watching a trainwreck in slow motion: the fic
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I Am The Flame by ourple_man
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
12 Sep 2025
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The first time the thought I love him enters Padmé’s mind, they’re sitting in the grass she played in as a little girl. She tells him how difficult it is to get the other senators to listen, and Anakin says, unflinching, “then they should be made to.”
She doesn’t agree with him. There’s something a little disturbing about it. Padmé has been a defender of justice for most of her life, even despite the futility of it; she knows that forcing your way never helps and runs counter to what she believes in.
But sometimes it’s frustrating, working with her own colleagues who see the same shit she sees, day in and day out, people starving, problems like slavery and child sex rings and spice addiction get ignored; as they see that and do nothing. It’s frustrating to devote herself to justice in the galaxy, and to feel at times like she’s the only one who cares.AKA the Padmé thesis - why it makes perfect sense that someone like her would fall in love with Anakin Skywalker, and devote herself to the Republic, even while something rotten was growing inside both of them.