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ventresses · 2 months

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Clone Trooper: Sister

"What's your name, trooper?" “Sister. It's how my brothers tell everyone I belong."

#clone trooper sister #the clone wars #sw the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #star wars tcw #tcw #swtcw #sw edit #swedit #star wars #queen's hope #star wars brotherhood #E. K. Johnston #this was tricky to choose images for #it doesn't seem realistic Sister would've had time or resources to access gender affirming cosmetic procedures & stuff if she wanted #i would HOPE that the doctors of the GAR would at least be able and willing to give her hormones if she wanted?#and idk what the timeframe is like for gender transition process a long time ago in a galaxy far far away #so idk ultimately chose to use photo of a model who's femme but whose features that reminded me of the earlier seasons TCW clones

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johnbassplayercutie · 4 months

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Sabé realizing that Anakin and Padme got married and are not just "sleeping together" so to speak. I legit thought she knew earlier in the book and now she's shocked, girl what did you expect when you said Padme goes all the way in with love 😂

#sabé #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #queen's hope #sabe what were you thinking #padme gonna marry her man #star wars novel

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girlrandomstuff · 2 years

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Quotes about Bail and Breha being the best space couple

“She found a boy who loved her enough to take her name, forsaking his own legacy forever in the shadow of hers. Together, they kept the planet strong. She took care of the people, and he, risen to the Senate, made sure the galaxy never forgot what Alderaan could offer” —Queen's Hope

Bail felt his heart thud, looking at her beautiful hologram face "Don't worry, B, nothing's wrong" she said [...] "I just wanted you to know I'm thinking of you. You look tired. Are you getting enough sleep? I'll bet you're not. Go to bed, hotshot. I'll try to catch you tomorrow" —Wild Space

“Your majesty” Bail Organa said with a profound sort of affection that made Padme’s heart flipp.

“She placed a hand on her chest when she spoke [...] Senator Organa came close to draw out his wife’s chair and hand her into it. His fingers rested in hers for a moment longer than was truly necessary.” —Queen's Shadow

Ahsoka novel:

“Had to find some other adventures, started chasing your mother instead” —Bail Organa, Obi Wan Kenobi 2022.

“They had a way of speaking to each other without words, such a perfect understanding that sometimes Leia thought they didn't need to talk at all [...] Not all spouses were like this, that not everyone found the kind of love that was like sharing souls”

“Instead, [Leia] she'd heard them laughing softly and flirting... and she'd wound up scurrying out, just in time to avoid a very unwelcome lesson about exactly what spouses did together in their private hours” —Leia, Princess of Alderaan

From a Certain Point of View, “Eclipse”:

“They had known each other for so long, survived so much, but in all their private mythology never had she seen him look this way. Her husband, a man of unshakeable courage and faith, now shaken to his core.”

The love they reflect for the other and their daughter when they're watching their planet being destroy and seeing their own death is so sad and beautiful

#star wars #breha organa #bail organa #leia organa #obi wan kenobi #queen breha #queen's hope #queen's shadow #ahsoka tano #novel #sw books #leia princess of alderaan #from a certain point of view #eclipse short story #hanleia #han solo #disney series #movies

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galaxyspinup · 4 months

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Chosen One Tuesday: Anakin supports Trans Rights!

He easily accepted trans clone trooper Sister and reassured her that anyone can transcend gender.

Thank you @starsdies for this week's Anakin fact!

#anakin skywalker #anakin skywalker zine #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #star wars #the clone wars #star wars zine #ahsoka tv show #darth vader #owk series #anakin skywalker facts #anakin skywalker trivia #star wars trivia #queen's hope

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jewishcissiekj · 1 month

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Sisterrrrrr

#yael is reading star wars #anakin inventing the word transgender in the star wars universe will always be one of my favorite fun facts #i know what he is #queen's hope

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queeruscant · 11 months

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Name: Sister Pronouns: she/her Era: Galactic Republic Appears in: Queen's Hope, Brotherhood

Sister was a clone trooper who served under Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 7th Sky Corps. She was transgender, and was given the name "Sister" by her fellow clones as a sign of support for her and her gender identity. She made a point to honour all of her fellow troops that fell in battle.

Learn more about Sister, and some criticisms on how she was written, in her profile video.

Full profile under the cut:

Sister was a transgender clone trooper in the Galactic Army of the Republic. She was part of the 7th Sky Corps, and worked with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on a few missions. She carried a DC 15-A blaster rifle and had pink and blue armour paint.

Sister was loyal to her brothers, and made a point to honour her fellow clones that fell in battle. Her brothers were just as loyal right back to her. Sister said that her name was “how her brothers tell everyone she belongs,” and that they “never let her doubt” herself when they left Kamino. Anakin Skywalker was also supportive and accepting of Sister, and assured her that the Jedi would also be accepting of her gender identity.

Sister has appeared in two novels: Queen’s Hope by EK Johnston in 2021, and Brotherhood by Mike Chen in 2022.

Johnston commissioned artwork of Sister for the book’s release. Made by Uzuri Art, Sister was originally depicted with pink and blue armour paint, and black cornrow-style braids.

As with all the clones, Sister is based on Temuera Morrison, who is Polynesian. In the original commission, Sister has cornrows, which is a culturally Black hairstyle. EK Johnston was criticized for this decision as both erasure of Maaori and Polynesian representation, and as cultural appropriation for using cornrows on a non-Black character. After this criticism, EK Johnston commissioned the artist to change Sister’s hairstyle to look more like French braids.

Johnston has also been criticized for Sister's poor inclusion in the novel. Sister appears for less than one page, and her few lines are about being trans.

This is a descriptive profile. Commentary on the character will be discussed in a separate post.

#clone trooper sister #trans characters #women characters #trans women characters #galactic republic era #queen's hope #brotherhood #e.k. johnston #mike chen #queeruscant*#queer character profiles #star wars #queer star wars #queer star wars characters

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queerlybelovdd · 10 months

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masterkeynobi · 2 years

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god i can't stop thinking about padmé & sabé & anakin they've consumed my fucking brain like. (partially under a cut bc this gets Long)

queen's shadow establishes several things: first, that sabé is padmé's hands and that padmé is sabé's heart. every other handmaiden has a life planned out after amidala's reign; sabé doesn't, sabé who was the first to be chosen and who will be the last to leave. sabé's own parents don't call her tsabin anymore. sabé, in short, is sabé before she is anything else.

second: padmé is invested in the freeing of slaves. padmé is a pacifist. padmé broke ties with captain panaka because she only ever advocates for violence in self-defense. padmé naberrie would have gone to tatooine herself — but she is padmé amidala, and she must be senator, and so she sends sabé in her stead.

on tatooine sabé goes by tsabin and it doesn't feel right. she & tonra go about things the wrong way, lose the trust of the locals, cannot find shmi skywalker. twenty-five people isn't nothing, but it's not nearly enough, either. she doesn't find shmi skywalker. she's unhappy; tonra's unhappy; it's a failure. but padmé calls from coruscant — padmé has other priorities — and sabé goes.

senator amidala is not the queen. the voice is different; the clothing is different; it's taking down the walls built up over four years of a reign and rearranging them to form something new. worth noting, too, that amidala's voice as queen was formed from all herself & her girls, was formed from sabé more than anything. senator amidala is imitable, still, but is padmé. padmé can remake herself, did it once at fourteen and lived by it, but — coruscant is hard. her peers discuss politics as though they are philosophies and not people impacted. she thinks: this is not me.

for the first time since all those years ago, giggling children in a shared bedroom, sabé and padmé aren't attached at the hip. sabé is padmé's eyes and ears on coruscant; she isn't there to watch the senator's day-to-day growth, but still. they are familiar. padmé is herself and amidala; sabé is herself and tsabin. they are each other's peace, each other's steadiness, and they navigate the upper and lower levels of coruscant together with each other as their anchors.

time passes. the galaxy goes to war. padmé meets anakin.

here's the thing about anakin skywalker: the way he sees the world is inextricable from the fact that he spent his most formative years couched in horrific exploitation. anakin grows up wanting more than anything to have full control over himself and his surroundings. anakin curls around those he loves like a dragon, possessive, protective. service, to anakin who was born a slave, will never not feel like violence. possession is all he understands. anakin skywalker is in love with padmé.

& sabé, too, is in love with padmé. but sabé's devotion is boundless and without expectation. she says my hands are yours — my life is yours, should you ask for it — and knows down to her bones the implications of her fealty. she would die for padmé and padmé would let her and that's a choice she would make a hundred times over. she doesn't want pity for it. she kisses tonra and loves padmé and has no trouble reconciling these two things.

the galaxy is at war; padmé marries anakin and tells no one.

sabé isn't around for geonosis or its aftermath. sabé is on tatooine, doing things the right way this time around, settling in and gaining the trust of the people who live there. she sets herself and tonra (a couple. partners. equals, truly, in a way she and padmé have never been) up as a pair to be trusted to get slaves offplanet. not because they've been ordered to, this time, or because they're looking for shmi, but because it's simply the right thing to do. their quality of life suffers — they are naboo — but it's so fulfilling for both of them, a task they want to dedicate time and effort to.

padmé calls sabé and sabé knows before she picks up that she'll be asked back to coruscant. her hands have always been padmé's. she goes.

padmé is different now, though. is hiding something. sabé catalogs her fake smiles and doesn't know why she's wearing the mask of amidala, doesn't quite understand her anymore, and though both of them speak of things being just like old times — sabé, playing decoy while padmé gallivants off to be brilliant — it rings false. padmé has changed. sabé doesn't know senator amidala. there's something padmé isn't telling her, padmé who kept no secrets, whom sabé knew better than she knows herself.

sabé hates coruscant, she realizes. hates playing senator and stumbles around the chancellor and desperately doesn't want to lose herself in politics the way padmé almost has. (it is easier now, padmé says, to think of politics as ideas and not people. is that bad?)

your husband says hello, says sabé, brushing through padmé's hair. sabé's love for padmé has never been possessive, has never needed reciprocation, has only ever been loyalty and devotion and time spent so close together they might as well be the same person. but padmé didn't tell her. she only found out because the man himself barged into her bedroom and almost choked her out. the issue isn't that padmé's in love with someone else, it's that she didn't even tell her. the padmé she knew (the padmé who was hers, more or less! shared faces and shared goals for years on end) isn't the padmé of the present. the padmé of the present is anakin skywalker's wife.

still, for sabé, unrequitedness doesn't have to mean heartbreak. she talks to padmé, says anakin — scares her a little, honestly. padmé mentions an incident with the tuskens. sabé goes still, because they're talking about that massacre on the other side of the planet.

isn't that the funny thing, though? that sabé knows tatooine, now, better than the prodigal son of its suns? padmé sent her there, dear pacifist senator amidala, padmé who wanted post-election to free slaves, but it is sabé in the end who's doing the freeing. sabé has been padmé's hands for years; sabé does her dirty work and finds personal fulfillment in it. sabé frees slaves because she wants to do it. because it's right.

sabé leaves padmé's service that very night — my hands are yours. please don't ask me for them again. — and goes back to tatooine. & when she returns there she finds that the white suns have reached out; she greets tonra and she smiles. there is work to be done and she will do it as herself, casting her own shadow.

padmé amidala is married to anakin skywalker — who, it has to be said, never freed anyone who wasn't himself. anakin who doesn't even really know tatooine at all, anakin whose genius could have dismantled the slave chips the white suns come to tonra about in the blink of an eye, anakin, born in the desert, who lands on tatooine and ignites his lightsaber and leaves with blood on his hands and darkness in his heart. and padmé marries him. and padmé pulls sabé off tatooine and asks her to stay on coruscant and sabé says no.

#sree.txt #star wars #sabé #handmaiden sabé #padmé amidala #anakin skywalker #anidala #sabédala #queen's shadow #queen's hope #jesus this is long but i needed to get it out of my head #as always major major chunks of this are from my dms with gabe #things i couldn't figure out how to talk about:#sabédala & how their reliance on e/o parallels obi-wan and anakin #the idea that (at the risk of oversimplication)#anakin thinks in terms of ''she's mine''#& sabé thinks in terms of ''i'm hers''#again it's possessiveness born of trauma vs service as a choice #also to be clear while this is i suppose quote-unquote anakin critical #i adore anakin i think his relationship w padmé is so compelling #and makes for SUCH a narrative #he's my baby girl also btw.#but in general it's fascinating to observe how he fails himself bc that's where the tragedy lies #anyway yeah thank you for coming to my ted talk i love sabé so much

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undeadlilies · 1 year

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"My hands are yours," she said. "Please don't ask me for them again."

Padmé nodded, tears in her eyes, because she couldn't speak.

#they're gfs ur honor #sabedala has my heart and i hate it #asdhgjshga #padme amidala #handmaiden sabé #sabedala #queen's hope

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clonetroopertournament · 1 year

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#star wars #the clone wars #tcw #queen's hope #clone troopers #commander havoc #clone trooper sister

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my-fool · 1 year

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im six months late to this but im reading about the transfem clone, sister, and having a lot of thoughts. I didn't like her french braids so i doodled some other options for her. tbh i think shorter hair is my favourite...

#clone oc #sister star wars #queen's hope #trans clones #clone trooper sister #on the fridge

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ocd-kenobi · 1 year

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Padmé's feelings about her upcoming wedding, noticeably lacking in concrete "I love him" thoughts.

#queen's hope #i love the way this author writes padme so much #this whole series is a breath of fresh clean air #full of oxygen #padme and her handmaidens

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llama-wan-kenobi · 2 years

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Reading Queen's Hope by @ekjohnston and:

Anakin seeing two sisters hug lovingly, and immediately thinking of Obi Wan 🖐️😭

Excuse me while I -

#queen's hope #ek johnston #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #anakin #obi wan #kenobi #star wars novels #padme amidala #padme #queen's hope spoilers

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girlrandomstuff · 1 year

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I love when Star Wars is Royal women falling for ordinary boys

Adding this cuz i really want to happen

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jewishcissiekj · 1 month

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ok sooo Queen's Hope is by far the best book of the Queen's trilogy. Queen's Peril and Queen's Shadow are very mediocre and idk if Peril is worse maybe i just didn't pay enough attention to it. these books are gay anyway and I love Sabedala so much

#yael is reading star wars #next to finishing the nuru books #(secret missions)#not today tho it's too late #queen's hope #queen's trilogy

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johnbassplayercutie · 4 months

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#more anakin and padme #i love them #they're so cute #😌🥹#i need more of this. just an entire book about padme and anakin lmao #sabé doesnt like anakin lmao #i feel bad for padme #she just lost her bestie #queen's hope #novel

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