while we’re on the topic of boba’s mandalorian-ness, i would just like to inform y’all that in the expanded universe, a huge part of boba reconnecting with his mandalorian identity as an adult is him getting found-family’d by a canon-gay-married mandalorian couple (goran beviin and medrit vasuur) and it’s exactly as glorious as it sounds. highlights include:
boba gets invited to one of their family dinners and spends the whole time disassociating bc he’s never been to a large family gathering before and everyone is SO LOUD and their adopted kids are staring at him and he knows he’s coming off as a surly asshole and he can’t stop
when beviin and medrit find out boba is going to meet a jedi, medrit smiths him a new set of beskar, including a new piece to protect his neck, and beviin tags along to hover protectively around boba and shit-talk the jedi.
you know, like a true friend
early on, boba hears beviin is struggling financially and, while trying very hard to look preoccupied with weapons maintenance, casually offers to maybe send some bounty hunting work his way… not that he was interested in it himself… honestly he’s too busy rn… so this isn’t him being nice or anything–
beviin sees through this immediately and is touched by his friend’s concern for him
the second boba realizes beviin is touched by his concern for him, he HANGS UP ON THE POOR MAN MID-SENTENCE
“haha yes i’ve done a friendship thing and i’ve done it so subtly and stealthily that no one will ever kn– oh god he knows too much ABORT ABORT”
boba does eventually chill lol
beviin has a habit of affectionately referring to boba by the diminutive form of his name
forming the diminutive of someone’s name in mando’a is done by simply adding the suffix “‘ika”
boba experiences a gradual adjustment of “dude wtf” to “hmm this is fine actually” to “this is Our Thing and if anybody besides beviin ever tries to refer to me as that, i will beat them to death with their own arms”
beviin is also the only person allowed to make sarlacc jokes around him
“Why do you bail me out all the time, Goran? And don’t say it’s because it’s duty to the Mand'alor.“ “Because nobody can live the way you do and not notice how much it hurts.”
anyway, disney is too cowardly to include canon gay characters of any significance so i doubt we’ll ever see beviin or medrit in new canon. but they were there and they were some of boba fett’s most significant mandalorian connections in the expanded universe and more people should know about them.
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