📱,💥, and 🍲 for the culture ask game!
📱: How does communication work for your f/o's culture in comparison to yours? Are there any specific rules that must be followed?
Gi (Gi Kast/Savage Opress): Oh, hm! We haven't really chafed in terms of communication, but aruetiise do often note than mandos expect more blunt speech. Like, when teaching a Basic-speaker Mando'a, we have to explain things like, if I ask you me'vaar ti gar I do mean I want to know what's new with you, and if there is nothing to report then you say naas, nothing. It's not polite to respond with something like "I'm well, thank you" because that's not what was asked.
💥: Did they have any sense of culture shock if their culture is different from yours? How about you over theirs?
Gi: Absolutely. Now, it's not like Mandalorians were the first non-Dathomirian people Vaash came across, but we were the first he saw more of. But probably the biggest culture shock, for both of us, was the completely different gender norms. Mandalorian culture is... I'd almost say degendered, but we do have the concept of marriage. Meanwhile, Dathomirian culture is gender-segregated and female-dominated. There's no concept of marriage, and a Nightbrother Selected by a Nightsister is practically viewed as her property. I... Guess it's lucky that I'm neither. Easier.
🍲: Let's talk food! Are there any culturally-unique dishes you've tried making for your f/o? Are there any they've made for you?
Vinnie (Jasper/Vinnie): Jasper doesn't really eat, but she did try Finnish spring mead when I made it once. It's... kind of like a fermented lemonade? Or ginger beer, but with lemon instead of ginger. It can also use rhubarb and even celery! Would you believe that the celery version is actually pretty tasty?
... But yeah she still spat it out. 😂 (It wasn't the celery one, she just didn't want to deal with the whole... Passing things through her body thing. 🥲)
Thank you for asking!
