#nerdy doc.

Okay jokes aside (please take this meme with a laugh and a grain of salt) but I want to talk about Mandalorian x Jedi pairings and how authors write them.

A rant about Jedi-Mandalorian Pairings, Anti-Jedi attitudes, and how prevelent it is.

So, you might be thinking, "If you don't like it, don't read it", now I do agree with that stance. However, when the author either doesn't tag the fic as having Anti-Jedi sentiments or as being Jedi critical or just doesn't realize that's what they are portraying, it's kinda impossible to do so. It just kinda creeps up on you mid fic.

I am an avid Jedi-Mandalorian pairing reader. I love seeing how Jedi and Mandalorian culture and societies come together. It just seems that many authors think that it is a one-way street where the Jedi in the relationship has to completely integrate and learn Mandalorian customs and the Mandalorian gets to be willingly ignorant to Jedi culture.

I hate coming across this trope of "Jedi that follows the Resol'nare, might or might not be married to a Mandalorian, and is still ostracized for being an aruetii, until they give up their Jedi ways"

It feels icky.

Reading what is essentially a interracial/intercultural relationship and one partner be put down for doing what their culture does is weird. It gets even weirder when the author starts going down the assimilation route. (Clarification: I am talking solely about fics where the author doesn't tag or put a warning that there are these themes in said fic. I am not talking about fics where that is blatantly the focal point)

If I have to see something alone the lines of "maybe the order died for a reason" again I'm going ballistic. What could you possibly mean by that.

Ah yes, because the babies and younglings that got murdered in the creche sooo deserved to die. Or the members of the Agriculture Corps, Medical Corps, Education Corps, and the Exploration Corps, who aren't even overseen by the Jedi High Council but the Council of Reassignment, also deserved to die.

Like I'm starting to think that y'all just don't like the Jedi characters you write about. If that is the cause THAT'S FINE JUST FUCKING TAG IT.

I would like to believe that most of these authors don't have any ill intent when writing like this, but there's definintely a vibe going on. It's just so infuriating because Jedi and Mandalorian cultures could mesh together, or at the very least closely co-exist, really well. They are like two sides to the same coin. So it makes no fucking sense (and is very harmful) to have this way of thinking if you genuinely like these pairings and think they could work.

Afterall isn't that one of the main appeals of these pairings?

The years go by, they grow up but not apart. People get married, go to university, have amazing careers. Akira himself goes to some university in Tokyo. Double majors psychology and sociology. But he doesn't date. Doesn't even try reaching out for romantic relationships. Many have tried and many blind dates setup by the phantoms thieves went to waste.

Everyone grows up and a little farther apart. Akira officially moves away from his small town where nothing happens. He rents a small apartment in Yongen-Jaya so he can be near the Sakura house. He takes over Leblanc when Sojiro eventually retires.

Akira's in his late forties/early fifties. Sojiro's passed and Futaba's moved out. Akira has moved into the house that's not quite the Sakura's. He still sees the phantom thieves form time to time, but they all have families now; he becomes the eclectic uncle.

Time passes and he gets lonely. Decides to take in troubled kids of various ages. Some stay for a while, but never long. Then one day, he takes in a juvenile delinquent. She claims she didn't do the crime she's been charged. She stays in the attic. She doesn't cause trouble. Until one day she brings a friend to the cafe. A politicians daughter.