gffa:13. if you could resurrect one dead character, or prevent them from dying, who would it be?I’M

gffa:13. if you could resurrect one dead character, or prevent them from dying, who would it be?I’M GONNA CHOOSE A DIFFERENT ONE THIS TIME:  And it’s going to be the one most people usually expect–Padme Amidala.  I will preface it with saying, though, that as frustrating as I find some of the details of her character arc and eventual death, it didn’t come out of nowhere.This was a woman who threw herself into the marriage with Anakin just as hard as he did, she was just as much of a romantic idealist as he was.  This is also a relationship where they didn’t really know each other, because they’d only met like a week ago when they got married, they never got to spend much time together with the war happening, and ultimately it was a relationship where Padme couldn’t even express her fears about the Republic and ask him to talk to his friend the Chancellor without him snapping at her to not talk to him about that, to the point where she has to comfort him over it.Padme is a character who has an intense storm of feelings in her that she channeled into politics, but that wasn’t the only thing she wanted.  When she found out she was pregnant, she was pretty clearly ready to leave politics and go home to Naboo.  And this isn’t something she talked much about with Anakin, because he doesn’t respond to any of this, he is clearly uncomfortable and hesitant and offers no opinions other than that she’s beautiful.  (In fairness, he’s dealing with a lot, it’s understandable!)What I’m getting at is:  Padme didn’t seem to have much of a support system. Her handmaidens don’t seem to be around anymore.  Her relationship with Anakin is built on secrecy and distance and idealizing each other and the epic romance.  She cries alone in her apartment more than once, nobody there to help her through this.The two things she depends on most–the democracy she’s fought so hard to support and her husband–are burnt to ash in front of her.  The Republic is actually really horrible and has turned into the thing they were supposed to be fighting.  She’s probably not going to be involved in politics for much longer.  She’s not sure she can be part of the Rebellion, she expresses hesitation over it in the deleted scenes.  Her husband just went on a murder spree, including killing children.  Everything she used to prop herself up is GONE.THAT ALL SAID:  While it makes sense that she couldn’t live on in what the galaxy had become–what if she had?  What if she’d been closer to Obi-Wan and leaned on him for support?  What if she’d had Dorme there to hold her hand and tell her they’d be there for her?  What if she’d been able to feel someone would be there for her long enough that she could regain her strength and be there for her children?How would her relationship with Anakin play out?  Because he’s not going to stop, he CANNOT admit that he made a huge mistake and the more Padme tries to remind him of that, the more it would fracture the relationship between them, until it was this angry thing where he wanted her and obsessed over her, but she couldn’t deny that he’d crossed the moral line in a way he couldn’t come back from, because she knew who he was, she always would.I actually tend to think the stories where she and Obi-Wan go into exile together are what’s most likely would happen–she was ready for that, a quiet life on a pretty planet.  And with Obi-Wan there to support her and the children, I can see something slow and comforting growing between them, even when they both loved Anakin and his ghost would always be between them. -- source link

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