The Pen Pal AU
Okay, curse you all, now I have all sorts of headcanons for That One Where Padmé and Anakin Are Pen Pals.
- So Padmé gives Anakin her com frequency before he leaves Naboo at the end of TPM, because she cares about this kid and she wants to make sure he’s all right, and she doesn’t know that the Jedi non-attachment rule is going to mean he’s not supposed to keep in touch with her at all.
- When she doesn’t hear from him at first she figures he’s probably really busy, settling in and starting his Jedi training and all that, so she gives him time.
- But when she still doesn’t hear from him eventually she gets worried and shoots him a quick message, basically just “Hey how are you?”
- It takes him a while to reply and when he does it’s not anything Padmé was expecting. “The Council says I’m not supposed to talk to you because you’re an attachment, like my mom, and I have to let you go if I’m going to be a Jedi. But I want to keep talking to you. You’re my friend.”
- So now Padmé’s all righteously angry so she says, “Well to hell with that. You’re my friend too. So how are you with encryptions?”
- And Anakin sends back some super goofy winking space emoji and he’s like, “I grew up in the Quarters we have a secret language and also me and Kitster had a code I’ve got this.”
