#star wars queens shadow

[liam-biscuit]

padmé sent sabé to tatooine to free slaves. she sent her to free anakins mother, but she couldn’t find her. she wore the necklace anakin gave her. she passed the jedi temple on coruscant and thought about it. what if they had found shmi skywalker? what if she was never taken? what if anakin had never killed the tuskens? I wonder if padmé ever told him that she looked for his mother?

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Throughout her career as Queen and later as a Republic Senator, Padmé became desensitized to romantic advances. Her life's work was surrounded by people who were fake, two-faced, manipulative, and full of loud bravado. Nobody was sincere, and anyone who approached her always had ulterior motives, whether seeking to benefit from her high status or gain importance by association.

What's often overlooked, however, is that Padmé also harbored similar reservations about the Jedi. While she deeply respected and admired the Jedi, she found their mannerisms, etiquette, and stoicism unsettling at times:

Padmé's discomfort with the Jedi endures, unaffected by her numerous encounters. This lingering unease is consistently reflected in her thoughts, as recorded in the Queen Amidala Journal and other Star Wars novels.

Padmé admits they’re brave, wise, and respected beings but she can’t fathom them the way they are in nature. She finds them rather irritating 😂

As we see here^^ Padmé also finds their lack of emotional repression quite obnoxious as well. So much that she’d made a vow that if she were to ever become Chancellor, she’d have every Jedi demonstrate at least “one emotion” a year.

{When the topic comes to companionship, trust, and seeking aid, Padmé has enough professionalism to know that the Jedi are people she can always rely on. She heavily respects them and trusts them no matter what. But outside the professionalism, she doesn’t mesh well at all with them because her ideals, values, and beliefs are like night and day with theirs.}

This understanding of Padmé's perspective sheds light on why she fell deeply in love with Anakin. She famously declares him the only Jedi she could ever love, and it's clear why. Despite the odds against them – his Jedi vows, her senatorial duties – Anakin proves his devotion, showing Padmé the depth of his love and desire. Passionate and hopeless romantics, Padmé and Anakin share a profound connection. Much like kindred spirits. Anakin's all-consuming passion resonates deeply with Padmé. His patience, vulnerability, and unwavering commitment ultimately capture Padmé's heart, making him her soulmate.

[theghostwrites]

[from-a-legends-pov]

Star Wars Legends: Poll of the Week - Out-Of-Context Pictures

Which of these out-of-context pictures from a Star Wars Legends property is your favorite? (Context provided below)

1: “Heat stick”: Oh, no, that certainly doesn’t look like anything else, no….

2. Laser-eyes Leia: Is it possible to learn this power?

3. Hit where it hurts: He had it coming.

4. “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” I don’t know, that looks kind of fun, Luke.

5. Han punches an otter? An otter wearing fancy jewelry, no less.

6. Playing ships with a Sith: Vader plus younglings doesn’t usually go well….

And now, for some context:

1: “Heat stick” - Wedge Antilles and Wes Janson spend a cold night together on a mission, and yes, that is supposed to be a heat stick used to warm them and not a glowing something else (Star Wars - original Marvel Comics)

2: Laser-eyes Leia: Meet Leia Organa II, a replica droid of the Princess, designed to speak, move, and act like the real Leia, and equipped with blasters in her eyes. The real Leia Organa is captured and nearly forced to marry Trioculus, a three-eyed warlord claiming to be Palpatine’s son (he wasn’t – that was a different three-eyed guy), but right before the wedding Leia’s friends switch her with Leia Organa II. At the altar, the replica droid blasts Trioculus with a little pew pew straight from her eyes, killing him, and the real Leia is able to escape (Queen of the Empire)

3: Hit where it hurts: When Black Sun boss Prince Xizor’s attempted assault of Leia Organa (by drugging her with his powerful Falleen pheromones) is interrupted by Chewbacca coming to the rescue, Leia gives Xizor a well-deserved knee to the groin before escaping (Shadows of the Empire)

4: “Turn off the foam, Threepio!” On a mission with Leia and the droids, Luke Skywalker uses extinguisher foam to subdue some Blackhole troopers aboard a Hrakian ship (“Gambler’s World,” Early Star Wars Adventures)

5: Han punches an otter? Han Solo’s evil cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo has imprisoned Dracmus, a female Selonian who has been trained as a diplomatic envoy to humans. He forces Dracmus to fight Han, whom he has also imprisoned, but Han is familiar enough with Mandaba, the Selonian language, to convince Dracmus to go easy on him during the fight without Thrackan catching on. Han still loses the fight, but gains Dracmus’s trust, and when Dracmus is later rescued, Han is allowed to come along (Assault at Selonia)

6: Playing ships with a Sith: Plourr Ilo recalls her brother Harran (Harrandatha Estillo), who from childhood was an evil, vicious person who wanted her dead so that he could become ruler. Harran idolized Darth Vader, and when Harran met the Sith as a child, Vader made Harran his protégé, taking advantage of his sadistic personality and apparently also playing ships with him for hours (Star Wars comics, X-Wing: Rogue Squadron - The Warrior Princess)

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[kathrahender]

Live Action Enemies/rivals-to-lovers ships my beloved <3

[stephen9260]

Rip Oscar Malevolent you would have loved Sabé

[naboopalace]

𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐎

Theed, nature and wild life, Otoh Gunga

“Naboo is a unique world,” Padmé admitted.

[sobiwan]

I hope no one is offended by this Sabe & Obi-Wan commission. It's just meant as a joke. Beautiful artwork by @im-yotsu

[starwarsbookclub]

Yané and Saché in Queen's Shadow & Darth Vader (2022) #32

[aprill-99]

Love the POV flip storytelling device where the character everyone else thinks is incredibly capable, calm, and collected turns out to have an internal monologue that sounds like:

Captain’s Log: It has been 73 hours since my last existential crisis and 5 days since the last time I felt compelled to scream in to the void. Both are new records. Note - is this what they call “Progress”?

[torturedpoetskywalker]

to see myself through your eyes

read on AO3

240 wc, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Padmé/Tsabin | Sabé, Pre-Femslash, Female Friendship, G-rating, Alternate Universe - Jedi Academy, part 3 of Star Wars Sapphic Week 2024 (@starwarssapphicweek) and part 1 of @jedijune

Summary: Padmé knows her friend will be a great Jedi someday. Unfortunately, she's not so sure about herself.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

It’s so wild how many fic writers in this fandom still tag in their fics (which are wrongly tagged as Anidala) that Clovis is Padmé’s “ex lover” in ones which include his character.

Canonically this false interpretation has long been debunked in Queen’s Shadow where it’s revealed that Padmé never associated herself to Clovis in anyway. He wasn’t even a friend of hers for most of it, and even then he made things worse by forcing a kiss on her. She didn’t want anything to do with him for more than half the book, and made her hate him by it’s end, lol.

Clovis was always the one chasing after her while she made her feelings and stance clear that she’s not interested in him. The book often hints at her aggravation and irritation of him many times. And at the end, after she’s reluctantly agreed to work with him, and they’ve passed a bill together, he completely ruins their new found friendship by being his usual “creepy” self to which Padmé (rightfully) angrily tells him off. Then going forward she broke off all contact with him. No romantic feelings or relationship in sight.

Even way before the Queen’s Trilogy came out, the VA to Padmé in TCW (Catherine Taber) confirms in a podcast once (Coffee with Kenobi #25) that Padmé never once harboured any romantic feelings for Clovis. Even confirms that they only had a relationship where they were friends and nothing more.

[orange-twilek-guy]

These quotes NEVER fail to break my heart and crush my soul and I think of them often 😭

[handmaidenofamidala]

Is Sabé the only one of the original handmaidens whose surname is not revealed to us in canon?

[serendipity-by-chance]

the love i have for padme’s handmaidens is sth else. all of them. they’re loyal to padme even after her death. loved her so much. changed their names for her. they make me cry i love girls and i love friendship that women have which is so precious

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I think Ezra Bridger and Ty Blackthorn would be good friends 😌