Vod’goran’e
here is a post about my gorane, the lore keepers and spiritual leaders of the Fett Clones who collectively call themselves the Vod’e
so at the crux of it is that I have a goran vod in every batallion who is basically the lore keeper. I feel like for clones their soul is less in their armour and more in their paint and their collective ‘we are here’ presence, and each other’s memories.
So the lore keepers collect stories, and they collect experiences, and they collect the paint patterns and haircuts and piercings and tattoos of the vod’e under their purview. some of them, like Besbe on Coruscant and Tihaar in the 212th are Quartermasters, while others, like Katini in the 501st are tattooists, though she’s also an engineer. and others like Ahurewa in the 104th is in charge of cleaning and maintenance, whose mentor was 99.
They collect memories of the soul, evidence of the clones’ existence, and look after it.
The first goran was Alpha 79 | Buir, who began the whole thing by documenting the story of Dar, the first trans clone in the Alpha batch. But Buir was also the person Cody first told about his name, which led to his batch all going to kaysh when they decided on theirs too, and it developed from there. 1
Because the battalions are constantly moving, and their ship homes may blow up at any time, it feels like the only thing they can change and carve into their own shape is their skin and hair and paint. So that gets changed to be their face, and for some vode, like fives, they tell a story. The Goran’e record that story.
For the Corries and the other vod’e posted on Coruscant, they cannot afford to express individuality due to Morut’pru otherwise called ‘Fordo’s Rules’, but they are living in one place; they have the chance to live lives. The first is eyayah’ad is born to a Corrie pretty early on, and many of them manage to have partners and friends, and l some even manage to have *jobs* outside of their roles for the guard.
All of this means the Corries store their stories in secret places they’ve found on Coruscant, and then when Fordo and Besbe and then Fox start committing decom fraud in a big way, they store people in there too, and the secret places start to look like a secret city.2
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1 This is detailed in the fic An Alpha Called Buir
2 This is detailed in the series Clone Lore from the drabble called Slight of Hand
