The flight suit is from AotC. The helmet Leia wears, however, is not the helmet worn during AotC; Padme wears a helmet that covers her entire face. Guess who does wear this helmet, the TPM Naboo pilot helmet?
Leia is wearing her mother’s flight suit and her father’s helmet. (The fact that I managed to cap Anakin at the same angle as Leia is coincidental, but oh my god.)
padmé amidala didnt die for you to ship her grandkids together
While i dont exactly ship Reylo, I’m still holding out hope that Rey is a Palpatine and not a Skywalker
padme amidala didnt die for you to connect her granddaughter to a slimy creature like palpatine
Oh shit, I actually really like that idea? Not because of shipping or anything, but because there’s always been this thing in Star Wars that it’s your blood, primarily, that maps out your destiny (’He has too much of his father in him’ / ‘There’s too much Vader in him’) and it would be really interesting to see Rey buck that trend by being related to pretty much the only person in the Star Wars verse considered irredeemable – and being a decent, kind person anyway.
Also because out of all the characters in Star Wars, Palpatine would probably be the most likely to abandon a little girl in a desert.
… hes fucking dead
Well yes, but – TFA is set what, 30 years after ROTJ? Palpatine could have established a lineage by ROTJ and given whomever who still loyal to him instructions that any grandchildren should be hidden away should anything happen to him (regardless of how shitty that would be for the child, because…this is Palpatine.) I think it works, timeline wise?
(Although that bit was more of a joke really.)
It won’t happen in the movies, I really doubt that, but I think it’s a idea with potential at least. Not least because of how much it would test everyone’s relationship to Rey. Finn would still love her, of course, but I can see Leia, maybe even Luke, accidentally wondering from time to time “when will this girl snap?” Rey herself wondering “what am I, do I have the dark side in me too?” and slowly learning that no, of course she doesn’t, because like Finn and Kylo she’s defined by her choices rather than her heritage.
But I don’t really mind who she’s related to really (if anyone). I trust the writers will do it right. Well, mostly.
I don’t know if this was ever a popular fandom theory, but I once started a story based on the premise that Padme was Palpatine’s grand-daughter, but this was hidden from the public for political reasons. Never got round to finishing it though… But I always thought it was a shame that, bio-connection aside, the PT didn’t make much of the connection that Padme and Palpatine should have had as politicians from the same home world who had ended up on Coruscant.
I like to think little Ben Organa-Solo was visited by his Grandma Padme, the grandparent he truly needed. Also, it’s totally canon that Padme could be a force ghost…I’m a sap.
i love padme so much like she’s a fair and successful queen at fourteen and (even more incredible than the people of naboo’s readiness to put an eigth grader in charge of like, everything) she shows no apparent hesitation at leading a charge to retake her planet and like, actually puts herself in the middle of the fight and personally fires a blaster alongside real military troops and ten years after this she gives the middle finger to the jedi council, verbally kicks anakin’s ass, and goes to rescue obi wan AND ALSO has the physical capabilities to beat the living shit out of a nexu with the same chains that held her captive and ONCE AGAIN picks up a blaster like she’s not a galactic fucking senator and holds her own in a real life battle alongside jedi masters and GOD i mean could you imagine bill clinton or smth firing a gun on a rescue mission????? no but padme did because she is honest to god one of the best star wars characters
Showing how much Anakin and Padmé care for each other is one of my weak points,” Lucas admits. “Expressing that is hard to do. It’s really hard in the end to express the idea, I’m so in love with you that I would do anything to save you; I’d give up everything – friends, my whole life – for you, and make that real – make that stick – and say it in two minutes, which is all the time this film has for it. If I had a whole movie, I could probably manage it. But I can’t go deep into the psyche of these people beyond a certain stylistic reality I’ve created for myself. It wouldn’t work.
