star wars headcanon time:
- so mon mothma (based on the ep3 deleted scenes) knew Padme pretty well. and consequently TOTALLY clocked that she was pregnant. she knew. a bunch of senators knew. they never said anything because they respected her privacy.
- however padme was good at keeping her Secret Affairs under wraps so mon mothma had no idea who the father was. she never guessed it might be anakin bcos everyone knows Jedi donāt do stuff like that.
- padme dies suddenly & mysteriously. shortly thereafter bail organa and his wife announce that theyāve adopted a baby girl.Ā
- at the time mon mothma does not think much of this BUT later as leia gets older she begins to resemble padme more and more in both looks & personality and mon mothma is like. hmmm.
- so she draws the natural conclusion.
- padme was having an affair with bail organa! and when she died in childbirth bail quietlyĀ āadoptedā the baby to avoid the scandal.
- mon mothma elects not to say anything about this because itās not really her business and also the past is the past and padme has been. dead for several years at this point and she doesnāt feel like opening that wound back up.
- instead she just, takes leia under her wing.
- anyway! later when a kid w the last name Skywalker who says his dad was a jedi shows up to join the rebellion sheās like. hm.
- she didnāt know anakin well but at the very least she knew OF him and they like, probably met
- so she figures anakin must have fathered a child while he was travelling the galaxy during the clone wars. she never really liked anakin so sheās just likeĀ āhm guess he was a deadbeat dad. canāt say Iām surprised.ā
- she is not aware however that Anakin became Darth Vader so she doesnāt really feel the need to say anything to luke about this. as far as sheās aware luke already knows the truth about his parentage. at most she might be likeĀ āhey I knew your dad a bit, he was a good jedi & a war heroā.
- so as far as mon mothma is concerned, anakin skywalkerās son and padme amidalaās daughter are both fighting for the rebellion. the fact that theyāre the same age is just kind of a coincidence. tatooine uses a different calendar from most planets so she never notices that they literally have the same birthday.
- anyway later Leia is likeĀ āso guess what! luke is my long-lost brother. isnāt that wild?ā
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦.āPADME WAS BANGINGĀ ANAKIN SKYWALKER????ā
(leia: not what I expected you to take from that but. yeah I guess she was.)