i feel like i need to remind everyone episode four of the mandalorian took place over several weeks.
i know the show had several episodes that the time frame was between 1 to 2 days at best, but this episode explicitly said mando and the kid spent time there, getting to know the villagers as more than just victims to the klatooinans.
so i know everybody gasped at the thought of omera removing mando’s helmet, but as we’ve seen from other instances where others have tried the same thing, din reacted slowly, with hesitance. as if he himself wasn’t sure if this wasn’twhat he wanted. even when he grabs her wrists, it’s with care and nowhere near as abrasive as any other time someone tries to remove the helmet.
she was learning about mandalorian culture by learning about din, she didn’t know about the importance of the helmet or why din chose his path. paz viszla mentions in episode three how they live below ground, hidden. and sorgan wasn’t exactly a budding metropolis, so it was completely reasonable that she didn’t know anything about why he wore his armor in such a way.
a lot of people dislike omera for these reasons and i don’t think it’s fair to her character. and if she appears again in season two, i hope everybody reacts a whole lot nicer. because i’ve been a part of enough fandoms to know sometimes women are simply hated because of their connection to the (usually male) main character.
let’snot do that.
#i mean Julia Jones is also a native actress#she’s very clearly not a white woman so obviously the fandom is gonna do what fandoms do to characters of color
you know what, my tags shouldn’t just be tags, because i made points. Julia Jones is native, and she’s very clearly not white, and i’ve been a fan of color on the internet for 15 years, so I know how fandoms treat female characters of color, and the answer to that is NOT WELL AT ALL.
to the point that the minute sis appeared on screen, i knew that there would be SOMEONE out there who would somehow find an issue with something she did on screen, so when she goes to take off Din’s helmet, i couldn’t even enjoy the narrative choice on it’s own merit; my brain immediately went to “great, now the fandom is gonna light her ass up for no real reason.”
so this post made points, important ones, but i think it bears mentioning that because Omera is a woman of color, the fandom’s reaction was much harsher than it would have been had she been played by a white woman, and i have 15 years of firsthand experience as evidence to back me up on this.
YES! Omera discourse!
This is especially important now that people have suddenly started shipping Din and Cobb with little/no evidence for it. Like, Omera and Din had several weeks of context, of conversation—of *course* there was some romantic chemistry there! But Din and Cobb fight one (1) krayt dragon (and Din does the dirty work), and suddenly they’re banging? Naw.
Now don’t get me wrong. I love a good queer ship. I headcanon Cara as the stone cold butch I need in my life. I have a nonbinary character in my Mandalorian fic. And I actually AM QUEER. My gaydar is pretty fine-tuned, and I sensed nothing between Din and Cobb other than comradeship.
This is something that makes me so annoyed in fandom. Like, there’s almost this unspoken hierarchy of relationships in fanfic writing where it’s either a white self-insert or a queer white relationship on top, and Native/POC people like Omera get the shaft, even though she and Din have the most romantic tension in THE WHOLE SERIES.
I’ll get off my soapbox now. But yeah. This. Pisses. Me. Off. Not just because I’m a mandomera stan. Even if I wasn’t, the disparity is too obvious to ignore.
Omera deserves better. She and Din deserve their happy ending.
ALL OF THIS!!!! Din x Cobb is funny to me bc it is so sudden, and the “take it off” “if you insist” jokes are moderately funny, but in reality y’all can’t bash Omera and then turn around and fawn over the same exact things with Cobb.
Y’all are gonna gripe over Omera for almost removing his helmet (which he hardly prevented her from doing) and say she’s disrespecting his culture (When in reality she has probably been the most respectful character to his culture), but turn around and say Cobb is a perfectly fine love interest. Someone who has ACTUALLY disrespected Din Djarin’s culture (wearing the armor while not being a Mandalorian, removing the helmet in front of Din MULTIPLE TIMES, and not giving it back when asked)??? Make it make sense.
I don’t have a problem with anyone shipping them together, and love a good queer ship, but miss me with the Omera bashing at the same time. This is way too common in fandoms with WOC characters as love interests. Queer ships are not inherently better than straight ships because let’s not forget that whiteness is still the default in both. It’s just as important for WOC Characters to be treated with respect as Queer characters.
@dindjarinsleftvambrace Exactly! Especially on point with the respect thing. Cobb has disrespected Mandalorian culture in every cardinal way, whereas Omera has treated him with respect at every turn. Even when she puts her hands on his helmet, she does so slowly. She does so with a question in her eyes. DIN LETS HER HOLD HER HANDS THERE FOR A SECOND.
Omera is nothing but respectful of Din’s culture and identity. Cobb is exactly the opposite.
I am HERE for this new commentary!!!
I feel like people overlook how DIN treated the almost helmet removal when it came to Omera. HE very clearly wasn’t offended since he almost let her do it! He didn’t react violently the way he did when Paz, Cara, and Burg tried to do the same thing. And Cara was trying to save his life!
So like, idk I feel like if Din wasn’t offended by it than other people shouldn’t be either?
Meanwhile I’m pretty sure he spent like 90% of Chapter 9 wanting to punch Cobb in the face since he was ready to straight up shoot the dude when he wouldn’t hand over the armor
Omera was nothing BUT respectful of Din’s culture and Din very clearly feels the same way, dammit!
I listened to CPR while looking for references pictures of this man-
I am terrified to find out what happened to him in the aftermath of Episode Six and won’t be able to know until Friday SO DON’T SPOIL THE FINALE FOR ME PLEASE.
Also thank you space corn man for curing me of my art block, god bless.
Your town might be good for now, but it’s all part of the same planet. We need good people to step up or the spice is bound to come through these parts.
THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT 1x06 “From a Desert Comes a Stranger”
With Boba, Din, Fennec, and Cobb all under one roof, the conversational styles must be fucking whiplash.
You’ve got Boba “moonlighting as a poet” Fett, Din brought up in a covert that never saw the light of day and probably doesn’t know what the holonet is, Fennec making friends with the mods and picking up their memes, and then Cobb being the candy-ass cowboy that he is.
So I’m just sitting here imagining them trying to put their heads together like
Boba: …and that’s the plan. We get in, clear the place, get out before they even know we’re there. Sound good?
Note: These dates are all estimates, and as much as I aim to have things completed on time, I do work quite a bit and also like to make sure I’m relatively happy with what I’ve written before I post it, so some updates might be a day or two late!
02-12-2020-Him- (Cobb Vanth x Din) - Ficlet
04-12-2020-Innuendo - (Din Djarin x Reader) - Reader’s first time **
06-12-2020-Everyone Knows - (Din Djarin x ForceSensitive!Reader)
08-12-2020-Confidence - (Din Djarin x Pregnant!Reader)
?-12-2020-Feels Like Home Again - (Cobb Vanth x Reader)
?-12-2020-Stay - (Din Djarin x Reader) - Angst Version
?-12-2020 - Stay- (Din Djarin x Reader) -Fluff Version
?-12-2020 - Hot Stuff - (Cobb Vanth x Reader)
This is the plan, and the intention is to stick to it for you guys! Assuming nothing comes up within this time (I am trying to work as much as possible now that my part of Australia has eliminated the ‘rona and we’re out of lockdown) so check in on these dates to see new fics! Consider it an early holidays present.
EDIT: So, uhh, I’ve fallen way behind…I mean like a day or two, so nothing major. But I’m going to change some dates (again) to keep this current. The question marks really do vibe with my style tbh.
Cobb Vanth knew the model of ship Din just got. Now I imagine a young Cobb Vanth (maybe before the horrific slavery he went through..?) watching some kind of holonet ship program that features a different ship model in each episode. Or maybe they actually make paper magazines about ships, I know Zeb of SWR had a physical mag in his room.
