#12daysofandor2025

Thank you so much to everyone at @andorappreciation for hosting this event! 🥰 For this final ‘free day’ I wanted to offer an alternative way to ‘recap’ on Andor season 1 as we brace for Season 2 in just a few days (!!).

I’m really quite proud of my collection of exactly-100-word little internal monologues (’drabbles’). I wrote ‘never more than 12’ of these for each of the 12 episodes of season 1, taking different characters at key moments in that episode. One of these days, I’ll properly illustrate it with stills. But for now, a couple of tasters here from Brasso and Kerri and a link to the rest. Hope you enjoy!

Episode 1, Kassa

Brasso

What’s he done this time? It’s always the question. Always the dread of a repeat of thirteen years ago.

Nothing too bad physically; he’s invariably scuffed. But real desperation in his shadowed eyes.

Not just some debtor. He navigates those; an expert pilot. No escapes to lightspeed but he zooms around them nimbly nonetheless.

It’s something bad. I raise my game with this alibi. It’s a good one. If he sticks to it.

He thanks me, in his way. Emotions held in check, of course, as always.

Protecting himself.

And I will protect him. Because he needs protecting.

The idiot.

Kerri, Cassian’s little sister

Kassa is my brother. And my mummy and daddy. And my friend.

He is always there. He listens when I sing. Sometimes he sings to me.

But sometimes, he wants to be with the big boys and girls. And I get sad then, and play with the toy he went back and found for me. The one I once woke to find him crying over.

Sometimes he’s happy. When we sing together.

He’s excited now, playing hunting with the big girls and boys.

He says he’ll come back soon, so I wait, but I’m sad because I miss him already.

@andorappreciation 14th April: Costumes and sets design

I’m a massive fan of Ferrix. I want to visit. I want to walk in its streets, meet its people, taste its food. The production design isn’t just insanely detailed, it also tells the story of a community.

Here’s an open-air barber’s shop. You can see it in use behind Cassian when he visits Xanwan Freight.

Then there’s the costumes of the people that live there. Did you spot the sunglasses ? I love that Bix was originally codenamed “Becky”. Maarva: “Maggie” 😀

Did you notice that Maarva has a lot of houseplants? Flowers and plants are clearly part of the Ferrix funeral tradition as well – here they are on the body as it’s removed.

Christian Matzke specialises in identifying background Aurebesh and Bazeese. Bazeese - the Ferrix writing script - is named for Barry Gingell, the graphic designer who is responsible for so much of what we see on screen. His nickname is Baz. They were going to give it a proper name, but he just kept on using it until everybody accepted it. (He also cameos as Anto Kreegyr in the holoimage seen in episode 11)

Enjoy the rest of these posts from Christian. My favourite is the one about the Time Grappler’s tower. In episode 3, when one of their own is under threat, the people of Ferrix do exactly this. 

them 😍