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desmothene · 11 months

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was reading a fic just now that had a line about how "Mandalorians would never allow personal feelings to stand in the way of the greater good for their clans and Mandalore" and I tell you I laughed out loud

I too love playing with the mandos as fun toys and I'm all for a re-imagining of canon but it is really funny to me when someone decides to take the canon "I will Enact Violence for my Personal Feelings and Honor To the Detriment and Ruin of my World" group and tells me that actually they are the exact opposite. Directly comparable to the Jedi, in fact, for how well they are able to discard personal feelings for the greater good.

sometimes it's really interesting to see how hard fanon has taken hold. fyi I do like this author and follow their fics and I'd never say this to them tbh bc they can do what they want!! (they're also not anti-jedi about it, which puts them one up on many).

but I just find the complete dichotomy between the canon representation and the fanon lionization pretty funny.

#this is not intended to be a big serious post it was just too polar opposite not to comment on #wonder sometimes if people actually view them this way?#is it the fanon contagion?#bc i cannot think of what canon material would lead you to that conclusion #to be fair theyre depicting a mandalore under jaster mereel so maybe theyre trying to contrast against the later civil war #but you're still leaving out an entire faction there #passion is like. the name of the game even for the new mandalorians. even if it hurts them! and others!#not really intended as crit bc they arent hurting anyone and theyre clearly having a fun time #and so am i!#just an interesting phenomena and it was laid out SO explicitly in print

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