#verp hc

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food related kal skirata headcanons

-he's been keeping snacks on his person since he met the nulls, who as kids would just come up to him and stick their hands in his pockets. he keeps talking to jango while mereel roots around for the jerky. 'left belt pouch, mer'ika' 'you moved it >:v'

-after living in a bombed out city alone as a kid and then spending a large chunk of his life completely broke, kal personally has a lot of really shit comfort foods. like, bottom-of-the-pantry poverty bordering on prison food. cinnamon sugar on toast. ramen noodles with peanut butter in it.

-he was much worse when he was younger and has mostly grown out of it, but had a lot of food security issues as a result of the whole 'lived in the rubble and basically went feral as a 6 year old' thing. munin had a hard time getting him to eat all of his food instead of just eating part of it and stashing the rest somewhere for later

-kal can cook pretty well. nothing fancy, and frankly he's better at campfire cooking than using a stand mixer, but he does a perfect fried egg

-most mandos carry travel-sized hot sauce and kal is not an exception

-in the books he frequently takes people to diners for difficult talks, asks someone to make caf when things get tough, offers candy and treats, makes sure that one senator's secretary gets ordo a glass of juice as a form of respect. bardan starts bringing troops food and it's noted that he's taking a page out of kal's book. food is a big deal to him, and it's not just because the clones have a higher metabolism, it's a language of respect and comfort and love to him

-maze saying that he likes zey because 'he made the caf around the office' hit kal like a fuckin truck because of that. unfortunately he wasn't able to be anything but angry right then but if book 6 had happened i like to think that that line would have come back to be significant

-kal doesn't know what a calorie is but he'll rip anyone who suggests you LIMIT them a new asshole

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oh my god the kalamar agenda. yeah. hmh. i have so many incoherent brainworms about them

-they meet on kamino and become very good friends very fast

-neither of them exactly planned to get intimate but they get a little (in kal's case a lot) drunk and play strip poker, listen, it's been a BAD few years cut off from the rest of the galaxy with only 74 other people they'd actually consider peers, you do some crazy stuff when you're that desperate for connection, and things escalate into a smut scene lmao

-they continue to have sex but now sober because. well. that felt really good. and is honestly one of the healthier coping mechanisms you could develop on FUCKING KAMINO

-both of them being who they are theyre going to end up catching hella feelings even if this starts as a really bizarre still-platonic arrangement. theres no way either of them is capable of having sex without getting attached.

-maybe kal would actually allow gil to fix his ankle sooner if they were romantically involved idk.

-once they finally get off kamino theyre gonna have to re-evaluate everything and OH BOY is that gonna be awkward but i believe in them <3

-the nulls found out. way faster than kal wanted them to. they definitely found out, there's no way they wouldn't. kal wanted to fucking DIE having to explain it to them.

What are you personally doing to further the mij/kal agenda? Do more. We must do more. Gather together and do more. We gotta do more guys. Gay gay homosexual gay . Stand up and go ham

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sadly realizing i never made a ref for sny of my bloodborne ocs. Hi. if u desperately need to draw something for me for christmas heres good looks at ettore’s face

i have yet to design a fit for him but! He is from Technically Not Italy so if that gives u any ideas . Lol. Also my hc is that hes damian’s brother (so damian is italiancore now sorrryyyyy oops) also as a beast he retains his funny weird scar and blondeness becsuse Yay also he wears an apron (verp specific)

ingame fit ☟

As human - Gascoigne’s hat, Yahar’gul garb, Surgical Gloves, Bone Ash whatever the pants are called Lol

As beast 😧 - Butcher garb and bloody pants (brador’s pants . whatever they are called. im not a pants rememberer) ALSO HWRES A DOODLE

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i bet the other alphas find out alpha-17 started going by alpha and unanimously decide that that's pretentious and lame, and also confusing as fuck if you have to deal with multiple alpha arcs at the same time

to be fair alpha didn't choose it as his name so much as respond to obiwan's insistence that he has to have SOME name with 'fine you can call me by part of my designation' but still

any of his brothers hear someone refer to him as Alpha and they give him The Patented Alpha Eyebrow Raise while he subtly flips them off

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based off this post, i present to you an au maybe 5 people will understand!

mercs/501st/rebel legion repcomm au*

*all dramatics in this au are based off of the characters and their dynamics in the series, not real world people, i feel like i have to say this because i'm a currently acting mercs officer

kal is an alor'ad, vau is the ver'alor (no really, trust me on this), and gilamar is the ruus'alor

kal has been the alor'ad for like 15 years now. nobody ever wants to run against him and the entire clan is dreading the year he retires. he never wants to retire, he's going to be trooping when he's 90

kal is ex-military (and in the mercs' military/vet group), discharged when he got shot in the ankle. he works as a substitute high school teacher, so he's mostly retired and treats the mercs as his job. he does a troop at least once a month, usually more

kal joined the mercs straight out of the military because he needed some kind of community and a hobby to keep him busy. pretty quickly he went from Military Hard Ass to Mr Rogers

he's INCREDIBLE at running cons, coordinating between multiple organizations, figuring out booth setup, managing the table schedule, and generally keeps things running very smoothly

kal and vau FUCKING HATED each other at first. they only got away with constant bickering because the alor'ad at the time was jango, who did not give a shit about the 'conflict resolution' part of his job and dumped alor'ad duties on the first person who was willing to do it as fast as possible (this was kal- jango quit the month after kal got approved)

before kal joined, vau was good friends with jango, and he's pretty pissed with him initially for quitting and leaving THIS LITTLE MOTHERFUCKER in charge, but vau didn't want the job either, so

the main reason kal and vau hate each other is that vau's dad was an air force officer (vau never enlisted because his dad wouldn't let him) and kal was army. instead of being reasonable about this, they build about 18 stratified layers of resentment

all their beef is external- they actually agree on most things related to the costuming clubs. they eventually start to bond over being annoyed by the same things, and mutually caring about their other club members. they get drinks after a small troop once and talk it out, and because they dont have Kamino And Vau Almost Killing Atin fucking up their relationship, this actually works. everybody is SHOCKED when vau runs for ver'alor the next year

vau is very happy with being ver'alor because he doesn't mind doing paperwork and merch stuff and finances (all of which kal is... pretty bad at) and he gets to be involved with all decision making, but kal does all the Social Organizing (which vau is very bad at)

mird is a fuckass little white dog that vau puts in various star wars costumes for events

alternatively mird is a doberman or shepherd breed that vau still puts in star wars costumes. i couldnt decide

vau does not talk about what he does for work. everyone is scared to ask

gilamar is the ruus'alor because it is his job to tell everyone not to breathe in bondo fumes or resin dust. this is my entire reasoning

he is actually a veterinarian, not a human doctor. everybody asks him for medical advice anyways

rav hosts most of the armor parties, she owns a ranch house (and horses), and also hosts an annual bonfire party. parja lives with her.

the clones are mostly not biologically related, but all of them for some reason or another lack family connections and have latched onto the costuming groups for that community. kal hasn't legally adopted any of them (he met them all at least as late teens/adults) but most of them refer to him as their dad/grandpa

the nulls are all masters of the craft. they have like 4+ approved kits each across the mercs, 501st, and rebel legion. jaing has the most approved kits: 2 custom mandalorians, a rotj boba (the madman), an arc lieutenant, stormtrooper, sandtrooper, imperial officer, generic jedi, darth vader- (the list continues and he has more in the works. he also is in Droid Builders)

mereel only has less approved kits than jaing, he has more if you count his joke kits. approved he has a custom mandalorian, a darth vader, a general grievous (yes this is a thing, you stand in the cloak and puppet the grievous), and a generic clone

for joke kits, he has a Bedazzled Mando, Sexy Darth Vader, Sexy Boba, a halo mashup, Male Twi'lek Hooter, Rainbow Jedi, and more

a'den specifically likes making helmets and has an entire wall of just helmets

all the nulls have lighting and mechanical parts to die for (whistling birds that actually move into place, fog machine in the jetpack, motorized and lit rangefinder, programmed voice lines activated by glove gestures, blasters with lights and sounds)

mereel also made an e-web prop

bardan joined rebel legion first with a jedi and still sometimes wears it but as soon as he found out about the mercs he made armor and didnt look back

bardan's lighting and programming game is also insane, he also likes droid building and lightsaber hilt building/programming

bardan has only done his jedi and one mando, but he's constantly helping everybody else with their armor. he's at every armor party. he's the best tailor in the whole goddamn area

zey is some kind of regional command/app team for the rebel legion (im not familiar with their command structure sorryyyy) and does not want to wear armor because it's hard to put on and rough on your body and also difficult and expensive. he's very good as a regional officer. kal only drives him a little crazy sometimes, they generally work together very well

etain is rebel legion with a custom jedi, and she's had mando armor in the works for literal years. bardan is about to kidnap her for a weekend to get it done already. she loves building blasters and helped mereel with the e-web

bardan is the clan's jor'alor (runs social media). before he joined that was vau's job. vau is ASS at social media and kept posting his dog. bardan actually would prefer to be the ru'cabur but he can't give social media control back to vau, it would be a disaster, so he's just also unofficially doing ru'cabur stuff (historian, lore expert)

at cons bardan usually runs a mandalorian history panel and includes a Mando'a Crash Course section where he gets the audience yelling phrases. he gets to nerd out to an actually interested audience for about 45 minutes, while wearing mando armor, with a power point. this is ideal for him

laseema has a twi'lek mando but prefers to handle rather than troop, she only wears her armor 2-3 times a year

i could go on but tbh if you read all of that already ily

[bardan-jusik]

repcomm character's favorite parts of building armor in Costuming Club AU

Walon Vau- sanding. (the psychopath) he likes to get a printed item totally perfect and he has the patience to do it. because sanding a print is similar to torture because he has an eye for detail! he has the process down to an absolute science. resin coat, bondo thinned with acetone, automotive priner, wet sanding. but he won't do it for you- he's going to insist on teaching you his process. good luck.

Kal Skirata- weathering. it's one of the final steps in building a kit, and really pulls everything together and makes it look lived-in and real. and you get to be really creative with it- singe some things, build salt and hairspray texture into the paintjob, literally cut something up, physically damage a plate, make an unholy paint slurry to slap on and badly clean off, mist spraypaint, use bleach, emulate rust... you can really go ape shit. literally the opposite of sanding

Bardan Jusik- sewing! he's got like 3 machines- a regular heavy duty, one specifically for leather, and a serger. he loves the entire process, designing the item, modifying or drafting a pattern, selecting materials, mockups, cutting, construction, details. he loves seeing an item come together out of fabric. and then he chickens out on weathering and hands it to kal. he's made a lot of casual wear star wars clothes for himself!

Etain Tur-Mukan- WEAPONS. scratch built blasters, resin printed knives, large blaster assembly in a mix of printing and scratch building, spears, lightsabers, all of it. she collects greeblies and LOVES finding little bits to stick on a gun to really make it swarzy. great at painting weapons. can do some lights on her own but recruits help for anything involving coding.

Arligan Zey- actually isn't in the hobby for the making of the costumes, he's here for the community and trooping, mainly. does some basic sewing. mostly outsources/commissions things he doesn't want to do, but he enjoys going to armor parties and helping with whatever people need a hand with

Ordo Skirata- sintra fabrication. he's great at plate shaping. dude could make a goddamn bo katan chestplate out of sintra, do not ask me how. a huge proponent for scratch building as much as possible, prefers not to use 3d printed parts. for one thing you have to sand them, which only real freaks enjoy doing, they're also less durable. sintra all the way.

Mereel Skirata- 3d printing. it's incredible all the things you can make! maintaining a machine is a hobby all of it's own! 3d printing entering the hobbyist realm opened huge possibilities! and if you hate sanding, you should hear about resin printing.

Jaing Skirata- coding and electronics. he helps etain with finishing touches on blasters, such as sound effects and really fancy lights. all his shit has light effects in it, small coded screens that rotate through pictures and text. the amount of shit he can cram in a helmet is truly incredible. he's got fans, hearing assist, voice amp, and lights in there. has also made a lot of lightsabers

A'den Skirata- helmets. specifically helmets. he's done a lot, and sells them. he has several molds and has made his own helmet model. enjoys finishing and painting them, sometimes takes commissions for fully finished helmets.

Atin Skirata- coding and robotics. likes moving parts. because of safety rules prohibiting motorized weapons in armor, he mainly builds droids. does whistling birds and moving rangefinders and the like, but really enjoys building astromechs.

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i want my aroace mereel headcanon to be its own post but im not gonna type all that again

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i don't think i've ever actually released this headcanon into the wild

post-canon, once everyone is home and things are stable, bardan finds an apprenticeship as an armorer

he loves making things, he's very good at fixing stuff and making things and likes weapons and armor (his intro scene where he tools up omega, he was the one who made the dust projectiles in triple zero, it's noted that while he was living with laseema, kal, and kad, he usually had some project he was working on)

if you take the worldbuilding from the show and treat armorers as a sort of cultural/spiritual guide as well, that's also right up his alley. personally i like the idea of armorers having a very important social role, being entrusted with oral traditions, and also being the person who is there in a lot of important moments in a mandalorian's life- they're there when a verd'ika gets their first helmet, they're there when someone brings in the armor of a deceased loved one to have it refitted, they're there when something bad has gone down and someone needs their armor fixed, they're there when someone's had a huge win and is splurging on a new beskad

that's so bardan, he's an excellent listener, extremely non-judgemental, and would have excellent advice (if you need it), and he's a HUGE mando culture nerd

armoring probably also includes the HUD systems, which bardan would love programming- beskar'gam isn't just about the metal, it's a very technologically advanced system. he doesn't sew, though, not for public sale (although he can absolutely use a sewing machine, i just think metal work and programming is more his thing)

he has a forge in keldabe but still visits home frequently, or has members of clan skirata crashing on his couch overnight

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i think bardan's favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin

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Fixer is the communications and medic. It's why his name is Fixer. He fixes them.

now i'm not saying that the books and the games never contradict each other, but if fixer is ever named as the medic specifically in the game i don't remember, and it never made it into his wookieepedia article. he's called fixer because he fixes technology.

meanwhile in the books, fi is the squad's sniper and medic. this makes sense, because your sniper is generally going to be farther back, less likely to get injured, which is where you also want your medic. it'd be pretty dumb to have your demo guy, who is most likely to be blown up, be your medic, wouldn't it? same with your sergeant, cause he's got other things to be worrying about when there's somebody needing medical attention (assuming it isn't him anyways). i guess i don't see an immediate reason your comms guy couldn't be your medic, but it makes most sense for it to be your sniper. your comms guy is also going to probably have something to be doing, while if a sniper isn't sniping they don't need to be processing data.

you could also argue that they'll train whichever squad member shows the highest capability to be medic into that role. and i have no proof aside from the fact that squad designation numbers don't line up, but i do think that there's at least an initial capability test to figure out which cadets should go into which roles. but i don't think kaminoans are flexible enough to let medic be a floating job.

nothing ever explicitly says that sev is the squad medic, it's a headcanon that i have based off the fact that that's what omega's squad roles are. as far as i know, nothing ever actually says fixer is the squad medic either.

if you're going to come into my inbox telling me your headcanon is better than my headcanon, i'd appreciate it if next time you bring sources.

now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go back to imagining sev having medic training bc i think he deserves to have a higher-than-average rate of weird body facts

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wait one of the best things about costuming au is imagining everybody carpooling to an event

vau and kal tetrising kit boxes and bags and props into the back

the aay'han is a fucking repainted schoolbus to fit everybody i guess

actually several of these guys would have unending fun taking a schoolbus and making it look like a star wars spaceship inside

no people dont actually do this because nobody has that kind of money and people just carpool in their private vehicles but i want to cram as many characters into one vehicle as possible so let me have this

kal's road snack game is ELITE

the nulls are doing last minute super gluing in the back

delta are playing some unhinged car game such as 'punch each other every time we see a semi'

fi gets carsick easily so he's asleep

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obiwan flirts in ways only an asexual person can

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Zey and Bardan (Master and Padawan OTP not anything else, not even the most twisted minds of our generation could pull off zey/bardan eugh anyway): 14. Who kills the spiders? / 49. Who is the driver/ Who is the passenger? / 46-47. Who has the longer food/more complex caf order?

OMG THE BLORBOS <3

as a kid bardan is way too sensitive to kill the spiders!! they're living creatures!! with feelings!! they didnt do anything to deserve death!! if he pays too close attention he can feel their tiny little life end in a flash!! and he's not scared of spiders anyways, they can hang

bardan wants to drive so so so bad. no sane person wants to be in the passenger seat when bardan is driving. arligan lets him drive SOMETIMES. he gets way too excited about it and makes arligan regret this decision immediately. just because you can drive with your eyes closed because of The Force doesnt mean you HAVE TO, BARDAN. fortunately he's a great getaway driver

arligan strikes me as having very specific tastes, when it's possible to reasonably accommodate. not necessarily fancy or over the top, but precise. bardan, like every teenage boy ever, will eat anything that enters his field of vision

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i want to be thoughtful about how i say this because addressing real life issues through fiction is an important function of fiction, and star wars is very much about addressing real life political issues fictionally, but,

content that handles queer issues as a direct transplant from modern western culture and doesnt take into account that star wars is a hugely diverse world with thousands of species that all come with their own cultures and potentially wildly different sexes and gender constructs and methods of reproduction actually drives me a little insane

mandos specifically simply Do Not have homophobia and as a gender neutral culture everything transgender is going to look wildly different (disability discussion would also look completely different on mandalore)

you get to coruscant where thousands and thousands of cultures and species meet and expect me to believe theres some united prejudice about persons of the same gender being in romantic/sexual relationships? i'm sure theres certain cultures that have a reason for homophobia but i really cannot see that being a collective thing

idk like i said, im sure the fan content i see that just assumes modern western attitudes apply to all of star wars just isn't that deep and is only trying to get a little catharsis via fictional projection and theres nothing wrong with that, people love to think about their blorbos experiencing the same issues they have, i get it

theres just so so much opportunity for nuance and interesting cultural exploration and it drives me a little bit wild to see that potential ignored

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i hc fenn shysa as an untrained force sensitive mainly bc that makes him asking if bardan would sow his wild oats all across mandalore a billion times funnier

(but also because... people listen to fenn...)

the whole situation also reaches new heights of comedy if you're an aroace bardan truther

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headcanon time

kal has a stick-and-poke kyr'bes tattoo on his right shin that he got in his 20s or 30s while drunk with friends

i cant decide if i like it better if rav did it, or a friend who is marching on ahead