#Montross

[bucket-tooka]

Observe this rare trading card I got for $1.57!

We stan Jaster Mereel, Mandalore the Reformer on this blog. We also ignore great swathes of canon around here!

Now! Even though Jaster is now only canon in Boba's chain code and listed as mentor, I wish to direct your attention to the back of this card.

"He also raises an orphaned farmer's son, Jango Fett, as his own." AS. HIS. OWN.

I don't know what that means to you, but my dude, that reads as Jaster raised Jango as his own son. Jaster was his father.

So! Fanfic writers, while we all chose to write differently and all sorts of different plots, let others have their headcanons in peace. Educating people about actually harmful words is good.

But Jas'buir used to be canon and I'm sticking to it! Also most of us write Jaster a lot softer than he is in canon and yanno? I like it. I do enjoy giving him more ruthless moments though, usually against his enemies.

(Disclaimer: I hate the whitewashing and kriffed up faces in the Open Seasons comics. All Fetts are round-featured and darker skinned in my fics. I even got the Bad Batch their melanin back, since I was pressured into adding them to my fic.)

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Top picture - A trading card of Jaster Mereel from Star Wars Legends in a plastic sleeve encased in a thicker protective plastic sleeve. It's got a picture of Jaster from the Open Seasons comic firing at someone in the field at the Fett Homestead where Death Watch had chased the True Mandalorians to. Cut out at the right edge is his left hand holding onto a terrified Jango's arm. You can barely see the arm and some hair. Captioned: Jaster Mereel, with Mandalorian underneath it.

Bottom picture - Jaster's stats, which are all really high except for Force Power. The bio reads (and I'm going to fix the mispellings tyvm)

"Born on the Outer Rim world of Concord Dawn, Jaster Mereel is a law enforcer who staunchly believes in justice and fair play. Accomplished as a soldier, he goes on to become the leader of all Mandalorian clans, reforming the volatile thieves into honorable mercenaries. Mereel is opposed by the splinter group Death Watch and its leader Tor Vizsla. He also raises an orphaned farmer's son, Jango Fett, as his own. In 52 BBY, Jaster Mereel is betrayed by second-in-command Montross and slain by rival Vizsla."

[omikronwhiesai]

It was in the evening and I decided to redo the page from the comic. Adding variety to the species for Mando. And it was so insipid from such a bunch of ordinary people. Another thing is when bright spots of alien species and armor appeared in the hall. ^3^

[feelinkeeli]

Legends canon Montross is hilarious.

This roughly 40yo man decided to get into, essentially, a dick measuring contest with a 14yo. Montross lost so hard he got fired and then exiled.

Twenty years later, having learned nothing, he tried to get into a dick measuring contest with the same guy, who is now 34yo, again. He lost again so badly the 34yo didnt even bother to kill him.

[archeo-starwars]

Jaster Mereel [The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]

[cienie-isengardu]

Jango Fett Open Seasons: Retreat vs. fight no matter the cost

Another detail from Jango Fett: Open Seasons that I find very telling about characters is their approach to retreat. I’m specifically want to talk about the  four major Mandalorians - Tor Vizsla, Jaster Mereel, Jango Fett and Montross as they all were at some point in the story put in situation when they needed to decide to continue fight no matter the cost (in theory the ideal Mandalorian warrior mindset) or to prioritizing their people’s life (a choice testifying to good leadership). And yes, those situations weren’t always exactly the same yet similar enough to see the implied(?) similarities in theoretical dissimilar characters.

So we have Jaster Mereel, the original leader of True Mandalorians. During a mission on Korda Six, when Mandalorians came across the enemy's heavy fire (and Jango ordered his people to find cover), Jaster gave an order to regroup at Jango’s location - the safest place and abort the air strike.

And once it became clear, they made a mistake to rely on second-handed intel - but before they learned it was Death Watch's trap - Jaster decided to abort the whole mission. Something quite different from what Jango will teach his son decades later (“Your loyalty, your honor – these are the things that matter. When you accept a mission, when you give your word, it is all that matters.”)

Montross however refused to regroup at Jango's location

and continued the attack, stating "we've never abandoned a mission!"

Montross survived thanks to Jaster who personally came to his aid only to betray his leader and leave him behind once Tor showed up. And while he tried to take command of True Mandalorians, he did order an evacuation, as the "Jaster's last order still stands" argument.

Then we have Tor Vizsla who during Jango’s attack on Death Watch’s ship, ordered everyone to evacuate.

And now, let’s talk about Jango Fett who started very much minded like Jaster, what was the best visible on Korda Six. The mission was his first official role as Squad Commander but he didn’t allow pride or desire to make Jaster proud to take over common sense. When it became clear his men were under too strong enemy’s fire, he ordered them to get into trenches / find cover. 

However on Galidraan, as a leader of True Mandalorians, when he already knew they walked again into Death Watch’s trap, instead of  de-escalate threat of the Jedi by at least trying calm down the situation and presenting what is going on behind the scene- and mind you, the Jedi did not have all facts but Fett already met Vizla at Governor's residence and as he wore helmet at that time, most likely had recorded this, not to mention all Mandalorians could present what they were doing and where they were via the recording from helmets - Fett ordered to open fire. And the Jedi naturally responded as such.

(And really, if Fett was smarter he could at least try to turn Jedi against Death Watch).

This is even more surprising choice as Jango's first reaction upon seeing Republic shuttles before even meeting eye to eye with Jedi was to call his second-in-command to order an evacuation.

Which is pretty ironic, that both Jaster and Tor, despite their ideological differences, were at some point shown to prioritizing their men’s safety by ordering retreat / evacuation, while Jango started as similar minded (Korda Six and upon seeing Republic shuttles on Galidraan) but once Jedi showed up, his attitude changed into “no running, fight whatever the cost” which not only led to great tragedy but made him more like Montross. 

[blackkatmagic]

Open Seasons Vol. 2 by Haden Blackman

[eopederson]

Confederate Memorial, Westmoreland County Courthouse, Montross, 2019.

Many such memorials on courthouse lawns or squares in states of the Confederacy included statues of confederate soldiers, although this one did not. Many of those, in turn, have been removed since 2020. I have not been back in Montross since the photo was taken, so I do not know if it still stands.

[bylightofdawn]

Seeds For the Future Chapter 22

Chapter is up! Was not sure if I was going to make it. And now I shall celebrate with some tea and some more Witcher S3

[autisticsupervillain]

CM vs MB

Jango Fett (Magnificent Bastard) vs Montross (Complete Monster)

[pretz3l-log1c]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jango Fett & Jaster Mereel, Jango Fett & CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, Jaster Mereel & CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, Montross/CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Characters: CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, Jaster Mereel, Myles the Mandalorian (Star Wars), Jango Fett, Montross (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Time Travel Fix-It, No Beta We Die Like Clankers, Montross is the asshole friend, Myles has the brain cell, Mando'a Language (Star Wars), Mandalorian Fives, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Sorry Not Sorry, The part of me that is a chaos gremlin insisted on Montross/Fives Summary:

When Jaster Mereel hears there's someone looking for Jango Fett months after the battle of Concord Dawn, he suspects a Death Watch ploy. He doesn't expect to meet a strange man who might as well be a carbon copy of his Foundling, if a good decade older. Fives might not be an agent of Death Watch but the more Jaster learns of the man the stranger he gets.

Or

What knowledge Fives has on Mandalorian history and politics is years away from being relevant. He just wants some help finding and defeating the Sith before they can cause a galactic war. If Jaster Mereel is willing to help him because he thinks Fives is Jango's half brother or something then Fives is willing to play along.

[arianaderalte]

How Montross Revealed Himself

Ch 6 of Cultural Revolutions and Other Impossible Things, the story for side shots and extra scenes from How a Romance Novel Saved the Galaxy. Set after the interlude in ch 1 of romance novel, but before the rest of the chapter.

In the early days after The Mandalorian's Dilemma was published, Montross gets drunk during a debate about the book.

[servicemonkey]

I found a bench

[feelinkeeli]

Montross is voiced by Clancy Brown.

Clancy Brown is most famous for voicing Mr. Krabs.

My head is trapped imaging Montross saying 'Money money money money.'

[average-transdalorian]

Okay one more thing before I go to bed

The lack of “Samus Aran Becomes A Mandalorian” fics I have seen is a travesty

Like. First of all, the parallels between Samus experiences + Chozo culture and Mandalorian culture in general are. Very present. Samus is an orphan who was brought up by a warrior people and given a set of armor that is both better than most other armor you’ll find and spiritually significant (at least, from what I could gather), and taught how to fight to a BREATHTAKINGLY competent degree in part so she could get revenge for her slaughtered maan’aliit (original/birth family).

Add onto that what it takes to be Mandalorian: following the Resol’nare

Bajur (education): Samus has been shown to learn a LOT of different information throughout the Metroid series. From scanning shit to watching and mimicking wildlife to just being an information sponge, Samus Aran is always willing to learn. We don’t know if she’d be willing to teach a protege yet, but given how she acts about the baby Metroid (specifically in the remake of Samus Returns and in Super Metroid, I am trying to not learn more about Other M than I already know), it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that she would be willing to teach a protege.

Beskar’gam (armor): Samus’ power suit looks more similar to modern beskar’gam than some ancient sets do. Like. Some sets don’t even have a t-visor, which she *does*. She also has some variation of most Mando’ad armor technology in her power suit at some point, and like I said before, it reads to me as spiritually significant. All it’s missing is a check by a Goran to make sure it’s still in good shape and counts as beskar’gam

Aliit (family/clan): she’s gotten vengeance for her maan’aliit AND killed her dar’buir (no-longer-parent, which I most certainly class Raven Beak as), who was implied to have killed her Chozo aliit. She seems to be a clan of one now, but signs certainly point towards her taking care of her aliit when she has one

Aranov (self-defense): she is Samus fucking Aran, I do not need to elaborate

Mando’a (language): not applicable, she hasn’t had a chance to learn it

Mand’alor (leader): she’s willing to both follow and question orders, iirc. We don’t see her having a sole leader (Other M isn’t real and can’t hurt me), but I don’t think she would find following a Mand’alor to be too objectionable

TLDR: some author(s) send Samus to the GFFA and make her Mandalorian pretty please

[cienie-isengardu]

Montross and "You'll kill them all, Fett."

Just before mission on Korda VI (Jango Fett: Open Seasons, issue 2):

Jango: "Jaster will do what's right for the Mandalorians. He always had." Montross: "Let's hope we can say the same about you."

After Jaster Mereel's death:

Montross: "Is that what you want? A child leading you? You'll kill them all, Fett."

Sidenote: Jango was 14 years old when he became leader of True Mandalorians.

Eight years later, Galidraan (Jango Fett: Open Seasons, issue 3):

"Mandalorians, open fire!"

You killed them... you killed them all. We're all dead...

[blackkatmagic]

Given the importance most Mandalorian put on armor, I would say the heaviest, most quality, most covering ones with all the designs, the sexiest. Montross' sleeveless one is the fashion choice equivalent of wearing socks with flipflops.

Ajksfs headcanon accepted