When Chewbacca came of age the wise woman read his eyes and told him his future. He would live a long life, face many hardships and many great joys, and if he was steadfast and courageous he would earn a place in The Histories.
“I see four pups in your future, more by bond than blood.” she’d said. The math wasn’t hard, one by blood- that could wait until he found a wife- and three he’d have to go find himself.
A good future he thought, one he intended to earn.
1
Sometime during that first mad escape from Mimban he realizes Han Solo is a dangerous mix of smart and stupid. He is honest though, at least to Chewbacca, and didn’t treat him like the animal other humans did.
But he clearly needs looking after.
Not long after he thinks this Han saves his life. If anyone asks Chewbacca will tell them that’s why he follows Solo, a life debt is a serious thing.
But in truth it has more to do with the kindness hidden under the jokes and facade of toughness. This one has been alone his whole life and is still good at his core.
And if he is honest with himself, he had decided he was keeping this one the moment he grunted out an escape plan for them both in truly terrible garbled Shyriiwook.
Now he just has to teach Han not to talk his way into anything he can’t talk his way out of.
2
Luke Skywalker is shockingly naive the first time Chewbacca met him. Newly orphaned, for a second time, he still looked around with wide guileless eyes that got him in trouble almost immediately.
When Han takes the job from Luke and the Jedi not even trying to pretend he isn’t one Chewbacca knows this job will be different.
He did not anticipate exactly how different.
Han fidgets restlessly and grumbles to himself. Chewbacca does not say anything, but he keys the coordinates for Yavin into the hyperdrive. He doesn’t submit them. Not yet.
“Kriff.” Han hisses. “I must be crazy.”
Now he submits them to the navicomputer.
“We need to go back.” Han says, dumping them out of hyperspace. Chewbacca immediately begins wheeling the ship around just as the navicomputer spits out a route.
Han looks from the computer to him. His mouth twists like he doesn’t know whether to frown or smile.
In the end all he does is say “Right, let’s go make sure Luke doesn’t get himself killed.” and takes them to lightspeed again.
A very real concern, Luke is altogether too sure he’s the storybook hero.
They’ll have to teach him to take better care of himself.
3
“Can someone get this walking carpet out of my way?”
He doesn’t respond. The girl is angry. So angry she is lashing out at everyone even her rescuers. He can only begin to imagine how she feels. His home is imprisoned, trapped in the Empire’s iron grip. He know what it is to mourn a homeworld in chains.
He cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to lose his world entirely.
Later, after they have escaped and are on their way to Yavin Leia comes to find him alone in the cockpit.
“I’m sorry,” she says, quietly. Her rage cooled for now. “About earlier. I shouldn’t have insulted you like that. Especially when you risked your life to rescue me. I just-”
All at once whatever blocks she had in place fail. Her eyes tear up and she whispers, “They’re dead.” She covers her mouth for a moment, like she wants to deny what she’s said. But the tears flow harder and she continues. “They’re all dead. Everyone-”
Words fail her then, but she stands there weeping silently for a moment, before Chewbacca simply scoops her up and holds her in his lap.
(She’s such a tiny thing, full to bursting with anger and sorrow)
He rocks her gently, and croons calming nonsense, and lets her cry and cling to him.
This is not the first hug she’s given him. It will not be the last, but with luck there will not be more this full of pain.
“You cannot muscle your way through grief,” he tells her, even though he knows she doesn’t understand. “You must weather it instead.”
He hopes this in not a lesson she needs to use often.
share with us an Armorer headcanon please thank u
Just one???
I can’t do that. Have these.
The Armorer’s pronouns vary among their foundlings and the covert. They use all pronouns, so each person sort of lands on one or a few that feels right. Din calls them she/her, but freaks out when other people he knows call them that because that’s HIS set and people outside the covert don’t understand that; they just keep calling them his ‘mom.’ He is deeply offended on the Armorer’s behalf. They do not care that much.
The only exception to this is that when orders are given out, they want a ‘yes, sir’ and nothing less.
The Armorer has tried to poison Elder Vizsla (Paz’s grandparent) on no fewer than four occasions.
The Armorer is very close to their Second in Command, Eegang. Eegang reciprocates the closeness, but also is subject to some of the Armorer’s innermost thoughts, many of which make him check over his shoulders at least twice a day.
The Armorer only drinks clear liquor.
They love all of their children (including the estranged ones), but get along best with Din and Shimmol (their youngest daughter) because those two do such stupid and wild shit so seriously that it makes them laugh.
The Armorer’s sleep schedule is less of a schedule and more of a pile of hours with a label on them that says ‘sleep?’
They met Jango once. They were not impressed.
They only know about Jedi because they were once weirdly invested in Obi-Wan and Satine Kryze’s affairs as covered by Mandalorian tabloids.
They consider Grogu their grandchild.
They are interested in Luke and are trying to figure out if he is going to try to seduce Din into an affair (see: Obi-Wan and Satine Tabloid Stories).
They have already adopted Boba and Fennec without having met them.
This is what I have for now. I will ruminate on this further.
Some of my favourite behind the scenes photos from the making of the prequel trilogy.
BONUS:
Din + taking hits to his right pauldron
(requested/insp by @fanfoolishness)
bonus (the Armorer, deciding what to do with the first bit of beskar):
tl;dr anakin comes to like din and proceeds to embarrass his son shortly after
read more of this series here!
After Order 66, young Boba stole picked up Fox’ tookas and took care of them. A possible sequel to this post
Mand’alor the Resolute
So, I don’t remember where exactly I saw this, but I remember seeing a tumblr post talking about the Armorer taking the darksaber and becoming the Mand’alor. I thought the idea was fucking amazing and ran with it! I fiddled with the lighting and colors for forever but I’m really happy with the final outcome!
I named the Armorer, who we see as a stoic and calm authority figure within the Coven, Mand’alor the Resolute for her stability both in demeanor and in beliefs. I do not see her budging from what she believes. Yet, she is a strong and benevolent figure towards Din and the others within the Coven. Her title reflects those traits. In her hand, she wields both the darksaber and her hammer, as she still holds onto her role as Armorer even as a leader of the Mandalorians. Even in her design, the Armorer exudes the power of an Elder, cloaked in furs with a beautifully crafted helmet that looks more ceremonial than practical. It’s easy to see this figure as a leader, and many all too easily follow the Armorer in her footsteps
Headcanon: Boba has mellowed quite a lot with age and instead of being angry all the time he's now just walking around quietly amused by how fucking stupid everything is
Yes! I think so too!!
After the sarlacc, things are different.
But they’ve always been different, he’s starting to realize. It’s just before he couldn’t see the patterns, the way strings connected figures and players and events across the Galaxy, all of it some grand cosmic play for an audience he couldn’t begin to imagine. The sarlacc’s consciousness, millennia old, had writhed into his, and though the worm had left its tracks remained, altering his perceptions. The human scale is such a small one.
Boba watches the story play out, himself just another player, and sometimes it’s all he can do to keep from laughing. It doesn’t really matter anyway.
The freedom in that realization is astounding.
My contribution to @clanoftwoweek except I ignored the prompts because I just wanted to draw some father/son shenanigans. Life with toddlers…. I know it well.
More of my sketches of these two: https://sarahluann.tumblr.com/post/644563840438304768/today-for-my-100-day-project-i-did-a-bunch-of
https://sarahluann.tumblr.com/post/646491301998657536/so-people-keep-liking-and-sharing-these-and-i
When Chewbacca came of age the wise woman read his eyes and told him his future. He would live a long life, face many hardships and many great joys, and if he was steadfast and courageous he would earn a place in The Histories.
“I see four pups in your future, more by bond than blood.” she’d said. The math wasn’t hard, one by blood- that could wait until he found a wife- and three he’d have to go find himself.
A good future he thought, one he intended to earn.
1
Sometime during that first mad escape from Mimban he realizes Han Solo is a dangerous mix of smart and stupid. He is honest though, at least to Chewbacca, and didn’t treat him like the animal other humans did.
But he clearly needs looking after.
Not long after he thinks this Han saves his life. If anyone asks Chewbacca will tell them that’s why he follows Solo, a life debt is a serious thing.
But in truth it has more to do with the kindness hidden under the jokes and facade of toughness. This one has been alone his whole life and is still good at his core.
And if he is honest with himself, he had decided he was keeping this one the moment he grunted out an escape plan for them both in truly terrible garbled Shyriiwook.
Now he just has to teach Han not to talk his way into anything he can’t talk his way out of.
2
Luke Skywalker is shockingly naive the first time Chewbacca met him. Newly orphaned, for a second time, he still looked around with wide guileless eyes that got him in trouble almost immediately.
When Han takes the job from Luke and the Jedi not even trying to pretend he isn’t one Chewbacca knows this job will be different.
He did not anticipate exactly how different.
Han fidgets restlessly and grumbles to himself. Chewbacca does not say anything, but he keys the coordinates for Yavin into the hyperdrive. He doesn’t submit them. Not yet.
“Kriff.” Han hisses. “I must be crazy.”
Now he submits them to the navicomputer.
“We need to go back.” Han says, dumping them out of hyperspace. Chewbacca immediately begins wheeling the ship around just as the navicomputer spits out a route.
Han looks from the computer to him. His mouth twists like he doesn’t know whether to frown or smile.
In the end all he does is say “Right, let’s go make sure Luke doesn’t get himself killed.” and takes them to lightspeed again.
A very real concern, Luke is altogether too sure he’s the storybook hero.
They’ll have to teach him to take better care of himself.
3
“Can someone get this walking carpet out of my way?”
He doesn’t respond. The girl is angry. So angry she is lashing out at everyone even her rescuers. He can only begin to imagine how she feels. His home is imprisoned, trapped in the Empire’s iron grip. He know what it is to mourn a homeworld in chains.
He cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to lose his world entirely.
Later, after they have escaped and are on their way to Yavin Leia comes to find him alone in the cockpit.
“I’m sorry,” she says, quietly. Her rage cooled for now. “About earlier. I shouldn’t have insulted you like that. Especially when you risked your life to rescue me. I just-”
All at once whatever blocks she had in place fail. Her eyes tear up and she whispers, “They’re dead.” She covers her mouth for a moment, like she wants to deny what she’s said. But the tears flow harder and she continues. “They’re all dead. Everyone-”
Words fail her then, but she stands there weeping silently for a moment, before Chewbacca simply scoops her up and holds her in his lap.
(She’s such a tiny thing, full to bursting with anger and sorrow)
He rocks her gently, and croons calming nonsense, and lets her cry and cling to him.
This is not the first hug she’s given him. It will not be the last, but with luck there will not be more this full of pain.
“You cannot muscle your way through grief,” he tells her, even though he knows she doesn’t understand. “You must weather it instead.”
He hopes this in not a lesson she needs to use often.
Taking one quote from the prequels and running with it all the way to space. Also, combined a couple of requests from a while ago. 😊