#sheev palpatine imagine

[dookuswifey]

I was thinking of writing a prequel's prequel where the reader is Queen of Naboo/ a Naboo senator with two love interest, an Alderaan senator and an upcoming senator with weird behaviour from the deceased Palpatine family...

In the ol' republic days, with Plagueis playing Michocondrial God.

Lemme know if you have any plot ideas, Headcanons, etc!!

[phoenixkaptain]

Really think we should start looking at a “Bail Antilles won the election over Palpatine” AU.

Like, I know Palpatine probably would’ve tried to kill him or make him appear weaker or would’ve just bided his time, but the whole series would be so funny because Bail Antilles is like, nigh unkillable. Dude only died because the planet he was on exploded, they had to blow up Alderaan to kill Bail, this man is immensely powerful.

But also, just imagine??? Palpatine would be like “Chancellor, we’re friends :) you can ask me for advice :)” and Bail would be like “oh yeah sure definitely if I ever need advice I will go to you first” but then just.. never do that.

Because! Bail’s wife is a queen! He would go to Breha first and everyone else second! Everyone would be like “it’s so hard to manipulate our new Chancellor :/“ because Bail just does not ask anyone for advice. Bail offers advice, he does not get offered advice.

Palpatine would’ve tried to kill Bail, but Bail is friends with literally so many Jedi. Bail would just be like “Hey, Obi-Wan, remember that time when you were eighteen when you-“ and Obi-Wan: “I will do whatever you ask without question if you shut the fuck up.” Bail would have Jedi with him all the time, just for funsies and because he’s pals with them. Bail would be like “oh, someone has tried to kill me again… this is an opportunity to spend more time with my dear friend Obi-Wan :)”

Palpatine would try to make Bail appear weaker and Bail would just not fall to the bait. He’d just be like “oh something is going on? Hold on a moment, I’m busy making sure the Trade Federation doesn’t do anything stupid, then I’ll be showing the Senate my fifteen-hundred page slideshow that explains why I’m being nice to the Trade Federation and how helping them will ultimately help the Republic, then I have lunch with Obi-Wan and after that I have tea with Obi-Wan and then I’ll have dinner with Padme, Breha, and Obi-Wan, so I’ll get to it after that- wait, no, Breha threatened to take over the Republic if I was home late again, so I guess I’ll have to get to that thing tomorrow ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯ “

I just… feel like we should discuss the world in which Valorum was cut from Supreme Chancellor only for Bail Antilles to replace him.

[galactic-rhea]

you know, the moment I saw comments on Anakin is smart but he still got manipulated and the whole prequels and Original trilogy happened, makes me sad. Palpatine is really good at his job ヽ(#`Д´)ノ which you did help clearing it up with that essay of yours, victims brains messed up by the abuser, and unless a huge amount of love and care and therapy are issued, it's a messy situation for the victim and the victim's loved ones

also that Vaderdala dynamic you said in the empress Amidala au is very Gomez and Mortica lol they are morbidly unhinged and in love XD

I can see them going on: "oh dear Ani, don't torture yourself, that is my job. I won't die~ ♡"

[This is the post the ask is referring to ]

Completely unrelated but I love your icon, is a yellow totoro!!!! Palpatine is so good at his job that he tricked every.single.person.in.the.galaxy. He's a terrifying villain becase of it! Regarding Anakin tho, I think it's because many people feel like if you point out Anakin was a victim of abuse or grooming, they will inmediatly belive that you're excusing all of his actions and crimes, which!!! Makes me crazy! Please, I don't want to have to make a disclaimer about how i think murder is bad every single time I ramble about Anakin, can we get pass this point.

Also Padmé's protective about her little wheeze wheeze, she's possesive in a way that doesn't want him to be hurt or in any pain, but the Gomez and Morticia quote got meeeeeee jnksjdfnkjsfddsf

[momojedi]

read a palpatine x reader.

i’m beyond traumatised.

[dumpster-fire-deluxe]

Imagine you're crying and Palpatine finds you.

The soft rustling of his robes when he sits down in front of you. Not saying a word, only featherlight touches as he pulls you closer.

Fingers trailing through your hair, brushing your back, as if he's massaging your soul. A soft kiss just above your ear.

A whispered "I'm here" and "I'll fix this. Everything will be alright."

Resting your head against his shoulder. Taking shuddering breaths. A small sense of peace.

[reyturnofbensolo]

Star Wars: Visionaries…Darth Sidious!

[commanderfoxdeservesbetter]

So y’all remember the Clone Witness Protection Program including Dogma in this post with Pt. 2, this Fives one, and Fox learning about Thorn’s death:

Okay but just imagine one of Fox’s batchmates (maybe Rex even though he’s not a batchmate but he’s an honorary one) having to be put in this program

If it’s Rex, he has to deal with pretending he’s dead and can’t talk to any of his Vod in the 501st anymore as well as watching as Anakin wrecks shit up because you know Anakin wouldn’t accept Rex’s death

Much like he barely accepting Obi-wan’s fake death and Ahsoka leaving

Rex who had beef with Fox for no reason other than he believed Fives did by his hand because that’s what they had shown to the public and his distrust of the Coruscant Guard in general

Rex who refuses to sit back and be sent somewhere else for his safety because his brothers need him and he refuses to leave them behind

Because he doesn’t want to be safe; he wants to protect his Vod’e

Because that’s just the person he is

Fox getting a headache and wondering how Cody manages to wrangle him in

Cody can’t but he’ll never tell Fox that

Fox even having to deal with Cody who refuses to also believe Rex is dead without a body because they just found Echo and if there’s a possibility his vod’ika was captured and tortured, he wants to save him

Fox doesn’t have the heart to tell him that Echo was an exemption

And yea Rex is still alive but Fox can’t have him knowing that - can’t having anyone knowing that - so he lies through his teeth and tell Cody “you have to move on. Not everyone can be saved”

Cody is stubborn and persistent just like Anakin that Rex wouldn’t have just died

And maybe he goes about it a different way then Anakin

Anakin who goes to Palpatine to figure out where to find Rex, Anakin who (despite being told by Palpatine that Rex is dead because that means one less person in the way) searches for other ways to bring Rex back to life if he is truly dead, Anakin who can’t let go no matter what people tell him and he just needs to find Rex’s body because that will reveal the truth

If Rex is alive, then finding him will be no issue but if he’s dead, Anakin will bring him back

Cody who retraces the steps and investigates the situation and tries to find the clues to the answers

Fox who has to cover all the steps and areas because goddamn it Cody, now is not the time to be paranoid

Fox who can’t blame him because that’s what he would do with Thorn if there was no body

[interdimensionalhellscapeportal]

A note- I've read most of the Star Wars books over the years, new & old, recently including Master & Apprentice. I was fascinated by the description of Rael Aveross as having a "heavy Outer Rim accent", and imagined different flavors of it- to me, the Outer Rim sounds like Shmi (swedish actress) or Jango (new zealand drawl) etc etc....

Only, this week at work I finally listened to Dooku: Jedi Lost, and discovered that Rael fucking Aveross is a Texas hoss wrangler.

Being from the South myself, I already despise badly done southern accents, and his was perhaps the worst I have ever heard. I will never recover.

[revenge-of-the-shit]

It's comforting to read fix-it fics where Padmé becomes Chancellor and fixes everything but these also miss part of the point. Palpatine didn't come to political power by himself. He rose to it, as she said, with thunderous applause. There were millions and millions of people out there who were in power who were complicit in the corruption of the Senate. It would be so, so interesting (and also so devastating and uncomfortably familiar) to see a story where Padmé becomes Chancellor and nothing changes at all beyond some surface level policies because she's surrounded by a body that refuses to do anything. If anything, some of the policies she'd pass would actively harm marginalized groups out of ignorance, given how she lives and breathes privilege and has no lived experience with what said groups go through.

[machinatings]

Really did not think I had super strong takes on Star Wars anymore but I do feel so strongly that the inquisitors makes the general world building Worse. Part of why the empire was so effective in (almost) completely wiping out the jedi in only 20 years wasnt just that they killed them all, it’s that they killed the idea that using the force was even strictly possible. In the OT the word “sith” is never even used- people barely understand the nature of the force, let alone enough to distinguish between a jedi and a sith. By the time of ANH, the idea of being a force user, any kind, should feel desperately lonely, a product of a bygone era. It makes Palpatine, as one of the only people still alive that understands the force, that much more powerful. The idea that he would go out of his way to train a bunch of people in the darkside really undermines that in my opinion.

[tragcdysewn]

@rcvcrics AND @wvsteria asked: anti-headcanon ( sheev palpatine )

he doesn't actually give a shit about his siblings or samara, he's just an incredible actor. it's easier and more beneficial to him if they're on his side, especially since sabina and samara are so powerful. it's simply another game for him, to pretend that he's feeling feelings for the first time in a century.

[interdimensionalhellscapeportal]

YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU

now I have an accurate mental image for the Palpatine that supposedly raced professionally, did a hit&run & threw some money at the dead body in his wake, and dreamed of someday maintaining a harem of beautiful, evil (force-sensitive) bitches whilst never acknowledging his many bastard children

*look* upon him

The smarm. The smirk. The soulless eyes. *Glorious*

The darkside’s favorite boytoy

[triviallytrue]

Star wars is constructed in a completely incoherent way but it creates the funniest character arcs imaginable. Sheev Palpatine spent like two decades micromanaging tons of different parts of his incredibly intricate and complex plan to take over the galaxy and annihilate the jedi, and then after he won he went "well, enough of all that. time to sit back in my big evil chair, gaze out windows, and let my brainless underlings shit the bed until i die (the first time)"

[phoenixyfriend]

Remember my post about Anakin pulling a Mike Murdock? Yeah, no, I have a full on AU concept now (with contributions by @threebea! indented)!

He lies so hard about having a brother that the universe invents a twin from scratch for him. It happens when Anakin is like twelve.

Anakin was just committing to the bit on a mission because he was bored.

The Force was also bored.

Oh no Anakin force manifests a sibling Obi-Wan: …That's not how the Force works. Anakin: You tell the Force that. Obi-Wan: Well, I suppose this would be your half-brother since the Force is your shared parent. Obi-Wan after the initial shock: This might as well happen.

New brother is better at some things and worse at others, as any person is. Anakin is, naturally, a fucking mess about all that, worries he'll be replaced, etc.

Obi-Wan just brings this to the Council and nobody can DENY this Skywalker from the Jedi after they already took the first one. So. Mace volunteers.

This Skywalker is a bit more Force than Anakin, got glowing eyes and visions and the Animal Communion buff. But is worse at flying, worse at tech, and unfathomably worse at people. Which is a FEAT, since Anakin's not too hot at social skills in the first place.

Mace has his hands full in many ways, including "keep this child from walking face first into the wall."

Obi-Wan: We are not calling him Anagain.

Anakin had many mixed feelings but! If he's going to have family then he's going to commit!

The other option is that the brother is younger by enough that the Older Brother instincts kick in, but I think the one-sided twin rivalry is funnier.

Anakin: I'm a big brother now. Anagain: I think we're supposed to be twins. Anakin: I have more worldly experience. Anagain: I'm taller. Anakin: wut Anagain: alpha twin alpha twin (that's his nickname until you come up with actual name lol) Obi-Wan: Well, I'm taller than both of you, and while that is the case you both need to listen to me. Anagain: (flash of foresight) So, not for long Obi-Wan: What? Anagain: Nothing. Mace: (the Shatterpoints are blinding) Yeah, I'll be taking this one. More seriously tho, Anakin definitely torn between what if everyone likes him better he's born from the force what if he's the chosen one what if and also: I have a brother I have family I need to take care of him. Probably some fun twin force bond too. Oh man Sheev after digesting all of that would definitely try to get some jealousy going.

Anakin talks about the new brother with terms like Freshly Hatched and Innocent Baby and it's mostly a joke except that now HE thinks Palps is a creep when it's aimed at Not Him.

Palpatine: When do I get to meet him? Anakin: [absolutely not] Mace won't let him [Yeah that'll work] Mace: Yeah, absolutely not, he didn't help save Naboo there's no reason for my Padawan to have a relationship with the Supreme Chancellor

I've decided to call the brother Aion (EY-yon). I like the whole thing about Anakin's name being based on Ananke, even if it's a disputed thing, so I go for Greek myth when doing alt names for siblings.

Mace still bitter about having to let Palps get time with Anakin not about to do the same if he can help it. Although that comic takes place later eh (handwaves) still The Jedi might try to be hush hush about where aion came from anyway since he would fall directly under Jedi business

Help I'm imagining Mace and Obi-Wan on a walk and the twins are on child leashes. Anakin because ADHD will have him trying to run off to look at something. And Aion because he's going to be so distracted by visions that he will walk into traffic.

"Can we send a letter to mom so she knows he exists?" The other thought was ANAKIN holding the child leash for Aion, and then Obi-Wan or Mace holding the one for Anakin. Lil chain.

Aion: Hey… I know I've only existed for a few months, and yes my memories of before are sort of built by the Force, but I'm pretty sure the Supreme Chancellor is evil. Mace: You saw that in a vision? Aion: No, he's just super creepy. Bad vibes.

Obi-Wan: Of course he's evil, he's a career politician. Anakin: What about your friend from Alderaan? Obi-Wan: That's different.

One of these boys is constantly zoning out. The other is smiling, but the smile contains murder.

They're both adhd but with wildly different sides of it.

EXACTLY

Also.

Aion: [silent, a bit upset but mostly chill] Anakin, holding his hand: He asked for no pickles!

[dumpster-fire-deluxe]

Very important question:

Do we think Sheev as a young child owned plushies? Was he forced to or did he actually like them? Did he have a favorite?