As for what the things those comments and whispers were about, they are mostly talking about Darth being a pitiful orphan and being an unwanted child of his father. They even said that he should have been nothing without his family backing him up so why was he acting so aloof and haughty. Some even called him useless since his eyesight was worsening year after year even though he has always done well in academics and other things throughout his childhood.
