reading this fic where the new mando schools don't teach classical mando art anymore, and. idk. it's kinda fucked up and it kinda got me thinking. maybe it's because i'm an american who leans pacifist and strongly supports gun regulations, but the whole fanon where the new mandos can't possibly be real mandos simply because they're pacifists bothers me. because i think that's part of why satine exists in the first place--to draw attention to the fact that in a lot of the canon, Mando and Pacifist are contradictions. she exists to deconstruct some realistic implications of a "warrior culture," such as, well. sometimes people get tired of fighting.
the fact that mando fans make satine out to be an enemy of her culture--write her as someone leading what is essentially a cultural genocide--is very... meta, to me. satine represents an opportunity for nuance in a fictional culture that is primarily known for the cool armor and the badass fight scenes, but the fans like the armor and the fighting. and satine does not. so satine as a character/what she represents in-universe has become an enemy of what makes mandos interesting to the fans. and she is an enemy they can punish by stripping her culture from her, by taking away her history and her art and her context and making her out as a wannabe republic senator with fascist leanings.
satine exists to ask the question: is violence a necessary component of this culture? does being a mandalorian mean being a killer? and the fans by and large answered, yes.

















