A Star Wars Side-Blog

Sequel Trilogy

• An alternate universe with the same characters in a completely different story (action figure blog, adventure movie pitch)

• The Last Jedi AU: Paige lives, Poe abides by the letter of the law, Rose and Finn pull a jailbreak, and somebody finds a mysterious crystal

Crossovers, Fusions, and Retellings

The Princess Bride

The Sabersmith’s Son

The Colossus of Kashyyyk

The Man In Black

• A Prospect/Mandalorian crossover scene

Analyses, Criticisms, and Elevator Pitches

The Mandalorian

• Theory about Mando’s parents

• Mando lets Karga live, “The Sin”

• Peli Motto’s intuition

• Character analysis: Toro Calican

• Theory about Boba Fett’s original connection to Fennec Shand

• World-building: The covert on Nevarro

• Script analysis: Gor Koresh, and Mando’s justified violence

• Loose story threads: Minor changes to “The Passenger”

• Further details on potential themes “The Passenger” episode could have had (In a reblog for Stranded In the Desert)

• Character analysis of Mando: Protective vs Worrisome

• Strengthening characters: Cara Dune and Carson Teva, criticism of “The Siege”

• Peli Motto’s regard of Boba Fett

• Wasted Potential: Jack Black on Plazir 15

• Analyzing Mando’s fighting style — “The Prisoner”

• Analyzing Mando’s motivations: Criticism of “The Heiress”

Reblog with Character Analysis on Bo-Katan

• Analyzing Mando’s fighting style and motivations, Mando’s lack of agency as a character and being sidelined as a protagonist — Criticism of “The Heiress” and “The Rescue”

• Inconsistencies and weak world-building regarding where Mandalorians should live, Season 3

• Criticism of Bo-Katan being praised/focused on instead of Mando, Season 3

• Criticism of the writers’ usage of Bo-Katan’s character, end of Season 3

• Criticism of Mando settling down, end of Season 3

• Comparing and contrasting Din Djarin to Aragorn and Éomer of LotR

• Proposal for a different Season 2 and show outline to fix pacing, character development, and plot

• Director’s commentary for the writing process for Nightfall

• Character analysis concerning the topic of Mando’s “side quests”

• Character analysis: Mando and Ranzar Malk’s crew

• Character analysis: Mando’s choices regarding his relationships with others

• Revising Carson Teva’s character

• Criticism of Ahsoka Tano’s Character and “The Jedi” episode of Season 2

• Mandalorian culture regarding the Armorer and the forge

• Mand’alor the Reluctant (brief analysis of how Din as Mand’alor could have been set up)

• Minor change to “The Tragedy” to make Mando’s choices stronger (plus bonus wings AU thought)

Reblog with further criticism to pacing and Cara Dune’s scene

• “Jedi healer” snake-oil salesman

• “Strong Female Character”: Criticism of the show’s writing regarding Bo-Katan’s character and longterm TV show story planning

• Vizsla’s animosity towards Mando

• What word describes a parent who loses a child? (AU)

• General headcanon list for Din Djarin

• Mand’alor the Reluctant: A challenger for the sword

• Mand’alor the Reluctant: Getting rid of the sword (at least temporarily)

The Book of Boba Fett

• De-aged Boba Fett scenario

• The Marketability of Star Wars Merchandise: Production design and its ties to storytelling

• Kill Your Darlings: “The Gathering Storm”

• Grogu’s regard of Luke

• “Fountain of Aging” scenario spitballing a de-aged AU post-TBoBF.

• Criticism of Boba Fett parading Fennec Shand around out in public

• Criticism of TBoBF’s writing: Lack of character objectives and focus, too many side characters, and “surprise” antagonists with no prior buildup or introduction

• Criticism of Boba and Din’s fight scene: Bad character choices

• Mando and Boba Fett body swap idea

• What If… Jaina Solo and Boba Fett met sooner? (Legends mashup)

Original Trilogy

• Spitballing a Bail Organa lives AU

• Making Princess Leia’s character arc stronger

Prequel Trilogy

• Character Revision for Anakin Skywalker

• Further criticism and character revision for Anakin Skywalker

• Duel of Fates fight choreography criticism

• AU where Kenobi runs into Count Dooku on Kamino in AotC

Sequel Trilogy

• Criticism and revision of Han, Leia, Luke, and Ben Solo’s characters and Kylo Ren’s origin

• Criticism of plot twists and characters and how they could have been used better (The Force Awakens/sequel trilogy AU pitch)

Andor

• Racial disparity in who gets to live: Criticism of Andor with suggested changes

• Short character analysis: Davo Sculdun

• Luthen’s ruthlessness and Cassian’s potential response

The Acolyte

• Criticisms and Suggested Changes Part 1

• Osha’s vision of Mae

The Bad Batch

• S1E : Rampage criticism/idea pitch

• Who’d be the funniest person for the rest of the crew to find out has an ex-wife they’ve never mentioned? (Crack)

• Rebellion era Echo/Riyo Chuchi pitch

• Character analysis: Crosshair

• Character analysis: Crosshair pt 2

• Wrecker’s defense of Echo against Cid’s antagonism

Original Character Ideas

• Someone from Fennec’s past shows up on Tatooine

• Peli Motto’s ex-husband

• Koziol and Bobo: an informant and his enforcer

Silliness

• Kung Fu Panda parallels

Multi

• Five headcanons (Inc. Mando, Luke, Leia, Solo)

• Star Wars WWF AU

6. Is the most fashion-conscious/stylish?

I think my first choice would be Marcéi from The Oldest Profession! Incredibly elegant and refined sense of style, very art nouveau-inspired, rich fabrics and deep, vibrant colors. She’s had several occupations in her life but nearly all of them are as a hostess or performer, in one form or another 😅 She’s been in a lot of wealthy circles though and has fine taste. Her occupations usually require her investment in her appearance.

She had training and experience in dance and stage performance (of a variety of types), and since then she’s also been a nightclub hostess, a celebrity handler, a high-class brothel worker and escort, and an advisor for very wealthy, often reclusive, occasional dangerous people. It’s not often she’s not performing in some way.

Honorable mentions include:

Berre, a nightclub singer in a yet-to-be-posted Boba Fett story who dresses very well even in her day-to-day life

Toro Calican’s mother, a wealthy and elegant socialite from an old-money background

Lark, a Pantoran woman who at one point used to be a beauty queen (though those days are long behind her when we get to the story she’s in)

Talia and Ember, Twi’lek nightclub singers and conjoined twins in the same story as Lark

Ressik, a sharp and lethal Trandoshan nobleman’s son in the TBoBF rewrite that’s been side-eying me for AGES

Voskal, a very wealthy Duros mob boss and informant who for some reason is always delighted to see Mando when he shows up looking for intel

And most interestingly in my opinion, Crash from Call Sign. He’s always had a passing interest in fashion and has a good eye for what looks good not just on himself but on other people too. It’s definitely one of those baffled head-turn moments for everybody else when he steps in to dress/arrange someone’s outfit or appearance, especially in glamorous or high-class/expensive situations. He’s really good at finding out what works for people.

Barak’s also got good and interesting taste and knows what he likes and what to look for in his personal fashion choices, but he’s largely not styling other people the way Crash is.

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7. Wears the worst clothes?

It’s got to be the little Kowakian monkey-lizard freak I came up with 😂😂😂 Koziol purposefully looks through the dumpster for things to wear and insists they look great regardless of evidence to the contrary.

(Runners up include Grawlix, a clone comm officer with just the tackiest personal taste; Peli Motto’s ex-husband, a Tatooine scoundrel and general rapscallion; Reggie, a trooper who became basically the most stereotypical dirtbag linecook type post-war; and depressed hobo desert hermit!Anakin in the Role Swap AU, who isn’t my character, sure, but my design for him sure isn’t winning him any beauty pageants any time soon. Loser.)

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26. Is the worst person to share a bed with?

Probably Koziol again because he’s a grimy little creachur, but in the interest of talking about other characters, I’ve got a yellow Zabrak oil-rig worker named Calamity who frequently sleep-fights, and she’s a sturdy girl so anybody within arm’s reach is probably getting bruised up 😆 She’s only made a background appearance so far, but I have a couple more stories with Marcéi that she’s in.

(Runners up include Databank, the successor to the Ghostling Net, for obvious reasons; the CX shadow clone mercenary in the action movie pitch; and Djao in Call Sign (he tosses, turns, clings, and/or starfishes too much, unless he’s getting the weighted blanket treatment and you can make him stay still).

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33. Has a secret talent?

First one who comes to mind is Hexx in the Call Sign universe! Somehow he’s a weirdly very good singer. Like REALLY good. It almost NEVER comes up, and the reason any of the others know about it is because there was one distinct time during the war when all of the guys were out on shore leave with others in the company and they hear somebody from the stage during the karaoke intermission start to sing and they all kind of… stop?? Because they’re hearing it and “Hey is that a clone voice? That sounds like a clone, who did they get to— is thAt hEXX?? WHAT?? karking HEXX??” because he’s got this warm, smoky baritone that cuts through the haze and everyone in the crowd is really into it and they’re cheering while the troopers in the audience are looking at each other completely baffled like “Did you know he could do that? Can we do that? I’ve never heard any of us sound like THAT, he’s got to be lip-synching or something, that’s impossible— Did that girl just toss that up onstage because of him—?!”

Hexx was pulled up onstage not of his own volition but then somebody gave him a mic and shoved him out there and told him to pick something aaaand… Listen, he’s not ALWAYS a buzzkill, he doesn’t want to harsh the vibe for everyone else, he’s already up there and the crowd is pumped up and— okay one song—

And to him it genuinely is no big deal. He doesn’t think anything of it, it’s just another thing he knows how to do, but when he gets offstage because “No I said one song, let someone else do it, I’m done—” he gets ambushed by the rest of the guys clamoring to ask him questions, asking where THAT came from, who are you and what have you done with our antisocial engineer, and he’s just like “Pipe down, it’s not a big deal, I don’t know why you’re making such a fuss, let me through so I can go get a drink—” and just never does it again

Mayday, Nocturne, and Barak are the three strongest leaders and if they’re choosing to do something with their free time they’ll gravitate towards each other. Hollis is an intelligence officer so when he’s in the group it’s more business than fun. Mayday and Nocturne are each other’s closest friend in the squad and consider each other more like brothers than the rest of them

Barak and Veetch are especially good friends. Some of that is shared history, some of that is how many times they’ve saved each other’s life, and some of that is just knowing how each other ticks because they’re remarkably similar in a lot of ways. Barak’s the only one who actually sees Veetch as his little brother, and he’s less likely to keep his head on straight when Veetch is in trouble. (Something that will surely never come up within this story.) Barak is normally a stalwart chain-of-command, “We have our orders” kind of drill sergeant/captain, he is there to back up Mayday 100%, but… If Veetch is in serious danger, he’s more likely to want to act on his emotions/impulses, even if that means acting outside his better judgement, rationale, or the chain of command

Djao and Barak were the ones who were able to get out the most on what little shore leave they got so they have more life experience/street smarts/lived experience/socialization in that area and can relate to each other that way. They’re the most curious and eager to explore everything the galaxy has to offer, so they relate to each other that way. Djao is one of the few there who got to actually see Barak’s almost coin-flip wild side on leave. Barak comes across straight laced and no nonsense, but he was an avid partier in his off-time and was just REALLY good at being able to compartmentalize and keep those two sides of his life separate without letting his indulgences distract from or interfere with his professional life

Interestingly enough, there can end up being friction between these two because Barak thinks Djao could be an master or expert of something if he would just “Focus and use his potential and apply himself” instead of pursuing a number of different interests and hobbies. He’s mildly critical of Djao being a jack of all trades, and Djao finds it irritating because Barak has just as diverse a number of interests and pursuits and skills. “We are the exact same. You’ve just had more access to more professional instruction and I’m self-taught.”

(Barak means well. Being a leader means knowing best how to utilize other people’s skills, and he can see how smart and capable Djao is and wants to set him up to succeed.)

Crash and Nocturne are workout buddies. They and Barak actively enjoy more extensive physical activity so the three of them are the most likely to be found sparring or doing drills just for the heck of it.

Nocturne likes hanging out with Crash because even for as impulsive and daredevil as Crash seems at times, Nocturne’s noticed how all of his plans and split-second decisions are right more often than not. Crash isn’t a strategist and isn’t one for thinking ahead very much, but his instincts and reflexes are really good which means his impulse decisions pay off about 90% of the time. Because of that, Nocturne never feels like he has to worry or be ‘on-call’ with Crash. Crash being chill and easy-going means Noc can feel like he can actually relax for once

Hollis likes Crash for much the same reason. Hollis was actually closer with Alco and Chance (the two troopers of the squad who died on the mountain before the story starts), but he became friends with the three of them around the same time, and Crash and Chance worked together quite a bit. After Alco and Chance were gone, Crash is probably one of the ones Hollis considers more of a friend than just a fellow soldier. It’s not often that he stops constantly thinking about things and strategizing in his head, but when he just wants to shut everything off and take off the soldier/officer hat for a while, he and Crash can just exist in the same room and be content. (They also share a passing fondness for cooking, and for the equivalent of trashy reality TV, which gives them things to talk about.)

Hexx and Hollis will likely be found around one another in the story more than the others, but they’re more like work friends than actual close friends. They have similar work styles, they’re both more cerebral, and they both have very similar ways of thinking and seeing the world which is why they work well together.

Nocturne and Mayday are the two the rest of them are more likely to see as their rank/role first, then friend second. Nocturne is reserved by nature, but he’s not a recluse, he likes people and is able to read people well, but because he feels more like the responsible older brother type, the guys are sometimes embarrassed to ask him for help as much as they are to ask him to join them for anything fun.

Mayday is always seen as commander first, friend and brother second. Because of that and because he is frequently the most logical, steadfast, objective, fair, and level-headed, there always feels like there’s still some measure of invisible barrier of rank between him and most of the other men. They don’t do it consciously, but Mayday knows that the mission always comes first, which means the rest of them need to be able to snap to attention the moment it’s needed. It’s a lot easier to listen to your boss giving orders rather than your friend. Authority can be isolating in that way, especially when the others do take pride in being able to measure up to his expectations, and it means they’re less likely to come to him with any personal issues because none of them want to feel like they’re failing in some way.