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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Breha Organa & Darth Vader Characters: Breha Organa, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, Darth Vader Finds Out Leia Organa is Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker’s Child, Good Parents Bail Organa and Breha Organa, POV Breha Organa, BAMF Breha Organa, Disability, Planet Alderaan (Star Wars), Darth Vader is a Disaster, Darth Vader Has Issues, Darth Vader’s Suit is a Medical Abomination, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Holding Oneself Hostage, Expecting to Die, Force Mind Reading (Star Wars), Force Choking (Star Wars), Character Study, That One Conversation You Wish Canon Had, Darth Vader’s Mommy Issues, Mommy Issues Summary:

As a new moon hangs over Alderaan, Darth Vader comes to Breha Organa to discuss the matter of Princess Leia.

“Let us imagine a daughter of Padmé Amidala,” Breha offers. A peace offering. “A daughter of the Emperor’s most beloved martyr. How could such a girl, if she did exist, ever grow out of that shadow? Would it not be cruel to raise her under such… public scrutiny?”

Vader doesn’t answer. His harsh, rasping breath fills the inches between them. Breha’s pulmonodes work silently, glowing in her chest, warmer and fuller than the harsh pinpricks of his suit. There are pleasing aesthetics to be had in refusing to submit to flesh. Useful ones.

Vader takes a step back, folds his hands behind him. The menace of him still fills the room, but it’s his own attempt at a peace offering. As much as violence begets violence, peace begets peace just the same. Whether that will be enough to survive this encounter remains to be seen. How fortunate for Breha that she has already made her peace with death.

“Why was I not informed?” Vader asks.

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“I’m probably not saying that correctly”/“sorry for my pronunciation” = 👍 understandable! foreign languages often have sounds that aren’t used in English and learning to correctly pronounce unfamiliar phonemes is genuinely difficult even with help

“lol I’m not even gonna TRY to pronounce that 😂” = 👎 THIS is the problem, if treats languages other than English like they are inherently ‘weird’ or ‘overly complicated’ just because you aren’t familiar with them

and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.

and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth