meanwhile, on the ss babysitting duty

[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka Tano, you
Broadcast: Video
Action: OUT AND ABOOT
When: 31st

ACTION
[Ahsoka is wandering around outside with her usual air filtration mask on, but something is different-- obviously different. This isn't the sixteen-maybe-seventeen year old girl of yesterday. This is a pre-teen. And she seems lost.]

... Skyguy? ... Master Kenobi? I know you guys are around! You can come out now...! "Prank the padawan" isn't funny any more...

[She shudders.] This planet is giving me the creeps.

VIDEO
[The video is simple: a young, familiar alien graces the screen, except... something's off. Way off. It's not just that her clothes are different-- she's shorter, horns smaller, too. When she talks, her voice is more high pitched, and the cadence different too. Less... calm.]



Hey! Is everyone just okay with the fact that we can't go outside without air filters?! What sort of condition is this for people to live in? What's being done to help the local inhabitants? Or move them off-world?

I need to speak to the person or people in charge! Immediately.

Comments

[steeledskin]

A queen would. [ a small nod, and a moment of consideration as she holds the door open to her office. ] But I wasn't aware she was a queen at all. She seems so kind.

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka follows her in.]

Well, she's not anymore. The Naboo have a democratic monarchy-- they elect their ruler. Senator Amidala was elected two terms in a row, before she decided to pursue a career in the Galactic Senate instead!

And why shouldn't she be kind? That's why she was so beloved as Queen! I don't know anyone that dislikes Padmé. It's impossible!

[steeledskin]

Can one be an effective queen while being universally liked, and being kind? [ an honest question. once upon a time, this is the sort of queen she'd hoped to be. ]

[resnipstance]

Huh? Well... why not?

[This Ahsoka is still young; she doesn't catch on to Sansa's meaning as her older counterpart might have.]

[steeledskin]

Some queens must make difficult choices. [ but instead of queens, she's thinking about kings. about her brother. ] Choices that cannot always be popular.

[resnipstance]

Ohhh. I think I get it.

To tell the truth, I was still a kid when Senator Amidala was Queen, so I don't remember it very well. [Ahsoka you still are a kid, sit down.] There might've been some stuff like that! But people still seem to remember her fondly, so I guess the good stuff outweighed the bad!

[steeledskin]

Or she was simply so good, she could not help but be loved. [ ... ] There are stories of kings, like that. But the stories are old. I doubt there have been any rulers like that in many ages.

i'm sorry this is so old

[resnipstance]

I like that interpretation best.

I mean. I guess she had enemies. But they were usually bad guys anyway!

[What a simplistic world view she once had.]

[steeledskin]

...Bad guys, my lady?

[ what, exactly, are bad guys? ]

[resnipstance]

You know! The bad guys. The guys that the good guys fight against!

[DUH.]

[steeledskin]

[ the monsters. lannisters. boltons. freys. ]

But -- isn't it the bad guys who always win?

[resnipstance]

No way. That's what the Jedi are for! We lay the smackdown on bad guys.