CAW 2020: Day 7 - Modern AU
Fett Club time! All of them get together for The Gathering once a year, wherein several hundred Fetts descend on a farm in New Zealand for a week. You only miss it for damn good reason (e.g. filming for a movie or you have a court date), so all the cousins see each other at least once a year. The ones on islands tend to visit each other more often because they can. Not all of them still have the Fett surname, obviously, but they're all family and love each other. All of them speak both Mando'a and Te Reo Maōri as well as English, and several speak others as well, whatever their country's official languages are.
Fett Club is the only verse in which not all of them are brothers. Qet is the son of old family friends and grew up on the farm next door (as much as you can qualify farms that way) from Dogma and Shrapnel's family's farm. Levi is the oldest of the rest of the Smokies, of which Peak & Punk and Max & Trig are sets of twins. He, Shrari, and Qet all went to the same Maōri heritage school in New Zealand (she isn't full Kiwi and is half Persian but her parents didn't what her to feel like she had to choose a 'side' to her heritage), where the three of them became close friends. Shrari and Qet are childhood friends to lovers years later, it's really sweet.
When they grow up, Peak joins Doctors Without Borders, though I'm not sure what the rest do.
This lot are somewhat scattered across the Pacific Islands. Blink was meant to be the youngest of four, but his mother had three miscarriages before him and was told it was too dangerous for her to try being pregnant again. After their parents die in a car crash, Blink's parents take in his cousins, Recoil, Jaig, and Nuhur (who is still a baby) and raise them as Blink's younger siblings. Careen is their cousin, and grows up with his siblings in the house next door (his parent and Blink's parent are twins and wanted to stay close as adults). The two families have basically an open door policy, so you never quite know which kids you'll be coming home to. Bard grows up on a neighbouring island. He is one of sextuplets, and his mother is never doing that again. It's fun having five siblings all the same age as you, and there are a LOT of inside jokes. Fives grows up with 9 siblings in Coruscant City, but hangs out with this lot at family gatherings, and Blink moves to Coruscant City after university along with Cain and Xhona and several of their friends. When they grow up, Blink becomes an anthropologist and sociolinguist, Recoil is an actor, Nuhur is a GP, Fives is SWAT, Careen does some kind of stunt work, and Jaig does Tech and IT repair.
Almost the entirety of Pel'verd is made up of two families on Wahlis and Futuna (Totem is a cousin on nearby Tuvalu). In one, Kohs is the eldest, with triplets Feedback & Pyr & Ink. The other is Morpheus, Dawnwatch, Rahn, Pulse & Blackout, and Milo. This is another case of neighbouring siblings and their open door policy.
Feedback becomes a script/screenwriter who works with the acting Fetts fairly often. Pyr is, appropriately, an on-set medic who tends to work the same jobs. Ink also does something in this industry, I'm not sure what yet. The rest haven't told me what they do.
These four grow up on Easter Island with two other siblings, and they run wild. Eclipse has a particular distaste for tourists, and aggressively educates them on history when he hears racism or infantilism directed towards his home and his people. Parsec is frequently seen running around the island, and his tendency to vanish for hours at a time means he is the first of the siblings to get a cell phone (so if something goes wrong he can call help). They tend to hang out with Wolffe, Boost, and Sinker at Gatherings, and that group of favourite cousins has a Wolfpack groupchat. A lot of it is memes of each other. I don't know what they end up doing as adults yet, but they all travel.
