Saga Deceptive Smile

Deceptive Smile

by JalendaviLady

Timeframe: post-AOTC, pre-ROTS, after things start to fall apart

Characters: Saman (OC), Palpatine

Note: This is intended as a sequel to The First to Fall from Saman's point of view.

Yes, Saman and Hannar are sons of Palpatine.

Title shamelessly nabbed from the leavings of What's in a Name?; thanks Lt_Jaina_Solo, for the wonderful title that spawned a bunny that kept me from taking notes in class this morning .

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Disclaimer: Saman and Hannar are mine. Palpatine and all other things Star Wars do not belong to me.

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I see that quirk in your eyes
It's something you haven't yet learned to disguise

My brother died by your hand
And that's what I can't understand

You're out of control
You're out of your mind
You've completely embraced
Your darker side

You hide behind a deceptive smile
Cover yourself up for a while

Brother's remembered, I had to go
I knew you would be running the show

You're out of control
You're out of your mind
You've completely embraced
Your darker side

We fight for you, deaths mount
Do you laugh when you see the body counts?

Does the Council know, does Yoda guess
All the goals that you won't confess?

You're out of control
You're out of your mind
You've completely embraced
Your darker side

You threw me out, chased him away
There's just so much I wish that I could say

We are of your blood, are you afraid
We could destroy all these myths you've made?

You're out of control
You're out of your mind
You've completely embraced
Your darker side

And as you pass me on your way out
I see you smile

 

Very nicely done!



We are of your blood, are you afraid
We could destroy all these myths you've made?

Liked those lines especially!

 

Oh that was chilling indeed! Great job!

Poor guy... his brother killed by their own father. Sad but very Palpy!

Loved it!

 

I love poetry and that was simply beautiful.

 

Really beautiful. Haunting in a way really. And the title was great, really clever. Even if you "stole" it...

 

Very, very nice! A unqiue story and a clever way to tell it.

 

UPing for those who need something to occupy themselves with since the electoral brouhaha seems to have died down. I'll do responses later tonight.

 

Sorry the personal responses are a bit late.

VaderLVR64: Thanks. I was trying to imply what Hannar had been doing previous to The First to Fall with those lines.

Kynstar: Thanks. Indeed, it is very Palpy. I figured that given he seemed to expect Vader to not act on any paternal feelings towards Luke in either ESB or ROTJ that Palpatine wouldn't have had issues killing his own family members on his way to the top; he doesn't understand such emotions because he's either never listened to them or never had them.

LukesTheMan: Thanks. It was intended more as a song, and I even had a melody for it while I was writing it.

TurnedJedi: Thanks. I wanted it to be haunting, with everyone focused on the CLone Wars, but a very few people involved in the first few steps of Palpatine's final rise to power.

AnakinsHeir: Thank you.

 

that was really good very unique

 

Thanks, JediFalcon.

 

Authorial up so this doesn't lock.

 

Avoiding lockage, as this fic looks to become important in one of my longer works soon.