boba fett’s backstory is actually so fucking insane ( PART ONE )
imagine that you’re born in a laboratory, and then your dad ( who plays with you, and carries you around on his shoulders, and leaves you for days on end, and never fully expresses proper emotions in front of you, and comforts you when you’re emotional, and tells you to absolutely never cry or to ever show weakness, and reads you bedtime stories, and shows you how to shoot a gun on your 5th birthday, and takes you fishing, and takes you along with him to watch and learn while he’s working “easy jobs” ) — that man homeschools you in your guys’ little apartment
and then you go “outside” of your apartment, and all of the other kids Look Exactly Like You? But they’re Not your friends, and you’re also Not Allowed to talk to them for too long, or else your Dad will get really upset
and you try to make friends with your occasional babysitter, and with your dad’s favorite co-worker, and with the librarian, but they’re all adults (expect for the robot librarian maybe?) and they always get uncomfortable whenever you try to tell them that you want to be their friend
and you know that Dad didn’t have a partner to give birth to you — he just had the “smart and skinny people” copy his own DNA — and that’s normal. But you honestly do really wish that the other kids weren’t also copies of your dad’s DNA, because you really don’t like looking at them(?), and you also don’t know why they seem to hate you, and you’ve heard pieces of what the other non-scientist adults say…….
maybe everything is okay? That’s just what life is? But then one day Dad comes home and tells you that his friend is dead and won’t be visiting anymore. And you don’t know why she’s dead, and or what’s happening.
And then a Strange Man shows up, and you’re scared because you’ve heard the stories. You know that his people killed your Dad’s Family ( Your Family ) so you keep your distance and do what your dad told you to do in order to protect yourself
And then your Dad takes you with him on a job barely a day later, and someone decapitates him in front of you, and then when the battle ends and the dust settles, you crawl out from your hiding spot, and you bury him in a way that maybe contradicts the way that you’re supposed to do it? Will he not reach the ancestors if you bury him underground? But you don’t really know what to do, you’re so scared and alone, and dad never even got to complete the Adulthood Ceremony with you that he always promised he would — he stressed how important it was to Your Shared Culture, the family and life and culture that was taken from him and that you never got to truly experience. And now it’s gone. It’s just……gone
And then you’re Alone — barely surviving on the streets of some foreign city somewhere, scared and desperate.
But you meet a lady, and she says she used to know your Dad, and your dad always had friends that acted kind of like this
You’re a growing kid, you’re like 10 or 12 years old. You know how to handle a gun. This lady is a lot meaner than your Dad was, but she’s not too different, in the end……
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