Anakin + Padme

Forbidden Love


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Anakin and Padme's relationship throughout the movies:

Consider this your spoiler warning

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Star Wars:
Padme (Naberrie) Amidala (age 14)

Padme Amidala is Queen of the Naboo. When her planet becomes lost in an unusually dangerous blockade by the rising Trade Federation she is forced to leave her home planet and escape with two Jedi Knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. During their escape from the airspace of Naboo their ship is damaged substantially so they are forced to land on a nearby planet until repairs can be made. They choose a planet on the Outer Rim, outside the Republic's reach called Tatooine.

Padme's clever deception has everyone (seemingly even the Jedi) fooled about her identity. It is very rare that the woman seen as "the Queen" is ever actually Padme Amidala. Padme only goes by her first name when in "disguise" as a handmaiden to "the queen" who in reality is her loyal bodyguard. Padme, in her rouse as a handmaiden, insists that she go into Mos Espa, the nearby settlement with Qui-Gon  and the Gungan Jar-Jar Binks. She claims that "the queen is curious about the planet".

When they reach Mos Espa Qui-Gon decides to try one of the smaller part vendors first and they go to the shop of a Toydarian named Watto. He has the part they need but unfortunately all the currency that Qui-Gon has is Republic currency and is therefore not acceptible on Tatooine and Watto will not be swayed by the Jedi mind-trick.

This, however, gives Anakin and Padme's introduction a bit more time to play itself out. Anakin, a slave to Watto, is minding the store while his Master is outside talking to Qui-Gon. He asks Padme if she is an angel, one of the most beautiful creatures in the Universe. She informs him that she is not an angel and the two converse a bit further and make fast friends. Padme has compassion for the little boy who has been through so much for one so young and Anakin immediately takes a liking to Padme because of her beauty and kindness.


Anakin asking Padme if she is an angel.

The two part ways until "fate" would bring about a sandstorm and Anakin offers Qui-Gon, Padme and Jar-Jar refuge at his home until the storm passes. The motley crew is introduced to Anakin's mother, Shmi Skywalker- also a slave to Watto. She is very friendly to the newcomers and allows them to eat dinner and stay until they can get the part they need. The problem lies in the fact that the Republic-dwellers have nothing of value on Tatooine with the exception of themselves, and staying on Tatooine and being slaves of course, is not at all what they had in mind.

Anakin explains that he is the only human on Tatooine (or anywhere as far as we know) that can podrace. He convinces his mother and Qui-Gon to follow him in a well-orchestrated plan to get Anakin into the race so that he can attempt to win the prize money for them. Anakin's mother at first resists but finally relents when Anakin says that he loves podracing and that he wants to help his new friends.

Padme is not at all pleased with "trusting their fate to a boy they hardly know", but it is evident that not only is it a matter of trust for Padme but also a matter of being concerned for the little boy doing something so dangerous.

Qui-Gon convinces Watto that if Anakin wins the race that the boy must be allowed to go free, to go with him back to the Republic. Anakin narrowly escapes defeat but wins the podrace and the prize money. He then sells the pod that he had poured blood, sweat, and possibly tears into for years and gives the money to his mother. He is then informed of his impending release and makes the painful decision to leave his mother and follow the advice of Qui-Gon to return with him to the Republic and train to become a Jedi.

On their return trip to the Republic Padme comforts Anakin, reassuring him that she will always care about him, no matter how alone he is. He tells her that he cares for her too but misses his mother. He gives her an amulet that he carved as "something to remember him by" when he goes off to train to be a Jedi and she returns to her home. She accepts it but says that she doesn't need it, that she would remember him anyway.

When the group arrives on Coruscant, the city-planet center and capital of the Republic Anakin isn't sure what to do so Padme serves as his protector, guide and confidant until circumstances force them to part.

Anakin does not find out Padme's true identity and status until he is once again tagging along with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan on the return trip to Naboo. Queen Amidala (the bodyguard), Padme, the Queen's other staff, the Jedi, Anakin and Jar-Jar all go to find the Gungans and enlist their help. When negotiations with the Gungan nation seem to be going nowhere Padme promptly reveals her true identity, much to Anakin's surprise. She then pleads and finally does gain the help and alliance of the Gungans.

A war, something very uncommon on Naboo, ensues and eventually the Queen and her forces defeat the Trade Federation inspite of being drastically outnumbered. They couldn't have done it, however, had not Anakin accidentally managed to blow up the Federation's Droid Control Ship.

Qui-Gon dies in a battle with Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi attains the status of "Jedi Knight", promoted from Padawan Learner. Anakin is then placed in the instruction and care of Obi-Wan straight away, being too old to complete the Youngling's training.

Anakin and Padme part and do not see one another for ten years...

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Star Wars:
Episode II: Attack of the Clones


Anakin Skywalker (age 19-20)
Padme (Naberrie) Amidala (age 23-24)


The Republic is in great distress when several thousand star systems announce their intentions to form a Seperatist movement and leave the Republic. The Senate is falling into a state of panic and is divided on whether or not the Republic should form an army to help deal with the Seperatist movement. Padme Amidala, her two terms as Queen of Naboo now having run out, is now the Senator for the Naboo and is the head of the opposite to the Military Creation Act. She returns to the captial, Coruscant, to vote on the issue to try to keep the Republic a peaceful place. When she arrives on Coruscant an assascination attempt is made against her, but due to her clever use of decoys she survives it. Her decoy, however, does not. Seven others also die.

When Senator Amidala manages to collect herself she goes to the "office" of Chancellor Palpatine and is reunited with him as well as several other senators. Several members of the Jedi Council, Yoda and Mace Windu among them, are also there discussing their options with the Chancellor. Palpatine then insists that Padme be put under the guard of the Jedi. She insists that she thinks it to be totally unnecessary but finally and reluctantly yields to Palpatine's wishes when he convinces Yoda and Mace to allow Obi-Wan to be her appointed Jedi-bodyguard, her familiarity with Obi-Wan somewhat assuaging her discomfort with the idea.

They send for Obi-Wan and his padawan learner, Anakin Skywalker. Anakin is decidedly nervous about seeing Padme again. Having spent a decade apart from her he had allowed Padme to become, in some ways, a person even more worthy of near-worship. When they are reintroduced and Padme recognizes the handsome young Jedi as the little boy from Tatooine she'd known all those years ago, Anakin promptly "sticks his foot in his mouth" by telling her that she has grown more beautiful than the last time he saw her. He manages to somewhat awkwardly recover from this and the comment seems to be forgotten, and forgiven if need be.

That very night another attempt is made on Padme's life. This time the unknown-assasin's modus operendi is to quietly inject highly poisoness centipede-like creatures into her room while she is sleeping. Anakin and Obi-Wan, from the main room of her apartment sense the danger and rush into her room, Anakin managing to kill the insects just in time.

One thing leads to another and Obi-Wan and Anakin find out that the would-be assasin was working for a bounty hunter and when they go to the Council with this information the Council agrees that Obi-Wan must go and find this bounty hunter before any more trouble is caused.

As a result of this Padme's protection falls into young Anakin's hands. Disguised as refugees they travel back to Padme's home planet of Naboo. They consult with the new Queen- Jamilla and then head to the lake country of Naboo to a secret retreat where Padme used to go when she was attending school.

Standing on a balcony the pair kiss for the first time but Padme promptly puts a stop to it, admitting that she shouldn't have done it and for the moment Anakin lets it go. Later, they go to a grassy field, having nothing better to do. (I would assume it might have been the next day.) There, Anakin asks Padme about old boyfriends/love interests and at first she won't say anything but finally owns up to having had quite an infatuation with someone named Palo when she was twelve. When he asks where Palo had gone Padme informs him that he went on to become an artist and that she went into public service. This leads to a bit of a political debate between the two where you see Padme's almost  pascifistic views and strong belief in democracy and Anakin's views being strongly influenced by the political views of Chancellor Palpatine.

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Anakin, at some point, realizes that he may have crossed a line with the politician so he managed to carefully laugh it off and the subject is dropped. Anakin rides on the back of a Shaak, the cow-like, potato-shaped grazing animals of Tatooine and falls off. He tricks Padme into believing that he is injured for a moment and laughs at her and she playfully hits him several times when she realizes that he was not hurt at all. The two roll down a hill together, the responsibilities of the real and adult world, for the moment, being all but forgotten.

Anakin and Padme eat dinner together and then go and sit by a fire when it becomes dark out. Anakin then finally professes his love to her (he never actually says "I love you"- this is a portrayl, in my opinion, of his fear of loving and being hurt) and says that the thought of a life without her made him not be able to breathe. Padme seems a bit taken aback by this but doesn't quite seem surprised and even implies that she may share those feelings but says that they live in a real world where a relationship between a Jedi and anyone, much less a Senator, could ever work. He proposes that they could keep it a secret but Padme regretfully says that she cannot live a lie and Anakin finally returns to the mature side of himself and agrees that their love, if continued, would destroy them.



Anakin professing his love to Padme

That night Anakin has a prophetic-like nightmare about his mother and the next day he informs Padme that he feels that he has no choice but to go and try to help her. Padme agrees that she will go with him even though the pair of them were supposed to stay on Naboo.

When they arrive on Tatooine they go to Mos Espa, Anakin's home and find Watto- Anakin's former master. When Anakin asks about where Shmi (his mother) Watto informs him that he sold her years ago and having compassion for the "child" he helped raise he goes through his records and helps Anakin find the last known location of his mother.

Anakin and Padme go on a trek to a place on the outskirts of another town called Mos Eisley where they go to "the homestead" (which would later be home to Luke) of Cliegg Lars. Lars had married Anakin's mother but about a month ago Shmi had been kidnapped by a band of Tusken Raiders. After some diliberation, inspite of the hopelessness of the situation Anakin decides he must go and try to save Shmi. Padme hugs him and he leaves across the desert plains of Tatooine.

He reaches his mother just barely in time to say goodbye before she dies. When he returns with Shmi's body he tearfully admits to Padme that in his anger that he completely wiped out the Tusken village. Not only the Tusken men, but the women and the children too. Padme, however disturbed by this, tries to be understanding and tells him that to be angry is to be human. He responds that he is a Jedi and that he knows he is better than the anger that engulfs him and he cries out his grief while Padme tries to console him. The Lars family, Anakin and Padme hold a funeral for Shmi and Anakin says goodbye to his mother and tells her that he won't fail again. That he will become stronger for her.

R2-D2 shows up at that point and explains to C-3PO, who at that point still lived on the homestead (he had belonged to Shmi) that he has a message from an Obi-Wan Kenobi for Anakin. Padme and Anakin venture back to the ship and do as Obi-Wan requested and eventually determine that they must travel to Geonosis, a nearby planet, to help Obi-Wan because they feel that those on Coruscant, so far away, could never get there in time. C-3PO goes with R2-D2 and Anakin and he and the little R2 unit are never seperated for very long after that.

When they reach Geonosis Padme tells Anakin to let her do the talking, that as a Senator of the Republic that she may be able to reach a diplomatic solution to ensure Obi-Wan's safety. He says that he won't argue, that he'd given up trying to argue with her. The pair end up in a droid factory and are, in the end, captured by Geonosian guards. R2-D2 shares their fate but C-3PO, on the other hand, ends up getting his body and head seperated, each getting adjoined to the opposite part of a battle droid.

Anakin and Padme are sentences to be executed in a gladiator-like setting and just before they are wheeled off to the arena Padme, seeing that their lives are probably about to end, confesses the fact that she does love Anakin and that she wanted him to know before they died. She thought that even though in the "real world" their love would destroy them, that it was better for him to know since they were about to be destroyed anyway.

Obi-Wan, they find, is also in the arena. He repremands them for coming and Anakin says that they were just trying to rescue them. "Good job," is Obi-Wan's pithy reply.

They all, including R2-D2 manage to escape the blows of the viscous Geonosian animals, Padme being the only one of the three with an injury (a rather sizeable gash in her back). This starts the first battle of The Clone Wars and the Jedi Council, along with the newly formed clone Army of the Republic show up and "save the day".

In the end of the movie Obi-Wan seems happy, when talking to Mace Windu and Yoda, that they won the battle. Yoda tells him that celebration is not called for, that The Clone Wars had only just begun...
When asked where his Padawan is he informs them that he was escorting Padme back to Naboo...

While in Naboo Anakin and Padme marry in a secret ceremony, witnessed only by a single Holy Man, R2-D2 and C-3PO.



Perhaps giving into their love was the right thing to do, for them. But their love, because of the compromised environment where it developed, would have far reaching effects that in a sense, would never end.

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Star Wars:
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith



Anakin Skywalker (age 22-23)
Padme (Naberrie) Amidala (Skywalker) (age 26-27)



Anakin and Padme are now secretly married, Anakin actually living with Padme in her apartment on Coruscant. The only one who is even somewhat aware of this arrangement is presumably Obi-Wan Kenobi who "doesn't ask and doesn't tell" for the sake of his friends. If Anakin's marriage to Padme was found out he could be exciled from the Order or worse.

When he returns from defeating Count Dooku, having decapitated the man at Palpatine's subtle urging, Padme quietly informs him that she is pregnant. Though it isn't obvious with all her regal Senate-attire when she is at home and in her nightgown her pregnancy is quite obvious. He expresses his frustrating with having to hide their love, their marriage and not beign able to share their news with anyone.



Very shortly after returning home Anakin begins having nightmares about Padme much like the ones he had about his mother. He dreams that Padme will die in childbirth and spends many nights sleepless at the thought of his lover and best friend dying... He goes to Yoda in his distress and carefully asks Yoda about what to do without revealing too much. Yoda, ever serene and thoughtful, tells him that he should not worry about his friend's impending death. That he should be happy for his friend because his friend would be happier when they became one with the Force. To Anakin, ever passionate (a fault in Jedi) about those he cares about, this is the very last thing he wants to hear.

At some point his suspicions about Chancellor Palpatine that had slowly begun to grow take a dark turn and he finds out that Palpatine is in fact the Sith Lord the Jedi had been looking for. It is his intent to turn the Sith Lord in to the Jedi Council but Palpatine stops him by telling him that he knows about Padme and knows a way to stop her from dying. Anakin, desperately trying to hold onto his ideals, but also his reason for breath, leaves.

Anakin eventually ends up back in Palpatine's office. If I recall correctly (my mind is fallable) to tell Palpatine that he was not going to follow him. But much to his dismay he discovers none other than Mace Windu trying to assasinate the newly found out Sith Lord. Anakin, having an attachment to Palpatine and being very confused turns on Mace and defends the elderly Sith. In the end Mace dies in the battle and this is Anakins "point of no return". Palpatine, also known in the dark world as Darth Sidious, dubs Anakin Darth Vader. And slowly the Anakin Skywalker his friends knew and love starts to be no more...

Obi-Wan, in desperation when he cannot find Anakin goes to Padme's apartment to ask about his whereabouts. She lies and says that she does not know, fearing for her husband. Then Obi-Wan tells her the painful and dark truth, that Anakin has been seduced, and is being seduced further by the power of the Dark Side and that he killed most of the Jedi Council, and all of the Younglings. Padme, in a state of disbelief still can't really bring herself to say anything. Obi-Wan finally questions her about whether or not Anakin is "the father" [of her yet unborn child(ren)]. She admits it and he apologises to her sincerely that things are turning out so poorly for her and Anakin.


Padme learns the truth...

She goes in her own ship to the volcanic planet (I can't remember which at the moment) where she knows Anakin to be. He seems very happy to see her, almost like his usual self, but there is a dark, yellowed, emptiness in his eyes. Padme pleads with him, tries to talk sense to him, and though he seems to be understanding her he tries to convince her that he could control the Dark Side and not let it control him. That it would allow him to protect her. That the horrible things he'd done were necessary. That he plans to kill the Emperor when the Senate is dissolved and that he can rule the galaxy in a way that they [he and Padme] deem best.

Broken-hearted, seeing the remnants of the person she love fade into the background Padme protests bitterly. He tries to calm her and is being quite angered by her resistence and it seems that perhaps he might finally realize the wrong of what he is doing until Obi-Wan, fearing for Padme and his former Padawan, comes out of the ship. Anakin assumes that Padme brought Obi-Wan there to ambush him, when in fact she was just as surprised as he was, and becomes extremely angry and begins to "force-choke" his pregnant wife. She still, through rasping breaths, pleads with him, telling him that she loves him.

Obi-Wan demands that Anakin let her go and Anakin complies, presumably because some part of him still didn't want to hurt her.

Obi-Wan and Anakin have a long lightsaber duel until finally Obi-Wan gains upperground. He had hoped that by gaining a combatively advantageous stance that he could reason with Anakin but Anakin's anger and inner arrogance got the better of him and he leaps for Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan, rather than inflicting a necessarily fatal blow, severs part of Anakin's legs. (In the restoration surgeries he gains six inches or more to his height due to artificial legs) Anakin declares his hate for Obi-Wan but Obi-Wan only states that he loved Anakin like a brother. Anakin's hate for Obi-Wan, I believe, stemmed from a long building resentment for Obi-Wan that Anakin patiently and quietly harbored for a long time. I do not, however, believe that if Anakin had not turned the Dark Side that he would have ever truly hated Obi-Wan. I'm not even sure that the Anakin we all got to know in the prequals really did hate Obi-Wan. It is my contention that perhaps it was the fact that Anakin was beginning to realize that Obi-Wan was right that he despised so much.

Obi-Wan leaves and Darth Sidious and his minions come and find the physically dying Anakin. They immediately take him and begin performing life-saving surgeries and body alterations.

Meanwhile Padme, still in a state of unconsciousness, is taken to a place called Polis Massa- an asteroid used in the final hours of what remained of the Republic as it had previously been known, as a refuge for the remaining band of Loyalists. Namely: Padme, Obi-Wan, Yoda and Senator Bail Organa and their medical staff.

Padme gives birth to two healthy babies and names them respectively (Luke and Leia). Once she holds each of them briefly and sees that they are all right she seems to more and more give up her fight to live. She does not, however, actually die of complications directly related to child birth. She actually dies of a real medical condition called stress cardiomyopathy.

For more information on the medical condition look here:
Stress Cardiomyopathy

For more information on Polis Massa look here:
Star Wars planets O-Q ~ Polis Massa

Her last words to Obi-Wan are about the fact that she knows that there is still good in him [Anakin]. Quite charitable and genuinely loving considering the darkest part of his soul was implemental in what caused her to die.


Another Livejournal Icon. If you know who made it tell me. Anyway, it's Padme's funeral procession overlayed with Anakin and Padme's first kiss... sad, I know.

It is decided that the twins should be seperated for their safety so that they do not fall into the hands of the Sith. Luke is taken to Owen and Beru Lars, Anakin's step-brother and sister-in-law. Leia is adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and his wife.

When Anakin awakes after his surgeries, now in full Darth Vader wardrobe and about six inches taller, and having come out of his rage immediately asks where Padme is. The new "Emperor"- Palpatine, informs Anakin that his beloved wife, is unfortunately, dead. Anakin screams "No!" and shatters virtually everything in the room. It was at that point, I believe, that the Darth Vader we know from IV-VI begins to try to purge what is left of the old Anakin Skywalker, since the memories of that life are too painful and distracting and that the Emperor, though in a sense Anakin blames him, is the only thing Anakin has left of that world... that world that is no more.

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In summation...


Anakin and Padme's relationship from its beginning was wrought with dificulty. The most amazing thing about it was that it survived throughout all of it until its bitter end. In a sense, it is my opinion, that their love lived on in an intangible way and that,  even though in some ways it destroyed them and the "world" (i.e. their environment) as they knew it and loved it, it actually was the reason that the Sith did not completely triumph. The reason I believe this is that if not for their love several things would have happened. First of all Luke and Leia never would have existed to bring their father back from the Dark Side. Second, had Padme not been the initial reason Anakin even considered turning to the Dark Side it might have been for an all together darker purpose and even less of the kind boy he had once been would have remained some 25 years later.

Padme's name is in a sense foreshadowing to her destiny, intwined with Anakin's.

Padme is derived from a Hindi name/word "Padma" which refers to the lotus flower, which, in many of the Indus Valley religions, such as Hinduism and Bhuddism is associated with purity, rebirth, resurrection and cycles. All of these are extremely recurrent themes in Star Wars as a whole.

Amidala, Padme's regent (chosen when she began to rule) name was also derived from a Hindi word- Mandala, which is primarily used in chants or prayers. As I understand it, it refers to something very similar to the "principle of the yin and the yang" and refers to the merging, intertwining, meshing or reacting of two opposite or opposing energies. Example of this in Anakin and Padme's relationships are their quite opposite native climates, their political views, their walks of life, etc.

Interestingly enough Padme's first "queen constume" was based on some sort of Mongolian royal attire (I know, someone actually wore that thing by choice...) however, the landscape of Naboo was heavily influenced by the more lush areas of Italy.

The amulet which Anakin carved for Padme as a little boy was also present with her during her funeral procession. A symbol of a love that, in spite of all other things passing away, never truly dies.

I also think that Darth Vader's entire legacy, even if indirectly, was tied to Padme. If you'll notice, after he found out that Luke was his son he never actually tried to kill him but rather tried to get him to turn to the dark side. I'm of the opinion that perhaps even though the Darth Vader "side" had the intention to turn Luke to the Dark Side strictly for ambitious purposes, that perhaps what was left of the "real" and "good" Anakin felt that if he hadn't been strong enough to resist the Dark Side that no one was, and that perhaps they shouldn't even try... After all, sticking with the "good" side had destroyed the only woman he ever loved... (heh, or knew for that matter)

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