Luke Palpatine (I know, you all adore his name) was born with his twin sister Leia on the day of the fall of the Republic and of the rise of the Empire. What to say about Luke? Well, as he himself said it, he's a too kind whining and snivelling crybaby. Simply, he's light, too light, and he kept wondering what he's doing in this family. He thought he was abnormal since he discovers that, in fact, he probably inherited that from his grandmother, Shmi. He's the poor scapegoat of his family. There's a problem? Simple, it's Luke's fault. And this had become more and more complicated the day Mara Jade arrived in the Imperial Palace. Firstly angry to know that there was another girl in the family, as if there wasn't enough, Luke finally started to develop some 'special bond' with the redheaded girl. He found her cute and pretty, she was doing some change from all the brown-haired girls he knew, from his grandmother to his mother to his sister. Yes, she was cute and pretty, but she was also a real pest. Every time she was doing some prank to somebody, it was always finishing to be Luke's fault. Luke was beginning to be used to that, but Padmé started to care a bit for her son, who was always suffering the redhead's actions. Before she learned that Palpatine was already foreseeing to marry them together, Padmé had decided to pre-arrange a marriage with Talessi Rakatey, the ambassador's daughter of Alderaan. Of course, it didn't work and Talessi ran back on her home planet, terrorised by the Emperor's anger after a bucket of yellow paint had fallen on him.
As time passed, Luke grown up and started to go out with Mara, what was obviously going to happen someday or another. The only thing is that Mara got a real bad temper and at each frustrations, she decides to break with Luke. She insults him, he cries, but Mara always finishes to forgive him and they go out again till Mara's next frustration.