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i& #39;m sure others have discussed this, but the Mandalorian enclave that Dyn Jarren is a part of, that puts people in helmets as kids & never lets them take them off again without kicking them out of The Tribe--it& #39;s definitely just ONE Mando subculture, not THE Mando culture (1/
If Dyn is in his thirties-forties, then he became an orphan & then mandalorian foundling like, at minimum a decade before Sabine Wren was born, and obviously the Mando culture SHE was raised in didn& #39;t have this "never take your helmet off around others" taboo (2/
the two things i& #39;ve noticed that all canon mandalorians have in common are
- valuing beskar as a material of basically sacred cultural significance
- constantly fighting amongst themselves about who is and isn& #39;t A Real Mandalorian and what Real Mandalorian culture is (3/
- valuing beskar as a material of basically sacred cultural significance
- constantly fighting amongst themselves about who is and isn& #39;t A Real Mandalorian and what Real Mandalorian culture is (3/
Mandalorian Space was once an empire, and consists(ed?) of worlds conquered & colonized by warriors from the Mandalore System/home planet. This home planet was once a living world, but by the time of TCW it was scorched & barren due to constant war (4/
Sabine& #39;s family are from Krownest, one of the Mandalorian tributary/colony worlds. The last we saw of Mandos in Rebels, a handful of clans were rallying around Bo Katan to finish freeing Mandalore (i assume all Mando territory, not just the planet) from Imperial occupation (5/
Whatever "the Great Purge" is must have happened not too long after the fall of the Republic, since the imperial-stamped beskar was stolen then??? And of course Mando politics were already in disarray during TCW. Obviously not everyone would want to follow BKK (6/
I& #39;m curious as to the ideological lineage of the always-helmeted enclave/cult headed by The Armorer that our hero was inducted into as a child. Are they heirs to any Mando groups we& #39;ve encountered in canon before? (7/
I know I was seeing this one thing going around about how gr8 it is that "Mandalorian culture" (singular, lol) isn& #39;t obsessed with family of origin or whatever, & how kewl & woke it is that Mandos would adopt war orphans that they thought were strong/aggressive [
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bear in mind that it& #39;s highly likely that at least for much of early Mandalorian history those war orphans were made by war that Mandalorians BROUGHT to them. Since we don& #39;t know the timeline, Dyn honestly might have been orphaned by them OR the Empire, it& #39;s unclear. (9/
Anyway, I& #39;d love for him to come into contact with Mandalorians from outside his enclave, or with people who& #39;ve met Mandalorians from a different subculture, Mandalorians whose faces they& #39;ve seen. (10/
Mandalorians like the Wrens, Kryzes, & others would have the same low-key "yikes" reaction as Omera did when she learned that our hero hadn& #39;t shown his face to anyone since he was little. Perpetually hiding your true face is not something SW celebrates, thematically lol. (11/
Nor is hiding your face from others something that is "universal" to all Mandalorians (12/12)
...also just want to reiterate again that as great as kinship ties based on something other than biology are, "adoption" isn& #39;t always Good or Nice https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ
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