I don’t know why, but I suddenly have this image of Padme coming home to her apartment, pulling of her robe/coat and moving into her apartment only for a voice to suddenly echo out. “Tell me you didn’t.”
Padme reaches for her blaster, only for it ot be yanked out of her hands and a lamp by the couch turns on, revealing a tired and dishevled looking Obi-Wan. “Tell me you didn’t marry my padawan while he was still a padawan, Senator Amidala. Tell me you didn’t marry what was technically underage sentient due to the laws of the Order? Someone who was beholden to you as you are a senator of the Republic, tell me you didn’t, Padme Amidala.”
My brain trying to make the entire situation worse despite Anakin being nineteen lol.
Okay, so, technically speaking, Anakin Skywalker is an adult when the clone wars kicks of, as he is nineteen. However, he is also a padawan, and we can compare that to being an apprentice for something simliar honestly.
In an apprenticeship, the apprentice was often beholden to their teacher/master and couldn’t just nilly willy do things. Making them in essecense a ‘minor’ as the teacher often had to add their signature to offical documents in a lot of places.
Add on the fact that Padme and Anakin married under fake names, their marriage does fall apart honestly, at least by Naboo’s standards as they apparently require signatures and witnesses from what we see of their ‘wedding’.
As some also pointed out, Anakin was beholden to Padme as her bodyguard, putting her in another position of power above him and there is a four, almost five, year age gap between the two, which at that age can actually be a pretty big deal.
At 16-19, humans are developing pretty much still and its why age gaps in relationship then can be difficult as the younger party often haven’t settled in their ways.
Not to mention that Anakin himself is pretty immature in a lot of ways, until he becomes Vader even. So yeah, bad mojo.
Then there is the issue of a Senator of the Republic marrying a Jedi, considering all the Shit slinging PR Palpatine has done, I feel like that could really blow up not only in the Jedi face but also Naboo.
But yeah, I feel like that while Obi-Wan and the order was aware of the relationship (I mean, sex is totally allowed and it seems like relationships is also alright as long as you can separate yourself, seeing Ka-Adi’s 7 wives and also all his kids), I don’t think they were aware of the marriage.
And I feel like they’d have a lot to say about it.
Especially Obi-Wan, as his mentor and brother, who felt like he was to protect Anakin.
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