#cornbreadastrology

in canon, jango gets recruited by dooku in his early 30s, with the clones and boba being created around the time of tpm.

in the clone dad jango au, jango is recruited about a decade or so earlier than that, and while boba isn’t born until later (around the time of tpm), jango goes through his 20s training and getting to know his clones, which 1. makes him less hardened by age and 2. forces him to interact with the clones without boba as a buffer or his “real family” for a very long time.

when i hc jango and hondo being together in the canon timeline, i always imagine that they spent more time together in their 20s. jango didn’t have a son or duties to kamino at that time, so it would make sense that he’d spend more time with “friends”/“lovers” (or at least, his rare free time wouldn’t be spent training clones or caring for boba).

this means that in the clone dad jango au, jango and hondo have hooked up a couple of times and maybe have a strange sort of bond that’s formed, but the frequency and duration of their relationship just isn’t there bc we’ve carved away a whole decade’s worth of free time they’d have spent together.

now, in any timeline, i hc hondo and jango as being exceptionally open. they don’t hold each other to any promises of commitment or have any expectations, bc obviously their professional lives don’t really allow for that, and they know there are others in their lives who mean something to them, for better or for worse (hondo and aurra, jango and zam, etc etc). but i do think that hondo, at the very least, interprets this as meaning “we don’t commit to anyone else, either”. jango, meanwhile, is a little loose and fast with his interpretations.

so what i’m trying to say is: bc they don’t ever discuss it (bc jango hates talking about his feelings and hondo hates laying his vulnerabilities on the table), hondo is somewhat blindsided by piik. piik and jango don’t get together for a while, but hondo can tell pretty easily that there’s something between them, and it’s not just sexually charged (though there is that), it’s emotionally intimate. so hondo is more miffed that jango didn’t think it might be prudent to mention that he has a boyfriend (“he doesn’t even like me, hondo.” “no, my friend, he does not. but he loves you.”), and, more importantly, has settled down, bc hondo would just like to know where he stands with people - it makes him feel secure in himself and in his choices.

that being said, i think it’s pretty easy for them to move past it - again, this relationship has had far less time to develop, and while hondo would be miffed, he wouldn’t be hurt or offended. just vaguely irritated. i don’t think that jango and hondo would continue to hook up (or if they did, it would be only before piik and jango got together and likely only when they were both extremely stressed and somehow stuck together).

and while i’m a huge fan of polycules, especially for mandalorians, and can even see jango and piik being in one, i can’t see them being in one with hondo. for jango, he’s really sort of settled down on concord dawn, and while he may continue bounty hunting on occasion and keep up with old contacts, i think he’s mostly letting that life go. there are exceptions, ofc, but he and hondo know they’re better off friends in this case. for piik, he and hondo are too unlike one another, and not even in a fun “opposites attract” way but in a simple “this would never work” way. piik thinks hondo’s way too irresponsible and a bad influence on the kids, and hondo thinks piik is boring and uppity. so to answer your question, it’s less jealousy and more annoyance and lack of comprehension. besides being hot, hondo does NOT get what jango sees in piik. however, i would be remiss to say that piik’s dislike of hondo isn’t somewhat due to jealousy - hondo is unashamed of his previous sexual exploits with jango, and as much as piik hates to admit it, it bothers him.

on the bright side, hondo is fun and annoying about it once he’s over the whole “you should’ve told me” thing, much to some of the boys’ delight. cody and fox think he’s an asshole, and rex doesn’t like him talking shit about piik, but the others think he’s HILARIOUS and piik’s daughter cyelle especially loves when uncle hondo imitates piik having a crisis. “hey hey hey who am i: oh nooooo hondo you cannot let the little boy tattoo your lieutenant you are a madddd mannnn.” cue uncontrollable laughter from most of the kids, a very quickly covered chuckle from jango, and piik looking utterly unamused.

they stop hating each other eventually, when hondo and piik inevitably have to work together to help the kids and/or jango, and there’s the classic moment of begrudging respect for one another. but it probably doesn’t happen for years - coincidentally, once jango and piik get together, piik chills out a little around hondo bc he doesn’t have anything to be jealous of anymore. hondo notices this, and teases piik about it. so like, they’re never quite besties, but they do wear the get-along shirt for the fett family.