We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.
sooooo fucked up but padme and shmi are inextricably linked in anakin’s mind as both his family, his attachments and the people he will do anything to keep in his life, the secret-most part of him he gets to have all to himself, ANDDD palpatine is in that secret chamber too. he didn’t grow up with a father so he’s got palpatine and obi-wan to choose from, and obi-wan loves him obviously but can only say it when he thinks anakin is dying, like it or not there is a level of emotional repression in the prime jedi order that anakin simply never gets from palpatine who he kneels before and trusts without question. palpatine and padme the politicians he is told not to trust, shmi the mother he was never meant to see again. mother & father & mother to his children. each an attempt at a family unit he never really got. it’s the evilest dynamic of all time and of course it ends in a bloodbath
Anakin Skywalker // Sheev Palpatine // Hego Damask
Darth Vader // Darth Sidious // Darth Plagueis
Text from Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
DIEGO LUNA & GENEVIEVE O'REILLY ANDOR | S02E09 “Welcome to the Rebellion”
Even if Anakin was never found by Qui-Gon, remained as a slave, stayed on Tatooine, etc etc… none of Palpatine's plans relied on him.
Palpatine was already senator of Naboo and had manipulated (if not outright caused) the situation between the Trade Federation and Naboo before he ever met Anakin. The Sith were already at the heart of the Republic.
probably the only instance ever anakin dares to talk back; as a kid dfsdfdfdsg
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