Anghraine

No problem, and thanks! (As I say, I can be wanky about privacy, so wanted to warn you ahead of time.)

That is exactly why I say Padmesexual, rather than that she was his One True Love: it's no more a choice than any other orientation.

Although... I've been very much swayed by that one fic of irnan's (who else?) where she has Anakin having decided, quite rationally, that he needs to get some *ahem* experience before coming to Padme's bed, and that there was also a "lurking variable" of him just plain being lonely and needing closeness with someone. (Which also goes into my Vader-has-casual-sex paradigm.)

The ace goggles honestly make more sense for the Jedi, but apparently Lucas has said somewhere that the Jedi can get laid--- just not, you know, form emotional commitments to their partners. Which, this is me, facepalming forever, and adding another one to the list of "ways the PT!Jedi are messed up".

Okay, I was going to have a thorough response of all my agreement that Leia and Padme are both NOT blushing virgins, and then: "Unfortunately including Tarkin" and OKAY YOU JUST BROKE MY BRAIN OMG BRB SQUICKING FOREVER and also STARING IN HORRIFIED FASCINATION.

AHAHAHAH, "Anakin is unlikely to have a casual relationship with his furniture", well, yes, THIS. Though I can see it as a sort of... almost self-harming behavior, frankly, where he's interacting-without-attachment as a way of punishing himself for the mess he made of his relationship with Padme (see previous on "I am not worthy of the attachments I crave"). Also, I don't know whether to LOL or to weep or BOTH at At least not without a trail of corpses behind him. Because that is so very painful and so very ANAKIN.

So much THIS on how depressing Padmesexual!Anakin is, in terms of the whole, "no one but Sidious for twenty years". (Which makes it all that much more powerful that he does finally off Sidious on his son's behalf.) (There is also a part of me that thinks that he didn't so much stay affiliated with the Dark Side because he believed in it, but because he was attached to Sidious and that was how Sidious rolled.)

Oh, yay! I'm glad my version of Jedi!Padme works! And, yeah, better fit with canon, indeed. And also, so much yes to: she shouldn't be horrible, just messed-up, and Leia could have good reason to remember her fondly. And hey, this way the twins COULD scream at her ghost.