#read my jango slice of life oneshot boy

[padmestrilogy]

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Jango Fett looks at Jango Fett.

Correction: Jango Fett looks at his clone.

They’re going to give them names. Eventually. When there’s too many, and saying First Clone and Second Clone and Third Clone and so forth becomes inconvenient. This ‘when’ has a due date: a year from now. His son will be born by then. He will have something to hold then. Right now, his hands are empty, and Jango—the clone, the clone does not need holding, eyes closed and locked inside a capsule monitoring its every breath.

They’re going to wake them. Eventually.

“It will be difficult,” the Kaminoans said. In slithers they told him that every being he’d shared a face with before had been a relative, kin. These would be the first that were strangers. Forever strangers. “To make the sensation…easier,” they murmured. “We have removed the neural pathway which associates a doppelganger with fear.” A quick operation. Painless. No complications. Jango knows it worked. He knew it when he woke up with a scar on his forehead, and he knows it as he studies the capsule’s control panel. Stable. The clone is stable. There is no self-recognition through the other, just self, and self, and self, and self.

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