#shab

I’ve been working on three kits all winter. Tech is done and 501st approved, and the next kit, Season 3 Bo Katan, is alllllllmost there. First full test kit-up today revealed the things I need to address before weathering the soft parts (mainly some tailoring of the flightsuit and finish the jetpack harness), but I’m pretty pleased with how she’s looking so far. 😊

“So, you’ve probably only heard ‘shab’ as an insult,” Seire says conversationally, “but it’s a forging term; technically it means a flaw, and ‘shabiir’ means to induce a flaw. Because, in a piece of armour that you have made from scratch, if there’s something wrong with it, it’s because you made it wrong.”

Oh. Ooh, that gives teeth to ‘shabuir’ as an insult.

“More metaphorically, this gets referred to people with ‘shabla’,” Seire continues, “but when it’s a piece of armour, the correct word is ‘shabyc’. It has a flaw; it is flawed. Unreliable. Untrustworthy. Likely to break at exactly the wrong moment and get the person depending on it killed.”

And oh wow, I rather like that. Like that a lot, actually. I love the look into “what might this term mean in a language and culture that is Mandalorian, not Anglophone” and that’s very much along the same tracks I’ve attempted to take with Mando’a myself.

Semi active haha

Collab’ Shab x #Ynot , Av T. Garnier, Lyon 7e

Collab’ Shab x #Ynot , Av T. Garnier, Lyon 7e shab-ynot-tonygarnier