Padmé Amidala in the Darth Plagueis novel
Even though Padmé is almost completely absent from the novel, it makes several major revelations about her or connected to her. Yes, this post contains SPOILERS.
- Now we know why she is so messed up. ( Lengthy meta, comparisons with the movies, and overanalyzing )
- Now we know why she is so messed up. ( Lengthy meta, comparisons with the movies, and overanalyzing )
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Nothing except the midi-chlorians in his blood dying at the direction of the Sith, and this manifests itself by a sudden, overwhelming tiredness
I like that better than her losing the will to live, which is OOC in my opinion.
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her losing the will to live, which is OOC in my opinion
I wouldn't say it's OOC, because OOC is what happens in fanfiction. It's George Lucas who decides what is in character for his characters, and he is telling us something about Padmé by having her die like that. The problem I have with it is that it makes no sense biologically. "Losing the will to live", i.e. a depression so extreme the person stops eating, moving, etc, and wants to die but doesn't even have the energy to attempt suicide, happens in real life in cases of extreme/prolonged trauma. It isn't completely implausible that after the shocks Padmé got that day, something like this would happen to her. But it should have taken her much longer to die - days or weeks, the time it takes for the body to waste away. Not minutes.
I would have no problems with it if she had shot herself. But suicide through sheer willpower? How the hell does that work? Maybe if she was Force sensitive, "like magic" would be an adequate explanation, but she wasn't
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