In which the Obitine baby is mostly for politics, but at least a little to piss off Jango

Setting: For whatever reason, Korda VI and Galidraan haven't happened. Jaster is Mand'alor, Jango his heir. The True and the New are working together relatively successfully. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon did have the mission with Satine, because Death Watch is still a thing.

Slightly post-TPM. Obi-Wan needs to do a mission in Mandalorian space. He brings Anakin with him, but he can't bring the kid to a lot of the mission bits, which means that Anakin gets left with Bo-Katan as his babysitter, as often as not.

5 Ways to Revise The Book of Boba Fett

At this point, I think it’s pretty clear that The Book of Boba Fett was not a resounding success. You may have liked it, you may have hated it, you may have already forgotten it, but I haven’t encountered anyone who loved it. It’s a messy, very confusing series that from its first episode made a number of questionable structural and storytelling decisions that would never really cohere across the series’ seven episode run.

The difficulty with this show isn’t really that Boba Fett isn’t blood thirsty or even the over abundance of cameos. It’s ultimately that whatever story Jon Favreau was trying to tell about Boba Fett was never clearly established. This is his book after all. So anyways, here are five changes I would’ve made to The Book of Boba Fett.

But first, some ground rules. I’m not going to change any of the major plot events for the series. Let’s keep the struggle on Tatooine, the Pykes, Black Krrsantan, the Mods, the Tuskens etc. Let’s just do some tweaking. Some messing around with the formula of it all.

1.  Clarify Boba’s Past

Let’s be clear here. For the vast, vast majority of Star Wars viewers and fans, Boba Fett is an enigma. He’s a cool costume rather than a character, which honestly is part of his appeal. He’s a mystery character that you can project a lot of your own thoughts and opinions upon. There is a version of this show that keeps that mystique and shows us a Boba of few words that rarely, if ever shows his face.

That’s clearly not the show, Jon Favreau wanted to make. Which is fine, you already have a show about a mostly faceless taciturn buckethead. We want Boba to feel different. Sure. But the issue here is that we as viewers then need a better idea of who this Boba character is. It’s clear by the end of the series that The Book of Boba Fett wanted to tell a story of a violent, loner of a man who learns compassion and trust in others through help from the Tusken Raiders and then carries those lessons into being a crime lord. The issue is that at the start of this show we don’t really have a baseline of who Boba Fett is. We can’t chart character growth if we don’t know what we are growing from.

Sure, fans of the expanded universe of Star Wars comics, games, and animated shows may have a bit better of an idea of who exactly Boba Fett is, but even then his portrayal has been relatively inconsistent and varied depending on the medium and writer. In The Clone Wars we have a Boba Fett who is vengeful but still compassionate. In the Bounty Hunters comics we have a Boba Fett that is comfortable shooting women in the back. And again, the vast majority of fans don’t have this context. All they know of Boba Fett is his iconography and his brief roles in several of the films. We need an idea of who Boba is. If this is a story of a violent loner turning over a new leaf. We need to understand and see that man as a violent loner.

So how do we fix this? Well, The Book of Boba Fett already has a foot in the right direction. We keep the flashback structure but we retool it a bit. The Tusken stories stay, but we push them towards the end of the show. Instead we spend the first three to four episodes of the series flashing back to Boba’s earlier days. We can even bring back Daniel Logan for a few years of young adult Boba. We see Boba at various periods over his life and get an idea of the various choices that have shaped him into the man he was. By the time we get to the Tusken stories, we can really see the effect that companionship and community have on this man. We have context now.

It also adds some texture to the present-day stories as well. If we see Boba Fett’s past, his decisions in present day become more unpredictable. Sure, we may see a Boba that wants to rule with respect, but he sure as hell has been killing a lot of people in the past. He is after all, to quote another bounty hunter, “A cold blooded killer who worked for the Empire.” This also adds a sense of mystery to the present as well. Why is Boba Fett back? Why does he want to take care of Tatooine? What motivates this change of character? It becomes not just how Boba Fett got his gaffi stick and teamed up with Fennec Shand, but why.

2.  Show Boba’s Struggle

If part of Jon Favreau’s apparent story idea was to chart Boba’s evolution into a more communal and respecting person, we also need to see more of that struggle. Some of the most dramatically intriguing moments of the show come in the finale when Cad Bane taunts Boba and we see for the first time that he maybe doesn’t have the demeanor to do this job. There’s still a hint of a more violent impulsive man underneath that helmet.

Sure, we get a few moments when Boba bumbles his way through being a crime lord, but what if this had to do just as much with temperament as it does with naivete. Everyone expects Boba to be this violent, cruel man and there’s probably a voice in him that wants to do the same and that’s what ends up being the big paradox of his leadership on Tatooine. Defying everyone’s expectations, including his own.

It would also be worthwhile to see Boba Fett do some actual leading. Sure, he assembles some allies, but part of being a crime lord isn’t just getting different players in the room, it’s managing different personalities and motivations. We get some hints of this, again, in the final episode of the series. The citizens of Freetown and Mos Espa’s mods have a rural/urban culture conflict that makes teamwork difficult. Getting to see Boba actually broker agreements between these different groups to ensure loyalty would not only add some dramatic tension to the narrative but would also help us believe in him as a leader. At the conclusion of Favreau’s version of The Book of Boba Fett, we still haven’t really seen many qualities about Boba that would make him a good leader. He’s strong willed and a cool fighter and that’s about it.

3.   Jango’s Legacy

Another aspect of Boba’s character that doesn’t feel touched upon nearly as much as it should is Boba’s relationship to his father Jango Fett and also his status as a clone. Bane makes an offhand reference to Boba living in the shadow of his father, but that’s really about it. How much is Boba, even now, still coping with Jango’s death? How does the reputation of his father and his bounty hunting legacy inform his decision making on Tatooine?

There’s also just the fact that Boba spent years of his life seeing his father’s face on the frontlines of a galactic war. And also! Fennec Shand met them! Several times! Fennec at least mentioning Boba being a clone at least once feels like a missed opportunity for character growth and introspection and maybe could add some wrinkles to her as a character too. If there’s anything that this show really needs to do is to give Ming-na Wen more to play with.

4.  Introduce Cad Bane Earlier

One of the things that The Book of Boba Fett was missing is easily a villain we can root against. The Pykes may be an overwhelming force, but they don’t have much of a personality to them. They’re bad guys to get blasted. When Cad Bane appears at the conclusion of “From the Desert Comes a Stranger” the entire show ups its stakes dramatically. We have a villain now. A scary one.

Again, some of the best scenes of the show concern Cad Bane and Boba Fett facing off. Corey Burton’s voicework and the impressive practical effects bounce off Morrison’s own acting in a really effective manner and we can feel that tense history between Bane and Boba. However, it’s never been a history we’ve seen. The entirety of Cad Bane and Boba’s relationship occurred in unseen episodes for another show that have only ever been glimpsed in unfinished animatics. It’s not exactly narrative context and it’s a missed opportunity for emotional tension and payoff during their standoffs in “In the Name of Honor.”

But, we also don’t want to lose that cool intro for the character in “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” right? So what do we do? We make Bane a recurring character in the Boba Fett flashbacks. We get a sense of their relationship and also their decades long rivalry. We actually see the influence these two men have on each other. So when Bane swaggers out of the desert to gun down Cobb Vanth, we know that the stakes for the series increased dramatically. Bane is back and we know that shit’s about to get real.

5.     Keep Din, but Don’t Leave Boba

I think everyone can agree that despite how fun Din Djarin’s episodes of The Book of Boba Fett may have been, they undoubtedly feel like installments of a different show. Because they are. They don’t really have a place in this series. Din does. It makes perfect sense that Boba may rely on the other armored badass he knows to help defend his territory, but this isn’t Din’s story.

Just make “Return of the Mandalorian” and the Grogu/Luke portions of “From the Desert Comes a Stranger” parts of The Mandalorian season 3. Din can still show up in his hot rod Naboo Starfighter, but we don’t need the origins for it in this show. Star Wars fans are smart and also more than used to getting wonky, sometimes out of sync, continuity. Nobody would bat an eye at seeing the intro to a ship here and then learning its origin in another show. Acknowledge that these events happen and maybe even hint at them, but don’t show them. It’s not their place.

Jangobi fic* where:

* Important to Jangobi fics, for me: 1. Nobody bashes Satine 2. Anakin is unequivocally the most important person in Obi-Wan’s life and is prioritized over basically everyone and everything except the will of the Force, and even that’s sketchy

So this is what I mean:

Mandos woke up, chose violence, doubled down on that violence, and fell on their noses.

Like, guys, not to criticize, but before seeing these panels I had a ridiculously different concept of what happened at Galidraan. Like, I thought it was a result of a slow slide to the Dark Side by Dooku. I have read fic that goes, "Oh, the Jedi just assumed we were guilty! They didn't stop to speak!! They just massacred us!!!" And like... dude, they began deflecting your shots, after which you began using wrist rockets and such. All this after they specifically told you what the accusation was and gave you reassurance that they would see to your fair treatment.

Obi, Protect Them AU

Obi-Wan and Anakin stumble across Kamino years before AotC, and Obi-Wan is half dead because reasons, we’ll say they ran into some pirates, accidentally hopped into a near-unused hyperlane to Rishi Maze, and just landed on Kamino because The Force Told Anakin To Go There.

Most of Kamino does believe they are working for the Jedi in some capacity, so they provide Obi-Wan with medical care. There are painkillers. Anakin’s teary about it. Jango shows up because why the FUCK is this guy here, and ends up letting teensy tween Anakin play with toddler Boba because he doesn’t want a baby Jedi crying on him.

Obi-Wan wakes up. The painkillers aren’t super compatible with his system so he’s kind of high. He hugs Anakin. He hits on Jango. He asks where they are. He is introduced to the clones.

Anyway, this is all just an excuse to have Obi-Wan reacting to the baby clones as this gif:

If I wrote this as a fic it would probably be from Jango’s perspective as he watches a Jedi have a breakdown about not being able to protect hundreds of thousands of kids on his own. Like he recognizes that the Jedi is high as a kite because of the whole Broken Ribs situation, but the Baby Jedi is also worrying about the many babies and keeps trying to make Boba smile and Jango is. Full of many questions.

“I shouldn’t have drank whiskey… I can’t protect them.” “Master, you didn’t drink whiskey.” “Then why is my head spinning?” “You broke half your ribs so they put you on painkillers, the fuzzy kind.” “Oh my Force… I shouldn’t have broken my ribs I CAN’T PROTECT THEM–” “MASTER PLEASE STOP CRYING IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY”

Text: He is so confused. Is that a jetii? having buir panic? does not compute (screenshot via @kestrel-cat)

Jango: Kenobi’s was just acting like that because he was high. Obi-Wan: Yeah, but I bet Plo will act like that while sober.

Jango: This must be some strange and unusual Jedi who acts in ways the Jedi disapprove of. Obi-Wan: He’s on the high council.

The Kaminoans are So Confused by the emotions and just decide it’s Jango’s problem now.

Anakin, carrying a toddler up to Obi-Wan: This is Rex, I’m keeping him. Obi-Wan: What? Anakin: The Force said he’s gonna be my friend so I’m saying he’s my brother. Jango: How did you get his name? The ones that young don’t have- Anakin: Cody told me. Jango: Who–

(This obviously reminds Obi-Wan of Qui-Gon showing up with a small kid bc the force told him to.)

(The Force is really loud for Anakin, a good third of his nonsense boils down to “the Force told me to” as a kid.)

I’m just thinking that a time-travel AU that requires the team to reorient as Mandalorians where, at the first incident of someone asking questions, Obi-Wan declares “I know their names as my children” about Anakin and Ahsoka, making both of them cry later on in private, would be very nice, actually.

This wasn’t planned! He just SAID it!

“These are my kids,” says Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the spot, thinking it’s just a convenient and largely accurate way to describe his relationship with these young people in his care, completely missing the fact that he’s secured Anakin’s obsessive will-kill-for-you loyalty in the span of two seconds.

“That was just a cover, right?” “It might as well be true, Anakin, I did raise you for half your life and trained you as a warrior, that counts by Mando standards, and explaining Jedi-style apprenticeships would–” “I think Skyguy’s just asking if you really think of him as family.” “Well, obviously.”

Maybe he waffles a bit about age and how he’s not really OLD ENOUGH to be Anakin’s father but from a cultural perspective–

Just like… Obi-wan using a lot of hedging words because he’s allergic to telling Anakin he cares, but also, Anakin is basically his son-brother.

(Ahsoka knows but would def appreciate hearing, but Anakin… that kind of verbal confirmation would mean a lot.)

Undecided as to whether there’s de-aging involved so Anakin isn’t a proper adult and is thus young enough to actually get adopted, or if this is just Obi-Wan going “well, retroactively…”

Like, okay, imagine this.

You’re a True Mandalorian in that awkward period between the death of Jaster Mereel and the mess that is Galidraan. You’re still a movement, a faction, a meaningful political stance with some degree of popular support from moderates in your system. You’re not as strong as you were before the death of your Mand’alor, but Jango’s doing pretty well, and you have high hopes.

In walks this thirty-something Jedi-looking motherfucker, in robes with some small amount of armor, the second-most ridiculously Core accent you’ve ever heard outside a holo screen, and two kids who look ready to bite someone. The human one is twelve-ish and angry and wearing clothes that are too big for him, and has a lightsaber that he can’t really wrap his entire hand around. The Togruta looks about eight, is chomping her way through a freshly killed, still bleeding lizard the size of her arm, clinging to the human kid’s tunics, and looking around like she’s got no fear whatsoever.

“Hello, there!” the probably-Jedi sumbitch says, completely ignoring the fact that he’s in cuffs, and being paraded in with great suspicion by a squad of six. He sounds more like he’s some politician asking for directions in a palace. “I’m afraid we appear to have had something of a misunderstanding. I don’t suppose there’s someone I could speak with to get this straightened out?”

What the fuck, you think, but this isn’t your problem. You’re just on guard duty. You send the punk who got assigned to work with you to get Fett, because this might be a very calm and polite Jedi, but it’s still a Jedi.

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Is there something in the extended canon that says he had a choice? I've only seen the movies as far as Jango goes, but I was really under the impression he was coerced into being on Geonosis.

Why were you under the impression he was coerced? He was offered a job, he accepted the job, he was paid handsomely for the job, he did the job, job got him killed. The only thing forcing him to go to Geonosis was his own arrogance in taking that job in the first place.

I assumed he took the cloning job as a "retirement" job, and once he was in the sith's pocket, Dooku coerced him into coming to Geonosis/finishing the job, possibly on the threat of killing Boba.

I mean, as soon as trouble popped up on Kamino, Jango split, presumably knowing he wouldn't get paid any more, etc (because they "kept him there" I assume he wasn't allowed to leave unless Dooku cleared it). That shows he has concern for himself and his son, determined to keep them out of the way of Jedi. What sense would it make, unless he was under duress, for him to come back into it on Geonosis, possibly getting in trouble with his paycheck client over leaving Kamino, and bring Boba with him? That's not like the Jango we see.

I just think there was more going on than we see on the surface.

He was allowed to leave. He was on Coruscant to supervise Amidala’s assassination, at the very least; why would you assume he’s not allowed to leave? (and, again...if staying on Kamino was part of the terms of the job he accepted, then he’s not being coerced; he agreed to stay on Kamino when he signed the contract)

Was not the entire plan for Jango to lure Obi-Wan (or any Jedi) to Kamino and then Geonosis to kickstart the war with an immediate crisis that forced the Jedi to use the clones? Taking Boba with him makes perfect sense because he regularly takes Boba into violent situations and he won’t be coming back to Kamino because the Jedi discovery of Kamino is the end of Jango’s involvement with Kamino. Jango’s job is produce clones -> help force Jedi into a catch-22 -> fuck off.

Comics show Jango bringing Boba on bounty jobs. He’s perfectly happy taking Boba into deadly circumstances. 

How is being selfish not like the Jango we see? We explicitly see Jango treating the clones like products, which means that his sense of morality is not to be trusted in the first place. He brings his son to watch a public execution, which means that he’s not very interested in protecting him (even aside from the morality of forcing a child to watch public murders, “perhaps this situation could go poorly” is something that should have been considered).

???? why do ppl think jango was coerced? he was very, explicitly, in on the plan. he accepted the contract on his own terms, of which ‘staying on kamino’ was a part. comics actually framed jango’s accepting of the job as jango being the one who held all the cards, not dooku/the sith. he wasn’t even forced to stay on kamino at all times and was still taking bounties whenever he felt like it (and taking boba with him; actually actively putting boba in dangerous situations and expecting him to get himself out of them). i see it as more of like ‘moved his house to kamino but could still travel around to do other things’

even if you only consider aotc, you can still attribute all of jango’s actions to being part of the contract, in which case it’s not coercion... because he agreed to do them (for money). if jango really was concerned for his and/or boba’s safety, he should’ve taken his ship and cut and run?? if i’m supposed to believe that was dooku’s attempt at coercing jango, that was a really bad attempt leaving jango with literally all the power: his armor, his weapons, his son, his ship. jango taking boba with him to geonosis makes sense because that’s the only jango we’ve seen so far

select pages from Age of Republic: Jango Fett and Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics:

Repeat after me.  Temuera Morrison isn’t white Jango Fett isn’t white.  Boba Fett isn’t white.  Rex isn’t white. Cody isn’t white. None of the clones are white. 

The ARMOUR is white. The CLONES are not white. The clones themselves are not their armour. Don’t get “clone” and “armour” confused.

In Rebels, Rex’s BEARD is white. Rex is not his beard. Rex is not his armour. Rex is not white.

Oh sweet innocent ithiliel… Oh, dear sweet baby me, unaware of the Bad Batch looming ahead.

Innocent teenage me, full of enthusiasm, self-righteousness, a need for validation, and the naivety to believe anyone at Star Wars gave a single flying fuck.

When this is still relevant after so long

Okay so I’m not that massively into non-alien modern AUs but I just gotta fucking say??? I love the idea of 96yo Yoda who’s been raising generation after generation of his adopted kids and grandkids and great grandkids at this point, who’s obviously a very traditional Chinese man in a mainly mixed country (maybe New Zealand? Lots of Maori Fetts and the like running about) and he make his kids the weirdest smelling teas and obviously when Obi-Wan and Cody start dating Cody is shocked yo realized the main language in the house is neither te reo or english, since Obi-Wan speaks them so fluently, but Mandrain, and how Obi keeps making fruit platters for all the kids when they get home from school (fruit is a love language 🥺) and owns like three rice cookers and is straight up /horrified/ when he realizes Cody doesn’t have one at all, and I just want Cody to be all ‘why this white boy draggin my ass into Chinese culture???’ And then they all meet Grandpa Yoda and they’re all ‘oh. That’s it. That’s why he’s like that.’ The rest of the Fett clan is so damn happy for a hot minute there they thought Cody was dating some sort of weebo or something.

He brings Anakin with him to the Fett house after he picks him up from school so he can finish his homework with the other kids (which mainly consists of Hardcase bribing Ani to do his math for him lol) and Obi-Wan makes fruit platters for the lil ones and Jango is shooketh he’s never seen his kids willingly eat healthy before thanks Kenobi. Obi-Wan has toddlers Ahsoka, Boba and Din on his hip as the day goes by, the Fett clan still doesn’t know what his job is but he always has time for taking care of (steal) Jango’s kids and Ahsoka during the day so they assume it’s some sort of at-home job that leaves time for toddlers. One day Yoda comes home (sir. Sir plz. You’re not supposed to leave the house alone. You are 96yo and forget english most of the time. Plz sir.) with lil Chinese baby Grogu and don’t tell shit about where he came from just slaps a custody paper at Obi-Wan and tells him he’s a dad again fill those out plz. Sir. What the fuck. Where did this child come from?

He just accepts it and continues on his days with three toddlers and a baby and Jango occasionally dropping in while Cody is at work (like a normal person with a non-shady job, he runs the family ‘this isnt magic promise’ apothecary) and watching the kids before continuing on his way with the duties that come from having 50 kids and running back alley magic stores and stuff like that probably makin deals with scientists to get more kids sir you stop too plz. He used to be a scientist with Kamino facilities but he made a breakthrough in test tube babies technology and only really stops in with new ideas every once in a while now.

Honestly Cody is super worried cause he’s 100% sure Jango is teaching Obi-Wan to be the most efficient father of as many kids as possible in one go and also be the most successfully shady person around. Yoda buys all his teas from their apothecary. Obi-Wan is afraid of what will happen if he drinks that funny smelling yellow one.

Everyone regrets everything when Boba, Din, Ahsoka, and Grogu, all start speaking some unholy mixture of te reo, Mandrain, and english all at once when they start talking. Wtf guys.

Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe move to town and think they’re gonna have a hard time (gay Chinese men with a couple adopted kids you know) and instantly end up bffs with the Lineage Clan and the Fett Clan and Obi-Wan is quietly crying himself to sleep cause the children keep multiplying but he loves them so much he wants 57 more but They Keep Multiplying and it’s beautiful. There has to be at least one joke where someone mentions Chirrut is Asian and he’s all ‘IM ASIAN????’ And Baze smacks him for it cause he’s heard that one 5009 times by now plz.

Some of you might be wondering: where did the Lineage clan come from? Another country? China? Fuckin Britain? Nope. They just moved here from further up New Zealand. They moved to get better schools in range now that Anakin is showing the same afinity for technology that Obi-Wan showed as a kid, but Yoda and Fay (the official heads of the family obviously) didn’t want to let it go to waste on subpar schooling like what happened to Obi-Wan ‘talks to plants more than others’ Kenobi. Obi’s still good with tech, but he didn’t have very good school programs for it, so he let the interest fade away. Anakin, on the other hand (lol), wants to design his first bionic arm, and so now they want to help his interest flourish.

None of the Fett clan have ever seen Fay’s ears, and they’re starting to get suspicious, let’s just say that.

Also yes, Rex is a lil bit afraid of barky bois. He got ouchy nip when he was tiny and now, even at 15, he still kinda hides behind Jango if Wolffe’s pups start barking. Jango is utterly enchanted and a forever parent who maybe takes advantage a little and forces cuddles on Rex and loves on him in v embarrassing ways. Rex won’t admit it but he loves those cuddles. After he gets bb squirrel to rehabilitate, now him and the baby will hide from barky Bois /together/. Wolffe is Alpha and Plo’s oldest kid. Jango helped his brother and life partner have as many kids as they could with the same test tube technology he had his kids with when Alpha goes to tell his ace-aro brother that he’s Home Of Sexual and Jango is all ‘lol ew you like the peepee’ and now they have kids too.

Wolffe tries to keep his pups away from his cousin, but even when Rex hears a bark from across the yard at the weekly bbq, he’s all ‘oh scary noise dada saves me’ and dives for Jango. He’s a giant baby of a teenager and one time Jango wasn’t around when he heard loud noise barks in public, and Anakin and Ahsoka protected him instead and Obi-Wan immediately decided that’s a baby and Rex is one of his kids now too. Anakin is only 9 and he’s v protective of Rex. Rex thinks Ani and Soka are v brave. Rex is gonna love his bb anxiety squirrel, who’s going to prove incapable of releasing into the wild, cause he turns out to be Afraid Of Everything which is an unfortunate thing that actually keeps rehabbers from sending babies back into the wild cause if their anxiety is that bad they will make themselves sick and be unable to care for themselves, and Rex happily protects him from dangers.

Cody and Jango think Rex is the cutest bb ever he’s so sweet.

Rex is mostly non-verbal autistic and when him and Cody first meet their new neighbors (which they haven’t met because the plots are fuckin massive and some of you who have lived in dense forests or places with massive plots will know that sometimes you NEVER meet your closest neighbors and the Fett house is hidden behind half a forest between a bunch of trees but the Lineage house is actually within a good 100 feet of the street or so so they were much more likely to be stumbled on) it’s like a month after they move in, and Rex called him crying in the bathroom at school cause there was some stupid assembly at school and they thought it would be a good idea to bring in POLICE dogs????? The worst of the dog traitors.

Anyways, so Cody immediately jumped to go get bb brother after yelling at dad as he passes by that Rex is leaving school early and grabs his keys- which is the key (lol) part here. See. Cody’s car. Is shit. He actually just recently got it so you’d think it’d be good but let’s be honest when your local weed dealer is selling his car it’s probably in bad shape but Cody needed a car and the guy’s gf is pregnant and they need a better one so Cody’s all for helping out the guy he went to kindergarten with why not.

Anyways. So. Cody’s car has been making a funny noise since they left the hs parking lot, and Rex is giving him worried looks, and Cody’s all ‘it’s fine it’ll get us home I’m sure’ and you know what? Ya. It got them all the way to the bottom of the driveway before sputtering to it’s death right in front of the Lineage front lawn.

So. Obi’s outside with lil baby Soka, who’s energetic and excitable and hoppy and playing with Threepio (a Pomeranian...) when his cute next door neighbor pulls up in a car that sounds like it’s begging you to pull the plug, and goes ‘???????’

Door to car opens, Rex stumbles out without seeing Threepio already trying to tug his sweater off cause he feels overwhelmed and nervous and the more nervous he gets the more the texture of that sweater is getting to him- when he hears it. Not just one, or even two, but MANY yippy barks.

He’s shaking like a leaf and back in the car so fast. Cody had been about to ask him to go back to the house and get dad, but now Rex is in the car again and shaking, his (apparently cute) new neighbor is wrestling a fluffy little yippy dog into his arms and trying to dump him behind the back fence as fast as he can, and a tiny little mixed black-Asian toddler is standing in the doorway to the car, trying to calm a scared Rex down.

Which is adorable, until the moment that Rex, in all his ‘big brother of Fives and Echo and a few others’ instincts, reaches out and snatched up the toddler in his arms, making her squeak as she’s pulled into his lap like a teddy bear, protected from evil puppies and such. Fuck.

Obi-Wan comes back (after giving Threepio a rawhide and closing him into the screened in back porch) to Cody trying to coax his little brother into giving Ahsoka back, Rex, Plz, we don’t steal other people’s babies. Ahsoka is giggling so hard. Obi hears his smallest baby giggling and can’t help himself, she must not be in too much danger, so he crouches down next to Cody, and starts the conversation off a different way.

He asks why Rex got pulled out of school so early. Obviously, it’s a little early to leave so soon, and Cody just goes quiet for a long minute, before telling Obi about the police dogs at the assembly. Obi-Wan fully cringes, saying he didn’t see why faculty had to stop warning about upcoming events just because they’re out of elementary school anymore. This whole thing could have been avoided if they’d known there would be dogs there, Rex wouldn’t have had to go to school at all.

Cody goes a little starry eyed. Rex uncurls from around Ahsoka a little, watching him curiously. Obi just grins at him. “Thanks for keeping her safe.”

Rex frowns, looking down at Ahsoka before going /red/, and stuttering a little. “She’s not mine to keep safe. Sorry.”

Obi rolls his eyes at that. “That doesn’t matter. Your mind perceived a threat, and upon seeing a small child, you decided to protect her. Thank you. It doesn’t hurt to have good intentions.”

Cody is in love thanks. Rex lets his arms unlock from around the child, who slid down from his lap, before turning around on the street edge to grab a hold of his hand, tugging. “Come play, please.”

Rex looks at Cody for permission, who nods at him, before following the toddler off to pick daisies in the grass to make flower weapons (flower crowns are so last seasons).

Cody sighs. One bomb defused. He turns to the redhead and smiles a little. “Sorry for stopping here. My car sort of... gave up...”

Obi-Wan was giving him the most amused look, like Cody’d just said the funniest thing ever, and cocked his head to the side. “Oh? Can I take a look?”

Cody’s eyebrow went up. “You’re good with cars?”

It’s fate. “I was a mechanic, before we moved here. I know a thing or two.”

Oh yeah. It’s very much fate.

Jango doesn’t end up finding them, till he realizes Rex and Cody haven’t come back in a while (longer than it would even take them if Cody decided to take his brother for a treat) and looks at the security cameras to see they’re across the street with the new neighbors. Well, Jango decides to be a little nosy, so after wrestling his cat into a harness, he’s headed out the door to go and meet the new neighbors himself, only to cruelty be sent on an errand to the repair shop to get them a few new parts. Rude.

Also, Obi’s new job is actually a gardener of super ultra rare plants that are used in apothecaries and sell hella high and Jango is all ‘holy shit I have to get my son married to him for a discount fee on his supply’ and it’s amazing.

I keep forgetting to add this, but Qui-Gon and Xanatos and Dooku are all alive. Dooku and Xanatos live in China full time because of differences with the main line, but Xan recently adopted young Bruck, a street kid, who’s really turning their world views upside down, and Dooku is even considering adopting an older teen Asajj as well. It’s sorta nice.

Qui-Gon genuinely loves his kid (Ani is only Obi’s kiddo, Qui-Gon adopted Feemor, who visits regularly with presents for the kids, and Xan, but Ani is Obi’s first bb boy. Obi was friends with Shmi before she passed) but him and his gfs Clee and Tahl all work with the United Nations and so they all travel a lot. Sometimes they all drop in with a million presents for the kids and grandkids and spoil them rotten.

Obi-Wan took Ani with him to the mechanic garage when he was first adopted, pretty much being a full time parent since his boss was okay with it. It’s where Ani got his love of tech. But Obi adopted Ani when he was almost 3, while Obi ended up adopting Ahsoka when she was barely 5 months old. So, when he adopted Ahsoka, that’s when he took less hours at the garage and started to shift over to gardening ultra rare hard to grow plants. He’s been doing it on and off for years, but he knew if he really focused the majority of his work attention on that, he’d be able to make a decent living off it, and combined with the rest of the family’s incomes and such, they’d still be living a comfortable life.

Whenever they have BBQs at the Fett house, they have a million people over, so it’s spread out over the back yard, in the house (lots of kids piled down in the game room, random kids hanging out in bedrooms, lots of other adults who aren’t good in the sun in living rooms) and over the front lawn. That’s the sort of BBQ/house party type I grew up with. When you got that much family, crowding them all into the back yard is just cruel to anyone with sensory issues.

Rex likes running about with his cousins, and Wolffe and anyone else in the family with a dog, knows well by now that any pups are to be put behind the fenced in area, whether or not they’re friendly. It’s not about them being friendly, it’s Rex (and a few friends he’s made in group therapy and even a few cousins and one aunt) feeling safe with knowing his limits on where he can and can’t go without risking a panic attack at coming face to face with a dog.

When they have a first bbq after the lineage clan move in, they’re invited too, and they bring both Threepio and Artoo (a young, but very bity cat who will attack anyone who looks at Anakin wrong, but is otherwise an extremely chatty and outgoing little fucker, and also leash trained cause he knows that’s the only way he’s allowed outside) and lets him play with Jango’s overly pudgy cat who’s named after a famous scientist that Jango May have a slight crush on but she’s generally a nice kitty who only bites ankles when they look particularly bony. Threepio goes to play with the dogs and Wolffe’s giant Newfoundland’s are extremely confused on who’s puppy this is and attempt to adopt him. Successfully.

Rex likes running about with some of his younger cousins and Dogma (baby brother, also autistic, but has more trouble with jokes than Rex does, but better with sensory issues than Rex is) because they’re all so cute the adults forget that Rex isn’t supposed to be eating sugar (intolerance, not diabetes, when you’re intolerant to sugar you end up bleeding out of various ends lol it’s fun, aspies have major digestive issues for some reason I also think peanuts and coconut are the fun surprise allergies I hate them so much) much less that this is his third cupcake today, because Jango typically keeps a child lock on the sugar cabinet (not that it stops Rex, but he can’t get it open without attracting attention so it mainly just makes him think twice before impulse eating brownies) and a very close eye on Rex and Dogma’s diets (Dogma gets hives when he eats shellfish and dairy is the enemy, but he doesn’t like them much so it’s not as big of an issue) and both Rex and Echo are allergic to peanuts so it’s also in its own locked cabinet so like. Yeah. If Jango or Cody are around they can at least use logic thinking to find allergy free alternatives for them lol.

Rex tends to take a weekend to recover from BBQs, and occasionally switches to online schooling if it goes past the weekend. Poor bb. He has impulse control issues.

Anyways. I love autistic bb Rex who’s got sensory issues and wants to eat an entire cake in one sitting. He’s my spirit animal.

Op’s caption was: Single father supports his sons :)

Star Wars Reincarnation AU

I’ve read a lot of Star Wars fics where you have time travelers or prisoner-in-carbonite people who comes to save the day but! Consider this: Reincarnation!!!!

Why isn’t this a thing? Especially all the Force shenanigans a reincarnation implies!

Consider this: Jango reincarnated as one of his own clones! Pre-Order 66 or Post-Order 66 doesn’t really matter, just the FEELS! Bonding with his batchmates, fearing the cullings and other mistreatments, bonding with his Jedi General, seeing the Jedi as the good, if sometimes flawed (like all sentient beings), people they are! And then remembering his life as Jango! And Boba! and-! JUST THE FEELS!!!

(Also, a great alternative would be Jaster being reincarnated as one of Jango’s clones, preferably one of the first, and remembering his past-life before Geonosis!

Jango, seeing a clone litteraly mowing down the competition: *he reminds me of someone* “hey, you! What’s your name?”

Jaster, who doesn’t remember yet but has weird inate knowledge of things: “Jaster, sir!”

Jango: !!!!)

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BUT! I present you the golden idea that started this post:

Tarre Vizsa!

Where’s the lambda teen who suddenly wakes up with the memories of his past life flooding his mind?

Like, give me a teen, alone, aimless and on his own in a cruel galaxy that suddenly remembers he can make his own family by adopting the people he likes!!! He researches, trains, buy weapons, finds out what has happened since his death, figures out the current Manda’lor (Jaster, ofc, ‘cuz I’m a sucker for happy fix-it) is doing a good job transforming a bloddthirsty culture into a bloodthirsty culture with honor and standards and then finds out HIS OWN DESCENDANTs and CLAN are being utter idiots and bastards!

Give me an ex-Jetii Manda’lor going on the warpath against the Death Watch, killing/subduing them, taking back his ‘saber (I have this image stucks in my head of Tarre cooing over his darksaber “My preciousssss! Which one of these fools manhandled you like some sort of common tool?! I’ll make them pay!”) and just generally sowing chaos everywhere he goes, f***ing up the sith’s plans along the way.

Give me Tarre going to Bandomeer or Melida/Daan because of the Force/avoiding Jaster, Jango & Cie who have questions/avoiding the Order and the Republic who also have questions and meeting Obi-Wan and the Young and going “Okay, MINE, now! No take back!” *insert delighted/maniacal laughter*.

Give me Obi-Wan who meets this weird teen barely older than he is but who already has the presence of a Master and who wants him as his student, him! The failed apprentice! The self-exiled Padawan!

Give me Tarre travelling around the galaxy with his adopted son/Padawan and a gaggle of other kids and even some adults he adopts on the spot, meeting new friends, accidentaly-on-purpose kickstarting revolutions, kicking shebs and taking names.

Give me all that and give me everyone else scratching their heads about this strange teen who is clearly Mando’ade and yet also a Jetii but whom no one knows. The Jedi are half-panicked because this stranger kidnapped one of their padawans but at the same time did so to save said padawan from a war-torn world (Qui-Gon what were you thinking?!). The Mandalorians are pleased: here is a kid who single-handedly (more or less) took care of Death watch and is now adopting and saving kids left and right, like all Mando’ae do! But at the same time they are shook because the kid is an unknown, has the darsaber (the symbol of the Manda’lor!) and, most of all, calls himself Tarre Vizsla!!

Tarre: “I’m Tarre Vizsla.”

Mandalorians: “Yeah. No. Wtf, kid.”

Jedi: “Be as it may, we ask you to…Wait! The Darskaber’s crystal resonates with you?!”

Tarre: “Well, yes, it’s mine. It chooses me. Don’t tell me the Order forgot how to pick their crystals?”

Jedi: …

Jedi: You are TARRE VIZSLA?!?!

Tarre, sighing and longsuffering: “Yes, that’s what I just said.”

Meanwhile Tarre is utterly pleased by Jaster being the Manda’lor. (He’s very glad he doesn’t have to fight the man for the title to protect his people. And, also, he’s utterly delighted he won’t have to deal with paperwork attached to the position! Freedom!)

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Also, there’s potential Force Ghosts shenanigans involved with reincarnation!

Imagine a Force Ghosts chilling in the Force with their buddies when they suddenly disappear only to be shoved into a physical body, alive once again! Seeing ghosts would be easier for those reincarnated since they have already been touched by death/The Force.

Plus, this can work for Mandalorians, too!! With the Ka’ra (the ghosts of dead Mandalorians who watch over the living)!!

So many possibilities!

GIVE ME THE SW REINCARNATION FICS WE DESERVE!!!!

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I’m going to have to write it, am I? Damn it!

Mace seeing jango with boba and dragging them away from the chaos. Yoda and clones arriving only for them to see jocasta with her lightsaber plus her lightsaber rifle.

All of those not jedi learning that she is the archivist/librarian.

That moment when you take things out of the library and then dont return them

Power move: Cody exclusively referring to Jango as "the rough draft"

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