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cohost's first star wars fanblog, official "Big Name Fan".

 

in my "bad batch s3" era currently


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The reveal that they've been married since like 15 years old says something too. Lots of high school sweethearts drift apart when they start to form their political opinions and realize how different they are, but at that point Mon was already a senator. We don't know what divorce looks like in this galaxy, but if it's anything like ours than it could be stigmatized heavily enough to keep them together, for her career if nothing else.

This totally makes sense. 15 is YOUNG!! You don't know what you're doing when you're 15. I certainly didn't. And it's clear that yeah, she's been in this game for a LONG time.

Also I'm now cracking up imagining the Emperor declaring that you can't divorce. No more divorces in the Empire

There's something toe about what you've said and what both the comments say, and it's so deliciously sad. -we know it was likely an arranged marriage, per traditional chandrallan customs -we know they were fifteen when it happened AND -we know that when she was talking about perrin at 15, mon mothma called him "the firebrand of the academy"

And it's so painfully easy to imagine Mon mothma meeting this brash, loud, irreverent boy her parents have chosen for her, and mistaking that temper and energy for the same passion that makes her radical.

And then they go to Coruscant and it's scary and different and there's only one person who feels like home... But you have each other and you're both young and excited about the world. And so it does take years for that shine to wear off, for both of you to look more closely and realise the other isn't who you thought they were.

All of which to say I think it was an arranged marriage and I think it had good years, and that makes it sadder for Mon mothma as she watches it crumble away.

My head-canon was "young naive Mon Mothma" meets "young rambunctious Perrin" and conflates his anti-authority in the "I don't like other people telling me what to do. I should be free to do whatever I want" behavior for "I think that systems which create power imbalances that are then used to exploit others are unjust" behavior instead.

Years later, after marriage, and maybe only when they start living on their own, does she realize just how shitty this dude is.