#If we're going in this route I also imagine that she'd divorce Anakin at some point

[revenge-of-the-shit]

It's comforting to read fix-it fics where Padmé becomes Chancellor and fixes everything but these also miss part of the point. Palpatine didn't come to political power by himself. He rose to it, as she said, with thunderous applause. There were millions and millions of people out there who were in power who were complicit in the corruption of the Senate. It would be so, so interesting (and also so devastating and uncomfortably familiar) to see a story where Padmé becomes Chancellor and nothing changes at all beyond some surface level policies because she's surrounded by a body that refuses to do anything. If anything, some of the policies she'd pass would actively harm marginalized groups out of ignorance, given how she lives and breathes privilege and has no lived experience with what said groups go through.

#Star wars #Sw #Sheev Palpatine #Padme Amidala #I do not trust her to treat the clones justly #She'd be a Chancellor who's well meaning and highly educated in socioeconomics and political theory but she would not at all have #The lived experience that many in a lower class do have #If we're going in this route I also imagine that she'd divorce Anakin at some point #Everybody likes to say he'd be a good father and I like reading those fluffy fics #But let's be real #Canon Anakin even pre-Vader was possessive and toxic #And then Vader is a whole other bag #The last time I made a post about this someone got mad that I called Anakin evil and I'm like #Honey I love him as a character but you have missed every single movie if you don't think he's evil #For a very large part of his life #Corrupt Chancellor padme AU #Tagging that so I can remember all my thoughts on this