star wars - Why did Anakin build C3PO?

C3P0 is a protocol droid that seems to be used mainly for translations. Anakin said he built it to help his mother do her work.

What use would a protocal droid be to a slave?

(Please note that this is not a question on how he managed it, merely why he bothered).

Answer

CANON: In the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover, when he offers C-3PO to Padme, Anakin says he built C-3PO to be his friend since he didn't have many friends as a child.

Without anything of his own to give except his love, all he could bring her was a friend.

"I didn't have many friends when I was a kid," he'd told her, "So I built one."

And C-3PO had shuffled in behind him, gleaming as though he'd been plated with solid gold.

Padme had lit up, her eyes gleaming, but she had at first tried to protest. "I can't accept him," she said. "I know how much he means to you."

_{- Revenge of the Sith p. 113}

In The Phantom Menace, back when he barely knew Padme, Anakin claims to have built C-3PO to help his mother. However, this could simply have been his justification he provided adults. After ~~creeping on~~ getting to know, falling in love with, and marrying Padme, he finally reveals that his personal motivation for building C-3PO was actually to fashion himself a friend. His personal reason for building him was to stave off loneliness. Any help C-3PO would be able to provide Shmi was likely just an added bonus.

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