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I love that any clone trooper may have these naming stereotypes

Meaningful and cool it fits their personality

Idk it just sounds cool

Some boring natborn name

Charlie? Rick Astley? Smith? Sound otherworldly, vod. Where'd you get it from?

Color

Bullying material

Taken from some ancient holy bible they don't really know about

Shenanigans-y accidents

ID number

Yes I share names with the marshal commander

Yes I share names with CT-1370 from the Marines don't ask me how I know that I'm obviously not snooping around the database

Yes I share names with our Jedi general my name is Obi-Two

And that there are at least 3 of these stereotypes in a squad of 5

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Source: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Campaign Guide (2009)

This is the first time I’ve seen multiple clone trooper languages mentioned in a lore book!

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I generally don't mind clones adopting parts of Mando culture. The spicy food thing though... bro the budgeting people on Kamino were NOT signing off on tons of Mandalorian ingredients for a millions-strong army of ultra-hungry speed-growing boys. Those men were raised on ration bars and nutrient slop and meals seasoned with nothing but atmosphere. They wouldn't make it past round two on Hot Ones. (Also maybe stay away from foods that can temporarily fuck up your digestive tract if you're a soldier lol)

Let's have some clone culture that isn't a carbon copy of whatever that vanishingly small bunch of Mandalorian trainers might have practiced on Kamino. I like to think that the clones are excellent at making mild dishes out of whatever can be hunted or foraged in the wild, heavy on herbs and ingredients they pickled or dried themselves. They love convenience!! They make jerky out of anything and whatever cannot be jerkyfied just goes in a jar. Everything can become a preserve snack if you're creative. And let there be different types of clone cuisine depending on where they're stationed and what local foods they can take inspiration from!! So many cool possibilities!!

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clones and avoiding behind studied. Refusing to be understood by those outside their society. One guy straight up lies to a civilian and says he has a hivemind with every single other clone in the galaxy that's why they get orders so fast. No they don't need comms he's never even heard of that.

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Making YouTubers/Influencers canon in my Star Wars AU and grinning smugly at the stupidity of it all.

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One things I think I forgot to mention in my other reblog that I thought about more and want to comment on/clarify. As you mentioned, there is a likelihood that some clones will HATE the assumption that they are all close. I thought about this more, and I realized there was something I didn't think about/touch on in relationship to that. While my interpretation of the clones presents them as all considering each other family (both by blood and as an overall relationship), there are many different family dynamics and relationships.

Overall, the vibe between clones as a whole is "giant extended family where there is a general expectation/sense of loyalty to the broader family, but also you only know half these people." Loosely based on my dad's side of the family, tbh. But individuals within that family will have different relationships with different family members and different feelings about the broader family as a whole.

When it comes to clones they've never met, clones will typically see that clone as a sibling, but emotionally feel more like distant cousins who you just met at the family reunion and it's kind of awkward since your parents/grandparents expect you to hug or whatever and you're both just like "who is this guy?" Sometimes they will end up getting along great, but it will always start out a bit distant.

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Clones like Cut Lawquane who left the GAR (or in this AU, never really joined Retteyo and went off to do their own thing) are like the family member who had to go no contact with their parents and as a result lost contact with the rest of their extended family and nobody but the parents knows what happened or where they went. So when clones like Rex find them, it's like one of their cousins accidentally finding them on Facebook and messaging them. And the one that left doesn't hate most of their extended family. They still see them as family, but not particularly close family, so they still kind of want to keep their distance.

They also have an awkward relationship with family in general because they were raised in an environment where family is everything. And even though they don't regret going NC, they still have a hard time breaking that mindset and feel at least a little bit of obligation to help out extended family members in need, even if it's just in little ways like giving them a little extra money one time and then never talking to them again.

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Clones who hate each other are just family members who hate each other. They see each other as siblings, but not in a good way. Like "oh yeah, he's definitely my brother, but I'm still getting that restraining order." Still family, but in a bad way. And while there is a "family is everything mindset," that doesn't mean "therefore you must get along with every family member or stay in contact." If someone does something crappy and someone else chooses to go NC, everyone will understand and support the decision even if they stay in contact with both.

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The "family is everything" part is more about a loyalty to clones as a whole. Similar to loyalty to one's country, but with a familial twist. As I said before, it's like seeing a cousin in need of help, and even though you don't know that cousin, you still help them because they're your cousin.

Even clones who don't feel that strongly about other clones will have this mindset a little, they just aren't super intense about it. Like, as I said, they won't get into a fight on your behalf, but they will give you $50 to help you out of a tough spot.

It's honestly the craziest part to me. They are all family, but the dynamics are complicated and not always close or good.

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As you mentioned, they are still capable of forming extremely close bonds with natborns, some of which are closer than with certain other clones or clones as a whole. Some clones even prefer not being around other clones as much. It's just that they were created to almost need other clones in some way. Kind of like how ants will die if they don't have other ants around. I think this might not fully apply to all clones, but as you said with Rex and the Ghost crew, most clones will get antsy after a certain point if they haven't seen other clones after a certain amount of time.

For many clones, not being without other clones is like being a hermit. Some can handle it really well, especially by forming bonds with Natborns (similar to some hermits finding inner peace that allows them to handle isolation well). But most will get to a point where they will start to lose it a little. Like, they are fine for a while, but after 6 years or so, they're like "alright but I need to see another clone at some point or I will die."

At least, this is the case in my AU since I find the idea of clone basically being pack animals in the most extreme way to be interesting.

I've decided that Rex is the one who paints Kanan's eye mask with his bird of prey design.

Kanan's feeling pretty low still just after Malachor, he's still distancing himself from everybody, and Rex decides to go try to talk to him at one point and the first thing he comes up with to say is to point out that his new mask is pretty plain. It's awkward, he regrets it immediately, but then Kanan says that it gets the job done and Rex is abruptly reminded of himself so so long ago back at the beginning of the war.

He sits Kanan down and tells him a story about how, at the beginning of the war, only a few of the clones had paint on their armor, to designate things like rank and battalion in order to make it easier for officers to find them in the middle of a busy battlefield. The paint was practical and it was limited to a very select few. But the Jedi almost immediately started trying to encourage the clones to utilize the paint less sparingly, suggesting that maybe everybody could wear at least a LITTLE paint and use more individualized designs so that it was still easy to tell the commanders and captains apart from the others when needed.

Some of the clones had taken to it with gusto, but others had been more hesitant, and Rex remembers having been one of them. He remembers telling Obi-Wan that there was no real REASON to paint everyone's armor and especially not to come up with personal designs. The armor was practical and it served its purpose with or without the paint and special designs. But the Jedi had insisted on at least TRYING to come up with his own design and if he didn't like it, he could always take it off, so Rex had given in and chosen something to paint on the armor. And, somehow, it felt a little lighter the next time he put it on. It didn't erase the horrors of war or the pain of loss or anything like that, but it helped.

He tells Kanan that the mask right now is just a reminder of the pain of the injury and whatever other feelings he's still got all caught up in the Malachor mission (guilt over what happened with Ezra, grief over Ahsoka's loss). But if he puts his own design on it, it might turn the mask into something other than a constant reminder of something bad. Instead, it's a reminder of who he is, the combination of the person he once was and who he's become. He is more than just his injury or this mission and he can use the mask to declare that if he wants to.

Kanan says he never realized Rex and the other clones had cared so deeply about their armor and Rex says that the armor itself was meaningless. It's better than what's being handed out to stormtroopers, but not but a LOT. It was the design on it that had meant something and, more than that, it was what the design REPRESENTED: having a choice about how you were perceived by others.

Kanan asks why Rex had chosen his particular designs, the bird of prey eyes on his helmet in particular. Rex explains that he chose it because he liked birds and thought it looked cool, but he's kept the helmet for as long as he has because it's come to mean something ELSE now. It's not just a cool-looking design, it's a reminder of a better time in his life. It's a reminder of when he'd been a part of something greater than himself, with the other clones and the Jedi. It's a reminder of a time when he'd had hope that he and his people could one day come out the other side of this war towards a brighter future.

Kanan looks at the mask he'd grabbed from storage somewhere or something just to keep light from hurting his eyes as they recovered and to cover up the injury from other people's stares (even if he couldn't see them staring), then hands it to Rex and asks if Rex minds sharing that symbol because he'd like a reminder of that, too. Rex remembers the 332nd and their helmets that they'd painted to look like their chosen Jedi, almost blindly giving away their individuality in favor of that loyalty that had been stripped from them anyway. And then he looks at Kanan, choosing to make himself look LIKE REX, someone who had shared his face with millions once, because he wants to honor both the connections he'd lost as well as this new connection the two of them have built together now. And Rex says he'd be happy to share.

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Me: *Writes out this reblog*

Me: *Comes back to it an hour or so later*

Me: .....

Me: Wtf is that middle part.

I've decided that Rex is the one who paints Kanan's eye mask with his bird of prey design.

Kanan's feeling pretty low still just after Malachor, he's still distancing himself from everybody, and Rex decides to go try to talk to him at one point and the first thing he comes up with to say is to point out that his new mask is pretty plain. It's awkward, he regrets it immediately, but then Kanan says that it gets the job done and Rex is abruptly reminded of himself so so long ago back at the beginning of the war.

He sits Kanan down and tells him a story about how, at the beginning of the war, only a few of the clones had paint on their armor, to designate things like rank and battalion in order to make it easier for officers to find them in the middle of a busy battlefield. The paint was practical and it was limited to a very select few. But the Jedi almost immediately started trying to encourage the clones to utilize the paint less sparingly, suggesting that maybe everybody could wear at least a LITTLE paint and use more individualized designs so that it was still easy to tell the commanders and captains apart from the others when needed.

Some of the clones had taken to it with gusto, but others had been more hesitant, and Rex remembers having been one of them. He remembers telling Obi-Wan that there was no real REASON to paint everyone's armor and especially not to come up with personal designs. The armor was practical and it served its purpose with or without the paint and special designs. But the Jedi had insisted on at least TRYING to come up with his own design and if he didn't like it, he could always take it off, so Rex had given in and chosen something to paint on the armor. And, somehow, it felt a little lighter the next time he put it on. It didn't erase the horrors of war or the pain of loss or anything like that, but it helped.

He tells Kanan that the mask right now is just a reminder of the pain of the injury and whatever other feelings he's still got all caught up in the Malachor mission (guilt over what happened with Ezra, grief over Ahsoka's loss). But if he puts his own design on it, it might turn the mask into something other than a constant reminder of something bad. Instead, it's a reminder of who he is, the combination of the person he once was and who he's become. He is more than just his injury or this mission and he can use the mask to declare that if he wants to.

Kanan says he never realized Rex and the other clones had cared so deeply about their armor and Rex says that the armor itself was meaningless. It's better than what's being handed out to stormtroopers, but not but a LOT. It was the design on it that had meant something and, more than that, it was what the design REPRESENTED: having a choice about how you were perceived by others.

Kanan asks why Rex had chosen his particular designs, the bird of prey eyes on his helmet in particular. Rex explains that he chose it because he liked birds and thought it looked cool, but he's kept the helmet for as long as he has because it's come to mean something ELSE now. It's not just a cool-looking design, it's a reminder of a better time in his life. It's a reminder of when he'd been a part of something greater than himself, with the other clones and the Jedi. It's a reminder of a time when he'd had hope that he and his people could one day come out the other side of this war towards a brighter future.

Kanan looks at the mask he'd grabbed from storage somewhere or something just to keep light from hurting his eyes as they recovered and to cover up the injury from other people's stares (even if he couldn't see them staring), then hands it to Rex and asks if Rex minds sharing that symbol because he'd like a reminder of that, too. Rex remembers the 332nd and their helmets that they'd painted to look like their chosen Jedi, almost blindly giving away their individuality in favor of that loyalty that had been stripped from them anyway. And then he looks at Kanan, choosing to make himself look LIKE REX, someone who had shared his face with millions once, because he wants to honor both the connections he'd lost as well as this new connection the two of them have built together now. And Rex says he'd be happy to share.

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I think sometimes I get so caught up in the concept of how clones connect with each other, I forget how they might have very different perceptions of community and clone-to-clone relations (it's just one random thing I find kind of neat about the concept of clones as a whole).

One concept I don't explore quite as heavily in my AU (though I honestly should more often) is that while they do get there own planet, there are factions of clones who refuse to live there and decide to go off and do their own thing. They have automatic citizenship, but personally do not identify with this new planet and society. They still identify as clones for the most part, but do not consider themselves to be a part of this new specific society.

So I repeatedly switch back and forth between using the term "Retteyans" (the planet in this AU is called Retteyo btw) and "clones" because they become two separate identities. "Clone" is categorized as an ethnic/racial identity that verges on being its own species due to the major biological differences between them and humans. "Retteyan" is a national identity with ties to ethnicity.

Someone may identify as a clone, but not identify as a Retteyan, and its considered somewhat offensive to assume all clones are Retteyans, because there are plenty who do not identify with the planet. Plenty of clones make spaces for themselves outside of Retteyo across the galaxy, though those are smaller spaces. While Retteyo is seen as the main representative of the clones as a species(?), it is not the default one. There are plenty of specific ethnicities within the broader clone identity. Retteyo is just the biggest and loudest and lowkey established itself as the "official" homeworld for all clones (which could be its own source of conflict).

A major influencing factor in my AU is that the vast majority of clones are unable to reproduce. This will play into the reason they start cloning on Retteyo in the first place.

The reason they begin cloning on Retteyo is actually a bit complicated yet simple: they have created their own culture, and many of the younger clones who never fought in the war develop a sense of cultural pride/ethnic identity that they grow very attached to. When people begin to realize that the clones will eventually die out, the younger generation of clones on Retteyo is horrified at the notion that they will all eventually die out, and with it, a large portion of their culture (not fully realizing that certain elements of culture will fade either way due to it being affected by the trauma of the oldest generation). Even if they did pass down their culture to natborns, there is an inherent terror in knowing one's ethnic group is dying out.

(Note: This might get a little heavy as it touches on notions of ethnic purity and fears about ethnic erasure. The AU generally does end up covering some pretty heavy topics at points because I couldn't help myself and wanted to explore a variety of stuff)

One thing that's also fun to write in this AU is the acknowledgement that cultural flaws and problematic mindsets exist and would develop. Even if the clones were able to reproduce with natborns, this would still occur due to a complex and slightly darker reason. The clones are unable to reproduce with each other, and so while it goes unstated, some clones who were raised solely by other clones and aren't as close to natborns hold concerns over the idea of, to put it bluntly, "pure" clones dying out. Clones with the 100% traditional clone DNA.

Some have wrapped up the idea of being a clone with the aspect of all sharing the same DNA, which also may have small ties to Kaminoan eugenics. Because lets be honest, not all clones will fully reject Kaminoan ideals, and even if they reject Kamino, their mindset is still influenced by the lowkey brainwashing they've received since childhood. I am mixed race myself (half white, half black plus maybe some other stuff but mostly black), and am aware that there are a lot of complexities related to this overall topic.

I am a primary example of the fact that just because someone is mixed race doesn't mean their identity is invalid. However, I also have sympathy for some marginalized minority groups fears about being erased in a specific way. The concept of gradually being "replaced" until the only people left who are a part of that ethnic group share more DNA with their original oppressors than they do with the marginalized group. It's a kind of personal topic that would be tricky to touch upon, and I might not even add it to the AU, but it could be interesting.

The purity mindset as a whole is pretty gross, but again, the AU does not just explore culture and what their society would look like. It actually tends to explore the issues that would arise from the clones gaining freedom and independence, among other things. It is about the culture, but also has become more and more about the conflicts and evolution of culture as trauma is either passed down or fades away with each generation.

One major plot point is the oldest generation of clones (those who fought in the war) suddenly all developing severe mental health issues later on in life due to the intense amounts of trauma they faced coming back to bite them. The biggest conflict in the story is the generational differences between clones who fought in the war, clones who were born on Kamino but never fought in the war, and clones who were born on this new planet post-war.

Not all the clones have the same mindset, and in fact develop very different mindsets on a lot of things (between generations, between battalions, between individuals, etc.), which ends up being the driving force of the AU's plot.

I've decided that Rex is the one who paints Kanan's eye mask with his bird of prey design.

Kanan's feeling pretty low still just after Malachor, he's still distancing himself from everybody, and Rex decides to go try to talk to him at one point and the first thing he comes up with to say is to point out that his new mask is pretty plain. It's awkward, he regrets it immediately, but then Kanan says that it gets the job done and Rex is abruptly reminded of himself so so long ago back at the beginning of the war.

He sits Kanan down and tells him a story about how, at the beginning of the war, only a few of the clones had paint on their armor, to designate things like rank and battalion in order to make it easier for officers to find them in the middle of a busy battlefield. The paint was practical and it was limited to a very select few. But the Jedi almost immediately started trying to encourage the clones to utilize the paint less sparingly, suggesting that maybe everybody could wear at least a LITTLE paint and use more individualized designs so that it was still easy to tell the commanders and captains apart from the others when needed.

Some of the clones had taken to it with gusto, but others had been more hesitant, and Rex remembers having been one of them. He remembers telling Obi-Wan that there was no real REASON to paint everyone's armor and especially not to come up with personal designs. The armor was practical and it served its purpose with or without the paint and special designs. But the Jedi had insisted on at least TRYING to come up with his own design and if he didn't like it, he could always take it off, so Rex had given in and chosen something to paint on the armor. And, somehow, it felt a little lighter the next time he put it on. It didn't erase the horrors of war or the pain of loss or anything like that, but it helped.

He tells Kanan that the mask right now is just a reminder of the pain of the injury and whatever other feelings he's still got all caught up in the Malachor mission (guilt over what happened with Ezra, grief over Ahsoka's loss). But if he puts his own design on it, it might turn the mask into something other than a constant reminder of something bad. Instead, it's a reminder of who he is, the combination of the person he once was and who he's become. He is more than just his injury or this mission and he can use the mask to declare that if he wants to.

Kanan says he never realized Rex and the other clones had cared so deeply about their armor and Rex says that the armor itself was meaningless. It's better than what's being handed out to stormtroopers, but not but a LOT. It was the design on it that had meant something and, more than that, it was what the design REPRESENTED: having a choice about how you were perceived by others.

Kanan asks why Rex had chosen his particular designs, the bird of prey eyes on his helmet in particular. Rex explains that he chose it because he liked birds and thought it looked cool, but he's kept the helmet for as long as he has because it's come to mean something ELSE now. It's not just a cool-looking design, it's a reminder of a better time in his life. It's a reminder of when he'd been a part of something greater than himself, with the other clones and the Jedi. It's a reminder of a time when he'd had hope that he and his people could one day come out the other side of this war towards a brighter future.

Kanan looks at the mask he'd grabbed from storage somewhere or something just to keep light from hurting his eyes as they recovered and to cover up the injury from other people's stares (even if he couldn't see them staring), then hands it to Rex and asks if Rex minds sharing that symbol because he'd like a reminder of that, too. Rex remembers the 332nd and their helmets that they'd painted to look like their chosen Jedi, almost blindly giving away their individuality in favor of that loyalty that had been stripped from them anyway. And then he looks at Kanan, choosing to make himself look LIKE REX, someone who had shared his face with millions once, because he wants to honor both the connections he'd lost as well as this new connection the two of them have built together now. And Rex says he'd be happy to share.

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(Reblogging this on my AU sideblog just because it captures all my thoughts so well) Giant response incoming.

You articulated all my thoughts on the clones' relationships with each other and death better than I articulated my thoughts on the topic. Perfect. No notes.

On the family dynamics side of things, I didn't fully go into it in my original reblog, but in my AU, the clones do find a way to continue cloning (which they do for a complicated series of reasons). And they choose to raise the next generation of clones in a style similar to that of the Jedi. They were never really raised with the concept of a nuclear family or "traditional" familial relationships, instead being raised as a community of "brothers" who all share the exact same DNA, plus the Kaminoan caretakers who are less like family and more just kind of there.

The clones are extremely communal and would definitely prefer to maintain communal/fluid family dynamics, which is exactly the kind that the Jedi have. They also would not really know what a healthy childhood looks like, and since the Jedi introduced them to the concept of being emotionally well-adjusted, I assume they'd look to them for childcare advice.

The thing I noted about found family vs blood relations is a bit complicated and I'll probably make a bigger post on it later, but it's perhaps (in my opinion) one of the most complicated and interesting aspects of being a clone just due to how unique it is to them. Perhaps it's partially the fanfiction getting to me, but a big thing that I noticed and found interesting was the type of loyalty the clones hold towards the greater clone "species." I think I first thought about it during "The Hidden Enemy" and Slick's betrayal. I started to think more about how the clones referred to each other as "brothers" on a collective level, even in reference to clones they've never met.

I think it is a very "brother in arms" kind of situation, but I like to think of it as having a couple of layers to it. One is the "brother in arms" layer, which is the most straight forward and can cause some of the tightest bonds. But there's also a layer of understanding of their situation and marginalization. They have a shared life experience (and existential dread) that is best understood by other clones. It's similar to how many marginalized groups will seek each other out and care for each other due to that shared experience with marginalization. They are clones, and while they may have natborn friends who they care about deeply, nobody will quite get it like other clones will. Growing up on Kamino, the only ones they could rely on were other clones, and even now, the people they can rely on/relate to the most are also other clones. There is a shared experience that is special to them, and thus there is a form of connection that can't exist with natborns.

Another layer is that they have a mindset that some big extended families have. I have a big extended family on my dad's side (grandma had 9 siblings and dad has 32 first cousins) and I barely know half of them. But despite that, we are relatively tight knit. There is this energy of shared understanding that despite not knowing each other, we are all related and thus should care about each other to a certain degree. Is that mindset always healthy? No. But would that exist within the clones? Yeah, probably. There is probably a sense of familial obligation, and sometimes that obligation can become a form of love. They may not all know each other, but they are brothers, so that must count for something, right?

And a final layer is that they are literally clones, and have the ultimate "we are blood related" thing going on. It's a collection of the other aspects wrapped into one big idea. They literally share the same DNA, which is probably a pretty big point of connection. It's a little like being identical twins separated at birth who reunite and are instantly best friends somehow. There is a specific kind of connection in this particular case that is hard to articulate. But it is so unique to the clones, so extremely specific, that I find it to be interesting in its own right.

I think I just generally noticed that the clones seem to view their dynamic with fellow clones differently than they do with natborns. There is a sense of community that is formed by life experiences/the whole military thing, but also in some ways by literal blood. They form that interconnectedness the same way that other groups may, but they are literally all related, and thus the loyalty to blood relations is created. Doesn't mean I believe that blood matters above all else (I have concepts for what beliefs and values the clone culture would have that I disagree with, but think would fit them well), but it could be what many of them think.

I don't know if I'm explaining it well, I just think it could be neat.

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The food headcanons continue. The idea that they are fusing foods together is actually kind of where I got part of the "oh god what did you make" concept from. They find foods that they life from all across the galaxy and end up thinking "these two things are good, so they must be even better together probably idk" and just end up fusing ice cream and baked salmon together. They are excited to try all the good things, and are trying to put the good things together in a way that makes an even better thing.

I've decided that Rex is the one who paints Kanan's eye mask with his bird of prey design.

Kanan's feeling pretty low still just after Malachor, he's still distancing himself from everybody, and Rex decides to go try to talk to him at one point and the first thing he comes up with to say is to point out that his new mask is pretty plain. It's awkward, he regrets it immediately, but then Kanan says that it gets the job done and Rex is abruptly reminded of himself so so long ago back at the beginning of the war.

He sits Kanan down and tells him a story about how, at the beginning of the war, only a few of the clones had paint on their armor, to designate things like rank and battalion in order to make it easier for officers to find them in the middle of a busy battlefield. The paint was practical and it was limited to a very select few. But the Jedi almost immediately started trying to encourage the clones to utilize the paint less sparingly, suggesting that maybe everybody could wear at least a LITTLE paint and use more individualized designs so that it was still easy to tell the commanders and captains apart from the others when needed.

Some of the clones had taken to it with gusto, but others had been more hesitant, and Rex remembers having been one of them. He remembers telling Obi-Wan that there was no real REASON to paint everyone's armor and especially not to come up with personal designs. The armor was practical and it served its purpose with or without the paint and special designs. But the Jedi had insisted on at least TRYING to come up with his own design and if he didn't like it, he could always take it off, so Rex had given in and chosen something to paint on the armor. And, somehow, it felt a little lighter the next time he put it on. It didn't erase the horrors of war or the pain of loss or anything like that, but it helped.

He tells Kanan that the mask right now is just a reminder of the pain of the injury and whatever other feelings he's still got all caught up in the Malachor mission (guilt over what happened with Ezra, grief over Ahsoka's loss). But if he puts his own design on it, it might turn the mask into something other than a constant reminder of something bad. Instead, it's a reminder of who he is, the combination of the person he once was and who he's become. He is more than just his injury or this mission and he can use the mask to declare that if he wants to.

Kanan says he never realized Rex and the other clones had cared so deeply about their armor and Rex says that the armor itself was meaningless. It's better than what's being handed out to stormtroopers, but not but a LOT. It was the design on it that had meant something and, more than that, it was what the design REPRESENTED: having a choice about how you were perceived by others.

Kanan asks why Rex had chosen his particular designs, the bird of prey eyes on his helmet in particular. Rex explains that he chose it because he liked birds and thought it looked cool, but he's kept the helmet for as long as he has because it's come to mean something ELSE now. It's not just a cool-looking design, it's a reminder of a better time in his life. It's a reminder of when he'd been a part of something greater than himself, with the other clones and the Jedi. It's a reminder of a time when he'd had hope that he and his people could one day come out the other side of this war towards a brighter future.

Kanan looks at the mask he'd grabbed from storage somewhere or something just to keep light from hurting his eyes as they recovered and to cover up the injury from other people's stares (even if he couldn't see them staring), then hands it to Rex and asks if Rex minds sharing that symbol because he'd like a reminder of that, too. Rex remembers the 332nd and their helmets that they'd painted to look like their chosen Jedi, almost blindly giving away their individuality in favor of that loyalty that had been stripped from them anyway. And then he looks at Kanan, choosing to make himself look LIKE REX, someone who had shared his face with millions once, because he wants to honor both the connections he'd lost as well as this new connection the two of them have built together now. And Rex says he'd be happy to share.

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Republic Commando: True Colors

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AU Masterpost

My Main Blog: @noperopesaredope

(Note: Some will not have links because I haven't posted them yet and am still working a bit on writing them out, but I still plan to post them eventually. I will also add more as I go along. The order in which I post things will be a bit all over the place but I honestly don't care)

Plot/Storylines

Timeline

Beginning/Retteyo Origins

Creation of Retteyo

Clone Rights

New Cloning

Joining the Intergalactic Stage

The Mental Health Crisis

Reparations

Purity Cult Terrorism

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Star Wars: Collapse of the Republic

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The Clone Wars: No Prisoners

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mandalorian language guide

mandalorian language guide (aka, Mando’a 101)

STAR WARS MASTERLIST

I wrote all of the sentences myself (almost every word was hunted down by me) except the phrases/sentences that I could not translate word-for-word, like the Mandalorian marriage contract or common sayings. I cross-checked between sources, but I may have gotten some things wrong because I’m not fluent in Mando’a.

Feel free to use these phrases in your writing. I’ll be adding more words, sentences, and phrases as time goes on. 

The first section will be pronouns/conjunctions/misc categorized from English to Mando’a and the rest will be categorized from Mando’a to English, except for the final review section.

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PRONOUNS/CONJUNCTIONS/DETERMINERS

English to Mando’a

The

te

A/An

eyn

And

bal

Also

alyc

You

yooba, gar

Your

gar

Are

solus

I

ni

My

ner

But

a

They/Their/Theirs

val

He/She

There are no he/she pronouns in Mando’a. Every single word in Mandalorian culture is genderless, or at least that’s what I researched. Use “val” from above.

ENDEARMENTS DISGUISED AS INSULTS (WORDS/PHRASES)

Mando’a to English

Dinji

lunatic

Mir’sheb

smartass

Utreekov

fool, idiot

Mir’osik

something undesirable where you brains should be, like nothing at all

Mirsh’kyramud

boring person

Chakaar

thief, petty criminal, scumbag, bitch, bastard, bugger

Di’kut

(severe) a foolish, idiotic, useless individual 

(sometimes vulgar, depending on context) jerk, moron, idiot, etc.

PHRASES

Mando’a to English

“Par gar.” = “For you.”

par - for

gar - you

“Yooba solus mesh’la.” = “You are beautiful.”

yooba - you

solus - are, one (1)

mesh’la - beautiful

“Ni kar’tayl gar darasuum.” = “I love you.”

ni - I

kar’tayl gar darasuum - love you

“Udesii, cyar’ika.”

udesii - calm down, take it easy

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

“Yooba solus ner aliit.” = “You are my family.”

yooba - you

solus - are

ner - my

aliit - family

“Ner cyar’ika.” = “My darling.”

ner - my

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

“Yooba solus ner [utreekov], cyar’ika.” = “You are my idiot, darling.” [can replace brackets with any other insult in Mando’a]

yooba - you 

solus - are, one (1)

ner - my

utreekov - fool, idiot

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

“Haar’chack, yooba solus mesh’la.” = “Damn it, you are beautiful.”

haar’chack - damn it

yooba - you

solus - are, one (1)

mesh’la - beautiful

“Yooba solus cyare.” = “You are loved.”

yooba - you

solus - are, one (1)

cyare - beloved, loved, popular

“Yooba solus but buir.” = “You are a mother.”

yooba - you

solus - are

but - a

buir - mother/father

“Cyar’ika, ni kar’tayl gar darasuum.” = “Darling, I love you.”

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

ni - I

kar’tayl gar darasuum - love you

“Ner riduur.” = “My spouse.”

ner - my

riduur - partner, spouse, husband, wife

MANDALORIAN SAYINGS/PROVERBS

Mando’a to English

“K��atini!”

Suck it up!

“Copaani mirshmure’cye?”

Are you looking for a smack in the face?

(Mandalorian Marriage Contract) “Mhi solus tome, mhi solus dar’tome, mhi me’dinui an, mhi ba’juri verde.”

We are one whether we are together or apart, we will share everything and we will raise our children as warriors. 

PRACTICE

Try figuring out the following sentences on your own for practice. You can reference the words/phrases/sentences above if you need to! The questions include some of the vocabulary from above.

QUESTION 1: Translate the following. “Yooba solus ner riduur. Yooba solus ner cyar’ika. Yooba solus eyn dinji, eyn mir’sheb, bal eyn utreekov. A yooba solus cyare. Ni kar’tayl gar darasuum.”

ANSWER: “You are my spouse. You are my sweetheart. You are a lunatic, a smartass, and an idiot. But you are loved. I love you.”

NO REPETITION:

yooba - you

solus - are

ner - my

riduur - partner, spouse, husband, wife

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

eyn - a

dinji - lunatic

mir’sheb - smartass

bal - and

utreekov - fool, idiot

a - but

cyare - loved

ni - I

kar’tayl gar darasuum - love you

WORD FOR WORD:

yooba - you

solus - are

ner - my

riduur - partner, spouse, husband, wife

yooba - you

solus - are

ner - my

cyar’ika - darling, sweetheart

yooba- you

solus- are

eyn - a

dinji - lunatic

eyn - a

mir’sheb - smartass

bal - and

eyn - a

utreekov - fool, idiot

a - but

yooba - you

solus - are

cyare - loved

ni - I

kar’tayl gar darasuum - love you

QUESTION 2: Write or say the following in Mando’a. “You are a petty criminal, are you looking for a smack in the face? You are a foolish person.”

ANSWER: “Yooba solus eyn chakaar, copaani mirshmure’cye? Yooba solus eyn di’kut.”

NO REPETITION:

you - yooba, gar

are - solus

a - eyn

petty criminal - chakaar,

are you looking for a smack in the face - copaani mirshmure’cye

foolish person - di’kut

WORD FOR WORD:

you - yooba, gar

are - solus

a - eyn

petty criminal - chakaar

are you looking for a smack in the face - copaani mirshmure’cye

you - yooba, gar

are - solus

a - eyn

foolish person - di’kut

SOURCES 

If you want to go looking for some more words/phrases, these were the websites that I used.

A Mando’a translator that may not be as accurate as the following websites, but it works: 

https://lingojam.com/Mandoa-EnglishTranslator

Has a lot Mandalorian words and phrases: 

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=1531.0

Categorized A to Z and is a very large database, I’d suggest using command or control F and typing in the word you want to look up before scrolling endlessly to find a word: 

http://mandoa.org/

Good for learning the grammar rules behind Mando’a as well as words/phrases you might look for: 

https://command1.rpg-board.net/t16-mando-a-language-rules-and-phrases

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mando%27a/Legends

http://www.completewermosguide.com/mandalorian.html

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I had a hilarious thought about clones at the beginning of he war:

What if they forgot how natborns age?

Like, Rex looking at Anakin's documents and going "19 years old? That's the fine spot for a general! A little later than peak body performance, but so much more mature and grounded!"

And then he actually sees Skyguy, not out of his emo phase yet, face covered in pimples and goes

"Shit. That's like, 9 for us"

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Ok now I’m thinking about clones who have verbs for names rather than nouns

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I have a clone question that has been haunting me forever!! what do they do with the dead clones? like in the nicest way possible, there have to be like million dead carbon bodies through out the galaxy! are there other clones who are like responsible for collecting fallen soldiers?? some 'important' ones get burials we've seen that but what about the rest of the foot soldiers?? are there just clone bodies scattered all over space??

 Individual units seemed to have made efforts to properly bury or cremate their dead when feasible, but with limited time and resources, less dignified disposal methods are more likely for the rank-and-file clone troopers who died in large numbers.

The handling of fallen clone troopers' bodies varied depending on the situation, traditions of their units, and the resources available at the time. The Republic likely couldn’t spare the funding to do wide scale clean-ups after space battles (we see in the Malevolence arc that it doesn’t seem to be a priority) So yes, most likely there are a lot of clones scattered all over space.

In one of the comics, "The Only Good Clanker," Commander Cody draws the short straw for "roundup duty" and has to weed through the fallen clones to check for survivors. So the clones also likely have a rotating clean-up detail dedicated to collecting fallen clones.

Some practices & belief systems we see in Canon and the EU:

The most common burial method seen across canon and the EU involves placing the deceased clone in a shallow trench, covering the trench with dirt, and then creating a raised mound by piling rocks on top. Markers were usually stone cairns and/or a marker of an empty helmet balanced on a rifle, similar to a "soldier's cross." The clones themselves dug the graves. If Jedi were present, they usually helped with the burial process. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Depa Billaba, Kanan Jarrus, Kit Fisto, and Mace Windu were a few of the Jedi who participated in such burials.

Helmets seem to consistently be the standard memorial marker in the absence of a grave.

In one of the comics, the most grievously wounded clones are taken to the Jedi temple for medical care. If they died there, the Jedi may have cremated them and given them funeral rites according to their customs.

Mass graves and cremations are not explicitly discussed but implied by showing a high volume of clone trooper fatalities. Armor is canonically scavenged at these sites.

In some reference books and EU novels, such as the Medstar series & Cestus Deception, fallen clones were sometimes used for organs, skin grafts, blood, etc., and/or sent back to Kamino for DNA "recycling."

Some clones canonically adopted elements of local warrior cultures, which may have influenced their unit's burial customs.

Some depicted burial rituals include swearing a "battle oath" of swift vengeance on the perpetrators of the deaths, a ritual where each surviving clone added a handful of earth to a burial trench before erecting a rock grave marker, burying fellow clones with their slain killer on a stake as a monument, and traditional Mandalorian funeral customs.

Clones usually remove their helmets during funeral rites out of respect for the fallen

If not easily recoverable, clones were left where they fell. For example, in Jedi: Fallen Order, we can see that fallen clones were left behind at battle and crash sites.

There is at least one instance of clone commandos who'd been trained by a Corellian instructor insisting on cremation (a Mando, Jedi, and presumably also a Corellian tradition) for a fallen comrade: "Cremation," Ennen said. "I don't care how we do it, but I want him to have a proper cremation." (Imperial Commando: 501st)

Known ritual phrases during burial: Ni su'cuyi, gar kyr'adyc, ni partayli, gar darasuum (translation: I'm still alive, but you are dead. I remember you, so you are eternal) Followed by repetition of the fallen clone's names & "From water we're born. In fire we die. We seed the stars" & "We die, but the GAR goes on forever." The clones largely viewed these phrases as comforting.

Clones who were trained by Mandalorians, such as ARC troopers, pilots, clone commandos, and certain rank-and-file units, often adhered to Mandalorian funeral customs and beliefs about death. Mandalorians followed the spiritual concept of "Manda," which is the collective soul of the Mandalorian people, with Mandalorians transitioning into the Manda after their death. Mandalorians preferred cremation, but in war they often buried their deceased in mass graves. They believed that mass graves mirrored the collective consciousness that every Mandalorian shared in death and that a soldier should never be separated from their comrades, even in death. Mandalorians saw the body as a tool for accomplishing deeds and passing on knowledge. What happened to the body after the soul had gone to the Manda was deemed mostly irrelevant.