{"id":129398,"date":"2015-10-30T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/30\/ive-never-seen-such-devotion-in-a-droid-before-2\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T01:02:31","slug":"ive-never-seen-such-devotion-in-a-droid-before-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/30\/ive-never-seen-such-devotion-in-a-droid-before-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Never Seen Such Devotion In A Droid Before: Kid, You Don\u2019t Know The Half Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

deadcatwithaflamethrower<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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gardenofroseandthorn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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weary-hearted-queen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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mylordshesacactus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But can we talk about Artoo, though?<\/p>\n

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Because R2-D2 is so iconic as Luke\u2019s Droid\u2122<\/small>, and even in Clone Wars and RotS as Anakin\u2019s Droid\u2122<\/small> that I think it\u2019s easy to forget that Artoo is Padm\u00e9\u2019s<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I mean the little guy was cheeky and confident and saving his mistress\u2019 life before she even met <\/i>him. And that\u2019s not to say he doesn\u2019t bond with Anakin right away in Phantom Menace, but the thing is he stays with Padm\u00e9<\/p>\n

for the next\u2026ten years? Eight years at absolute minimum<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And the thing is Artoo was assigned to the royal cruiser, almost certainly property of the Crown\u2013by rights, Jamillia should own him by this point. And yet there he is with Senator Amidala. Did he just decide to stay with her and no one questioned it? Did she buy him? Was he a gift? No matter how it happened, by the time they run into Anakin again Artoo and Padm\u00e9 are almost literally inseparable.<\/p>\n

Artoo stays with her when she\u2019s posing as a fighter pilot. Artoo<\/i>\u2013an astromech droid, not a specialized security unit\u2013is the one who guards her while she sleeps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Artoo accompanies her when she\u2019s undercover, for no apparent reason. Why do you need an R2 unit at Varykino? What possible benefit could he be? If anything he draws unwanted attention. He\u2019s there because Padm\u00e9<\/p>\n

wants <\/i>him there. (And, I suspect, because he refused to stay behind.)<\/p>\n

Artoo saves her life. Artoo is at her wedding<\/i>. Artoo takes care of her husband for her (and yes, despite shipping Padm\u00e9 with Sab\u00e9 with the passion of a thousand suns, I think it\u2019s adorable that she and Anakin assign their respective most trusted droids to take care of each other.) Artoo is there for the birth of her children. Artoo watches her<\/i> die<\/i>. And Artoo spends Leia\u2019s entire life as the only person in the universe who knows everything<\/i>. And he has to carry that knowledge by himself, because Threepio doesn\u2019t remember. And yet over the decade-and-then-some between series, he manages to keep them together. Because they\u2019re married<\/strike> Artoo is Padm\u00e9\u2019s, and Threepio is Anakin\u2019s, and they\u2019re supposed to do this together<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to ANH and we find Artoo exactly where he\u2019s always been, protecting his mistress. He takes care of the Skywalker kids exactly as fiercely as he ever took care of their mother. (\u201dI found her! She\u2019s here, she\u2019s here, she\u2019s here!\u201d\u00a0\u201dDo you think he likes me?\u201d) <\/p>\n

He crossed half the galaxy <\/i>to find Leia, who wasn\u2019t even his owner; because she was Padm\u00e9\u2018s daughter and he had a duty to fulfill. And just as an added bonus he found Luke, too.<\/p>\n

And he never once leaves them.<\/p>\n

And the fact is it all started because Padm\u00e9\u2019s best friend wanted to play a trick on her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I will forever maintain that the reason Artoo was the droid Leia used was because Artoo went to go find her as soon as the Tantive IV <\/i>came under attack. (Came under attack by Anakin<\/strike> Vader, no less\u2026)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u2026 headcanon mother fucking ACCEPTED<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Headcanon accepted with terrible weeping.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

deadcatwithaflamethrower: gardenofroseandthorn: weary-hearted-queen: mylordshesacactus: But can we talk about Artoo, though? Because R2-D2 is so iconic as Luke\u2019s Droid\u2122, and even in Clone Wars and RotS as Anakin\u2019s Droid\u2122 that I think it\u2019s easy to forget that Artoo is Padm\u00e9\u2019s. I mean the little guy was cheeky and confident and saving his mistress\u2019 life before … <\/p>\n

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