#Fenn Shysa

[jastervhett]

Boba Fett VS Jodo Kast: Twin Engines of Destruction

Boba Fett (To Jodo Kast): "You're NO one! Not Dala, not Shysa! NOBODY!" - Star Wars Twin Engines of Destruction

Always ❤️ this line. It showed that Boba knew of Tobbi Dala & Fenn Shysa AND he also knew what they looked like. Proving that Boba was well aware of not only his Mandalorian heritage but also well-known/ important Mandalorian figures….

And I ❤️ how Boba upheld the Mandalorian Tradition of reclaiming/ removing Mandalorian Armor from all encountered individuals that are Non-Mandalorian (Similar to how Din Djarin repossessed Boba Fett's Armor from Cobb Vanth).

And last but not least, I can't leave out the classic Boba Fett line: "This IS my face."

[bardan-jusik]

FUCK YEAH NOW THIS IS WHAT IM READING THIS BOOK FOR

[verpine-art]

Hiiii

If you're still doing these, Fenn Shysa with D4 😬

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BAD I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD SEND IN FENN SHYSA!!!! YOU MADE MY DAY

send me a repcomm character to doodle!

[supersaiyanjedi14]

Sabine Week Day 3

Opted to blend the three prompts for this day. Yellow is most obvious as the colors of Clan Wren. The Fusion/Crossover prompt comes from this drawing on my personal Star Wars AU (which blends as much SW canons as I can into one package). As for Idealism, I went with this being reflective of Sabine living up to the ideals of the various faces of the Mandalorian people, in particular those that have a hand in influencing her development. Fenn Rau and Bo Katan are much the same as they are in canon, while my own Sabine ends up becoming something of a protege to Fenn Shysa in the post-Endor years.

@sabineweek

[jellomarsh]

Modern Mandalores (and guests)

Made for my lore series on Jango Fett

Top Row:

Jaster Mereel, Mandalore the Reformer

Jango Fett, Mandalore the Supercommando

Alpha-Ø2 Spar, Mandalore the Resurrector

Fenn Shysa, Mandalore the Protector

Boba Fett, Mandalore the Hunter

Bottom Row:

Tor Vizsla, Mandalore the King

Adonai Kryze, Warlord

Satine Kryze, Duchess

Pre Vizsla, Mandalore the Chosen

Bo-Katan Kryze, Mandalore the Shriek-Hawk

[marmota-b]

Justice for Fenn Shysa!

Well, that may be too strong a wording, but, seriously, Fenn Shysa deserves a lot more respect than he seems to get these days. Turns out I have a lot of thoughts and feelings on the subject, but the thing is, they're based on canon. (Legends canon, but considering how little new Disney canon ended up giving us, that still is where most Mandalorian discourse is happening to begin with.)

Fic writers (at least on AO3) who are into Mandalorians seem to love, love, love Jaster Mereel. They seem to think Jaster Mereel would have fixed everything, if only he had lived. There is an image of Jaster Mereel people have built up, and which they love, and hold up as a metric of what a good Mandalorian and Mand'alor is like.

I love it myself, but. But. Most of it is pure fanon.

Fenn Shysa's accomplishments aren't. Fenn Shysa is canonically great. Where are all the Fenn Shysa fics?!

Fenn Shysa, who incidentally has a lot in common with Jaster, actually did fix everything.

And it's a very interesting comparison to make because the two actually do have a lot in common, on a superficial level. They're both Mand'alors who started out as policemen, and don't come from a big established clan. But it seems to me that they took very different lessons from their experiences, and as far as I can see Shysa comes out the better from the comparison. Mereel, heralded as the reformer, by all appearances (including what lessons Jango seems to have taken from him) still doubled down on certain hardwired Mandalorian stock responses. Shysa moved on from them. Shysa overcame the biggest Mandalorian shortcomings.

(As far as I can see, the only thing Jaster might canonically have over him is taking in a ward (did he ever actually adopt Jango?) when Shysa remained without any family. Considering the truly hard times Shysa lived in, considering he spent a good deal of his adult years as a guerrilla fighter desperately trying to save people from the Empire, I can't find it in myself to hold it against him.)

And it's also interesting for a Mandalorian fan inclined to draw never-stated conclusions to compare them just by how they present. To look at Jaster Mereel, and look at Fenn Shysa, and see one wearing the colour of justice, and the other the colour of duty. Neither is necessarily wrong, of course, but in-universe, it probably does say something about them. We first meet Jaster fighting a civil war, bent on eliminating his opponents; we first meet Shysa freeing enslaved people. Their reasons for fighting differ considerably. And so do the results of their actions.

And it's the actions where Shysa shines. Where it's Shysa who is the real reformer.

Fenn Shysa actually united Mandalore. If you draw conclusions from the shifting canons the exact same way you do with Jaster, Fenn Shysa actually managed to work with all the factions and gain their respect: the fact that he was an undisputed Mand'alor after the fall of the Empire is Legends canon, not just fandom speculation of what the situation was and could have been.

Based purely on actual established canon events, Fenn Shysa was just about the best Mand'alor ever. Not flawless, of course, but better than most Mandalorians, able to rise above their common failings that have kept dooming them all throughout their history. He did not hold grudges, he wasn't isolationist, he wasn't inseparably married to the idea of warrior glory, while still maintaining warrior honour and a certain sort of proud independence. But he was not too proud to ask the Rebel Alliance / New Republic for help when Mandalore was attacked and overwhelmed - and not too proud to work with them. He also forgave and helped his enemies when it turned out they may have had somewhat justifiable reasons for their attempts at conquest, and immediately offered them Mandalorian help in reclaiming their own home. (Isn't one of the biggest failings of the Mando'ade how much they hold grudges, dooming any attempts at fruitful collaboration through old blood feuds and petty disagreements?) And he worked with the nascent New Republic, yet without giving in an inch of Mandalorian independence. He united the things the various factions wanted: he was an honourable warrior upholding the Supercommando Codex, he achieved peace within the system and peace with the Republic, and he gave rabid traditionalist Mandalorians actual wars to fight in which Mandalorians could prove their mettle before the Galaxy - just not destructive wars of conquest. It's not like the GFFA is short on villainous factions to try and stop.

It's Tobbi Dala who touches on it out loud in the comics, not Shysa specifically, but he obviously echoes Shysa's ideals: Their highest purpose as warriors is to protect. That's what the Resol'nare say, nothing else. Shysa started out, in the Clone Wars, as more or less a mercenary, like Jaster, but I think, outside of situations when he did have to be pragmatic about things like making a living, he outgrew it into something even greater.

Fenn Shysa may not have written a neat manifesto, but I bet he actually lived it. He was the best Mand'alor Mandalore had had in ages. Fenn Shysa was exactly the Mand'alor the Mando'ade needed, when they most needed him. He revived their spirit and their purpose after centuries of strife and defeats.

More respect for Fenn Shysa, please. Much, much more.

(I guess the unquestioning love of Jaster at Shysa's expense is excellent proof of the truth of that one Mandalorian saying: "He who writes, remains." 🙄)

[archeo-starwars]

ALIENS IN THE EMPIRE: Part I, Star Wars Insider # 96 online supplement written by Abel G. Pena & Rich Handley (page 5)

[cienie-isengardu]

He charged partly because he still had his gauntlet blades, and if he could get into hand-to-hand he could rearm himself with the blasters of dead enemies-but mostly he charged because he was Fenn Shysa, and if today should bring his death, he would fall with his teeth in the throat of the man who killed him.

Luke Skywalker and The Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover

[mandalorianhistorian]

I know that Mandalorians and Jedi don't exactly get along, but are there any EU Mandos that were sympathetic to the Jedi Order, or at least potentially saw them as allies rather than enemies?

We have a few examples from kotor all the way up to legacy of the force

( a lot of the Jedi they do befriend don’t really follow the code fully so it makes sense they do get along)

Wellll the first most obvious one is revan of course ( I still think revan is Mando but that’s a whole other can of worms) revan and canderous working together from the beginning of kotor and the mentions of it in kotor 2 is brilliant ( I will not mention the dam novel it’s insulting to the game) (kotor 1+2)

In the mandalorian wars we also have zayne carrick he got taken into the mandalorian ranks which wasn’t the best situation but he did befriend a mandalorian family (mandalorian wars comic series)

In swtor we have shae vizla and torian if you play republic side (being a Mando though is the best in swtor)

Well obviously we can count etain and bardan aswell and all the surviving Jedi that joined clan skirata (republic commando)

You can also count fenn shysa with leia Han and Luke and the rebel alliance

And durning the vong war boba and his mandalorians fought beside a Jedi in secret

Well obviously Jaina solo with boba fett mirta gev and bevin and Medrit and their daughter and her children so Jaina kinda wins lol she got a whole load of mandos she worked and talked with lol (sintas kinda counts) (legacy of the force)

I may have missed a few pls correct me if I have

(Sorry this took a while was trying to remember who worked with the mandos)

[bardan-jusik]

fenn shysa is like if you combined robin hood and king arthur, two of my childhood fascinations, and then gave him a buckwild accent, and i think that's why i like him so much

he's got the reluctant right to rule thing like king arthur, recognized by everyone around him but still not in a hurry to take his throne (even if he's naturally really good at it)

he's leading a band of underdogs who make their camp in a forest, against the tyrannical rule of the empire, occasionally making them look like utter fools

oh yeah and he dies in weird and bizarre circumstances

fenn shysa should have been the only person who ever ended up with the darksaber, its his mythological right, i'll die on this hill

[supersaiyanjedi14]

Fresh off of Sabine Week, I opted to make another micro collage for my personal Star Wars AU. This time, the Mandalores, the recognized highest leaders of the Mandalorian people throughout galactic history.

(bear in mind, this is not everyone who held the title or filled the same effective role, just the most prominent ones and those I could easily make a micro for)

-character list under the cut

-Mandalore the First

-Mandalore the Indomitable

-Mandalore the Ultimate

-Canderous Ordo, Mandalore the Preserver

-Shae Vizla, Mandalore the Avenger

-Jaster Mereel, author of the Supercommando Codex

-Jango Fett, template for the Grand Army of the Republic

-Satine Kryze, Duchess of Kalevala

-Pre Vizsla, Leder of the reformed Death Watch

-Alpha-Ø2 "Spar", Mandalore the Resurrector

-Bo-Katan Kryze, Mandalore the Redeemer

-Fenn Shysa, Mandalore the Reclaimer

-Sabine Wren, Mandalore the Defender

-Din Djarin, Mandalore the Reluctant

*credit for my pixels here

[jellomarsh]

The Original Mandalorian Protectors

Fenn Shysa

Alpha-Ø2 Spar, a "son" (clone) of Jango Fett mistaken as Boba Fett

Tobbi Dala, no relation to Admiral Daala

[cienie-isengardu]

Marvel Star Wars (1977) #69

[marmota-b]

Yay, another chapter done! I finally, finally dragged all the necessary sentences out of Boba.

[bardan-jusik]

@zanabes you know how in order 66/501st fenn asks kal if bardan would be willing to SOW HIS WILD SEED ACROSS MANDALORE and INTRODUCE FORCE SENSITIVITY INTO THE POPULATION as like. A NATIONAL DEFENSE PLAN. and eventually kal tells bardan about it and bardan has a REALLY GOOD LAUGH but fenn and bardan never actually meet

WELL I THINK THEY SHOULD MEET I THINK THAT WOULD BE FUNNY