#Jangotat

[redbean-nom]

Cadets

(aka trash children, chaos children, and children who understand 98 is getting graded on this)

Inspired by @thefoundationproject! Closeups under the cut:

jesse got this pic from jangotat:

[clonememesfrikyeah]

Jangotat: “Hey guys, I uhh… might have gotten a girl pregnant. I don’t really know what to-“

Alpha-17: “WHAT?!”

Maze: “When?”

Fordo: “How??”

Jangotat: “… well, when a man and a woman love each other very much-“

Spar bursting through the door: “I know it took a while but i got the bantha milk! Did I miss anything while I was gone?”

Everyone: •_•

[roseaesynstylae]

The funniest thing about Spar being Mandalore is that you know the rest of the Alphas are just, “No, you aren’t. You’re our dumbass brother, drop it.” They are incapable of taking him seriously.

Spar: I’ve taken the name Mandalore the Resurrector.

Maze: Pay your fucking taxes.

Fordo: Show me the Darksaber, then win a duel against Windu.

Alpha: Drop dead.

Spar: None of you are supportive.

Jangotat: If you weren’t working for the Separatists, we would be.

[gh0st-c0mpany]

I always wonder what percentage of clones speak Mando'a or adopt Mandalorian culture. I personally believe most Clones know Mando'a but I don't believe every Clone does, especially since it seems that Clone Navel Officers only speak Basic and High Galactic and Clones like Barlex resent Omega Squad for adopting Mandalorian culture after so many of his men died to Separatist aligned Mandos. I would imagine clicks are prevalent because Bacara felt isolated from his brother's since he spoke in the Concord dawn dialect along with Neyo and Jangotat. Would Clones trained by Mandalorian Cuy'val Dar withhold the language from other Clones just for superiority and proof that they work with Mandalorian Sergeants instead of aruetii Bounty Hunters and Mercenaries? Are the Clones brotherly enough to share the culture and language that the Cuy'val Dar felt obligated to pass down? Is it enough that they picked up the language just by being around their Vode?

[auxxrat]

Babe wake up new jango/shaak mb just dropped

just sitting in my bed crying over the lore

[jewishcissiekj]

this book being consistent with the comics is everything to me, love it when an expanded universe is consistent across multiple media

[cienie-isengardu]

A-98 entered the refresher station, moving along to the steaming tile-floored confines of the shower room. He leaned against the gushing water, gasping as it struck his new abrasions. After emerging from the ocean onto the bloody beach they had spent another six hours struggling up a hill to capture a stun-gun-protected flag, working against captured or simulated battle droids. A full day of glorious, grueling torture. The soap squirted out of one of his brothers' hands, and Nate caught it. Then, to the amusement of those around him, he tossed the slippery bar from one hand to another like a carnival performer. That action triggered a brief wave of spontaneous silliness and dazzling jugglery as the troopers flipped the bars of soap back and forth to each other almost without watching, as if they were linked by a single enormous nervous system. It went on for several hilarious minutes, then died down due to shared exhaustion. They soaped themselves, wincing as astringent foam flowed into cuts and bruises. This was his life, and Nate could imagine no other.

The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes

[whyamismall]

Alpha-17 to teeny Rex: Fordo left the fresher seat up again, stun him for me?

Never too early!~

[silentwalrus1]

@notquiteaghost if you don’t think there would be dead serious no holds barred dogfights between multiple vode for who gets to be Jeff Prime then we aren’t talking about the same group of petri grown armed middle schoolers. Forget all the ones calling themselves Jangotat or whatever. Jeffs 12A and 12B’s worst scarring is from the multiple times they’ve fought over who gets to be Jeff 12. (It’s their favorite number.) (bonded pair, do not separate). Most of the handful of instances that the trainers/Kaminoans had to trigger Tipoca’s mass suppression measures were for cafeteria riots started over whether alternate spellings were legitimate & if the Jephs and Jefs and D’jehvs thus also had to enter the numerical ranking claim combat brackets. Fucking forget about when they all get access to space internet and discover media and favorite characters and thus fandom, flame wars and full on gladiatorial grudge matches over who gets to kin Spiffany

[wyvernsrus]

Alpha pile!

I wanted to give Maze some love after reading Triple Zero and what better way for that to happen than for his Kih'vode to drag him into a vod pile?

I finished this right before my copy of True Colors got here so it is time to go continue my journey through the Republic Commando Books!!

From left to right you have

Front: unnamed commander (brightest yellow), Maze, Stec, Fordo, Mar'ek (brightest blue), Jangotat, Tavo, unnamed Pilot (protectors symbol), Sull

Back: Trantos, Muzzle, Alpha-17, Spar, Aven

[clonememesfrikyeah]

Stec: “Hey Maze!”

Spar: “Force sakes, just say corn, Maze is corn everybody!”

Fordo: “He calls himself that because he thinks it sounds more mystical.”

Jangotat/Nate: “Well I like the way he said it; Maze!”

All the other arcs: “Maze! mAze! MaZe!”

Trantos: “It’s fantastic!”

Alpha-17: “It’s a-Maze-ing.”

Maze: ” :/“

[roseaesynstylae]

Jangotat: Writing poetry about the beauty of the universe, wondering at nature.

Fordo: Accepting yet another medal, wondering what to do with it.

Cut to Alpha-17 dragging Maze, Sull, and the Mandalorian Protectors as he screams at a retreating Spar. There is foam gushing from his mouth. His eyes have rolled completely back in his head.

Jangotat: Dipping his feet in a stream, surrounded by wildflowers. Relaxing music plays.

Alpha-17’s eyes have completely filled with blood. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is coherent speech. He looks like something out of a nightmare. Even as everyone tries to hold him back, he bites clean through one of Spar’s gauntlets, fueled by sheer rage.

Fordo: Doing something insanely badass.

Alpha-17 is on the ground, body unable to keep up with his fury. Spar is rocking back and forth in the fetal position. Maze punches Sull in the kidney.

(The title of this story might as well be “Spar is About to be Run Over With A Streetcar Named Desire.” Alpha-17 is pissed.)

[panther-os]

I have So Many 911 wips open on my computer rn, list and snippets below the cut

Snow crunched under boots, and Razor swiveled. “Friendlies!” Neyo called, one of the 501st medics right behind him as he walked out of the woods. “Her name is Maddie Buckley,” Stak reported to the medic. “No obvious injuries besides that black eye and that shallow cut on her face. Blood’s not hers.” “Alright, Maddie, I’m Kix,” the medic introduced himself. “Let’s see what’s going on.” “Report,” Neyo ordered. Razor stood at attention. “Her husband was chasing her, armed with at least a slugthrower. We haven’t touched the body yet. She grabbed my blaster, said she wasn’t running anymore, and shot him.” “He hurt me,” Maddie cried, as Kix worked, apparently eavesdropping. “He killed that man - oh, God, he killed Chimney. He chased me across the continent, he wasn’t ever gonna stop.” “He’s stopped now,” Kix said gently. “He can’t hurt anyone ever again. Now, trauma is funny, you might feel trapped in this moment or in others from the past, but in every future moment, he’s stopped.” Maddie tipped over and sobbed into his shoulder.

Friendly reminder relevant for later: I'm mixed Chicane/Tsalagi. I don't know everything, I'm reconnecting and I'm not AMAB, but the argument between two Brown people about indigenous heritage reflects my own struggles and internal dialogue and Eddie's struggles with masculinity are based on insider understanding.

Untitled TCW crossover - The 118 keeps running into the 91st, just one of several clone battalions trapped on earth and trying to stay under the radar. Eventual Ponds/Josh

Nate (Star Wars crossover) - The 118 is called to a human trafficking sting because of their reputation for pulling off the impossible. They're led to Nate/Jangotat/Alpha-98 who has been tortured and has vital readings that shouldn't be possible. Eddie identifies him as a possible military project and refuses to let anyone take him away. Eventual Chimney/Maddie/Nate

“Eds?” Buck murmured softly. Eddie shook his head and started snapping out orders. “Get him down and put him on oxygen and a nebulized sedative. The minute he comes to, he’s going to start swinging and we don’t have the space or the numbers for that.” “Christ,” Hen cursed, readjusting her bag over her shoulder. “He doesn’t look like he has the strength to twitch, let alone swing.” “He’s a soldier,” Eddie said, pulling equipment out of his bag, “and he’s been tortured. Trust me.” “Seen this before, Eddie?” Bobby asked, not unkindly. Eddie scowled up at the unconscious man’s injuries. “Close enough.” Bobby nodded. “Alright, take the lead.”

Olivia - Buck 1.0's daughter surfaces while Eddie is still recovering from being shot. Eventual Buddie.

Buck shook his head, then sat beside Chris at the table. “I learned that I’m a dad. I have a kid.” Chris snorted. “That’s not new,” he laughed. “No?” “No.” “Who’s my kid then?” Chris shook his head, looking at Buck like he was being especially silly. “Me,” he said. “I’m your kid and you’re my Buck.” Buck blinked in shock, flopping back against the back of his chair. “I think your dad might have something to say about that.” “He said it first,” Chris said, then frowned to himself. “Not the kid part, though.” Buck chuckled nervously, interlacing his fingers over his stomach as he bounced his knee. “Yeah, I’m sure. Okay, but, if you insist, I have another kid. A little girl.” Chris tilted his head. “I have a sister? What’s her name?”

tiny black panthers - Mid-season 1, Buck joins the adopting post-Black Panther black cat adoption craze.

I don't have an excerpt for this one yet, but I did look through adoption listings currently in the LA area for inspo and found two black kittens I'm pretty sure I am legally required to give Buck - Sharpie and Athena. (Backup links because hopefully they get adopted soon. 🤞)

machismo - Eddie struggles with sexual, cultural, and gender identity. Buck thirsts and helps. Eventual distinguished bigender demi-uranic Eddie/disaster cis+ bisexual Buck. ("Cis+" here meaning "had a gender journey, wound up being a gender circle".)

“No, no.” Eddie sat up straighter. “You don’t understand. I literally cannot be gay.” Hen and Bobby shared a look. “Is there a problem I need to be aware of?” the captain asked. “What?” Eddie waved his hand in the air. “No, you know I’m supportive. But I can’t be gay.” “Why not?” Buck asked. Eddie struggled for words before landing on “I’m Mexican.” The others laughed. “Better tell Carlos,” Buck teased. Eddie sucked in a sharp, panicked breath between his teeth. “Have you ever been a gay Mexican man? I guarantee Carlos has his own problems, and I respect the hell out of him for however he deals with them, but I have Christopher to think of. Like I said, I cannot be gay.” He shook his head. “You all make fun of macho men, because to you it’s a negative stereotype. I was raised with machismo - the good and the bad - as an ideal to live up to. I cannot be gay.” [...] “But it does say it’s alright to be feminine, right? Which is usually the biggest worry about being gay?” Eddie sighed and knocked the side of his head against the truck window. “Machismo literally means masculinity. So if all those things are part of machismo, none of them are feminine in my culture.” “Oh,” Buck said. “You know it’s alright to be feminine sometimes,” Hen said. “Not for me,” Eddie said. “I’d really like to drop this.” Chim popped his gum in the uncomfortable silence that followed. “Hey, what if you topped?” Buck asked. “Buck!” everyone yelled.

Untitled 911 Fic - Chris helps Buck realize and accept that he has ADHD, just not in the stereotypical way.

Chris waved a finger in the direction of Buck's temple. "You don't have enough brain chemicals, but your brain makes more of them when you're happy. So if it's something you like, you can get hyperfocused on it; and if it's something you don't like, your brain starts ignoring it and looking for something you do so that you can get enough chemicals." "Yeah?" Buck asked. Chris nodded. "You like being a firefighter, and you like researching things, so you can focus on them and remember them. You like cooking now and can focus on it now, but you told me that you didn't like it before Captain Bobby starting teaching you, and Miss Maddie said you were worse than Dad when you didn't like it because you couldn't focus." Buck's mouth dropped open a little. "Because my brain didn't get the chemicals from it?" "Right," Chris said.

Untitled 911 Fic 2 Electric Boogaloo - A second generation Nahua immigrant (OFC) joins the 118, immediately pisses Eddie off, and then apologizes and works to earn his trust. They become friends. Established Buddie.

"Díaz, eh? Cualli tonalli. Notōcā Silvina Chavez, notōcā Nahuatl Citlalli. Nehua Guerrero. ¿Campa tihuala?" "…. I understood 'Nahuatl' and 'campa'." "Where's your family from?" "Texas." "Originally? Before the Annexation?" "Ah, no, Ciudad Juárez, my abuelo worked across the border in El Paso and they got green cards to be closer to his job. It's basically the same city, you wouldn't know you were crossing if not for Border Patrol." "Juárez…. Apache, then? Chiricahua Apache?" "Mestizo conversos." "Ahhhhh. You speak Ladino?" "Ladino is from the Sephardi who fled east first, to the Ottoman. My family fled west first, to the Americas." "I see. It's just a shame." "What is?" "So many self-identified Latinos are just brainwashed Natives. You have indigenous heritage, I can tell by your nose. It's there if you want to reclaim it." "I'm not lost and I don't need you to save me."

friends with miracles - Buck and trans!Eddie have a night together while drunk. Eddie winds up pregnant and decides to carry to term, though he's not sure what he'll do after that. Requited Unrequited Love and Friends to Lovers Buddie (Shannon and Eddie were open poly, and Eddie was the only one of her partners willing to marry her so she didn't have to deal with single mom stigma. Christopher is his kid in every way that matters.)

in your arms lies eternity - Buck winds up with custody of Connor and Kameron's kid for Reasons. Eddie sees him holding the baby and has a Gay Moment.

I don't have a snippet for either of these two, just empty titled and saved docs and a head full of daydreams.

[ace-oreos]

I’m currently reading The Cestus Deception for the very first time (and yes, I know how it ends) and I have to say, it does have its slow moments, but Nate’s character development totally makes up for it. And I really do love that even though he is very immersed in his life as a soldier in the GAR for the first half of the book, he still has that ARC sass. 

[jewishcissiekj]

screaming crying throwing up

[cienie-isengardu]

"Sir .. ." Jangotat looked to either side swiftly, saw that they were alone and lowered his voice. "Please don't laugh at me ..." The Nautolan shook his head gravely. "Never." "I'm thinking of taking a name." General Fisto's teeth gleamed. "I've heard that some do. What name are you thinking? Be careful," he warned. "Names can be powerful." The trooper nodded. "So ... a friend suggested: Jangotat. Brother of Jango." He narrowed his eyes as if expecting rebuke. "Would that be ... a good thing?" Kit Fisto did him the respect of genuinely pondering the question. Then, after almost a minute, he answered, "Jango was a man of great strengths. A worthy foe. I would be proud to have his namesake at my side." He slapped the trooper's shoulder. "Jangotat." "Would you inform General Kenobi? I've already told my brothers. The Nautolan's eyebrow arched. "And what did they say?" Jangotat laughed. "They wished they'd thought of it first."

The Cestus Deception