#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!!

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

[keldabekush]

Can you even imagine the number of Chancellor Sheev Palpatine biopics you would have to coexist with if you lived in the galactic republic. I wish i could see them. Sheev Palpatine played by a flatteringly cast actor with a completely fictionalised, sympathetic life story.

God i wish i could see them

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

what if ron hadn't drunk the poisoned mead early and instead he, slughorn and harry all drank at the same time when slughorn finished the toast? would harry have stayed dead? what would dumbledore have done then? (also wasn't he freaked out that he almost got his pet project killed early by mistake?)

Anon, you're mistaking Albus Dumbledore for Sheev Palpatine.

Sheev would have been at least mildly upset had Anakin died before his plans came to fruition (though not that upset, I imagine. It wouldn't be a game changer and I imagine he'd shrug his shoulders and say "drat")

Dumbledore's goal is to ultimately kill Harry Potter in such a way that he has no emotional culpability by setting things up such that Harry will see he has no choice but to kill himself.

If Harry dies early, in such a way as Harry not realizing he had to sacrifice himself to save the world, Dumbledore would be appalled, horrified--but on the other hand this solves kind of a big problem, doesn't it?

The thing about Dumbledore, is that I think he wants to like Harry, he wants to be the wise grandfather figure in Harry's life, but these are only things he wants to do that have nothing to do with Harry himself. Harry--I think Dumbledore doesn't actually like him very much as there's a number of times when Dumbledore gets... quite fed up with him.

Mostly, though, I'm just imagining what you're laying out and laughing because:

Once again, Draco has killed/harmed everyone but Albus Dumbledore, somehow

Slughorn, had he mistimed his sip, is now standing wide eyed in a room with two dead children who just drank the bottle he gave them and OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK has to somehow do something so that this doesn't all circle back to him

Dumbledore has to convince himself that this is fine, this is great, and no this isn't his fault for letting Draco go off the rails all year in increasingly dangerous escalations to assassinate him. "Harry's noble sacrifice is an inspiration to us all" and er too bad about Ron Weasley I guess. Who is Ron?

Somewhere, Tom getting the news that Draco has accidentally killed Harry Potter, Slughorn, and Ron Weasley when trying to kill Albus Dumbledore. Somehow, Tom did not see that coming and... he stayed dead?

I think Harry probably is staying dead, maybe, though who really knows with him but on the off chance he doesn't--

Then we have Harry's "I didn't do it" dance as, once again, he is in a situation that from the outside screams GUILTY even though he genuinely didn't have a single thing to do with it.

... And Harry probably takes horrible revenge on Draco/Snape, whom he assumes are both involved with this, for the murder of Ron.

[terapsina]

I just realized that there's a Star Wars Time Loop concept with GREAT hilarity potential that I don't think I've seen anyone attempting in a fic.

PALPATINE BEING THE ONE STUCK IN A LOOP THAT WON'T END UNTIL HE LOSES.

I mean you know how eventually there's always that one point where the trapped person gets driven completely NUTS? Imagine how SATISFYING that part would be when it's dear old Sheev that keeps getting to the precipice of all he's ever wanted getting realized, only to get it snatched away again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And ag-♾️

Imagine the impotent fury. The inevitable Rage Ranting. The eventual moments where his careful facade starts fraying around the edges and one of his carefully crafted spider-web strands... slips.

A time loop where instead of needing to win one time, he needs to win, and keep winning and the MOMENT he loses, just ONCE - the loop will end.