[He says it in a breathy reverence that honestly belies his shrinking doubt. It's a beautiful name, Padme's influence if he'd ever heard it. If this is true.
But the coincidences begin to stack, perfectly fitted pieces of a puzzle he'd yet to even start piecing together, and they become harder and harder to ignore, no matter how much he wants to. No matter how unfair he thinks this is, when he has to hear it from a stranger and not the people who matter the most.
Future son-in-law or not, this certainly doesn't count.
But somehow, when he thinks about it--now, because the war hadn't left much time for dalliances, let alone to sit and consider their consequences--a daughter seems perfectly fitting. Strong in the force, strong like her mother, he imagines they must look similar too, if the universe is at all kind.
But the assumption misses Solo's recollection in one key area:]
My daughter is Chief of State? [He sounds caught between incredulous and impressed.] Of the Republic?
[From Solo this doesn't sound like a line, and Anakin feels nothing to imply that it's a lie so it must be in some universe, whether truly his or one of the many he's already seen. So in that case, while certainly Padme's influence through and through, this story says nothing of the girl's force potential.
And there's no way that's not present. Not, of course, if this is true.]
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[He says it in a breathy reverence that honestly belies his shrinking doubt. It's a beautiful name, Padme's influence if he'd ever heard it. If this is true.
But the coincidences begin to stack, perfectly fitted pieces of a puzzle he'd yet to even start piecing together, and they become harder and harder to ignore, no matter how much he wants to. No matter how unfair he thinks this is, when he has to hear it from a stranger and not the people who matter the most.
Future son-in-law or not, this certainly doesn't count.
But somehow, when he thinks about it--now, because the war hadn't left much time for dalliances, let alone to sit and consider their consequences--a daughter seems perfectly fitting. Strong in the force, strong like her mother, he imagines they must look similar too, if the universe is at all kind.
But the assumption misses Solo's recollection in one key area:]
My daughter is Chief of State? [He sounds caught between incredulous and impressed.] Of the Republic?
[From Solo this doesn't sound like a line, and Anakin feels nothing to imply that it's a lie so it must be in some universe, whether truly his or one of the many he's already seen. So in that case, while certainly Padme's influence through and through, this story says nothing of the girl's force potential.
And there's no way that's not present. Not, of course, if this is true.]