Title: Haat'Mand'alor be Yaim'ol
Fandom: Star Wars
Author: Batsutousai
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Jaster Mereel
Warnings: Time travel, canon-typical violence, fix-it (apparently), not everyone dies/some live, the Kaminoans are the worst, Jaster is the Mand'alor we deserve, character death, the clones deserve better, Jaster has 3 million grandkids, mental manipulation, Mandalorian culture, Mandalorian morality, an excessive amount of murder (of Kaminoans), Jedi culture respected, Jango needs a hug, Rex needs a hug, Fox needs a hug, EVERYONE GETS A HUG (except the Kaminoans), asexual Jango, nonbinary clones, trans clones, polyamory mention, disabled characters, happy ending
Summary: Jaster Mereel doesn't die on Korda VI, but is instead thrust forward thirty years to Kamino.
A/N: I have no idea where this idea came from, it just did. I sort of expected it to turn into a 'Jaster lays into Jango about his shitty life choices' fic. Which it is, to an extent, but, also, Dooku is an asshole, the Kaminoans are the worst, and Jango isn't entirely to blame for the way the clones were raised.
I did not start out intending this to be JastObi, but Jaster was insistent, and I am a weak author who cannot say no to my characters. (Especially when it's in regard to rarepairs that I enjoy.) Related, all smutty scenes will be fade-to-black; if you want to read Jaster and Obi-Wan getting it on, write it yourself.
I also went into this foolishly expecting it to be a one-shot, maybe as long as 30k. I don't know why, I should know myself better by this point. *eyeroll*
Opening scene is taken directly from Jango Fett: Open Seasons, then transfers to the tail of Jango and Obi-Wan's battle in Attack of the Clones, with some minor timing changes for plot reasons.
Canon-related, my understanding of the members of the Cuy'val Dar—the group of mostly-Mandalorians that Jango brought in to train the clones—comes from Wookieepedia and fanon, not Traviss' books. (I have no intention of reading something by someone who thinks the jedi deserved to be genocided and calls those who like them Nazis.) If they are not the characters you're familiar with, that's why. (Also, I've made a few of them non-human, because, for a community supposedly so welcoming of non-humans, there seem to be a depressing number of them that are humans. Which, related, I'm basing non-human helmet designs on the-art-block's sketches over on tumblr. Link is for my blog, since they don't seem to have a tag just for their helmet sketches.)
For Mando'a (and, I think, 2 Huttese words?), I've added hover-text, which doesn't really work on mobile, alas. (It does on Ao3, so you may be best reading over there.) Alternately, there's a glossary of terms in a separate post, for those who prefer that manner. If an entire section of dialogue is bolded, you can assume it's being spoken in Mando'a, but I'll do my best to let you know in the text when they're switching languages.
The title translates to 'The True Mand'alor's Return'. It can also be taken to mean 'Return of the True Mandalorians' Mand'alor', given the fanon Mando'a for the faction is 'Haat'ade' and Mando'a's habit of dropping parts of words while mashing them together. Both translations are correct, in this case. (We can argue word order until the cows come home, btw, but that seems like more energy than a made-up language is worth, to me. You do you, I guess?)
( Chapter One )
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