#child Leia organa

[susanoosama01]

Snips and SkyBabies!

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[musewrangler]

The blast doors hissed open and they entered the Atrium where Piett paused momentarily, and Veers thus observed his first moments on the Lady’s bridge.

He was a true naval man, Veers reflected watching those keen hazel eyes take in everything eagerly. Veers himself was happiest when leading campaigns on solid ground, but he’d observed the navy enough to see the difference between those there merely for the job and those who were there for their ship.

Piett confirmed he was very much the latter when he reached a gloved hand to gently touch the nearest bulkhead before he recalled himself and glanced to Veers, a little color on his cheekbones.

“She’s ah…” he said, clearing his throat a little. “Her design is beautiful.”

Veers found himself wanting to grin at the slighter man, but this was neither the time nor the place. And then Venka was hurrying over to introduce himself.

[debbie-anniversary]

Smooth Gelato | Star Wars, Anakin x Padmé

Summary: Anakin and Padmé take their children out for a small sweet treat.

Word Count: 743

No Warnings Apply

A/N: This is entirely a fluff piece that I felt a small urge to write and originally posted to my AO3 account since we don't get to see Anakin and Padmé interacting with their children in canon. (A huge, darn shame if you ask me.)

Albeit my first story with these characters, I hope I did them justice. Please feel free to let me know your thoughts and check out my other work. Thank you very much for reading! ~~ Debbie Anniversary xx 💙

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"You really wanted to order the same thing as me?" Anakin regarded Padmé from across the table, his eyes reflecting a brief seriousness before softening into a tender smile.

She returned the expression, steadily losing herself in his dark eyes and admiring how his wavy hair perfectly framed his face.

"If I hadn't, I would've been jealous," she laughed softly.

Anakin's smile grew a little wider. He started to reach across the table to gather her hand up in his when running footsteps approached the booth.

Luke and Leia, returning from the bathroom, squeezed in on either side of their parents. Anakin squirmed as Luke, struggling to get comfortable, pushed him towards the window. Meanwhile, Leia opposite gently crawled up next to her mother, who was laughing at the display across from them. Anakin smiled awkwardly as he ruffled Luke's hair just as the waitress stopped by with a metal tray heavy with four glass dishes.

"All righty, I have two orders of Bantha milk gelato, one chocolate ice cream, and one raspberry sherbet."

The two little ones stared wide-eyed as she placed the sweets before them.

"Thank you," Anakin and Padmé said in unison to the waitress as she departed then locked eyes with each other again.

Without hesitation, Luke and Leia respectively dug into their desserts of chocolate and sherbet. Anakin picked up his spoon, twirling it effortlessly through the air as he watched Padmé scoop up a small bit of her frozen Bantha milk.

After that first bite passed her lips, Anakin reached over to mess with his wife, trying to take a large scoop out of her bowl for himself. Padmé knocked her spoon against his several times, fighting him off as she laughed at him.

Leia stopped with her sherbet hovering in mid-air and her mouth slightly agape in surprise as she observed them. Meanwhile, Luke on the opposite side cheered his father on with chocolate smeared across his face.

Anakin eventually succeeded and ate his spoils with a stupid, cheeky grin. Padmé immediately returned the favor as her husband tried to go for Luke's ice cream next, with the latter turning away from him and guarding his bowl with an acute whine.

Leia remained rather quiet throughout their shenanigans, then she glanced between her dessert and her father.

"You can have some of mine, Da," she said as she moved her sherbet closer to him.

Anakin met her eyes and was about to decline when Padmé encouraged him with a discrete nod towards Leia, who beamed at him with a tiny smile.

"Thank you, my little moon," he said as he took the smallest of spoonfuls from her bowl.

Luke saw this and quickly shoved his ice cream back towards his father, not wanting to be left out.

"Try some of mine too!" he suddenly demanded.

Anakin let out a hearty laugh, and Padmé joined him. A sense of bliss emanated from their table as the mirth from all four lifted in the air, spreading through the ice cream parlor like the soft radiating light from twin burning suns.

The evening soon drew to a close. They finished their ice cream and gathered their things, stepping outside into the crisp air. Luke and Leia raced each other from the front entrance to the tiny starship parked in the distance. Anakin started to follow them, but Padmé held him back with a slight tug of his arm. A soft beep chirped through the night as she unlocked the cargo bay door for the two little ones charging ahead of them. As the hatch slid open to the asphalt, Padmé wrapped a hand around the back of Anakin's neck, briefly catching him off guard.

His hands found her hips as her touch sent faint, rippling shivers through him. Her delicate fingers danced on the nape of his neck before entangling themselves in his hair. She rubbed her nose against his, a thin breeze slipping between them before her mouth pressed to his, quickly but deeply kissing him under the black expanse sparkling with tiny diamonds. She pulled away and met his smile as her fingers entwined with his. Together, they sauntered over to the starship with little Luke and Leia scampering up the ramp. The little ones paused only for a moment on the incline to wave back to their parents, calling for them to hurry as they moved through the lot. Two dark silhouettes framed by shimmering starlight.

[ooowyn]

this was a prompt on discord and i was like yep. i'm drawing it.

[aviyx]

leia when lukes chatting to the ghost of their dead dad and his dead mentors

[antianakin]

I hope this doesn't come off as a knock on the Jedi - because that's sure as hell not my intention - but I do sometimes wonder what could convince a parent to hand their young child over to them. Like, I get that the number of Jedi is miniscule compared to the expected population of the galaxy, and this whole ask is likely just the result of my modern, western, nuclear family-based upbringing. But there are times when I can barely see such a thing happening at all. I mean, if you're a Jedi Seeker, what the hell are you supposed to say to get a mother to willingly give you her infant child?

Again, I do hope this doesn't come off as a knock on the Jedi and their methods.

Maybe consider that the Jedi never seem to be actively going out there trying to convince people into giving up their children. They primarily seem to discover children on their own or who are in bad situations, or the parents call THEM of their own volition and the Jedi simply respond to the call.

You can also look at TPM and the way Qui-Gon handles it with Shmi. Now obviously Shmi and Anakin are in a somewhat different situation than most, given that they're both slaves, which would probably make Shmi's reaction to the offer different than those of regular parents, but Qui-Gon treats her as an equal to himself and as an authority regarding Anakin. He respects that authority by speaking to SHMI before he speaks to Anakin, by asking Shmi different questions about Anakin's past and his powers. And it's Shmi who picks up on what Qui-Gon is carefully NOT saying and asks if Anakin could become a Jedi. And that question lets Qui-Gon know that Shmi isn't against the offer being made to Anakin, so when he makes it official, he speaks to ANAKIN directly. But even after that, he still seems to respect Shmi's authority and her place in Anakin's life when Anakin turns to her more than once.

Shmi seems to primarily just want a better life for Anakin. Even without the slavery situation, she seems to recognize that Anakin's abilities mean that he has the opportunity for a specific career path if he wants it and she chooses to give him that opportunity because she never wants to hold him back. She recognizes that it would be cruel to deny him the opportunity simply to keep him with her.

So it's possible some parents probably view it the same way, that they're giving their child the opportunity for a better life than the one they can offer themselves.

Other parents, like Ahsoka's, seem to view being a Jedi as something of an honor. Even though they CAN give Ahsoka a good life, they recognize that Ahsoka has perhaps a greater destiny that they shouldn't stand in the way of and are HAPPY when Ahsoka shows signs of Force sensitivity. It's not just an honor for Ahsoka, it's an honor for her family and the entire village that she has the opportunity to become a Jedi. The other thing to take into account with this scenario is that the Jedi are sort-of seen as following a call to destiny of sorts, and there appear to be communities who understand that better than most, which means they're likely more inclined to let their child follow that call if the signs make themselves apparent. Groups with their own Force sects (like Lasat, Kel Dor, Chalacatans, etc) might be some of the ones more likely to understand this, which is why we see some of them with multiple family members in the Order at the same time.

These seem to be the most likely options for why a parent might give their child to the Jedi even if they love the child and would otherwise want to keep and raise them. There are also likely some parents who simply don't WANT a Force sensitive child for whatever reason, or parents who just take the first opportunity to offload an unwanted child when it presents itself. Not every parent is a good one, obviously.

I've seen some people argue that Force sensitivity might be something very difficult for a non-Force sensitive parent to deal with, and so they give the child away because they ultimately decide that they cannot appropriately raise a child with powers they cannot control. I don't really buy into this one because neither Luke nor Leia are raised by Force sensitive parents and there doesn't seem to be any issues with control there that we ever see or hear about. But it's POSSIBLE a parent might believe that they couldn't manage a child with Jedi powers and give them up on that assumption, even if it isn't true.

So, yeah, there could be any number of reasons a parent might choose to give their child to the Jedi, even if they love the child and would otherwise want to raise them. It isn't a choice that's going to be for everyone, obviously, and the Jedi have an entire list of people who have either said no or maybe/not yet that they keep in the Temple as a record. So some parents DO say no and choose to raise their children on their own even if the opportunity to give their child to the Jedi is made available to them. Or they simply need time to make the decision or want a little extra time WITH the child before giving them to the Jedi even if they know that that's ultimately what they're going to do.

I don't think the Jedi ever say anything to "get" a parent to give up a child they love. That's never their goal. Qui-Gon talks to Shmi about what Anakin's powers are and how they work, he tells her what her options are, and then leaves the rest of it up to her. All he does is give her more information to work with and an opportunity to act on it if she so desires. That's it. I can't imagine any other Jedi doing any more than that unless the situation between the parent and the child was particularly dangerous somehow and even then, I imagine there are lines they'd try not to cross. The whole episode where we see Cad Bane pretending to be a Jedi in order to convince the parents to give up their children shows us that the parents really DON'T expect the Jedi to do this kind of thing and feel perfectly entitled to say no when it happens.

It's not a choice every parent is going to make, and that's fine. It's not a choice that everyone even needs to UNDERSTAND, necessarily. Different people are going to have different ideas of what's best for their child and how to go about providing that. One parent might feel like giving their child away IS the best thing they can do for their child, even if they could give that child a wonderful life. Another parent might feel like that's the worst thing they could do to their child, even if their situation isn't ideal. These parents are likely to never understand the decision the other one made, but they're making decisions out of the same desire to protect and care for their child. Both are entirely valid choices and there isn't necessarily a right or wrong choice in this situation and that's what the Jedi would understand. All they're there to do is offer information and the opportunity to both parent and child, nothing more, nothing less. What the parent (and the child if they're old enough) does with that is entirely up to them.

[mmelolabelle]

or; amidst all the horror and trauma of Anakin Skywalker’s relationship with Leia Organa, the most tragic terrible thing might be the way their lives echo one another

[varpusvaras]

Fox, in some social gathering he, Bail and Breha were invited to: So...I know I'm here because I'm married to these two, and Cody is here because Kenobi is here, but why are you here again?

Rex: Because these two are here *points to Anakin and Padmé*

Fox: Are you guys like. You know.

Rex: ..........honestly I am not sure, but at this point, I'm in way too deep to leave

Fox: What do you mean by that?

Rex: Observe

Luke and Leia, running up to Padmé: Mom! Can we go and-

Padmé: Oh, you need to ask your father

Luke and Leia, running to Anakin: Dad! Can we go and-

Anakin: Oh, um. Did you already ask your mom?

Luke and Leia: Yes, and she said to ask you!

Anakin: Okay, uh. Go ask Rex if you can go?

Luke and Leia, running up to Rex: Rex! Can we go and-

Rex: No, you'll die and break your legs. Now sit down for a moment and have some juice

Fox: ....oh.

Rex: Yeah.

Fox: This might be a problem

Rex: You don't say

[tarisilmarwen]

Jedi June: Comfort

@jedijune

[hildechainx]

*continuation (sort of) to my some AU idk*

Obi-wan: Oh Leia, he's beautiful! What's your name little guy?

Leia: We named him Ben, Ben Solo

Obi-wan, tearing up: *gasp* awww

Maul: wow okay, I changed your diaper too you know

[susanoosama01]

Fascinated

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[musewrangler]

Piett hated feeling useless.

“You are though, darling, at the moment,” his wife informed him sweetly.

He couldn’t help the laugh even though it caused healing tissue to pull painfully.

“Thank you so much for that, Sola…”

She grinned and paused in putting away the breakfast dishes to come and place a kiss on the top of his head.

“Remarkably, if you rest as ordered, you heal faster. Shocking I know.”

He sighed, but silently acknowledged that she was correct. While his wound was healing very well now, the blood loss had left him quite tired and Dr. Jax was adamant that he be made to take it easy.

He thus had three tyrants doing just about everything but sit on him in order to achieve that goal.

[galacticwildfire]

Thinking about how Bail Organa adopted Leia probably thinking 'thank god we'll get the miniature Padmé while Obi-Wan can go for round two training a little Anakin' only to realise he's the one who got the kid with Padmé's stubbornness and determination but Anakin's attitude and temperament

[vertigoartgore]

Star Wars Galaxy 4, Young Obi-Wan Kenobi & Baby Princess Leia (1995). Art by Kevin Nowlan.

Han P (Comic Art Fans) : This Kevin Nowlan painting titled "A Child of Destiny" was originally commissioned by Topps for their Star Wars Galaxy trading card series back in the mid 1990's. It was most likely intended for the Star Wars Galaxy III series (1995). After more than a decade later in 2009, Topps brought SW Galaxy back with series IV and this art became part of the "Lost Galaxy" subset featuring artworks that were previously rejected by Lucasfilm for various reasons. 

Here's Nowlan's quote from his website post dated July 31, 2009 about this art: "The card was published recently, years after it was rejected for content. I picked it from a list of subjects supplied by Topps and (I would assume) approved by Lucasfilm. But after I did the painting, they rejected it because Lucas was about to start the new movies and didn't want anyone dealing with material that he was going to cover in the prequels. Glad they finally changed their minds."

[merrysithmas]

the sheer.... lack of official media exploration of leia organa's character is mind boggling. where is her show/movie/major arc/introspection/character studies/other acquaintances ffs

[lizartgurl]

It struck me that whilst I obsess over Leia getting Padme's dresses, I should also be as equally excited about her wearing Breha's dresses as well.