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@ithillia found me a goldmine here. I haven't read the Legacy of the Force yet but we can get a glimpse here how Boba saw Kal as a kid.
If I remember correctly, Jango called him by Vau's recommendation but I have to reread that part.
Jango: SKIRATA
Rest of the Cuy'val Dar: how did he manage to do that...???
Vau: *reconsidering his life choices of recommending Kal*
Kal Skirata. Smol and angy and able to piss off Jango Fett too.
AGGRESSIVE LITTLE HUMAN I CAN'T-
(I can't believe I've actually found a pikachu-with-knife-gif)
I think Kal still haunts some of the kaminoans' dreams who dared to look at his children the wrong way. But according to Taun We's comment I have the feeling that sometimes they didn't have to give a reason. They just had to be kaminoans for that. Kal really hated them and found them all complicit in harming the clones regardless if they were actually involved in the research or not. Encountering Kina Ha is what starting change his mind about judging an entire race for the crime of the few.
Nulls: Hey, Bob'ika! No passing through this corridor unless you can answer this question.
Boba: [rolls eyes but answers anyway]
Nulls: [narrow eyes] IN MANDO'A.
Boba:
In short (lol)
Kal is short. He always gives the impression of being angry. He doesn't fight fair - I mean, his specialty is assassination, intelligence gathering, and psychological warfare.
He is a menace.
boss text posts!! today's crime by star wars is: lack of boss from an outside perspective bc YOU ARE BOSS
fixer | sev | boss | scorch | delta squad
sev text posts!! he's alive and back with delta i accept no criticism
fixer | sev | boss | scorch | delta squad
I think one of the more disappointing things about the Republic Commando fandom is that fans of Kal, generally, argue that critics of Kal Skirata are “unfair” in their criticism. That there’s an uneven attention placed on the character’s flaws that are disproportionate to the other characters.
The issue is that fans generally don’t understand that that’s in response to a narrative that holds everyone else alongside Kal responsible for their personal missteps, mistakes, and abuses, but does not ask the same of Kal, himself.
A favorite scene to, I think, argue the above is the scene where Darman beats the ever-loving shit out of Kal. It’s brought up as if it’s a scene we should take at face value, of Darman taking Kal to task, holding him responsible.
But the truth is, in the context of the rest of the series, it’s not.
What that scene is, is damage control.
What Darman knows in that scene about what Kal has done, does not match what Kal has actually done.
That is, what Darman knows is that Kal kept Etain’s pregnancy from him.
What Darman doesn’t know is that Kal knowingly chose to put both Etain and Etain’s unborn child in a position to die. Kal even says as much to himself early in True Colors, but makes no move to change it.
The novels don’t hold him responsible for Etain nearly miscarrying, and Etain nearly dying. They only hold him responsible for lying to Darman about the existence of a pregnancy.
There’s an enormous difference between the two. The difference being that the former is an abusive and controlling man willing to unfairly kill, indirectly, the person his son loves most without his son’s input, compared to the latter of a flawed but ultimately loving man making poor decisions to protect his son in whatever way he can.
And there should be more concern about the way fans of Kal will defend the former as if it’s the same as the latter, when it’s … not. How fans remember the books, is not reflective of how Kal actually treats his sons. But it is reflective of how an abusive man defends his choices as if there’s no other way or option.
And as much as fans want to sympathize with him, it cannot hurt to also take a step back and critically examine everything he does, and compare to how disproportionate the excuses and the forgiveness falls on Kal compared to the rest of the cast besides him.
If fans are willing to overlook how Kal is constantly playing a game of damage control with all of his sons from book one, but are equally unwilling to overlook the physical abuse Vau has waged on Delta Squad and Atin, then all fans are really arguing is that physical abuse is the only kind of abuse they’re willing to recognize as legitimate.
And that’s worrisome.
Being critical of Kal is not a personal attack, and if reading about how Kal is abusive immediately makes you defensive, then … it’s worth investigating why it makes you defensive. It’s worth taking the time to reflect on these questions, what it means to you, and what it changes if it’s true.
bitches be like oh, that’s my comfort series and it’s one where the characters suffer for 7 books straight
it’s me i’m bitches
Clone Commando Omega Squad, in their first engagement deployed on Qiilura. If you haven't read the Republic Commando series by Karen Traviss, stop and do so. It breaks modern canon but who cares, my boys matter more
A project I haven't gone back to and finished yet. Sometimes I feel possessed to attempt camouflage that doesn't look terrible, and I think this is the closest I've gotten so far, but oh man is it tedious
‘Missing men often get found. Our missing men will be found.” -Order 66
Favorite problematic Character Meme- Republic Commando Series
mird probably gets more muddy while hunting for critters than vau ever wants to admit. :’D
i finished playing republic commando last week and just cannot stop thinking ab them
“I opted to take on Vau. He had a real Mando iron saber, and I was unarmed. I just went at him. I never wanted to kill so badly in my life and he just cut me up. [...]” ― Atin to Fi, Republic Commando: Triple Zero
It was about time I drew the man. I designed his armor using various references and my imagination, I just didn't want it to look like Jango's armor in black. I've got a soft spot for scarves, so I gave him one. For Mird I tried the stay close to my original concepts of it, but with more skin and color on his coat. And I added a collar too, because it's mentioned it has one in True Colors (and also in Triple Zero, indirectly). I'm still not sure about the size of a strill, but since Vau keeps scooping Mird up in his arms, I don't think it can be bigger than that. Also, I think a beskad is supposed to be shorter, but I liked it like this so... artistic liberty, I guess.
References for the pose below the cut.
I decided to make the pose with one of my little men and to trace over it. For Mird I used a Shar Pei 3D model to help me with the perspective.
→ WIP available here
Jesse aka Republic Commando, my big tank of a project horse. This picture is from the other day but today he was a star and helped me teach my first clinic. He stepped right up and I'm having a ton of fun with this guy.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Even Keel Equestrian!
(left to right) Cin Vhetin aka Shoni, The Winter Soldier aka Froggy, Undeniable aka Pony, Me!, Semper Fidelis aka Sam, Republic Commando aka Jesse, and Smokin' Barrel aka Gunnar!
I've also been making my way through the first republic commando book and I adore Niner so much
It hasn't happened yet but I like to imagine this is what its like when Darman and Etain meet back up with the squad
