Jaster Kinda

Jaster kinda 🫦

I love that Mando Cody is kinda half Mando half Obi-Wan's sand colored robes 🫶

A few WIPs and sketches/doodles of Mandos and clones

EU Mandos featured: Jaster Mereel (Jango Fett’s adoptive father and Mand’alor of the True Mandalorians), Mirta Gev (Boba Fett’s granddaughter), & Goran Beviin (Mand’alor Boba Fett’s best friend, second-in-command, and one half of the first explicitly gay couple in Star Wars literature)

They're all so pretty! 🥹 😍

Yes! I love these little details. This is definitely the episode she earns his trust, but it's not out of the blue... it builds on little interactions we saw before.

He's is clearly intrigued by her since the Entombed ep in S1. He tells Hunter her story changes every time she tells it, letting us know that he listens attentively every single time.

Then, she notices the compass he dismisses as junk & he's impressed she knows about planets that aren't on star charts.

In the ruins, she impresses him once again when she's right about the ruins being older than the Jedi. He's skeptical about her assertion at first because it seems unsubstantiated, but to his surpise, she's right every time. He may not fully trust her at this point, but he's defs intrigued. He's drawn to the fact that her knowledge & way of knowing things is so different than his, and yet it complements his own very academic & textbook (or should we say database) type knowledge. She earns his respect as an expert in her field (even if that field is piracy).

This is why, once he learns her motivation isn't just treasure-hunting or greed, he falls for her. It's a brains + heart combo. And I absolutely love how they were subtle about showing it.

I just wish we could've see it go somewhere... 😭😭😭😭 we were robbed.

So, Phee flirts with Tech off and on from the moment she first meets him; but Tech doesn't start showing her that he might be interested in her until this scene in "Pabu" -

^Tech silently questioning where Phee is going

^"Gonna put this someplace safe," Phee says

^Tech smiles after her (dear goodness he's so freakin' adorable here I just 😍🥰❤️)

What I find so sweet and lowkey hilarious about all this is that Tech starts clearly showing his interest after 2 events occur in rapid succession:

1) Phee explains why she does what she does: namely, she wants to help people preserve their cultures (and we know from Tech's conversations with Romar on Serreno that different cultures are a point of interest for Tech)

2) Wrecker straight-up teases Tech about Phee, saying Tech has some competition

I can't help but think that Tech knowing this crucial detail about Phee's motivations really ramped up his interest in her as more than just his family's ally, but it was Wrecker's ribbing in particular that prompted Tech to actually get a move on 😆

THIS. When they fly back from the Skako lab, Echo, Anakin & Crosshair are up on a ledge firing down. Echo shoots down some flying droids & a pre-Omega Crosshair, the man who never shows any voluntary signs of approval or affection whatsoever, puts his hand on Echo's shoulder and gives him a lil 'nice job' nod.

For the first month after Echo joins the batch he’s lowkey convinced Crosshair is trying to kill him. Mainly bc Crosshair follows him everywhere and glares in his general direction, pops up anywhere he is, chews on toothpicks at him, and is generally a bit overbearing. It’s only after he overhears Wrecker tease Crosshair about ‘imprinting on Echo’ that he even realizes that this man is a protective oversized cat who can’t vocalize anything but will instead trot after him to every room, sit quietly next to him, and bring him cool rocks he found as if they’re the product of a successful hunt.

Echo brings Crosshair the next pack of novelty toothpicks he finds.

Cody's "would never run off without telling you" 💀 And of course Echo's is perfection. I'd super like him so fast 💙

star wars fans when d23 was just trailers and teasers for shows they already knew was coming out and not the announcement of a clone rebellion show (delusion)