#but that doesn't mean he wasn't jango's dad

[the-starry-seas]

So this whole BOBF AU started because I saw a meme on reddit and proceeded to take it seriously

So Boba of course has all those problems about being a clone, and of course all those problems about his dad being dead. Being a Fett just means having issues in general, right? I mean we've all seen Jango.

Boba is doing his perfectly normal daimyo thing when the Hutt twins show up with their tribute. Instead of a rancor - in this AU, the rancor was left behind by the former daimyo that Boba shot - the Hutt twins have a clone. Specifically, they have a clone made from Boba's DNA, rather than Jango's. They specify this when they drop him off.

Boba understands this as the implied threat it is. Someone who has his DNA without him realising it... nope, he has to dig into that and kill whoever is responsible.

He also has an extremely traumatised eight-year-old. The new kid's designation is 'Clone Experiment Prime'. Which is a little long for a name so they (Boba, Fennec, Din) call him Prime. They also start trying to figure out where Prime came from.

Eventually they figure everything out, destroy the facility, destroy the remaining DNA sample, and then go and kill the Hutt twins. It's a win for everyone involved! Well, everyone in the Fett clan.

And then Boba has to go back to Tatooine and deal with Prime. He does not want to be a father. He does not want to deal with a kid. He does ask if maybe Din wants to adopt Prime. Din essentially says "What's wrong with you? Get your shit together and step up for your new kid."

Meanwhile Prime is well aware that Boba does not want him around. Sure, Boba hasn't said anything where Prime can hear, but Boba's default way of dealing with new things is to be closed off and aloof, and that's not exactly reassuring. Prime's general takeaway from all this is I wasn't good enough for the scientists, so it's no wonder I'm not good enough for my father.

Besides, Boba has Fennec and Din, and Din has Grogu, so it doesn't seem like any of them have any need for Prime. Fennec and Din pay attention to him, sure, but they don't exactly seem to care. They don't ever tell him that he's wanted.

So the tiny, scared, angry clone who's never known love a day in his life... runs. He was abandoned in the science facility, so he thinks he knows how to survive on his own. Turns out that things are much more dangerous on Tatooine than one might expect.

It's not long before Boba realises that Prime is missing, and he then assumes that Prime was kidnapped. He promptly starts asking around in the criminal underworld. By which I mean he shoots a bunch of people and makes a bunch of threats, because he's Boba Fucking Fett and he's pissed off.

When a crew of lowlifes run across Prime, they recognise him as the daimyo's missing kid, and figure there's a great reward in it for them if they bring him back to the palace. Prime does not want to go back to the palace. This is completely irrelevant to the lowlifes, who drag him off, quite literally kicking and screaming.

Boba is not impressed with the way they're treating Prime, and promptly commits more violence.

This does not endear him any to Prime, who's well aware that Boba doesn't like him, and figures he's going to be next because of all the trouble he's caused. His attempt at running for his life is thwarted by Boba catching him.

Boba is not prepared for Prime to break down crying, or for Prime to swear he'll leave and never come back, if only Boba won't hurt him.

Boba reluctantly decides that if he's going to be anything like his father before him... he's gonna have to adopt the kid.

This starts an extremely tense father-son relationship, which Boba proceeds to mess up multiple times, because he has no idea what he's doing. And because he doesn't really want to be a dad in the first place, but he knows that if Prime does run off on his own, he's just going to become another target as soon as anyone figures out his connection to Boba. (Also Boba has daddy issues and abandonment issues, and something something healing your inner child, but in this case it's a child clone of you.)

Upon being treated with kindness for the first time in his life, Prime becomes the sort of clingy that is generally reserved for baby koalas. Boba is hardly the best dad, or even a good dad, really. But he cares about what happens to Prime, and ensures that nobody has a chance to hurt him, and gets him a good education and a pet massiff and a coat that protects him from the sand and a bed that's soft. Prime thinks that Boba's pretty great.

He also starts panicking extremely when he starts thinking that he's a girl, because Boba always calls him 'son' and 'boy' and 'him', and there will surely be some problems in the family if Prime is suddenly none of those things.

Once again, having been forced to be self-sufficient at a young age due to neglect, Prime's solution to all this is to run away, because if nobody knows where she is, they won't be able to hurt her.

Once again, Boba thinks that someone's kidnapped Prime and kills people about it, because if anybody's laid a hand on his kid, they're going to regret it.

Fortunately nobody else finds Prime this time around. Possibly because they're all aware that Boba's on the warpath, and they don't want to get in the middle of that. Or maybe it's just because she's gotten better at hiding, and also has a massiff with her who looks ready to rip the face off of anyone who looks at her wrong.

Boba finds her a few days later and is not pleased with any part of this situation. (He's also been scared shitless by the idea that slavers got their hands on his kid, but god forbid he feel a normal human emotion, so he's covering all that up with rage.)

Anyway, Boba and Prime end up in a screaming match in the street, because Boba thinks Prime is absolutely bonkers for running away from home again, and because of the aforementioned rage cover.

He's also stunned speechless when Prime finally shrieks at him that she ran away from home because she's a girl and he wants a son.

In the most exasperated and baffled tone known to man, he tells her that he doesn't care if he has a daughter or a son, he just wants her to be safe. (And in that moment, maybe, he's the most like his father that he ever will be.)

Prime is also stunned speechless by this, because she genuinely thought that Boba would discard her the second she no longer lived up to his expectations. That's what the scientists did, and it's the only frame of reference she has, for failure.

Upon realising that he's not like the scientists, she immediately starts crying. Boba immediately starts panicking, because he thinks she's been hurt. He somehow panics even more when she flings herself at him and hugs him, because he has no idea what to do about any of this. Eventually he picks her up and carries her home.

Boba has exactly zero idea how to support his daughter in her social transition. She can do whatever she wants, obviously. But it seemed to be a pretty big problem, so he feels like he has to say something. So he tells her that he'll do whatever she wants, if it will help, and asks if maybe she can talk to him if there's any problems, instead of running away again. (He's over thirty so like. His knees. Please have mercy on his knees. He can't keep running around like that.)

Prime decides that she wants a new name, because being called Prime always went hand in hand with being called a boy. Also it reminds her of the lab she was raised and then abandoned in, and she doesn't really like that. She asks if Boba will help her look for a new one, and Boba is internally actually kinda excited by this because it seems like a gesture of trust from her.

She decides to change her name to Prim, short for Primrose. Boba has some questions about that, because wasn't the point of changing her name... well, to be different than before? But he doesn't ask, because he doesn't want another runaway episode, and also she seems really happy with it. Anything to make his daughter happy.

(Being eight years old, Prim does not have the vocabulary to explain why she changed her name so slightly. It's about claiming what once signified her lack of autonomy, and making it part of her identity once she's allowed to have one. Prim is a similar word to Prime. That's the point. She's so similar to what she once was - when she was a scared, abandoned boy in an old lab, certain of nothing but a father's uncaringness - and there's barely any differences right now. But they are there. And they mean everything to her.)

Boba asks her about the flower she named herself after. She shows him pictures and gushes about how pretty they are, and asks if maybe, some day, when she's older, they can go on a trip to see some in person?

He says he'll think about it. He surprises her a week later with a huge flowerpot full of pink and yellow primroses in full bloom.

She tells him that he's the best dad a girl could ever have. And in that one simple sentence, is contained everything she ever wanted.

[count-doodoo]

2 and 12 for ask game pls?

ooooh interesting interesting. thanks for playing!

2. What character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

jango fett. listen, i never liked the guy, nor did i agree with his dubious life choices. but i was pretty ambivalent -- he was a low-level morally-dark-gray kind of antagonist.

by the force, though, some of the OYA MANDA content in this fandom... it's a pass, for me. especially "jango would be a good dad! see how much better he is than the jedi!" stuff because like... THE CLONES. LOOK AT THEM????? plus the galidraan slander... as a dooku fan i cannot abide.

(to be clear, i'm still not totally against jango, or against him being good in fics! some of the more extreme takes just make me want to take up the mando habit of excessive violence.)

12. Name a common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing.

"anakin wouldn't have fallen if--"

the only two acceptable ends to that statement, for me, are "if he chose to be better" and "if palpatine/the sith fucked off and left everyone alone".

obi-wan wasn't perfect, but he did his best, and frankly, he did enough. mace wasn't Cuddly Teddy Bear TM, but that doesn't mean he wasn't a good man. and qui-gon, bless his soul, would NOT be some sort of Perfect Jedi Master Teacher Who Doesn't Use The Word Master Because Anakin Used To Be A Slave. padme wouldn't have magically fixed anakin by joining him.

star wars does NOT need to depict the jedi as perfect in order to depict them as GOOD. people don't need to be perfect in order to be good, and frankly people don't even need to be good to be worthy of life.

star wars may not have done a perfect job of showing that the jedi were good, but it damn well did enough to show that they didn't deserve their genocide.

choosing violence ask game: star wars edition [x]

[rise-my-angel]

Okay I have thoughts about a potential season 3 that isn't stupid and is built on season 2's set ups.

Have Bo be the background antagonist all season, slowly building up her anger and resentment that she failed to get the Darksaber and hate that its in the hands of Din, a foundling.

Have Boba act as the companion in this quest to get to Mandalore, (make it a lot harder to get there then 30 seconds of turbulence), and slowly they figure out a way to navigate the mines of a desemated planet neither have ever been too. Boba has a chance now to talk about Jango, and where his own Mandalorian roots come from and connect with Din over how their very roots have made them outcasts in the eyes of blood born Mandalorians like Bo Katan.

Drop hints as they navigate Mandalore that reveal slowly to Din how extensive Bo Katan actually was in what led to its destruction and relate it to her disgust of Boba being a clone. Slowly painting an image of someone who would rule with hatred and bloodshed should she get a chance to yeild the Darksaber.

Use the quest as an opportunity to let Din teach Grogu about being a Mandalorian at the same time Din learns about Mandalore and its downfall. Giving us the theme of how all 3 of them are actually foundlings and allow Din to teach Grogu that its what kind of a person you chose to be that makes a great Mandalorian not who you are born as or too. Paralleling how Boba Fett knows his father wasn't perfect but he raised him with unconditional love and he turned out a better man then that of Bo Katan who was born to a powerful clan.

The whole season needs to be the journey to find, get to, navigate Mandalore and the final episode is the atonement.

Boba leaves Din alone to do it, agnowledging that this is a ritual that he does not follow and gives Din privacy. Respecting their differences in religion and not invading whats most important. He asks if Grogu should leave and he says no, hes his foundling, his son, therefore he is allowed to be apart of this.

Din willingly takes his helmet off in front of Grogu to bathe in the living waters, telling him before he goes in, that they are family. And even though Dins religion is of great importance, he sees that showing such a personal side to his son is what helped make Boba a good person who has never forgotten the man his father was. So as his son, Grogu deserves the same. Grogu deserves to see his father.

Din bathes in the waters, and as his head dives under, you intercut between two scenes. Din seeing the mythosaur as Grogu sensing something so he tries running to the water to get his dad but cant swim and has to panic at the top of the steps. And cut back and forth between that and Boba encountering Bo Katan who has followed them there.

Boba and her debate over how her blood supremacist beliefs is what helped lead to this planets destruction. But she is too blinded by her hate and continues to slander him that being a clone doesn't make him a Mandalorian, it doesn't make him anything.

Boba tells her he is something, he is his fathers son, and they fight. They are equally matched and just at the peak of their fight and Din seeing the mythosaur in the living waters? Cut back to Bo Katan in a lull of the fight, telling Boba that her kind will never accept him.

Only to behind off screen, Din tell her that her kind is what led to their genocide. He is as of right now seeingly unarmed as she yeilds to speak to him.

Boba understands, and takes Grogu himself and begins to move away. She might hate Boba, but it's not his existence that is a threat to her rule.

Din reveals he knows what shes done, her sister, death watch, Mandalores destruction and how her desire to rule has led to nothing but death. She argues back that people like him (she means foundlings but with her helmet off and theirs on, the racial undertones are evident), don't deserve to be Mandalorians. That the Daarksaber should be hers.

Din ignites it. Telling her if it belongs to her, then then to prove it. Bo puts her own helmet on, accepting the battle but she made a mistake.

Din has Grogu, he has atoned in the living waters, and he has companions he trusts and causes worth living for. The Darksaber doesn't fight him this time. He uses it better then he has all season.

Finally, in an emotional fight, Din overpowers her and knocks her to the ground holding the Darksaber over her like he held the spear over the defeated Gideon. The parallels in the way its shot are evident.

Bo yanks her helmet off, but is clearly wounded and knows she can't defend herself any longer. But Din looks up as he holds her at the swords edge.

He sees Boba, and he sees Grogu in his own arms looking at Din. Grogu coos, and gently reaches out to Din with one hand. And he deactivates the Darksaber.

Bo parallels Gideon, shocked he is sparing her life but unlike Gideons malicious glee? Bo is angry. Humiliated. Din says nothing to her. He doesnt need to.

He walks away from her, and she yells that he doesn't deserve it. That if he can't even kill her how can you even be a leader? Din takes Grogu in his arms once more.

Grogu holds onto Dins thumb and he gently strokes over his hand in return as he and Grogu lean to the other to press their foreheads together. For a breif second, we see Boba watching the action and it cuts for a quick shot of him as a child doing the same action with his fathers helmet after he watched Jango die.

Din doesn't speak to Bo, but to Grogu. That if he is destined to be any kind of leader, doing it her way won't work. It didn't before and it won't now.

The trio leaves and we don't follow them in their journey to the surface. We end the season on the shot of Bo Katan, wounded and splayed out on the ground.

Alive and full of hatred that she was defeated by a foundling and humiliated that even worse he left her alive.

She doesn't say anything and we don't even see a close up, but the implication is there.

This isn't the end of Bo Katan's story, but the beginning of one as a true antagonist towards Din.

i love boba fett & i want to see more of him, not cringefail bullshit-katan who got 2 other shows and arcs devoted to her. she should’ve been an antagonist, not a disneywashed princess bait-and-switch main character. din is the face of mandalore, not forgettable white girlboss #5.

boba should’ve been in s3, but disney chose not to call him and bring him in because that would mean they’d have to actually write an arc for bullshit-katan and make her suffer consequences for her shitty racist attitude. she couldn’t be rewritten to be an unproblematic princess hero if that were the case!

[bojangos]

hello i would like to hear about your “jaster never adopted jango” analysis

(LOVE your jaster art. im also inhaling crumbs)

(thank you for the compliment!!! I want to draw more of him sometime.  perhaps from one of the many ‘jaster lives’ aus i’ve seen lmao)

Alright here we go gamers. strap in i'll try to organize my thoughts coherently.

It all comes back to "The Mandalorian: Season 2, Chapter 14", where Boba gets his armor back and shows Din his chain code to prove it belongs to him. Din's immediate reaction is "your father was a foundling", which seems to raise Din's opinion of Boba (but that's. another thing altogether lmao).

So this establishes that, not only was Jango a Mandalorian, but that he was specifically a foundling. Okay, what does this mean?

Foundlings, as portrayed in The Mandalorian, were kids from outside of the clans who were rescued and brought into the fold. They were raised by the clan until they could be 'reunited with their own kind' or came of age, where they could choose to swear the creed, or leave. Jango could not be returned to his family, since they were all killed, so Jaster raised him as a foundling, and we can guess based on the fact Jango's still running around in beskar'gam twenty years later, he swore in. HOWEVER.

Being raised as a foundling is different than being adopted! Foundlings raised in Din's covert were not part of the Clans, but if they swore the creed, they could go on to form their own (re: din and grogu forming Clan Mudhorn).

Okay, what does this have to do with Jango and Jaster? Once again, we wheel back to the scene where Boba shows Din his chain code. Remember, Din takes one look at this, and knows automatically that Jango was a foundling:

(source, a translation of Boba's chain code).

The most notable part here is that it lists Jango as Boba's father, but Jaster as Jango's mentor. The "Mentor/Father" distinction is key to my theory here lmao.

We know that Mandalorian's have a proclivity for adoption, but it seems to be limited to children of other Mandalorians, and that 'new blood' like foundlings are less likely to be adopted and typically form their own clans instead. Another source for this theory actually comes straight from the OG "Open Seasons" comic that goes over Jango's backstory and formally introduces Jaster.

(pictured; Frames from Jango Fett: Open Seasons, Volume 2. Montross is essentially harrassing Jango for “not really being Jaster’s son”.  Also of note: normally I hesitate to source Open Seasons because so much of it is outdated lore, or downright racist or misogynistic, but. We’re going back to the beginning here)

This comic was published before a lot of the existing lore on Mandalorians was established (re: the “Republic Commando” Novels by Karen Traviss), but if we take it in that context, Montross saying Jango isn’t “really” Jaster’s son implies that Jango hasn’t been adopted, that the gai bal manda (mandalorian adoption vow) hasn’t been said.  Adopted children ordinarily have no difference in standing, and typically no distinction is made between adopted and biological children, so Montross saying Jango isn’t Jaster’s son - I’m inclined to believe Montross.

(though Montross does later get Jaster killed in this issue so lmao.  He’s trying to needle Jango here - and I’m sure Jango himself might’ve questioned why Jaster hadn’t adopted him).

If Jaster never adopted Jango, this could be why in The Clone Wars, Season 2, Episode 12: The Mandalore Plot, Prime Minister Almec states: “Jango Fett was a common Bounty Hunter -- How he got that armor is beyond me”.   (This was apparently very controversial when this episode came out - saying Jango wasn’t a Mandalorian after all? In Meta, the reasoning was that the Mandalorians should be more than a mercenary company).  

If Jaster never adopted Jango, this could be reason why Jango was not part of Mandalore’s records.  Then again, Din’s name was apparently listed in a registry on Mandalore proper, so another question is: why isn’t Jango listed there? I have a few options:

1: Jango’s presumed death upon starting the Kamino Contract meant he was removed from any registries.

2: Jango’s earlier presumed death after Galidraan (and his subsequent time in slavery) meant he was removed from the registries.

3: Jaster’s Death on Korda IV meant Jango was removed from the records, since his Mentor died (kind of a stretch, since Jango seems to have already sworn the Resol’nare at this point).

4: Concord Dawn kept it’s own registries (possible, but unlikely, given Din was registered on Mandalore after being in the ass end of the galaxy (sorry, Aq Ventina)).

Anyway, Jango’s mandalorian status nonwithstanding, this doesn’t entirely explain why Jaster wouldn’t have just adopted Jango, since Jaster is well aware there is no one for Jango to go back to. So why didn’t he? I have another couple thoughts!

1: The funnier, albeit less likely (in my opinion) is that Jaster couldn’t legally adopt Jango because he is technically a convicted murderer (re: the republic commando novels, Jaster was exiled from Concord Dawn after murdering a fellow Journeyman Protector for corruption - likely Jaster caught him in the act of some Nasty Things and he was compelled by his own moral code to kill him).  Even mandalorian’s i’m sure have legal statues against letting ‘violent criminals’ formally adopt children (though the Foundling loophole clearly still stands lmao.  Also, as Mand’alor, i’m sure Jaster could just.  Adopt anyway aklsdjflkasdj)

2: More likely in my opinion, is that Jaster didn’t adopt Jango out of respect for Jango’s old family.  If an old friend died suddenly and you took in their kid, you wouldn’t want to replace them as the kid’s parent, right?

Jango was about ten years old when his parent’s were killed by Death Watch - plenty old to remember them fondly, recognize them as his ‘only parents’, and certainly old enough to get hostile with anyone who tries to replace them.  I’m sure this isn’t uncommon among mandalorians or foundlings, so Jaster may have recognized the potential hostility and was extremely clear on not replacing his parents.

(pictured: clip from Jango Fett: Open Seasons, Volume 1 showing Jango’s father leaving food out for a ‘beggar’. Someone  somewhere once used the name Cassius for Jango’s father, and it’s what I use - gotta inject a KOTOR reference somwhere, right?).

Jango’s father was covering for Jaster when Death Watch came knocking - He trusted Jaster enough to leave out food and put his family at risk for Jaster’s sake.  It’s entirely possible they grew up together on Concord Dawn, or, barring that, were close friends as they were both Journeymen Protectors.  He’s still covering for Jaster even as he’s beaten within an inch of his life in front of his family. 

(Pictured: Poor Dad Fett getting beat up while Death Watch threatens to kill him in front of Jango.  Dad says he Hasn’t seen Jaster since he was exiled.)

This is all to say, beyond the ordinary treatment of foundling’s it’s entirely possible Jaster didn’t want to adopt Jango, as doing so would remove one of Jango’s only remaining connections to family - Jango is a Fett first and foremost, and adopting him into Clan Mereel would remove him from that. (the Fett clan is old as hell, predating the Vizsla’s, but that’s another sidebar lmao).

Also super minor, but.  What kind of kid calls their parent by their first name? lmao.

In summary: Din’s reaction to Boba’s Chain code implies that Jango wasn’t adopted, and ye olde Open Season’s Comics support this in various ways - from Montross’ dialogue to Jaster’s relationship with Jango’s family.  Even if he wasn’t fomally adopted, Jaster and Jango recognized each other as family and the respect that came with it.

I’ll leave you with my favorite frame from Open Seasons, lmao.  baby jango you are so cute 

[jessepinwheel]

hello! so i just read dielectric breakdown and, it was magnificent? you're a genius? i have, feelings, and stuff, etc.-- anyway, i guess i was just sort of wondering about your thoughts on the mandalorian clone vibes the swtcw fandom is so attached to? like, hmm, idk, do you wish there were more fics out there where it went a little differently? or where the mandalorian aspect wasn't there at all? idk, i guess i just got really curious, haha-- also, have a great day!!! <3 <3 <3

yeah okay I'll swing at this hornet's nest

in honesty I don't think it's unreasonable that, if the clones were trained by mandalorians, that they might have picked up some amount of mandalorian culture, whether that's a little bit of the language or a couple of the customs, the way that someone living in a different language-speaking household would probably just pick up those things growing up

however. I don't believe the trainers would ever actually go out of their way to teach the clones their culture. I don't think they would be fluent in the language because nobody would bother to (or want to) teach them, and I don't think they would be invited to participate in whatever mandalorian things mandalorians do, if they're not explicitly excluded from it. I think I've made my opinions on "jango is a good dad actually" takes pretty clear (as seen by the story I'm working on where jango is literally such a bad dad that he ends up directly causing the destruction of his own empire)

(brief aside, clones using mandalorian as their personal private language is ridiculous not just for the "who the hell would have taught them" reason but also because it wouldn't be fucking private if literally every single trainer could understand what they're saying. this is why I gave clones private sign language that's derived from military sign, because it's easier to conceal and clones probably lived in an environment with extreme noise discipline.)

the insistence that clones are mandalorian and would speak mandalorian and have all these specific cultural views was baffling when I started reading star wars stories and it's still baffling now. my understanding (from talking to people who actually watch star wars) is that there's pretty much nothing in the actual canon to indicate that clones would be mandalorian or care overly much about mandalorians.

yes, I have stories (asynch and related works) where I mention mandalorian stuff in passing with relation to the clones because, again, I think it's reasonable that it would be part of their culture, but I've stopped doing that in all my other works because the fandom obsession with mandalorians is fucking annoying. it's similar to why I made dielectric not romantic--I'm not against clones having some amount of mandalorian influence, but the way people read it is that any quantity of mandalorian culture, no matter how small, will completely eclipse the culture that would develop organically from having four million identical men raised in weird prison boot camp hell

I can only assume that people want clones to be mandalorian so bad because either they want to write fandom mandalorians (fandalorians, as the kids call it) but the clones are the only characters available to put that archetype on, or because people want clones to have fun cultural stuff so bad but don't want to actually build some organic homegrown clone culture, or because despite people saying "blood doesn't matter" they think blood does matter a lot actually and jango being mandalorian means all his clone sons who he sold to the republic for his weird genocide plot means that the clones should definitely for sure also be mandalorian just by virtue of sharing genetic material, which. sure is a take.

I would be less annoyed about the insistence of making clones some quantity of mandalorian if it wasn't fucking ubiquitous, but the tumblr star wars fandom is [gestures vaguely]. if there was a wide variety of interpretations of clone culture, and one of them was that they had mandalorian elements, that would be fun and cool, but the "mandalorian clone" thing has taken over pretty much the entire fanfic sphere like a rampant c. diff infection, which is fine if you're into that I guess but when I want to read about clones I don't want to read about tumblr's workshopped mandalorian culture I want to actually read about the clones.

me writing clones where they are explicitly not mandalorian and reject jango and have their own distinct culture is my attempt at increasing biodiversity. will it inspire people to homebrew their own clone culture and make something that hasn't been repeated ad nauseam? considering I occupy the smallest possible corner of fandom and don't interact with the star wars community at all, probably not. but they're stories that I like and they're out there for anyone else who feels similarly (which, based on my statistics, is a not insignificant number of people).

obviously people can write what they want. it's not other people's duty to write stories that appeal to me, and two cakes etc. I don't read that much star wars fic anymore because I'm bored of reading the same +/- 10% story and mandalorian clones is just one part of why that happened

[uvena]

PLEASE WHAT UR THOUGHTS ON THE FINALE‼️‼️‼️‼️ I MUST KNOW

I GOTTA SAY I REALLY LIKED IT I HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME!!!!!! i think, all things considered, it was a fairly solid finale, especially when the last several episodes have been lackluster to straight up the worst for a host of reasons, but i think the show ended on a good note.

my only major gripe is when cad bane was like "you're a killer like your father" like... maybe cad bane doesn't understand mandalorian culture, maybe i missed??? the part???? where boba regretted being a killer or didnt want to be a killer or was ashamed of being his father's son???? but i never got that?????? like, yes, jango fett was one of the most prolific and ruthless bounty hunters of his time. in legends, he was mand'alor (leader of the mandalorians). but maybe also what cad bane (or the writers...) missed was that jango wanted a son. he exchanged his dna for cloning for a single, unmodified clone. whom he raised from infancy, as his son. jango was a hunter and killer, yes, but he was also a father, a father who chose to be a father, who chose boba. him being a bounty hunter and him being a loving father were never contradictory aspects for either him or boba... so like i think it was very silly for cad bane to do that. boba wasn't ashamed of his past, he wasn't making amends. he lost his father at a very young age, spent most of his adult life alone, and then found community when he was accepted into the tusken tribe. and that was what he wanted to bring to mos espa, to tattooine. but maybe that's just the star wars fan in me lmao

THAT BEING SAID. i loved peli. i loved the people of freetown. i loved the droids. i loved the fact that artoo flew grogu across the galaxy to deliver him to his dad. i love that grogu said FUCK the jedi, donned his beskar, and chose din, chose his father. i love that peli wrapped him up to surprise mando. i loved that din holstered his weapon to see him, that grogu YEETED into din's arms, the reunion, "you got the shirt", boba using the rancor, boba and din taking a stand together, grogu and the rancor making friends... i loved so much of it. especially the end when grogu so GRUMPILY demanded to go FAST and din was like 'no' and then gave in. and grogu's lil exclamation? i died. i woke up and rewatched those scenes today. im in shambles over star wars but what else is new <3

of course the issues with earlier episodes concerning treatment of temuera and the tuskens is still a glaring issue and just because the finale was enjoyable doesn't mean this can be excused or forgotten. i do wish the finale was longer and they could have focused more on boba and i felt like fennec should have gotten more screentime, but overall? it was good. i had fun.