quinn. quinn quinn quinn. these are the kinds of questions i LIVE FOR. unfortunately i could write a short essay on most any topic in this au, SO i’m gonna put my long ass response under the cut. apologies in advance LMFAO
short answer: not…really?
long answer: kind of. so, let me go over the timelines for a second here (indulge me my friend) and then get into my thoughts on the matter
in canon, jango gets recruited by dooku in his early 30s, with the clones and boba being created around the time of tpm.
in the clone dad jango au, jango is recruited about a decade or so earlier than that, and while boba isn’t born until later (around the time of tpm), jango goes through his 20s training and getting to know his clones, which 1. makes him less hardened by age and 2. forces him to interact with the clones without boba as a buffer or his “real family” for a very long time.
when i hc jango and hondo being together in the canon timeline, i always imagine that they spent more time together in their 20s. jango didn’t have a son or duties to kamino at that time, so it would make sense that he’d spend more time with “friends”/“lovers” (or at least, his rare free time wouldn’t be spent training clones or caring for boba).
this means that in the clone dad jango au, jango and hondo have hooked up a couple of times and maybe have a strange sort of bond that’s formed, but the frequency and duration of their relationship just isn’t there bc we’ve carved away a whole decade’s worth of free time they’d have spent together.
now, in any timeline, i hc hondo and jango as being exceptionally open. they don’t hold each other to any promises of commitment or have any expectations, bc obviously their professional lives don’t really allow for that, and they know there are others in their lives who mean something to them, for better or for worse (hondo and aurra, jango and zam, etc etc). but i do think that hondo, at the very least, interprets this as meaning “we don’t commit to anyone else, either”. jango, meanwhile, is a little loose and fast with his interpretations.
so what i’m trying to say is: bc they don’t ever discuss it (bc jango hates talking about his feelings and hondo hates laying his vulnerabilities on the table), hondo is somewhat blindsided by piik. piik and jango don’t get together for a while, but hondo can tell pretty easily that there’s something between them, and it’s not just sexually charged (though there is that), it’s emotionally intimate. so hondo is more miffed that jango didn’t think it might be prudent to mention that he has a boyfriend (“he doesn’t even like me, hondo.” “no, my friend, he does not. but he loves you.”), and, more importantly, has settled down, bc hondo would just like to know where he stands with people - it makes him feel secure in himself and in his choices.
that being said, i think it’s pretty easy for them to move past it - again, this relationship has had far less time to develop, and while hondo would be miffed, he wouldn’t be hurt or offended. just vaguely irritated. i don’t think that jango and hondo would continue to hook up (or if they did, it would be only before piik and jango got together and likely only when they were both extremely stressed and somehow stuck together).
and while i’m a huge fan of polycules, especially for mandalorians, and can even see jango and piik being in one, i can’t see them being in one with hondo. for jango, he’s really sort of settled down on concord dawn, and while he may continue bounty hunting on occasion and keep up with old contacts, i think he’s mostly letting that life go. there are exceptions, ofc, but he and hondo know they’re better off friends in this case. for piik, he and hondo are too unlike one another, and not even in a fun “opposites attract” way but in a simple “this would never work” way. piik thinks hondo’s way too irresponsible and a bad influence on the kids, and hondo thinks piik is boring and uppity. so to answer your question, it’s less jealousy and more annoyance and lack of comprehension. besides being hot, hondo does NOT get what jango sees in piik. however, i would be remiss to say that piik’s dislike of hondo isn’t somewhat due to jealousy - hondo is unashamed of his previous sexual exploits with jango, and as much as piik hates to admit it, it bothers him.
on the bright side, hondo is fun and annoying about it once he’s over the whole “you should’ve told me” thing, much to some of the boys’ delight. cody and fox think he’s an asshole, and rex doesn’t like him talking shit about piik, but the others think he’s HILARIOUS and piik’s daughter cyelle especially loves when uncle hondo imitates piik having a crisis. “hey hey hey who am i: oh nooooo hondo you cannot let the little boy tattoo your lieutenant you are a madddd mannnn.” cue uncontrollable laughter from most of the kids, a very quickly covered chuckle from jango, and piik looking utterly unamused.
they stop hating each other eventually, when hondo and piik inevitably have to work together to help the kids and/or jango, and there’s the classic moment of begrudging respect for one another. but it probably doesn’t happen for years - coincidentally, once jango and piik get together, piik chills out a little around hondo bc he doesn’t have anything to be jealous of anymore. hondo notices this, and teases piik about it. so like, they’re never quite besties, but they do wear the get-along shirt for the fett family.
(and don’t feel too bad for hondo losing out on his dilf boyfriend: he sort of steals one of jango’s sons over to his way of life in the end. not telling who though!)
the fandom question but with TCW since we've already had rebels and the prequels 👀 even though i probably can make an educated guess
LMFAO okay considering how clone-heavy my answers have been YES YOU PROBABLY CAN GUESS
blorbo (fave) ooh i've been sticking to main/recurring cast for this so...probably fives? does he recur enough to be considered recurring? whatever idk this is MY blorbo and i get to make the rules
scrunkly (my baby): GANODIIIII she should probably go in obscure fave BUT IDC SHE IS MY DAUGHTER AND THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!!! for those who are not familiar, she's the little rodian youngling who yoda and ahsoka take to get their kyber crystals! i LOVE rodians and i LOVE that child i would DIE FOR HER
scrimblo bimblo (underrated fave): hondo ohnaka. i know he's well-liked but one time someone was like "UM HE TRIED TO SELL AND KILL A BUNCH OF CHILDREN" under one of my posts about him so i'm considering him underrated bc of that one person. yes he did bad things but also, he made me laugh, so, like. it's fine
glup shitto (obscure fave): dogma! you don't write a 10,000+ character study fic about dogma finding a new home on corellia without him becoming an obscure fave 💀
poor little meow meow ("problematic" fave): i've said it before, but my boy fox. how poetic to have him and fives on the same ask game 😭
horse plinko (character i would like to torment for fun): the kryze sisters no i am not sorry
eeby deeby (character i would send to superhell): PONG KRELL GET FUCKED GANG
With that, Howzer is left alone in the mess hall to eat his lunch by himself. His other two brothers would normally share this schedule, but of course, they're nowhere to be found.
Alternatively, Boba thinks it all is very stupid but still eats the chocolates Ash gives him. Jango secretly loves it, only because Ash does, and he thinks it's funny to watch Boba roll his eyes like a sulking teenager. Jango goes to extremes to gross out Boba by being overly affectionate, which in turn wigs Ash out a little bit because she thinks he's sick and delirious.
LSKSKDKD okay okay okay i LOVE THIS
(more context - ash and jango are friends/something more/it’s very confusing for everyone except boba, who is grumpy but adores ash and is just waiting for his dad to get hitched to her already)
i fucking love the idea that jango almost never gets affectionate with ash in front of boba (or anyone). if he holds her hand or kisses her you can bet something very life-threatening just happened. but boba very loudly complains that valentine’s day is STUPID and romance is GROSS (oh boba how your tune will change in 30 years or so) and you know what? jango hasn’t been sweet enough to ash in a while it may be time to remedy that.
but he goes to spin ash around and kiss her and she decks him. just fucking. lands one right in his jaw. and she’s like “oh my god i’m so sorry it was just instinct!!!! why tf would you do that jango!!!!” and boba is laughing his ass off going “never mind i LOVE valentine’s day!!!!”
Styx tells Wooley about Valentine's Day, in which Wooley now takes very seriously. He gives Styx a papier-mâché anatomically correct heart with a note that says, "I would give you the real one, but Gregor said no".
QUINN LMFAO
(for context, styx is one of quinn’s ocs i adore, a very overworked and weary mechanic who owns a garage where, ash, another of quinn’s lovely ocs, works. styx and wooley are together, which is fun bc we have decided that wooley is the resident Weirdo of the 212th)
i’m fucking. i’m picturing this man having this long ass argument with gregor bc “i don’t NED my heart vod styx is a GENIUS he can make me a new one!” and gregor is sighing and not quite believing he has to be the responsible one and saying “i’m sure he could but maybe let’s not test that?”
and so gregor finally wins and wooley is SO embarrassed about his beautifully made paper-mâché heart and styx doesn’t understand why bc like, this shit is GORGEOUS and wooley finally mumbles “i couldn’t get it to beat like a living heart would 😔”. styx reassures him that it’s completely fine and then wooley tells him all about how the fastest way to get to a man’s heart* is through his stomach!
*literally. wooley has read a lot about human sacrifice.