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BOBA FETT / JASTER MEREEL
(Former) Journeyman Protector of Concord Dawn
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( DISCLAIMER: The "Star Wars Expanded Universe," also known as "Legends," refers to all non-cinematic canonical Star Wars media produced before the Disney acquisition. This version of Boba Fett is the "EU" or "Legends" version; his backstory and characterization were detailed in various novels, short stories, and comics prior to the release of the animated tv show, The Clone Wars. Therefore, his backstory and characterization will likely not be consistent with The Clone Wars or any media released after it.
For a more complete character history, click here. )
cw: violence, child endangerment, slavery mention, rape, drugs, drug-related stigma
Following the death of his father on Geonosis, Boba spent several months being hunted by both sides of the war: the Republic and Confederacy both saw him as a loose end and one with valuable, potentially critical intel and both had bounties posted for his capture. For this reason, Boba's first year or two after his father's death were spent on the run, being captured by different agents and repeatedly escaping by the skin of his teeth. The first semblance of stability Boba achieved was when he finally made it to Jabba's Palace. There, after a precarious period of being almost enslaved and/or executed, Boba finally managed to impress the Crime Lord by surviving a suicide mission the gangster had sent him on, returning not only alive but with proof of his target's demise. Still just a child, Boba nonetheless became a bounty hunter in Jabba's court, kept around as much for novelty as for his ability to dispatch targets.
However, after a few years in Jabba's court, Boba became restless. As a teenager, he began to question whether life as a bounty hunter—a life his father had chosen and prepared for him since before he was even born—was what he really wanted. These feelings of restlessness and uncertainty only intensified when he met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter who shared his dissatisfaction. The two became close and started a relationship that quickly escalated into full-fledged elopement. The pair fled to Concord Dawn, where Fett found work as a Journeyman Protector, a kind of local law enforcement official, under the false name "Jaster Mereel." Sintas became pregnant shortly thereafter. She was only 18 and Fett only 16 at the time.
At least initially, their new life seemed to work out in their favor. Sintas had a daughter, whom they named Ailyn. Boba was befriended and taken under the wing of his superior officer, a man named Lenovar. For about a year, they had a family and the normal, contented life they’d wanted.
It wasn’t to last. Using his position of trust with Boba, Lenovar infiltrated deeper into the young family’s life, eventually seizing the opportunity to isolate and rape Sintas. Fearing the jeopardy the truth would place her family in, Sintas kept the incident a secret. She didn’t even tell Boba, who she knew would react rashly if he knew the truth.
Unfortunately, she was right. A year after Sintas was raped, Boba found out. He immediately set out to kill Lenovar, much to Sintas’s dismay. She knew that attempting a reprisal against Lenovar would end badly for them; if Fett succeeded, he’d be branded a traitor and murderer for killing his superior officer. If he didn’t, the testimony of a senior Protector would hold up much more than a teenager with a false name and a checkered past. Already hurt at Sintas hiding the truth and further enraged at her arguing against killing Lenovar, Boba responded to her pragmatism with angry recriminations, even going so far as to suggest that Ailyn wasn’t his daughter. He then left to kill Lenovar, with Sintas’s approval or not.
With all his bridges now burned, Boba followed through with his plan. It’s implied that Lenovar attempted to appeal to Boba's mercy by blaming his actions on the corrupting influence of spice, a class of addictive drugs. Though this excuse was not enough to stop Boba from killing him, it clearly had a strong influence on his beliefs, as he admits to Leia years later that he believes spice can make formerly decent people do terrible things, including rape. Boba was then apprehended by his fellow Journeyman Protectors and held in an Imperial prison. Despite repeated interrogations and threats of execution for the murder, he refused to give a motive for his actions, saying only that his only regret was not killing Lenovar earlier. By the time his sentence was commuted into exile from Concord Dawn, Fett was no longer the idealistic teenager he’d been before, but a cold and bitter stranger. He accepted his exile without a fight and left Sintas and Ailyn behind.
This account plays Boba with a canonpoint of either mid-imprisonment or shortly after his exile.
For a more complete character history, click here. )
cw: violence, child endangerment, slavery mention, rape, drugs, drug-related stigma
Following the death of his father on Geonosis, Boba spent several months being hunted by both sides of the war: the Republic and Confederacy both saw him as a loose end and one with valuable, potentially critical intel and both had bounties posted for his capture. For this reason, Boba's first year or two after his father's death were spent on the run, being captured by different agents and repeatedly escaping by the skin of his teeth. The first semblance of stability Boba achieved was when he finally made it to Jabba's Palace. There, after a precarious period of being almost enslaved and/or executed, Boba finally managed to impress the Crime Lord by surviving a suicide mission the gangster had sent him on, returning not only alive but with proof of his target's demise. Still just a child, Boba nonetheless became a bounty hunter in Jabba's court, kept around as much for novelty as for his ability to dispatch targets.
However, after a few years in Jabba's court, Boba became restless. As a teenager, he began to question whether life as a bounty hunter—a life his father had chosen and prepared for him since before he was even born—was what he really wanted. These feelings of restlessness and uncertainty only intensified when he met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter who shared his dissatisfaction. The two became close and started a relationship that quickly escalated into full-fledged elopement. The pair fled to Concord Dawn, where Fett found work as a Journeyman Protector, a kind of local law enforcement official, under the false name "Jaster Mereel." Sintas became pregnant shortly thereafter. She was only 18 and Fett only 16 at the time.
At least initially, their new life seemed to work out in their favor. Sintas had a daughter, whom they named Ailyn. Boba was befriended and taken under the wing of his superior officer, a man named Lenovar. For about a year, they had a family and the normal, contented life they’d wanted.
It wasn’t to last. Using his position of trust with Boba, Lenovar infiltrated deeper into the young family’s life, eventually seizing the opportunity to isolate and rape Sintas. Fearing the jeopardy the truth would place her family in, Sintas kept the incident a secret. She didn’t even tell Boba, who she knew would react rashly if he knew the truth.
Unfortunately, she was right. A year after Sintas was raped, Boba found out. He immediately set out to kill Lenovar, much to Sintas’s dismay. She knew that attempting a reprisal against Lenovar would end badly for them; if Fett succeeded, he’d be branded a traitor and murderer for killing his superior officer. If he didn’t, the testimony of a senior Protector would hold up much more than a teenager with a false name and a checkered past. Already hurt at Sintas hiding the truth and further enraged at her arguing against killing Lenovar, Boba responded to her pragmatism with angry recriminations, even going so far as to suggest that Ailyn wasn’t his daughter. He then left to kill Lenovar, with Sintas’s approval or not.
With all his bridges now burned, Boba followed through with his plan. It’s implied that Lenovar attempted to appeal to Boba's mercy by blaming his actions on the corrupting influence of spice, a class of addictive drugs. Though this excuse was not enough to stop Boba from killing him, it clearly had a strong influence on his beliefs, as he admits to Leia years later that he believes spice can make formerly decent people do terrible things, including rape. Boba was then apprehended by his fellow Journeyman Protectors and held in an Imperial prison. Despite repeated interrogations and threats of execution for the murder, he refused to give a motive for his actions, saying only that his only regret was not killing Lenovar earlier. By the time his sentence was commuted into exile from Concord Dawn, Fett was no longer the idealistic teenager he’d been before, but a cold and bitter stranger. He accepted his exile without a fight and left Sintas and Ailyn behind.
This account plays Boba with a canonpoint of either mid-imprisonment or shortly after his exile.
personality
As a child and teenager, Boba's personality often seemed to embody two contradictory extremes: ruthlessness and idealism. On one hand, there is no doubt that Boba was precociously violent and relentless. He wouldn't hesitate to kill when ordered and felt no remorse for doing so. He'd keep fighting even when disarmed, resorting to his hands, nearby furniture, and even his teeth—anything to ensure his own survival and his target's demise. Yet, at the same time, Boba as an adolescent still retained much of his childhood idealism, even after his father's death. He believed in honor and justice, and was relatively quick to trust those that made a habit of showing kindness. His attempt to escape his future as a bounty hunter and instead become a Journeyman Protector can be seen as a culmination of these more humane traits, as he sought to trade in a life of crime for a life of protecting the innocent.
This is a far cry from the adult that Boba grows into: cold, merciless, and with a moral code so twisted and hypocritical that it might as well not exist.
At this journal's canonpoint, Boba's personality exists as a turning point between these two stages. The culmination of what good remained in Boba Fett after his father's death has just come to a horribly cruel, unfair end, and killing the one responsible has not brought him the sense of justice he thought it would—in fact, it's only magnified the suffering faced by him and his family and turned him into a pariah and exile. To say he's in a very angry stage of his life would be an understatement: in Legends canon, he spends the next few years taking jobs specifically targeting those involved in the spice trade, his misdirected anger clearly shining through in each killing.
Yet, precisely because of this instability, Boba is not quite as cold and calculating as his older self. He is more impulsive, given to snap judgments of people and situations for good or for ill. Furthermore, though it is now manifesting in a much more unbalanced form, one can still see the distorted reflection of his former idealism within him—for example, before he kills the spice traders as described earlier, he demands to know whether they are troubled by their consciences, much to their confusion. It is as if he's trying to get them (or perhaps, on a subconscious level, Lenovar) to admit that what they've done is wrong.
TL;DR: This is basically the part of Boba's EU backstory where he just fucking snaps. He's big mad for very understandable reasons, coping poorly, and making it everyone else's problem.
appearance
Boba has brown skin, curly black hair cut short, and dark brown eyes. He has a strong build and stands at a little under six feet tall. For reference, here's Temuera Morrison, who plays Boba and Jango as grown adults, in his 30s.
Mid-imprisonment, Boba wears a gray prison uniform and honestly kind of looks like shit. Like yeah, he's still young Temuera Morrison, but with the shit kicked out of him by life. He is described as having a dead-eyed stare and an unsettling smile. When interacting with prison officials, he is kept with his ankles chained together and a chain encircling his waist, to which his wrists are linked.
Post-imprisonment, his armor is the classic green with red and yellow accents that we all know and love, though with less wear and tear and significantly fewer gadgets. Notably, he already has his jetpack at this point.
Mid-imprisonment, Boba wears a gray prison uniform and honestly kind of looks like shit. Like yeah, he's still young Temuera Morrison, but with the shit kicked out of him by life. He is described as having a dead-eyed stare and an unsettling smile. When interacting with prison officials, he is kept with his ankles chained together and a chain encircling his waist, to which his wrists are linked.
Post-imprisonment, his armor is the classic green with red and yellow accents that we all know and love, though with less wear and tear and significantly fewer gadgets. Notably, he already has his jetpack at this point.
Q+A
In what IC year does Boba's current canonpoint take place?:
Roughly 12 BBY
Roughly 12 BBY
Is Boba recognizable to his castmates as the Boba Fett?:
Up to you! His armor is more-or-less the same in design, though it might be missing some bells and whistles and won't be as banged up. His voice will also obviously sound younger than it did in the OT-era, though it will have the same accent/voice modulation when helmeted.
Do you play with non-Legends/EU castmates?:
YES. I am also 100% down for time-traveling or multiverse-hopping shenanigans to make it work. My one exception to this would be that I'd prefer not to play against other versions of Boba himself. Boy has enough clone/identity issues as it is...
What Expanded Universe sources are you drawing on for this characterization?:
Mostly the Legacy of the Force novels along with the non-retconned bits of the short stories of Daniel Key Moran (also known as J.D Montgomery). Some of Boba's childhood stuff is pulled from the Boba Fett junior novels, along with the Dark Horse Jango Fett and Zam Wesell comics, and The Shapeshifter Strikes.
