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A personal rant about why I dislike the inclusion of Celestica/Volo in PLA, or rather, the way it was used
If you’re expecting a nicely organized essay, move along. This is one giant brain dump that has been percolating in my brain for months, and I just needed to get it out.
Comments and asks are welcomed, but don’t expect to hide behind anon. You want to talk? Let’s talk.
Volo and Celestica are interesting in Pokemon Legends Arceus. And by interesting, I mean “why the hell are you here?”
I remember going into the more aesthetic reasons for why I thought the Celestica people were Greek / Roman while feeling a bit stumped on the historical /cultural context (best I thought of was the Silk Road & Alexander the Great)
Didn’t think it’d go this deep. 🏛️
Like, clearly they went for a Western look for Cogita, Volo wearing a toga in that last act (both names being Latin, so maybe it’s more Roman, or they combined these similar cultures in the Pokémon world?).
Either way, it does smell of colonialism. :/ I never liked how the residents of Jubilife in particular called us “outsider” - the Clans, sure, but the town full of immigrants themselves calling us an “outsider” (is it “gaijin” in Japanese?) feels hypocritical.
Oh well. I kinda saw this sort of thing coming, with Japan’s habit of just breezing over all the bad things they did through their imperialistic history (much like my own country). 😔
There is the question though: what’s the deal with Celestic Town? It has an obviously Japanese shrine with an old cave depicting Sinnoh’s Legendaries where you meet Cynthia’s grandma as well as Cyrus. Anything Grecian has been all but erased. o.o
Since I have more than 1 AU in Pokemon I think I have to make a post
📖 Scribe for the Foul | อาลักษณ์สาบเขลา [TA Volo AU]
Volo found his way to academics, got a scholarship, and became a teaching assistant in Unova's academy. A train conductor reached out to him in the first week, demanding the truth. It's not like Volo hasn't been expecting someone to take advantage of him in his long, immortal life, however
My main Trainwreckshipping AU, also serving as a character study for me. This is pretty much what I'll draw for Emmet and Volo stuffs. I'll probably explore NSFW aspects too but I won't post it here
⭐ Main story: 1 | 2
🧩 Sub Story: Flytrap | ICU (Emmet) | IV Stand | Nuisance | Ingo's Room | Necklace | Emmet's Ex | Kissing Game | Salvation | Bad Ending Note 2 (TW) | Sinnoh's summer | Afterstory | Togetic | Reflection
📝 Memo: Random Notes | Infodump | Healing | Bad Ending Note 1 (TW) | Volo Char sheet
🎲 Unlisted: Playlist | Bible | Outfit | The Game I told You I Will Not Make It
An adolescent young man grew tired of his nepo baby life and became a runaway. For some reason, this old man, who he is so sure is Warden Ingo from the legend (who should have been dead for centuries), asks him to bring him to Unova and somehow won't leave him alone. On the other side of the globe, there's a rumor of a war of seven spirits surviving to actualize their desire.
Literally my 2 interests melting into one being. Except that I'll minimize the "war" aspect and go to more of my OC and Ancient Lunatic Train Man Ingo's relationship, and most importantly not making Emmet and Volo too gay.
⭐Main story: LITERALLY NO MAIN STORY I JUST WANT IT OUT OF MY HEAD LMAO
Obi-Wan, Aayla, Kit, and Plo all separately make up fake facts on the spot about how natborn reproduction works whenever someone asks them, and the clones are all
that doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about natborn biology to contest it
(they get away with this because the Kaminoan version of sex ed boils down to "don't worry about it, we designed you to be sterile and we don't expect you to live long enough to have to deal with any actual consequences, so have fun")
the clones, raised on Kaminoan rations, literally can't stomach ordinary foodstuffs, and it would take a significant amount of time, effort, and resources they don't have during the war to change that
that doesn't stop several clones from taking up cooking
this does not, however, mean that they need test subjects
the Jedi are conscripted as taste testers while the entire battalion stares them down, eager to demand descriptions of the taste and gustatory experience, and even develop complicated Jedi-reaction ranking schemes to compare their prowess in the kitchen
for battalions assigned to non-human Jedi with different dietary needs and restrictions, this is taken as an extra level of challenge
it becomes a symbol of pride when a Jedi brags about their troopers' cooking to one of their peers
Here's an underexplored and juicy plot point in the prequels that I can't stop thinking about! Because Sifo-Dyas was killed so early in the new canon timeline of the creation of the clones, with Dooku impersonating him to handle the subsequent details, we don’t even know exactly what he intended the clone army to be.
I think there’s even an argument to be made that Sifo-Dyas intended the clones to be culturally Jedi. Raised and trained in the Jedi Temple(s), learning Jedi skills and ways of life, growing up in a shared community alongside the Jedi. The clones serving not as an emergency button to hit in case of war, but as a support to the overstretched, under resourced Jedi Order in an increasingly violent, chaotic galaxy, one that might prevent the war he foresaw from ever even happening.
To begin, I’ll briefly touch on the galactic situation immediately before The Phantom Menace. Time and time again, we’re given a picture of the Jedi Order that is being stretched to its limit. All across the galaxy, Jedi temples such as the ones we see operating in the High Republic era in the Acolyte, are being shut down because the Jedi just can’t staff them. The novel The Living Force, set immediately before TPM, deals with the repercussions of these shut downs for the people living in those sectors - destabilization, a vacuum where the power hungry and corrupt can come into the space left and make life awful for the people. Problems arise, these systems go to the Republic for help, the Republic can't help due to bureaucratic red tape and lack of Jedi resources, and this creates more bad feelings about the Jedi and a great environment to grow the Separatist cause.
"I always heard so much about the Jedi. I never saw one, but they told me that was because you saved people -- and then you left!" - The Living Force
Enter Sifo-Dyas. As a member of the Jedi Council in this era, he would have overseen dozens of these painful but unavoidable closures. More, he was trained by Lene Kostana, a High Republic era Jedi, who remembered the golden age of the Jedi, all of these Jedi outposts, temples, and cultural centers being open and thriving, and surely filled her Padawan’s head with these stories. When Sifo-Dyas foresaw a coming cataclysmic war that would destroy the Jedi Order, it's not hard to see where he might have made a connection between the pervasive problem that was a lack of Jedi resources, and the galaxy falling further into darkness. In fact, it's exactly what happens in the prequels with a little push from the Sith.
The Living Force novel tells us outright that Sifo-Dyas’s original plan before deciding on the clones was to use his role as a Jedi Seeker to fill the Jedi Order with as many new Jedi as possible to counter the coming threats:
“(Sifo-Dyas) was always in a big damn hurry. Like the Republic would end if he didn’t swell the ranks.” - The Living Force
Wow, Even Piell, that line aged like milk, buddy!
Ki-Adi Mundi frowned. “Indeed, sometimes those he brought to us were not even viable candidates.” - The Living Force
So, Sifo-Dyas was originally trying to bring as many kids into the Order as possible, and didn’t particularly care if they were very Force sensitive. An intriguing detail, when considering how closely he might have imagined the non-Force-sensitive clones to work in Jedi roles.
Interestingly, he didn’t actually abandon that “swell the ranks” plan - he got his ass fired, so he couldn’t bring any more Jedi in the conventional way. Sifo-Dyas is in a desperate situation here, he feels he's running out of time, and he needs to get as many people into the Jedi Order as quickly as possible. I think you might see where I'm going with this.
“The future should remain unseen, but unfortunately, Sifo-Dyas has little choice in the matter.” -Lene Kostana, Dooku Jedi Lost
We know he arranged the initial order for the clones, but not how he intended to use them, or saw their role, or even if he would have agreed with Jango as the DNA donor, since that part came in from Dooku. If Sifo-Dyas, lifelong Jedi and true believer in the Order, was creating something to help defend his people in their darkest hour, it stands to reason that he might look within his own culture for their training, instead of outside of it.
Did he see them as a secret weapon, a surprise help in the hour of greatest need, as they would ultimately function as on Geonosis? Or did he envision the clones being raised with Jedi involvement on every level of their development, growing into keepers of the peace to fill those hundreds of empty temples and outposts and restabilize a galaxy sliding toward darkness?
I think an important clue that supports the latter argument is that as Sifo-Dyas is literally falling out of the sky to his death, he is busy trying to get a message to the Council that he ordered the clones via a recording:
I've seen a vision of the future that I feel warrants an army. You've disagreed with me, but I felt I had no choice. Therefore I have ordered one: a clone army from the Kaminoans. Something must be done, and I made that decision. - Sifo-Dyas, Force Collector
He's hardly trying to keep the (currently embryonic!) clones a secret here. He seems to think he's done his part and the Council has no choice but to take it from there, and follow through with his unmentioned plan. He has delivered the needed personnel. And bear in mind, Sifo-Dyas did not expect his death to be a 10 year old mystery. He seems to have spent his very last breaths protecting Sillman and therefore leaving a witness to everything that happened. His last words are literally “Come find me!”
These are not the actions of a man who has set his plan into perfect motion and a magic army will appear just at the right time in ten years. This is a man who is facing his unexpected death and realizing that he needs to tell the Council, who disagreed with him but he clearly still trusts, what he did because he won't be there to handle the details himself. It's almost poignant.
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I worried about making this post at all because I’m not actually interested in blorbo apologism. Sifo-Dyas’s story is much more interesting if he is a good man forced to go to desperate, awful lengths to keep the apocalypse from happening. Whatever he intended the clones to be, it ended in Order 66; in a way, it doesn't even matter. And yet, I think there’s something compelling there too, and I think canon gives us just enough - at least make an argument for a culturally-Jedi clone army what-if.
I need to add to this post that if Sifo-Dyas somehow survived the crash and the Jedi found out about the clones prior to TPM, I still don't see him having a huge role in the prequel story.
Because the Council, after they finished going YOU DID FUCKING WHAT would have assigned him to Creche duty for the rest of his living days. Consecutive life sentences. No chance of parole.
Master Sifo-Dyas? No, never heard of him. Oh, the you mean the Lost One? Buried under a literal pile of babies. So many diapers to change.
shaak ti absolUTELY sends plo like dozens of daily snaps of clones while she’s on kamino
and plo saves them all within seconds
he’s already running out of storage on his second data pad
they probably have contests to see which of them can fit the most clones into a selfie and it’s a tight race until shaak takes one standing on a table in the tipoca city mess hall and plo just kinda gives up on winning after that, but he still regularly sends her family photos of him and the wolfpack
!!! this is so GOOD - the kaminoan scientists stare in disapproval like the awful wet blankets they are and shaak gives a FIGHT ME glare right back over a sea of grinning/peace-signing/finger-gunning/dabbing clones
and when theyre not engaged in Selfie War™, shaak sends updates like: “so-and-so just chose his name!” or “this squad figured out how to break into the kitchens, how long should i give them before ‘reprimanding’ them?”
and when plo and the wolfpack are in the system, he always smuggles a ridiculous amount of sweets down under the guise of Serious Jedi Master Business
(the kaminoans HATE shaak ti, she’s ruining all their careful conditioning and strict regulation with her ridiculous jedi ideals such as “encouragement of individuality” and “a basic respect for life,,”)
YES and she also updates him on all the Drama™ such as the domino squad debacle, so like the next time the wolfpack and the 501st team up after fives and echo get co-adopted by anakin and rex, plo’s just like “ah yes i know those two, master ti spent an hour complaining about one of their trainers over holo-skype”
the wolfpack has the largest secret stash of candy in the entire army and all the other battalions are so jealous, what do you mean you guys get candy, general kenobi only gets us boring stuff like tea and alcohol,,
its completely mutual - of course shaak ti would never call it ‘hate’ (just a very strong disagreement over proper child raising methods and its really not that difficult of a concept to GRASP) - it only took about three and a half seconds into the official tour when she first arrived before shaak was like “aight. listen to me. NO” and somehow along the way she managed to acquire a curious train of young cadets - and when the scientist leading the tour tried to shoo them away shaak looked them dead in the eye and did not blink as she slowly knelt and scooped two up in her arms. that was the moment. both the kaminoans and shaak knew. that this would not be an easy partnership.
(that first night plo answered her skype-call and didnt even get out a ‘hello’ before shaak EXPLODED into an impressive rant that consisted mostly of IVE ADOPTED A MILLION YOUNG SONS PLO AND I’M GOING TO F I G H T SOME NERD SCIENTISTS BEFORE THE WEEK IS OUT)(the passive aggressiveness between shaak and the kaminoans is comparable to a cold war and by the time theyre cadets the clones know that if shaak gets That Look™ its time to skedaddle)
plo says to fives and echo “master ti has told me much of your accomplishments” and what they hear is “hey, I’m a Jedi General and I know everything” and what Plo means is “Yes, children, I know EVERYTHING.” the first time he casually saunters over to them and asks a question about something they had definitely never told anyone about fives nearly chokes on his water
there is a MASSIVE black market between the battalions because no decent jedi can really say no to their men - aayla basically runs a library out of one of her storage rooms (the most popular requests are gardening books, ship blueprints, and obscure mythology anthologies) - with such intricate rules that it takes shinies a couple of months to get the bartering exchanges down (two bottles of nabooan wine equals a full pack of chocolates equals fifteen tea bags equals…)
and force help them when they get a surprise inspection, esp if its not by their own commander/general who Knows™ but turns a blind eye - “no, of course we don’t have sweets those are against regulation” (the sweets meanwhile are getting shoved into a tiny space behind a console that someone only ever uses once in a hundred years or under a loose floorboard in the hallway outside the barracks - obscure tiny spaces that no one would be able to find unless, of course, they closely examined some ship blueprints or something)
of course bc shaak is a jedi master and has complete control of her feelings! honest! … but on the other hand there was That One Time that she opened a call to plo with the sentence “i am going to STAB nala se in the EMPTY PLACE where her SOUL should be,” so. but like YES the kaminoans try to explain The System™ to her and she interrupts every 5 seconds to tell them that their methods are cruel and it is not happening on her watch (and the cadets she picks up on the way are in absolute AWE of her bc nobody ever stands up to the kaminoans! it’s just not a thing! but there she is, doing it! and they instantly love her and know they can trust her)
(shaak is in a constant state of barely restraining the urge to fight them all, like oh sure she seems calm but would you be calm if you had to deal with the kaminoans every single day for years? i would not) (all the clones know to Beware The Look™ even though it’s never directed at them because that’s how you know that general ti is having a bad self-control day and/or the kaminoans are somehow worse than usual, which are both excellent excuses to leave the room immediately)
plus plo’s really good at, like, reading people, so like. your secrets are not safe, fives. echo tries to pretend he’s The Perfect Trooper in front of the visiting general but plo’s just like “it’s cute how you think you got away with sneaking into the tipoca city library every night” and echo turns BRIGHT RED and fives does an actual spit take bc he’s laughing so hard, what do you mean echo broke a rule, impossible! (it takes a couple seconds for plo to realize that echo thinks he’s actually in trouble, bc he always forgets that most of the shinies don’t know that the jedi couldn’t care less about whatever rules the kaminoans had, and also does he actually think he’s in trouble for sneaking into the library, every jedi master in the galaxy wishes that their younglings snuck into the library instead of every single other place younglings usually try to sneak into)
yes yes yes! different types of contraband for different battalions and jedi, yes. and of course there’s a ridiculously complicated exchange system because the front lines and the battalions fighting on them are chaos incarnate. (it takes a few months for the shinies to realize that juicy gossip is always an acceptable form of currency, the clone army is a huge rumor mill that’s just as bad if not worse than the jedi order)
ah yes the ‘“surprise”’ inspections, which are usually not actually surprises because the generals are usually notified beforehand - nobody is inspecting the jedi, after all - and as soon as the inspector leaves the room, the general turns to their commander and is like, “inspection tomorrow/later today/in an hour/in half an hour, tell the troops,” which gives them at least a little bit of time to stuff the contraband into the secret compartments behind the control panels and the half-empty ration crates in the emergency supply room (sometimes it is actually a surprise, though, in which case the general and the clones in whichever places get inspected first try to stall the inspector for long enough for the rest of the battalion to hide everything
the council has received so many complaints from both the kaminoans and shaak - which are always worded oh so politely but my god the venom in between the lines is PALPABLE - that they now have to set aside entire days to discuss just what the hell is going on in tipoca city. shaak rarely attends these even via hologram bc of Clone Mom business, but she has them all heavily circled in bright red on her personal calendar (obviously a gift from a squad who’s already been deployed) and these are always low-control days. she makes a point of calling plo the night before and giving up more than enough updates/details/barely-concealed-rage so she has at least one proxy on the council, because she knows that no matter what side the council takes on these complaints, the atmosphere between her and the scientists will inevitably grow even MORE frigid. “plo you have to listen to me. they have these droids that fly around and SHOCK the poor things. I won’t allow that. plo are you listening to me. PLO.” but she always finds it easy to calm down - all she has to do is step outside her quarters and shes swarmed with cadets and older clones within minutes, and now she has essentially a dozen younglings all talking and asking questions at the same time so this easily kills a few hours (or if she wants she can read over the mountain of mail from deployed clones and try to respond to some of it)
(one of these meetings happened when plo was deep undercover with the wolfpack and so shaak patched herself through to obi-wan instead. she got cody at first and The Glare™ was already so deeply set on her face that he didnt even need to hear what she had to say. he went and got got obi-wan IMMEDIATELY and then left.)(now shaak has TWO proxies on these tipoca-city-meeting days and their numbers are growing)
and poor ECHO my child he was so close to actually running away and/or smacking fives THEN running away before plo manages to convince them that of all the things to do, sneaking in a library is probably the least of their worries and that plo’s actually impressed with the amount echo read before being deployed (this is when news of aayla’s ‘library’ starts making the rounds in the 501st and soon echo has never looked happier and disappears to his bunk only to reappear hours later asking plo for another book, please)
oh man. the rumor mill in the gar is UN.REAL. its next level stuff. even the jedi have trouble keeping abreast of all the newest gossip and soon just trust that their commander or captain will let them know the juiciest details so at least they can pretend to be in the know - but the clones have been EMBEDDED in this culture since they were young. theyre fluent in it. bonus points are awarded for evidence - audio or visual, visual preferred. they know EVERYTHING. it knocks new padawans especially off guard, bc they were taught that the clones are Serious Military Men Always, so the first time they see a table of clones clustered around a table in the cafeteria discussing who-was-kissing-who-behind-the-senate-columns the padawans are SHOCKED. but as soon as they figure out that the wolfpack has sweets - man. no secret is safe for very long.
the best gossip is rewarded with a combination of sweets/alcohol/new tattoo designs but those are RARE rewards indeed bc not only does there need to be absolute PROOF - but it needs to be delivered DIRECTLY TO the suppliers, all at once, in person - and that only happens once in a blue moon because how often do their paths intersect? so if a clone happens upon a truly Choice piece of gossip he has to guard it with all his might until he can present it to the clones with access to the reward he wants
and jesse is the reigning KING of distractions when it comes to inspections. hes taken to keeping a small pile of random bits and pieces of medical equipment tucked under his mattress so theyre always on hand. there was That One Time when he found a tutorial on how to make fake blood on the holonet and utilized it, very effectively, during a surprise inspection. rex was Not Happy. At All. but it did buy them time enough to hide the booze and trashy holovids, so.
(the council’s always just like “… did shaak write this… with her lightsaber?” because it’s SO OBVIOUS that she just wants to solve all her kaminoan problems with Aggressive Negotiations™) those days are blocked out entirely in red, the entire square for each of those days is just colored solid red, because the Force knows the kaminoans are going to be so damn insufferable on those days, which just so happen to be the days when she has the least control over her feelings on the topic - she tries to assign herself the easier or more fun tasks on those days, like teaching the really tiny cadets, because they’re always really nice to her and it feels good knowing that every second she spends with them undoes a tiny bit of the damage the kaminoans’ teaching methods have done to them. (and she always makes a point of checking to see if fives and echo have sent her any messages - she swears doesn’t have favorites, but… they’re her favorites.)
(the second shaak’s hologram appears cody’s just like, “OH, uh, i… will go get general kenobi. yeah.” and then he leaves as fast as is humanly possible without seeming rude because being in the same room as The Glare™ is bad luck)
echo nearly DIES on the spot because a member of the jedi council knows i Broke A Rule but plo manages to convince him that he’s not in trouble before that happens (also, heyyyyy, echo, honey - you might want to get used to breaking rules, because anakin skywalker is… not good at following those). and hey, being a bookworm is never a bad thing and someone in the 501st ought to know the rules am i right and plo’s like, “man, if master ti and i had been sneaking into the library every night when we were padawans, we’d have been given seats on the council much sooner than we were” (shaak and plo only snuck into cool places, like the old tunnels carved into the mountain that the temple is built over, which lead to a bunch of cool old shrines and are… restricted to anyone who doesn’t have clearance from the council, oops.)
you KNOW the jedi are too tired when they can’t even keep track of the latest rumors, yikes. but yeah, the clones are all a bunch of horrible gossips and no one is safe. (”who-was-kissing-who-behind-the-senate-columns” I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, tbh the amidala-skywalkers need to maybe tone it down a little while they’re in public, because they are not subtle)
the commanders are the best sources of Proof™ and specific information about their jedi, but good luck getting them to give it up because their loyalty to their generals runs deep. (for example, rex Knows that anakin skywalker and padmé amidala are Legit Married - oh, everyone knows they’re together, but the extent of it is unknown to the general population - but he’s guarding that shit with his life)
I CAN’T BELIEVE PRANKSTER GOD JESSE IS CANON NOW, GOD BLESS yes omg. you know who else wasn’t happy about that prank? kix. kix was SO MAD AT HIM because why would you PRETEND to be INJURED, jesse, don’t i have enough REAL injuries to deal with without adding your FAKE ones,, (kix needs a break please give him a vacation, he puts up with so much, his battalion is full of nothing but adrenaline junkies and people with 0 survival instinct)
Fox (reving up on air guitar) Ja na na na Na na na na Ja na na na na Na na na jananananana 🎶🎸 I WANNA SHOCK (self echoing) TROOP ✊ ja na na na na na Naa Naa 🎸 I WANT TO SHOCK 🎶
Wolffe/Cody (into it): TROOP ✊
Fox: ja na na na na na Naa Naa Naaaaa 🎸-- welcome to Shock Troop a holo-cast within a holo-cast about the latest and greatest in Senatorial Briefings--
Cody: no wait you need to explain--
Fox (ignoring him) Senator Stonk released the following statement yesterday that he will be proposing a bill that would have Clone Troopers forage for food on planet to bring down military budget expenses.
Wolffe: wait what?
Fox (carrying on): when asked to clarify how that would work, Stonk had this to say: Our spending is out of control and we must come up with imaginative solutions. Many of the planets they are sent to have an abundance of flora and fauna. We should have them use the resources available. If they can destroy droids surely they should be able to find food sources.
Cody (blue screen of death face audible even in an audio format): wh..........
Fox: in response to the bill, Master of the Jedi Order Mace Windu had this to say: No.
He then gestured in tired exasperation to Clone Commander CC-411 who explained in great detail the pitfalls of having to feed an army of millions with this method. Windu's initial response has become a reaction 'gram on the holonet that has been shared three billion times and has sparked numerous mocking posts towards the proposed bill on SX (The stream formerly known as space twitter). I'll put the 'gram in the show notes.
Many of the bill's initial supporters loudly insisted they were never going to vote it through if it came up in session. Senator Stonk's press secretary claims that this is all a joke taken out of context and the Senator had no intention to actually propose such a bill.
Wolffe: that's too bad. I like the idea of hunting.
Cody: yes, but to feed your entire battalion?
Wolffe: oh no, I meant the senators. I would hunt them.
Okay this popped out of my queue today. Anyway the point wasn’t really to disparage Traviss’s off-hand comment (if there’s any universal instrument it might as well be drums, so I just can’t take it seriously). But consider: Mando Stomp. Anything can be a percussion instrument if you hit it the right way. Do you see my vision?
The idea that there are no drums in mandalorian cultures is a little silly because drums are considered one of the only universal forms of instruments, literally EVERYTHING can be turned into a drum from hollow logs to actual boulders, but it’s an interesting thought experiment nonetheless!
My two favorite interpretations here are:
1. Some styles of Mandalorian music are very similar to styles like Flamenco/Zapateado Calentano where the dancing and clapping in itself is the drums of the music. Which inadvertently gives these cultures some of the most insane synchronicity and rhythm of any people in the galaxy (coming from someone who’s danced Zapateado with 40+ people before it’s an experience)
Imagine huge dance halls with hollow floors specifically designed to echo the rhythm of the dancers, Mandalorian houses having their largest rooms right above the cellars because they’re the best places to host dances where the stomping is amplified, town squares having distinct hollow bricks so that festivals and holidays will always have space for music.
Special dancing shoes with hollow soles specifically made to echo your stomps! Oooo or the really fancy noble clans being able to get specially tailored shoes with beskar soles like tap shoes, a point of pride being able to lead the music of a celebration by being the focus of the rhythm!
2. If we take inspiration from the Bes’bev there would 100% be drums in the style of shields. We don’t even have to go too far for that, we literally have the Steelpan drum!
Or bell plates or other idiophones! Maybe the “no drums” just means the traditional Mandalorian percussion instruments don’t have membranes—i.e. they’re not drums but idiophones, which make sound by the instrument itself vibrating (and not air, membrane, or string).
Do you think the jedi make their own robes? Like from scratch like collecting the silk and the wool and making thecloth.
I definitely think most if not all robe production is in house! They have ancient textile traditions that are preserved and practiced with the same reverence as any other skill. Jedi are taught very early up to respect their robes as valuable possessions, indicators of the path to which they’re dedicated, as well as a vital opportunity to express individuality.
They definitely have ancient, ethical sources for their silk, wool, leather, etc (this is making me think about the agricorps, your favorite!) and I like to think they maintain close ties with the people who raise the animals or cultivate the plants used for the materials. Imagine retired Jedi moving out to the mid rim to raise space sheep 🥹
I’m admittedly very uninformed when it comes to textiles and fabrics (when I cosplay I just use what I can get from 2nd hand and scrap shops with varying degrees of success) but I imagine the Jedi have an expansive selection of weights, textures, colors etc. Earth tones are in style during the final years of the Republic, but even in a sea of browns and tans, there are endless variations of warms and cools and silhouettes and embroidered details.
Speaking of embroidered details, I like to think that it’s pretty common for Jedi to incorporate patterns or motifs into their robes. While there’s millennia of traditional designs available (which carry different meanings/associations) there are many Jedi craftspeople who are resources for assisting in the creation of new designs to commemorate achievements or honor lineages, as a couple examples. For Jedi who are appointed to stations within the order which typically encourage signaling that station via embroidered robes, it’s expected that they’ll dedicate time to hand embroider their robes themselves (ie I headcanon Jocasta embroidered her own robes with the Ansata pattern).
Lastly, I like to think that, related to Jedi being taught very early to respect their robes, it’s common for Jedi to mend their own robes (at least for normal wear and tear reasons). There’s a whole woven crafts field of study available by way of electives for initiates and padawans, but basic mending skills are mandatory.
I love tasuki for Jedi. If the robes are a symbol of their culture and history, I love tasuki as some practical companion to those billowing sleeves -- never acceptable in a public or ceremonial setting, but undeniably present in private, domestic moments, every time a Jedi has to cook, or scrub a dish, or change a diaper.
I love the idea that Obi-Wan's been tying his sleeves back since he was a crecheling, just as countless generations of Jedi have done before him.
I think he's a man comforted by ritual. I think that during the Clone Wars, far from his home and his people, he'd wear every damn layer of those robes even in the privacy of his personal quarters, even 7 hours into formwork in the dead of night. And when he inevitably gets irritated by his sleevies and reaches for the tasuki, maybe 🥺 there's a moment where he remembers his home.
I like to think it soothes him. I like to think he feels a little more settled, a little more composed, a little less alone after.
Mostly I like to think of his dear Marshal Commander watching him from across the table, watching the capable, practiced motion of his hands. The way it reveals wrists and forearms, the way it disrupts the clean lines of his collar, revealing 🫣 maybe a scandalous bit of neck. The easy intimacy of this in the middle of the night, sharing the burden of command. I'm weak for it.
Anyways. What beautiful art can be born from an AO3-deprived discord thirst session. 🥺 Raph, this is perfect. His EYES, his hair, the bend of his wrist, GOD.....it's too much, it's all so much.....
The whole PLA plot up to the whole sky turning red- with the only difference being that Ingo was adopted by Akari as her uncle. As a result he disregards Kamado’s command to never contact the banished Akari and is thrown in the dungeon, much to Akari’s grief, just for Emmet to spawn in, learn of Ingo’s fate and his apparent niece, and taking it all incredibly personally, choosing to literally haunt Kamado in his own building, and helping Ingo and various others escape.
Looking all through AO3 and I know it’s like a common trope in PLA submas fics, but I can’t find this specific one
I write a lot of Star Wars content and in this post you will find all the resources I use and great little things I've found that might help you! Enjoy and show the authors some love! May the Force be with you!
Star Wars Writing Resources provided by @nimata-beroya and this post has SO MUCH to offer if you are writing in the Star Wars universe! There are galaxy maps, calendars, holidays, date converters, media chronology (movie/game/tv show order), hyperspace travel times, several name generators, reference guides to the Jedi Order, infomration on the Clones and Mandalorians, lore, health and medicine and technology, food and drinks, languages, etc! There's a lot here!
Disabilities Exist in Star Wars by @calltomuster this is a good look into the disabilities and the culture around them in the Star Wars universe. A very helpful read with some additional sources listed!
Comprehensive Lexacon Guide for First Time SW Fic Readers by @lightasthesun Wow. What a mouthful! I cannot tell you guys how much I use this one. It's not a clock, it's a chronometer. It's not coffee, it's caf. It's not a bathroom, it's a refresher. Like I said, super helpful.
List of Battles thanks to @monako-jinn-storiesfor linking this because I never would have thought to. It links to Wookipedia but still a great piece of information.
9 Incredible Crosssections Reveal the Architecture of Star Wars by @musewrangler A great visual guide if you're looking to play with the architecture in Star Wars.
A Resource Page for all Your Clone Related Needs by @karttaylir-darasuum Everything you need to write about Clones including their weapons, cannon, terminology, stock photos, things to avoid etc.
That's all I've got for now, but if you find anything for me to add feel free to tag me and lets continue this writing resource for Star Wars Fans!
I did not know the Kamino cloning chambers were called hatcheries??!! That is the cutest damn thing I ever heard! It’s like they’re little chicks breaking out of their shells crying for food. little hatchlings. I can’t handle this level of cute.
But like who looks after the vod’ika hatchlings? I guess probably the Kaminoan technicians who hatch them, but I like to think it’s their ori’vod. I adore the idea that the first contact they have is when a brother wraps a blanket around them and holds them close, maybe feeding them a highly nutritious milk substitute or singing them a lullaby.
Like once a cadet is old enough to hold and feed a hatchling then they get put on hatchery duty, and no matter what position they rise to (Commander, Captain, ARC trooper) whenever they’re on Kamino they get put on hatchery duty.
I can just see seasoned troopers walking around giving briefing reports with a hatchling tucked up in their arms, or running drills with a hatchling tied securely to their back, or changing diapers on their kama because this hatchling is stinky and screaming and they’re in the docking bay … I can imagine that officer just raising an eyebrow and shaking their head when the second the diaper is off vod’ika pees all over their kama. Imagine if this happened to Rex and he’s just resigned to the fact now that whenever he’s on Kamino he’s going to get peed on.
It hardly ever happens that troopers need to be on official duty when they’re looking after a vod’ika, but in some cases senior officers do need to conference with their Jedi … so when Rex walks into the room with a hatchling in his arms, both Anakin and Ahsoka are surprised.
“Is that your baby, Rex?”
“No, Commander. Technically, he’s your baby. He’s a brother.”
Ahsoka would just lose her s**t over how adorable the hatchling is.
“You were a very cute baby, Rex.”
“Thank you, Commander.”
And they have to do the conference with a hatchling suckling on Rex’s finger and Ahsoka cooing and making ridiculous faces at the hatchling.
Anakin just finishes the conference with a: “Leave the baby at home when you rejoin us, Rex. I don’t think I can put up with much more of this from Ahsoka.”
I love the thought of the next time Ahsoka’s on Kamino she goes straight to the hatchery and is like: “I hear you’re handing out babies.” and then she spends the whole time looking after this hatchling like: I’ve only known him a day but if anything happens to him, I’ll kill everyone in this room and then myself. And she calls him blue, because “when you’re old enough little one, you’ll be in the 501st. Yes, you will.” And Rex is just there in the background shaking his head and pitying this poor brother who’s been adopted by Ahsoka.
I don’t know how fast a clone ages but maybe something like:
I’m thinking that even with their fast learning, the Kaminoans wouldn’t be able to do much with an under 4yo, so that’d be 1.5-2 years where the ori’vod need to look after their vod’ika.
This is the most glorious idea. I don't know what developmental age the kaminoans would decant the tubies but bypassing the crawling, standing, walking stages would probably really mess with them developing balance and proprioception as adults so yes, they probably hatch as babies not toddlers.
Human infants require positive body touch and interaction to develop well so if you want functional trainable children the babies will need attached and interactive caregivers to Foster their mental, linguistic and physical growth.
So they should have lots of interaction with the older clones. I would pay good money to see Alpha-17 with a baby carrier. Squads carrying around and cuddling their designated kih'vod in little armoured pods.
Goood evening folks!!!! I have a new Submas reunion one-shot for y’all!! Come get your food 🤲🏻🤲🏻
It’s called Flickers in the Snow and it’s inspired by CuzReasons’ Eel-ectric Reunions.
(Pssst! @cuz-reasons For you, my friend ✨)
Hope y’all enjoy it!
SUMMARY:
A massive snowstorm is closing in on the Pearl Settlement and everyone is trying to prepare. While taking a break, Ingo overhears someone talking about a Pokémon with purple flames being spotted flying out of a distortion and decides he needs to investigate.
Could it be…?
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