What if Padme’ was so Attached to her handmaidens that when she fell pregnant they did as well.
… Anakin Skywalker would have so, so much explaining to do. :X
“ALL OF THEM, ANAKIN, REALLY??”
“NONE OF THEM, MASTER, I SWEAR!!”
Padmé is just subtly wincing in the background and Palpatine and his thousand-year plan are Doomed because there is literally no way he can make Anakin buy that ALL OF THESE WOMEN are gonna die tragically and unavoidably in childbirth without the power of the Dark Side, THERE’S LIKE FIFTEEN OF THEM FFS, IF NOTHING ELSE STATISTICS ARE GONNA WIN THERE.
Everyone blames Anakin. For once it was actually not his fault, but that doesn’t matter, everyone is CONVINCED it was and everyone blames him. Except the handmaidens, mind, who of course know perfectly well he never touched a single one of them and all just EYE Padmé.
Padmé s w e a t s.
Anakin would be upset about being unfairly blamed for fifteen pregnancies he DEFINITELY had nothing to do with, except this means ALL THE BABIES FOR HIM. >> The risk of being drummed out of the Order is a problem but SIXTEEN BABIES is kind of distracting and look, look, friend: if you think Anakin Skywalker would not be the kind of dad-in-waiting to work overtime to upgrade all the nanny droids and fetch space pickles and space ice cream at three AM given even HALF the chance, then I’m sorry, we CAN’T be friends, we just can’t. The handmaidens literally don’t even have to ask, Anakin is THERE.
Meanwhile Palpatine is like “we are trying to have a war here?” and the Council is like “yes we’re aware but Amidala is apparently having TWINS now so in fact Skywalker might be about to have THIRTY-TWO children, so no, no we’re not, we refuse, war over, we are all taking our clones and going HOME”.
@sarah531 might make you happy