#wren is mongolian

[grendel-menz]

the folk of the air series but south and south east asian

[abduloki]

My Fan Cast : Claudia Kim as Sabine Wren

After watching Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze and knowing Rosario Dawnson will probably nailed her role as Ahsoka Tano as well, I can’t help but wonder who will be the best Sabine Wren. Hopefully, they will pick as Asian Actress, and the first one that pops into my mind was Claudia Kim. She appeared briefly in Avengers Age of Ultron as a doctor and played a badass female Mongolian warrior, Khutulun in Netflix’s Marco Polo. 

[blue-scorpion-king]

The 27 Queen Ministers of the BLU Factional Empire, of Bagklock Earth

//After 2 days, staying up on both nights, including today on this post being posted, I have completed this section for the BLU page on my page and to show you. :3 Now, I am off to bed.

In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the successful 8-G Revolution, and The Empress of the then, newly established BLU Factional Empire's rise from Soviet 'ash', among Her plans were to make 27 daughters, that will be Her generals and 'Queen Ministers' in any future conflict, negotiation, operations, projects, secret or not, and deals within the socialistic imperial government of BLU.

These 27 Daughters of The Empress were made artificially, not clone, by taking an embryo, put in 1/4 Togruta, 1/4 Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, 1/4 Orc {Warcraft}, and 1/4 quarter-giant Draenei DNA, put 1/2 DNA of 2 different races, add 1/3 of DNA from any ethnicity The Empress has chosen to Her daughters' 1/2 Russian & Japanese genetic make-up, add the DNA of the 13 Apostles, splitting each strain into 2 for adding to the 27 daughters' genes, expect for Judas, that was send from Section Matthew III of the Vatican, put innate manipulation/generation power to control an specific natural phenomena/disaster until they are older, make them all 27 embryos female, the beginning letter of their names line up with the 26 letters of the alphabet, plus the Greek letter of Rhi (Ragyo), have the motif of an set of 27 natural phenomena/disasters in an zodiac-like set, with an additional secondary animal motif, with DNA of those specific animals added on top of that (Similar to Terraformars), each of them be trained, & educated, for an period of time at an place chosen by The Empress, their Mother, and besides being 'Queen Ministers', be the generals of the 3 sections of the Purge Troopers branch of the BLU military: Wolfenstein, Doom, & Quake. With their genes mixed in with the Apostles' DNA, which is used in the process of making the 2nd and 3rd, and current, generation of Purge Troopers, this notion would make the Queen Ministers the partial gene-mothers of their Purge Troopers within their Sectors.

But, one of these 27 daughters, Ragyo Kiryuuin, who had found an 'living' alien material underground, that came from space, and for an long while, out of her Mother's sights, called Life Fibers, opposes any of her Mother's wishes and suggestions and even Her love for her own personal, sexual, and selfish desires, to even the extent of experimenting on herself to become fully 'human', just 7 feet, 10 inches tall, yet not, through Life Fibers.

-Like their Mother, the 27 Queen Ministers have their aura 'halos' behind their heads reflect on their powers, like an aura-made thunderstorm, radiation mushroom cloud, laser rain from an cloud, or an light red blizzard, that is always 'active', even when sleeping. => The Queen Ministers of the BLU Factional Empire/The Empress' 27 Daughters <=

*1>Ragyo Kiryuuin (55 years old; March 27th, 1991=1st born) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Rainbows]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Swan] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Avariel (Winged) Elf, & Human - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & French - All of Apostle Judas Iscariot's DNA}] {*Former* General of the Wolfenstein Sector} ({*Rhiagyo*}) <[BWH, in inches, in her most recent shrunken state from her previous form: 56.5"-77"-95"]

2>Alghazala Kiryuuin (54 years old;Hephavenge 26th, 1992=2nd born=39 meters, or 128 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Dust/sand storms, or 'dust bowls'/sand storms, falling down from above, and blowing east, west, south, and north]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Stag deer] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Sphinx Monster Persona, & Thep Khufan/'Snare-Oh' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Egyptian - Half of Apostle Simon's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-223 feet-234 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-63"-74"]

3>B'asada Kiryuuin (54 years old;Typio 25th, 1992=3rd born=39 meters, or 128 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Metal flake storms, or 'metal bowls' falling down from above, and blowing east, west, south, and north]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Lion] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Devil Bug Monster Persona, & Chimera Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Iraqi - Half of Apostle Simon's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 202 feet-222 feet-230 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 42"-62"-70"]

4>Cdreoilin Kiryuuin (54 years old;Blastupho 24th, 1992=4th born=39 meters, or 128 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Making fire, firestorms, and fires]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Wren] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Criffith (Sentinent Griffith), & Warca-Troll - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Irish - Half of Apostle Jude's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 195.9 feet-222 feet-223 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 35.8"-62"-73"]

5>Dhisano Kiryuuin (54 years old;Zuma 23rd, 1992=5th born=38.7 meters, or 127 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Vibrations to make earthquakes, landfall, mud flow, & landslides]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Horse] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Pegasus Centaur Monster Persona, & Inkling - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Omani - Half of Apostle Philip's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 209 feet-234 feet-256 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 49"-74"-96", or 8'0"]

6>Ealaoka Kiryuuin (54 years old;Mercdonius 22nd, 1992=6th born=38.7 meters, or 127 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Magma to make geysers/volcanoes]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: (Samoan) Koala] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Tengu Monster Persona (Wings on the back, not as arms), & Zabrak - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Samoan - Half of Apostle Jude's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 196 feet-226 feet-234 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 36"-56"-74"]

7>Fasalaamaa Kiryuuin (53 years old;July 21st, 1993=7th born=38.7 meters, or 127 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Lightning & Thunder to make thunderstorms and lightning strikes]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Salamander] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Gandharva Monster Persona (Wings at the back, not as the arms), & Wererabbit Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Nepali - Half of Apostle James' DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 196.9 feet-223 feet-234 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 36.9"-63"-74"]

8>Gemdveda Kiryuuin (53 years old;August 20th, 1993=8th born=38.4 meters, or 126 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air/Wind to make hurricanes/typhoons]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Bear] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Fairy Monster Persona, & Tetramand/'Fourarms' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Cuban - Half of Apostle Philip's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-222 feet-236.5 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-62"-76.5"]

9>Haccipita Kiryuuin (53 years old;Galbickus 19th, 1993=9th born=38.4 meters, or 126 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Water & vibrations/tremors to make floods, tsunamis, and seaquakes]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: (Sea) Hawk] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged (Deviant) Hawk Anthro, & Sahuagin Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & State of Illinois, United States of Valentina (America) - Half of Apostle Peter's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-224 feet-236 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-64"-76"]

10>Ipala Kiryuuin (53 years old;Vespubass 18th, 1993=10th born=38.4 meters, or 126 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Heat to make heat waves, heat bursts, and mixing with water molecules in the air to make humidity]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Bat] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Bat Faunus, & Cyclops Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Spanish/Hispanic - 1/4 of Apostle Jude's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 201 feet-225 feet-234 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 41"-65"-74"]

11>Jhimeemogoi Kiryuuin (52 years old;Kwaruba 17th, 1994=11th born=38.1 meters, or 125 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Water & air to make rain & hail]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Rattlesnake] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, rattlesnake Lamia, & Lepidopterran/'Stinkfly' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Mongolian - Half of Apostle Andrew's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 250 feet-281 feet-290 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an 10'0" female: 90"-121"-130"]

12>Kaculeus Kiryuuin (52 years old;Kwaruba 16th, 1994=12th born=38.1 meters, or 125 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Heat, water, & air to make raining rocks/magma]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Stingray] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Stingray Therian, with mutated backfins + Skewer (Darwin Quad/IV flying animal), with the organic methane gas-using jet-like pods, fusion, & Yeti Monster Persona (Reversed in environment adapation) - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Australian - 1/4 of Apostle Jude's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 198 feet-216 feet-236 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 38"-56"-76"]

13>Licanema Kiryuuin (52 years old;Jokphant 15th, 1994=13th born=38.1 meters, or 125 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air, water, & lightning to make raining lightning & electrified rain & hail]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Hyena] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Thunderbird Monster Persona (Wings at the back, not as the arms), & Vaxasaurian/'Humongousaur' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & State of Alabama, United States of Valentina (America) - Half of Apostle John's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 200 feet-234 feet-242 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 40"-74"-82"]

14>Nameisenbar Kiryuuin (52 years old;Ajanyomba 14th, 1994=14th born=37.7 meters, or 124 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air, steam, & water to make mist & fog]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Anteater] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Wyvern Monster Persona [Wings at the back, not as the arms], & Arburian Pelarota/'Cannonbolt' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & German - Half of Apostle Thomas's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 201 feet-230 feet-243 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 41"-70"-83"]

15>Mpweza Kiryuuin (52 years old;Dhoanga 13th, 1994=15th born=37.7 meters, or 124 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air & vibrations to make windstorms, gales, tornadoes, airquakes, and breezes]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Octopus] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, female Octopus Fishmen, & winged Manticore Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Ethiopian - Half of Apostle Bartholomew's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-231 feet-242 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-71"-82"]

16>Ocorvo Kiryuuin (52 years old;Mwiwamdba 12th, 1994=16th born=37.7 meters, or 124 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air & water molecules to make all types of clouds]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Raven] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged (Kim Type) Raven Anthro, & Dullahan Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Brazilian - Half of Apostle Judas Iscariot's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 206 feet-231 feet-244 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 46"-71"-84"]

17>Pacanguro Kiryuuin (52 years old;Mwiwamdba 11th, 1994=17th born=37.4 meters, or 123 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air & light to make beams of light, lasers, and laser rain]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Kangaroo] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Pixie Monster, & Vulpimancer/'Wildmutt' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Italian - Half of Apostle James' DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 199 feet-232 feet-248 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 39"-72"-88"]

18>Qemanchota Kiryuuin (51 years old;Haheptenper 10th, 1995=18th born=37.1 meters, or 122 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Mud]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Penguin] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Cockatrice Monster Persona (On the back, not as the arms, unlike normal Cockatrices), & Holstaur Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Canadian - Half of Apostle Andrew's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 208 feet-237 feet-250 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 48"-77"-90"]

19>Rkekada Kiryuuin (51 years old;October 9th, 1995=19th born=37.1 meters, or 122 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Twilight (Inbetween light and shadow)]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Lobster] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Hornet Monster Persona, & Slime Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Tamil Nadu Indian - Half of Apostle Thomas's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 198 feet-223 feet-236 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 38"-63"-76"]

20>Sarana Kiryuuin (51 years old;October 8th, 1995=20th born=37.1 meters, or 122 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Rust]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Spider] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Arachne Monster Persona, & Geochelone Aerio/'Terraspin', with hidden organic methane gas-using pod mutations inside her lower half's shell (Not located at the spide abdomen) for flight - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Ecuador - Half of Apostle James, son of Alphaeus' DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 204 feet-240 feet-250 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 44"-80"-90"]

21>Topolilla Kiryuuin (51 years old;October 7th, 1995=21st born=37.1 meters, or 122 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Shadows]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Moth] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Moth Therian, & Ogre Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Mexico/Latino - Half of Apostle Judas Iscariot's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 212 feet-243 feet-252 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an 12'0" female: 122"-147"-172" (Different BWH at her

actual height)] 22>Ubullisa Kiryuuin (51 years old;November 6th, 1995=22th born=36.8 meters, or 121 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Radiation]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Bull] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Succubus, & Minotaur Monster Persona - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Latvian - Half of Apostle James Alphaeus' DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 206 feet-238 feet-254 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an 8'0" female: 46"-78"-94"]

23>Viraca Kiryuuin (51 years old;Cecetutampetelf/'Cecetutam' 5th, 1995=23rd born=36.8 meters, or 121 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Blood & air, of all known (Bagklock) colors, to make 'plagues', flows, floods, blood rain, blood snow, and erosion via blood]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Crab] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, winged Dragonfly Therian, & Transylian/'Frankenstrike' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Romanian - Half of Apostle Matthew's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 200 feet-240 feet-250 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an 10'7 female: 80"-70"-120" (Different BWH at her actual height)]

24>Wantilopa Kiryuuin (49-50 years old;December 4th, 1996=24th born=36.8 meters, or 121 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air, ice, & lightning to make thundersnow, lightning strikes, and electrified snow]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Antelope] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Necrofriggan/'Big Chill', & Satyr - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Swedish - Half of Apostle John's DNA}] {General of the Wolfenstein Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 200 feet-242 feet-250 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 40"-82"-90"]

25>Xsavær Kiryuuin (49-50 years old;Undecember 3rd, 1996=25th born=36.5 meters, or 120 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Coldness to make coldwaves, cold bursts, and micing with water molecules to make frost]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Ram sheep] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Angel Monster Persona, & Crystalsapien/'Chromastone' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Norwegian - Half of Apostle Bartholomew's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-242 feet-251 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-82"-91"]

26>Yakrokotiilia Kiryuuin (49-50 years old;Duodecember 2nd, 1996=26th born=36.5 meters, or 120 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Air, Ice, & vibrations to make snow, blizzards, icestorms, avalanches, snowquakes, or icequakes, & of course, ice]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Crocodile] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Genosian, & Polar Manzardill/'Arcticguana' - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Finnish - Half of Apostle Peter's DNA}] {General of the Doom Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 197 feet-243 feet-252 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 37"-83"-92"]

& 27>Zosp’ilo Kiryuuin (49-50 years old; September 12th, 1996=27th born=36.5 meters, or 120 feet tall) [[Motif & manipulation/generation power: Crystals]] [Secondary animal motif & DNA: Elephant] [{1/6 Togruta, quarter-giant Draenei, Kousou-Akuryo {Aka Frieza’s race}, Orc {Warcraft}, Dragun [Humanoid Dragon], & Petrosapien - 1/3 Russian, Japanese, & Kongo Bantu - Half of Apostle Matthew's DNA}] {General of the Quake Sector} <[BWH, in feet: 200 feet-242 feet-250 feet] <<[BWH, in inches, if is an normal female: 40"-82"-90"]

->Inspirations: The Alphabet based system of Yhwach Bach's (Bleach), the Primarchs of The Emperor of the Imperium of Mankind (Warhammer 40K), & the Diamonds Authority (Steven Universe).

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~The Bat~

[izzyovercoffee]

The thing is, I never read Legends, so I always saw the warrior mandalorians as imperialist. Both of the houses we see (Kryze and Viszla) are headed by white, blonde families and Clan Wren are the descendants of a people who were conquered, converted to Mandalorian ideals, and placed in a subordinate position under Viszla. Bo Katan, a traditionalist, rejects Maul as unfit to rule because he's an alien. And this was all decided before the reboot with Legends so....I'm confused.

Confusion is totally understandable! 

For the record, because this got so long, it has to go under a cut. I apologize for the length, and if my tone is off it’s not intentional. I’m, essentially, info-dumping, because there’s a lot of extraneous information that applies to the arcs I’m gonna try to address under the cut. I’m also reading your ask as if you didn’t see Satine’s New Mandalorians as imperialist, bc that seems to be what you’re implying in the ask? If I’m off, I apologize in advance.

Also even though I say “you” in this reply, I don’t mean you specifically, I’m meaning to address a general “you,” not you you.

The short answer is that even if you are not familiar with Legends material, reading only one of the two houses as imperialist kind of misses all of the subtext conveyed purely by the information presented in the arcs themselves, and oversimplifies imperialism. It is easy to miss, though, and imperialism itself is a complex subject that isn’t discussed as well as it should be.

But, ultimately, even if we were to ignore Legends and only look at canon material, we still have what boils down to this:

The New Mandalorians, an all white faction of mandalorians:

exiled people of a differing cultural philosophy

has a society not achievable through means that don’t involve steps towards ethnic cleansing 

declared pre-established nonwhite mandalorians as not mandalorian, thereby stripping any claim to that cultural identity, in the same vein as calling them the equivalent of savage

were part of a regime change backed by an outside stronger, larger military force invested in that regime change

All of these things, together, paint House Kryze and the New Mandalorians as Imperialist. Regardless of Legends material, regardless of how anyone feels about Death Watch.

And even though the writing does not really carry the kind of awareness that definitely points to a lesson on imperialism, if we entertain that as the conclusion to all of the arcs … it would have been more effective to make Sundari diverse in comparison to Death Watch, and have that diversity leverage Death Watch’s war crimes directly, rather than make Sundari the accidental genocidal Imperialist power by poor design decision.

Furthermore, as much as I would rather not bring it up as it’s always used as a straw man argument against the existence of racism, the fact is that Imperialism is not the sole purview of white people. Chinese Imperialism exists. Japanese Imperialism exists. Both are as effective analogues for Imperialism, and both are closer to actual Mandalorian history than the space!Nazi aesthetic the writers went with—not just for obvious reasons, but because the space!Nazi aesthetic implicates an altogether different type of imperialism. 

And it’s a type that completely distracts from and undermines the ultimate goals of their storytelling in those arcs. 

Moving on to that last point, though … that scene where Bo-Katan rejected Maul, can be read differently—as in, she did not reject him because he was an alien so much as she rejected Maul because he wasn’t mandalorian. Or it could be both of those things, but it’s an important distinction to make—it’s important to not forget all of the things Bo-Katan, specifically, was fighting for.

Bo-Katan fought to save the culture Satine was trying to eradicate — and in terms of cultural genocide, if Maul was to take up his position as leader of mandalorians, that is just trading one type of cultural genocide for another.

It is, under no circumstance, the same as framing it as a simple rejection of Maul because he’s an alien. Him being an alien literally does not matter in that moment, tradition or not, because Maul had no stake in it—because it’s not his culture on the precipice of extinction. To treat that scene like it was … well, was to miss the point.

The very long longer answer goes under the cut.

To warn you about what’s under the cut, as it’s, again, very, very long. I’m basically going into a detailed explanation about: 

Legends & why/how Legends applies to the Mandalore arcs

a longer diatribe on imperialism: —To Legends or Not to Legends —Why does Legends help the New Mandalorians?

how & why the New Mandalorians are Imperialist: —A Diatribe on Imperialism

and their platform is transparent and hypocritical w/o the additional context of Legends to soften the edges: —Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorian’s Transparently Hypocritical Political Platform, and more on Jango Fett

a longer explanation on Bo-Katan and Maul: —Xenophobia versus Continued Cultural Genocide

the actual events that are contextually relevant to the Mandalore arcs: —Legends: The Aftermath of the Mandalorian Wars—Legends: The Mandalorian Excision

what I mean by the Fetts were established as mandalorian before the Mandalore arcs aired: —Why the decanonization of the Fetts matters, in the context of the story and canon —An aside: Separating “Boba Fett” from “Mandalorian” after 30+ years

As I’ve said, it’s a lot. Mostly meant to be used as a reference, I guess. I apologize if I repeat myself too much. I wrote this in chunks and threw it together, so if it’s messy or even more confusing, that’s 100% on me.

[[ EDIT:: it has since come to my attention that George Lucas was the mind behind the retcon, stated once in a special featurette for TCW DVD set for Season 2. Him being known and expected to be (hopefuly for obvious reasons) incredibly racist makes it all a little less surprising, but no less fucked up. That the writers still stick with it now, after he’s out, is disappointing, and I maintain that that tweet by Hidalgo was unnecessary. Nothing else about the argument changes except on who to blame and criticize more than the others. ]]

To Legends or Not to Legends

The Imperialism implied in the show was based off of a larger context of conquer and destroy that exists in Legends, and at the time of airing took for granted that the viewer would have at least some knowledge of that mandalorian history, but would still work overall if the viewer did not know those details.

So, even if you are not familiar with Legends the show at the time took for granted at least superficial understanding of the KOTOR series and The Mandalorian Wars that occurred 4000 years prior to the events of the show. The Mandalore Arcs make multiple references to a history of galactic-scale war and conquest, but nothing was ever established even close to threatening outside of the events leading to KOTOR i & ii. The writers, themselves, also indicated familiarity and desire to canonize the KOTOR events (writing Revan, for example, into the show and having them voiced until, ultimately, Revan was cut from that episode. It doesn’t make KOTOR canon, but what it does do is build a case and point to the inspirations of where the writers were coming from). 

The Expanded Universe was still referenced even if it was obliquely—and under that knowledge, Expanded Universe / Legends material therefore matters when it comes to talking about the context of the Mandalore arcs.

I mean, obviously it wasn’t required knowledge, as anyone can watch the episodes and follow for the most part, and at this point because most of those things are now relegated to a time period that, most likely, will not be addressed or brought up in canon material from this point forward, it’s hard to gauge if it will ever “matter.”

But, regardless, the intent to reference the old republic can still be seen in there, and the Mandalore arcs make more sense, overall, politically and otherwise, when the Mandalorian Wars were / are taken into account as compared to how the arcs stand without that background.

At the time, while Legends wasn’t rebooted yet, only the highest levels of canon really “mattered,” and those were movies and TV. They both did and did not matter, because the showrunners ultimately had the final say of what they wanted to present. They could draw from the expanded universe material, even extrapolate on what was set up as a foundation—or they could do as they ultimately did and annihilate what was previously established.

To reiterate, the movies, and the shows, had the power to erase pre-established expanded universe canon, as it was canon at the time, just a “lower level” of canon. It wasn’t a clear cut line like it is today, where Legends is Legends and doesn’t “exist” in the star wars universe. Expanded Universe was canon-enough right up until the movies and the shows decided otherwise. Expanded Universe was canon right up until the show decided to outright erase some parts and rewrite it.

And that’s ultimately what happened to the mandalorians.

A Diatribe on Imperialism

So, to come back to the topic of Imperialism, Imperialism absolutely was the topic of discussion. But, again, because of the design decisions, even though they framed the New Mandalorians as the radical faction that came as a direct counterpoint to Death Watch and Mandalore’s history of war and conquest, the visual notes and hints they ultimately settled on implied a wholly different background that really … can’t conceivably be what they intended from the beginning.

Both Houses were Imperialists, and both of them carry a violent history.

I also want to reiterate: Imperialism is not the sole purview of white people. Other races, other Empires, have also expanded their respective territories, have also conquered huge territories, have forced assimilation of local peoples into their respective Empires. The Mongolians. The Chinese. The Khmer Empire. The Vikings. The Romans. The Japanese. And so on, and so forth.

Presenting imperialism = white is a very narrow, limited view of imperialism, and inaccurate (Chinese Imperialism is a real thing, Japanese Imperialism is a real thing. These things really happen today, and affect real people, and so and so forth). 

Not only white Europeans colonized huge chunks of the world, but generally white Europeans did so to such a degree that world is still fucking wrecked by it even to today. (But that doesn’t make the survivors of other imperialist conquests any less significant. It doesn’t make ethnic cleansing and intra-racial imperialism and genocide any less heinous, but I digress.)

Beyond that, though, while Imperialism and its effects absolutely is an important discussion to be had, by oversimplifying imperialist = white, and “warrior white” = imperialist, we fail to recognize the other types of imperialism in effect today (and in the star wars universe) that absolutely should be acknowledged and discussed.

Contrary to popular belief, there are other visual analogues that exist outside of centering white supremacy, even when that centering is meant to be in criticism of it.

Further, Imperialism isn’t only perpetuated through physical violence—and, in fact, in today’s world it’s more effectively perpetuated through other means, through policy. Satine Kryze’s reign is, yet again, another example of how a superficially nonviolent society can still wield imperialism through policy and not be demonized because, technically, they’re not violent like those other guys, aka Death Watch.

It’s easy to defend something terrible when the only other comparison is a group of extremists already demonized by history that are marginally more obviously terrible.

But, again, if the racism inherent in the episodes is missed, then it’s very easy to miss all of the unfortunate implications tied in with it. It’s also then easy to miss how the whitewashing comes in. And, ultimately, it’s easy to miss how that decision distracts from and completely undermines the point of those arcs. 

Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorian’s Transparently Hypocritical Political Platform, and more on Jango Fett

When the writers chose space!Germany, space!Nazis, they implicated Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians in a specific type of imperialism, and a specific type of genocide. And even though I cannot make any claims as to fully know what they intended to indicate, from what can be determined watching the arcs, the intention was not to paint Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians as having that history of genocide. She was supposed to be a symbol against those war crimes, not a symbol whose power stems from it.

To reiterate, it was not one they wanted to implicate her and their faction in—it was one they wanted to implicate only Death Watch in, alone. But because of all the things I’ve pointed out in previous posts and above, there’s no other way to interpret the visual presentation of Sundari as anything but carrying an implied violently racist society. Because you cannot achieve a population that looks like that without eugenics, without genocide.

And if you still don’t see it now, after myself and other people have explained how and why Sundari is the perfect example of what that looks like … well.

Coming back to the white = imperialism analogue, that’s where, I think, the “well, of course they’re all white / blond / blue-eyed!” analogue falls short. Because the actual comparison of space!Germans? Space!Nazis? It just doesn’t work. It does not fit. The quick and easy analogue of Imperialism that the writers chose to go with, does not match what the apparent goals of either the longer Legends-inclusive bloody history nor the Mandalore arcs were trying to convey.

And as I’ve said before: we, the viewers, were supposed to sympathize with Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians, but for anyone even remotely familiar with the concept of eugenics, anyone who knows what the extreme conclusion of a racist society looks like, looks at the New Mandalorians and Sundari and sees them as the defacto success story of space!Nazis.

To say “it’s not that deep” is to, ultimately, pick and choose when and where one cares about visual details in a visual medium—when and where one cares about how information and story is illustrated through setting—and that’s really not an effective way to learn how to improve storytelling in a visual medium, nor learn why these interpretations arise and how to avoid (or fix!) them in the future.

On top of that, it ultimately takes away from the story. It takes away from the arc. It undermines anything Satine and the New Mandalorians could have stood for, because instead of being a Pacifist society out of a willingness to change and be better than what their history says they are, they’re a Pacifist society that had a successful implementation of a eugenics and cultural genocide program and that’s how they maintain their stability. And that’s monstrous.

It made Satine into a monster, by sheer accident and oversight.

When they made that design decision, they unfortunately implicated all of the white New Mandalorians as complicit in a specific type of genocide, one that can only be associated with space!Nazis, because that was the visual shortcut they decided on using. 

We were supposed to see the monsters only in Death Watch, not in the New Mandalorians, and not in Satine. The intent was to implicate Death Watch as all massively violent criminals and murderers, not make them victims to stand on ground equally bad. Not to inadvertently make them sympathetic.

It was just not reflective of the context they were pulling from at the time, nor was it effective for the story they wanted to convey. In no way did it make Satine Kryze sympathetic, because how could it?

Their writing choice had the exact opposite effect of their intended goal.

Why the decanonization of the Fetts matters, in the context of the story and canon

Moving on from that, I, generally, would couch against oversimplifying Satine’s (and the New Mandalorian’s) position: what they were doing, in no uncertain terms, was taking a culture that was, before the Mandalore Arcs, established as a nonwhite culture and declaring them savages that needed to be colonized for their own good. Almost literally exactly how the Fetts were decanonized within the show.

That is a type of Imperialism. That, in itself, is a type of colonization that has already happened in our history in the real world, worldwide, to countless native societies and people. 

Whether Filoni and Hidalgo George Lucas and the other writers liked it or not, the Fetts were still mandalorian as of the movies’ airings, and his retcon delivered through the show didn’t come until years later. So that retcon, that declaration, cannot be separated from what was established as canon beforehand and at the time of that episode’s airing—no matter how much the writers seemed to want to erase or ignore 30+ years of the larger franchise establishing otherwise in expanded materials without conflict. 

And because it cannot be separated, that directly implicates Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians as just as Imperialist as Death Watch, except they’re less “terrorist.” But terrorism, in general, is determined by governmental and institutional power, and because the New Mandalorians wield all the power in mandalorian space, any act of obscene violence they may or may not wield on their marginalized populations will never be called terrorism—because, again, terrorism is the sole purview of people who don’t wield institutional power.

So, to reiterate, as I’ve said before, and as someone rightfully pointed out in the notes of the previous posts, by having the Fetts identified as mandalorians in canon material prior to the Mandalore arcs of the show, it was implicated that mandalorians as a cultural identity were nonwhite. 

To then introduce the New Mandalorians as all-white out of nowhere, and have them thereby declare:

the Fetts as not mandalorians, and

fighting as veneration was unconscionable

basically made the New Mandalorians echo real-world violent colonialism in the terms of the White Voice Of Reason coming to Tame The Savages and make them “reasonable and cultured.” 

So on the one hand, you have white Death Watch who is obviously Imperialist, yes, but then by doing the above the writers accidentally made it impossible to separate the New Mandalorians from a different but still clear Imperialism. I say accidentally because, generally, the writing of the early arcs didn’t seem to be all that self aware in those implications for Satine.

I mean, also consider that the Death Watch of the show also had:

a white woman in a position of power who wasn’t white supremacist pale / blond / blue-eyed, and

later established that they had nonwhite people among their ranks in respected positions

In comparison to New Mandalorians? Imperialism is still present, but the ethnic cleansing and the eugenics is not.

The impression that Clan Wren’s ancestors were subjugated by Mandalorian Expansion may not be wrong, or it may be. But consider why you want to make that assumption, if it’s necessary, and if it’s coming from a place of “well, of course they’re not naturally mandalorian, because they’re not white!” And if that perspective is being used to form a complex history and relationship with their cultural identity, or if you’re only doing it for superficial flavor that adds nothing to the story nor context. Because if it’s the latter, it’s not a decision that is made in vacuum, but rather one that can contribute to racism / racist narratives.

It’s racist in much the same sense as saying that someone cannot be British if they’re Asian. That someone cannot be American if they’re Asian. These assumptions that are being made, they’re not factual statements built from nothing but racist assumptions that don’t hold up under their own weight or logic.

Which isn’t to say that Death Watch isn’t terrible—they absolutely are.

The implied Imperialism of Death Watch is very real, yes. The problem is that I haven’t seen anything to implicate DW as subjugating the Wrens or other humans, if we’re looking at the show and canon only. 

I say that because … we only have the word of the New Mandalorians, who are speaking from a position I’ve hopefully explained in great detail as hypocritical at best, as well as the word of the Jedi Order / Republic, who both have a vested political interest in making damn sure the New Mandalorians keep their seats of power and would not want to undermine that stability (because the New Mandalorians are Republic-friendly and Death Watch is quite clearly Republic-unfriendly. Not to mention that both the Jedi Order and the Republic had a direct hand in the war to keep the New Mandalorians in power years before, when Satine rose to the duchy. And yes, this was stated in the arcs themselves, is canon and thereby not relegated to Legends information). 

None of the people pointing fingers at Death Watch are speaking from an unbiased position—and if the writers really wanted to make those accusations clearer and from an actually sympathetic POV, they would have made Sundari not all white, and gave minor airtime to a nonwhite mandalorian leveraging those crimes against Death Watch. 

But, they didn’t go down that route, so instead we have a conflict that is murky and convoluted with no right side. And as much as I detest Death Watch, the accusations towards them are not coming from a source that doesn’t benefit from villainizing everyone who contradicts them across the board.

And that’s a problem when the story arcs, themselves, expect us to just see Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians as the “obvious” correct side without any kind of deep or critical thinking.

In Legends, Death Watch has always been anti-alien, but again, because of that lazy design decision … the writers relegated the anti-alien sentiment to all of Mandalorian space as a whole, as opposed to just Death Watch. 

Like I said, it’s distracting from the points and sides they were trying to make.

We also have another canon man native to Concord Dawn to compare Jango’s status to, because the excuses that we’ve been given so far has been “he’s not a mandalorian but he’s native to Concord Dawn” as if that should be an easy distinction to make … yet we have someone else who is also native to Concord Dawn, who was never part of Death Watch, and yet he’s still considered mandalorian.

That man is Fenn Rau. 

Canon material shows us:

Fenn Rau is a mandalorian, despite being from Concord Dawn, while

Jango Fett is “not,” when he’s also a Concord Dawn native

Concord Dawn sits firmly in Mandalorian Space, and Fenn Rau was a True Mandalorian, as was Jango Fett—also known as the Journeyman Protectors. They were a different faction who ultimately sided with the New Mandalorians against Death Watch—but unlike the New Mandalorians, they always dropped everything to fight whenever DW so much as blipped once on a radar. 

We also have the now-canon information that Fenn Rau was on Kamino and trained the clones, and from what Legends tells us … Jango Fett was the one who recruited a good number of mandalorians to help train the clones. At the very least, they must have known and interacted with each other, having been of the same factions and in the same space multiple times.

Again, the things Fenn Rau and Jango Fett have in common:

natives of Concord Dawn

part of the Journeyman Protectors third faction

and the things they don’t have in common:

Fenn Rau is white

Jango Fett is not white

So. 

There is no real logic involved in these writing decisions, outside of explicitly implicating the New Mandalorians as an Imperialist force complicit in racial & ethnic cleansing. That would be the most logical leap to explain why Fenn Rau is a mandalorian, but Jango Fett is not. 

Literally none of it makes sense story-wise in canon otherwise—because that’s, literally, the shortest logical leap that can be supported by the information provided by canon without bending ass over head and making weak excuses.

And, well, even so … If you only look at it from what you see on the shows and movies, it still doesn’t make much sense. Canon as it stands alone frames Satine Kryze and the New Mandalorians as a faction that stands on a position built on transparent irredeemable violent hypocrisy. 

Xenophobia versus Continued Cultural Genocide

And once more I come back to that scene where Bo-Katan rejected Maul. 

To reiterate, I argue that him being an alien does not matter. She may have said it, it may have been implied, but identifying him as an alien in that specific scene once Pre Vizsla was killed does not automatically mean xenophobia—especially when that scene was meant to be a defining point between continued cultural genocide and survival. Whether mandalorians would be willing to crucify itself on its traditionalism and be totally extinguished by accepting Maul, or by standing true to survival and rejecting an outsider from assuming a culture with which he has no stake in.

Rejecting Imperialist cannibalism, yet again.

Allowing Maul to lead the Mandalorians after executing Pre Vizsla would have been trading one violent subjugation for another—trading Satine Kryze’s cultural genocide in the forced conversion to Pacifism for the subjugation under the violent rule of a person who wasn’t mandalorian and had zero stake in what they, as a people, had to lose (once again, their cultural identity).

And that context matters. It matters. She didn’t make that decision from a position in which she was given much choice, regardless that allegiances split on that decision. Bo-Katan was fighting for traditionalism, yes, but that traditionalism is built on a foundation of mandalorians surviving mandalorian cultural genocide at all costs — first from the New Mandalorians and the Republic, 700 years prior, then the New Mandalorians and Satine a few decades prior to the show, and finally, if you take Legends context of The Mandalorian Wars, a survival of cultural genocide as brought into play by Sith manipulations.

Pre Vizsla died because his rigid traditionalism was the sword on which he was willing to impale himself on before he was willing to change. And that kind of rigid inability to adapt would have meant the death of mandalorian culture. 

So … don’t oversimplify that scene. Context matters. Everything that leads up to that moment in the show matters. 

Legends: The Aftermath of the Mandalorian Wars

What ended The Mandalorian Wars?

The Jedi Order was, essentially, split into two: The Jedi who would fight, and the Jedi who Refused to fight. The Jedi who left to fight followed in the steps of Revan and Alek, and the Exile.

What ended the war was this:

At the Battle of Malachor, the Jedi Revan executed Mandalore the Ultimate, and 

stole the ceremonial mask needed for any Mandalorian to declare themselves Mandalore and lead the people

At the same time, The Jedi Exile, a High General, made the decision to activate the Mass Shadow Generator, which wiped out the entirety of the Mandalorian Army, and

nearly killed off all of the mandalorian people in the known galaxy in that same action

The entirety of the Mandalorian Army was, simultaneously, the entirety of the Mandalorian People. And because the majority of Mandalorians, at that time in history, served both in a civilian and a military capacity, when the Jedi Exile initiated the super weapon, she nearly wiped out the entire population of Mandalorians from the known galaxy. 

From that point forward? Mandalorians, as a people, were forced to change their philosophy in order to survive. Mandalorians, as a people became a people focused on survival instead of conquest. Fighting was, is, central to their culture, but the fight stopped being about conquering and became about survival.

But later, when they eventually recovered their numbers, different factions within the Mandalorians would pop up.

There were:

Extremists, who wanted to return to their conquering ways, irregardless of the fact that conquering directly lead to their annihilation. These people would venerate Mandalore the Ultimate for all the wrong reasons.

Isolationists, who wanted to focus only on the growth and continued survival of the mandalorian people, who wanted to continue Mandalore the Preserver’s work — and never regress to the old, conquering ways, because that’s ultimately what killed them.

From these two factions, eventually, over the millennia that followed, would continuously fight each other: because Extremists wanted to return to the toxic ‘old ways’, and Isolationists saw conquer as an invitation to the Republic (and the Jedi) to finish their path of genocide.

And the thing was: they weren’t wrong.

And this is important as historical context to know, when taking in the Mandalore Arcs of the Clone Wars, because in those arcs, it’s clear that The Republic and The Jedi Order have not only had a vested interest in Mandalorian politics—Kenobi clearly references a time when he was directly involved with keeping Satine Kryze in power.

Historical context.

Because of the sheer scale of catastrophe the Mandalorians successfully caused to the galaxy during the Mandalorian Wars, The Republic and The Jedi Order would forever remember those events and continue to act accordingly to prevent them from ever happening again, no matter the cost.

THAT is why both The Jedi Order and The Republic have such a serious and vested interest in Mandalorians remaining demilitarized and passive.

And THAT is why, ~700 years prior to the events of The Clone Wars, roughly 3300 years after the conclusion of the Mandalorian Wars, The Jedi and The Republic carpet bombed the fuck out of Mandalore without provocation. It was thenceforth referred to as the Mandalorian Excision

Legends: The Mandalorian Excision

When the arcs were written, imperialism was both a direct reference not to a recent campaign, but to a literal galaxy-wide imperialism ~4000 years before the events of the Clone Wars, as well as the one ~700 years before.

The Mandalorian Excision came after the end of the Thousand Years War in which the Jedi waged a millennia-long campaign against the Sith and wrecked the galaxy, again. The Republic, weakened by the war against the Sith, could not survive another galactic wide conflict.

But, after the rise of Tarre Vizsla ~1000 years before the events of TCW, the warring Houses of Mandalore banded together to join a united Mandalore. The constant fighting and war left Mandalorian Space very, very weak, but of the factions that arose out of that peace, half wanted to regain their power and conquer the galaxy, while the other half cautioned for pacifism and peace.

Unfortunately for all of the Mandalorians, the Republic got wind of the ancestors of Death Watch — and even though Mandalorians were undecided as how to proceed, and didn’t have any power whatsoever to follow through on those desires because they were still extremely weakened from both the galactic-wide conflict and their own inter-clan and inter-house fighting, The Jedi Order led the “preemptive strike” and glassed Mandalore.

Preemptive strike is interesting language choice, because what that ultimately means, and what actually happened, is that Mandalore did nothing to provoke that attack because they were nowhere near to threatening to anyone in power, and the Jedi and the Republic still decided to base delta zero Mandalore anyway, just to be safe. 

Because we can’t be having any repeats of The Mandalorian Wars, even though that was ~3000 years before.

And after they carpet bombed Mandalore, the Republic and the Jedi Order then invaded the planet, and installed a new government as ruled by the New Mandalorians, under the agreement that they would never move against the Republic.

The New Mandalorians then began the exile-or-die campaign, with the “help” of the Republic. Anyone who was unwilling to denounce “the old ways” would be killed or exiled.

Why does Legends help the New Mandalorians?

Because without the above context, without the very extreme, very dramatic, very real threat of genocide by the Republic to the Mandalorians, there is no motivational pressure for the New Mandalorians to act like they do — to force pacifism to such an extreme.

But when you’re in a position of be pacifist or the galaxy will crush you again, and this time they might wipe out everyone, then there’s a literal galaxy’s worth of motivation to force cultural genocide to kill the literal thing that has made you and your people a target for elimination if you so much as breathe the wrong way.

And that context, above, was the context in which the episodes were written. Because, like it was said, the Legends reboot didn’t happen yet — so all of the expanded materials attached to the Mandalore arcs lay out a very real, very clear wider view of why the New Mandalorians violently enforced radical Pacifism.

This isn’t to say that the implied ethnic & racial cleansing is forgivable, and this isn’t to say that cultural genocide is forgivable, because these things are literally unforgivable, heinous, and monstrous — but given the situation, given their position in the galaxy, given everything that was at stake … can you blame them?

I mean, obviously, duh. Yes. You can blame them. You should blame them.

But … it gives that extremism more sense, on all sides of the conflict.

An aside: Separating “Boba Fett” from “Mandalorian” after 30+ years

Yes, I’m back on this. I promise this is the last section. I just wanted to clarify whitewashing and what I meant when I said 30+ years of the franchise.

At the time of the show’s airing, by making the decision to make the second-highest level of visible canon mandalorians white (as TV came just under Film at that time in terms of validity) and in that same arc retcon the Films’ non-white Fetts from that same category, that was an act of white-washing. That is essentially the most obvious and easily pointed out example of whitewashing. 

It was literally an act of rejecting and delegitimizing nonwhite representation on-screen when that nonwhite representation had many years of worldbuilding and detail behind him/them. Boba Fett, himself, was named as a mandalorian bounty hunter as far back as the late 70s (I apparently have official trading cards from the 80s that say this, too). Since Jango Fett’s debut in Episode II: Attack of the Clones in 2002 he was written as mandalorian.

That’s 30+ years of the name Boba Fett associated with Mandalorian.

And, decades later, when it’s revealed that Boba, and Jango, are not white, it’s mysteriously retconned in a TV show that neither of them are mandalorian? After more than 30 years of the franchise establishing the exact opposite?

TCW canon erased “mandalorian” from the Fetts, redefined mandalorians as white with the introduction of the two Houses and Sundari, and then obliterated expanded universe all in the very same arc by taking what was the capital planet of Mandalore space and glassed it, then gave it Sundari as its central city. The capital planet that was, before the show, ethnically and racially diverse with different climate zones and flora and fauna.

The mess that was the mandalorian fandom trying to make sense of it all was … even now, years later, the community is still reeling from it.

The most grievous, obvious, in-your-face racism and whitewashing done in a long time in the franchise. There’s no way to argue that it isn’t.

Unintentional? Sure. Accidental? Probably. But still, it is what it is.

The thing, though, that gets me the most? Is the out-of-context tweet to confirm it, one that was entirely unnecessary and unneeded.

Why unnecessary? Because mandalorians, as I’ve said time and time again, have a history in Legends-to-Canon of fighting over identity politics, of literally starting wars over the “right” way to be mandalorian. 

To have White Mandalorians look at a Brown Mandalorian and say “THIS MAN, this man who was born in mandalorian space and taken in and raised by a mandalorian clan to become a mandalorian warrior and then elected mandalorian leader of the True Mandalorians, he is NOT A MANDALORIAN!” … is par for the course in the world of mandalorian politics in the larger context of mandalorian history. Mandalorians.

They do this shit, all the time. 

It could have been left alone, to be taken as one will—and it should have been. But instead of doing that, Pablo Hidalgo, in a tweet, “confirmed” that Jango was never mandalorian at all, thereby eradicating any of the complexity that can be inferred on the in-context declaration in the show, and supporting what is, ultimately, an act of racist writing that was as I’ve already said, unneeded and unnecessary.

After 30+ years of Boba Fett established as mandalorian, and 6+ years of Jango Fett as mandalorian, suddenly … he was not white enough to be mandalorian in a show that had higher canon validity than 30+ years of expanded material.

And if you read that section above comparing Fenn Rau and Jango Fett … well. If you can’t see why it’s messed up … I don’t know how else to better explain it.

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Meeting My Mongol Host Family | #40 | July 2020

As the second of my summer 2019 throwback trilogy, this time I detail experiences in rural Mongolia. As with my first summer throwback, these events took place in between summer adventures I’d shared last year. You can dive straight into the new stuff or read the past stories here: first weeks in Mongolia, comparisons to previous travels in Asia, my 22nd birthday and a trip to the capital and day-in-the-life moments. 

Ceremonial Greetings for Foreigners in Mongolia

By my second week of June 2019, I've moved in with a Mongolian host family. We live in northern-central Mongolia’s Номго�� /Nomgon/, a tiny town, home to only 2200 people. The town sits on one side of a two-lane paved road linking provinces. Across the road stands a fairly lone mountain, also named Номгон. Women aren’t to climb it, which is common for more sacred mountains. A large expanse of idyllic alternating crop fields spread between the road and the mountain, which has a Soviet train track before it. 

Besides the picturesque fields, rails and peak visible in the distance, my town’s main feature is its box-shaped two-story school building. I think Soviets built it when they partially developed this area in the 1970s, but it’s painted lime green now. My fellow few Peace Corps Trainees in this town and I spend most of our days at school. 

I spend extra time around our school, too, since my host parents work there. In fact, I first met them at school. When my fellow Trainees and I first arrived, we experienced ceremonial greetings with our host parents. 

The sunny Saturday, June 8, my training cluster mates and I disembark our compact yellow bus to a small concrete area in front of the school. Here we find identically costumed children of all ages performing in unison for us. Mongolian families stand around the perimeter, watching. As our Resource Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) would explain to us, Mongolian events always begin first with a series of song and dance performances.

The children dress in bright-colored traditional outfits. During one performance, a group in yellow with cyan play traditional stringed instruments. In another performance, dancers in seemingly pink with white for girls and green with white for boys perform moves reminiscent of traditional activities in Mongolia’s nomadic culture. After the performances, we hear a welcome speech from the school director (Mongolia’s equivalent of a principal). Then we follow inside our Resource PCV and a Mongolian we’ll later learn is one of our teachers. 

My peers and I take seats at desk benches around the left edge of the room, with wide windows to our backs. Before us sit little bowls of candies and ааруул /ahh-roll/, lightly sweetened dairy-based nibbles. We’d learned just days before  within Peace Corps culture sessions that these are common treats with Mongolian hospitality. 

One by one, my peers and I get called to the front of a classroom for individual ceremonies introducing us to our host parents. Many host parents are young, around their mid-30s, which often sets us Trainees only about 10 to 15 years apart from them. My host folks are a tad older, though. 

I step up to the front and greet mine. They’re in their late 40s, though their skin looks more worn than I'd have expected. They present me with a long blue scarf of possible silk (called a хадаг /hah-dahg/), along with a bowl of fermented mare’s milk. The sour mare’s milk is called айраг /ai-rahg/, with its ‘ai’ part sounding like ‘apple.’ 

Anyway, I’m a klutz, so I spill the айраг on the хадаг. Thankfully, my host parents are humorous, kind and loving. They forgive my blunder, we get a photo, and I seat again. Afterward, outside, we heave my luggage from the Peace Corps bus to their car. On a bumpy ride in under five minutes, my host mom swerves between potholes to reach my host family’s tiny house. 

My Mongol Host Family, June 2019

Peace Corps counties vary in how they arrange housing and training. In Peace Corps Mongolia, we stay with a host family for three months in a rural part of the country before transferring to our two-year site, which is either rural slightly urban. There we live alone during our service. Some Trainees spend their host family summer in a Mongolian ger, others get a room in a house, and still others get a sort of shack on a host family’s property. I got a living room that had a lockable door, which makes it count as a Peace Corps room. My bed was a long couch. This is quite normal and lovely. 

Although in English, I’d be the host son of my host family, in Mongolian, I’m the American son of my Монгол /Mongol/ family. So I’ll just call my host parents my Mongol parents instead. Dad translates to “аав” /ahhv/ while Mom is “ээж” /ehhj/. 

My Mongol аав /ahhv/ is rather thin and shorter than me. He works as the local school's жижүүр /jee-JURE/. Translated as "steward," his job crosses between watchman, desk attendant and handyman. I see him some mornings on my way past his simple desk while walking to my language classroom. 

My Mongol ээж /ehhj/ is a much stronger and bigger person than my Mongol аав. She teaches elementary school students. She's one of the few people in town to own a vehicle, so on rainy days she sometimes drives me to school, letting me skip my five-minute walk. 

Like many vehicles in Mongolia, though, this one’s a fairly compact one from Korea. Opposite of America, the driver's seat is on the right side of the car. Despite this difference, drivers in Mongolia still drive on their roads’ right sides. Again, this is fairly common. 

Besides my host parents, I also have host siblings. Younger siblings, regardless of gender, translate to “дүү” /dew/ in Mongolian. We also call both our younger host cousins and other younger children we address, “дүү” /dew/. To identify genders, we use Mongolian’s equivalent of “male дүү” and “female дүү.” Neat! 

Anyway, within my host family, I have a rebellious 20-year-old male дүү and a mysterious 17-year-old female дүү. The teenage sister darts from sight my first weekend here. But, with Google Translate’s help, my college-aged brother explains she’s really shy. I hope she’ll open up. I also have a Mongol cousin I assume is somewhere between 11 and 12 years old. This дүү is energetic like me and ostensibly fearless, so he takes me on adventures before his return the city, mid-summer. 

Rad Culture Quirks, June 2019

My energetic дүү came to greet my Peace Corps neighbor and me on our walk home from our first day of school. Along the way, my дүү kept making this neck slit motion with his finger, all excited. I felt perplexed. 

Moments after I get home, I learn my host family’s brought a live goat or lamb to be cooked this evening for the ceremonial meal. Those intestines sure take getting used to, but I persevere. I later learn from my local teachers that my host family felt ecstatic that I tried everything! 

As weeks go by, my cohort peers and I get used to seeing the occasional animal skulls and severed hooves in the dirt our walks around town. I find these less exciting than the time we saw, from our Peace Corps bus windows, a herder in the grassy hills guide animals by offroading a Prius. Usually, we’ll see herders riding motorcycles or simply horses when they’re not on foot. Mere days before, an American Peace Corps Mongolia staff member warned us we’d witness Mongolians with a Prius do things we’d never seen. 

Anyway, the bus rides were just for transit between cities. For much of our training, we stick to our towns. 

In town, among the first features I notice is the abundance of teeny brownish birds that hop about then move like a cloud. My host mom calls them something like ‘bolchimer.’ But, Googling “бөлчимэр шуувууд” gets me nowhere. Perhaps they’re Eurasian wrens. I often see them during mornings while praying my rosaries. 

My host family and local teachers really respect my time for spiritual practices. These help center me amid changing conditions. Often, when locals ask what I do in my free time, I say I pray and journal. Indeed, I often keep a rosary on me during the day. My host family started assuming if I was alone in my room, I was probably praying. That felt nice. 

A Chinese-American in Mongolia

After Mongolians learn a bit about me, they tend to regard me as an Asian-American, who just happens to speak Chinese, to have been to China and to have family there. 

I notice a slight disconnect about me being ethnically Chinese. Evidently, I don’t look too obviously one ethnicity or another. I later read that Mongolians had traditionally held nationality solely in terms of the father’s side. In that sense, I’d be entirely American. 

I also share photos from an album I’ve filled of my American and Chinese families, close friends, student life and travels. Every photo including a friend who’s female and Asian, they take her to be my girlfriend. Alas, I’m not that special. 

To avoid possibly problematic situations, though, I only discuss my ethnicity, religion and politics when locals ask. (They really want Andrew Yang to win the election.) That said, since I mention I’m Catholic, some Mongolians would me ask about Biblical stories, usually from a literary standpoint. I’m happy to oblige. Though, I'm often more curious about Mongolian practices, such as the respecting of stone pile shrines I see atop mountains. I love learning from locals.

At last, I’ve a few stories to share from host family life and the countryside! Hopefully, you get some laughs and clearer ideas of how I spent my summer with limited internet. It felt quite memorable! Prepare for the outdoors. 

The Boy on His Horse, June 2019

Before I left the States, my thesis mentor said Mongols are very resourceful and resilient. Peace Corps staff told us, as Volunteers, we must be likewise. 

On the last day of June, my host family had taken me on a weekend trip to the countryside, where they introduced me to family friends who live in white dome-shaped gers (yurts) as herders. As we drove to leave, though, our car got stuck in the marshy mud. We tried using a large, firm log we found to push the car up. That broke the branch, but I found it a worthy effort. 

After a while, my host parents sent me and my teenage sister to wait elsewhere while they spent the remaining sunlight to haul their car out with help from strong locals. 

Nearing the third hour since we got stuck, my host sister and I were walking back across the marshes near sunset. As we walked, a younger Mongolia boy on his horse was chatting with my дүү. His family had been helping ours dig out the car. 

I didn’t understand most of their conversation until the boy on his horse asked where I'm from. My host sister and I replied America. He seemed surprised I spoke Mongolian, so I said my usual qualifier, "жоохон жоохон" /jaaw-hawn/ (only a little). 

Then then boy asked my host sister whether I was something like, "Хятад-Америк хүн" /Hyatad-Amerik hoon/. I hadn’t heard this phrase before. It seemed to me something like “Chinese-American.” 

My дүү shook her head and replied she didn't know. I felt confused. For three weeks, we’d known each other. Shouldn’t she know? I wondered, maybe she was just covering for me. After all, many Mongolians despise Chinese people. Peace Corps generally advises us not to bring up being Chinese. But, my day felt long, and I didn’t feel like hiding. 

So I smiled to the boy and replied, "Тийм" /teem/, I am. 

And the boy on his horse didn’t seem too surprised. I felt relieved. A local had for the first time recognized my mixed ancestry on sight—And no harm came. 

During late July, my Mongol ээж /ehhj/ would explain to me that her relatives had lived in China (the Inner Mongolia region, I believe). That day, we shared stories about our families’ lives in Mongolia’s neighbor nation. I had a great host family. 

How to Bathe Without Running Water, Summer 2019

By late June and into July, I've grown used to bathing with my түмпэн /tomb-pen/ (washbasin). Here are the steps.

First, my host family or I start by boiling water with the electric kettle in the kitchen/dining area. We take one of many identical plastic stools and set my түмпэн basin on top. I’m usually set-up on the linoleum hallway floor serving as our house’s entryway. From here, I fill my түмпэн /tomb-pen/ basin with three or four pans of cold water from our family's barrel we cart refills into each week. 

By the time I’ve finished filling my түмпэн /tomb-pen/ with cold water, I've usually set my orange bar of soap, yellow shampoo bottle and blue hand towel beside me, on top of my host family’s semi-automatic washing machine. They used to have me practice outdoors, but nowadays they have me wash inside. 

Next, I take the water kettle off its heater and pour about three-fourths of its contents into my түмпэн. This cuts the cold water, making it go from frigid to warm. Then I retrieve a little cold water from the barrel for my rinse pan and pour in boiled water from the kettle to make the rinse pan warm, too. 

Next, bathing! I take off my shirt and glasses, bend down to dip my hair in the water to soak it, and cup water to splash over my arms. I lean over my түмпэн the whole time. Next, I squirt shampoo between my fingers, rub that around my hair, behind my ears and all around my neck. Then, I take the bar of soap between my hands and lather that down and up my back, up and down my arms, plus across my chest and my face. Afterward, I take my rinse pan and pour the warm water over me before drying off with my little towel. I used to be very bad at rinsing all the shampoo out. 

Shirt and glasses back on, I remove my түмпэн basin from the seat, set the basin on the ground, then I sit in the seat. Up next, I set my legs one-at-a-time into the түмпэн. I soak, lather, rinse and repeat. This part reminds me of Catholic Holy Week services when we wash each other's feet. I dry off again, dump out my түмпэн in the yard, move my cleaning things back to my room, then I’m done! The cycle repeats about three times a week. 

Capital Adventures, July 2019

During my cohort’s train trip to the capital around my birthday, I experience my second encounter with someone who suspects I’m Chinese. 

While aboard the overnight train, I was wearing my Chinese cultural shirt with the 漢 Hàn character on it, from my summer before in China. My Peace Corps peers and I were walking down the car to reach our beds. A child seemed surprised when my fellow Trainees explained I'm American, not Chinese—Neat experience. 

Unrelated to ancestry, I also enjoyed borrowing a few books from Peace Corps Mongolia’s lending library. These help me learn more about Mongolia’s vast geography. The one region I didn’t look into was a more urban place that I figured wasn’t on the table for our potential assignments. 

Besides borrowing books, I also got to hug Peace Corps staff again! That’s always a pleasure. I really missed hugs. Later that month, we celebrated with a cake to commemorate July birthdays like mine! 

And lastly from the capital adventure, my peers and I explored a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Its iconography looked a bit too gory and sensual for me. Later with my host family in July, I saw a Buddhist statue in Дархан /Darhan/, the nearest major city, and found that one tamer. 

All things considered, my first capital adventures went well! 

Language Oasis, July 2019

Long before I felt integrated into the rural community where I trained and taught during the summer, I hadn’t realized how starved I’d felt from not speaking Chinese. Here’s a wholesome story. 

Since I came to Mongolia being originally considered for Peace Corps China, I spoke Chinese. But I worried��I heard many Mongolians dislike Chinese people. I’d probably few opportunities to speak the language. So, I focused strictly on trying to figure out Mongolian. 

At one of many dusks during July, my second month in Mongolia, I was playing volleyball with my primary and secondary students on our basketball court, while my host sister talked to her friends. We usually saw the same kids every night. But this night was different. 

One of my high school students, who speaks the best English, approached me with someone new. My student said her friend studies in Darkhan, which was why the girl hasn’t attended lessons I teach with my fellow Peace Corps Trainees. But, her friend studies Chinese. 

I had the most unbelievable conversation! 

I suddenly spoke Chinese again, with my student’s friend. But, I juggled Chinese with occasional Mongolian words, since they were top-of-mind the past two months. Then, when my student would speak, I responded to her in English. To the young children gathering around, I spoke Mongolian. (They asked if I was speaking Japanese, haha.) Wow! 

As for what we talked about, the Chinese-learning friend asked what I thought of Mongolia and the children. Mongolians usually ask me these. But, her Chinese skills surpassed many Mongolians' English. I felt relieved to speak my truest joys to a Mongolian who understood my words. I love feeling understood. 

The sun fell fast, for time flew. My host sister approached, handing back my language notebook and jacket, signaling time to head home. My student and her friend left with an elated trilingual farewell. 

I hadn’t seen those students since the summer. But, I never forgot their kindness. 

When Peace Corps Mongolia staff requested we Trainees write our placement preferences, I declared my interest in interest in using my Chinese skills, too, to serve Mongolians. The joy I felt being able to engage with that half of myself, I realized, could profoundly sustain me. 

Chinese Food and Mongolia, July 2019

Fake news tends to circulate Mongolian media about Chinese poisoning food and products sent to Mongolia. While there’s possibly truth to some claims, many feel reminiscent of fake stories spread across Facebook in the U.S. about Russia. Still, some moments in Mongolia reminded me of China with twists. 

My host family had taken me to Darhan to visit one of their friends and have delicious homemade soup dumplings with them. Then, they left me alone for a while. I noticed on the toothpicks label Chinese characters of my Chinese family's home province 湖南省。But, when I mentioned it, the Mongolians around me insisted it was Korean or Japanese. That felt weird. 

On a brighter note, sometimes simply the way I eat carries more Chinese tendencies than I once thought. For example, my Mongolian host family usually asks me to mix my food when I have a plate of many things. But since my Chinese studies abroad, I’ve usually kept things separate, as Chinese tend to. Mongolians also seem pretty surprised whenever I order hot water at restaurants, rather than either tea or cold water. Hot water, again, is more a Chinese thing. 

Mongolians even use the Western standard of forks and knives. They have sliced bread, in addition to rice and noodles. When Mongolians taught me the Mongolian word for chopsticks, they added that these are used by Chinese, Japanese and Korean people, not Mongols. 

The cultural quirks aren't problems for me, just observations. I figure most of these had Soviet influences. Food notions were among my last reflections about China during my 2019 summer in Mongolia’s countryside. 

Trials of Nature’s Commode, Summer 2019

This last story’s more for the gag, but it’s a Peace Corps staple experience. Welcome to the outhouse, among the first of many Peace Corps challenges. Luckily, I'd never lost a shoe or a phone like some people!  

Let’s zoom back to the morning. I’ve risen from the couch in my host family’s locked living room where I sleep. Unlocking my door and unlatching our house’s wooden front door, I’ve stepped outside into the pre-dawn morn. Thankfully, I've avoided the guard dog and crossed the yard to the outhouse. 

Most days, I simply knock on the outhouse’s metal door first. Then I open it to let the birds shoot out. (They used to spook me the first few times.) Then I enter. It's a long, long way down. At night, I cannot see the bottom. Over this towering chasm is but a plank. There is no chair. I stand aboard the plank while closing the door. The door doesn't lock, of course. If it's windy, I balance holding the door closed by its handle. It's only blown open once, but luckily no one was near!

Then I, as one would expect, remove the undergarments, assume a proper squat and try to take care of business. Thighs aching, I then rise from the business, toss my waste paper in a bucket to my left, return my undergarments, shove open the door (which often gets jammed), then I begin the journey back to the house, avoiding the dog and sometimes geese. Inside, I use our water dispenser to wash my hands—again, since we lack running water. But, it’s all doable. 

This routine gets complicated on mornings after rain, since the outhouse gets bugs crawling around. One morning, I saw both a daddy-long-legs and a centipede! At least the door stays closed better after rain since the frame’s made of wood. 

Of course, there are exceptions. Many Mongolian yards lack doors to the outhouses. Some places lack outhouses entirely. In those cases, we just use sand in the woods. Privacy is overrated, maybe. Just cover your tracks, and you're fine. Good times. 

Coming Soon: Language Today and August Throwback!

Woohoo! You made it through the wild times. 

I have one more summer 2019 throwback story queued, featuring host family farewells and Peace Corps Mongolia Swear-In experiences. Prior to these, I’ll catch you up on another round of how I’m faring amid COVID-19 in the States. I’m pleased to announce an exciting project! 

Till then, August 9 marks the birthday of my late mother. I’ll be reflecting as usual. Take care, friend!

If you’d like more from last summer starting out in Mongolia, see these:

Summer’s Peace Corps Training Months 1 through 3 | May, June, July, August

My First Days in Peace Corps Mongolia | #37 | June 2020

Refresh Abroad as Student and Teacher | #1 | June 2019

Meeting My Mongol Host Family | #40 | July 2020

Horses and Global Adventures | #2 | July 2019

22nd Birthday! Наадам, City and Countryside | #3 | July 2019

Typical Day in the Training Life | #4 | August 2019

Farewells for 2019 Summer’s End | #41 | August 2020

As always, you can read from me here at DanielLang.me :)

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There’s Something for Every Design-Loving Mom on this Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Sometimes we wonder if we’ll ever be able to repay our moms for all that they’ve done for us. The answer is, probably not. All we can do is continue to show them our love and throw in an extra treat or two when Mother’s Day rolls around. Though no gift, spa day, or elaborate vacation can really add up, we’re trying our hand with these heart-warming (and house-warming) presents for every kind of mom on your list.

For the New Mom:

Pottery Barn Classic Monogrammed Terry Robe / Casablanca Vintage Stripe Throw / Violet & Wren Silk Sleep Mask

Whether your friend, sister, daughter, or wife just became a mom, we know exactly what they need: a little R&R. Set them up in a quiet room sans baby with a cozy robe, throw blanket, and a sleep mask to ensure extra zzzs.

For the Mom That Hosts A Killer Party:

Jacques Bar Cart / Mykonos Glassware Set / Berlin Ice Bucket

It doesn’t matter if it’s Easter brunch or someone’s birthday, your mom knows how to throw a good party. Get her well-prepared for the next round with these lavish bar cart essentials.

For the Mom Who Could Write a Cookbook:

KitchenAid Design Series Stand Mixer / Schmidt Acacia 6-Piece Cutlery Set / Lagostina Copper Martellata, 10-Piece Set

Every time you walk into her house, the decadent scent of something tasty comes wafting out of the kitchen. You already know mom’s meals taste the best, but now her cooking can look delicious even before the recipe is complete.

For the Eco-Chic, Bohemian Mom:

Rebecca Atwood Striped Shibori Pillow / Local + Lejos Sisal Lidded Peace Basket / Urban Agriculture Herb Garden Kit

To accompany the meditation retreat you and mom are going on, toss in a few eclectic home accents and the tools she needs to finally grow that herb garden she’s always talking about.

For the Mom with Perfect Pinterest Boards:

Mongolian Fur Pouf Cover + Insert / Iris Planter + Chevron Stand / Mesmerize Art Print

Social-media savvy? Your mom has more Pinterest followers than anyone you know. She’s incredibly well-versed in trendy home decor, from minimal planters to furry poufs. Go ahead and get her a gorgeous art piece for her burgeoning gallery wall.

For the “Everymom”:

Roar + Rabbit Swivel Mirror Frame / Nile Glass Vase / Spring’s Eden Candle Jar

You can’t go wrong with these gifts. Nearly every mom is happy with receiving a pretty bouquet of flowers, a fragrant candle, and a heartfelt, handwritten card. Throw in a framed picture of the two of you together and you’ll have one happy momma.

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