#naboo culture

[duchessofthemoonartworks]

Corde before she gets blown up in the beginning of attack of the clones. A along forgotten piece of artwork I did back in 2022 part of my Padme handmaidens series I never finished

[zephyr-ro-emenki]

I love the Headcanon that if Mandalorian's and Nabooian's ever met, they would absolutely be best friends, a true nightmare for the rest of the galaxy.

Because the People of Naboo seem on the surface to prefer form over function, Flowing gowns and impractical suits that are a mainstay among the core republic worlds over form fitting agender bodysuits with maybe a jacket vest thrown over top it which seems more synonymous with overt warrior cultures.

But the Naboo are also warriors, and have a very devout Warrior mindset culture, they just hide it under pageantry and flowing gowns. People laugh at Queen Amidala's handmaid's not having any visible weapons at all, or laughing at all the very impractical Gowns and getups Padme wears, but people stop laughing when you pull a knife out of the stitching of your gown, or see the 3 different Blasters hidden in holsters that are cleverly hidden from view by a seemingly pointless flourish of fabric.

The Mandalorian's have mastered the forging of Visible arms and weapons, the Naboo have mastered the forging of Hidden Armor and weapons, weaving Tactical Kevlar blast resistant fibre into all their guards uniforms and political figures outfits, hidden weapons throughout their outfits design, and they are all absolutely able to throw down with a Mandalorian.

Naboo is the perfect ideal Mandalore, a Mandalore that is primarily peaceful but has not fully given up their warrior ways, simply learning to hide their warriors in plain sight among high society.

And truly, the weakest part of a Mandalorian is the gaps between their Beskar, so them learning that the Naboo have developed a high durability with maximum flexibility Fibre? Oh 100% are the Mandalorian's and the Naboo gonna sit down for tea and gossip over arming techniques and how to hide even more weapons on them.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

I just saw you associate Padme with lotuses which is really interesting because Naboo has lots of Asian and African inspiration and lotuses are the national flower of India and I’ve always thought she’d look so beautiful in Indian sarees and jewelry😍

Omg anon!! I’m so with you on that with Padmé and wearing ethnic South Asian clothing!! She’d totally rock all the sarees, lahengas, ghararas, etc!! As you said, Naboo culture is heavily based on Asian and African cultures, so I also love to picture Padmé in all types of ethnic gowns. Even a lot of the ones she wears on screen are heavily influenced by Mongolian culture and Japanese culture.

[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

#star wars paintings  |  SW Paintings

[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!

[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??

[sinswearslaughter]

PLEASE fellow Star Wars headcannons enjoyers - I encourage more of us to create entire cultures and build worlds when creating fan fiction or fan arts. But how can we do that? I have a few ideas :

- seemingly nonsense traditions

Did you know that inhabitants of Naboo jump every time they hear a frog? Nonsense, right? Well, it is a very old and out-dated way to greet somebody amongst the Gungans. Back in the day some people struggled distinguishing between the sounds of their neighbours and some of the planet's animals...

- traditions that do not align with the wide-spread moral code

Perhaps on some planet similar to Tatooine we had space-Hitler that is now celebrated as a national hero? We don't agree with those views but let's be realistic - if there are so many different cultures, systems and species then some of them are probably hateful too.

- create stereotypes/misconceptions that are widely spread.

Maybe some people on Tatooine believe all Toydarians to be cheap assholes. Perhaps some Rebellion members who weren't there on Endor are convinced Ewoks are miniscule, like, we are talking 10 cm tall.

- write metaphors which refer to characters' cultures.

Act like half of the Galaxy is attempting to translate their whole cultures into language.

Make characters from Tatooine use phrases such as something being "cheap as a legless slave" or something unbelievable happening "when the Hutts fly".

If your world is complex enough (and if you're freaky like that) you can even show character development (values shift, adaptation of different culture's language) through changes in that specialazed language.

Make your worlds alive. Make sure they not only suck the audience in - they will devour us.

[ashiraashiraashira]

@howdidthisevenhappenanyway

[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

[vodkamademedoit]

Who's that Pokémon?

It's Naboolian Gothitelle!

(yep! I checked that! It's Naboolian... It's a real word. The more you know. ..lol)

[grievous-posting]

was going to skip Queen's Shadow after reading Queen's peril, but apparently there's politics leading to the whole separatists. and it's about Padme. How could I say no

[stellanslashgeode]

Okay, so. Star Wars has all these concepts that weirdo New Left boomer George Lucas tosses in there but because of storyteller limitations it would kill the plot to fully explain them all, so later writers have to come in for the spin-off materials and bat clean-up to fully explain all this crazy crap. And I would like to talk about something that made me actively angry at first, but which I now adore. And that is the Naboo.

So much about Naboo culture is infuriating from a logical standpoint. They have a queen, okay. A constitutionally elected queen? Weird, okay. Don't know why they'd do that but... She's FOURTEEN? Excuse me? Is it a ceremonial thing or, oh no it's not? Legit head of state? Why does she dress like that? Why does she talk like that? I'm so tired.

Here's the explainer. Let me go cook.

There's this joke in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the last living human goes back in time and finds out humans aren't actually from Earth, but an alien culture that tricked all the middle managers, pedantic weirdos, and other infuriating folk into getting in a space arc which they gave the wrong evacuation coordinates to simply get rid of them. The Naboo are like this but they're all artists and poets and hippies, but like classy ones. They fled their home planet during a war and crash landed on Naboo, then did a colonism to the Gungans because, hey, they were fleeing a war and it was do or die. This spiritual rot in their creation story is later rectified by Padmé. But it's super important to their cultural psychology. They're hippies, but will subjugate if needed. They are "peaceful" but I guarantee you every single one of them has a tiny extremely shiny pistol up their sleeve and they will draw down on you if backed against a wall.

The scene that I think says it all is at the end of Phantom Menace when Padmé is surrounded by Nute Gunray and his droids, they've got her dead to rights, but Sabé her double creates a distraction so the queen can make it to her throne. This one piece of furniture is the Naboo in a nutshell. It's richly carved with artistic details, it has two seats to the side so the queen's handmaidens can read the lips of people in the back of the room and use hand signals to communicate with the queen while she can remain focused mostly on who is speaking to her. It is hundreds of years old. And it has a secret compartment in the armrest that is FULL OF GUNS. Layers of artistic opulence hiding their true intentions.

The Naboo were created to be backwards compatible with Princess Leia. They're compassionate pacifists, but they will shot you if needed.

Why do they elect teenage royalty? It's a little creepy. It's giving "age of consent is emotional maturity". It makes no sense.

The explanation they give outsiders is they want youthful idealism untainted by cynicism. What they don't tell you is that they take kids with stated interest in politics and put them in an advanced highly competitive Leadership Academy which is like Model UN mixed with Battle Royale. Well, they don't kill each other but it's intense. It's like what the clones went though just all diplomacy training and tea ceremonies all the time. Which is crazy but so Naboo.

Oh, and all the delegates for the royalty election run using pseudonyms for security. Imagine voting for the head of state but you can't run a background check. It's so crazy.

Why does Padmé dress like that? Well, fashion is one of Naboo's major industries so it's like she's wearing the entire Fall line catalog at once. To advertise not only the talent of her people, but to show how much they favor her. BUT that dress has multiple layers of padding and resin armor. And aforementioned spots for those little silver blasters. And it breaks up her silhouette making her harder to shoot. And it's so elaborate you pay more attention to the crazy dress and not if the person wearing it is really the queen or a decoy. Everything about Naboo is like this.

Queen Amidala has that weird accent while Padmé does not. Because all her handmaidens helped create the accent together so they all can imitate it. It's like if you gave girls at a rowdy sleepover the job of federal counterintelligence. That's what they came up with.

The handmaidens wear colorful identical clothes so you can't tell them apart, hoods to partially conceal their identity, and they don't wear the queen's fancy makeup. So one of them can be the queen and spy on people in the audience. Because the Naboo don't trust shit for shit.

Their public face is so silly to hide all the truly weird shit they do behind the scenes.

They use their reputation as artist hippies to conceal multiple layers of subterfuge and disguise their methods of self defense and assuage their paranoia due to wartime trauma and their disturbing colonial past. All of them are completely off their rocker even by Star Wars standards. And I love them so much. They put on a show so everyone thinks they have them figured out but what they have going on is far more weirder and more sinister than meets the eye. You know how catty, neurotic, and competitive art school students stereotypically are? Yeah, planet art student. Love them!

There you go, @charmwasjess

[archeo-starwars]

The Written Word by John Hazlett

[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

#star wars paintings  |  SW Paintings

[ddeck]

for context this is what all the regular prequel era posters look like

and this is Padmé's coronation announcement

scrolling through my sw propaganda book pdf