Padme Pregnancy Coverstory?

What was the official line on how Padme became pregnant...ie. who daddy was?

I'm sure while alive, Padme did her own spin, but certainly once she died, one would suspect a thorough investigation into who daddy was, if for no other reason to offer sympathies.

Is Anakin (as in the Jedi who supposedly "died" in the temple attack) publicly acknowledged?

Is it still hidden?

What did Padme's family know or were led to believe?

anyone got a clue?

 

The Naboo aren't big fans of poking around dead people's pasts, iirc.

 

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same tenel ka has... none... all went ooooh babies

 

"Meesa like dis."

 

Huh. Really good question. I'm not sure it's been mentioned.

Does anybody who has Street of Shadows know if that touched on it at all? It seems most likely to have done so; I can't think of anything else that would have.

I want more Padme in general, though. Part of the reason she seems so weak a character, I think - besides the fact that she's largely hobbled for Episode II and definitely for III - is that we see very little of her in the EU. Interestingly, TCW is giving us as much Padme as everything else has put together.

 

Considering the general corruption and depravity of the Senate, the media may well have ignored her pregnancy as irrelevant, thus keeping it from public knowledge.

 

Yeah, I don't think the Naboo poked into it. I certainly don't think they would have made an announcement, since announcing she was carrying the Hero With No Fear/Jedi traitor's kids would attract a firestorm of attention, and announcing the kids as someone else's would tip off Palpatine and Vader that there was a coverup underway and make them question what else was being hidden. The question of parenthood was probably just politely ignored.

 

Maybe they chalked it up to embarrassing weight gain and a penchant for lampshade-esque wardrobe.

 

If there were even RUMORS Anakin was the father of Padme's child, Luke and Leia probably would've heard and asked Padme's surviving family to do a DNA test long before Dark Nest, when they actually found out.

 

But nearly everyone thought Padme died before giving birth, right? So maybe everyone was too shocked by that to speculate about a child that was never born...

 

Nobody knew Padmé was pregnant.

 

It was kind of obvious at her funeral. I mean, they went out of her way to make her still look pregnant so that people would think the children had died too.

It wasn't public knowledge but by the end it was kind of obvious from looking at her, so some people clearly knew. And they had to convinced Vader and Palpatine that no child had been born, hence her rather obvious state during her funeral procession.

Personally I think Hav's right. It wasn't wide public knowledge and once she was dead it was such a great tragedy that the question was politely ignored and dodged as inappropriate, etc.

 

Well, Bail & Mon Mothma never noticed, and they hung out with her all the time. Or at least Bail did.

Since Mon Mothma's known to be a twit this isn't surprising, but Bail's a bit more bright.

 

No, it's not. I just kind of got the vague impression that it was considered horribly rude to ask/delve into by anyone outside of the family. Kind of the way Padme Naberrie was her private name, her pregnancy went into that catagory. As far as the Nubians are concerned, Padme Amidala was not. Does that make sense?

I'm lovin' the CW Padme. There's my butt-kicking girl!

But back to the whole "Is that a Mon Cal cruiser under your robe or are you just fat?" question, I believe that LoE has a Padme (or maybe it's Bail's) POV where she's specifically mentioned as having just come back from Naboo and visiting her family privately. Now you can't tell me that her mama didn't notice the belly.

Personal Fanon: Bail Organa lied through his teeth and told the Naberries that both Padme and the baby died when he brought her body back for the funeral. The Naberries knew about Anakin, or at least suspected enough to guess he was the probable father. They probably figured she was killed standing up for the Jedi. And Bail let them believe. Fast forward 50 years to the as-yet-unwritten Sky-Solo return trip to Naboo and "Surprise Aunt Sola, it's us!"

So there.

 

I'm probably wrong because I haven't actually read it but I thought that there was a reference in a novel (Rise of Darth Vader?) to Padme's pregnancy being an open secret? Like, people noticed but weren't mentioning it?

 

It was in LoE. I recall Bail thinking on her pregnancy.

 

That part is actually canon, because it follows from what we saw in ROTS.

 

Pooja Naberrie became friends with Leia when they were both senators and it says somewhere that Leia met with Pooja after DNT to share the news. Of course, by then it was nearly 60 years since Padme's death, therefore no one would have really cared.

 

Bail and Yoda and Obi-wan are on my poodoo list for being such assumptive lying kidnappers. They totally screwed Padme's family.

As for Padme's visit, who knows what that meant. Maybe Padme just needed to get away and went on vacation and said she was visiting family.

 

Her family would've been screwed worse if they'd aroused Darth Vader's suspicions by suddenly raising two children who came out of nowhere just after Padme's death, looked suspiciously like her and had Force powers.

Seriously, especially if he'd found out about his kids *right after* Padme's death? He'd've burned the planet to the ground to get them.

 

And Obi-wan couldn't have dropped them a note five years on and so they knew? What good what do anyone then? It's just that Obi-wan is a single minded jerk that uses Luke like toilet paper to further his agenda. Look at Luke and Leia's horrible lives. And the galaxy was still totally destroyed byt he Yuuzhan Vong, so it was all pointless anyway.

 

I want to say that I read somewhere that an investigations into who the daddy was would be against Naboo traditions.

 

I'm pretty sure I heard the same.

 

Okay I dug through my old posts because I swore there was a thread on this years ago. I wrote that the Visual Dictionary had this to say:

"Padme's parents Ruwee and Sola, sister Jobal, and Queen Apailana, are told that Padme was killed by the Jedi on Coruscant. No mention is made of Padme's pregnancy or where R2-D2 or C-3PO are. An investigation into who fathered the children would go against Naboo tradition."

I don't want to dig out my VD rigtht now to confirm it. I don't even know if I still have it. But I wouldn't have made something so implausible up.