#naboo culture

[smeraldo-heart]

Senator’s Ward AU

Reflecting- Compassion

Cal and Padmé take their very first holophoto, at the start of Cal’s mission to protect the Senator.

Calla Kann-Amidala makes his first appearance in the galaxy and Senator Padmé Amidala gains a family member.

Minific below, including my headcanon of Naboo culture- “mirroring”, imitating someone else’s appearance to show your admiration and respect for them.

‼️Minific:

“Senator Amidala?” Cal asked hesitantly, focused entirely on his face in the mirror.

“Call me Padmé, Cal.” Senator Amidala- no, Padmé- smiled gently from over where she was pinning up her elaborate hairpieces. “Is anything the matter?”

Cal had similar hairpieces too, ornate twisting ones that they had somehow got in his exact shade of red despite the short time constraints. A handmaiden was helping pin them in for him, having already done his makeup. That was what he was staring at right now, taken aback by the delicate scarlet staining his skin.

“No, Senator- I mean, Padmé,” Cal said, stumbling over the politeness he’d had drilled into him since childhood. Now he had to act like he was related to Padmé, and knew her quite well too. There was a lot to learn, and Cal wasn’t sure if he’d ever been a good liar.

“Just…why these?” Cal asked, gesturing to his face markings. As he jostled the handmaiden doing his hair, he grimaced apologetically, the other woman just shrugging it off cheerily.

“Hmm?” Padmé walked over to Cal and then hummed in realisation as she took in his face.

She was similarly made up, except her skin was completely covered over with white and she didn’t have the red lines over her eyes like Cal did. Padmé had mentioned something earlier about her makeup being reminiscent of when she was Queen, but Cal hadn’t quite been listening over where he was chewing his fingernails in anxiety.

Master Tapal would have been admonishing him for the habit right now, but he wasn’t here.

Cal’s Master still accompanied him, but they could only be Master and Padawan in secret. Their new missions didn’t allow for the openly broadcasted apprenticeship Jedi usually have, Master Tapal given the task of protecting the Senator overtly with a small guard of clones and Cal covertly using his psychometry to prevent any assassinations before they happened. That was why Cal was now currently Calla Kann-Amidala, not Kestis, the young cousin of Naboo Senator Padmé Amidala.

A Jedi who couldn’t be a Jedi, a Padawan without a braid, a secret in the Senate.

“Ah, your markings.” His new cousin sighed in realisation, beautifully painted lips pursing. “It’s customary in high Naboo culture to have symbols like this on your face.”

“Is there a meaning?” Cal asked, mystified by the red lines and dots panning his face. He didn’t have the white foundation the Senator had, the other having refused to have his impressing array of freckles covered up even for one holophoto.

“Not to the markings themselves necessarily, but to who they relate to.” Padmé pointed to her own face then, painted like a work of art. “It’s Naboo tradition to ‘mirror’ someone you respect in your appearance, to show your admiration for them.”

“That’s why you have the dots on your cheeks and line on your lip, like I do.” The Senator continued, pointing to Cal’s reflection. “The Council thought it best if we showed we were close to eachother in this way, to keep up appearances.”

Cal didn’t answer, still leant close to the mirror in inspection.

“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to have it.” Padmé frowned in concern at his quietness. “I’m sure we can do something different.”

“You said it means admiration?” Cal checked.

Padmé nodded, waiting patiently for Cal’s decision.

Even though he didn’t know the Senator very well yet, Cal could tell she was a woman worth admiring. He’d only ever heard tales of the once Queen of Naboo, as kind as she was fierce, and as fierce as she was dedicated. One of the Senators who strived most for peace, compassionate even to a child she’d barely just met, and she was to be Cal’s new “family.”

If Padmé wasn’t a person worth “mirroring” for, then who was?

Coming to a decision, Cal beamed at his reflection, the dots and lines pulling up and creasing in happiness.

“I’ll keep it.” Cal grinned. He liked the meaning.

Padmé smiled softly in return and held her hand out, waiting for Cal’s small hand to land in hers before they strode off together. They had a holophoto to take.

[arleniansdoodles]

Empress Amidala from chapter 14 of @spell-cleaver’s The Protégé! This was my first time drawing evil Padmé, and designing her black armour-like dress from the chapter was such a treat! I kept the embroidery and embellishments toned down, with the lineart providing the main highlights, which I think it worked out well XDD

Also, her eyes aren’t red in the story, but I imagine this is how she might appear to some (or a lot of) people, especially given what she’s doing in this particular scene ^^;;

And by the way, this painting and some of my other Star Wars pieces are up on my Inprnt shop! :DDD

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[archeo-starwars]

Star Wars Insider #85

[alexversenaberrie]

Young Queen Ameé

Ameé was was born on the Mid Rim Territories planet Naboo around 54 BBY. At 40-36 BBY, she served as the Queen of Naboo, which meant that she was 14 years old, when she started her term.

Princess Fanry of the Inner Rim planet Pijal, who was in similar age as the Naboo Queen, considered inviting Ameé and other young galactic leaders to her world for a summit. However, her lord regent Rael Averross rejected the idea.

Unfortunately, that is all what is known about the Queen.

On the painting she was presented in a costume of one of past Queens and has scars of remembrance on her face. Naboo royal crest behind her and on her dress represents her high status.

Queen Amidala | Queen Jamilia | Queen Neeyutnee | Queen Apailana | Sosha Soruna | Queen Réillata | Queen Mairayni | Queen Sanandrassa | Queen Kylantha | Sabé - The Decoy Queen | Queen Yram | Queen Dalné | The Gungan-Naboo War Queen of Naboo | Queen of Naboo from the New Republic | King Jafan I Star Tours Queen of Naboo | King Veruna | The First Queen of Naboo | King Tapalo | Queen Ameé | Queen Ekay | King Jafan III | The Queen of beaded emblems | King Narmlé | Queen of Naboo from High Republic | Queen Elsinoré den Tasia

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[nabooro]

Not sure if you're still actively working on this, but I am so enamoured with all of it! I wanted to ask - do you have any ideas about sign languages on Naboo?

Oh, thank you so much! I haven't been super actively working on this recently, but I'm always interested in thinking of new aspects of it!

I can't say I've developed any solid ideas on the sign languages of Naboo, but I have some thoughts on what they may be based in.

To start off on a slight tangent, I have some complicated thoughts re: disability in the GFFA, which gets a pretty weird treatment through the series in part because we have so many people with limbs chopped off lol. Obviously a galaxy with species with vast differences in mobility would need to have mobility and communication aids. So first I guess, is there technology that could act as a substitute for non-verbal forms of communication by 'interpreting'? Star Wars has all kinds of weird technology.

On the flip side: should there be? Both in terms of worldbuilding and in-universe.

That little tangent out of the way - I would say there is probably a primary school of sign language that has been developed intentionally over time and is fairly well-established, though I do wonder about its use and the politics of that - but I don't know enough about sign language myself to speak to its details.

Instead, what I can do you for: a couple of parallel developments in sign language (or equivalent) on Naboo!

One of the major resources in the south-west of Naboo, esp. in the swamps of the Danank region, involves a lot of mining that it is pretty dangerous to do things like "inhale" around. I imagine that mining communities there + people who just live in the vicinity of the swamps have developed their own sign languages.

The same I think may be true for the highly industrial sectors in Halân. Halân I think is one of the areas in Naboo which has a fairly distinct language (dialect, maybe) because of its relative remoteness, so this may reflect in its sign system as well.

And also in the more remote spaces of Arind, particularly in the forests that were known for their shrines and Shiraya followers who were on oaths of silence (either temporary or permanent), I think they would have developed fairly elaborate communication systems involving their fans and staffs (which form a significant part of the material aspect of their faith), which probably survives in somewhat relic-ised form in religious performance and so on.

Hope this was kind of what you were looking for, and thank you for the interesting question!

[stljedi]

[katurdayss]

Another shower thought. Did Padme Amidala have a regnal name? Or was she just known as The Queen of Naboo (with no name)? Cuz if she didn't have one and she was known as Queen Padme Amidala of Naboo how the F did no one suspect a handmaiden with the same name as her around the same age? Also how did no one recognize her from her campaign for the throne? You can't tell me she had the same level wardrobe. Today's politicians look very different on the campaign trail vs sitting in office.

[stellanslashgeode]

I’m in a year end reflective mood so I thought I would talk about getting back into fanfiction writing after like ten years. Quarantine caused me to reconnect with my favorite media again which got me back into first reading then writing fic. Here’s what I love about the three stories I have up so far.

Inevitable Rise: I just wanted to write a first person story from Barriss Offee’s perspective post The Wrong Jedi where she’s basically The Joker at the start and has found some measure of peace by the end. I read the Queens trilogy over a summer holiday and loved this one background character from Queen’s Hope, Saché’s non-binary personal assistant and I just needed to write about zher, and I guess ship zher with a wanted terrorist. I’m proud to be the lone Tepoh author on the site. I also love my original character Captain Chiran. He’s basically Han Solo mixed with C-3PO. What if Han was a prissy elderly gay Pantoran man. I’ve since expanded the Chiran family which is a neat little aspect of writing. I had simple goals for this fic. I wanted a Bespin sunrise. I wanted Barriss to preform a Compass Dance, and I wanted lots of Naboo Handmaidens.

Heart of Kyber: my first romance and I like the way it turned out. I love Ahsoka musing about the real meaning of nostalgia. I love barrissoka stories where Ahsoka is the more hesitant one and Barriss is just feral. The chapter titles are self indulgent but if you know you know. I just love the super sad and dramatic Riyo Chuchi cameo. I was going to make Barriss joining the Cloud Riders it’s own fic, might still do that someday. I like the idea of Barriss as a heretic rather than a fallen Jedi. Two people having the irresistible urge to chastely sleep with each other before actually committing to a physical relationship is just my entire bag, baby.

Jedi: Dropout is just a big excuse to do some Pantoran and Mirialan world building. I’m very proud of my version of the Mirialan religious pantheon and loved writing a vision quest with one of their goddesses. I really love Across the Frozen Sea by ArtyWrites so I expanded on their version of Pantora where towns and cities are named things like Perseverance, Defiance, or Solitude. I stole their religious pantheon as well. It’s just so good. Since Star Wars has the Holonet I think they’re would absolutely be Jedi fans writing spicy Jedi fanfics but in-universe it would be RPF. I just really wanted to explore what it would be like for a Service Corps Jedi after Order 66, it’s the most engaging time period for me and what would it be like to fail to become a Padawan but then be on the run from the Empire? And this one is just all OCs. And Tepoh. Zhe’s there too.

[galactic-rhea]

the handmaidens + padmé group can't be be this super wholesome group of besties that share make up and gossips and giggle as they make out ocassionally, they can't be always this cool and badass girlpower considering the fucked up way they are on this situation. Considering each of them is actually A Person that's different from Padmé, as much as they trained themselves to mentally replicate all her moves, considering that they're ready to die for her (but she won't for them, she can't, she's too important, as much as it pains her) I can't not think of this as a awfully unbalanced group of people that got forced to become friends and develop weird and intense feelings for each other but also a deep resentment and extreme passive-agressiveness because at the end of the day, they're Padmé's subordinates and there's no way Padmé doesn't, inherently and unconsciously (and sometimes consciously) step into a Boss role, there's no way Padmé, sometimes, doesn't realize the disagreements or drama that might be going on, and if she does there's...well, lots of awkwardness they're forced to overcome. She probably will obliviously hurt them, and they won't retaliate because that's their boss. Sure, there's a window of honestity that goes beyond the professional, but it only make things harder and messier. And them there's probably lots of talking behind backs, and little cliques and mini groups, not to even touch on the dating or romantic feelings, that probably just makes the drama skyrocket.

And still, they're a very close group of Friends (perhaps more for some of them), but more intimate than normal friends and at the same time less intimate than real friends because real friends become honest and intimate as a choice and as a natural relationship developing, and definitely not as healthy and honest as any normal friends. And do you think that keeps them awake? They're look-alikes, trained to copy Padmé's mannerisms and behaviour, and clothes, everything, and they all together created Queen Amidala as a facade, and yet there's still that feeling of lack of actual íntimacy, a feeling of a lack of actual friendship, like the itch isn't really satisfied in between them because as much as they care for each other, there's a feeling of fakeness into it all, a feeling of 'what brough us together is just a job, and what keeps us together is that we don't know something different'. But some of the handmaidens do leave and adventure away from this, and there IS happy moments and real kinship at times... is just that, the uglyness isn't not very far from the surface.

[secretly-a-catamount]

Trying to write fanfic for star wars is hard, because what do you mean the only cultural thing that the wiki has listed for Naboo that they have clothing?? what do you mean??

[ashiraashiraashira]

@howdidthisevenhappenanyway

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[thelesbianthespianposts]

Luke skywalker would not perform Nabooian rituals

Leia Organa would not perform Nabooian rituals

neither of them were born on naboo. Neither of them were raised with Nabooian culture. Why is it so hard to see people representing their upbringing as it was.

Show Luke making a recipe he learned from Beru, or Leia knowing a lot about alderaanian history. Something like that

[alexversenaberrie]

The First Queen of Naboo (Legends)

A female of the Human species was anointed the first Queen of Naboo more than three millennia before the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY. She was one of the Human colonists who had fled a civil war on the Core World of Grizmallt and established a new civilization on the planet Naboo, a green haven located on the borders of the Outer Rim Territories. On the painting, we can see settlers on the left as they land in a Naboo-Like ships. Also, behind the Queen we can see a tapestry with a solar system indicating that she was an explorer.

While her people was engaged in bloody conflict with the native Gungans, that woman was chosen to lead the colonists, who took the name of their new homeworld and became known as "the Naboo." Although she accepted both the title and the function of Queen, that woman refused to be the founder of a hereditary succession line. (It is symbolized by a broken crest with symbol of a tree on the right.) Instead, the newly elected Queen decreed that her successor would be selected based on their merits only. This started a tradition of meritocratic democracy on Naboo, which would still be used millennia later. However, the constitution of Naboo had a provision that allowed the monarchy to become hereditary for a worthy dynasty, and this happened at least once in history.

Unfortunately, not many information about the Queen survived to our times. We do not know her name or how she looked like. The artist decided to choose for her a simpler costume in shape and tone, similar which was wore by Naboo Senators, to mark that Naboo just starts to build their rich civilisation. The Lady also has a travelling bag indicating that she was a colonist.

On Queen's head we can see a Naboo crest headdress and a Naboo royal crest on the red curtain, underlining the importance of the lady. She indeed was the first ruler of Naboo.

Queen Amidala | Queen Jamilia | Queen Neeyutnee | Queen Apailana | Sosha Soruna | Queen Réillata | Queen Mairayni | Queen Sanandrassa | Queen Kylantha | Sabé - The Decoy Queen | Queen Yram | Queen Dalné | The Gungan-Naboo War Queen of Naboo | Queen of Naboo from the New Republic | King Jafan I Star Tours Queen of Naboo | King Veruna | The First Queen of Naboo | King Tapalo | Queen Ameé | Queen Ekay | King Jafan III | The Queen of beaded emblems | King Narmlé | Queen of Naboo from High Republic | Queen Elsinoré den Tasia

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[nabooro]

what about the naboo traditional costumes? i know it's inspired by russia and oriental costumes but do u have any idea why naboo valorizes this kind of clothes?

Hi!

So lowkey I had no idea that Naboo was inspired by Russia - I've seen the obvious Japanese/East Asian influence in TPM, but I didn't realise there was a Russian influence as well, but maybe I'm just not very familiar with Russian clothing?

As for why: I suppose from a Doylist perspective it's just because the costume designers or concept artists or whoever made that choice found it cool? Star Wars has a good amount of orientalism just hanging around in there, which I think you can really just boil down to "someone in production liked that."

In-universe, I'd say they that's just how it developed over time. A lot of the world's dress history has... almost what I'd call a sort of convergent evolution, which is not only because of communication between cultures, but because there's only so many ways you can use fabric / other materials to cover the same shape of humanoid body? Obviously Star Wars societies would not have the same limitations that a pre-modern pre-industrial world would in terms of fabric use, but that's kind of how they're built all the same.

The way I see it, Naboo has two distinct styles of 'traditional' dress: wrap dresses, or rindo (i.e. the obvious kimono(s?) in TPM) and stitched dresses, or thoré (i.e. everything else). For me these are regional differences, which could have arisen because of style, or could have arisen because of differences in industry or resources between the regions in question - wrap dresses waste less fabric because of how they are constructed.

Rindo from the east (...this is funny because initially I had Arind and Nirerd, the places I associate most with rindo, panned as west of theed, but when I began working on the map they ended up in the east lmao) are pretty distinctive, and continue to feature more commonly in everyday dress in those regions, though not as much as they used to. Styles of thoré vary widely across Naboo, from more robe-like looks to works with heavier stitching or shaping. A good part of it depends on weather - Naboo is a warm planet, but not uniformly.

Really the Naboo have a distinct sense of style, which has become a point of planetary pride since they joined the Republic (however many centuries ago) and very large and well-developed textile and garment industries. I think there's a good deal of maintaining of their own traditional clothing because of that alone, as any regional differences get kind of erased in the face of the whole galaxy.

Which said, some of the main points of what would Naboo clothing involves, regardless of the specific type of dress, is: stronger fabrics (here, too, they strongly value the organic!), very delicate and fine weave, detail-work where embroidery is involved, and I think distinct types of almost formalised dress, including the formal high collar (nushe kua) and the long sash (camâ).