#rune's mandokarla aran au

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Mandokarla Aran AU: Fox Lore

… if you wanted me dead, you should've just said, nothing makes me feel more alive...

Fox steps off the laati onto Coruscant's duracrete and durasteel jungle covered surface with his hands clasped behind his back. Waiting for him is not the jetii, but Senate guards and the Chancellor of the Republic himself, Sheev Palpatine, Fox's direct superior on Triple Zero. He didn't realize that their posting didn't give them a jetii, but he supposed it didn't really matter.

They were there for Coruscant, to protect the Heart of the Republic.

Fox could do that without a jedi.

He glances briefly over his shoulder at the rest of the troopers streaming off the laati until his men have come to a stop behind him, standing at attention until the Chancellor instructs them otherwise.

"Commander." The Chancellor greets him, a smile with not so many teeth and eyes that make the hairs on the back of Fox's neck prickle and stand like they do when something feels off and wrong.

'Marshal Commander' Fox thinks in correction. His rank is his pride.

He begins to talk and explain that the senate guard will escort them to their barracks and then the Coruscant Guard headquarters. He asks about how many men will be stationed on Coruscant with a glance to the men standing behind Fox.

Fox explains that the rest of his men will join them within the week.

The Chancellor's face is impassive, but there's a tightness in the smile that Fox doesn't like, doesn't trust.

He chalks it down to being on an unknown planet and in an unknown area, where he hasn't sufficiently examined all entry and exit points. Where he hasn't been able to place his men at weak points in the security of the landing platform.

They start walking.

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…is it a wonder I broke? Let's hear one more joke, then we could all just laugh until I cry...

Fox pushes his hair from his forehead. The strands are getting lighter, greys turning white at the end, even if the crown of his head stays pitch black. Carver went through a few holo-articles that described the condition in which hair began to turn white,. Thorn wanted to chalk it down to Force osik. Fox blames it entirely on the fact that they were woefully underprepared to take on and manage the security of an entire planet with only the measly hundred and twenty thousand of them in the Guard.

If he had his way there would be double the number of men.

But he's not in charge, not really. His acquisition forms need to be signed off by the Chancellor for the most part, but Fox has signed enough of his paperwork that he knows the man's signature almost as well as his own. So instead he forges signatures to get his men extra stims, he and engineering hollow out a wall behind the maintenance tunnels to hoard their supplies.

Then the decommissioning order comes.

It's the first of many (not that Fox knows that). One of Fox's corporals was on a solo patrol within the Senate. He's a good vod, a corporal that was with them since the beginning of the Guard's deployment. When Fox gets to him, he's shaking, helmet off and abandoned as two other Guard are between him and a senator who has flown into a vicious and cruel rage.

And when it escalated up the chain of command, Fox was expecting support, something good that he could tell his men only to be met with the startling and uncomfortable realization that not even his superior officer saw him and his vod as human. That even the Chancellor didn’t think that the Guard, with their beating hearts and blood that stained the duracrete beneath their feet were people.

"An accusation like that is hard to shake."

"Surely this can be dealt with internally, sir." He tries to protest, hoping that he can just sweep System under the rug of other nameless faces and hope that the senator hadn’t gotten his designation. 

"They need to learn Commander.”

'Marshal Commander' Fox corrects if that would actually make a difference.

It doesn't.

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..."Who's afraid of little old me?"...

Fox dreams in colour. He dreams in oranges and reds and brass and browns. He dreams of his vode with shining halos and weapons that grow brightly in their hands. Their eyes are nothing but light. When they speak, their voices come out as one.

"The stars will guide you Commander."

"Marshal Commander." Fox corrects out loud this time, finally speaking the words often lodged in his throat.

The vode in front of him chuckles in unison, a voice much deeper than their own, much louder than their own. Their eyes grow brighter, blinding in their nature and Fox is forced to turn away from the intensity, covering his eyes. When he looks back, they’re gone, and in their place stands a warrior.

It has to be a warrior.

Beskar’gam covers their limbs, painted brass and gold. Their helmet almost resembles a mask of sorts, the familiar style of a t-shaped visor accented by three bands across the warrior’s chin. The top of the helmet isn’t exactly humanoid, possibly accounting for a species differential. Fox doesn’t flinch at the sight of them, but it is a near thing when they step closer to him.

“Who are you?” He asks, hand drifting down to his holster, fingers closing around air as they snort.

“The Ka’ra was right about you.” The being says, clearly Mandalorian in origin now that it has spoken Mando’a. Fox doesn’t know why he’s dreaming of Mandalorians. 

“Pardon my language but what the kark does that mean?” 

“You, Marshal Commander Fox.” The being starts, and for some reason he sounds smug in a way that makes Fox wary. “Are worthy. The Ka’ra deems you perfect for carrying on our ways.”

Fox tilts his head to the side. He eyes the figure warily.

“Now tell me what that actually means, in basic.” 

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Fox stares into the mirror of the fresher, his armour stacked neatly on the counter by the sink. He grips the edge of the counter and stares at his own reflection, only slightly mourning the loss of his hair. There, on the sides of his skull, shining a layer of second skin are the words to ‘vode an’ etched into his skin, one side of his head devoted to each verse. Carver hadn’t questioned his request to dig out his tattoo machine, nor did he question things when Fox began to mutter in a language almost as old as Coruscant itself.

Carver did, however, almost drop the tattoo needle entirely when the ink laid into Fox’s skin began to glow as bright as the further star in an empty night sky. 

Coruscant’s history speaks to him, almost as loudly as Kad Ha’rangir, all while the deity stands over his shoulder and watches him through the reflection of the mirror.

“Where do I start?” He asks as his eyes settle on Kad Ha’rangir’s visor.

“The children who are willing.” Kad Ha’rangir tilts their head to the side. “The ones who have already made up their minds.” 

“They’re mine, the ka’ra cannot have them.” Fox hisses.

“For your boon, you must, they have already decided.” Kad Ha’rangir steps closer. Their hand on Fox’s shoulder burns, warmth sinks through Fox’s blacks and feels as though it brands through skin, muscle, deep into his bones..

His gaze flicks back from Kad ha’rangir to himself in the mirror. His eyes shine golden, overtaking the brown that he shares with his brothers, whiting out the rest of him that seems human.

...You should be...

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will Tumblr let me post this screenshot as a wip? please

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Snippet from the Mandokarla Aran AU

Mereel Skirata is batshit crazy.

Fox knows it, since they were cadets A-17 always told them to stay away from the Nulls when they came looking for things to scavenge. 

Fox always watched them whenever they came around, always captivated by the vode that were good enough for a natborn to actually adopt them. 

Mereel Skirata, decanted as N-7, ARC trooper, Lieutenant, vod to Prudii, Kom'rk, Jaing, Ordo and A'den- stands tall, large in his arc armour as he takes in the Guard around him, all on watch, all careful, like they're waiting for him to snap.

"Mereel." 

Fox acknowledges him by name. He's only interacted with Mereel once before, when he was the first point of contact between a strike team and Fox's forces on the ground. Fox hadn't been around then, too busy begging for his own life from dieties that barely bothered to listen on a good day, 150 levels down from where Mereel and Stone had rendezvoused. 

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Mandokarla AU Facts

it's set halfway through 21 BBY

Fox is really close with his batchers and would do anything for them.

Stone has an in with the Nulls.

Fox will get a love interest in it :)

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Mandokarla Aran AU notes

Fox has tattoos all spanning his shoulders/back with ritual rites and the names of the vode sacrificed

the guard have the protection of kad ha'rangir

Fox's batchers are Bacara, Neyo, Faie and Doom

Fox is the second oldest in his batch

Fox's hair started going grey 3 months into the war from shock

he has a scar on his forearm where Carver and Murmur had him in surgery for six hours

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Fox in my Mandokarla Aran au-

Where the Coruscant Guard are under Kad Ha’rangir’s protection.

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(if anyone figures out what's on the side of Fox's head i'll give you a smooch, it took me 2 hours to translate and write onto the side of his head).

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FoxReel WIP

Bc Tumblr's a bitch and won't let me post a full wip, here's a cropped version.

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posting updates to the same wip just from multiple stages of the colouring process bc tumblr can eat my dick

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I'm about to feed y'all Mandokarla Aran AU fox lore in a minute and you can thank t-swift for that

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screenshots of the discussions I have with friends about the Mandokarla Aran Au

clearly unhinged!fox is currently my favourite flavour

Mandokarla AU Facts

it's set halfway through 21 BBY

Fox is really close with his batchers and would do anything for them.

Stone has an in with the Nulls.

Fox will get a love interest in it :)

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Mereel is so head over heels for Fox he looks stupid.

Mandokarla AU Facts

it's set halfway through 21 BBY

Fox is really close with his batchers and would do anything for them.

Stone has an in with the Nulls.

Fox will get a love interest in it :)