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So that's what they put in there...

For Jaing- Mammoth face warrior? Tusks the Durge trainer?

And don't forget his other favorite son 'No longer a man' and his grandson Saber

Ah yes, my favorite fictional family, Knife Revenge and his sons [checks notes] Shadow, Glove, Space Napoleon, Martyred Bestie, and Jaing

OMG this is perfect! The jacket, their expressions, all of it 🥰

i colored it <3

Zey POV

They're like "we robbed a bank, kidnapped the scientist you were chasing, promise we didn't kill her she killed herself, here's her head & no we won't tell you why we kidnapped her"

im sry

It is 100% canon. Look at him! Ba'buir 🥰

if kal with a baby wrap isnt canon it should be

Homicide:

99: oh Crosshair's at that very special age where he has only one thing on his mind

Kal Skirata: girls

Crosshair: homicide

@ithillia found me a goldmine here. I haven't read the Legacy of the Force yet but we can get a glimpse here how Boba saw Kal as a kid.

If I remember correctly, Jango called him by Vau's recommendation but I have to reread that part.

Jango: SKIRATA

Rest of the Cuy'val Dar: how did he manage to do that...???

Vau: *reconsidering his life choices of recommending Kal*

Kal Skirata. Smol and angy and able to piss off Jango Fett too.

AGGRESSIVE LITTLE HUMAN I CAN'T-

(I can't believe I've actually found a pikachu-with-knife-gif)

I think Kal still haunts some of the kaminoans' dreams who dared to look at his children the wrong way. But according to Taun We's comment I have the feeling that sometimes they didn't have to give a reason. They just had to be kaminoans for that. Kal really hated them and found them all complicit in harming the clones regardless if they were actually involved in the research or not. Encountering Kina Ha is what starting change his mind about judging an entire race for the crime of the few.

Nulls: Hey, Bob'ika! No passing through this corridor unless you can answer this question.

Boba: [rolls eyes but answers anyway]

Nulls: [narrow eyes] IN MANDO'A.

Boba:

In short (lol)

Kal is short. He always gives the impression of being angry. He doesn't fight fair - I mean, his specialty is assassination, intelligence gathering, and psychological warfare.

He is a menace.

Op, I think you knew Fox was going to pull something at some point.

Writing Fox is wild because you look away one second and suddenly that man is threatening to kill both Skirata and Vau

Little man do not add more to this it's already 9K I need to finish this

Triple Zero really has me like this

Has this been done yet??

I think one of the more disappointing things about the Republic Commando fandom is that fans of Kal, generally, argue that critics of Kal Skirata are “unfair” in their criticism. That there’s an uneven attention placed on the character’s flaws that are disproportionate to the other characters.

The issue is that fans generally don’t understand that that’s in response to a narrative that holds everyone else alongside Kal responsible for their personal missteps, mistakes, and abuses, but does not ask the same of Kal, himself.

A favorite scene to, I think, argue the above is the scene where Darman beats the ever-loving shit out of Kal. It’s brought up as if it’s a scene we should take at face value, of Darman taking Kal to task, holding him responsible.

But the truth is, in the context of the rest of the series, it’s not. 

What that scene is, is damage control. 

What Darman knows in that scene about what Kal has done, does not match what Kal has actually done.

That is, what Darman knows is that Kal kept Etain’s pregnancy from him.

What Darman doesn’t know is that Kal knowingly chose to put both Etain and Etain’s unborn child in a position to die. Kal even says as much to himself early in True Colors, but makes no move to change it.

The novels don’t hold him responsible for Etain nearly miscarrying, and Etain nearly dying. They only hold him responsible for lying to Darman about the existence of a pregnancy.

There’s an enormous difference between the two. The difference being that the former is an abusive and controlling man willing to unfairly kill, indirectly, the person his son loves most without his son’s input, compared to the latter of a flawed but ultimately loving man making poor decisions to protect his son in whatever way he can. 

And there should be more concern about the way fans of Kal will defend the former as if it’s the same as the latter, when it’s … not. How fans remember the books, is not reflective of how Kal actually treats his sons. But it is reflective of how an abusive man defends his choices as if there’s no other way or option.

And as much as fans want to sympathize with him, it cannot hurt to also take a step back and critically examine everything he does, and compare to how disproportionate the excuses and the forgiveness falls on Kal compared to the rest of the cast besides him.

If fans are willing to overlook how Kal is constantly playing a game of damage control with all of his sons from book one, but are equally unwilling to overlook the physical abuse Vau has waged on Delta Squad and Atin, then all fans are really arguing is that physical abuse is the only kind of abuse they’re willing to recognize as legitimate. 

And that’s worrisome.

Being critical of Kal is not a personal attack, and if reading about how Kal is abusive immediately makes you defensive, then … it’s worth investigating why it makes you defensive. It’s worth taking the time to reflect on these questions, what it means to you, and what it changes if it’s true. 

Clone Commando Omega Squad, in their first engagement deployed on Qiilura. If you haven't read the Republic Commando series by Karen Traviss, stop and do so. It breaks modern canon but who cares, my boys matter more

Yes. Because when you want to extort a Hutt you definitely pack a slightly deranged marksman and his pyromaniac brother.

But honestly, why bring those two? They're not "his" boys. They're Vau's. And yes, we all know Skirata adopts every breathing slightly lost person he sees but Delta are undeniably and always Vau's boys. So why bring those two?

There's the fact that they're both scary little shits and it's always good to surround yourself with people that look scarier than you.

But I think Skirata wants to evaluate them. Are they going to do the job even though they're Vau's boys? Is the rift between he and Vau bad enough that in a tight spot Delta will ignore him and go their own way? The Terror Twins are arguably the most outspoken of the four. Scorch questions things and Sev is so insecure he runs the risk of getting knocked off kilter when things don't go in a way he's been trained to handle. They're the wild cards of Delta Squad. So this entire sequence was a test for these two. Will you obey me? Will you obey Ordo? Can I trust you two not to make stupid decisions that might get us all killed?

And of course. They passed.

Memes from a Fem!Obi-Wan fic that I’ll probably never publish, but still wish to share🙏: