OYA MANDALORE

verp | 26 | they/them

my ao3: verpineshatterrifle

repcomm art blog: @verpine-art

mandoa blog: @akalenedat

this is a general star wars blog, but Republic Commando (novels)/legends mandos are my primary interest and what basically all my own content is about

ABOUT ME

i go by verp or verpine, my blog name was previously trashcanmando

i don't interact with cloneshipping although i don't mind if other people do, i'm just not going to follow you if there's a lot of it on your blog. nothing personal

not pro-ship and not anti-ship, but a secret third thing: a person with nuanced opinions who can mind their own business

i will not reblog a post i disagree with unless the op is clearly inviting that sort of discussion. i will vagueblog though

FANDOM OPINIONS

top 5 characters: kal skirata, bardan jusik, ordo skirata, mereel skirata, fenn shysa

top ships: ordo/besany, atin/laseema, and manda help me, din/mayfeld

i don't like the writing of bad batch or 2008 clone wars very much sorry, also mando season 3 makes me sad

i'm picky about my fanon, but i don't just hate all fanon. i just prefer it generally consistent with canon

my facecast for kal is daniel craig, and i have an agenda about it

i am an aro/ace bardan jusik truther

in general i choose to ignore the ending of order 66 and 501st is a whump fanfic with interesting character and lore information in it but it isnt real xoxo #etainlives

kal skirata is my favorite star wars character and i will block on sight if you try and convince me he's homophobic/misogynistic/emotionally abusive/a fascist. if he's just not your cup of tea that's totally fine, but i'm gonna need you to display some reading comprehension

i like all of the characters, i genuinely like karen traviss' writing, (i also like kilo-5!) i strongly prefer legends over canon in any instance where the two conflict

TAG DIRECTORY

i dont understand what the hell people want. did they want besany (who accepted a blaster and used it to start a siege in a hospital room to save fi's life) to go along on the mission to recover dar and niner from coruscant? for Diversity?? do they want her to magically gain combat skills instead of using her existing management abilities to take charge of what amounts to a small army when things go to shit and the typical leading figures are down for the count??

do they want laseema to take up marksmanship and provide covering fire?? was getting good with knives and gaining self confidence and a support network that allowed her to threaten a man who tried to hit on her not good enough? is her skill at being able to manage a kitchen and feed several dozen people multiple times a day, a skill highly valued by other characters, worthless to these people

do people want ny, an old woman, who is voluntarily assuming a LOT of risk to help both jedi and clones who are being harmed by this war, to like... kill somebody?? to not bake cookies as an act of love because that... idk somehow undermines everything else about her???

is it that rav and parja, the two female characters who grew up mandalorian, also aren't actively participating in shooting people??? why would it be misogynistic for them to be the ones who are building the safe haven to be used as an escape network for slave soldiers.

did they want etain to do MORE fighting than she already does?? like her entire character and arc is a complete landmine but you do have a woman involved in the military if that's the only benchmark for 'is it sexist' you've got

thank u @arliganzey <33

3 Ships I like:

bardan/etain (provided a crappy horrible bad au that i dont want to happen where darman dies. or maybe an au where etain and darman just arent a thing in the first place but i do think the angst is crucial. but i'll probably never do anything with this bc it involves DARMAN DYING and i dont want that. but the ship would be so good)

din/miggs (god i cant believe we had that dynamic for like 3 episodes and never again. what the fuck. he was asking din all the right questions that got FULLY IGNORED IN SEASON 3- FUCK-)

atin/laseema (specifically i like that theyve both experienced some form of dehumanization and can understand each other in ways you wouldnt expect)

First Ship Ever: uh......... genuinely i dont know, i actually care more about platonic relationships in fandom than romantic ones even though the romantic ones are cool. even when i have romantic ships i tend to like them more in a platonic sense when they arent being romantic??? does that make sense??? also my first 'fandom' was lotr and i was like 8

Last Song You've Heard: Hurry, Hurry - Air Traffic Controller

Favorite Childhood Book: dude i liked so many books....... i have a soft spot for the squire's tales by gerald morris

Currently Reading: haha. fuck -House of Leaves -Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor -Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing -Halo: Glasslands (Kilo-5 Trilogy) -Halo: Mortal Dictata (Kilo-5 Trilogy) (YES BOTH AT THE SAME TIME OK)

Currently Watching: me and teki watched knives out last night and we're gonna watch glass onion soon

Currently Consuming: just finished a glass bottle root beer ✨

Currently Craving: i actually want a pulled pork sandwich so bad right now

tagged by both @babyscilence and @arliganzey thank u guys <333

What's the origin of your blog title? 'OYA MANDALORE' is a pretty clear explanation of what this blog is- a love of legends mandos and an absolute refusal to let specifically legends mandalorians get overshadowed by disney mandos (it drives me fucking bonkers when i see people saying 'this is the way' when 'oya' would evoke a more apt emotion)

OTP+Ship name: hmmm atin/laseema i think! i don't really have a ship name for them

Favorite color: i love u pine green. u can never go wrong with pine/sage/dark and desaturated green

Favorite game: all time favorite is Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess but i've been playing Fields of Mistria a lot recently

Song stuck in your head: god. lmao. Killers Walk

Weirdest habit/trait: uhmmm idk i really hate being barefoot?? socks in bed, socks basically all the time

Hobbies: mandalorian cosplay is probably my most major hobby but like i write and draw and can knit and crochet and stuff

If you work, what's your profession? accountant/auditor in training and also i work a grocery store bakery job (hopefully by the end of the year i'll be able to get another accounting/bookkeeping job and get out of the grocery store tho)

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? full time fiction author tbh. heavy on the military scifi

Something you're good at: i can pretty comfortably say i'm good at art and making things, speaking generally

Something you're bad at: musical instruments. i want to be good at it. ive tried. i am just not musical at all beyond singing

Something you love: my dual monitor pc setup <3 hell yeah

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: republic commando/legends mandalorians/my beef with disney canon. like don't get me started it's impossible to get me to shut up

Something you hate: ok this one took me a while bc i wanted to pick something that fills me with absolute incandescent rage that i would never defend anything about (without getting political) and while i am a little hater there is good in everything. so here's my one thing that makes me really fucking angry every time i think about it: once i had an rp partner who i knew was sucking ai's dick but i later found out they definitely fed my replies into an ai for 'help replying' and it makes me want to kill

Something you collect: star wars legos i guess but i havent gotten any new ones in a while

Something you forget: shit i still need to pick up my latest med refill. fuck

What's your love language: being willing to make stuff with u <33 headcanons, rp, art collab, food, whatever. my most sincere show of love is mutual creation

Favorite movie/show: movie: knives out and glass onion i think. i really adore a one-off movie with an exquisitely done plot show: andor. you don't get better cinema than that. (DO NOT LET ME DOWN IN APRIL I SWEAR TO GOD)

Favorite food: uhhmmm i don't really have a favorite but i would SMASH a good pulled pork sandwich right now

Favorite animal: teki assigned me coyote so coyotes i guess <3

What were you like as a child: i remember myself as being weirdcringe as hell but tbh all kids have a right to be weirdcringe. i really loved lord of the rings, medieval swords and armor and stuff, and then took a steep dive into star wars pretty young. i had a nerf sword i would carry around everywhere (i still have it actually) and i liked to pretend to be a lotr ranger with my threadbare blanket cloak and trusty steed (bike). i read a lot and didnt have to try to get straight a's in school

Favorite subject at school: despite being an easy straight A student i really liked PE. i was also a little bit of a jock kid (out of pure spite) and lived for the competition aspect it offered

Last Favorite subject: god chemistry was the FUCKING WORST

What's your best character trait? uh.... not to stroke my own ego or be pretentious about this but i like to think that it's an unkillable optimism and belief that there's some amount of good in literally everything? but i'm a huge hater tho.

What's your worst character trait? my self discipline in the face of tedium is dogshit tbh

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be? 50,000 american dollars right in my bank account. jk actually it's that i would want my parents to at least not freak out about my immortal soul being in danger/probably consider me untouchable if i told them i don't have a gender and i want to legally do a gay marriage

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet? a neolithic era person i think