#sabe/padme

[renlyslittlerose]

I commissioned @a-aristippus to draw some Padmé/Sabé action ✨💕

[jebiknights]

What are your top five "they either would or should put 'It's Complicated' as their relationship status" ships for Star Wars?

iofjgdfijs OH GOD I feel like a lot of my ships would do that but hmm my top??

(in no specific order tho)

Quinlan/Obi-Wan: this one may seem weird as an "it's complicated" but I think that Quinlan and Obi-Wan probably live in this weird in between world of "we are madly in love with each other" and "we are platonic soulmates/heterosexual life partners" (like the trope not that either of them are straight lol). They're exclusive and they're open. They keep falling in love with pretty girls who could murder them. They have semi-successfully co-parented two children together into knighthood.

Rex/Ventress: oh man I have been thinking about this ship in the back of my mind since you first starting sharing those "romance protag" videos dfijssiths. they are mortal enemies they are allies of circumstance they are both being held back by their lives even when they are feeling like they are doing the right thing they are also probably making out in the middle of a hostage situation when ventress is supposed to be interrogating rex and they are both angry about it afterwards.

Mandocule: (mainly thinking of Boba/Din/Fennec/Luke/sometimes Cobb but others too) I think polycules always make things a little complicated (I say as a polyam person) but especially when you have like... several bounty hunters, two of which turned community leaders, a former son of a "smuggler"/rebel turned Jedi, and a former slave turned sheriff, and it just gets... so chaotic. Especially when you consider the amount of trauma, daddy issues, mommy issues, and more this group has collectively, and they are all trying to co-parent a baby jedi who is older than the majority of them. All of them are probably wanted criminals on at least one planet.

Cody/Anakin: while I do think that they could have an actual "we talked it out" relationship, I think what is almost more likely for them specifically is that... lmao they wouldn't. They are both kinda sleeping with a superior/subordinate. They are butting heads all the time but kind of obsessed with each other. They would kill for each other but also might team up to kill Obi-Wan because he is driving them nuts. They both have extreme little brother energy and have both been usurped by a babier sibling that they are suddenly in charge of (Rex and Ahsoka). They both are a lot deeper than they give the other credit for, and they probably only really figure this out after they've already started fucking.

Padme/Sabe: I wasn't going to put this one on the list originally but the more I thought about it the more I realized it is up there even though I don't talk about it often. It's got so much good potential for juicy undefined tropes. Sabe is literally Padme's bodyguard/knight to her Queen, even moreso than Anakin is. She is hopelessly devoted to her and would do anything for her, and Padme is the same back but is also the one actually in a position of power and is extremely important to society. They're in love and have probably been in love since they were kids, even if Padme marries Anakin. And Duty would hold them back in a way it wouldn't for a lot of other ships in star wars. Their love is always there in the background!

this took me way too long to do but it was so much fun thank u nixy

[ratbaby15]

Got inspired, made something, hope you enjoy.

Pretty accurate if I do say so myself.

[prequelsnet]

if you are to leave, your highness, it must be now.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY AND NATALIE PORTMAN in STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999) dir. George Lucas

[paperback-rascal]

I need a story in which Padme and Clone Force 99 go on a mission together!

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[stealingpotatoes]

@crossover15 kofi requested the twins meeting Padmé's handmaidens!! (sequel to this)

(kofi requests are open!)

[syndullahera]

"And she knows it."

-Queen's Shadow by E. K. Johnston

[phoenixyfriend]

Samuel L Jackson deserves to cameo in the next season of Kenobi. As a flashback or a hallucination or a ghost, whatever.

OR a "what if" vision where Obi-Wan dreams about what Could Have Been, like Yoda's in TCW.

ALSO

BRING BACK PADMÉ AND SATINE IN THINGS. WITH EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN KENOBI AND THE MANDALORIAN THEY DESERVE AT LEAST A NAME DROP

PLEASE ADD CATE BLANCHETT PLS PLS PLS

If Natalie Portman isn't available, just borrow Keira Knightley

On that note, God PLEASE give us post-OT Sabé. Imagine Sabé (Keira) looking in a mirror and it's Subtly Off and then she realizes the reflection is actually Padmé (Natalie) and this isn't life it's a nightmare where her queen and Senator asks her where were you when I died you were supposed to protect me

Also also

Could bring Portman in to play out that dream Vader had in the comics about their impossible happy ever after

[twinterrors29]

the specific Naboo religious sect that Padme belonged to believed very strongly in reincarnation

so the first time Darth Vader is introduced to Princess Leia of Alderaan once her father finally relents and allows her to take over his position in the Senate, when he takes note of her resemblance and looks up her birth date, his first thought is not "Padme's daughter survived"

it's "Padme reincarnated as the Princess of Alderaan"

he finds this conclusion fitting, and of course immediately pledges his loyalty to her

Leia doesn't know what this menace to society's deal is, and honestly doesn't care, and decides to use this to her advantage by telling her father

Bail, of course, is biting his nails thinking that Vader has figured them out, but thankfully no

this is about the time that Sabe and her fellow handmaidens show up, so Vader introduces them to Leia and they all naturally reach the same conclusion

when Ben distantly senses the disturbance in the Force and drags the whole Lars family off to come investigate, Darth "Anakin Is Dead" Vader takes one look at young Luke and doesn't even try to ask about his birth date (or, conveniently, his last name) before assigning him as "Anakin Skywalker Reincarnated"

Ben, hidden in the next room with Bail, is face-palming as hard as possible to try to distract himself from that particular shit show

and now that 'Padme' and 'Anakin' are in the same room, Vader of course tries to ship them, with Sabe's passive support

Bail, sweating: maybe,,, we should not encourage that,,,

Vader: Why.

Bail, full of hypocritical shit: uh,,, he's not suitable, for the future Queen of Alderaan

which only serves to offend Vader, because what, Baby Me isn't good enough for Baby My Wife now?

so Bail throws in a faked relationship with a certain spice freighter captain he hired on the spot to fill the role of his daughter's secret boyfriend

before Vader can get upset about Baby Padme dating someone who isn't Baby Anakin, Sabe eyeballs this dude with no official birth records and asks, what DID happen to Kenobi? or maybe that Captain Rex fellow from the war?

causing Bail to nearly stroke out, as he KNOWS that neither of those men are even dead, and in fact one of them is choking on his spit in the other room as he listens in!

(this fake-dating effort additionally backfires, not that anyone realizes it yet, because both twins start actually dating this scruffy-looking nerf-herder)

of course Vader immediately questions why Sabe suggested that Captain Solo might be Kenobi, and got hit with Sabe's "well, Skywalker was always psychosexually fixate on Kenobi, and all of us knew he was the hot one even if Padme settled for Skywalker"

Vader: ...What. Was that thing you said. About Skywalker.

Sabe: yeah, Skywalker literally couldn't shut up about the guy, even while he was having sex with his wife, luckily she was into that if you know what I mean

Vader: ...

Vader: no, that is the perfectly normal level of interest to have in Kenobi

Sabe, remembering the way Darksiders always seemed to fixate on Kenobi: ...uh-huh, riiiight

Vader decides he's Not Dealing With That, and pours that energy into his fixation on Finding Kenobi in order to kill him about it

Ben, one too-thin wall away, is seriously considering letting that happen so he doesn't have to hear any more of this

but, of course, eventually Sidious notices Vader's interest in the young Senator Organa

and Sheev Palpatine was, interestingly enough, from the same sect as Padme

which means that he quickly puts together what Vader has concluded about Leia as a reincarnation of Padme Amidala

but unlike Sabe (and Vader, who has seriously deluded himself), he is keenly aware that Anakin Skywalker can't have actually reincarnated into that farm boy who's spending all his time with the Senator now

so he's able to (correctly, for once) conclude that Luke must be Anakin and Padme's kid, who somehow survived all these years

and since the child survived...

well, he starts to eye Sabe a little more closely, and wonder how he can fit this into his plans for the galaxy...

[sulietsexual]

Padmé & Sabé [Star Wars Episode I] Requested by @iammyownsaviour

[starwarsyuri]

sabedala / moon song - phoebe bridgers

[vitrisimbre]

something i like about queen's peril is that, when you're watching TPM, you don't often think about the messier side of queen amidala. like in order to wear all of those headpieces, the handmaidens (and before they got there, i would imagine with the help of someone who was a servant) have to pin her hair in place and find ways for it to stay on practically

and when she takes it off at the end of the day, it's messy. like more than once there's pins falling out, just going everywhere

and so while you're reading it, you're realizing just how human these girls are. like you know that while you're watching the movie, but it doesn't focus on any of this because obviously the logistics of their clothing and the shittier parts of working in naboo royalty is not technically related to the plot or anything that's happening

and to an extent, the naboo are there to look cool because star wars is largely a space fantasy about stuff that looks cool (which is great)

but reading this just reminds you of the behind the scenes. how she didn't look graceful when taking her clothes and makeup off. how the handmaidens saw her like that when few others did. there's an intimacy there, where they could almost be like her family with how much they help her and how close they have to be.

but in the movies it doesn't imply that, really. if anything it seems like padmé is pretty isolated, even from her handmaidens. in fairness, part of this could be a lack of care on george lucas's part, because i don't expect he understood or cared much about how friendships between girls work... but if you just good faith interpret the media and leave GL out, i would argue that even if (and i guess it is, since the books are canon) all of the stuff in queen's peril is true, there's still a degree of separation padmé had to have from them because she felt like she wasn't herself as queen amidala. she was a faithful servant to her people. she was so used to having that mask on during the day that even at night, it probably didn't come off too much

so even if sabé wants more than that, she's always relegated to handmaiden. apart of queen amidala, but less so padmé.

and then anakin gets just padmé, which is what makes their relationship stand out completely

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[stealingpotatoes]

the queen and her shadow

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