So there is a new show on german TV called "The masked singer", its some celebrity in a full body costume complete with mask singing a song and people have to guess who it is. I haven´t really seen it because I have no cable TV and can´t get the TV station its on, but it sounds pretty dumb actually. The costumes however are pretty cool, some of them are as close as you can get to fursuits on mainstream TV. Some of the costumes are featured on posters advertising the show.
The pantress costume is actually pretty hot.
The squrrel costume however is very off looking. Its like Brian Singer made a Savage Squirrel movie.
I still haven't watched the movie but I've seen the Broadway and read the book. Anyway. Wealthy, pretty, charismatic Padmé with her own room suddenly putting up with bitchy loner Asajj for a roommate. They are very gay and very in denial. I guess it's a college AU but I'm not grabbing anything else from Wicked.
I think Anakin and Padme deserve to Stay Besties in any AU that isn't Anidala specifically because their love languages are absolutely buckwild and insane to almost anyone else, but match up to each other pretty perfectly, which means that if they aren't dating each other, they are the exact right person to have egging the other on and enabling whatever unhinged bullshit they're planning on doing in the name of romance.
Anakin thinks he needs to serenade his partner? Padme hires him an orchestra.
Padme wants to meet daringly under the cover of night with her new secret lover because that's the only right way to do it? Anakin is staging a kidnapping for her, zero questions.
Anakin is swooning over how his love interest was kissing him! but it was actually lips-to-leg attempts to suck out the venom of a bad bite (something you're not even actually supposed to do, but hey, the Force slowed his heart down enough that maybe it helped! and he survived anyway, it's fine)? Padme is over the moon for him, that's so romantic!
Their brain cells are so, so allergic to each other. Put them in a room and all common sense flees in the face of "okay, but if I challenge her to a sword fight--"
"Padme you can't challenge a Sith to a sword fight."
"No no, but if I challenge her and then you swoop in for me as my substitute, and I promise a kiss to the winner and you throw the match--"
"Okay I don't want to lose to Ventress but oh my god, I love it."
Move aside, Idiots to Lovers, there's a new ballgame in town!
In Which Anakin's Soulmate is a Lot Like Him, But More, and Worse
(Read on AO3)
My first entry for Anakin Rarepair Week 2022!
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Anakin has a soulmark. Not everyone does, but enough do that it’s a known thing. A little over half of people have one.
His mom doesn’t have a soulmark, and that’s normal, too.
It manifests when he’s five, which is a good thing. Gardulla always burned the soulmarks off her slaves, but Watto doesn’t care enough to bother. It is on the inside of Anakin’s forearm, and he always wraps it in cloth to hide it from everyone except Mom. Soulmarks are complicated, but they aren’t impossible to replicate, and they’re important.
Anakin likes his soulmark. He likes what he imagines it could mean, whenever he thinks about it for a bit.
There is a sword, with a blue-edged, white blade. There is a stylized helmet, with eye holes that come down into an aurebesh Vev, and a paint pattern he can’t even start to try to understand. There’s more to the shape, but Anakin can’t understand the rest. The images are completely unfamiliar to him, some kind of flower on top of some ragged tear, three long up and three short down. The entire thing is in a red and yellow circle, which is simpler, but just as confusing.
Still. He’s pretty sure the sword is a lightsaber, and the helmet is Mandalorian, and if one of them is for him and the other is for his soulmate, then it means something good.
It means he’s getting off Tatooine.
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When he’s nine, Anakin shows his soulmark to Master Qui-Gon Jinn, who gets a very funny look on his face and makes a call a little later. Mom says she’ll talk to him about it, because it might be grown-up stuff like politics, the kind that Anakin doesn’t really understand unless Mom is the one explaining it. Anakin goes to hang out with Padmé instead.
She’s got a soulmark, too. It’s very different from Anakin’s. There are two sabers on hers, one red with a curved hilt, and one yellow with a straight hilt, and the entire set of symbols is overlaid by a set of purple markings that Padmé says she thinks might be tattoos. The rest of the symbols are of Nabooan, or pertaining to Padmé herself.
She’s been told to never show her soulmark, either. Red sabers are symbols of darksiders, and the one time her family had asked a Jedi about it, right after it had formed, they’d been told to stay wary.
The second saber is a sign of hope, but the first is a danger. Padmé’s always trained her ability to keep her mind safe for that reason, even though there is not a drop of the Force in her.
“Then why tell me?” Anakin asks.
“Well, I’m supposed to be able to trust Jedi, and you’re going to be one,” Padmé tells him. She sounds very matter-of-fact about it, like she really, truly believes he can do this. He giggles. She grins, and continues. “And I think that, if I ask you to never, ever tell anyone, you’ll keep your promise.”
“I promise,” Anakin says.
(He keeps that promise for ten years. Then he meets Padmé’s soulmate, sees the red saber and tattoos, promptly freaks out, and yells out that he knows the soulmate of the person trying quite desperately to murder him.)
(This is not at all helpful, to anyone, for years.)
(It works out in the end, though not before Padmé has been kidnapped thirty-two times by a Sith apprentice trying to figure out if she’s meant to care in the first place.)
Just as a note, this ask meme is from six months ago.
Send me a character and I’ll tell you
My NOTP for them
This is another "My NOTP is only a notp because of the primary author" so I can't name the ship without people Knowing.
My BROTP for them
Probably Obi-Wan I want to like the handmaidens but they have much less character development than The Guy In Six Movies And All Of TCW And Also His Own Show
My OTP for them
Obviously Anidala
My second choice pairing for them
PANTRESS I love the potential of Padme/Ventress as a concept, absolutely going all in on Padme's "I can fix her" tendencies
My fluffy pairing for them
Anidala again. It's not that I can't ship anything else for Padme, it's just that they obviously cover a lot of ground.
My angsty pairing for them
Anidala, see above
My favorite poly ship for them
Considering the amount of Rex/Padme/Anakin I've written, it would be a shock if I chose anything else.
My weirdest pairing for them
Probably Pantress, which isn't even that weird, but...
