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the family amidala by dirgewithoutmusic for randomthingsthatilike123
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
16 Feb 2016
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Padme lives. She runs.
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Leia is growing in fits and spurts, eating greedily and crying loudly. She stays in a sling on Padme’s chest when they move, Luke held snug in a sling around Obi Wan’s. Luke gets a whole head of thick brown hair while Leia’s is still patchy and bald, but he never matches his sister’s powerful lungs.
When Padme had been sitting in her high senatorial apartment on Corsucant, holding Anakin’s sweaty hand, she had never imagined she’d be murmuring desperately soothing noises to her fussy daughter while she shot around a corner at stormtroopers, while R2D2 meddles with a ship’s blast doors behind her.
Luke starts teething on a hot jungle planet where they hunker down for three weeks, sleeping in an abandoned old temple and catching the local wildlife for dinner. Leia takes her first steps in the belly of a Corellian freighter they’ve stowed away on. She wobbles between Padme’s outstretched hands and Obi Wan’s knees and boxes of smuggled luxuries. When she falls down, Obi Wan surges forward, heart in his throat, but Leia laughs.
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01 Feb 2026
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Unbowed by SpaceWall
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels
05 Mar 2021
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Padmé Amidala wakes up in the hospital and learns her child is dead, her husband has fallen, and the system she fought so hard to save is broken. She does not give in. Under the watchful eyes of her senate colleagues, she never surrenders.
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About six months after E day, Amidala stopped mourning, stopped matching Vader. She went out and spent an exorbitant amount of money – her family was wealthy, she was a senator, and she had a queen’s pension – on an entirely new wardrobe. There was no black or white, and none of the queenly, regal dignity people had come to associate with her. She dressed like a bird, trying to grab the attention of the nearest mate: blue and green and silver, purple and gold, massive earrings in the shape of solar systems. She dyed her hair gold. She ensured the eyes of the world were on her at all times.
Vader started leaving every room she entered, rather than the other way around.
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01 Feb 2026
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It’s supposed to be an easy, if annoying, mission - escort some senators to a planet for relief aid and a few photo-ops. It leads to pirates, kidnappings, and infiltrating Count Dooku’s palace on Serenno. It leads to the end of the war and the start of a relationship Cody never knew he could want, let alone have.
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31 Jan 2026
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After encountering a powerful witch, Arthur is turned into a dragon – only to be rescued by the last of the dragonlords. Who happens to be his manservant. Which is only the first of the unfathomable and upsetting facts that Arthur is learning about Merlin’s life, about dragons, and about his own heart.
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13 Dec 2025
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Warrior of Light Joshua Rosfield Masterpost by Bard Linn & Kiraya
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XVI, Final Fantasy XIV
31 Oct 2025
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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Snatched away from the ruins of Phoenix Gate, Joshua finds himself on the fields of Carteneau. Found and adopted by a pair of women living in Ul'dah, Joshua slowly recovers from his wounds and eventually heads out into the world to try to find a way home, accidentally becoming the Warrior of Light in the process.
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31 Oct 2025
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A collection of short stories not posted on AO3.