#Kal Skirata

[g00seg1raffe]

Cursory research into the meanings of Mandalorian armour colours...

Black - ne'tra = justice, an unshakeable moral code (also wanting to avoid stains on your clothes)

White - cin vhetin = a fresh start or clean slate (good for converts/adult adoptions)

Grey - genet = mourning a loved one (or recently rejected)

Gold - ve'vut = vengeance (a warning colour)

Silver - shev'la beskar = unpainted armour, a search for redemption (Din Djarin's guilt complex, anyone?)

Bronze - tranyc'bes - nobility and high status (favoured by stuck-up self-important jackasses)

Brown - daryc - valour, galantry, The Audacity (particularly when associated with them cunty lil jedi cape drops)

Tan - vhekadla - loyalty (lit. 'sandy' but I don't like sand, it's coarse and rough and...)

Maroon - daryc'tal - power (all hail Maroon 5, our benevolent overlords)

Red - ge'tal = honouring a parent (very popular, 10/10)

Scarlet - galar'tal - defiance and relentlessness (Mandalorian Scarlett Johansson omfg be still my bi heart)

Orange - shereshoy = shereshoy, a lust for life (the party people)

Yellow - shi'yayc - remembrance, burnt out vengeance (makes for funky funerals)

Mint green - cin vorpan - lust for peace, guardians and peacekeepers (does not necessarily mean I want to fuck guardians and peacekeepers, get your head outta the gutter)

Green - vorpan = duty, commitment and hard work (favourite of farmers, too)

Teal - jahaal = healing, violence as a last resort, I've seen some shit and now I defend peace (favoured by healers and New Mandalorians)

Blue - kebiin = reliability and faithfulness (favoured by single parents)

Sky blue - kebii'tra = new love, newlyweds, marriage and all that fluffy stuff (Satine's famous jewellery TCW S2 - ObiTine for the soul)

Indigo - jiisaviin = prosperity, victory, the feeling that we have achieved our hopes (tempting fate, perhaps)

Lilac - saviin = luck, change, survival in adversity, hope for the future (associated with the old God of Luck)

Pink - cin ge'tal - respect and knowledge, a fusion of past and future (associated with journalists and academics)

Ofc this is a rough guide and if anyone either doesn't like my sense of humor or wants more detailed information, check out these posts too: x x x

[cc1010fox]

Kal, catching Alpha-17 watching Fox and Cody wrestle and roll around together: You look like you want one of your own. Alpha-17, confused: What do you mean? Kal: An ad. Alpha-17: They are my ade...aren't they? Kal, raising his brows: You adopted them? Alpha-17: ...? Prime gave them to me. Kal, not having the heart to correct him: I guess he did...

[gh0st-c0mpany]

You're a Skirata now, adika

[bon-sides-sw]

Fett Family from the Uni Au

Linking this fic by @vytels bc is about them and the romance between Jaster and Kal (E)

[corrie-guard-things]

Taught myself how to use the animation feature on CSP just to do this (inspired by this post by @alabyte)

it's unpolished af but idc i love them

[roseaesynstylae]

I would love to see a fic where Kal Skirata and his associates meet the Command Batch. (I'll write it myself. Eventually.)

The second Kal -- or any of them, actually, said something along the lines of, oh, I don't know, "Must be hard, working with a bunch a baby-stealers" or more Jedi-bashing shit like that, we all know how they'd react.

Cody: Listens for a moment, then politely sets off a riot.

Rex: "Okay, bitch, get over here."

Wolffe: There's a mass murder. How dare you insult his father?

Doom: Hits the speaker in the groin.

Neyo: "First off, FUCK YOU--"

Fox: "I want a Jedi! I don't give a fuck if they're baby-stealers, I need one!"

Bly: Strangles the speaker.

Bacara: He lets them talk for a while, laughs hysterically, and beats the shit out of them with his helmet. The only one allowed to be an acidic bastard toward his Jedi is him, goddammit! (If Ki-Adi is watching, he's touched by his Commander's display of affection.)

Gree: Proceeds to rip their reasoning apart with detailed fact-checking and citations. He has a slide show with dancing graphics.

Ponds: Gives them the glare his General gives to particularly enraging Separatists.

Monnk: Raises his middle fingers. Then he raises his middle toes.

[arliganzey]

Tag your favorite Repcomm war criminal

[alabyte]

”we need more morally grey characters” y'all can't even handle Kal Skirata fym

[nocturius8015ficore]

Kal Skirata, Jango, Orum Wa and the Nulls (by me, Nocturius)

Nocturius: Oh crap, I thought I've already shared that one here, but, hey, enjoy!

It's a piece I made on Krita last Winter. It feel aaaaaaaaaaaaages ago since do RC and TBB content (well... mostly memes tbh) on a regular basis.

It took me over 50h to do. 9 characters, Tipoca City and the work of light and storm. That was an hard one for sure! Still not 100% happy with the perspective, shading and composition but that's a ''me'' problem as an artist. I tried hard to respect the books description and also material from The Clones Wars and Attack of the Clones for the visual as reference pictures. I found some useful concept art online too. That was a very formative project. I think it was the first time I did piece directly on Krita instead of scanning a sketch. I was getting more confident with my stylet and wacom!

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Here some WIP, for the funzies.

Go well with that fine fan-made audiobook reading of that exact scene! (no need to have read the first book to enjoy ^^)

[loonyundead]

Yes, Kal is _this_ small (and Walon is a great long stick).

[mamuzzy]

@ithillia found me a goldmine here. I haven't read the Legacy of the Force yet but we can get a glimpse here how Boba saw Kal as a kid.

If I remember correctly, Jango called him by Vau's recommendation but I have to reread that part.

Jango: SKIRATA

Rest of the Cuy'val Dar: how did he manage to do that...???

Vau: *reconsidering his life choices of recommending Kal*

Kal Skirata. Smol and angy and able to piss off Jango Fett too.

AGGRESSIVE LITTLE HUMAN I CAN'T-

(I can't believe I've actually found a pikachu-with-knife-gif)

I think Kal still haunts some of the kaminoans' dreams who dared to look at his children the wrong way. But according to Taun We's comment I have the feeling that sometimes they didn't have to give a reason. They just had to be kaminoans for that. Kal really hated them and found them all complicit in harming the clones regardless if they were actually involved in the research or not. Encountering Kina Ha is what starting change his mind about judging an entire race for the crime of the few.

Nulls: Hey, Bob'ika! No passing through this corridor unless you can answer this question.

Boba: [rolls eyes but answers anyway]

Nulls: [narrow eyes] IN MANDO'A.

Boba:

In short (lol)

Kal is short. He always gives the impression of being angry. He doesn't fight fair - I mean, his specialty is assassination, intelligence gathering, and psychological warfare.

He is a menace.

[isurrendertoclones]

Vau: Do you think he knew, Kal? […] Sev. I never told him I was proud of him, and I was. Did he know I loved him every bit as much as you love your boys?

Skirata:

[verpineshatterrifle]

food related kal skirata headcanons

-he's been keeping snacks on his person since he met the nulls, who as kids would just come up to him and stick their hands in his pockets. he keeps talking to jango while mereel roots around for the jerky. 'left belt pouch, mer'ika' 'you moved it >:v'

-after living in a bombed out city alone as a kid and then spending a large chunk of his life completely broke, kal personally has a lot of really shit comfort foods. like, bottom-of-the-pantry poverty bordering on prison food. cinnamon sugar on toast. ramen noodles with peanut butter in it.

-he was much worse when he was younger and has mostly grown out of it, but had a lot of food security issues as a result of the whole 'lived in the rubble and basically went feral as a 6 year old' thing. munin had a hard time getting him to eat all of his food instead of just eating part of it and stashing the rest somewhere for later

-kal can cook pretty well. nothing fancy, and frankly he's better at campfire cooking than using a stand mixer, but he does a perfect fried egg

-most mandos carry travel-sized hot sauce and kal is not an exception

-in the books he frequently takes people to diners for difficult talks, asks someone to make caf when things get tough, offers candy and treats, makes sure that one senator's secretary gets ordo a glass of juice as a form of respect. bardan starts bringing troops food and it's noted that he's taking a page out of kal's book. food is a big deal to him, and it's not just because the clones have a higher metabolism, it's a language of respect and comfort and love to him

-maze saying that he likes zey because 'he made the caf around the office' hit kal like a fuckin truck because of that. unfortunately he wasn't able to be anything but angry right then but if book 6 had happened i like to think that that line would have come back to be significant

-kal doesn't know what a calorie is but he'll rip anyone who suggests you LIMIT them a new asshole

[archivewriter1ont]

I respect Kal Skirata so much for the single act of stepping off of a ship onto a completely strange planet, telling himself he's only doing this for the money, and immediately adopting SIX kids. (Twelve if you count the ones he named even though they died before he arrived, which I do, because I apparently like to cause myself heartache.)

[cc1010fox]

Kal: There's nothing better than a happy ad. Alpha-17: You haven't met a happy and safe ad then. Fox, running to Kal: Ba'vodu! Kal, sweeping Fox up: Fox'ika, how have you been? Fox, grinning cheekily: Happy and safe! Kal, laughing: Seems I have met one then. Fox: Where are the others? I have something to ask my ori'vod, Mereel! Kal: They're scouting our surroundings. Why don't you go see if you can find all of them? Fox, after being let down: Ok! Kal, after Fox runs off: How's the beskar'gam treating you? Alpha-17: It feels odd... Kal, chuckling: I bet it does! That old armor was practically your second skin. You grew up in it. Alpha-17: Yeah...but I don't miss it... Kal: I see you made some...interesting choices with your new armor... Alpha-17: Respectful choices. Kal: They better be. Jango is going to see right through your strategy. If you do it right, though, you might get his reluctant approval. Alpha-17: That's my hope. Kal: I'm guessing Fox is going to ask Mereel if he knows about Jaster Mereel. Alpha-17, chuckling: He's learned a lot about him, so I have no doubt.

[mamuzzy-ordocore]

Republic Commando AU where everything is the same, but Kal buys adidas tracksuit instead of leather jacket.

I thought you might be interested xD

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