#there are so few moments where padmé is unwatched and alone#because 90% of her scenes are about her relationship with anakin or her role in the Senate#and then she’s either perceived through the public eyes- as a politician#or as this fixed idealized persona her husband wants her to be and which is not /her/#but here she’s just herself – left bare and aching and with nothing but her failure and abandonment and fear#and this is the padmé amidala who deeply moves me as a character#the one i find really tragic#more than the senator or the queen or the doomed lover that the fandom wants her to be#this very lonely woman in a fancy empty room watching her life and everything she ever held dear turn to ash before her#she failed in more than one way and she lied herself about a lof of things (the republic her husband perhaps even herself)#but she deserved more than this#more than the betrayal and the powerlessness and this empty room at the end of nothing (via lagren0uille)