Why Padme Falls for Anakin
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Anakin+Padme=Love
What's smart girl like Padme doing with a whiny brat like Anakin?
1. Padme is a giver.
First the Queen, then the Senator, Padme serves her people. She answers their call. She listens to those in need. And Anakin is someone in need. With great power comes great pain. As the most powerful Jedi ever, Anakin has more power than anyone can measure, it fills him, overwhelms him. His dark side is to be expected, those with great power tend to be depressive, lonely, needy. He needs something outside himself to remind him of life's simplicity. His mother gave him that at home and he was a happy, compassionate child. Affection is forbidden to a Jedi so as a Jedi, Obi-Wan cannot provide that stability. But Padme can.
Padme finds Anakin lonely and cold after they've left Tatooine, and Anakin's mother, behind. Padme comforts him, not knowing that she is cementing an attachment that will eventually rip them and their galaxy apart. She simply sees a child in need and responds to that need. Later, when she meets the boy grown into a young man - on the verge of great power but still plagued by fears - she continues to respond to his needs. Before their first kiss on Naboo Anakin speaks of hating sand, a conversation reminiscent of the one on board ship as it again remarks upon the differences between their planets and their childhoods. Padme is reminded of Anakin's harsh upbringing on his sandwept, hot world and caught up in the moment, she allows the kiss.
The relationship continues to grow closer despite Padme's objections, her practical side is simply not as strong as her need to help Anakin - a truth which becomes most apparent after Anakin's confession of the slaughter of the sandpeople. A clearly distraught Anakin allows Padme to witness his deepest and darkest pain and need and Padme almost instinctively responds. Padme is not afraid of Anakin's need or his destructive side, she feeds off it, finds meaning in their relationship and realizes her place is by his side trying to ward off all the pain with her love. She is a giver and in Anakin she finds her soulmate, someone who needs her as much as she needs to be needed.
2. There is nothing more attractive than someone in love with you.
Anakin has loved Padme since he first set eyes on her when he was nine years old. There is something beautifully simple in his love for her. And his darkness, his power is very charming. He treats her like an angel and a woman at the same time. Most treat Padme as someone to look up to, someone to protect, or someone to despise - never as someone to love. But Anakin does. He loves her with every look, every word, every touch.
Padme loves Anakin but her love is much quieter, simpler, sweeter than his passionate, desperate and eventually destructive love for her. Anakin is willing to give up everything he has and everything he is for Padme, indeed he becomes a monster, unrecognizable from the boy he once was, for love of her. A love that strong is hard to ignore, even in its earliest stages. Padme is everything to Anakin and when she is faced with that reality he becomes everything to her.
3. There is nothing more attractive than that which you can't have.
Padme believes very strongly in her duty. Unlike Anakin, who is willing to cheat in order to love Padme, she cannot at first bring herself to 'live a lie'. But by simply admitting she won't she gives her feelings that much more strength, her love that much more power. Padme at heart is something of a rebel. Forbidding something is the easiest way to get her to do it - or at least want to.
4. There is nothing more seductive than a secret.
Once Padme has given in to living the lie there is no turning back. Their hidden life together becomes at once dangerous and that much more precious. By setting themselves up as two lovers against the galaxy they feed their passion, their love becomes as important as their lives...or anyone else's life.
Anakin turns his back on the Jedi, his closest friend and indeed himself when he gives in to Palpatine in order to save Padme. Padme in turn refuses to hand him over to Obiwan. Faced with protecting the entire galaxy or protecting their desperate secret relationship, they blindly choose eachother.
5. Never underestimate the power of the Force.
Anakin's life fulfills a prophecy. Thus anyone touched by his life is drawn into that prophecy. Padme is destined to love Anakin simply because he loves her.
Anakin+Padme=Love
What's smart girl like Padme doing with a whiny brat like Anakin?
1. Padme is a giver.
First the Queen, then the Senator, Padme serves her people. She answers their call. She listens to those in need. And Anakin is someone in need. With great power comes great pain. As the most powerful Jedi ever, Anakin has more power than anyone can measure, it fills him, overwhelms him. His dark side is to be expected, those with great power tend to be depressive, lonely, needy. He needs something outside himself to remind him of life's simplicity. His mother gave him that at home and he was a happy, compassionate child. Affection is forbidden to a Jedi so as a Jedi, Obi-Wan cannot provide that stability. But Padme can.
Padme finds Anakin lonely and cold after they've left Tatooine, and Anakin's mother, behind. Padme comforts him, not knowing that she is cementing an attachment that will eventually rip them and their galaxy apart. She simply sees a child in need and responds to that need. Later, when she meets the boy grown into a young man - on the verge of great power but still plagued by fears - she continues to respond to his needs. Before their first kiss on Naboo Anakin speaks of hating sand, a conversation reminiscent of the one on board ship as it again remarks upon the differences between their planets and their childhoods. Padme is reminded of Anakin's harsh upbringing on his sandwept, hot world and caught up in the moment, she allows the kiss.
The relationship continues to grow closer despite Padme's objections, her practical side is simply not as strong as her need to help Anakin - a truth which becomes most apparent after Anakin's confession of the slaughter of the sandpeople. A clearly distraught Anakin allows Padme to witness his deepest and darkest pain and need and Padme almost instinctively responds. Padme is not afraid of Anakin's need or his destructive side, she feeds off it, finds meaning in their relationship and realizes her place is by his side trying to ward off all the pain with her love. She is a giver and in Anakin she finds her soulmate, someone who needs her as much as she needs to be needed.
2. There is nothing more attractive than someone in love with you.
Anakin has loved Padme since he first set eyes on her when he was nine years old. There is something beautifully simple in his love for her. And his darkness, his power is very charming. He treats her like an angel and a woman at the same time. Most treat Padme as someone to look up to, someone to protect, or someone to despise - never as someone to love. But Anakin does. He loves her with every look, every word, every touch.
Padme loves Anakin but her love is much quieter, simpler, sweeter than his passionate, desperate and eventually destructive love for her. Anakin is willing to give up everything he has and everything he is for Padme, indeed he becomes a monster, unrecognizable from the boy he once was, for love of her. A love that strong is hard to ignore, even in its earliest stages. Padme is everything to Anakin and when she is faced with that reality he becomes everything to her.
3. There is nothing more attractive than that which you can't have.
Padme believes very strongly in her duty. Unlike Anakin, who is willing to cheat in order to love Padme, she cannot at first bring herself to 'live a lie'. But by simply admitting she won't she gives her feelings that much more strength, her love that much more power. Padme at heart is something of a rebel. Forbidding something is the easiest way to get her to do it - or at least want to.
4. There is nothing more seductive than a secret.
Once Padme has given in to living the lie there is no turning back. Their hidden life together becomes at once dangerous and that much more precious. By setting themselves up as two lovers against the galaxy they feed their passion, their love becomes as important as their lives...or anyone else's life.
Anakin turns his back on the Jedi, his closest friend and indeed himself when he gives in to Palpatine in order to save Padme. Padme in turn refuses to hand him over to Obiwan. Faced with protecting the entire galaxy or protecting their desperate secret relationship, they blindly choose eachother.
5. Never underestimate the power of the Force.
Anakin's life fulfills a prophecy. Thus anyone touched by his life is drawn into that prophecy. Padme is destined to love Anakin simply because he loves her.