#Star Wars genetics

[sophiemariepl]

Okay, I know that this may sound stupid, but this time it is not Tumblr at fault - it’s me, because I deleted the recent post on that by accident (gosh, why am I so blind, I just wanted to edit it because I found some interesting info, but nevermind).

So, the thing is, that I’ve been working on my Star Wars fanfiction for a while. The story would include Darth Maul having a daughter with his human lover before being cut in half on Naboo by Obi-Wan in Episode I. I remember that for some reason it made little sense to me that so many fan artists draw their Maul’s daughter OCs with horns and red skin when they choose mothers of their OCs to be clearly human women (because with other species it makes a little more sense, which I will explain in a second).

So, the first time I asked the question “How likely it would be for Darth Maul’s potential daughter to inherit his horns?”, I received an answer that in case when the mother is human, horns are very unlikely, with an Iridonian Zabrak mother are most likely and in case of other species it is hard to determine.

It makes sense to me - Maul is a Dathomirian Zabrak and it is commonly known that Dathomirians are a result of mixed breeding between Iridonian Zabrak men and human women. This means that Maul carries human DNA from his female line and Zabrak DNA from his male line. This specific Dathomirian DNA is likely to manifest itself differently in his offspring, depending on the kid’s gender. This means that a daughter with a human partner would inherit characteristics common in Dathomirian women, instead of Dathomirian men, such as pale, slightly gray-ish skin and slender figure. In fact, I decided that my OC would inherit many more of her visual characteristics from her mother (only paler skin and slender figure would be the slight signs of her half-Dathomirian parentage), which would perfectly add to the surprise effect when she finally learns that Maul is her biological father - because she will obviously assume at first that it's impossible because she does not resemble Maul at all 😜

In the case of a son with a human partner, I am not 100% sure. Perhaps he would inherit his father’s horns, perhaps not. Maybe he would have red/reddish skin, maybe not. I mean, here it kinda gets tricky like in human/Twi’lek hybrids. We’ve seen those with lekku (Lacquane kids who are half-human, although Cut is not their biological father) and without (Jacen Syndulla, who only has green hair, eyes, and tops of his ears). So I guess that in this case, all options are possible.

I am still not sure whether Maul’s kids with a human partner would inherit Zabrak two hearts though, since both Dathomirian men and women have two hearts. I guess it depends, but in case of my OC I chose not to give her two hearts.

So, now my question to you guys:

How do you think Maul’s children would look like, depending on the species of their potential mother?

Leaving this post so that everyone can share their knowledge and thoughts 📚

#star wars #star wars: the clone wars #tcw #darth maul #maul #formerly darth #the phantom menace #darth maul x reader #darth maul x oc #darth maul children #darth maul’s daughter #darth maul’s son #Star Wars genetics #dathomirian genetics #star wars oc #darth maul headcanons #darth maul fanfiction #darth maul fanfic

[alabyte]

Tech: I'll explain.

Crosshair: Is this an offer?

Tech: This is a threat.

#pov me every time I see something related to genetics even in the slightest #tech tbb #tech #crosshair tbb #crosshair #they are twins ur honor #batch twins #the bad batch #tbb #the bad batch incorrect quotes #incorrect tbb quotes #tbb incorrect quotes #star wars #star wars incorrect quotes

[biblicalbi]

Imagine a world where Obi-Wan survives episode IV and has to deal with another generation of disaster romances with the Skywalker family.

Leia: *falls head over heels with a dashingly handsome and very mouthy rogue who has more red flags than green*

Obi-Wan: “Oh no.”

Luke: *flirts with a stubborn yet extremely caring world leader despite the Jedi’s no-attachment rule*

Obi-Wan: “Not again.”

#incorrect star wars quotes #star wars #the mandalorian #anidala #leia x han #dinluke #anakin x padme #din x luke #obi wan kenobi #obi wan whump #obi wan the forever suffering #luke skywalker #leia organa #I imagine Anakin’s watching Luke like ‘that’s my fkn boy!!!’ #Padme’s there too #watching Leia and Han like ‘she’s just like me fr’ #Obi-Wan wondering if the Skywalker’s chronic poor decisions are genetic #he meets Leia and Luke’s kids and almost cries #because they’re just 2008 Hot Topic brand Vader and Yoda but in a diaper

[syn0vial]

favorite legends!canon fett fact is that jango fett has mild astigmatism and unspecified environmental allergies, which the kaminoans edited out of all his clones EXCEPT for boba, whose genetic sequence remained unaltered.

love to imagine boba fett putting in his contact lenses in the morning or popping space claritin and just muttering under his breath like "fucking kaminoans can't have done me a single fucking favor -_-"

#star wars #boba fett #fun fact: the kaminoans also turned down jango's ''anger issue'' genes in all the clones except for boba #so boba is in fact genetically pre-disposed to be less chill than the other clones #boba ''let's just let this one be a lil fucked up'' fett

[maulfucker]

ok so my idea for a bad batch redesign is. What if the bad batch was actually an experiment on transgenic clone modifications. like. really putting the "experimental" in experimental clone force.

Hunter - Kaleesh genes make his senses sharper, and gives him infrared sensing (and by extension night vision) and stronger hunting instincts - His ears are pointy and taller than normal, but he hides that with his bandana - Has pit organs under his eyes (that's how he senses infrared and electric currents) - His eyes reflect light and have slit pupils - His pinkies work as secondary thumbs

Tech - Kind of a test to see how much of givins' natural affinity for mathematics is genetic and how much is socialized - He's better with maths and has quicker thinking than regular humans - Givin genes make him smaller, pale and bony, so he looks kinda sickly and starved but he's totally normal - The glasses help hide how deep his eyes are - The "balding" look from his original design is now because of his bone structure

Wrecker - Gamorrean genes give him enhanced strength - It also gives him a very strong sense of loyalty, and makes him tend to be stubborn - He's actually a little bit shorter than an average clone, but he's so wide that people think he's taller than he really is - His left canine broke in the same incident where he lost his left eye

Crosshair - Chiss genes give him infrared vision and better reflexes (and red scleras) - Umbaran genes give him ultraviolet vision - He really is just an experiment on expanding the human vision range - He sees infrared better than ultraviolet, and has better night vision than Hunter - His hair is a cool black instead of the usual warm black - He's a bit paler as well but that's because he doesn't like bright places

#hm i should make an original art tag #hm i should make an original post tag #star wars #star wars fanart #the bad batch #tbb redesign #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #this whole idea was born from me thinking 'what if tech was part givin instead of whitewashed'. and then i kept going from there #i considered making wrecker part trandoshan instead but gamorrean was easier #and i considered making hunter just plain autistic before i found the kaleesh #crosshair is probably skinnier than normal clones‚ matching his original design. but he's average clone height #and his eyes probably glow a little bit #when echo first sees this tech he's like 'oh shit they did this to you too??' and tech is like oh no i was made like this 8] #idk what omega might be. i kinda want to say part jedi but midichlorians are not genetic. maybe she's just lucky #also they all glow under uv light. as a joke. (scientists do that to transgenic test specimens irl)

[foursidecity]

Thinking about them... designs... silly..

#tbb #the bad batch #ispy.png #ive seen some posts about albino crosshair which is cool and awesome but i also feel like alot of people forget that blindness and nystagmu #are super common with albinism #ans as someone with blurry shakey eyes that did archery. hitting a bright red target is completly doffrent from #sniping something 100s of yards away in bad lighting conditions #anyways i gave him vitiligo. i like 2 imagine it got alot worse after being on tantiss (since stress can cause more loss of pigment) #the bad batch art #fanart #crosshair #echo #tbb fanart #tbb season 3 #i love my disabillity allegory clones #actually since vitilligo is genetic itd be fun to see if quite a few clones actually have it to varrying degrees #incherestibg 2 me #guy with genetic disorder: gee i wonder how clone genetics work who gets what. ehay about dormant genes?? #anyways crosshair dyes hisbhair still because i think its silly that clones do that #he probably hates how patchy it looks so #he either dyes it or shaves it enough that you cant notice as much #star wars #starwars fanart

[the-random-man]

Unlike strange new worlds prodigy understands that the federation’s laws against genetic modification are there to prevent eugenics and that eugenics is bad.

#look strange new worlds complete misunderstands the federations laws against genetic modification #like everytime it comes up on that show I want to shout it’s to prevent eugenics! eugenics is bad! #those laws were literally created after the EUGENICS WARS #anyway prodigy’s moral of yeah those laws are there for a reason is such a breath of fresh air #prodigy live blog #star trek prodigy

[whomst-the-hell]

sorry it just occurred to me that anakin’s ‘my father is the force’ jesus figure bullshit effects the twins as well (which like. duh. but still) i mean luke and leia are 1/4 force. thats,,, thats gotta mean something and im not even talking abt how theyre “particularly strong in the force”

idk im just thinking of the twins trying to trace their bio family tree and discovering this. like truly how do you process the information that you are genetically 25% the cosmic manifestation of the universe or whatever

also how does that. Work. like physically, in their DNA. is it a percy jackson situation where they just like,, dont have dna there?? it cant be a ‘you just have all the same dna as your single parent’ situation like most asexual reproduction bc then anakin would be a girl (no Y chromosomes to be found). i guess now that im writing it out it could be “theyre technically aliens” shit and maybe tatooine women have the equivalent of a recessive Y chromosome or some shit but like. why would they. evolutionarily speaking. like is there just universe goo where that’s supposed to be, or does the force have DNA. whats the genetic makeup of the force look like. is the force blonde?? i have questions

also how do you tell people that. holy shit leia probably told han when she got pregnant right. like she had to have right. wtf did that conversation look like, just

han: i wonder if the baby will be force sensitive like you two

leia: probably, i mean he’ll be 1/8 the force

han:

han: what the fuck does that mean

leia: oh you didnt know? my grandfather was just straight up the force

han: what the fuck??

idk its bonkers to me

#star wars #more star wars rambles from me your resident no nothing fan #luke skywalker #leia organa #anakin skywalker #han solo #i suppose in this vein that kylo ren is also genetically the force but idgaf abt him so like #whatever

[tearlessrainart]

I have made. a chart. (click through for fullsize to actually read it)

Ironically I did not like The Last Jedi at all, but the fathiers caught my imagination because I will glom on to any fantasy horse-adjacent creature you put in front of me no matter how weirdly utilized or poorly thought out it is. I've been reworking their visual design a little to make them less uncanny valley cgi and make them into something that fills the same aesthetic/cultural niche as a fancy sport horse, but it also bothered me that they were all the same color and not at all designed like a domestic animal even though they pretty clearly are. I get why they didn't spend time and budget on coloring them all uniquely for the approximately five minutes of screentime they had, but it was a waste of potential and also there's no way an animal bred entirely by ostentatious rich people with too much money and time on their hands doesn't have a robust community of color breeders and dubiously ethical halter lines and the general kind of fuckery you see with any animal that's been kept by humans for a while.

I primarily based their genetics on horses, but I also borrowed some from goats and sheep, took the piebald patterns mainly from deer, and made some of it up entirely (though outside the alchemy stuff I tried to keep everything plausible and cohesive). There are also genes horses have that fathiers don't, so it's not a direct 1:1 in either direction. This also isn't a comprehensive list of Every Possible Color Fathiers Come In, but rather all the color genes that can interact with each other in various ways. You can probably create some absolutely batshit-looking animals with this chart as well as very understated, mundane ones.

At some point I'll expand further on the very specific headcanons about ancient Sith and the history of fathiers overall that tie into all this (most of it is rooted in Old Republic era EU stuff since I don't really touch the disney-verse outside of stealing their creatures and I'm mainly in the SWTOR corner of the fandom), but that's one for my lore/oc blog. You can probably extrapolate the important bits just from reading through the chart if it interests you.

#star wars #swtor #fathier #fantasy genetics

[bolithesenate]

fun fact of the morning is that to me Tarre Vizsla was a cringefail jedi twink so horribly bad at jedi-ing that he did an accidental 180 and became Mand'alor

man's could not find a lightsaber crystal for his goddamn life, so much so that a mandalorian deity had to come and help out

then he crashed in someones backyard destroying half their tuber harvest when he took a wrong turn after going home from a bandomeer agricorps summit

the shame is too big so he ditches everything and becomes a weaver for a like year

only after that year does he even realize he landed himself in karking mandalorian space (the weaver he holes up at is an old lady and doesn't wear armor so he just never noticed)

meanwhile everyone back at the temple just assumed he died

over his year as weaver-apprenticing he also did odd little jobs here and there around the village. mostly helping people with paperwork and taxes and how to price grain to sell the next city over

which gets him implicitly elected like mayor of that village (mostly because no one else wants to do the paperwork)

which is how he, a failed jedi that crashed in someones backyard and just wallowed in shame ever since somehow is made to attend a city/region council as representative of that village (it is there that he realizes that wtf that's too many mandalorians for this to just be coincidence. those CANNOT all be bodyguards) (yes he had stereotypes)

still, apparently he is one of them now

(he is standing there like 🧍🏻 the only one in the room without any armor to speak)

but also definitely the only one with a single political bone in him (it was forcibly installed in him by the temple's teachers). and also the knowledge of How To Do Taxes (that and he weaves a mean rug)

which once again gets him elected representative of that council as well

so now he has to go to a House meeting in a month

(which is bad, he has a deadline on a new tapestry that needs to be done by then can't they just postpone? also what is a House and why do they have meetings)

the lady weaver who kinda just is his adoptive mom now just laughs and pats him on the head and tells him he'll figure it out. but oh maybe he should wear some armor for that one, House meetings have a tendency to get wild and many things are settled over honor duels. and the city/region he's representing sure would like for their needs to be defended.

meanwhile Tarre is panicking because the one thing he was worse at at Jedi School than actually being a jedi was lightsabering

he's decent at hand-to-hand but that was NOT worth any points in the eyes of the Battlemaster

(turns out he shouldn't have worried. 'decent at hand-to-hand' for an old republic jedi still meant 'kriffing lethal' in comparison to everyone else.)

his region's demands have never been represented better

especially since he also does know the maths to make it work in the long run.

that gets him noticed by the like son or heir or whatever of the Head of the House, who promptly makes Tarre his right hand (Tarre agreed to it either while drunk -- he is a sad drunk and JEdi aRE SupPOseD To hELP aaaaaaaa -- and was guilttripped into it OR he misunderstood the assignment to be a weaving commission)

(because, in Tarre's mind, that IS still his day job)

and so on and so forth it spirals out of control farther and farther until one day he is there helping represent the mandalorian side in a trade dispute with the republic and the other side have jedi with them (ofc) and he is one again just doing his best statue impression trying not to be noticed only he forgot that mandalorians announce themselves and their whole allegiance and lineage in front of everyone so he gets first-name-last-named by his new boss in front of his old boss and it does horrors to his nerves that much is certain

only the jedi just kinda squint and then leave it uncommented so he thinks he's safe until HIS OLD MASTER JUST TELEPORTS STRAIGHT INTO THE DINNER ROOM DEMANDING TO KNOW WHY HE WASN'T THERE FOR THE LAST TWELVE LINEAGE DINNERS

#is this about one of my many wips? yes it is #cringefail jedi tarre for thw win #i have had enough of all those edgy and cool and imposing and competent tarres out tgere #this one gets called 'my little creature' by his master and he thinks its the best nickname ever #fay calls him that because by god his genetic makeup is an affront to every biologist #they just put a good dozen species in a blender for that one and called it a day #he has so many eye problems (being part chiss part miraluka part keshian and part whatever else will do that to you) #the reason there is no surviving moniker for him is because everyone later on assumed 'Mand'alor the Weaver' was a mistranslation #and just scratched it out #but he was a weaver! it was the handiwork he learned!! he was proud of it #(his jedi master standing in the corner shaking her head like) #anyways yeah thats this #me writing #random boli thoughts #star wars #tarre vizsla

[tarisilmarwen]

If the Empire's methods for picking out Force Sensitives were so meticulous and particular that they (often!) flagged normal non-Sensitives (as happened with Wedge multiple times in Legends, as happened possibly with Jai Kell since we never learned whether he was actually Sensitive or not), then they would have been meticulous enough and particular enough that the Imperial Academy on Mandalore would have caught Sabine.

And if she was SO low level that she could evade the Empire's screenings, then she would be too low level to ever actually connect with the Force no matter how hard or how long she trained.

You either have the Force or you don't. There is no "Just train hard enough even if you don't have the natural talent, eventually you'll be able to unlock it!" That has been the unspoken understanding across the board by Star Wars writers, even during Legends, for ages.

#stop defending bad lore retcons #you can throw that old lucas quote at me all you want it doesn’t matter for sabine #she trained for (generously) five years and achieved NOTHING significant in her abilities #and then was given no scene of catharsis to unblock herself #even if we accepted the premise that the force is just a talent that can be honed the show did NO WORK to show her honing it #there IS a genetic component to force sensitivity has been one since TPM #there IS a baseline you have to be over to be able to access the force #if sabine had been over that baseline she would have been caught #period #star wars #star wars rebels #ahsoka show

[spicynectarines]

Forbidden romance but it’s a Resident orca and a Transient orca

#the joke here is that Resident and Transient orca whale populations don’t interact with each other #cuz of cultural differences between the two populations #they could interact #but they don’t #just an ocean fun fact #if you were a cetologist you would find this funny #this blog is about star wars but my other passion is killer whales #what if we were orcas from two genetically and culturally distinct populations #and we kissed

[strawberryvulture]

yes yes yes i think rey should’ve been a kenobi, but more importantly i think rey should’ve been a kryze

#like come on like those puppy dog eyes have got to be genetic #this is my canon #rey 💖 #rey kenobi #satine kryze #obitine #obi wan x satine #star wars #[communing with angels]

[seven-oomen]

Also I love how we go from this:

To this:

Which something something parallels. Potentially the parallel of someone meant for you, but in this context not the person who's good for you?

You know what, that works.

Yeah I'll say it's that one.

#anidala #jangobi #star wars prequels #star wars #it's also funny because the person that would be good for obi wan is either Jango in an au where either Jaster or his clan don't die #or it's cody who is a genetic clone #like the potential of them is so interesting #am i clowning? #perhaps but this is my circus

[basimibnishaqs]

eldritch demi-god skywalkers are actually something that can be so personal

#shmi and beru and anakin and luke and leia #rey is what happens when you try and genetically engineer a god. by the way #star wars #skywalkers

[amalthiaph]

Teeny weeny confession: I actually skipped The Bad Batch at first but now that I've seen it, I'm absolutely feral about it to the point that I wanna ride *blaster shot*

#muchi #i wanna ride muchi #and definitely not a certain genetically deviant soldier #lies #the bad batch #clone force 99 #sw tbb #tbb #star wars