#queen and her handmaiden

[alexversenaberrie]

In another life ~ Queen Tsabin of Naboo may live with her handmaiden happily at last.

#sw femslash #swfsf2024 #star wars femslash #in another life #star wars #sabe #rabe #sabe x rabe #rabe x sabe #queen and her handmaiden #queen x handmaid #tsabin #alternate universe

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I'm continuing my DAO replay and like....... are we just not going to talk about the fact that Anora's handmaiden is Orlesian?

I'm sorry, how did the Queen of Fereldan end up with an Orlesian handmaid? Did Loghain approve of that? Because I bet he sure didn't! Given everything about him, I bet he threw a real stink about that! And yet, Erlina is close enough to Anora to beg the wardens to save her after she's locked up by Howe, appearing entirely loyal to her.

So I broke out the World of Thedas vol2 to see if it said something in there about her and I couldn't find anything. All the wiki has to say is, "Erlina is the handmaiden of Queen Anora. Not much is known about her background but she apparently escaped from Orlais. Arl Eamon suspects that she is more than a simple servant."

Gee, ya think, Eamon?

I just find that to be a very interesting detail, one that has my theorist gears cranking and spinning.

#dao #dragon age origins #anora mac tir #dao anora #loghain mac tir #dao loghain #cailan was talking with celene and anora has an orlesian handmaiden... they're probably not connected #but that's not gonna stop me from attempting to connect them... something's weird okay i can sense it #also erlina “escaped”? i need to go finish this quest so i can talk to her properly and see exactly what she says #since maybe she gives a reason... but then again if she did then wouldn't the wiki say something...? #like i can think of a dozen reasons why an elven woman would want to escape orlais but how did she end up as the queen's handmaid? hmmmm... #y'all something's up and i don't know what it is #pi and i were talking about this the other night while theorizing if anora had her own plans to get rid of cailan and like...... #i'm not saying anora was definitely scheming to get cailan booted off the throne so she could rule alone only for loghain to swoop in #and steal her thunder...... BUT I have suspicions and she *is* loghain's daughter after all... just saying #i don't doubt that anora loved cailan at one point but remember loghain loved him too.... and how did that work out?

[maryoliverdotcom]

we as a generation are in dire need of a sapphic historical bollywood movie

#pretty sure there were queens with secret affairs #or even princesses #i for one would love to see the queen fall for her handmaiden or another one of the king's many wives #like take that you little bitch of a king #there's been enough het romances in bollywood

[merrysithmas]

seeing Mon Mothma slay as a senator makes me sad for the life Padme could have had if she didnt get involved in the most toxic and deluded relationship with a dude who married her because he was projecting grief about his mother's death (lol anakin we love you, but no).

and she married him of course because she was desperate for some freedom in her life which had been utterly political since age 14 - she never got to grow or experience life as a child. she never really got anything but making war decisions as a literal child. of course she was a multifacted tragic character and fascinating - i mean she stood for so much good & law & order but then totally ignored/stayed silent on the murder of an entire Tusken village to get what she wanted emotionally. that's some really cool writing, honestly.

but as per the tragedy genre they were terrible together and truly didn't seem to know one another at all. they were one another's psycho-emotional crutch - not one another's spouse, and of course it ended as it did. not saying they didn't care for one another, they did ("There's still good in him", "Is she safe? Is she alright?") but they were obviously unstable and their dynamic wasn't built on genuine understanding or even true romantic love, imo. it was based on their own unsatisfied inner needs and projecting it on one another. a really interesting story dynamic that makes for compelling viewing.

Padme's political legacy as the Queen of Naboo/Naboo Senator/founder of the Rebellion is THE most important part of her character, and hopefully if she is alluded to at all by Bail or Mon this is mentioned. the fact that she began to mistrust the Senate/her marriage etc is such an important part of her character. i would love love love this!

super sad stuff! thanks star wars lol

#andor #padme amidala #actually what i really want is a Young Queen show about padme and her handmaidens #he family in naboo #the separation from the gungans #clovis! and her other LI that she mentioned to anakin in the lake country of naboo #was his name Palo? #i forget! #im not anti anidala i actually like their dynamic as it functions in a Tragedy and i think it makes for a cool story but they werent matched #they werent right for each other at all imo and TCW did a good job at showing that i think #i like their scenes and their weird little thing haha and how it condemns them #prime Unhappily Ever After viewing #and ofc if you genuinely ship them by all means im not hating i support u

[of-naboo]

She was almost asleep, warm and still a bit fuzzy around the edges, when she heard a noise like a door opening and shutting, and then the soft footsteps of someone who knew what they were doing crossing the antechamber outside of where she slept. She fought to stay still, to look like she was sleeping, and reached for the blaster that lay under her pillow.

There was someone in the doorway of her room.

Star Wars Queen's Hope, E.K Johnston

#star wars queen's hope #i understand why padme didnt tell Sabé immediately about anakin #but like at the same time it gave me so much anxiety #for this exact reason #like thats kinda a big factor into having her take your place during your mission #this is your (possibly) husband??? #I'll find out soon enough lmao but still #handmaiden sabé

[raionmimi]

A Medb Shitpost every day until the Fate Awards ends: Day 4 (Nov. 21)

Suggestion: “You have referred to Medb as a stoat so much, that I kinda want to see a stoat dressed as Medb lol”

Day one: X

Day two: X

Day three: X

Day four: X

#queen medb #cu chulainn #magical college girl medb #fgo #fate grand order #hero my love: my dear antagonist #you ever throw rocks at a stoat and handmaiden which kills both #and then tell the girl ur at war with that you dont kill women #even though you literally just did #and then you just go out of your way to not fight her the entire time during the war for no real reason #just cu chulainn things

[khalesci]

I think most of Dany's girls and her boys are underappreciated and deserve more attention actually. Irri, Jhiqui, Doreah, Aggo, Jhogo, Rakharo, even Belwas.

#♛ ooc. ⊱ ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞ #george barely doing anything with them #the show gradually cutting them all out #when they are all such strong presences in dany's daily life??? #her girls are her confidantes. they are ingrained into her routine. they are her handmaidens and her friends. #irri even became a paramour of sorts for her for a time #and her three bloodriders??? they are with her all the time #they are her primary protectors sworn to die for her #and you do NOT get close to the queen without going through them first #and Belwas is just fucking funny and literally tanked an assassination attempt for her by pure accident I love him #but there is more to him than just being a comedy character and I wish george would delve into that more. the man has history! #anyway I just think they all deserve better than how they get treated by both their author and those fuckass showrunners

[masterkeynobi]

god i can't stop thinking about padmé & sabé & anakin they've consumed my fucking brain like. (partially under a cut bc this gets Long)

queen's shadow establishes several things: first, that sabé is padmé's hands and that padmé is sabé's heart. every other handmaiden has a life planned out after amidala's reign; sabé doesn't, sabé who was the first to be chosen and who will be the last to leave. sabé's own parents don't call her tsabin anymore. sabé, in short, is sabé before she is anything else.

second: padmé is invested in the freeing of slaves. padmé is a pacifist. padmé broke ties with captain panaka because she only ever advocates for violence in self-defense. padmé naberrie would have gone to tatooine herself — but she is padmé amidala, and she must be senator, and so she sends sabé in her stead.

on tatooine sabé goes by tsabin and it doesn't feel right. she & tonra go about things the wrong way, lose the trust of the locals, cannot find shmi skywalker. twenty-five people isn't nothing, but it's not nearly enough, either. she doesn't find shmi skywalker. she's unhappy; tonra's unhappy; it's a failure. but padmé calls from coruscant — padmé has other priorities — and sabé goes.

senator amidala is not the queen. the voice is different; the clothing is different; it's taking down the walls built up over four years of a reign and rearranging them to form something new. worth noting, too, that amidala's voice as queen was formed from all herself & her girls, was formed from sabé more than anything. senator amidala is imitable, still, but is padmé. padmé can remake herself, did it once at fourteen and lived by it, but — coruscant is hard. her peers discuss politics as though they are philosophies and not people impacted. she thinks: this is not me.

for the first time since all those years ago, giggling children in a shared bedroom, sabé and padmé aren't attached at the hip. sabé is padmé's eyes and ears on coruscant; she isn't there to watch the senator's day-to-day growth, but still. they are familiar. padmé is herself and amidala; sabé is herself and tsabin. they are each other's peace, each other's steadiness, and they navigate the upper and lower levels of coruscant together with each other as their anchors.

time passes. the galaxy goes to war. padmé meets anakin.

here's the thing about anakin skywalker: the way he sees the world is inextricable from the fact that he spent his most formative years couched in horrific exploitation. anakin grows up wanting more than anything to have full control over himself and his surroundings. anakin curls around those he loves like a dragon, possessive, protective. service, to anakin who was born a slave, will never not feel like violence. possession is all he understands. anakin skywalker is in love with padmé.

& sabé, too, is in love with padmé. but sabé's devotion is boundless and without expectation. she says my hands are yours — my life is yours, should you ask for it — and knows down to her bones the implications of her fealty. she would die for padmé and padmé would let her and that's a choice she would make a hundred times over. she doesn't want pity for it. she kisses tonra and loves padmé and has no trouble reconciling these two things.

the galaxy is at war; padmé marries anakin and tells no one.

sabé isn't around for geonosis or its aftermath. sabé is on tatooine, doing things the right way this time around, settling in and gaining the trust of the people who live there. she sets herself and tonra (a couple. partners. equals, truly, in a way she and padmé have never been) up as a pair to be trusted to get slaves offplanet. not because they've been ordered to, this time, or because they're looking for shmi, but because it's simply the right thing to do. their quality of life suffers — they are naboo — but it's so fulfilling for both of them, a task they want to dedicate time and effort to.

padmé calls sabé and sabé knows before she picks up that she'll be asked back to coruscant. her hands have always been padmé's. she goes.

padmé is different now, though. is hiding something. sabé catalogs her fake smiles and doesn't know why she's wearing the mask of amidala, doesn't quite understand her anymore, and though both of them speak of things being just like old times — sabé, playing decoy while padmé gallivants off to be brilliant — it rings false. padmé has changed. sabé doesn't know senator amidala. there's something padmé isn't telling her, padmé who kept no secrets, whom sabé knew better than she knows herself.

sabé hates coruscant, she realizes. hates playing senator and stumbles around the chancellor and desperately doesn't want to lose herself in politics the way padmé almost has. (it is easier now, padmé says, to think of politics as ideas and not people. is that bad?)

your husband says hello, says sabé, brushing through padmé's hair. sabé's love for padmé has never been possessive, has never needed reciprocation, has only ever been loyalty and devotion and time spent so close together they might as well be the same person. but padmé didn't tell her. she only found out because the man himself barged into her bedroom and almost choked her out. the issue isn't that padmé's in love with someone else, it's that she didn't even tell her. the padmé she knew (the padmé who was hers, more or less! shared faces and shared goals for years on end) isn't the padmé of the present. the padmé of the present is anakin skywalker's wife.

still, for sabé, unrequitedness doesn't have to mean heartbreak. she talks to padmé, says anakin — scares her a little, honestly. padmé mentions an incident with the tuskens. sabé goes still, because they're talking about that massacre on the other side of the planet.

isn't that the funny thing, though? that sabé knows tatooine, now, better than the prodigal son of its suns? padmé sent her there, dear pacifist senator amidala, padmé who wanted post-election to free slaves, but it is sabé in the end who's doing the freeing. sabé has been padmé's hands for years; sabé does her dirty work and finds personal fulfillment in it. sabé frees slaves because she wants to do it. because it's right.

sabé leaves padmé's service that very night — my hands are yours. please don't ask me for them again. — and goes back to tatooine. & when she returns there she finds that the white suns have reached out; she greets tonra and she smiles. there is work to be done and she will do it as herself, casting her own shadow.

padmé amidala is married to anakin skywalker — who, it has to be said, never freed anyone who wasn't himself. anakin who doesn't even really know tatooine at all, anakin whose genius could have dismantled the slave chips the white suns come to tonra about in the blink of an eye, anakin, born in the desert, who lands on tatooine and ignites his lightsaber and leaves with blood on his hands and darkness in his heart. and padmé marries him. and padmé pulls sabé off tatooine and asks her to stay on coruscant and sabé says no.

#sree.txt #star wars #sabé #handmaiden sabé #padmé amidala #anakin skywalker #anidala #sabédala #queen's shadow #queen's hope #jesus this is long but i needed to get it out of my head #as always major major chunks of this are from my dms with gabe #things i couldn't figure out how to talk about: #sabédala & how their reliance on e/o parallels obi-wan and anakin #the idea that (at the risk of oversimplication) #anakin thinks in terms of ''she's mine'' #& sabé thinks in terms of ''i'm hers'' #again it's possessiveness born of trauma vs service as a choice #also to be clear while this is i suppose quote-unquote anakin critical #i adore anakin i think his relationship w padmé is so compelling #and makes for SUCH a narrative #he's my baby girl also btw. #but in general it's fascinating to observe how he fails himself bc that's where the tragedy lies #anyway yeah thank you for coming to my ted talk i love sabé so much

[yourfairygodmotherorsomething]

here is a moodboard I made based on the fact that I feel like there should be more water themeing in padmé’s costumes

naboo is a world with a water core, with an amphibious indigenous species, and actual sea monsters! padmé deserves to dress like a sea queen!

#my biggest pet peeve with padme’s wardrobe is that they spent far too much time apropriating shit and also trying for nostalgia points in #linking her to leia when they should have dressed her like a person dresses #it should be more cohesive! #so any time I’m thibking about her costumes it’s with this constant irritation in mind #naboo #the naboo #I have A LOT of ideas about naboo fashion tbh #padme naberrie #padme amadala #queen amadala #royal handmaidens

[ocd-kenobi]

Padmé's feelings about her upcoming wedding, noticeably lacking in concrete "I love him" thoughts.

#queen's hope #i love the way this author writes padme so much #this whole series is a breath of fresh clean air #full of oxygen #padme and her handmaidens

[sithbian]

simply thinking about being padme's handmaiden and having no identity. youre 14, sacrificing yourself if it means saving your planet. you have no identity beyond being the same as 5 other girls who look like you. youre the queen but youre merely a body meant to keep the Original safe when it comes down to it. when youre not playing the queen, youre meant to be in the background and nobody.

#.txt #like. they were 12-14 when they became handmaidens/queen #the aspect of the handmaidens deciding whoever is dressed as amidala is her as opposed to padme always being her is so fascinating #like they all were the queen but they werent but they were

[themuseoftheviolets]

no because how did i forget that kalyba dies at the end of priory lmao

#spent the last 30 pages of the book waiting for her to dramatically rise from the dead only to read ead buring her 🧍‍♀️ #ok then #killed by a handmaiden of cleolind with the help of galian's (and her own) descendant #god she's pathetic even in death #i love her rip queen #kalyba my cringefail bbg #tpotot

[chasingmidnights]

So, I was re-watching Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace for the umpteenth time and I swear, I notice something new everytime! For instance, this time I noticed that when the queen returns to Naboo and when they're in flight hangar how her handmaidens were even partaking in the Battle. How I never noticed that before, is beyond me. I've always felt like their characters are a bit underestimated. But I've always found them fascinating! So here's an appreciation post for them!

(The first image is a collage that I made, the others are just stuff I found online.)

#queen amidala #queen amidalas handmaidens #her personal body guards #they're more than just a pretty face #star wars #star wars universe #star wars episode i: the phantom menace

[bardbattledhasmoved]

𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑵 𝑨𝑴𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑨 & 𝑳𝑨𝑫𝒀 𝑬𝑳𝑺𝑰𝑬 ;  requested moodboard for @starsspin.

psd.

#starsspin #❪ starsspin + amelia ❫ ⤿ she’ll make you believe fairytales come true. #THE QUEEN N HER HANDMAIDEN THANK U VERY MUCH #❪ alt star wars ❫ ⤿ with souls made of flames.

[unstanneds]

why are people suddenly adopting anakin as their fucked up meow meow with the fucked up trauma and the fucked up consequences and the fucked up family tree and the fucked up body horror and why haven't i been invited? and where can i find these beautiful blogs to follow.

#last time i checked ob*kin was problematic which was funny cause You Don't Say. #i wonder if most of the franchise was not about the horrible consequences of ani's trauma and desire #not one word about how insane it is for padmé to be queen in her adolescence and having a completely #enmeshed public persona and private existence with her handmaidens like .

[hopepunk-priest]

Gonna regret posting this but take dom/dom/sub threesome and make it royal kink

#a king and queen domming their favourite concubine.... #a queen and her handmaiden treating the king gently #a king and his favourite general railing a servant #im on to something here i know it #hhh