#tano

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Ahsoka ✨

My last SW drawing was years ago and I’m back. In deep. So I thought I’d shake off the art rust drawing my girl

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Buneary -- tano

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collage! made by me :)

NONE of the art is by me!! all credit goes to og artists i love y'all's work!!

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| ahsoka redesign |

back in my starwars era for now, so here’s my version of young ahsoka! i really enjoyed drawing her and figuring out how to dress a rebellious padawan hahah hope that you’ll enjoy!

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'Kasawian'

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Tano: Mensah's second marital partner

I have been wondering about Tano, one of Mensah's two marrital partners. We get at least a small glimpse of Farai in Network Effect where she talks with Murderbot, asking directly what its relationship to Mensah was. She's also seen to understand Mensah well when she needed a moment. That offered a sharp contrast to Mensah's brother-in-law Thiago, who'd demanded explanations for Mensah's strange behaviour after the kidnapping (he didn't know the whole picture re: GrayCris), and made (incorrect) assumptions about the relationship between Mensah and her SecUnit.

Farai's referred to as "she" in Network Effect, thus, we can assume she is one of Amena's mothers. Mensah is Amena's "second mother", and Amena later calls Murderbot "Third Mom", so presumably Farai is the first mom to Amena.

But we don't know anything about Tano except that Tano is probably not a "mom". (If Tano was also a mom, Amena would call Murderbot 'Fourth Mom')

I think of Tano as "he", simply because there are no pronouns offered in the book. However, there is not a single heterosexual partner in the book series, as far as I can remember, even in group-marriage settings. So, we can reasonably assume Tano is neither "he" or "she". Tano can be they or ze or whatever this person chooses to be.

But I wish Tano had a little more presence in the murderbot world. English is a language where it is very hard to describe a person without using pronouns. (It can be done easily in Japanese, for example)

What does Tano do? Since Mensah and co live on a farm, it Tano a farmer? What do their kids call Tano?

Not mom. Maybe dad. Maybe something else. Maybe kids call Tano "Tano". "Parent" seems odd. Mad - no, Mod - no, Dom / Dam - weird...

Anyways - below are the quotes from the series where Farai / Tano are mentioned. You can see how little we know about Tano.

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And Mensah had called her marital partners Farai and Tano on the planet, and said she thought the future of humanity was pretty dismal, and they should take all the kids, siblings, their kids, and assorted relatives and move to a shack in the terraforming sector on the unsettled continent and start working in soil reclamation, whatever that was. (I wouldn't enjoy it, but I could work with it. It would be a lot easier to guard her from GrayCris there. But Farai and Tano hadn't gone for the idea.)

[Fugitive Telemetry]

In the pavilion, I located Mensah near the edge of the crowd talking to Thiago and Farai, who was one of her marital partners. I stopped next to Mensah and she grabbed my hand.

[Network Effect]

Farai said, “Thiago, no. She asks for space, you need to give that to her.” She smiled at me politely. I never know how to react to that. She leaned in to Mensah to kiss her, and said, “We'll see you at the house.”

[Network Effect]

(Farai was a possible exception. Up on the station, when Mensah had first introduced me to her family, she’d had a conversation with me. Or a conversation at me, you could say. Transcript: Farai: “You know we’re grateful for how you returned her to us.” […] She added, “I wanted to ask what your relationship to her is.” Uh. In the Corporation Rim, Mensah was my owner. On Preservation, she was my guardian. [...] But I knew Farai knew all that, and I knew she was asking for an answer that was closer to objective reality. And wow, I did not have that answer. I said, “I’m her SecUnit.” (Yes, that’s still in the buffer.) She lifted her brows. “And that means?” Backed into yet another conversational corner, I fell back on honesty. “I don’t know. I wish I knew.” She smiled. “Thank you.” (And that was that.)

[Network Effect]

You might think the obvious thing to do was to notify Mensah or Farai or Tano, the third marital partner. I didn't.

[Network Effect]

I said, “Not obvious.” Not to most of the humans, anyway. I had a feeling that Farai and Tano knew, but weren't sure what to do about it. She shrugged a little. “It's hardly surprising that I feel safer with you. It's also easier to be around people who understand what happened, what it's like to be in that situation. That's you and the rest of the survey team.” She hesitated. “Farai and Tano understand, but I haven't explained to my brother and sister and Thiago and the others why I can't just rely on them for emotional support about this, as usual.” Her face turned grim. “They don't understand what it's like to be under corporate authority.”

[Network Effect]

An attempt by Amena to go around Mensah and appeal to Farai and Tano had failed spectacularly, in a three-way comm call that became a four-way when Farai had called Mensah to join in on the discussion.

[Network Effect]

ART said, I was not yelling. “Of course you weren't,” Arada agreed, in the same reasonable tone Mensah's marital partners Farai and Tano used when they talked to their younger kids.

[Network Effect]

“It gives me something else to think about.” Thiago made a move to rub his face and bonked his glove on his helmet. “I used to work on language puzzles before my exams at FirstLanding. Tano thought I was out of my mind.”

“Considering what we’re doing at the moment, I don’t think Tano was wrong,” Overse told him.

[Network Effect]