I kinda sorta hc that padme is still alive.

Like given all the evidence of her character, the handmaidens, the almost spy training, and war experience…

She would have totally taken the opportunity to go undercover after birthing her kids. She knew they’d always be in danger if connected to her so she spread rumors of her death and now functions as a shadow broker in the star wars universe. Fighting an info war with the empire.

I’m for this.

Thx!

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So after we closed the shop tonight we started talking about this head canon…

Padme gets Owen to keep Luke on the farm and out of the Imperial Academy by paying off a bunch of the farm’s debts.

She hears about this scoundrel with a ship who has been known to cheat at sabacc dice, and convinces him it would be worth his while to loose to Han… She’s heard of Chewbacca, and he’s trustworthy, and he has this idiot pilot but no ship. And her daughter is going to needs a ship at some point here. Lando ends up with no ship, but in charge of Cloud City.

Chewie gets a “text”, you should go get a drink. So he has a little tantrum until Han suggests they hit the cantina. Handy that they’re around when Obi-Wan is looking for a ship…

Yes thank you!!! This is exactly what i wanted :D

Like I can see Star Wars having someone on the good side pulling strings from the shadows and who would be better than Padme?

The more I think about all the coincidences and questions in how information got from person A to person B, the more Padme as a super successful shadow broker.

I would like to add to this headcanon that Ahsoka Tano is Padme’s right hand in all this.  Padme sought her out after it all fell apart and said, “Come help me fix this mess.”

hc addendum: Ahsoka and Lando are Padme’s most trusted enforcers

Um, I just discovered that, in canon, Rey, while scavenging, comes across a postcard for Cloud City.

I think that makes Padme the Shadow Broker canon.

I have also now spent two hours sketching out how Padme’s network works in order to fit it into my current fic universe.  #nerdgasm #of course I’ll cite @yadelah and @optimysticals

I really think you need to brush up on your mythology here. Do you even know what a hydra looks like?

This is a hydra. Its defining features are its one tail and many, many heads.

So what the fuck is this supposed to be?

That, Mr Schmidt, is a fucking octopus. Its defining features are its ONE head and many LEGS.

You literally could not have gotten this more wrong.

It’s very important to me that somewhere in hydra’s evil marketing department is a harried evil graphic designer who has been trying so hard to bring this up, okay, like, listen, the first — the first presentation she had an actual hydra, it was pretty cool, it was like an evil skull hydra, it had seven evil skulls, but they were like “that’s too many heads, it makes it seem like no one is in charge,” and she said, oh, but that’s what a hydra is, it has — and they said more loudly, “could you give it more tentacles, like it’s very insidious,” and she said, that’s — yes, but that’ll be — i mean, that’s definitely, um, but what you’re asking for is not a, um, a hydra — trying to catch the project manager’s eye like BACK ME UP, I KNOW YOU TOOK CLASSICS, but the project manager was pretending to look at something on his phone, and all the execs were staring at her like is she ARGUING with us?, and like, they’re supervillains, so she said, okay, i….i’ll, sorry, i — i’ll give you something with tentacles.

Evil design department

Evil PR

Evil project managers arranging evil kick-off meetings

God all I want to do is write stories about harried Hydra employees trying to satisfy the increasingly bizarre demands of their evil employers

Like some guy in the assasinations department is like yes no ok we COULD unfreeze Captain America’s best friend and have him attempt to dramatically punch Cap to death OR I could just walk up behind Rogers at the next SHIELD all-hands-on-deck meeting and quietly shoot him in the head

and the brass is like NO DON’T BE ABSURD

DO YOU THINK WE SPENT ALL OF THIS TIME STYLING THE WINTER SOLDIER’S HAIR FOR NOTHING