#this is my secret “Shmi will marry any man to mother his child” agenda

[this-acuteneurosis]

my dumb brain had a dont look back prompt of Obi going hey Leia fake marry me so I can adopt all the clones and get legal case on the citizenship, and hell throw in Anakin and Padme into it and now the crack thought wont leave me alone. Like I know that legally its too chancy a concept but various fake marriage for legal nonsense are in my brain. fake relationship turning real / legal shenanigans. also that Lando 36 marriages to mess with tax nonsense so everyone in a convoluted marriage chain.

Friend, if we're talking fake marriage/legal nonsense, you're sleeping on the best one.

Shmi Skywalker hunts down Jango Fett, drags him before the nearest legal authority, names him the father of her one million children, and gets them married so she can have custody of all of them, including Boba. The entire GAR are now citizens of Naboo. So is Jango. Palpatine is having daily fights with Queen Jamillia over the legality of it all and we must have our army back. Jango is fending off assassins that are coming after his new wife, not because he likes her or appreciates her interfering in his business, but because if he lets her die it's a professional smear he will never be able to live down.

Leia, Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan are all enraged. Jango cannot be in the Skywalker clan. He has committed Offenses against them.

Shmi is undeterred. It is his penance. She is looking after her boys.

(She and Plo work out shared custody of the 104th. Eventually.)

#this works because there is no centralized authority on Tatooine to recognize marriages except the Hutts #Shmi and Cliegg's marriage was considered valid in their local community on the basis of they said so #But neither one of them was getting married with the blessing of a Hutt #also Shmi does not care about bigamy laws #she's indifferent to Republic law except where it suits her #a true Skywalker maverick #this is my secret “Shmi will marry any man to mother his child” agenda #just wait until she realizes unsupervised Jedi on away missions can be subject to local planetary law