Why hello Boost and Sinker quote from 'Rise Malevolence', nice to see you. I honestly can't get enough of dad Jango, he is such a perfect father for his boys, even in such harsh circumstances. I absolutely love how he's so happy about the Nulls being able to completely overpower him. (I have a feeling that this Jango would absolutely love the TCW 501st and Rex)
And the kids are so cute and so fierce! I know Jango cannot possibly train all the Clones to the degree he is able to train the Nulls but I'm willing to bet he will have a good crack at it even if only to give them hugs and tell them that they're doing a good job.
Loved this, as ever, can't wait for the next one!
(Also, Kina Ha is an absolute gem and remains the only Kaminoan I love)
Jango is so proud and honoured to call himself their buir. (N-11 might not yet be ready to accept him as a buir, but he'll get there eventually. Poor kid has trust issues.)
Rex and the 501st are EXACTLY the competent chaotic energy Jango wants to encourage in his kids, but that's not what the client aka Dooku wants. Dooku (and the Munit'videke) want easy-to-command clones... so ya know... there's gonna be conflict...
GENERAL KENOBI! ...Dammit, its a fucking reflex at this point.
He should be, these kiddos are adorable and fiesty. And honestly, I'd be more concerned if the poor kid didn't have trust issues. But they'll get there eventually.
Oh no doubt, it wouldn't be a story on Kamino if shit didn't hit the fan at some point. That just seems to be the natural order of things there. And, honestly, knowing that your Jango would approve of the feral disaster that is the 501st made me laugh. I wonder how he'd react seeing that said battalion is headed by human disaster Anakin Skywalker and disaster-in-training Ahsoka Tano. I mean, to Jango, Anakin would probably seem kind of like a kid, certainly not a General, and Ahsoka would definitely be seen as a kid. And Anakin and Ahsoka adore the Clones. I think Jango might like them, Jetti or not.
I'm just imagining Jango following along with Rex and the 501st on their missions and Jango just being what the kriff CONSTANTLY, but like, totally on board for the explosions and shenanigans.
And okay, so I actually screamed because you're the first person to bring up Anakin (and Ahsoka) in this series. There's PLANS for them, but that's a long long long way from now. Like, this series is Mando centric. Their stories (and Obi-Wan's) will run in a parallel series, maybe.
*Siege of the Teth Monastary* Jango: Its too heavily defended to approach from the air! Rex: Then we'll use the tanks! Jango: Excuse me, what? (AT-TEs start scaling a sheer rock face as the Clones and both Jedi just sort of... climb their way up. The sheer rock face. With vines.)
*Landing at Point Rain* Rex: So yeah, then the General used the Force to throw me off a wall. Jango: He did what? Rex: The wall was exploding. And they caught me afterwards.
*Umbara... like the whole kriffing campaign but this one bit in particular with my boy Hardcase* Hardcase: We were all gonna die so me and Fives had this idea to infiltrate the enemy base, steal a couple of their ray shielded fighters, and fly back to blow the giant walking tank thingies sky high! Jango: And you knew how to fly those ships before you left, right? Fives: Weeeeeell.... Jango: *rather desperately* You knew how to fly them, right?
*Escape from Kadavo* Rex: The General and I had been captured by the slavers and tortured for... I don't actually know how long. I really hated those kriffing slave collars though. Jango: *going visibly red with anger* Rex: Though it was satisfying to impale the Slave Master on the end of an electrified spear and then blow up the base, so I suppose it evens out. Jango: No wait-
*Jango and the Domino twins* Fives: I'm Fives and this is Echo. Echo: He's the idiot, I'm the smart one. Fives: You are not! Echo: You nearly shot yourself in the foot when you were cleaning your blaster. Fives: No- Echo: Three times! Jango: ...I have several questions. Namely why you two are... what was it again? Fives: ARCs. And that's because we might be idiots but we're really hard to kill. Echo: Unless there is a giant eel or an explosion, that'll probably finish us off. Jango: ...That first one is oddly specific.
I can see him constantly warring between being very proud of the 501st and extremely concerned for their safety because the occasional bonkers plan he can understand working but absolutely insane plans are just 501st plans and they kind of... keep working? Because Anakin and Rex just say 'Kriff it'and charge in? What the kark?
Okay I am so ridiculously happy that that is indeed in the works. I'm not sure how you plan to portray the Jedi in this series but I'm willing to bet it's somewhat similar to the actual canon where Dooku is doing this in secret and Obi-Wan is going to show up with a mild look of confusion on his face whilst internally screaming because 'what in the kriffing Sith hells is going on?!' Because I really want to see Jango get along with some of the Jedi eventually, especially the disaster duo of Anakin and Ahsoka. Holy crap, Jango meets Plo Koon. Adoptive dads unite! But a parallel series would be really fun. Just sort of a 'Meanwhile, with the space wizards'.
omg that entire thing was a delight to read!! I need this to be a full length fic.
Jango: That's not a plan! Rex: It's half of a plan?? Good enough. Jango: WHAT- NO. Rex: Plans never survive first contact anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am just picturing Jango getting casual comm updates from Rex and just manifesting grey hair, and getting acid reflux lmao.
And erm... about Plo Koon... I might have like... killed him off already... in Mand'alor. I mean, I killed off an unnamed Kel Dor Jedi, but it was definitely Plo Koon in my head. Sorry, Plo! D:
The Adventures of Jango Fett during the Clone Wars, or, alternatively, how Jango went grey at 35. And that's just the 501st, everyone thinks the 212th is less chaotic but they had Waxer and Boil. Jango isn't ready to be a Ba'buir yet. Even if Numa is absolutely adorable.
I agree, 'tis a story that must be told! For the sake of laughing at Jango stressing out about his 4 million+ sons. And daughter if you count Omega. Who I realise probably looks heartbreakingly similar to Arla.
Jango: ITS NOT A PLAN! Anakin: Its got a title. Operation Blow Everything Up. That's good enough for me! C'mon Rex! Rex: Right behind you, sir. Jango: *dying whale noises*
And Rex is absurdly cheerful about it all, too. Jango is going to lose it if he hears about Anakin or the boys trying to walk off broken limbs again. In Jango's opinion, Kix is the only sane member of the 501st, which isn't saying much since Kix is as crazy as the rest of them but he doesn't claim that a broken ankle is nothing to worry about so he has that going for him.
*ahem* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Forgive the Darth Vader impression, I am simply... fucking heartbroken. I'll be fine. Please tell me Shaak Ti is okay? The fandom has basically decided she is the Clones' mother figure and, as lovely as Kina Ha is (and I love her very much), Shaak might be more qualified with looking after kids since she has most likely looked after more than one stray Jedi youngling. Plus she gives good hugs and takes no shit from the Kaminoans. ...look I just love my Jedi buir figures. Is she okay, at least?
Anakin: It totally is a plan. It's got a title, and look! It's capitalised and bolded and underlined.
Obi-Wan: Formatting could be improved though.
Anakin: Obi-Wan pls. I spent 3 hours formatting it in Gurgle Documents and you went and opened it in Werd; of course it looks like shit.
Rex: I think it looks great, Sir.
Jango: But it's only got the title page?? Where's the rest of the briefing packet???
Anakin: GET IN THE LARTIE, LOSERS
Jango: Cody. Cody, pls stop them.
Cody: Put your seatbelt on, buir. It's gonna be bumpy.
Jango: You can't let them bring that Jedi child along with them!
Cody: Of course not, buir. Ahsoka's already on the ground, in position.
Jango: dadljasjdiasjfidsjof
omg a Jango+Omega fic would absolutely break my heartttttt.
okay, so you keep asking about Jedi and I'm just like side-eye-monkey-puppet-meme.jpg
oh you sweet summer child. In this AU, the entire galaxy has been at each other's throats for millennia. After Galidraan, the only plan Jango has for any Jetii is Murder (capitalised, bolded and underlined). Mand'alor Arla Vhett isn't taking any prisoners either. Her foreign policy is "if it's waving around a laser sword, you shoot it."
also. also.
in this AU... Anakin isn't Obi-Wan's padawan................................
Oh this is fucking brilliant. My throat hurts from giggling. Jango pleading with Cody, who is meant to be the mature one dammit, and Cody is just all nonchalant like this is normal (which, face it, in TCW having a name for your operation probably counts as advanced planning. Anakin is being more careful than usual) and 'oh yeah the togruta fifteen year old is already in the hot zone! Not to worry, dad! We'll be joining her in a bit!'
...And Rex being loyal and sticking with Anakin over the format of a bloody document. Oh I love him so.
Your Jango in TCW would be that guy who is so Concerned at first and just gradually gets more used to the crazy Jetti nonsense until he's parachuting in with the 501st and 327th without a parachute and finds it incredibly concerning that he isn't concerned. He's been told the Shinies go through the same existential crisis after their first month, too.
...Oh christ, Jango meeting the Bad Batch.
Jango: So... you're Clones? Tech: With beneficial genetic enhancements, yes. I myself have a vastly increased intellect, Hunter's tracking skills are unparalleled, Wrecker can lift a LAAT/i transport with ease, and Crosshair can hit a Corellian gnat from 3km. Hunter: And as a result I get incredibly bad migraines when it gets too loud or a planet has a strong magnetic field, Crosshair has to take mandatory breaks in a dark room to let his eyes recover, Wrecker is constantly hungry to the point of fainting, and Tech could suffer from an aneurysm at any point. Jango:... How old are you again? Wrecker: *cheerfully* Nine! Nearly ten!
(There is no way the Batch got all those enhancements and weren't also saddled with the drawbacks. Hunter can literally hear a planet's hum, there is no way he's immune to over stimulation. And the Batch deploying at 9 makes the most sense to me because they honestly all have the disposition of teenagers given guns and high explosives. Basically, they are Jango's worst nightmare)
And Omega would have literally no idea why Jango is so heartbroken. Did she do something wrong? But she smiled and said hello and everything! She must have done something wrong...
You know, I bounce around between fics so much that I'm surprised it took this long for me to forget how dark this particular one is, especially having just visited the Arcadia series. Just ignore me, then. Jango is alive in this one (He was alive in Arcadia too, that might be where the confusion stemmed) and that shall have to satisfy me. And Obi-Wan will eventually sneak in too, that should tide me over. Good old dose of Kenobi to satisfy my Jedi cravings.
...I'm not quite sure if that's meant to be ominous or encouraging. I shall settle for raising my eyebrows at it.
Jango:... How old are you again? Wrecker: *cheerfully* Nine! Nearly ten! Jango: *mouthing silently* Nine...nearly ten... Omega: I'm the oldest! Everyone: OMEGA, STAY ON THE SHIP!
Yup, this fic is only full of PAIN AND SUFFERING.
>I'm not quite sure if that's meant to be ominous or encouraging. Yes.
And yet, the Batch are much better at planning ahead than literally any other Battalion. They have battle strategies and try to follow them to the letter as much as possible. Which should be reassuring for poor old Jango, y'know, if they weren't literal children. Wrecker has a tooka doll, for Someone's sake, seeing that would probably break Jango's heart.
If your Jango was plopped into TCW, I'm willing to bed good credits he's the one who kicks Palpatine's teeth in so he can save the millions of feral children whom he loves very much. And Palpatine, understandably, was not prepared for a dude in full beskar to show up and started beating the living daylights out of him.
And Dad Jango. I think I can endure the suffering for good Dad Jango content.
Sorry to butt in, but if Jango was to be plopped in to TCW he should make quick work of getting in contact with Arla and her army of warriors to fight Palatine. I would imagine she still hates anything with a kad’au and that one is actively threatening the now million strong aliit.
Hmmm! An interesting scenario. Does this Jango know that Palpatine the Sith Lord? Or they don't even care about that, and are just going after him, because he's the Chancellor of the Republic that ordered the creation of clones? After all, in the Vhett's minds, it is the Republic and Dooku that are their main enemies.
I would think less that he is a with lord, more along the lines that the Chancellor ordered the clones. As far as I am aware this Jango has no reason to suspect the Sith conspiracy goes all the way to the top.
Mandalorians don’t need much of a reason to fight but fighting for children is the best of battles, so tear the republic to shreds for creating child soldiers.
Oooooh! Imagine the Mandalorian frontlines slowly encroaching into Republic Core, and Palpatine panicking.
Mandalorians taking back Coruscanta would probably mean the destruction of the Jedi Order though. I think Palpatine would send all the Jedi out to meet the Mandalorians, to save himself and to also hopefully thin out his enemies.
I know I’m in the vast minority in this fandom but I do believe that Mandalorians are the better warriors, so I can see them reaching Coruscant. Palpatine would probably have a plan or twelve in place or like you said just throw Jedi at the problem until it goes away.
When Mandalorians did make it to the core It doesn’t have to be complete destruction to the Jedi, just a rapid sweeping change to the very ideals of the order… Yea, never mind, complete destruction would probably be better.
I absolutely believe Mandalorians can kick the butts of any light-stick-wielding-person, and their warrior culture would give them an edge over the GAR. If they ever make it to Coruscant and lay siege on the Temple, they would very likely spare the Jedi younglings... unlike ya know... the Sith. They MIGHT actually find a way to intergrate the young Jedi into the Mandalorian creed.
Damn you. I’m laying in bed recovering from The Sick and you nearly make me squeal out a lung in excitement. Took me five minutes to wrestle that wiggly thing back in place 😉
Yes! A new clan of Mandalorian, like special operations unit to refine and train force sensitive foundlings. Foundlings are the future even if they can do magic.
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