Rolling Dogg

I'm losing my mind about how many people in fandom consider Satine naive and weak which we only hear in the source material from Dooku(a literal sith) and people involved with Death Watch(a group trying to undermine her rule by painting her in false light) when it's just not true. Firstly, she's a politician who rose to power in war-torn world in a young age and I don't think she could've managed that if she wasn't smart. Like she couldn't navigate power dynamics among politicians who have more experience and probably more influence than her if she was just someone delusional without any backing to her competence. She rebuilt a system from its ruins(that includes everything from infrastructure of cities to education system to healthcare...) and established a stable government that stood for two decades. I know there were corruption within her government but that was when war began, a time when everything was unusual, and she dealt with it eventually. As for Death Watch I think it was inevitable that there would be opposition to her rule considering the magnitude of Civil War that ended with her coronation as duchess. It is also stated in TCW by multiple characters that the majority of Mandalorians were in favor of Satine and New Mandalorians in general up until Death Watch teamed up with Maul (which was an outcome impossible to predict by anyone imo). And even then Satine accepts people she has devoted her life to choosing Vizsla as their ruler over her because unlike Vizsla or Maul she never needed a false invasion or fear mongering to sustain her rule. On top of that she clocks Palpatine's bs several times in her limited screentime, humbles Obi-wan for fun and holds peace talks in her planet, making an effort to keep war out of as many systems as possible, is a third party in the war along with Palpatine and Dooku and doesn't give up her ideals in even the brink of death. Rip Satine Kryze you were the last true leader Mandalore had.

I don’t think Satine was incompetent or naïve, I think the tragedy of her situation is that it was entirely unavoidable. There was nothing she could have done different or done better. No one else in her shoes could have produced a different outcome against the insurmountable odds.

the clone wars is so funny because satine kryze is constantly having the worst day of her life and seems both used to it and traumatized as hell

Real weird to me how people who would be Pro Socialist Utopias and Anti Pseudo-Religious Mercenary Groups irl love the True Mandalorians but hate the New Mandalorians. Like, I love Jaster Mereel's character and have written for him a lot, but I also watched The Clone Wars growing up where it was abundantly clear that Satine Kryze's character was 95% selflessness and compassion by volume so it was WILD to start reading fics and find out that people hated her so. Do I think her military disarmament was mistimed? Absolutely. She was nevertheless one of the most unequivocally Kind characters in that show, and for some reason half the fandom just Misses That