So I always have this headcanon that after Boba works with Aurra Sing, he does a lot to help the clone cadets on Kamino.
He has a lot of guilt for aiding her in killing a lot of the clones. For a while he tried to rationalize it, the whole “I’m not like you!”, and further distancing himself from them was just a façade to hide how he actually felt. Telling himself that the clones weren’t Jango, and that he was better than them made him feel better for a while. Yet later, as he spent some time in prison, he had some time to think.
The clone guards weren’t exactly mean to him, but they were distant and he obviously knew why. They knew he was Boba Fett—the one who wasn’t like them, though he looked like them. The one who killed their brothers like it was nothing. When he looked into their eyes , he didn’t see Jango or even clones. He saw men who were rightfully hurt by him, men who had nothing but each other and he had so ruthlessly aided in killing their brothers.
Boba also had to accept that Jango was awful to the clones. He could never hate his father, but he understands why some of the clones might. When Jango was playing with Boba, reading to him and being a good father to him, he was mistreating clones, training them near to death and treating them like they were objects. He heard some of the clones speaking ill about Jango countless times when he was in prison and now, he knows their hatred is justified.
When Boba breaks out of prison, and after his failed mission with Ventress—he looks back toward Kamino. It’s easy for him to sneak on all over again, even if he is a bit older and he starts to mingle with the cadets. Convincing them to want to desert is pretty easy. The little ones automatically latch on to his idea of a new life and big adventure—so Boba gives that to them. He takes five little cadets to start with and almost immediately latches on to them. It’s now when being a renown bounty hunter helps because he has some money to care for them. And when Boba bonds with these little cadets, he really does and it hurts. It hurts to know that Jango saw countless cadets and thought nothing of them whereas Boba wanted to take them all with him.
When he isn’t taking care of his baby cadets, he is doing what he can to help other clones desert. He feels that it’s something he has to do, even if it isn’t really his “problem” (though he’d argue that). And in all honesty, he enjoys what he does.
So I always have this headcanon that after Boba works with Aurra Sing, he does a lot to help the clone cadets on Kamino.
He has a lot of guilt for aiding her in killing a lot of the clones. For a while he tried to rationalize it, the whole “I’m not like you!”, and further distancing himself from them was just a façade to hide how he actually felt. Telling himself that the clones weren’t Jango, and that he was better than them made him feel better for a while. Yet later, as he spent some time in prison, he had some time to think.
The clone guards weren’t exactly mean to him, but they were distant and he obviously knew why. They knew he was Boba Fett—the one who wasn’t like them, though he looked like them. The one who killed their brothers like it was nothing. When he looked into their eyes , he didn’t see Jango or even clones. He saw men who were rightfully hurt by him, men who had nothing but each other and he had so ruthlessly aided in killing their brothers.
Boba also had to accept that Jango was awful to the clones. He could never hate his father, but he understands why some of the clones might. When Jango was playing with Boba, reading to him and being a good father to him, he was mistreating clones, training them near to death and treating them like they were objects. He heard some of the clones speaking ill about Jango countless times when he was in prison and now, he knows their hatred is justified.
When Boba breaks out of prison, and after his failed mission with Ventress—he looks back toward Kamino. It’s easy for him to sneak on all over again, even if he is a bit older and he starts to mingle with the cadets. Convincing them to want to desert is pretty easy. The little ones automatically latch on to his idea of a new life and big adventure—so Boba gives that to them. He takes five little cadets to start with and almost immediately latches on to them. It’s now when being a renown bounty hunter helps because he has some money to care for them. And when Boba bonds with these little cadets, he really does and it hurts. It hurts to know that Jango saw countless cadets and thought nothing of them whereas Boba wanted to take them all with him.
When he isn’t taking care of his baby cadets, he is doing what he can to help other clones desert. He feels that it’s something he has to do, even if it isn’t really his “problem” (though he’d argue that). And in all honesty, he enjoys what he does.
“Yeah? Well son same here! But that’s life! So you need to learn to not!”
“BOBA GET DOWN FROM THERE”
“NO! IM PLOTTING!”
“BOBA!!!! WE TALKED ABOUT THIS!”
*boba is upset at the cadets*
“*sigh* whats wrong, son?”
“…the other cadets are taller than me..”
*it was in this moment ponds remembered that he was going to be raising an actual boy through puberty*
*ponds sprinting across the base* “HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON?!?!”
——- some softer hcs
-when mace windu is leading a mission Ponds sends Boba on scout missions ((aka go hang out on a nearby outpost)) cause he knows how tough it is for him.
-when ponds is away, boba gets nervous cause even though he leaves a good clone to watch him he doesn’t trust him like he does ponds. He worries that this guy will be a replacement if the worst were to happen.
-Boba resents the whole situation at first but will never admit that he actually grows to look up to Ponds.
-when Ponds isn’t back from a mission on time he gets SUPER stressed out and irritable. And force have mercy on the clone who’s watching him if Ponds is injured.
-Ponds does his best to raise him to be a good man but when he dies Boba takes his teachings and holds up his honor but will take the path of bounty hunter to continue his fathers legacy. But he remembers Ponds teachings and doesn’t take it for granted. He is a tad bit merciful but will get the job done.
FINALLY receiving some validation for my Catholic Boba Fett headcanon !
I…..
who wrote the book.
Daniel Keys Moran, it’s from a collection of stories called “Tales of the Bounty Hunters”
I am SO happy with Catholic Boba. I am SO pleased that Boba Fett is a PAPAL LOYALIST. Thank GOD (And the Pope) For this.
Okay, but can we just appreciate the fact that this scene is Boba being handed Leia in her slave outfit to rape as a gift from Jabba the Hutt, and Boba’s response is not only to refuse touching her but handing her a sheet to cover herself and even offering that she can sleep on the bed while he sits in a chair across the room?
Boba tells Leia, “Sex between those not married is immoral,” which is a Mandalorian cultural thing
because children are everything to Mandos and sex which might result in
pregnancy is a big no-no unless both parents are ready and willing to
raise that child; marriage to Mandalorians is two people making a mutual promise to help each other, particularly helping each other raise any children they might conceive or adopt (adoption happens a lot in the heat of the moment, apparently; it canonically appears to be a bigger risk than unplanned pregnancy – “whoops, honey, I accidentally adopted this kid I found on the battlefield” “oh. well. we knew that might happen having unprotected combat and all”).
It just says a lot about Boba, and Mandalorians in general, that they’re big buff armoured warrior types who apparently canonically have a very strong cultural bias for responsible sex. I mean, how many times do we see the fantasy/sci-fi warrior soldier stereotype = rape, or at the very least coercive sex, in pop culture? In so many movies and comics and novels, the female heroine/hero’s woman is captured by bad guys and offered as a “gift” to some big hunk of a warrior/gladiator/what have you who either does whatever he wants with her (explicitly on screen or implied off-screen by her ruined makeup and torn dress) to further the hero’s rescue-and/or-revenge-journey or maybe seduces her with his ~manliness~ and huge muscles/weapons even while there’s still that element of power imbalance as she surrenders helplessly to the ~instinctive urge~ to mate with the alpha male. Sex, or they-were-going-to-but-last-minute-interruption/rescue, is the inevitable outcome of a sci-fi/fantasy woman in a gold bikini being shoved into a soldier/warrior/gladiator dude’s quarters/cave/den/hovel.
And Leia is genre savvy and knows this. She fully expects Boba to rape her, and says as much. But his response to her threatening to kill him or kill herself if he touches her is just “woah there, lady, have we entered a culturally binding contract to conceive and raise children? no, we have not. so don’t flatter yourself thinking I’ll get my gametes anywhere near your uterus, thank you very much!” And Leia is a bit offended and wrong-footed, telling him “um, rape is immoral too, y’know,” but Boba just dismisses it all, “well, yes, rape is bad, but like it’s so far off the table here that it’s basically a non sequitur, why would I rape you when I don’t even want to have consensual sex with you, come on.”
I just love the fact that in Mando culture, consensual sex is EVERYTHING, it’s even CONTRACTUALISED. You know how all those MRA anti-feminists are all up in arms about movements like #MeToo and whining about how totally unreasonable it is to expect everyone involved to consent to sex, what, do femi-nazis want everyone to fill out consent forms before sex haha how ridiculous – and then we have Mandalorians, the most alpha of alpha people of all genders, all fake nerd boy incels’ epitome of badassness, literally contractualising consent. Boba Fett, pop-cult bad guy extraordinaire, not only refusing to rape Leia in her slave costume (unlike every single incel in the world who has masturbated to that scene of her on her knees in chains) but being genuinely offended at the thought of having sex with someone without pledging himself fully to her safety and welfare.
This short story was the moment I fell in love with the EU’s Boba Fett and Mandalorians in general. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
This is amazing, I had no idea of the context! Thank you for writing this!
There was a hint of this in Meeting Like This, when Leia meets Ghost!Jango in the force cave Jango says that there’s a question Boba is always asking and that the answer is “every day.” In the following chapter, Leia asks Boba if he ever feels like his dad is watching him from the afterlife and Boba says “every day.”
So I think the one thing Boba would want to say to Jango would be something along the lines of “did you see that, Dad?”
@outcastcommander one of the first versions of the rots script had windu dying on the run from clone troopers – he runs into boba, now 16 years old, who shoots him, finally getting justice for windu killing his father, but lucas scrapped it because boba wasn’t really in the rest of the film and he thought it would take attention away from anakin and his narrative, iirc
*angry screeching* WHAT?!?!?!?! Dammit; that would’ve been AWESOME though!
*irritable grumbling* So gonna include it in the Order 66 chapter of my main fic … when I eventually get to it
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