things that are fun about AUs where shmi lives
in the immediate clone wars group, literally the only people who have ever experienced having a mother are anakin and padme, and insofar as either of them thought about shmi, i think obi-wan and ahsoka default to thinking of her as a kind of jedi master. so obi-wan’s been imagining shmi as anakin’s qui-gon, and ahsoka’s been imagining - hilariously - anakin having an older anakin. i’m pretty sure if ahsoka ever tried to imagine shmi, her intuition from the force would just completely abandon her, and the most she can imagine is a blonde woman that looks vaguely like anakin, inexplicably has a matching scar and also bitches a lot. imagine her surprise when shmi is tiny, dark-haired, and fairly reserved. imagine shmi’s overwhelming lack of surprise when anakin’s like hi, mom, i have a padawan, she’s orange, do you see her?? do you SEE???? because baby anakin had a bit of a habit of picking up lost things, i think. shmi might actually be more surprised that someone had to assign ahsoka to anakin.
obi-wan’s penciled her in as a qui-gon figure, so that means he’s layering on the respect, but also meeting the only other person in the galaxy that was ever responsible for anakin skywalker is no doubt a confusing time. because, for one thing, anakin will do whatever she says exactly when she says it, something obi-wan never managed, so he’s jealous. for another thing, they’re very visibly attached, and as much as obi-wan might cluck about the code he is (internally) hung up on his former padawan, and he also wants to be visibly attached, so he’s jealous. obi-wan’s the only idiot in the galaxy who can work himself into no less than four spiritual dilemmas, an identity crisis, and multiple fits of insecurity over the great trial of wanting to give his former padawan a hug. obi-wan kenobi is the ONLY motherfucker who can lay face down on the floor, utterly trapped beneath the weight of his existential crisis, over wanting to give his former padawan a hug. for another another thing, obi-wan’s slotted shmi into a qui-gon role, so imagine his surprise when shmi is like, actually a good mother, i have the strongest image of obi-wan just gesturing helplessly at shmi and anakin having a normal conversation, normally, and shmi listens to anakin’s points and considers them, and obi-wan’s like WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
rex calling her “miss, uh, miss, uh, miss….. general” and listen, he logistically knows how children come to be, he’s not stupid, but when he asks about a father anakin’s like oh, uh, don’t, don’t - don’t have one of those, unless you count obi-wan, but obi-wan doesn’t count obi-wan so we can’t count obi-wan. and now rex is trying to figure out that inscrutable statement, because he has no idea if anakin’s talking about his feelings, or if he’s being literal, and that was a genuine thing that was up in the air for a bit. also, shmi does the mom thing where she licks her thumb to rub dirt off of rex’s face, and rex goes cross-eyed trying to track the movement because he’s so confused.
any scenario where shmi lives and she’s still married to cliegg and owen is her stepson will, undoubtedly, spawn anakin trying to compete with owen for the right to his mother’s love, and also anakin trying (and failing) to navigate the following; jealousy directed at owen because owen shares living space with his mother, guilt that he wasn’t the one to free his own mother, the childhood trauma seeing his mother again drags up, fear that his mother doesn’t love him more than owen, the distinct and irrepressible urge to make sure cliegg is actually worthy of his mother’s love up to and including challenging cliegg to a lightsaber duel, and also the reckoning that ignoring the attachment part of the code requires. while anakin is having fits of melodrama and angst, owen is just sitting on the bench. anakin is having five meltdowns about owen’s existence and owen’s just like, doing his thing in the background.
any scenario where shmi lives requires her to reconcile the fact that her sweet baby boy has taken on a lot of new personality traits, a not insignificant portion of them being directly related to his all-consuming emotional issues that clearly have just ran unchecked. shmi has to figure out that her son is kind of an asshole now. sometimes he flies into blind rages and breaks things. he’s also really good at murder. all of this is distressing information, and then it’s topped off by the fact that shmi is now present for the emotional clusterfuck of a tire fire that is obi-wan and anakin’s entire relationship, and then it’s further topped off by the fact that anakin’s now passed along no less than seventeen emotional clusterfucks on to his padawan. i think the image of shmi and obi-wan locked in a room while shmi is like WHAT DID YOU DO and obi-wan’s got his face in his hands like I DON’T KNOW HOW I WORK HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW CHILDREN WORK
padme’s the person here with the least amount of damage in this arena
padme, sipping blue milk: what a lovely home :)
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