Ah yes. Me. My girlfriend. And her five royal Naboo handmaidens.
the handmaidens
Queen Amidala – Fiction’s Fearless Females
“We are brave, your highness.”
I love Padme and her handmaidens so much.
By Jeffrey Cagle of The Imperial Talker
Standing behind the doors leading into the royal hanger, the Queen of Naboo, surrounded by her loyal handmaidens and advisers, must make a choice. One path will keep the teenage monarch on Naboo, with her people, risking capture and death at the hands of the invading Trade Federation. The alternative path will take her off-world, traveling with the two Jedi escorting her, running the Trade Federation blockade above her world in the hopes of reaching Coruscant, the capital of the Republic, to plead for help directly to the Senate.
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Padmé meets her handmaiden Sabé in an excerpt from Star Wars: Queen’s Peril
I gotta get ahold of this one. Also, I really like that quote from Johnston: “The thing about Padmé is that we always knew she was doomed. She didn’t know it, obviously. But we did. And we fell in love with her anyway.”
From The Hollywood Reporter:
“Disney+’s revival of The Clone Wars might have brought a piece of Star Wars history back to life for a certain demographic of the fanbase, but this summer sees a more in-depth return to the days of the Galactic Republic with the release of Star Wars: Queen’s Peril, a young adult novel focusing on the teenaged queen of Naboo. The Hollywood Reporter has a sneak peek at what lies in store for the future bride of Anakin Skywalker.
The $17.99 novel sees author EK Johnston return to the prequel era of her earlier novel, the New York Times best-seller Queen’s Shadow, to continue to build out the character of Padmé Amidala, the woman who would one day become the mother of Luke and Leia Skywalker. This new book is a prequel to Shadow, which focused on the character’s transition from queen of…
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Okay, so apparently the Naboo Royal Handmaidens are trained by, and I quote, “
a secret society of female warriors” called the Order of Sanctuary. The Order of Sanctuary was considered a myth, but was actually based in remote regions of Naboo, and every royal handmaiden was granted membership.
[SLAMS FIST ON TABLE] YET ANOTHER ALL-FEMALE FIGHTING FORCE
NABOO ROYAL HANDMAIDENS → “The base requirement for handmaidens of course, is a physical resemblance to the Queen. However, a successful candidate must also pass a battery of rigorous tests that try every facet of her personality and skills.
Thirteen handmaidens are on duty in the palace at all times, and five travel with Amidala whenever she leaves Naboo. In addition to serving as bodyguard for Amidala and watching for possible threats to her life, each handmaiden is fully capable of standing in for the Queen should the situation require a decoy.” ♕
so like its canon that when padme’s handmaidens were in handmaiden bootcamp before she was coronated as queen (but presumably after she was elected) that padme snuck in and joined them? but like, what if she didnt sneak in? what if its like, The Thing for the queen-elect to join her handmaidens in handmaid bootcamp. like. what if.
amidala seems to be a reigning name taken by padme to conceal her true identity- we already know that the naboo are very fond of shit like that due to the handmaidens/decoys etc.
so like padme went into handmaid bootcamp as padme naberrie, and all the handmaidens were like, heyy padme! wanna join in on our betting pool as to which one of us is secretly the queen? padme bets its dorme, corde bets its teckla, teckla and dorme think its padme, yane bets on herself being the queen because shes a shithead and wants to fuck with everyone, and so on. idk where im going with this, but like. bootcamp shenanigans.
and then when padme is actually coronated and the bond between her and the handmaidens is so much stronger than just ruler and subordinates, which is what was supposed to happen, because the naboo are wily motherfucker- and in the end the queen of naboo is, and always has been, more than just one person.
so like its canon that when padme’s handmaidens were in handmaiden bootcamp before she was coronated as queen (but presumably after she was elected) that padme snuck in and joined them? but like, what if she didnt sneak in? what if its like, The Thing for the queen-elect to join her handmaidens in handmaid bootcamp. like. what if.
amidala seems to be a reigning name taken by padme to conceal her true identity- we already know that the naboo are very fond of shit like that due to the handmaidens/decoys etc.
so like padme went into handmaid bootcamp as padme naberrie, and all the handmaidens were like, heyy padme! wanna join in on our betting pool as to which one of us is secretly the queen? padme bets its dorme, corde bets its teckla, teckla and dorme think its padme, yane bets on herself being the queen because shes a shithead and wants to fuck with everyone, and so on. idk where im going with this, but like. bootcamp shenanigans.
and then when padme is actually coronated and the bond between her and the handmaidens is so much stronger than just ruler and subordinates, which is what was supposed to happen, because the naboo are wily motherfucker- and in the end the queen of naboo is, and always has been, more than just one person.
I’m just saying that it’s very likely one of the handmaidens of naboo didn’t have ideas befitting her station.
I mean, the danger of taking a bunch of teenage girls and teaching them how to read the political fabric of the galaxy while also acting at all times as befits a queen, plus inculcating in them the belief that at any time they may be asked to lay down their lives, is that that’s what you get.
you basically created a bunch of whipsmart girls who give no fucks, which means that when padme says “we’re going to relax our stance the tariff with regard to agricultural products from Chandrila,” sabe says, “no, that’ll badly impact the northeastern rural sectors”
and padme says, “I was elected queen,” and sabe says, “well, I’m the one acting as queen in that meeting so—”
……………which is also another way of saying that padme probably angrily made out with sabe sometimes, in between really intense political discussions about economic projections and polling numbers.
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