not belong in Star Wars unless she is giving them something to imagine later as they ruin a sock, and I hate it. I hate it so much.

I love these stories. I love talking about them. I want to introduce my daughters to them, but that introduction is going to involve giving my own Women in Film media and gender studies class, and I hate that.

This is not just a Star Wars problem. Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad vs Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey illustrates the problem pretty explicitly. It is a fanboy problem. It is all the grown ass men spending their time spewing sexist vitriol from behind their keyboards but couching it as a critique, when really they just want to see a character they can easily insert themselves into in these situations.

[chradi]

If there ever comes a time in the future where I’m like “oh yeah, I think I want another dog” Just fucking shoot me. Don’t fucking let me get another dog