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padmé; from padma, or lotus flower, another name/symbol of the hindu goddess lakshmi

pooja; (padmé’s niece) means ‘prayer’ or ‘an act of worship’, usually associated with hinduism

ahsoka; most likely inspired by the indian emperor ashoka

aayla; a turkish muslim name which means ‘a ring of light around the moon’

barriss; turkish in origin, means “peace”

smhi; most likely a form of the name lakshmi, a hindu goddess

shaak ti; from the name ‘shakti’, an Indian name which means “energy”

depa; obviously from the words ‘deepa’ which means “light/lamp”

yoda; possibly from the punjabi word ‘yoddha’, which means “warrior”

jamillia; from ‘jamilla/jameela’, a Muslim name which means “beautiful”

tatooine (planet); literally an actual city in tunisia

mustafar (planet); from the arabic word 'mustafa’, meaning “chosen one”. note the symbolism that darth vader made it his home

jedi; from the arabic 'al-jeddi’, meaning “master of the mystic warrior way”

•vader; Dutch for “father” and German ‘Vater’ also meaning “father”

•naberrie; alternate spelling of Egyptian ‘Nabirye’ meaning “Mother of Twins”

•amidala; of Italian origin meaning “beautiful flower” and also a derivative of ‘Amitabha’ in Buddhism. In Sanskrit it means “Infinite Light” but it has other variants such as Amitayus (meaning “Infinite Life”), Japanese ‘Amida’, Chinese ‘Emituo Fo’.

•luke; from Lucas and multiple origins such as French (meaning Light/laidback), Latin (meaning “Bringer of Light”), Greek (a patron saint) and in English (“the bringer of light”)

•leia; multiple origins such as Hebrew (meaning “weary” but also “child of heaven” and “heavenly flowers”), Assyrian (meaning “mistress”), Latin (meaning “lioness”)

•gungan; derived from ‘Gunga’, one of the seven holy rivers in India

•mandalore; from Sanskrit ‘Mandala’ meaning “circle” and is a spiritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism

•rishi maze; a ‘Rishi’ is a Hindu sage or saint

•sabé or tsabin; possibly a derivative of the Arabic name ‘Sabeen’ which has multiple meanings

•ryoo; (Padmé’s other niece) variant of ‘Ryu’ which is of Japanese origin meaning “dragon”

•sheev (palpatine); from ‘Shiva’ - the Hindu god of destruction and transformation

•réillata; possibly from the Sanskrit name ‘Lata’ meaning “creeper/vine”

•ruwee; (Padmé’s father) from Arabic name ‘Ruhee’ meaning “soul”

•jobal; (Padmé’s mother) possibly from Hebrew ‘Jubal’ which has multiple meanings such as “stream”

•dooku; from Japanese ‘Doku’ meaning “poison”

•saché or sashah; possibly a variant of Russian ‘Sasha’ meaning “defender”, Japanese ‘Sachi’ meaning “blissful/fortunate’ or Indian “Sachi’ meaning “child of wisdom/joy/happiness”

•yané or suyan; from Sanskrit name ‘Suyan’

•rabé or rabene; possibly derived from Sanskrit word ‘Ravi’ meaning “the sun”

•han; originated from many cultures (Chinese, Korean, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Hebrew)

•chewbacca; from Russian ‘Sobaka’ meaning “dog”

•qui-gon jinn; from ‘qi-gong’ meaning “life force” and also a Chinese martial art that involves meditation and controlled exercises. Arabic ‘jinn’ meaning “genie” or spirits in Islamic mythology

•obi-wan kenobi; multiple meanings such as Japanese (a karate or kimono belt), African (meaning heart) and Swahili (meaning soul)

•breha; possibly from Indian/Urdu name ‘Breeha’ meaning “The most beautiful”

It’s like Obi-Wan thinks that it was on the Malevolence that Anakin became a Sith, like he just chose, entirely without duress, to go do that. That Anakin was a Sith all along! For all or RotS!

Padme’s reaction is honestly much more sensible: Anakin wouldn’t do that. I can’t believe that. Anakin cares too much to do something like that unless something horrible has happened. There must be more to this story than Palpatine offered him an apprenticeship and he took it.

People come down so hard on her, but I think Obi-Wan is the crazy one here. Padme’s right to be horrified “you’re going to kill him.” Without even talking to him? Without even finding out what went wrong? Why he’s actually doing this?

This post is nearly ten years old and I still think about this, honestly. Luke has no consciousness of the dangers and pressures in Leia’s life when he’s playing with his toy starship; she’s already had to become what he can only vaguely dream of. But she’s also never had to consider “where is tomorrow’s food and water coming from” to anything like the degree that Luke, Owen, and Beru do every day. Luke and Leia both make sure they’re armed when they leave home because their environments are so dangerous, in completely different ways.

The real Leia would firstly tell incompetent Luke to go home or find something safer to do and not by yelling at him or insulting him, but by informing him in a professional manner that she has evaluated that it would be best for him to sit this one out.

She was a princess for God-sake and a member of the imperial senate, she wasn't just yelling about like an incompetent uncultured fool. She was poised and regal, even when she was insulting imperials, she wasn't kicking and screaming, that's unnecessary and she only kicked and screamed if the situation called for it, she kept her cool A LOT, even more than her allies at many points.

The real Leia did have anger for Anakin but she also had complicated feelings that she eventually came to terms with, she did eventually consider herself as a Skywalker just as much as she was an Organa because she's not dumb enough to think that doing that was an insult to her adopted parents, she's not a moron or a person with such an immature view of family.

The real Leia wasn't always angry and overly sarcastic or short with people (figuratively), she was kind, compassionate and could emphasize with people. She was passionate and stubborn and virtuous.

I've said before that Leia is a forest fire because she is but she's not just that (obviously) but it feels like people only value that part of her personality.

I'm starting to realize in general that people seem to mischaracterize their parents and flanderize the kids. Including flanderize or minimise the importance of the adopted parents/guardians.

Luke is just an infantilized sweetie pie who is completely incompetent, he is either babied by Leia or babied by Han.

Leia is an angry girlboss, who constantly has to fight and defend her position while being a pseudo mom for Luke because for some reason Luke needs to be dumbed down to prove how great she is even though people already recognise her greatness just fine.

Padmé was in it for the sex, hated her relationship with Anakin and was fiercely loyal to the senate. Incompetent, gullible and weak.

Anakin was a dictator since he was nine, he was always bad, was always a danger to everyone around him and should have been put down more by everybody he ever met and never shown love, compassion or understanding because he went from bad to worse.

Uncle Owen was always beefing with Luke and didn't care for him or his safety at all.

Bail and Breha ALWAYS got it right and were completely and utterly perfect in everything they do, no matter what. And the only good parents in all of star wars.

Beru is Beru and she dies eventually, RIP.

And Shmi...is dead, OOPS.

Like the nuance is lost, the characterisation is lost and then they'll call themselves star wars fans. How when it seems you don't understand any of the main players. LIKE AT ALL!!

Not only does it not add anything at all to those characters and dynamics between them, it actively takes away all the established parallels that were deliberately put there by the creators

And then people proceed to act as if this is canon and base their "analysis" off those caricature dynamics they hallucinated up

The real Leia would firstly tell incompetent Luke to go home or find something safer to do and not by yelling at him or insulting him, but by informing him in a professional manner that she has evaluated that it would be best for him to sit this one out.

She was a princess for God-sake and a member of the imperial senate, she wasn't just yelling about like an incompetent uncultured fool. She was poised and regal, even when she was insulting imperials, she wasn't kicking and screaming, that's unnecessary and she only kicked and screamed if the situation called for it, she kept her cool A LOT, even more than her allies at many points.

The real Leia did have anger for Anakin but she also had complicated feelings that she eventually came to terms with, she did eventually consider herself as a Skywalker just as much as she was an Organa because she's not dumb enough to think that doing that was an insult to her adopted parents, she's not a moron or a person with such an immature view of family.

The real Leia wasn't always angry and overly sarcastic or short with people (figuratively), she was kind, compassionate and could emphasize with people. She was passionate and stubborn and virtuous.

I've said before that Leia is a forest fire because she is but she's not just that (obviously) but it feels like people only value that part of her personality.

I'm starting to realize in general that people seem to mischaracterize their parents and flanderize the kids. Including flanderize or minimise the importance of the adopted parents/guardians.

Luke is just an infantilized sweetie pie who is completely incompetent, he is either babied by Leia or babied by Han.

Leia is an angry girlboss, who constantly has to fight and defend her position while being a pseudo mom for Luke because for some reason Luke needs to be dumbed down to prove how great she is even though people already recognise her greatness just fine.

Padmé was in it for the sex, hated her relationship with Anakin and was fiercely loyal to the senate. Incompetent, gullible and weak.

Anakin was a dictator since he was nine, he was always bad, was always a danger to everyone around him and should have been put down more by everybody he ever met and never shown love, compassion or understanding because he went from bad to worse.

Uncle Owen was always beefing with Luke and didn't care for him or his safety at all.

Bail and Breha ALWAYS got it right and were completely and utterly perfect in everything they do, no matter what. And the only good parents in all of star wars.

Beru is Beru and she dies eventually, RIP.

And Shmi...is dead, OOPS.

Like the nuance is lost, the characterisation is lost and then they'll call themselves star wars fans. How when it seems you don't understand any of the main players. LIKE AT ALL!!