#Walon Vau

[mearchy]

love characters that suck. their actions are inexcusable and i want to put them in a jar and examine them. love some barely-redeemable or not-redeemable-at-all bastards i can rotate in my mind. love characters with fatal flaws that comprise a huge part of their personality, give me some truly reprehensible decisions by this mf i will eat that shit up. i neeeeeeed someone to psychoanalyze please please please ple

#commander fox #kal skirata #walon vau #jango fett #darth maul #cc 1010 #sebastian moran #jim moriarty #the master #missy doctor who #star wars #bbc sherlock #dw #doctor who #izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #black sails #charles vane #max black sails

[nereiix]

“I opted to take on Vau. He had a real Mando iron saber, and I was unarmed. I just went at him. I never wanted to kill so badly in my life and he just cut me up. [...]” ― Atin to Fi, Republic Commando: Triple Zero

It was about time I drew the man. I designed his armor using various references and my imagination, I just didn't want it to look like Jango's armor in black. I've got a soft spot for scarves, so I gave him one. For Mird I tried the stay close to my original concepts of it, but with more skin and color on its coat. And I added a collar too, because it's mentioned it has one in True Colors (and also in Triple Zero, indirectly). I'm still not sure about the size of a strill, but since Vau keeps scooping Mird up in his arms, I don't think it can be bigger than that. Also, I think a beskad is supposed to be shorter, but I liked it like this so... artistic liberty, I guess.

References for the pose below the cut.

I decided to make the pose with one of my little men and to trace over it. For Mird I used a Shar Pei 3D model to help me with the perspective.

→ WIP available here

#star wars #republic commando #walon vau #lord mirdalan #mird #mandalorian #strill #detailed sketch #art process #fanart #digital art

[alabyte]

"You gotta finish preparing lesson materials for tomorrow" no I gotta draw Mird again my life depends on it

#walon vau #lord mirdalan #mird'ika #mird #star wars #repcomm #republic commando #strill

[isurrendertoclones]

Sev on Mygeeto: But you taught us stealing is bad and Skirata’la. 🥺

Vau: Not this stealing.

Sev: Oh, ok.

#walon vau #commander fox #repcomm #republic commando #clone commando sev #omfg #that poor boy 😂 #sergeant vau

[artbypockets]

just finished reading the Republic Commando series (why is there no more 😭)

anyway I drew Walon Vau because bastard old man is my favorite kind of man

#also lemme just say whatever was going on between him and kal was 👀👀👀 #star wars #republic commando #repcomm #mandalorian #walon vau

[trashcanmando]

Kal Skirata and Walon Vau

they are judging you harder than youve ever been judged in your life

#republic commando #repcomm #kal skirata #walon vau #fanart #kal'buir #im so happy with how this turned out it was just supposed to be a dumb little sketch at first #i havent drawn either of them very much so im quite pleased #i should really draw more of them #btw tag this as a ship or put kal hate in my tags and ill block you <3

[itsagrimm]

mandalorians really see the most dangerous, absurd animal to have around and go

💕That's my new pet. 💕

#yes i am talking about the man eating birdies #and mirdalan #and boba fetts pet rancor #the mandalorian #the mandalorian season 3 #the mandalorian chapter 20 #lord mirdalan #mird #mirdalan #walon vau #paz viszla #boba fett #rancor baby

[astrangeroftides]

Walon Vau and Mird out for a walk

inspired by this post by @jastertown

I like to think they're off to go visit a local coffee shop so Mird can growl at and terrorize children :)

Just a Mando and his lizard dog cat honey badger baby

#walon vau #star wars #repcomm #delta squad #republic commando #star wars tcw #star wars eu #lord mirdalan #mird #the mandalorian #mandalorian #mandalorians #my art #I like to think bird looks a bit like a rabbit #with silly ears

[nereiix]

I draw very slowly, so here is a WIP. 👀 Edit (Sep 12, 2023) → Finished drawing

And a bonus from 2021, since I will never finish it:

(I probably drew Mird too big here.)

#star wars #republic commando #walon vau #lord mirdalan #mird #mandalorian #strill #WIP #sketch #art process #fanart #digital art

[alabyte]

been feeling like shit lately so here have some silly Mird sketch

#walon vau #lord mirdalan #mird #mird'ika #star wars #republic commando #strill #repcomm

[isurrendertoclones]

Jango: So it turns out that none of my first-choice trainers were willing to sign a contract for an unspecified amount of time on a secret planet and cut all ties to their former lives, soooo…let’s scrape the bottom of that barrel!

#the clones were raised by 75 of the most stable and well-adjusted Mandalorians in the galaxy /s #and 25 other beings #😐 #Cuy’val dar #tell me I’m wrong #jango fett #kal skirata #walon vau #repcomm #republic commando #this was literally a Shower Thought™️ lol #sergeant vau

[clonememesfrikyeah]

Hey rep com hoes, I need help with some details because I’m too lazy to read the books myself, did Vau and Skirata built Kyrimount together or something like that. Did they actually build the place or did they buy it and make adjustments? I have to know because I’m imagining them, these two elderly ass men who high key hate each other, doing construction together. God I can practically feel the seething misery they would create for each other. I can see it now; there out in the summer heat arguing about what kind of braces to use, shoveling dirt back into the holes their each digging, they both forgot where they set their caf/beer. Vau fell off the ladder onto the cement bucket, Kal tripped over his bad ankle into a hole, Vau was holding something steady while Kal fastened it down and stapled his glove to the material accidentally on purpose and pretended not to notice him struggling to get un-stuck. Every one of their arguments comes to blows which ends in them rolling around in the dirt wrestling for the upper hand because their old and their joints don’t work like they used to.

#walon vau #kal skirata #delta squad #omega squad #republic commando #repcomm #null arcs #tcw #the clone wars #Star Wars #star wars legends #my post

[tinky-dinky]

The Cuy’val Dar

Following on from my Jango post, I want to talk about the Cuy’val Dar.

The same warning as that post applies. This is largely my speculations based on canon, but not actually canon.

A note about Legends canon: Unless it is directly contradicted by the current canon, I choose to include Legends canon as canon.

So, the Cuy’val Dar (Mando’a meaning those who are lost) are the trainers Jango recruited to train the clones on Kamino. There were one hundred of these trainers, and seventy five of those one hundred were Mandalorians. The other twenty five were probably bounty hunters and general mercenaries.

Of the seventy five Mandos, we only know the names of 12 of them. Two, Isabet Reau and Dred Priest, were Death Watch sympathizers if not full on members. The other 10 have no stated allegiance but it’s my speculation that at least some of them were True Mandalorians under Jaster and Jango.

There are two whom I am almost certain were True Mandalorians. Kal Skirata is said to have known Jango for years, so he was obviously at least affiliated with the True Mandalorians. He was found by his adopted father, Munin Skirata, when Munin was on a mission with a group of mercenaries. My guess is those mercenaries were Jaster’s people, and possibly even included Jaster himself.

Rav Bralor was a close friend and comrade in arms of Kal Skirata’s long before Kamino, so obviously if he is a True Mandalorian, it stands to reason that she must have been one too.

There are two others who are potentially True Mandalorians. Llats Ward isn’t stated to have any particular affiliation but his chest plate has a whacking great mythosaur skull on it, which is the sigil of the True Mandalorians. Of course, it’s also just a generally important symbol in Mando culture, so Llats could have it on his armour for entirely different reasons.

Miij Gilmar, the trainer of the clone medics, wasn’t born a Mando but became one after he married a Mandalorian woman. She was murdered, unfortunately and he vowed revenge. It’s noted that he had a deep hatred for the death watch allied Dred Priest and Isabet Reau. My speculation is that his wife was killed by Death Watch and he may have joined (or already have been part of) the True Mandos to avenge her.

There is one more trainer I want to discuss in detail. His name is Cort Davin, and he was a Journeyman Protector on Concord Dawn. Obviously this is the same profession as Jaster and Fett Sr, so this suggests he may have been a colleague of theirs. It does seem that he stayed in the Journeyman Protectors until he was recruited into the Cuy’val Dar, so I don’t think he was a proper member of the True Mandos, but he could have been their ally.

We know virtually nothing of the remaining five named Mandos of the Cuy’val Dar, B’arin Apma, Swart Swifto, Wad’e Tayhaai, Vhonte Tervho and Walon Vau. I have no idea if any of these people were True Mandalorians. It’s possible.

A side tangent about Wad’e Tay’haai: one of the few things I could find about him is that his preferred weapons were a traditional Mando spear and a bes’bav. A bes’bav is a Mandalorian flute that doubles as a stabbing weapon. Of course the Mandos have a musical instrument that is also a weapon. Of course they do. It makes me wonder how many other musical weapons exist in Mando culture. And how many other things Mandos have made into weapons. Many, many things probably.

Anyways, this brings me onto the point of this post: why would any True Mandalorians would agree to train the clones despite it going against their well established code of protection over children? And how did Jango feel about these people that were once his?

It’s my personal speculation that any True Mandalorians that joined the Cuy’val Dar on Kamino did so for a number of reasons. The New Mandalorian pacifists were in charge on Mandalore, so anyone wishing to keep their culture couldn’t stay there. I can’t imagine that Mandalorians are welcomed in many places in the galaxy, so it’s possible some of them joined because it guaranteed a place to live and a source of income and food.

Some might have joined out of loyalty to Jango. Perhaps they thought he wouldn’t allow the clones to be treated badly and by the time it became apparent that he would, they couldn’t back out. Perhaps they wanted to help him and therefore help the clones.

I doubt any of them were actually told what they were being recruited for. It was a secret, after all, and I don’t think telling a bunch of Mandalorians ‘there’s a facility where they’re cloning children to be trained as child soldiers for a war in which they’re likely to die’ would go well.

Honestly, I just find the Cuy’val Dar quite interesting. Who are these people? Why did they agree to come to Kamino? What did they feel about the clones?

#the cuy’val dar #mandalorians #jango fett #walon vau #kal skirata #llats ward #vhonte tervho #swart swifto #isabet reau #dred priest #miij gilamar #cort davin #rav bralor #b’arin apma #jaster mereel #true mandalorians #the clones #kamino