#Ja-Kal

[gritsandbrits]

This whole gif is a mood.

[ben-the-hyena]

Who are the characters' patron gods ?

We know Nefertina's patron goddess is Bastet, it's the topic of a whole episode

Ja-Kal's is not very consistant, it's a falcon and they keep alternating between saying Ra and Horus as if they were the same character... but sometimes in myths they fuse into Ra-Horakhti so they CAN be his patron gods fused as one !

Armon's is a ram, so it is natural most people think about the most known ram god, Khnum. But since Khnum has wavy horizontal horns belonging to a breed that no longer exists whereas Armon has normal ram horns like we know them nowadays, I would be inclined to think Amun is his patron god since he can sometimes be represented as a ram with circular horns. Plus, similar name lol

Rath's is much harder because there are tons of cobra gods. And a lot are goddesses and we don't know if their patron deities have to fit their gender or not needed. Renenutet ? Meretseger ? Wadjet ? The goddesses of the Ogdoad ? Plus the show doesn't always make the gods very accurate (WHY THE HELL DID THEY MAKE SEKHMET A VULTURE !?!) so maybe other gods who usually are not cobras but simply snakes like Nehebkau or Werethekau ? Or straight up other gods who would have been drastically changed for that show like Sekhmet has been ? For now I go with Werethekau, being a goddess of magic and he is a magician

Scarab may not be a mummy, he has similar powers and is beetle themed so we can suppose he has a patron god too. And there is only one beetle god in Egyptian mythology, Khepri

Arakh and his son Kimas are scorpion themed. There are a few scorpio goddesses, no male, so it could mean gender does mean nothing. The most famous and powerful one being Serket it is probably her and either because they are father and son so it is special or because Arakh is a jerk who does not see Kimas as his own person but just an extension of himself they share her as patron goddess... OR One has Serket and the other has one of the others, Sepertuenes, Ta-Bitchet, Ifset, Wepetsepu, Sefedsepu, Batcheh, Metemet-Nefertiyes, Sefet-Sefekh, Iset Hededyt, Iset Ta-Wahaet... but I will go with the first I think, less complex, more in-character from Arakh, they have the same talisman who links them to each other, and some scholars think all these goddesses are actually just other forms of Serket anyway

[onceupona-crossover]

kefer (egyxos) & ja-kal (mummies alive) platonic moodboard with warrior and king themes, and the colour blue

requested by: anon

- mod merida

[juniaships]

Assigning squishmallows to the heroes of Mummies Alive

Ja-Kal: Grin the falcon, based on his amulet

Rath: Khaled the snake

Amon: Ramsey the ram

Nefer-Tina: Nathan the cat

Presley: Cruz the Sun

Chesney(my SI): Strawberry Cow!

[mamuzzy-creates-stuff]

If we look cute enough, they will surely blame it on the alphas. 👉👈🥺

In order: A'den, Mereel, Ordo, Prudii (hiding), Kom'rk, Jaing.

Kal: OHhhhhh, you know where you shove up those tooka eyes, you think I was born yesterday, rascal sheb'ike!!! You won't get away with it this time!

Narrator: They, in fact, got away with it. Again.

[starwarsanthropology]

Ah yes, my favorite fictional family, Knife Revenge and his sons [checks notes] Shadow, Glove, Space Napoleon, Martyred Bestie, and Jaing

[roseaesynstylae]

So, the idea of the Bad Batch (minus Echo, plus Emerie) being the other half of the Nulls has consumed my goddamn mind. Therefore, as you do when an idea takes up residence in your frontal lobe for the foreseeable future, here's some headcanons.

The Bad Batch (except for Echo and Omega, who have no clue what's going on) hate the Nulls. As in, "murder on sight" hate them. From an in-universe perspective, there could be a myriad of reasons, ranging from feelings of abandonment to resentment over them having a better life. From a writer's standpoint, it's because I love me some good old familial dysfunction and angst.

The more...unhinged...tendencies the Nulls are known for manifests in the Bad Batch more as "let's jump off this cliff and use explosives to direct our fall!" and less as "hey, check out my new skin gloves!" Of course, if you push them too far, it's a different story. In order of least to most likely to pull a "lemme turn you into an art installation," it's Omega, Wrecker, Hunter, Crosshair, and Tech. Omega wouldn't do that, at least not at this point in her life. Wrecker, when enraged, goes for the just-hit-them solution. Hunter's a decent human being and usually wouldn't do something like that...Unless his kid's been kidnapped by a crazy Imperial doctor for the fifteenth time, on which point he starts becoming a little deranged. Crosshair hovers close to the line but wouldn't do it to someone unprovoked. Tech is a special case, in that he has to be pushed, but when he is, the results make the rest of the Nulls go "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST."

The Nulls want to reunite with their lost siblings and build a relationship, but that's kind of hard to do when said siblings (except Omega) keep trying to kill them on sight and none of them were built for intricate and deeply complicated emotional issues. Still, they persist. Eventually, they could probably get to the level of "awkward conversations" but it'll take a lot of work.

The Bad Batch have what makes the Nulls superior to regular clone troopers, plus their unique enhancements (which in this version are less defects and more Nala Se picking an attribute for each of them and cranking it up to 11). They feel that it makes them better than the Nulls, something they're not shy about expressing.

Emerie is the same height as her estranged (I can't think of a word that applies to this specific situation but this one will do) brothers, because I stan a tall queen.

Nala Se is smug as hell whenever she sees Orun Wa. "CT-9904 just broke all records for accuracy, CT-9902 discovered a new element, CT-9903 crushed beskar like it was paper, and CT-9901 tracked a man through five systems and a solar storm. What are your clones doing, again?"

There is no understating the sheer "wtf" that goes through the Nulls' heads when they first see Omega. But, of course, this is Omega. Imagine the cutest image of her you've seen, fanart or canon. That's what the Nulls see when they meet her. Unsurprisingly, the Nulls, who got the Mandalorian gene to adopt anything that isn't nailed down, go from "wtf" to "so smol 🥰" in roughly a minute.

Kal Skirata is in the corner. His attempt to interact with the Bad Batch did not go well. He casually calls Hunter "son," as he does with various characters, and the resulting explosion puts a thermal detonator to shame. Since it's clear that his presence is not making things better, he's sort of just in the corner.

The rest of Clan Skirata, and associates, are staying out of this. Gilamar and Vau took one look and retreated to the bar because they know better than to get involved. Everyone else witnessed one of the less acrimonious encounters and collectively decided that they are not jumping into the emotional equivalent of a pit of rabid wolverines.

Echo is the go-between. He does not want to be the go-between. But he's the only neutral party in this thing aside from Omega, and the rest of the Batch don't trust the Nulls with her.

Spare a though for 99. He raised four of these guys, often with the aid of leashes. Truly, he is an unsung hero of the Clone Wars

[mamuzzy]

Teach a Null to fish and they will bore the shab out of themselves.

No.

Really.

As soon as Kal leaves them alone with the task, they drop the fishing rod to ground, get the thermodetonators out and Kyrimorut will eat fish for weeks.

[watchingthecredits]

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[totally-not-your-babe]

Spoilers for the first two books of Republic Commando

I just finished Hard Contact and started reading Triple Zero (I don't know why the Hungarian version called Coruscant btw) AND OH MY FORCE I'M SO IN LOVE WITH THESE BOOKS ALREADY!!!

Omega Squad my loves

I have mixed feeling about Etain sometimes BUT I adore her (why did Karen had to say she wasn't attractive in every two pages I can't understand tho)

Fi just wants to drink some beer and it's the most relatable thing ever

DARMAN MISSING ETAIN

The Omega's getting the black armours when they have mission on a snowy planet... like REALLY

The way Skirata protected the Nulls! I love him. I don't hear anyone out I love him no matter what! He is my dad now

The Boba-sleeping-in-Jango's-arms part MY HEART

ORD'IKA

Sedate me!

[clonecumber]

The fact it's canon the Nulls (or at least Kom'rk, Jaing, Prudii, and Mereel might be a special case, but his name pops up too) seem to be the go-to crosstrainers for regular Troopers into specops is actually really funny. They've still got shit to do, probably! They were raised by a man who thinks dragging 8-year-olds into active warzones is great basic training! The solution is obvious! Cue Working Single Parent Null energy. Welcome to your first day, class! Today we will all be going on a field trip! Don't worry if you don't understand something; it will all be covered in the reading you will be doing tomorrow while I'm busy committing a financial felony. Don't ask!!! That will be module whenever-I-next-have-a-reason-to-commit-a-financial-felony. Now let's go perform a political assassination!

[ben-the-hyena]

SPEAKING OF POST MORTEM POWERS... as said, only Scarab is the known living character to have patron god-related powers, and his are even quite different from the others (not mummified, no talisman around his neck or anywhere, again a different transformation that looks more painful and a animalistic making him rip his robes and looking like he is growing into it rather than a magical-girl transformation like the others, doesn't need to say "WITH THE STRENTH OF RA" to activate it just his own thoughts, doesn't discharge nor need to recharge and can transform and detransform indefinetely, no magic weapon, and again PERHAPS the presence of the beetle tatoo/mark on his back), meaning his powers are probably coming from another source whenever that was which we will never know since the show was cancelled. And Kimas, the only minor mummy, after resurrecting is impressed by the others' powers who tell him all mummies have those and teach him how to use his, meaning Scarab aside it is obvious as day and night it is a mummy thing in that universe

Later in the show we see Ja-Kal was killed (and possibly Rath, Nefertina and Armon too) by the hand of his evil brother Arakh, who, jealous, had offered his services to Scarab, who accepted but told him he needed (in my own words) some more upgrades. After that we see him kill Ja-Kal with his scorpion powers he has as a mummy in present days

But something that bothered me... is he already had grey skin. The same grey skin he later has and all mummies are drawn with

So either it is a just an animation error and they did not bother recolor him right

Or, since his powers seemed to work like the others and not like Scarab's,

ARAKH WAS SO INSANE AND JEALOUS HE AGREED TO BE KILLED AND MUMMIFIED THEN RESURRECTED BY SCARAB TO BE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO KILL HIS BROTHER

AND SINCE WE SEE HE DOES NOT CARE FOR HIS 12 YEARS OLD SON KIMAS AND ONLY RAISED HIM TO BE YET ANOTHER WEAPON AGAINST JA-KAL AND AND KIMAS IS A MUMMY IT MEANS HE PROBABLY HAD HIM KILLED WITH HIM WHETHER HE WANTED OR NOT TO "REACH HIS POTENTIAL" THE DAY HE WOULD COME BACK TO LIFE

THAT GUY IS CRAZY

[curlygirlybitchachos]

Kal Skirata hide your sons because I'm coming.

[thelightismine]

having recently re-read the Republic Commando books for the fiftieth time (but the first time as a proper adult), amongst many other things that jumped out at me this time, I've been pondering the Many Failings of Kal Skirata™ - and one thing that kept me awake the other night was the realisation that...it takes Kal ages between adopting Ordo and the rest of his brothers, right??

So I went back and did the math. Kal adopts Ordo in True Colours, soon after rescuing Vau on Mygeeto, at 471 days after the Battle of Geonosis (ABG). An excerpt from the scene below:

"I never adopted you formally," Skirata said. It had been bothering him in recent days, ever since he began to think of the war as having a definite timescale. "Any of you." "Does that matter?" Skirata now felt that it did. No Mando'ad would nitpick over the bond between him and his boys, and as far as the Republic was concerned clones didn't even qualify as people, but his plans to give them a decent future had now become very, very specific. [...] "Yes," he said. He reached to grasp Ordo's hand and recited the short, no-frills gai bal manda - "name and soul," all it took to unpick history and give a child a new parentage. Mandalorians were habitual adopters. Bloodlines were just medical detail. "Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad, Ordo." Ordo stared at their clasped hands for a moment. He had a crushing grip. "I've been your son since the day you first saved my life, Buir." "I think you boys did the saving," Skirata said. "I don't want to imagine where I'd be without you." Skirata was now busy hating himself for not doing this before, not making the ultimate commitment, and he fretted about his five other Nulls scattered around the galaxy.

And having re-read this section in detail, it now baffles me even further that it takes him - wait for it - ANOTHER YEAR AND ~THREE MONTHS to adopt the other five Nulls??

Yes, that's correct. Kal adopts the other five Nulls in Order 66, in the scene where they all come together 'on screen' for the first time, which is set 940 days ABG. That is 469 days after he formally adopted Ordo.

At the time KT wrote these books, according to Legends, one standard year is 368 days, with 12 months of 30 days each. If I've crunched correctly, Kal adopts the other five Nulls roughly fifteen and a half months later than Ordo.

And OHHHH:

The meal was as much a rare celebration as a meeting, and the Nulls even had a few glasses of Chandrilan wine. "I should have done this many years ago, adi'ke." Skirata raised his glass. "Ni kyr'tayl gai sa'ad - Mereel, Jaing, Kom'rk, A'den, Prudii. There. It's formal, legal. You're my sons and heirs." "And we won't bankrupt you," Jaing muttered. "Not with the amount you're skimming, ner vod," Mereel said raising his glass in return. "Thank you, Buir'ika. An honor." At least one cause for guilt had been lifted from Ordo's shoulders. He was no longer the only Null formally adopted by Skirata. It was a legal detail, nothing more, but Ordo didn't want to be singled out as the favorite. He already felt he had a far easier time than his brothers.

what do you MEAN you just went on and forgot to do it, despite seeing them and speaking to them regularly for over a year, Kal?! yikes

Reading this back again, all I could think was - poor Ordo. It's explicitly stated here that he had been feeling and still feels guilty. Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had only formally adopted you, and not the other five of your closest brothers, for OVER A YEAR- (I will keep yelling it I'm not over it)

When they all make jokes about him being the Number One Son. When they all tease him for being the favourite. How do you think this knowledge affected Ordo’s relationship with his brothers?? Not wanting to mention it?? Do you think he ever did?? How do you think they reacted if they knew he was already adopted prior to this??

Not to mention, how does Kal not see this as something that might cause an issue for Ordo?? With how much he loves him??

I find their reactions interesting, because if they didn't know, they play it very cool. I'm leaning towards they did know, Ordo didn't just sit on this knowledge for over a year, maybe couldn't - because otherwise, why is no one asking why Kal left him out of the list? Why is their only reaction calm pleasantries?

Possibly because they don't care about formal adoption that much - it's worth noting Ordo's reaction is also to kind of brush it all away: "I've been your son since the day you first saved my life, Buir."

(I think it also opens up a bigger discussion about Ordo's role within his brothers as...almost a shield between Kal and his brothers, able to take the brunt of Kal's...manipulations to spare them the same attention - I wonder if they don't care as much about their adoptive status because it doesn't mean nearly as much to them as it does to Kal, because Kal doesn't rule them as much as he'd like to think he does. It’s interesting how Ordo is both uncomfortable with the position as Number One Son but also sees its…strategic value?? He states earlier in the scene that he'll swap drafts with Kom'rk because it's "his turn" to explore the Outer Rim, but as far as we know, he never actually does this - despite missing each other dearly, often, do the other Nulls willingly take missions that get them away from Kal? Which is why Ordo is almost never shown being anywhere that Kal isn't? Also the irony that so many people laugh at Maze for being a highly trained ARC being "wasted" in an office job, but Ordo also as far as we see never does anything flashier, nothing that couldn't be handled by a less superior officer, nothing that's far from Kal's side...)

ANYWAY

I’m just baffled as to how Kal didn’t think immediately after adopting Ordo “and now the other five” - my man, what took you so long?? If you love them all as you say you do??

HMMMM

[someoctober]

hi kal :)) i love ur theme!! how is art fight and your songs going?

hi hi hello!!!! thank you about the themeeee i’m doing what i do every year with artfight (put in effort for the first 5 days and then forget it exists) :( every year i say i won’t do that and then it happens again .. song is going on streaming things hopefully on friday which is Insane. how are you jassss

[mamuzzy-creates-stuff]

41 with ordomaze?

The prompt was: Spiteful kiss

I mean, what could have been more spiteful than kissing your boyfriend in front of his dad and brothers, when you are completely aware that he hides you from them?

Mereel is a catastrophe-tourist, enjoying the drama unfold. Jaing doesn't care that Ordo likes dicks, his partner is an ALPHA!!!! And Kal... well Kal now has a lot to think about now.