mikadoplatypus
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I think my favorite part about Boba's daddy issues is the fact that they aren't your traditional flavor of daddy issues
Like
"Oh my dad never loved me" or abusive, or anything to that degree
Like on all accounts Jango loved him and did his best. Some of his methods are a little unorthodox but such is life when you're a war vet with PTSD that doesn't have a healthy coping mechanism besides having a son. No no no. Boba's daddy issues are that he simply is his father and he will never escape that shadow. (Well there's Din who just flat out doesn't know. But my point is there)
He is his father and he will never be the man his father was and isn't that the kicker. You know how Robert Irwin's life revolves around everybody and their mother feeling as though they need to include his father in the conversation whenever it pertains to him in the slightest?
Jango Fett was the blue print and Boba is simply his copy and I cannot imagine hearing about your dead father every time a fellow bounty hunter opened their mouth the second you stepped into a room. At least until Boba got fed up and pulled a blaster on the poor bastard and promptly shut him up for the moment.
And as fun as it is to imagine Jango in the aftermath shaking his head as his child inevitably falls down the very rabbit hole that got himself killed. But, that sentiment aside, I cannot imagine a moment Jango isn't proud of that boy and Boba simply cannot see that. Boba is in no way perfect and Jango was also the blue print for that, but Jango will be damned to feel ashamed of his kid for making the same mistakes under zero guidance. Jango's fucked up, and likewise his child is as well but that's his boy, his pride and joy.
And I don't think Boba's knows that. Most people didn't know his father. They knew Jango Fett the bounty hunter. They knew Jango Fett the Jedi killer. They knew a man, mostly ruthless, that hunted his prey with an expressionless face that waited until the right moment to strike.
And thats not to say that's all Jango was. But who was going to tell Boba that? That the man's hands were as gentle as they were calloused and that despite his dark unassuming eyes that dared one to speak against him, he was a family man at the end of the day and although all the family he had were long since dead he carried their remembrance with a guilt like no other and he loved his boy.
But a 10 year olds memory is a fickle thing. And when ones face is tilted towards the light it's so easy to be blinded by it.
Jango was never cruel, but his hands have left their stain no matter how many times he's washed them and when the only people left alive to speak your name are the hunters you gnashed teeth with and the child you left orphaned despite the promise that things would be different this time around it's too easy for the truth to fall between the cracks.
Because while Jaster would have beamed down at Boba with pride and Myles and Silas would have lifted that boy high above their heads and recounted tales upon tales of what trouble his father had dragged them along for, and Zam had brushed his fair back behind his ears and read him stories and left him books at his doorstep, Aurra Sing was not as kind.
And while she wretched alcohol away from too small hands she had just as easily belittled and abandoned him in the same breath. And while Hondo has described Jango as an honorable man, what good did that tell a boy who had been thrust into prison just a few hours later.
Because whether they'd told Boba his father was a too gentle bastard or a man that striked fear into the hearts of whoever heard his name, he was an unobtainable goal and Boba was a cheap imitation.
And while he rose against the ranks, and learned to strike fear into all who opposed him then learned to love above all else, there's not a soul alive to tell him that his father would be proud of the man he'd become.
And maybe at long last he can sleep at night, because what good is a dead man's approval anyway? But he will never know that at the end of the day, through the shadow and the haze of blurred vision Jango loved him above all else, everything else be damned.
POV: the Daimyo of Tatooine and Mand’alor seem weirdly into head butting? Must be because they’re such good friends.
No culturally romantic gestures happening here 👀
My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!
My hands:
Boba Fett loving big animals is so adorable and on brand, of course Boba Fett loves big animals, hes Mandalorian! His ancestors once rode the great mythosaur!
Soup comic #4: Happy Eyes
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Boba Fett’s reputation as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy comes from him pulling off an insane number of jobs throughout his life, some of which were even deemed impossible for a lone hunter to pull off
funnily enough, he doesn’t actually remember completing all of the ones people attribute to him, but after seeing the footage and biometric proof, he assumes that he’s been blacking out and entering some sort of exhaustion fugue state, or maybe he’s just had a few too many concussions
it’s not until he tries to claim a puck from the guild and is told that he’s already working that job that he starts to figure out that something more is going on, and decides to investigate who it is that’s been working this job
as it turns out, there’s actually like ten different escaped clones pulling bounties under his name, considering they all share the same DNA and face, who’ve put together a few fake versions of his father’s armor
many of them even work in teams, trading off who gets to ‘play Boba’ to the guild or clients
(they’ve also been using their shared DNA to access his space netflix account, which explains why the recommendation algorithm never seems to figure out what he likes and keeps telling him that he’s already watched shows he finds)
(strangely, he realizes that they haven’t touched any of his bank accounts, despite the fact that they could certainly have gotten through their security measures the same way)
after discovering this, he considers confronting them, killing them, even just turning them in to the guild
but then he’d lose some of his reputation if it comes out that impersonators can mimic him well enough to get the job done just as well as he could
so he just sends them all a message telling them to not fuck this up and continues with this life
tw// loss of a pet
I wasn't really thinking of posting this anywhere, but I've been thinking about my childhood goldfish more recently. c'est la vie, you get a boba fish comic, I get nostalgia.
anyways, hope see you soon with some bobatober pieces!
I’ve had this meme on my Tumblr page for years. Literally, years. Recently, I noticed that they removed it for “Violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines.” Really?! Where? How? I know that ceiling is terrifying, but, seriously…
I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.
Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.
Boba Fett post Sarlacc with Chronic pain.
Boba Fett post sarlacc choosing to take fights and missions knowing that he’ll be pushing it too far and in awful pain for days afterwards but being stubborn and deciding it’s worth it.
Or at the very least being so stubborn that he refuses to stop doing the things he’d been able to do before the Sarlacc when the pain wasn’t a constant.
Boba Fett sitting on his throne bouncing his legs because it reduces the pain just a little.
Boba Fett dropping things due to a flair of pain in his shoulders/elbows/wrists.
Boba being grumpy because the pain made sleeping an issue and his court learning which days were better ones to bring up issues based on it.
Fennec throwing painkillers at him because he’s being irritable and because she doesn’t want to see her friend hurting, especially if he’s just being too stubborn to take them.
Boba Fett having chronic pain but managing and living his life because it doesn’t mean he can’t be a badass and a king, even if there are new limits he has to adapt to.
Just Boba Fett having repercussions from the Sarlacc beyond the scars but them not stopping him.
I think we need to babygirl Boba more. Dude doesn't nearly get babygirlified enough.
I really like the word “smitten”. because at first glance you just think of sappy lovey-dovey stuff but also you have to remember this is a word that’s born of the word “smite.” a devastating word. a word that, summarized, means stricken. smitten means stricken as well — struck with devastating affection.
if you tag me in a chain post and i don't do it it's not because i hate you it's because i am very lazy. i love you thank you for tagging me.
As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:
I don’t care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you
I don’t care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you
I don’t care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isn’t IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you
I don’t care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. It’s actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase
I don’t mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all
I love you
din gets huggy after a couple of drinks
(boba’s not sure how to deal with it)
My inner introvert is screaming 😂😂😂
Now they make a nice little set :3
Please consider clicking on the images to see some details 🙏
(Din alone can be found here)
different viewpoints
Have a great day today.
Have a great day today.
listen to me. LISTEN. when i say boba fett is bad with words i mean that purely in a verbal/social sense. as mentioned in my previous literature: he either says too much or too little and can’t really gauge which is which. he’s unsure about deliberately changing his tone according to who he’s speaking to so he more or less adopts a one-size-fits-all approach (albeit with notable exceptions such as fennec, bo-katan and koska) - this can be called his “work voice” and it’s part of his scary professional bounty hunter persona etc etc etc. he can very effectively speak when he adopts the role of his own reputation (and uses this skill in tbobf) but when he’s just “boba” he’d rather not say anything than flounder through all those words unnecessarily.
HOWEVER. this hesitancy to speak casually does NOT reflect on his vocabulary. he reads and reads and reads (has been doing so since he was a boy) and enjoys fiction and poetry. it’s a hobby that has made him an eloquent man SPECIFICALLY when the situation calls for it. that’s all. now carry on w your day 👍
I'm such a sucker for the "character A always has trouble sleeping but if character B holds them, they fall asleep instantly and sleep through the whole night" trope
Ugh, it's just so good