#duchess satine defense squad

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

In essence, the argument that Satine Kryze destroyed Mandalorian culture boils down to an overly simplistic perspective which reduces Mandalorian culture to violence and warmongering. The vitriol directed at Satine for “destroying” this stems from the fact that what she actually destroyed was the romanticised macho warrior fantasy which may be said to form the basis of many Star Wars fans’ obsession with Mandalorians. This fantasy is symptomatic of a wider obsession in Western media with romanticised representations of warrior societies, such as Japanese samurai, ancient Greek Spartans, mediaeval knights, and Roman legionaries. However, these representations are themselves oversimplified, and gloss over the real impact of the violence these groups participated in and perpetuated in favour of focusing on arbitrary ideals like honour and glory, much like how the impact of the violence in Mandalore’s history is frequently glossed over in attempts to make Satine into the bad guy. In this essay, I will-

[callmevexx]

Happy Valentine's day to them and only them💕❤️

[impossibleprincess35]

Satine Kryze has entered the chat.

free my girl she did the same things as the celebrated male protagonists but the fandom has labeled her irredeemable

[fellthemarvelous]

I wonder where we've heard that before!!!

Hmmmm....

Every time I see someone demonize Satine Kryze, I find myself one day closer to my supervillain origin story.

Side note: This isn't the post to air your anti-Jedi bullshit either. A lot of y'all demonize the Jedi just as badly as you do Satine. We don't do either of those things on this blog.

[impossibleprincess35]

Me unfollowing because of their bad take on Satine Kryze, not because of their real world politics.

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

The thing about Duchess Satine is that, if she was really as bad a leader as people make her out to be, her political opponents wouldn't have had to keep making up things that she was doing wrong.

Like, they wouldn't have had to rely on a doctored recording to make her seem incompetent. Death Watch wouldn't have had to go through that whole performance with the Shadow Collective to make her seem weak. Almec wouldn't have had to pin Pre Vizsla's death on her.

If she was actually a terrible leader, they wouldn't have had to rely on lies and manipulation to turn the population against her and remove her from power.

[impossibleprincess35]

This had me pissed.

Like, wow, you guys really shit all over all her name, her legacy, and the good she tried to do for your stubborn asses, didn't you?

And y'all named a weapon after her to kill her own people that she loved?

Loved so much, in fact, that she would go against her own beliefs and upbringing to embrace an ideology that was in conflict with her identity because that ideology would save her people from themselves?

Wow.

It's ballsy, I'll give it that.

watching rebels for the first time and oh my god ?? they named the weapon that targets specifically mandalorians THE DUCHESS???

[callmevexx]

Mand'alor Satine❤️

(Based on a cosplay post by ariii.mai on insta)

[twinterrors29]

Obitine Anastasia AU

Death Watch has taken over the Mandalore Sector after successfully assassinating the Duke 10 years ago; a visiting Jedi attempted to smuggle out his daughters, but his eldest daughter, Satine, was lost along the way to safety, leaving his youngest daughter Bo-Katan to build a government-in-exile on Kalevala as everyone believes her sister to be dead

as she plots to retake her sector, Bo-Katan is well aware of the weight a symbol like the lost heir to the Duchy would represent, and starts quietly searching for any sign of her missing sister

enter a young Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has been charged by the Republic Senate with helping stabilize the Sector, preferably under a more Republic-friendly regime

he learn of the young Duchess-in-exile's search, and recognize it as his best chance to win the Sector's favor

Obi-Wan manages to find a young political activist in Sundari, who shares not only the late Duke's looks but also his pacifistic ideals

after rescuing her from Death Watch assassins, he proposes his idea to pass her off as the missing Duchess-in-waiting; Sati agrees that even if she's not the presumed-dead Lady Kryze, she's willing to step into the role to serve her people

as word spreads of the would-be-Duchess, they fight their way through ever-increasing squads of Death Watch soldiers, bickering endlessly about the necessity of violence in self-defense and the importance of diplomacy

the pair quickly develop a grudging respect for each other's stances, that slowly blossoms into admiration and even affection

once they finally make it to Kalevala, they manage to arrange an audience with the Duchess-in-exile, who's rapidly becoming jaded with the various imposters Death Watch has sent to attempt to assassinate her

but when Sati walks into the room, they can both tell that something's different, only growing more certain as Sati relays her earliest memories of dancing with a red-headed little sister and escaping with an old man in the sewer tunnels before tripping and falling down a hidden grate into one of the rivers below

Bo-Katan is immediately ready to rally her support around herself and her returned sister to retake the sector, with Obi-Wan's implicit assistance as protection for her pacifistic figure head as Satine represents their movement to the unaffiliated clans, winning their support one by one

during their travels, their affection only grows further into love

finally, nearly a year later, the Kryzes have won enough support to retake Mandalore, symbolically setting up their new government in Sundari as a nod to Satine's time there

Obi-Wan would stay if Satine asked it of him

Satine knows

she doesn't ask

[lapis42]

“I wish I was good at something other than war”- Bo-Katan, clone wars, s7,e11

Bo-Katan has a heart damnit. She didn’t want to be like this. She is who she felt she needed to be for her people. While she doesn’t go about it the right way initially, she’s doing what she does FOR MANDALORE. FOR HER PEOPLE. She doesn’t want to give up on them. Neither does Satine, she believes that her people can change, that they have a future beyond war. That they can be peaceful and THRIVE. Both sisters want better things for Mandalore. Neither of them were bad leaders. They were both so strongly dedicated to their beliefs and wanted their people to do better, to be better. They’re not giving up on Mandalore.

[fellthemarvelous]

Satine Kryze Defense Squad

Ugh.

I don't know why Satine hate needed to show up on my dash, but why do these weirdos insist on referring to her as a dictator and accusing her of committing genocide? Gross.

Immediate block!

I don't have time for that negativity. Or the asinine ignorance that comes with this anti-Satine discourse.

Duchess Satine is one badass lady who turned Mandalore from a bloodthirsty warrior society into a peaceful planet.

She was right about the Clone Wars from the very beginning.

She was targeted for assassination by Death Watch, the Separatists, AND the Republic because she refused to get involved with the war.

But yeah, she's the dictator for trying to protect her people from more violence and unnecessary death because she saw the Clone War for the game it was from the very beginning. Got it. 🙄

[arielsojourner]

Vader Strikes Back - Part the 6th

Not beta read/really rough/not really proof read/plot holes and OUT of order.  Also spoilers for the original first story in AO3 Back From the Future: Episode VI The Clone Wars.  Check the tag #vader strikes back on my page for the other parts to this mess/fic outline. Again I value feedback and ideas if you have any.

Also, if you couldn’t tell by the gap of time between part 5 and this part 6, this was a BEAR to write. I felt it had too much talking and not enough ACTION, but I needed to set the stage a bit more. I may just scrap most of this in the final AO3 posted story, but I wanted to write something just so I could keep going on this. I hope it doesn’t suck too much.  

*

Mace Windu left Coruscant with a mandate from the Jedi High Council. He was to find Vader and kill him before he could take advantage of the chaos in the galaxy and take command of the nascent Sith Empire that Palpatine was building.  

Not everyone on the Council agreed with this course of action. Ki Ald Mundi questioned whether Vader truly was a Sith. His actions and the loyalty of his son and the 501st showed he was something very much different, he argued. Shaak Ti wanted the Order to focus more on shoring up their debilitated ranks spread thin over the galaxy. And Obi-Wan, well … his reasoning was much more unorthodox.

(“There is no evidence that Vader is amassing power or desires to control the galaxy,” Obi-Wan argued.

“Master Obi-Wan,” Yoda began after a moment of stunned silence settled over the Councilors. “Identified as a Sith by Palpatine he was.”

“Forgive me, Master, but since when do accept the word of Palpatine as truth?” was the acid reply, sharply rebuking all of the other Jedi. Mace exchanged a surprised glance with the Grandmaster. Kenobi wasn’t pulling any punches in his truly bizarre defense of the Sith. “He has spent more than the past year stopping the war and uncovering corruption we were too blind to see. Using our resources to hunt him down goes against the very spirit of what it means to be Jedi. We are not assassins and we are not authorized to play judge, jury, or executioner.”

“But it is acceptable when Vader acts as judge, jury, an executioner?” Master Koth remarked.

“Vader has never claimed to be a Jedi. We, on the other hand, are Jedi. Do his acts of murder now justify us committing murder in kind?”

“Save for another time we must, this philosophical debate, Master Kenobi. Identity of the Sith we have long sought to find,” Yoda said firmly. “Revealed, they now are. To put and end to their ways, we must. Master Windu, we will send on this mission. Confirm the death of the son and end Vader he will.”

Obi-Wan shook his head. “This will not go the way you think it will.  I am telling you now, this is a grave mistake.”)

It was funny, Mace thought to himself, how much Obi-Wan reminded him of Qui-Gon at times when Obi-Wan used to disapprove of his Master’s ways when he was alive. Kenobi, for all skills as a Knight and a Jedi Master, could be short sighted at times, too focused and attached to the individual rather than the needs of the galaxy as a whole. The Republic and the Order were on the brink of the abyss. It was up to them to protect it or watch the galaxy fall to chaos and darkness.

Killing Vader was the only way to put a stop to Palpatine’s plans once and for all.

Sure in his mission, he set course for Mandalore. The intelligence reports from Senator Amidala, Kenobi, and Skywalker pointed to a strong connection between the Sith and the League of Neutral Systems. He was now going to find out just how neutral Duchess Satine really was.

*

Vader walked out of the Twilight and onto the flight deck of the Dauntless, striding forward like a man on a mission. Captain Rex found himself nearly running after the armored figure even as he rattled off a status report.

“And what of your new information, Captain? Has Senator Taal or any of the others who fled the capital been located?” Vader asked.

“Nothing confirmed yet, but through the 212th we have contacts with the locals on Ryloth. We will hear word the second he makes it anywhere near the system. There is no one willing to harbor him now. The Twi'lek Resistance were very interested in the files that Slice and the other found. But, sir, that wasn’t what we wanted to brief you on. The men and I wanted to discuss the Hutts, sir.”

That brought Vader to such an unexpected sudden stop, Rex actually overshot him before halting in his tracks.

“The Hutts?” Vader practically hissed. He loomed menacingly and Rex reminded himself firmly that while Vader  may seem to be a living embodiment of anger and violence, it was not directed at him.

“Yes, sir, the Tatooine campaign.” Rex raised the datapad in his hand. “I took the liberty of asking the men for their input. We all want to see it through. However, there are some serious concerns given that we are down to just one destroyer and so many of us are still in the medical quarters. There’s no way to set up the necessary blockade, so we’re going to have to improvise, but–“

The datapad jerked out of his hand and flew to Vader’s outstretched gauntlet. Vader skimmed through the plans and then looked up. “The campaign is voluntary. No man shall be required to join the fight. The war is over. However, if any troopers chose to come, their focus will be on search, rescue, and liberation. You will leave the attack to me.” With that, the datapad was handed back to the clone captain and Vader resumed his punishing pace forward.

Rex whirled around and followed as quickly as he could. “Sir, all reports show the entire planet is infested with slavers. Hutt control is not centralized. We need more time to develop a strategy, but in a few months we should be ready. Either that or we need more men. Until then, we can–“

Vader turned and pointed emphatically at Rex. “I have waited a lifetime to begin this campaign, Captain. The yearly auctions have already begun. I will not see another summer pass before bringing freedom to the planet.”

Rex didn’t back down. “If we do this now, sir, the casualty numbers among the civilians are potentially staggering. Tens of thousands could die if we don’t have the manpower to mount a broad enough coordinated attack.”

“No slave fears death,” Vader intoned. “Death is merely freedom from pain.  Unless there is word from Ryloth in the next five day, set course for Tatooine.” And with that Vader entered the lift and left Rex alone in the corridor.

Rex closed his eyes for a brief moment. He’d hoped bringing up Tatooine as a possible mission target would break Vader out of his relentless drive for vengeance, remind him of the way things used to be when Luke had been alive. He’d hoped that planning the Tatooine campaign would be a way for Vader to grieve and move on from the loss of his son. That was what brothers did. When they lost squad mates, they focused on the mission in honor of their fallen. But it didn’t look like it was working. Instead, he’d handed Vader a new set of targets while a large number of the men were still recuperating. 

Now he only had five days for Senator Taal to surface or find a way to take out an entire planet full of criminals and slavers with only one destroyer.

Rex wasn’t Force sensitive and he didn’t truly believe in anything (other than his brothers and his blasters), but right now he wished there was something or someone whom he could call on for help.

*

“It’s not going to work,” Fives insisted, slamming his fist down beside his thigh.

“It will,” Flare argued. “Remember with the Zygerrians–“

“With the Zygerrians, we had all three destroyers, plus the smaller cruisers. We are down to just the Dauntless.  We only had to blockade a moon last time. We don’t have enough ships to blockade the entire kriffing planet.”

“Maybe we don’t need to blockade the planet for this to work,” Echo offered to his brother, tapping away at the datapad in his hand. “If we take out the spaceport here, then–“

“The whole planet is crawling with smuggler ships. They don’t need the spaceport to leave orbit. Remember where General Skywalker got the Twilight?” Jesse asked leaning back in his chair with a huff. “Face it, we can’t do this alone.”

“If we don’t have the men, we should call the other battalions. We’ll ask other outfits to volunteer to help us,” Hardcase suggested.  “Hey, Gin,” he said, lobbing a pillow at the clone trooper standing in the corner. “You and Hack Squad can get the word out. See if we can’t get the 212th to join us or something.”

“No throwing pillows,” Quick snapped, picking up the fallen pillow. The medic made as if he was going to hand it back to Hardcase but then thought better of it.  “I’m not going to give this back until later. Knowing you, you’ll just toss it around some more. This is medical equipment not a hand grenade and I’m a medic, not your maid.”

“Should we even break comm silence?” Slice asked the men around him. “Vader’s in the middle of cleaning house. If word gets out where we are, the rest of those skragging bastards will go to ground before he can deal with them. And if the Jedi Order thinks Vader’s some sort of Sith or traitor, we definitely don’t want anyone to know where we are until we can get the truth out there.”

“So, it’s just us,” Jesse said with groan. “We’ve got to pull of liberating the entire planet with one destroyer and however many of us are on board. This is going to go great, I can tell.”

“Look, no one says anyone has to do this mission,” Fives said sharply. “This is voluntary. That’s the way Luke wanted it. Luke and Vader have never ordered us to do anything we haven’t been willing to do. That’s not changing now. If you don’t want to help, then sit this one out.”

“Hey, no one’s saying they want to sit this thing out!” Jesse protested, raising his hands. “No one’s saying that.”

“We’re just thinking it,” Mixer muttered.

“You bunch of laserbrains, you’re all forgetting the most important thing,” Hardcase said. “We’ve got Vader with us on this. He’s a one man division. A Hutt and some slaver scum aren’t going to stop him.”

“Vader can’t be everywhere at once and he can’t protect everyone at once,” Redeye argued. “We should wait, wait until–“

“There will be no waiting,” Rex said sharply, crossing his arms over his chest. “Vader says auction season is starting. We’re on liberation and defense; Vader alone will handle offense.”

The men were quiet a moment, taking in that piece of information. They could all to easily imagine what auction season must like after the campaign to liberate the slave camps on Kadavo.

“I’m volunteering, Captain.” Hardcase said breaking the tension in the room.

“No, you’re not,” Quick replied.

“I’m healed. It’s stopped bleeding. The bandage is just for show anyway,” he insisted, poking at it absently. “Chatterbox, are you going?” The other clone nodded. “Fives, what about you?”

“Fives is not getting up for at least another week,” Quick snarled as he stalked over and forcefully shoved the pillow under Hardcase’s head. “And if you’re lucky, Hardcase,  I might let you out on light duty. Maybe. In another week.”

“It will take us a while to get to Tatooine anyway,” Echo assured Hardcase. “With the war over and the Hutt treaty with the Republic null and void, we can’t take their hyperspace lanes anymore. Even with this ceasefire with the Separatists, we can’t just be using any old route to get to the Rim. We’re going to have to take the long way round.”

“Well, that’s something at least,” Jesse said. “Captain, do you think you can get Vader to change his mind about the plan before then? Just in case Senator Taal doesn’t show his face on Ryloth>”

Rex raised one brow in disbelief at the cocky question. “Don’t push your luck, soldier. We have our orders. If you don’t like them, you can stay aboard ship.”

“Oh, no, I’m going,” Jesse insisted. “The Hutts can join the Zygerrians, the Kaminoans and Palpatine in hell as far as I’m concerned. I just want to be sure we do maximum damage.”

“This is Vader we’re talking about,” Rex reminded him. “Maximum damage is pretty much SOP. Rest up, this is going to be a hell of a fight.”

*

Mace wasn’t sure what he expected when he arrived on Mandalore, but being asked first he’d made an appointment to see the Duchess and then being forced to wait almost two days to meet with her was not what he expected. If he’d sensed any Dark presence in the capital he would have been suspicious that she was harboring Vader and was delaying meeting with him to cover for the Sith. But all such suspicions he had on that count vanished when he finally met with her face to face.

Rather than meeting in her audience chamber, he was brought to a small room that seemed to be a disaster zone of people, overlapping commlinks, droids, and flimsi.

Maneuvering around rushing droids and nearly bumping into several aides, Mace managed to greet the leader of Mandalore with a bow. She didn’t bother to look up from the viewscreen she was scrolling through.

“Duchess Satine, it seems that I have arrived at a bad time,” he began.

“Like so many of your brethren, you are a master of understatement,” she responded picking up a datapad, tapping away for a moment before putting it down and turning to face him. “Forgive me for not greeting you upon your arrival, but as you can see, we’re a bit busy here trying to hold the galaxy together now that you have finally finished trying to tear it apart at the seams.” A droid wheeled up to her and handed her a pile of flimsis which she took and began to peruse as if the Jedi Master wasn’t even there.

Mace strove to remain calm. She was hardly the first politician or planetary leader he’d dealt with who looked down on the Order. “Then my mission coincides with your efforts,” he told her. “It is the protection of peace in the galaxy and the stability of the Republic that has brought me here.”

The Duchess scoffed audibly. “The actions of your Order the past three years as commanders of slave armies and willing enablers of Sheev Palpatine’s corruption say otherwise.”

Windu refrained from grinding his teeth. It wouldn’t help. He let his anger go through the Force. “The Order serves the Republic, not its leader and it is the safety of the Republic that brings me to Mandalore. There is a new threat that must be dealt with or the entire galaxy will fall back into chaos.”

“Back into chaos? Back into chaos?” She echoed, voice rising with every word. “Look around you, Master Jedi,” she said gesturing expansively. “The galaxy has been in chaos for years! The only thing that has held it together so that we have the smallest hope of rebuilding anything out of this contrived war has been those who have refused to fight, those troopers and Jedi who have put down their weapons and rebuilt war torn worlds, those who have worked tirelessly and thanklessly to root out corruption. No, don’t try and justify yourself! You are no Negotiator, ” she snapped at him when Mace opened his mouth to speak. “I know why you are here. You’re looking for Luke and Vader. Well I can tell you now that Vader is not here, and Luke …” here she trailed off suddenly and turned away from him.

“So he is dead?” he asked, hoping at least to confirm that fact even if his quarry was not on Mandalore.

“Yes, damn you. He’s dead and we are all the worse for it.”

Mace nodded in relief. That was one problem dealt with. “Then that leaves only Vader.”

“Of course, who care’s about the dead when there’s another enemy to hunt down and fight?” she said with a watery laugh. “There is no death, just the Force, isn’t that what you believe?”

He ignored her comment. It did no good to even discuss such matters with someone who had no understanding of the ways of the Force. “If you are in contact with him or have any means to contact him, I need that information. If you truly believe in pacifism then you can hardly condone the murders he has committed.”

“Do not lecture me about what it means to be a pacifist.”

“So long as Vader is out there he is a threat to the Republic and to the League,” Mace argued. “He must be stopped before he seizes power.”

The Duchess turned and regarded him for a long moment. She shook her head and laughed. “You really believe that, don’t you? You actually believe he plans to seize power. You’re a fool and if you try and go after him, you’ll be a dead fool.”

He lost his patience. He did not need to be lectured. “Do you know where he is?” he demanded.

A small smile graced her features. She knew that she had rattled him. Mace regretted that she’d spent so much time with Jedi before. She knew too much and yet too little of their ways.

“No, I do not know where he is,” she replied evenly. “But if I were him, I would be headed to Ryloth. The reports of Senator Taal’s activities are too loathsome to ignore.”

Mace composed himself. That was all he needed. With a lead on Vader’s next target, he would locate him and face the Sith at last. He nodded in thanks to the Duchess and began to take his leave when she called after him.

“I won’t wish you luck, Master Jedi. It won’t help you. I will, however, say that if you and your Order really cared about peace and justice in the Republic, you would be hunting down and arresting people like Senator Taal rather than focusing on Vader. Something to think about on your journey.”

*

There were many stories about how freedom would come to those enslaved on the desert planet of Tatooine. Some said it would come like condensing dew, growing drop by drop. Others said it would come on like a storm, sand billowing up in the air like a visible scream. In one story, the old grandmothers said, liberation would come like rain, water actually falling from the sky.

All the stories got it wrong.

When salvation finally came to Tatooine, it fell like a hammer’s blow, striking at the chains that bound them and threw such sparks the very world seemed to catch alight and burn.

There was no water, only blood and fire.

*

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

Satine and the Resol’nare

Okay, I will warn you in advance: this is an entire essay complete with introduction and conclusion, feel free to scroll on if you can’t be bothered listening to me ramble :)

So, one of the criticisms of Satine and the New Mandalorians that I see quite a lot is "but what about the Resol'nare?" This is a difficult question to answer because much of Mandalorian culture, including the Resol’nare, is found in the Legends Extended Universe, and was discarded along with the rest of that canon after Lucasfilm’s complete overhaul of the Star Wars canon, so much of it is not relevant to a discussion of Satine because she exists in a separate version of the universe. But let’s put that aside for the purposes of this debate

In the Legends EU, the central tenets of Mandalorian culture could be found in the Resol’nare. According to this, the core of what it meant to be a Mandalorian is to wear armour, speak Mando’a, defend oneself and one’s family, educate one’s children as Mandalorians, be loyal to and support one’s family, and to obey the Mand’alor. So let’s break this down piece by piece in regards to Satine.

First of all, she obviously does not wear armour. However this does not necessarily mean that she has disregarded this element of Mandalorian culture altogether. Beskar’ta emblems can be found throughout Sundari, from Satine’s own throne room to the tunnel leading from the docks into the city. Furthermore, beskar’ta emblems are prominent designs on the clothing of several Mandalorian characters: the shirts worn by Almec, Korkie, and others feature them in the same position on the chest as they would be on a breastplate, Ahsoka’s dress in the Siege of Mandalore is patterned with them; and Satine’s own dress in the Clone Wars episode ‘Corruption’ appears to have a beskar’ta-like pattern sewn into the very fabric. Essentially, the most recognisable feature of Mandalorian armour is everywhere in her city even if the armour itself is absent, indicating that, far from being erased, the heritage of their armour is fundamental to Satine’s Mandalore. While we’re on this point, there is an assumption that Satine banned the wearing of armour on Mandalore, but there is nothing explicit in canon to confirm or deny that accusation - it simply never comes up. It is possible to argue that she did, because no one on Mandalore wears it, but it is equally plausible that no one wears armour on Mandalore simply because they no longer need to.

So, we have established that, while Satine does not exactly follow the first of the Resol’nare, she cannot be said to have wholeheartedly disregarded it either. But what about the others? Let's move onto speaking Mando’a. Satine is the only named character in the Clone Wars to speak any dialect of Mando’a onscreen (specifically Concordian), something that none of her opponents ever does, and Mando’a script can be seen across several episodes on screens in Sundari. This demonstrates that Satine's Mandalore continues to utilise Mando’a in day-to-day life.

In the Clone Wars episode ‘Voyage of Temptation’, she asserts that ‘just because [she’s] a pacifist doesn’t mean [she] won’t defend [herself]’, which covers the third tenet of 'defending oneself and one's family'. Satine has no children, so we have no information with which to assess the fourth on a personal level, and we also don't have enough information about the New Mandalorian school curriculum to examine this on a city-wide level either. In terms of loyalty to one’s family, the only example we have is of her and Korkie, most notably when she was willing to concede to Almec’s demands rather than allow her nephew to be tortured.

Finally, we come to obeying the Mand’alor: there is no indication that there was a Mand’alor during Satine’s rule, as “Mand’alor” by definition means “sole ruler of Mandalore”, a position Pre Vizsla did not achieve (despite his possession of the Darksaber) until 19 BBY, and which he subsequently lost to Maul.

What we see here is that Satine follows three of the Resol'nare, doesn't follow one, and we simply don't have enough evidence for the other two. From this, we can deduce that Satine isn't actually as far from being a textbook “good Mandalorian” as she is often portrayed. The no-armour thing appears to be the exception rather than the rule.

Furthermore, based on canon evidence, we cannot confirm that any other Mandalorian adheres to the Resol'nare any more than the New Mandalorians do. We don't see anyone in Death Watch speak Mando'a, not even Pre Vizsla, nor any character in the Mandalorian (except the Armorer). Which of course is not to say that they don't, only that we cant confirm it either way. Sabine Wren does, and she wears armour, but she certainly doesn't seem in any rush to rally to the Mand'alor and struggles a lot with how far loyalty to her family should actually go. Bo-Katan doesn't speak Mando'a either, she refuses to obey the Mand’alor when Maul takes the title, and she sure seems to pick and choose when to follow the "loyalty to one's family" part.

Essentially, when it comes to the Resol’nare, Satine is no less a Mandalorian than any of her opponents are.

[impossibleprincess35]

"fellow antis, don't engage" = "there's nothing to justify our claims so let's just be quiet and hope this all dies down"

[now-you-sound-like-a-jedi]

i know it's a really cliché take to be like "actually everyone else is wrong about this character and i am one of the select few who actually gets them" but when the character in question is satine kryze then i absolutely stand by it

[callmevexx]

Tomorrow is Mandalorian day so here's a Satine WIP to summon that Satine mention