IM ALMOST DONE WITH THIS THING AND ITS EXCEEDED ALL OF MY EXPECTATIONS SO FAR FOR MY LIMITED RESOURCES
“Thank you for joining me Masters Jedi” The reporter, a petite Mon Calamari, greeted them with a well-practiced smile, desperately hoping it hid her nerves, as the selection of available (or, she had a sneaking suspicion, those who were not quite quick enough with a plausible excuse) council members filed in and took seats in the comfortable chairs arranged in a semicircle in front of her.
“Thank you for inviting us” Obi-Wan Kenobi responded with a charming smile, characteristically polite and the voice of the group as they sat down. Mace Windu and Plo Koon both nodded in acknowledgement, Shaak Ti smiled serenely and Kit Fisto flashed her his usual wide grin. It was like looking at holo-posters.
Cody somehow travels back in time and becomes the loving, overprotective kickass Dad Obi-wan deserves. Queue him having to like, literally beat Mandalorians (and everyone else, frankly) back with a stick when Obi comes of age, and the ridiculous lengths Jango and others go to to either avoid him or win his approval as they try to court obi-wan
Cody would like to say he’d never expected something like this to happen. But that would be a lie. He’s not entirely sure what has happened, just that he was in his bunk one second and then there was a tugging sensation and he was here.
Here being a planet, presumably, in the quarters of a Jedi Master and Padawan. At least he thinks that’s who they are, based on attire. There hasn’t been any talking yet, just a lot of staring.
“So,” the tall one finally says, “Who are you?”
“Commander Cody of the 212th Attack Battalion,” Cody answers, “And you, General?”
He frowns, “General? I’m no General, and I wasn’t aware this planet had a standing military.”
“Or that they could teleport,” the little one mutters.
There’s something familiar about him, like Cody should know who he is.
And the both of them should definitely know who he is. At least vaguely. His face is easily recognisable, of course. He shares it with millions of others. If they don’t recognize him… either they’re not Jedi or he’s moved in more than place. Cody wishes he could say the first was the more plausible explanation.
He tries again anyway.
“I’m a soldier in the Grand Army of the Republic.”
“The Republic has no army, grand or otherwise.”
Shit, Cody thinks.
“Shit,” Cody says, “You are Jedi, yes?”
“Yes,” the little one says.
Alright, Cody thinks, he can work with this. Probably. Maybe. He’ll have to see. Why did he end up with the General who attracts the most weird Force bullshit? He supposes it could have been worse, he could’ve got Skywalker. Maybe he would’ve travelled in time and found himself amongst Sith instead of Jedi.
“I think,” the tall one says slowly, “That we are rather at a disadvantage here. You know and understand our affiliation but we do not understand yours.”
“He doesn’t even know our names, Master,” the little one mumbles, brow furrowed.
“Hush, Obi-Wan,” he says, waving a hand to silence his padawan.
Obi-Wan. Well that explains why he seems so familiar. The tall one must be Master Qui-Gon Jinn, his General’s old and very dead Master. He’d never talked about him much, never mind shown Cody a holo of him. He’s more rumpled than expected.
“It’s alright,” Cody assures him, “I’m confused too. I seem to be in the past. I am Marshall Commander Cody of the Grand Army of the Republic, from the year 979 ARR. I serve under High General Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
Obi-Wan frowns, opening his mouth to speak again and finds himself silenced again. Cody has only known Master Jinn for a few minutes but he’s really starting to dislike him.
“You’re saying that my padawan leads an army for the Republic in the future?” Jinn scoffs, “And why should I believe you? It doesn’t take much to learn my padawan’s name, or mine for that matter. You are no doubt a trick.”
Cody rolls his eyes, “Obi-Wan Kenobi, born 966 ARR on the planet of Stewjon. Given to the Jedi at the age of three, placed in Clan Tooka where he made friends with Bant Eerin, Garen Muln, Reeft, Siri Tachi and Luminara Undali. He is allergic to hoi broth, three types of painkiller, most bugs and most ration bars. Very annoying. He prefers flimsi books over datapads and his favourite type of tea is in a red box. I would tell you creepy things that will come true, but a) I don’t know what year I’m in, b) I don’t know much history and c) I don’t know how that would affect my life in the future so…”
“Obi-Wan’s favourite tea comes in a blue box.”
Cody raises an eyebrow, “Why don’t you ask him?”
“It’s true,” Obi-Wan says, glancing nervously at his Master, “Your favourite tea is in the blue box, so I pretend it’s mine too. Sorry.”
“And the rest of that?” Jinn snaps, “All things you’ve never told me or lied about?”
“I-”
Cody really doesn’t like this guy.
“Leave him be,” Cody says, “Regardless of whether or not you believe me, could you perhaps tell me where we are?”
“Fakir,” Obi-Wan says.
“Padawan!” Jinn scolds, glaring.
“What?” he shrugs, “It’s not like he’s presented a danger to us. And what’s he going to do with the name of the planet? If he was a spy, or a sleep agent or whatever you think he is then he already knows anyway. Besides, I believe him.”
“Because you are so ready to go to war again,” Jinn says, voice hard, “Was once not enough? Do you need to spill more blood to be satisfied? Command an army at the whim of the Senate? Subjugate planets and people to placate the darkness inside of you.”
“Master-” Obi-Wan’s small face pales, eyes unusually bright.
“Don’t talk to him like that,” Cody says, “Ever.”
“It’s okay,” Obi-Wan lays a hand on his arm, “It’s okay.”
It’s not. Cody would never let anyone talk to a child like that, and he’d definitely never let them speak to his General like that. But he and Obi-Wan are both reliant on this Qui-Gon Jinn. His General because the man is his guardian and Cody because he’s not leaving his General.
Well, there’s a new goal then. Get custody of his tiny General.
Idk what to do with these thoughts so putting them out there
Mechanic!Din, and Luke who, although is an absolute genius with cars/vehicles, on one occasion doesn’t have time to deal with an issue by himself
So he takes it to Din’s garage
But then he sees how handsome Din is and blue-screens
Din: So, what’s the problem?
Luke, gay-panicking: my car
Din: … uh huh. What’s wrong with it?
Luke: it’s broken :)
And Din assumes the pretty blond just has no idea about cars outside driving one (which he’s somewhat doubting even that, at that moment)
And Luke just keeps going back, with the smallest problems, even though he absolutely doesn’t need to. He pretends to know nothing about cars, and smiles and nods sweetly and listens carefully whenever Din explains something (even though he knows it already)
Leia and Han tease him mercilessly about it when they find out
OKAY TUMBLR. IT'S TIME TO SETTLE THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL.
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NOT JIF,
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WE SHALL SEE WHICH ONE PREVAILS.
#OHHHHHHH A GALAXY BRAIN AU A GALAXY BRAIN AU: CORRIE GUARD KIDNAPS TERA SINUBE#a spiritual cousin in the Fix It AU shelf to 'jocasta nu inducts the entire GAR into the archives as librarians' AU#BC IT WOULD BE LIKE...AN OLD PRE-CSI COP SHOW DETECTIVE STORY STYLE FIX-IT ENDING IN THE CORRIE GUARD SMOKING OL' SHEEV#the CG is tired of getting one of the sh*ttiest assignments in the entire GAR and no respect to boot#they keep hearing from the vode on the frontlines how having a jedi around buys you a miracle or two in the nick of time#Fox is on his third overtime shift in a row and has just had yet ANOTHER horrible detail dumped on him by ol' sheev#morale in the CG has never been good at the best of times but this is just NEW LOWS#and as he's sitting in his office drinking his nth cup of caf he thinks why not why the FUQ NOT if it makes things even a little better#from what i see of that fukken green frog the jedi prolly would just laugh about it anyway#SO: ALWAYS SUNNY TITLE CARD: THE CORRIE GUARD KIDNAPS A JEDI#fox and his command squad get SLIGHTLY smashed on bad booze and stims#and 'break in' to the jedi temple to grab the first jedi they can see that has 'The Right Vibes'#(very little planning goes into Breaking In and LOTS of argument about what the Right Vibes happen to be)#Operation Wizard Swipe actually goes INCREDIBLY smoothly even tho fox and the command squad are drunk while 'breaking in' to the Temple#bc it is actually the Will of the Force that this happens and also troopers are a p common sight around the temple#Operation Wizard Swipe trip over Tera Sinube snoozing in an armchair in the archives and actually bundle him back to CGHQ WITHOUT him wakin#and promptly all crash hard after tying master sinube to a chair for the night#TERA SINUBE IS ACTUALLY THE CALMEST ONE IN THE BUILDING THE NEXT MORNING. HORROR AND 'WTF HAPPENED LAST NIGHT' ABOUNDS IN CGHQ#SHENANIGANS ENSUE. something something fox and tera sinube sleuth out that palpatine is the sith lord and CG gleefully roasts him via firin#THE DAY IS SAVED THE CLONE RIGHTS BILL PASSES BLUE MILK AND COOKIES FOR EVERYONE PIGS FLY ETC ETC ETC @takiki16
Okay. This is the beginning of something that will probably continue to overtake my life. But here we are.
@catawampuscorner 's adorable baby clones in onesies is the best thing to ever exist, and I need them all in my life. I've been putting this off for a year, but we ended up here regardless.
Meet Cody-Bee!
Also, here he is with grumpy Fox:
The original pattern came from:
But I changed up a little bit as I sized it up. I have plans for some more of the little/big squishy bois and hopefully will get some little guys done too!
If the shoe fits
Hardcase *snatching shoe from Fives*: Hey! Give me that!
Fives *baffled*: What are you doing? Give me back my shoe.
Hardcase *shoving it on his foot*: It's my shoe. Not yours.
Fives *lunging for Harcase*: It is so mine! Give it here!
Hardcase *running around Echo and Jesse who are sitting on the ground to avoid Fives*: Yes it is. It fits perfectly! Obviously it's my shoe size!
Fives *stopping in his tracks*: We all wear the same sized shoe you di'kut!
It was actually Echo's shoe. He has his name written on the inside of it to avoid this.
Jesse helped pin Hardcase down so Fives could get the shoe off of his foot.
Only to then hit Fives over the head with it and hand it to Echo.
Rex and Kix walked in to talk to them and immediately walked back out.
Rex *watching the 501st be chaotic whilst wearing a hoodie that has 501st #1 Captain printed on the back*: I hate it here.
Kix *nods sipping from a mug that says 501st #1 medic*: Agreed.
Ahsoka *strolling past with a hoodie that says 501st #1 fan*: Hardcase broke the caf machine on level 3 again.
Anakin *robotic hand covered with a 501st blue foam finger*: That's the 4th this week and it's Tuesday.
Anakin *denying leaving Ahsoka unsupervised on a mission*: The gossip of ten year olds is not fact checked. Don't trust it Master.
Rex *behind Anakin wrangling Ahsoka back onto the ship (he has to use the promise of them all playing dodgeball)*: That's cold sir, and I'm physically 20.
Anakin *spooks like a tooka*: Rex!
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Broke: The reason Anidala is so toxic is because Anakin had PTSD that no one recognized or tried to treat.
Woke: The reason Anidala is so toxic is because Padme had PTSD that no one recognized or tried to treat.
Bespoke: Anakin had PTSD that the Jedi teachings would've helped him manage and overcome had Palpatine not interfered and poisoned Anakin against those teachings and encouraging him to lean into behaviors and habits that exacerbated his own PTSD which directly led to his behavior towards Padme and in their relationship that caused issues. In contrast, Padme had PTSD that she chose to set aside in order to keep functioning as Queen for the next three years and never dealt with or managed and cannot function without burying herself in work and in service of some kind which is why she sacrifices all of her childhood dreams of having a family to be a senator when asked after her terms end and she routinely refuses and rejects the care of people who truly care about her like her family and hides things from them in favor of playing out a fantasy with someone who cannot judge her for her own issues and isn't interested in her as a person enough to go looking or notice them anyway.
Palpatine wasn’t the only one who got in the way of the Jedi’s teachings being able to reach Anakin. While Padme may have had the best of intentions, her complicity in Anakin’s slaughter of the Tusken village- specifically her hiding it from Obi-Wan and the Jedi- prevented them from fully understanding the situation and the depth of help Anakin needed. Anakin was at his most emotionally stable and heroic when his loved ones worked together (e.g. when Obi-Wan and Padme (and later Ahsoka) worked together to help him) and unstable when they were against each other (e.g. Padme not trusting Obi-Wan and the Jedi, Obi-Wan turning a blind eye to Padme’s relationship with Anakin). Of course, these issues would’ve likely been resolved if Palpatine wasn’t constantly trying to undermine both Padme and Obi-Wan’s influences on Anakin, but Padme’s willingness to go along with many of Anakin’s more dubious decisions for the sake of their relationship is hard for me to ignore.
See, but this is where the "Padme has untreated PTSD because she refuses to really acknowledge what she's been through or seek help from anyone close to her" part of this post comes in for me.
Because I don't ever deny Padme's an enabler for Anakin's worst impulses. I don't believe she does so with any real intention of wanting him to, ya know, murder more babies. But she definitely offers Anakin an excuse he uses for the rest of his life and allows him to keep secrets she knows he shouldn't be keeping because she NEEDS this fantasy romance herself. Padme's a selfish lover as much as Anakin is, her motivations are just different. Anakin's looking for a replacement for the relationship he had with Shmi, someone who is willing to let their life revolve COMPLETELY around him and no one/nothing else because that's what true love is to Anakin. Padme's looking for an escape, a fantasy, something she can have that's just hers, that dream she sacrificed so long ago in order to give herself over to duty and her people.
I also am fully of the opinion that Padme's experience of the Naboo occupation impacts her relationships going forward. Padme was responsible for these people and their welfare and the only thing she is told she CAN do for a long time is hide and go appeal to the Republic Senate, so she DOES THAT and keeps getting told she (and her people) have to wait, even though she has evidence they're being tortured and killed in the meantime. So what she does, ultimately, is say "fuck everything and everyone, I'm saving my people" and goes off to make a relationship with the Gungans in order to acquire their army so she can free her people AND IT WORKS.
But I think it leaves Padme a changed person, a much ANGIER person, than she was at the beginning of TPM or when she was elected, perhaps. She's someone willing to break rules to do what she believes is right and much more inclined to get angry and let that convince her to just say "fuck the system, I do what I want" in a fit of righteous fury. I think she sees Anakin devastated over the unjust death of his mother and conflicted over what he did to the Tuskens in response and sees a mirror of what she's been living with for the last ten years. I think she looks at Anakin on Tatooine and realizes "oh wow, he GETS IT."
So yeah, she tells him "to be angry is to be human" because this is a fight constantly raging inside of her, too, and telling herself that being angry is natural and normal is how she sleeps at night and gets through each day. Anakin's taken things a step farther, obviously, but she doesn't truly know or understand the Tuskens, this isn't her fight, and she's isolated herself in so many ways that I think watching Anakin in the aftermath of that choice really makes Padme feel connected to him in the worst possible ways.
Because she connects to him over their worst impulses. They bring out EACH OTHER'S worst impulses. Padme enables Anakin, yes, and Anakin by virtue of being a Jedi with stupid levels of power is capable of doing some REALLY nasty shit at his worst. But Anakin enables PADME'S worst impulses, too. We see this in TCW when he convinces Padme to set aside her work for him despite her trying to insist it's important. We see this in Padme choosing to set aside her own very valid fears about Anakin and their marriage in the aftermath of Clovis's death when she needs the comfort of their shared fantasy. Padme chooses to enable Anakin because Anakin enables HER, too. She can look at Anakin and say, "It's not just me, he struggles with this rage, too" and feel better about her own worst impulses.
In the deleted scenes where we see Padme's family on Naboo, Padme explicitly asks Anakin to lie to them about why they're on Naboo and why he's with her because she doesn't want them to worry about the assassination attempts. In the wake of the occupation, she knows her family worries about her and the danger she puts herself in as a Senator, and she feels suffocated by it, she rejects their attempts to reach out to her. Padme's father has an entire conversation with Anakin about Padme's safety without Padme even being there because he CAN'T go to Padme without being rebuffed.
Palpatine is the one who convinces Anakin he's better than the Jedi, who gets Anakin to a point where he's willing to murder children as a response to his mother's death, who pries him away from the Jedi's teachings as a child which turns him into the messed up teen/adult we see by AOTC. Which LEADS him into the relationship with Padme, who, yes, enables those impulses that Palpatine has encouraged.
I don't entirely BLAME Padme for how Anakin turned out because she's entirely absent from his life during his formative years with the Jedi and only comes back in after he's already been pretty fucked up by Palpatine. Had Anakin been given those ten years with the Jedi sans any of Palpatine's poisonous influence, I think his reaction to Padme in AOTC would've been drastically different. For one, I do think he'd have respected her no's a lot more which would've simply led both of them nowhere. Padme would not have ended up finding someone as supremely fucked in the head as she is and connecting with him on that level, but Anakin would've been a lot less inclined to keep pushing his desire on her the way he does in canon, too. I don't deny he'd probably still be attracted to her, and he MIGHT shoot his shot at some point, but I think he'd come off a lot less creepy and insistent about it which might just... not interest Padme. It's not going to be the pull she needs to go against her own morals and enter into a forbidden romance with him. He's also, ideally, less inclined to murder children even if Shmi still dies the way she does. He's going to have far fewer horrible impulses for Padme to enable and is probably going to be someone who is less inclined to enable Padme's own impulses, intentional or not.
Padme's choices help Anakin to feel like Palpatine is RIGHT, like HE is right to go against Jedi teachings. Her choices reward him for bad behavior and fall right in line with all the things Palpatine has been telling him he deserves. But I don't think Padme is equally as bad as Palpatine in terms of isolating Anakin from the Jedi teachings. At no point is this really her GOAL, she just... encourages Anakin by example in some ways. She goes against the Council's orders and enters into a forbidden marriage with him, but she's also the first one to suggest going to Obi-Wan for help in ROTS despite the risks. She makes bad choices, they lead Anakin away from Jedi teachings, but Anakin was already in a position to disregard Jedi teachings by AOTC anyway, and that's NOT Padme's fault.
Yeah, I get where you’re coming from. I agree that Padme is a much more complicated character than fandom and even canon tends to treat her. She tends to be sanctified as a “flawless defender of peace” which gets to me because she’s just as selfish and flawed as every other Star Wars character. That said, I think it’s also important to note that Palpatine also had a lot of influence on Padme, even if she tended to disagree with him (mostly later in life). He was basically her mentor during TPM, as the two top political figures from Naboo. So it wasn’t just Anakin that Palpatine was influencing.
I think why I find it harder to sympathize or connect with Padme tends to be more how she is interpreted and compared to her children. She’s more often compared to Leia (though that’s slowly changing as people look past their gender and appearances and actually look at their personalities), but Leia is far more level-headed despite having as much if not more PTSD. Where Padme embraces a relationship which she clearly knows is toxic, Leia spends years testing and questioning her relationship to Han until she’s sure he’s a good man (the sequel trilogy be damned for what it did to their relationship). For all Leia’s anger at the destruction of Alderaan, she would’ve never tolerated something like the Tusken massacre. I’m not saying there’s nothing problematic about Leia, like her mother she also runs from her emotional turmoil by delving into work, just that it irks me when the two are compared in a moral way.
As I mentioned, Luke is increasingly being compared to Padme personality-wise, which does check out on some levels. He certainly has her forgiving nature and ability to see the good in people. However, Luke’s working class upbringing makes him far more down-to-earth than Padme. Where she tends to focus on the importance of preserving the ideals of the Republic and democracy, Luke is far more focused on “what can I do to help to alleviate suffering now”. He’s also far more viscerally aware of the suffering of the galaxy’s poor and the chaos of the Outer Rim.
The popular fandom idea that Luke and Leia would’ve been better off being raised by Anakin and Padme just doesn’t fit with canon (except for the twins being able to grow up together, there’s no denying that would’ve been good for them). Of course, if Anakin had killed Palpatine instead of Mace Windu, their family would’ve had a chance at happiness, however, both parents would’ve needed serious therapy to raise their children even half as well as the twins adopted families did. For all that people tend to compare the best of Luke and Leia to the best of their blood parents, it’s their adopted families that taught them to be great people. While Luke and Leia undoubtedly inherited certain personality traits and abilities from their parents, it was Bail and Breha, Owen and Beru that did all of the heavy lifting of raising and caring for the twins, shaping them into the great people they grew up to be. It’s also worth noting that both of their adopted families had FAR healthier romantic relationships than their blood parents did.
You have no idea how much I agree with so much of this haha, that last paragraph made me smile a lot.
I am pretty FIRMLY of the belief that had Luke and Leia been raised by Anakin and Padme in one of those 11th hour no-Order-66-happy-fix-it-AUs, they'd be so fucked up, so miserable. Because I don't honestly think that Anakin would BE a good father and I don't think Anakin and Padme's relationship would survive spending that much time together (if Anakin left the Order) or the continued secrecy (if he doesn't leave the Order). It would end up probably such a broken home in so many ways as Padme and Anakin try to cling to something that never truly existed the way they think it did and poor Luke and Leia are going to end up on the receiving end of the worst consequences of that. Anakin and Padme dying, while immensely tragic, led to them being raised by the Larses and Organas and was probably one of the biggest bullets either of them ever dodged. I don't believe for a MOMENT that Luke and Leia would be the characters we know them to be in the OT if they'd been raised by Anakin and Padme, at all.
Going back to the beginning of this post, it's not entirely fandom's fault necessarily that Padme gets reduced to a few key traits imo since Lucas and the films do that themselves quite a bit. She's arguably at her most interesting and complex in TPM as the young girl leading a planet that's been occupied and seeing how she handles everything thrown her way in that film. And then she gets slowly reduced to being a combination of romantic interest and action barbie in AOTC and The About-to-be-Dead Mom in ROTS. Her political views and interests get literally deleted from the storyline in order to focus in on the impact she has on Anakin because that's what the story is, it's the story of how Anakin falls, not how Padme tried to fight back. My theory in this of how Padme is supremely fucked up by her experiences in TPM is just that, a theory. It's my personal headcanon to make sense of her choices in AOTC and ROTS, to make sense of why she'd at all ever be interested in the character of Anakin as presented in AOTC. And it's kind-of my way of fighting back against the theories I'm seeing go around that Padme is 'just a freak' or 'just space racist' or the older theory of 'Padme was just being mind controlled by Anakin.' None of which are all that intriguing to me. But I can fully admit that my personal headcanon is NOT in the films. I'm not trying to argue it's canon by any means, or what we were intended to pick up from Lucas's films.
Moving on to how she's compared to her children, I think your frustration in that is very valid. I am, personally, a LOT less invested in the OT characters than I have generally always been in the PT characters, something I can now say without being called a dirty heathen who doesn't truly like Star Wars lol. I'm starting to have a little more appreciation for Luke and Leia as I delve more into Star Wars and as new stuff comes out that brings out feelings from me (good OR bad), but I think I'll always be more connected to the PT characters.
That being said, I entirely agree that Leia would not stand for the Tusken Massacre, and moreover she would not then end up in a relationship with and MARRY someone who'd massacred children in this way. She could find sympathy in the loss of Anakin's mother, especially in the way that it happened and how incredibly unjust it was, but the massacre of children would not sit well with her. But I think Leia, at least, as per the characterization I am now most familiar with which is from the Kenobi show, would probably in that moment try to delve into Anakin's actual issues. If she cared about him at all by then, I think she'd work to pull out what was actually going on with him, we see her do this with more than one character, including Obi-Wan himself a few times. But it's possible that were Leia in Padme's position in AOTC, with a guy constantly creeping on her and ignoring her boundaries and disrespecting her the way Anakin does in that film, so by the time he commits a massacre, she's probably going to be less inclined to help him. Hell, she probably just wouldn't have followed him when he abandoned his post on Naboo with her, we see how she reacts to Han choosing to leave the Rebellion for his own reasons, even when she's friends with him and supposed to be into him, she doesn't leave WITH him and abandon the Rebellion. She's got her priorities and they don't tend to include romance.
I fully believe that Leia would never stand for Anakin just in general. That in any sort-of time travel AU, she wouldn't like Anakin. In any version of canon post-ROTJ where she has to deal with Anakin's ghost, she's not going to want to spend any time with him and may never forgive him. I don't think Leia's all that much like Anakin at all, despite current popular tends saying otherwise. Leia's not a fascist, Leia is not a baby killer, Leia does not commit genocides. These are some very integral aspects to Anakin that Leia just, ya know, DOES NOT EMBODY.
She accepts her non-traditional family who love her and lets go of her need for a birth family in a way Anakin never manages. Leia learns at the age of TEN to let go, while Anakin is still clinging to Shmi and Padme at the same age. Leia is not like Anakin, in any way aside from simply having Force sensitivity. Leia is like Bail, her forthrightness, her bravery, her sarcasm, her political opinions, her interest in ships and droids, all of that comes from BAIL and that's made so incredibly clear in the Kenobi show. That's not Anakin's personality somehow coming down via genetic code, that's learned from Bail Organa. And she gets her dedication, her perseverance, her discipline from BREHA.
Luke learns much of his traits that we know him to have in the OT from Owen and Beru, too: his kindness, his own discipline and loyalty, his courage, that comes straight from the Lars family. Those traits that are similar to Padme weren't inherited from her, he'd have learned them from Owen and Beru.
I will say that Padme's insistence on defending the Republic vs Luke's interest in alleviating suffering in the moment can also be attributed to the very different worlds they grew up in. Padme grew up WITH the Republic as an entity she could trust, and certainly better than the alternatives that existed at the time, so she's focusing on working within the system she's got and fixing it from the inside to alleviate suffering as much as is possible rather than just burning it all down and starting anew or just breaking away and doing her own thing separately. Luke grew up with the Empire instead, so his choices of government are crime syndicate or tyrannical authoritarian empire. He doesn't have the option of working within the system the way Padme did, all that's left after the Empire rises IS burning down the whole thing to try to rebuild a better system from the ashes. Padme had a system to fix and the alternatives were WORSE and were not at all guaranteed to alleviate anyone's suffering at all; Luke no longer had a system to fix and the one he had was actively hurting a lot of people and had to be eliminated. Whether Luke would've been more inclined to side with the Republic in a PT environment is kind-of an unknown for me, but I think I could argue that Padme would not have continued to side with the Empire based on what we do see of her political beliefs by ROTS and her reaction to Palpatine creating the Empire. In that sense, they're probably more similar than it looks simply because Padme dies before she really gets a chance to truly react to a world where the Republic no longer exists and Luke is born after the Republic is no longer an option.
Which kind-of leads us nicely into the relationship we know existed between Padme and Palpatine. I'm not sure I entirely believe Palpatine was manipulating Padme in the same way we know he was doing to Anakin. All Palpatine really wants and needs from Padme is for her to trust him in general, he's not really trying to change her or get her to a point where she'd side with him as a Sith, etc. Padme is a pawn for him, at best. I'm also of the opinion that he had planned for Padme to die on Naboo during the occupation and her escape from Naboo with the Jedi fucks him up a bit and he has to pretty quickly come up with the plan of having PADME make the vote of no confidence rather than doing it himself in the wake of her death. It works out the same way, but I do think he has to scramble a bit to deal with it, and while her going back to free Naboo isn't in his plan, it also doesn't matter anymore because he's already Chancellor, so he's gotten what he wanted and the fate of Naboo no longer truly matters. By AOTC, while she IS arguing against war, he knows he has an entire clone army waiting in the wings to use and plenty of ways to jumpstart a war via Dooku if he has to, so I don't think Padme presents all that much of a threat here or during TCW. Her relationship with Anakin is easy leverage against Anakin, but I don't think he sees Padme as a threat to his manipulation of Anakin, either. He's manipulating Padme, yes, but not necessarily any more than he's manipulating the REST of the Senate since we don't really see him utilizing that manipulation to his own ends very much beyond getting her to do a vote of no confidence in TPM. He manipulates her, but he's only doing so just enough to get her to trust him, not to change HER or her beliefs because none of that matters. It's not Palpatine's manipulation that makes Padme chill with baby murder in AOTC, not in my opinion, at least.
Sorry this got so long!
I’m kind of in the opposite position as you because my Star Wars has always been the OT LOL. Mind you, the prequel trilogy came out only a few years after I was introduced to the original trilogy, so I do have a lot of fondness for the PT. Obi-wan is by far my favourite character in the PT and one of my favourite Star Wars characters in general. That said, I haven’t had the chance to watch the Kenobi show, so my characterizations of Obi-Wan, Leia, Luke, and Vader are mostly from the OT and PT.
When I was comparing Padme and Luke’s approach to the Republic, I was less focused on the fact that Padme grew up in it and Luke didn’t, as I was focused on WHERE they grew up. Naboo wasn’t a core world (the richest and most powerful worlds in the Republic/Empire) it was a small mid rim world, but it was still beautiful and wealthy. TPM shows Padme lose faith in Chancellor Valorum, but because of her planet’s previously good relationship with the Republic, she never loses faith in the Republic as a whole. Luke (and Anakin) grew up on Tattooine in the outer rim. The Republic saw outer rim worlds as too far from the core to really police, therefore largely leaving them to the mercy of the Hutts and other criminal organizations. It’s the Republic’s general indifference to the suffering of those in the outer rim that is one of the main reasons Anakin has far less faith in the Republic than Padme or Obi-Wan, and it’s one of the few political things he’s very much in the right of. Being raised by people who lived on Tattooine during both the Republic and Imperial eras, Luke would’ve had a pretty good understanding of how little core governments seem to care about the outer rim regardless of who’s in charge. It isn’t until the Empire comes for his family personally, and he learns about the genocide of the Jedi, that he really becomes pro-Republic.
While I hate what the sequels/Disney did to the OT characters and I consider them largely non-canon, one thing I have heard Disney did right about Luke’s character is that in one of their books, they apparently showed Luke struggling to get help from the New Republic to alleviate suffering in the outer rim. This led to him reminding them that abandoning the outer rim was one of the main contributing factors to the Clone Wars and rise of the Empire. They ignore his warning. He’s right of course, because the New Republic pushing aside the outer rim is what leads to the rise of the First Order. What’s interesting too is that Leia, having grown up on a core world, apparently didn’t really think of the outer rim in her politics until Luke began influencing her. This has gotten a bit off-topic, but I think it kind of illustrates why nurture rather than nature needs to be addressed more in Star Wars.
It also demonstrates that for all I may crap on Anakin and his decisions, I actually understand, given his background, why he would give up on the Republic and support an Empire even before he truly turned to the Dark Side.
Ah, yes, well, this is where we deviate.
I'm more inclined towards the PT because I was like... 11 or something when I was introduced to Star Wars and v much in a phase of "old movies are boring" and didn't want to watch older stuff if I didn't have to, so my dad's way of convincing me to watch Star Wars in 2005 was to start me on the stuff that would feel the most like what I was used to and THEN hit me with the stuff that was 30 years old. While this... worked, in the sense that I did in fact watch all six films, it also had the unintended side effect of me being able to make a very direct comparison between the SFX of the OT and the PT and at 11 years old, I wasn't exactly being very nuanced in my opinions of that and all I knew was I'd watched this insanely cool lightsaber battle on a volcano with lava and they moved SO FAST to uh. A New Hope. Where the lightsaber battle was so intensely slow and nowhere near as exciting for me to watch. All the cool costumes everyone was in for the entire three PT films were replaced with a lot of baggy beige costumes, and I missed Padme's really crazy big colorful costumes. So while I don't feel like the OT ISN'T Star Wars, I've just always been more nostalgically drawn to the PT because of how I was introduced to the franchise. This definitely caused me to not be as interested in fandom stuff for a LONG time because any time you said the words "yeah I prefer the Prequels, I really liked them actually, thought they were really fun and loved Padme and Obi-Wan" to someone irl, well. It didn't tend to go well. Sometimes I didn't even have to say it before a convo about Star Wars had the other person saying "yeah but those fucking Prequels just SUCK" and things just ended there.
Now that we're seeing a bit of a resurgence in Prequels stuff, I'm kind-of coming back into it and having fun dissecting the Prequels and seeing other people's meta and opinions on them.
I, too, though, have my uh. Opinions. On Luke Skywalker in the sequels. Most are negative. I don't hate the Luke Skywalker of Mandalorian/BOBF, actually, but I'm not a fan of Rian Johnson's Luke at all. I'm not a fan of his take on Star Wars in GENERAL, but I quite hate his Luke. Luke's not even my favorite character, probably not even necessarily in a top five, but even I know that that was a butchering of his character like never before seen.
Getting to the Padme v Luke stuff, I'm not sure I can agree that Anakin was "in the right" about the Republic. Because like. Let's keep in mind that Anakin's opinion on the Republic is that it'd be better as a fascist dictatorship. In no way shape or form is this BETTER than the Republic. Let's also keep in mind that that's literally what was running Tatooine. A fascist dictatorship run by Jabba the Hutt. The system Anakin think is so much better than how the Republic works is the ACTUAL SYSTEM that runs Tatooine and is fucking it up so hard. Yes, the Republic didn't have the resources to run Jabba off of Tatooine and stop him from doing what he was doing because the Hutts in general and Jabba specifically are SUPER POLITICALLY POWERFUL, but let's not forget who was ACTUALLY running Tatooine and profiting off of it and it wasn't the Republic.
I don't think Anakin's in the right AT ALL in comparison to Padme or Obi-Wan because while there are legitimate and valid grievances to make against the Republic (and more specifically the Republic SENATE, not the Republic as a whole), both Padme and Obi-Wan are entirely aware of the corruption within the Senate and ARE working to try to fix it from the inside as much as they can, but recognize that there ISN'T a better system currently out there. Literally. There is NO OTHER OPTION that's in any way better. What you've got left are all crime organizations like the Hutts, Black Sun, Pykes, etc. The Separatists separate and they're obviously no better and often WORSE than the Republic given how many damn atrocities they commit and how dependent they are on the Corporate Alliance. The Neutral Systems kinda become a thing, but we see exactly how well that goes for Mandalore and how fucked they become trade-wise by separating from either option. So given the options that are presented during the course of the films and TCW, the Republic is, by and large, the best option that exists. And it's a system that's been pretty successfully running for over a millennia. Yes, the Sith take advantage of it. Yes, the senators currently sitting are predominantly corrupt or taken advantage of themselves. Yes, this means the Republic has a lot of issues, and the inability to do anything about the crime organizations is one of them. But they aren't doing NOTHING, either. And they appear to be MILES better than the alternatives.
Both Padme and Obi-Wan seem perfectly aware of all of those nuances, but Anakin, by contrast, is NOT. Anakin says he doesn't think the system works, yes, but the reason he thinks the system doesn't work is because he seems to entirely misunderstand how the system is built to work. And his alternative is fascist dictatorship which is exactly what's fucking up Tatooine so hard, so it's not like his experience of living under a fascist dictatorship is giving him good political opinions here.
Padme's response to this is to say "yes, not everyone agrees on everything, but the system is designed to let everyone have a say and that's better than NO ONE having a say." Padme is also literally having to be in hiding in this scene because she's actively trying to convince the Senate not to go to war with the Separatists. Padme is the one in TCW who remains friends with a Separatist senator and understands her grievances against the Republic and therefore still believes that there's a chance for peace if she can convince the Separatist senators that the Republic will listen. And while this fails, it's not just Padme's government that screws that over, it's the leader of the Separatist government, too. Anakin during that episode is trying to convince Ahsoka that the Separatists are all pure evil while the REPUBLIC is pure good with no issues whatsoever at all. By ROTS, Padme is the one who mistrusts Palpatine and understands why the JEDI COUNCIL is asking Anakin to spy on Palpatine more than Anakin does and tries to explain it to him and Anakin refuses to listen to her.
Obi-Wan is the one who's most vocally anti-politician during the films, too. In AOTC, he explicitly tells Anakin not to completely trust PADME because she's a politician with an agenda, even though he LIKES Padme. And he explicitly warns Anakin against Palpatine early on in ROTS, too, and is the one who has to try to explain to Anakin why Palpatine taking so many powers is a bad thing while Anakin seemingly has no issues with it. We don't get to hear him discussing his political views a LOT, but he's pretty open about his mistrust of politicians, but he stays with the Republic because they are not actively committing atrocities and are still the best option available and he's loyal to, as he says, democracy. There is NO OTHER SYSTEM he can be a part of that is quite as openly pro-democracy as the Republic is supposed to be.
So I'm not sure I can agree that Anakin, of the 3 mains in the PT, is the one most in the right politically lol. I think he is, in fact, the most in the WRONG politically out of the 3 of them and the one least inclined to view the Republic in a nuanced way that allows for it to have its issues but also recognizing that it's the best system in existence right now and the best thing to do is try to fix it from the inside, to work the system as best you can as opposed to just burning it to the ground.
And Anakin's politics are, I think, one of those places you can see Palpatine's biggest influence. Because his ENTIRE IDEA that one good person in charge would change everything absolutely feels like something Palpatine would have spent the last 10 years convincing Anakin of. "Oh if only I could do this good thing, but sadly my powers are too limited for that. It's for the best of course, checks and balances have their place, but so many good people hurt because of it." Padme, by contrast, clearly believes the opposite of that and actively works against Palpatine more than once and especially by the end of the trilogy. Anakin won't hear a bad thing against Palpatine and is already a fascist by AOTC. I don't think it's his upbringing on Tatooine that really leads him towards being a fascist at all, but Palpatine's influence.
I haven't read the Disney books about post-ROTJ stuff, so I can't speak to that, and I'm less knowledgeable about Leia and Luke's characterizations to begin with just because I've spent less time discussing them and their actions and trying to get into their motivations and the like. I could see Leia maybe getting lost a little in trying to just BUILD a New Republic and not necessarily thinking about all of the MANY Outer Rim planets that need loads of help because, well, EVERYONE needs help in the wake of the Empire, really very few planets would have been left untouched. She'd have to start with what was do-able, what was going to help the New Republic the most initially as they struggled to get going and STAY in power so that the power vacuum left by the defeat of the Empire and loss of Palpatine doesn't spin out of control and, yeah, I could see the Outer Rim due to its distance and many myriad issues and the fact that a lot of it is still being controlled by powerful crime organizations that the New Republic is not equipped to go to war with, being left by the wayside a little. And I could see Luke maybe wanting to make sure they're not forgotten, although it's not like the Outer Rim is Luke's first priority either as he tries to rebuild the Jedi Order from literal scratch on a planet that is NOT Tatooine. Both Luke AND Leia should seemingly have bigger fish to fry than going to war with the crime organizations like the Pykes and what's left of the Hutts and the Black Sun and Crimson Dawn all vying for power in the Outer Rim when their two organizations are so new and delicate and liable to collapse at a moment's notice if they aren't careful. Does it suck for the people in the Outer Rim? Yeah, obviously it does, but I'm also not exactly going to blame Luke or Leia for being a little overwhelmed when trying to build up a galactic government out of literal ashes and having to do some battlefield triage just to survive.
I never meant to imply that Anakin was right about wanting to replace the Republic, though I see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. I only meant that he was right about how the Old Republic neglected poorer worlds, particularly in the Outer Rim and I could understand from that perspective how he’d grow disillusioned with it. Of course, as you pointed out, Palpatine was able to feed off Anakin’s disillusionment and manipulate it to his own ends. This is why Anakin can go from accusing the Separatists of all being evil and the Republic all good, to denouncing the inefficiency of the Republic and supporting the idea of an Empire. Anakin’s politics tend to reflect what was most useful to Palpatine at any given time, particularly during the Clone Wars.
I had forgotten about Padme’s friendship with Satine, and it does highlight how she could be a great politician and force for peace. I haven’t watched the entirety of the Clone Wars series (I don’t have Disney + and refuse to give the Mouse more of my money), but from what I have seen, Padme is far more dynamic in the show than she’s portrayed in the movies. I also agree with her politics a hell of a lot more than Anakin’s. That said, I agree the most with Obi-Wan’s opinion of politicians because ultimately even the kindest of them have agendas. Obi-Wan (and the Jedi in general) are also in a tricky place in terms of politics because they are funded in part by the Republic but are at the same time expected to be politically neutral. It’s how Palpatine was able to screw them over so hard by forcing them into the Clone Wars.
The reason pushing aside the needs of the Outer Rim in favour of organizing the core/mid rim worlds is so dangerous, especially for the New Republic, is that it basically sets a dangerous precedent from the very beginning of its establishment. It says to those people living in desperate conditions in remote territories, “We have more important things to do, we’ll get to you eventually.” Which regardless of how true that may be, to those being told that, it’s a slap in the face. It also ignores that a political system that cares for its most disenfranchised first will have a stronger foundation over all. Something that’s not addressed in the movies as much as it is in the books, is the fact that a large portion of the Rebellion’s soldiers actually came from the Outer Rim hoping that by joining they could help the friends and family they left behind. They were a huge part of the success of the Rebellion but later felt abandoned by the people they helped put into power. To be clear, I’m not referring to Leia as she actually DID fight for the Outer Rim, supported by Luke, I’m referring to her political opponents.
Luke Skywalker is my precious cinnamon roll, my all-time fave, the character that got me into the Star Wars fandom. The glimpse of him at the end of The Force Awakens got me SO hyped....and then Rian Johnson (and Kathleen Kennedy) came along and pissed all over him. I was upset by how TFA ruined Han and Leia’s relationship, mistreated Han in general, but what TLJ did to Luke was absolutely unforgivable. I hope Disney eventually makes the sequel trilogy some dystopian alternate universe, but I think it’s far more likely that they’ll try to bury the OT and PT to push their own crappy films.
Anakin never really discusses the way the Republic treats Outer Rim worlds, though, and certainly, as far as I can recall from the films alone, never brings it up as a reason for why he thinks the system is broken. His one scene where he sort-of discusses why he thinks the system is broken in AOTC only has him say that he thinks that people should sit down, discuss the issue, come up with a solution, and then do it. Which to me implies that his problem is more at how slow the Senate is rather than a specific issue with how they tend to treat Outer Rim worlds. While you're not wrong that this is an issue the Republic Senate HAS, I just don't think it's a problem that ANAKIN has with the Republic Senate. I don't think it's something Anakin thinks all that much about just given what we do see him discuss wrt politics the few times he does so.
I'll also add that Padme has actually suffered just as much under the Republic's problems. In TPM, Padme is fighting the Senate at nearly every turn to try to get aid to her planet and keeps getting told no because Reasons X, Y, Z. She eventually says "if you want a thing done, you have to do it yourself" and runs off to make a deal with the Gungans, obviously, but her experience with the problems within the Republic's system don't ever turn her against the Republic, they just make sure she's ready to fight against its corruption. She's probably the one most familiar with the problems of the Republic Senate, and also the one most ready to stand up for it and fight for it. Between their two backgrounds, PADME should be the one prepared to go full fascist and ANAKIN should be the one fighting hard for democracy and the Republic, and instead it's the opposite.
It'd be interesting I think to have seen more of how Leia had to build up the New Republic in the films, to see more of the effort that had to go into building up a government from literal ashes. Even 30 years in, you could go into like "ok now that you're settled and established, WHAT ABOUT THESE ISSUES" or something to that ilk and have that be a running theme through the films. If they hadn't, ya know, destroyed the New Republic all in one blow and left them with nothing but ashes. Again. You're not wrong that this WOULD be an issue to deal with, something that Leia might be up against, especially as someone who'd been in the Rebellion for a while. It's too bad they chose not to do that lol.
From what we've seen of what Disney's currently pushing, I think it's more likely they're going to bury the ST with PT/OT content lol. We're getting TONS of Prequel and OT content right now with the Kenobi show, Andor, Ahsoka, even fucking Bad Batch. Mandalorian/BOBF, too. The latest novels that have come out seem more PT/OT oriented, too. But we're seeing little to nothing for ST-era content and characters, really. They seem to be IGNORING the ST rather than trying to promote it over nostalgic PT/OT stuff. They won't make it non-canon, but they'll probably just end up pretending it doesn't exist by just never making extended content like books/comics/TV shows set in that era.
While Padme’s experience with the Republic’s reaction to Naboo would seemingly make her more likely to go against it, there are two main reasons why that is not the case 1) she is a trained politician whose best course of action to create change is political hence why she becomes a senator and 2) as bad as the event of TPM was for her people it was just an event- Naboo didn’t suffer generations of systemic suffering and oppression it only had a taste of it for at most a month. There’s just no comparing it to the experiences of those in the outer rim and places like Tattooine. I’m not saying that Naboo’s invasion wouldn’t be personally traumatic for Padme and her people, but from Padme’s point of view politics worked- perhaps not from the Republic, but the alliance with the Gungans.
It’s true that Anakin doesn’t talk politics much, but his relationship with authority, politics, the Republic and the Jedi are all heavily implied to be deeply impacted by his time as a slave. Anakin and his mother were victims of systemic oppression and that’s going to have a major impact on how Anakin views those who he perceives as having the power to cause real, powerful, change. Palpatine of course uses this to shape Anakin’s views against the Republic and the Jedi- it’s a tricky balance because on the one hand, Palpatine needs Anakin to fight for the Republic during the Clone Wars, but on the other, he needs Anakin to get frustrated with the slowness of the Republic’s responses to crises. Palpatine is constantly telling him “I want so badly to help these people, but the senate is slowing things down....if I had more power then I could change things immediately.” In a way, it’s what Palpatine does to the galaxy at large, which is why he ends up being basically handed the status of Emperor by the people. If not for Palpatine, it’s very likely Anakin would’ve come to see things Padme’s way, but Palpatine’s constant wearing down of Anakin’s weaknesses and insecurities- which were largely created by his traumatic childhood as a slave on a violent world- prevented Padme’s (and Obi-Wan’s) views from ultimately reaching him.
Haha, I mean, as an American who's watched a lot of politicians go full Nazi, I feel like "she's a career politician, so why would she be fascist" doesn't work for me. Like she could just as easily join up with the Separatists like her friend Mina Bonteri. She could go neutral and join the Neutral Systems like Satine Kryze. There are tons of ways that she could fully abandon the Republic over grievances against the system while still remaining in politics.
I think the closest I'm going to get to believing Anakin's political views are based on his background is the idea that Anakin thinks that if HE'D had all the power on Tatooine, HE could have saved all of the slaves. Therefore, if just one good person had all the power, they could do a lot of good. And therefore, dictatorship is fine so long as you put the right person in charge, because of course HE'D never use that power for bad things, of course HE'D never let power get to his head, so that means that other "good people" who will only use power for good exist to be placed into power. But I don't know that this leads me to "he's upset with the Republic because the Republic has abandoned Tatooine." The problem on Tatooine is not that the Republic was too SLOW. As you've said, it's a generations long problem now, the problem goes far beyond the Senate just having problems agreeing on a solution quickly. His issue with the Republic therefore doesn't really seem based on the problem we actually know exists on Tatooine.
Padme in comparison needed immediate assistance for a problem that had JUST come up, and it WOULD have been simple to fix. That, to me, feels more like a problem with the Republic specifically and cause for Padme to personally lose faith in the Republic. While Anakin's situation seems like it would lead more to him wanting to SIDE with the Republic because it was a Jedi who freed him, who saved him, even if he didn't have to, and the Jedi serve the Republic, they represent the Republic.
Like, yes, politics "worked" for Padme in that she made an alliance with the Gungans, but it's a political move she does herself without ANY aid or support from the Republic. Why wouldn't this exact event lead her to being a Separatist or a Neutral System later? This seems like it'd be the PERFECT kind-of thing to lead Padme into wanting to create a new government or just let her system stand on its own instead of being reliant on the Republic because it was Padme, as Queen of Naboo, going to the Gungans of Naboo and asking for THEIR help that freed her people. It wasn't other systems, it wasn't the Senate, it was JUST the citizens of Naboo coming together (and a few friends like Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Anakin).
Of course, Padme is smart enough to recognize the inherent issues with going "neutral" and leaving the Republic and knowledgeable enough about what the Separatists truly are to know that these are both shit choices and it's better to stick with the Republic for now and try to do her best to fix it from within. But if she were a fraction less smart, she'd be a Separatist. She tells Satine she's considered going neutral before, and they intentional put Mina Bonteri forth as Padme's MENTOR, so it's not like Padme's political viewpoints couldn't have led her in either of those directions based on what we see of her. Anakin's not that nuanced or that smart. For Anakin, life is very simple: Jedi = heroes, Jedi work for Republic, Republic = good guys, Separatists = bad guys. It's that simple. There's no nuance to any of the way that he thinks aside from what little he parrots from Palpatine about the system being slow. I do not personally think Anakin is politically smart enough to be able to recognize the nuance in the situation with the Republic's presence on Tatooine beyond just wanting to personally go in with a lightsaber and murder all the slavers because this will fix everything. And he's going to place the onus of his blame for why he CAN'T do that on the Jedi/Council, not on the Republic, because Palpatine's telling him so.
Even when Anakin says people need to sit down and decide what to do, Padme points out that they don't always agree. AND ANAKIN SAYS
"Well they should be made too."
Padme replies, "By whom? Who is going to make them?"
"I don't know, someone." "You?" "Of course not me!"
"But someone?"
"Someone WISE."
"It sounds an awful lot like a Dictatorship to me."
"Well if it works."
Anakin doesn't actually think people should have a say. He thinks they should sit down and shut up and do as they are told.
Mandalorians: we’re the scariest mercenaries in the galaxy
Also Mandalorians: we can’t just leave these baby dinosaur birds whose mother actively hunts us! They’ll starve!
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Jedi Padawans weaving effortlessly through the packed streets of Coruscant without looking up from their phone for a second that’s all
I mean yes, but also Jedi padawans who go “Mmm, this streets a bit crowded” and immediately take to parkouring along powerlines, billboards and railings instead, while still not looking up from their phones.










