#beskargam

[bardan-jusik]

aaahhhhh my first photoshoot with my new kit!!! everybody tell @the-pyromaniacs-teki what a great photographer she is!!

[nocturius-pabu-core]

Teehee 🫠🫠🫠

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@tahny-andthe-diamonds @lonewolflupe @craziest-in-the-guild @feralferrule @the-lost-soldier

[lucifidious]

Guys look, it’s Ordo

“ItS nOt a SkIrT iTs a KaMaS”

[ruusaanrambles]

Thinking about how different individual mandalorians can be from eachother while still so clearly being mandalorian. I see this in fan made designs especially, mando cosplayers my beloved, it gives a great sense of camaraderie, but i see it in cannon media as well. For example, Paz Visla and Ursa Wren have massivly different armor designs, and yet they are both still so recognizable as mandalorian.

Ursa has a more curved visor shape, no beskar'ta, very few sharp angles to her armor, a loincloth but no kama, and generally lighter armor.

And then there's paz. most of his body is covered by his armor, and it is very bulky. his armor is mostly sharp angles, and he has a beskar'ta and standard t-shapeed visor. the only extra fabric besides his flightsuit and flack vest are things like his belt/belt pouches.

Both of them have a single peice for the top part of their chestplate, which is at odds with other mandalorians' three peice chestplates like boba fett has.

Not every mandalorian is human, not every mandalorian has a beskar'ta, not every mandalorian has a kama.

There are so many variables and yet you look at two mandalorians side by side and go, yep, there are two mandalorians in front of me, i should probably run.

It says a lot about them as a culture, to have such ways for each person to express themselves with their own beskar'gam.

Anyways i think it's cool i like the design freedom i get designing mando armor and i like wearing it to conventions and having armor that is both unique and fits into this group

[darthskys]

Din 🥺 taking off his helmet 🥺 in whatever shithole 🥺 he and his son are staying in 🥺 because he can do that 🥺 with his intimate family 🥺 of his tribe 🥺 such as his son founding 🥺 because they are family 🥺 and they are 🥺 so soft 🥺

[skaerdir]

I walk up to my local mando mercs clan and ask them if my kit is approvable

[eyeloch]

re-reading some of @izzyovercoffee ‘s Mando meta once more, I had a thought.

Many Mandalorians’ armour has mobility aids and the like as part of it.  This can be temporary to aid in post-surgery recovery, or permanent for those with chronic conditions.

Devices like repulsors to keep weight off a damaged hip bone or a way to supply painkillers at the user’s command are rather common - it keeps mandalorians protected, after all. 

That’s what armour’s for.

[mandowords]

I found this image on Wikipedia and UGH IT’S SO GOOD ( UPDATE: after watching the new episode I noticed they say their clan names. I’ll add them as a title for each paragraph)

THE COLOUR AND LACK THEREOF! Something I’ve noticed with Rebels is that all the clans allied against the Empire have monochrome armour but show their clan through some colour and symbols. The monochrome design I’d assume would be to contradict the Imperial Mandos who wear an almost blindingly bright white with red. Now that I mention it the shininess of the Imperial Mandos shows how much they’ve lost tradition. They’re armour is clean, unlike the Rebel Mandos which leave they’re battle marks on (which is the way it should be imo).

CLAN VIZSLA Just look at the blonde guy on the left (tbh I think he looks like Johnny Lawrence from the Karate Kid), his armour is is a dark grey and white like all they others, but his paint design makes it unique, and his helmet has his clan symbol which has some colour that goes with the diamond on his chest. His clan behind him even have unique armour (except for the two directly behind him but I’m assuming that’s the animators copy pasting the model). The woman two mandos back has probably the coolest design of that clan that you can see, at least in my opinion. The twig with the red leaves just looks nice on her ghet’bur (the thing between her shoulder pads that protects the collar bone area). That logo design just looks nice in general tbh.

CLAN ROOK Moving onto the woman in the middle and her brothers behind her, again, they’re mainly monochrome colours. Her armour and helmet all have the same secondary colours as the rest of her clan but they’re painted differently, her shoulders are trimmed in gold only on the front (and presumably back) but her brothers are trimmed all the way around. Another thing that shows they’re relation is their helmet design. Even though she has the night owl visor (which seems to be an exclusively female thing. Weird considering gender isn’t important in mandalorian society), her design is the same with a hook shape on the cheek and the eye or small leaf shape above the visor, but to make each person unique they chose which colour each piece of the paintjob is painted. However this doesn’t seem to be the same for the mando in the back, but again I’ll be assuming the animators copy pasted them. Also that clan seems to have a tradition of sorts of having their clan symbol on their chest which stands out compared to the other clans we can see.

There’s also there’s a woman between Mando Johnny Lawrence and the woman up front. She’s the only one of her clan I can see but I really like her design. Just like the others it’s dark grey and white, but she also has small red stripes that is always a small red stripe. It’s on her chest by the flower symbol, on her shoulders and I think it’s on her backhand guard too. We could assume she’s a part of Mando Johnny Lawrence’s clan because of how little the red is used but her flower symbol on her chest presumably says otherwise.

CLAN ELDAR Now last but definitely not least is the orange guy on the right. His armour is definitely the most unique in this image with the most battleworn armour and unique paintjob. I know I’ve said it a bunch but he does have the monochrome colour scheme, but he does have an orange secondary colour which trims the top of his shoulder pads, chest guards, and his pockets on his bicep guards (which is a really cool touch). He also has a pretty sweet clan symbol on his shoulders and helmet. If anyone can figure out what animal it’s based on, I’d really like to know. But the absolutely most bad ass thing about this character is his age. It’s not just his face that shows it with a bit of wrinkles, but his armour. Like I said before, it’s battleworn, and I’m 100% sure he’s a high ranking member of his clan because of the amount of battles he’s fought in, Also he’s one of the few with their helmets off which tends to be main and secondary characters who show their face so the animators can copy past other models to make it look like there’s a lot more characters, but that’s not a mando culture thing, it’s a very meta thing.

I should probably mention that I haven’t seen all of the new episode of Rebels because I actually paused it after seeing that image on wikipedia and I really wanted to say something about that image and how the creative team that makes the show actually thinks about mandalorian culture not only as a grand big thing, but for the smaller things too that only certain clans and/or individuals do.