What If Palpatine Truly Cared About Anakin and Padmé

Anakin sits quietly in the opera house as Palpatine finishes his tale about Darth Plagueis the Wise. But he can tell there is more to this story than simply a fable. There is a warning there and a promise of power. The power to stop someone from dying.Despite his best efforts, he cannot quite hide his interest. This is the type of thing he’s been looking for, something that can help him save Padme from harm.Palpatine: I know you have been having visions of Padme, Anakin.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE- Original video: https://youtu.be/5ivRaoNkjP8━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW THE SHOW📺 YouTube: https://Youtube.com/@DarthTheorist💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/U5yUTamJ48📧 Sponsorships & business: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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