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revivalproject2023-05-09 09:36 am
(open) weapon-crafting 101
WHO: Boba Fett and you!
WHERE: Around Temba
WHAT: Boba decides the first thing he needs on a new planet is a weapon. Naturally.
WHEN: Early May, but after Sports Day
WARNINGS: Brief mention of child slavery
i. required materials
ii. steps 1-6
WHERE: Around Temba
WHAT: Boba decides the first thing he needs on a new planet is a weapon. Naturally.
WHEN: Early May, but after Sports Day
WARNINGS: Brief mention of child slavery
i. required materials
To say it had been a difficult first day on Agra-10 for Boba would be a massive, massive understatement. He’d spent most of it bouncing between confusion and panic, chased by his fears of what might be waiting for him if he should return to Tatooine too late and, at one point, literally chased by an angry cyborg clone through the empty Temba streets. Somehow, a day that had started with him being hunted for sport and almost enslaved on Tatooine had gotten worse. At least when he was being chased in Mos Eisley, he had an idea of why.
Now, on his second day, he’s decided that things are going to be different. He’s done panicking; now he’s going to come up with a plan. First things first: he needs a weapon.
He spends most of the first part of the day combing through the city, searching for the materials he needs. He thinks a spear would be a good start; he knows how to use one for both self-defense and fishing, the latter of which he needs to pay Tommy back for the meal on his first day. He makes for an odd sight as he searches for the necessary components; a short-statured figure in a blue cadet’s uniform, face hidden under a silver-and-blue Mandalorian battle helmet, picking through junk and debris. Unlike his first day, he won’t run or hide if he sees another person approaching—though he will stop and watch them, the black visor of his helmet turning to track them as he weighs whether or not they might be a threat.
ii. steps 1-6
By the time Boba finds everything he needs for a spear, it’s already past noon. He kneels in the shadow of an abandoned storefront, taking in his finds. A broken mop handle, a clump of electrical wiring, and a few sharp fragments of scrap metal—it’s not much, but it should be enough for what he needs. He spends the next while putting it all together: using one of the pieces of scrap metal to score a notch into one end of the wooden mop handle, inserting another piece of scrap to be the spearhead, and tying it all together with frayed bits of electrical wire. The result is an ugly, haphazard thing that will probably fall apart the second he tries to puncture anything firmer than flesh—but it’s better than nothing.
Grimy and exhausted, Boba examines his new weapon with grim acceptance. He knows it’s nothing amazing. He also knows that with the sun going down, he probably won’t be catching any fish today. Maybe he can go back to Tommy’s diner? It feels wrong, taking another meal when he can’t even repay the man for what he’d eaten yesterday, but… he’s hungry. And at the very least, he can think about catching something tomorrow.
He stands and, after a quick glance at his communicator to figure out where he is, begins to walk in that direction, still holding his improvised spear in one hand.
{OOC: Feel free to encounter Boba either at the diner or on his way there!}

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He looks for a moment. Notes that the boy is doing something very, very familiar to Link: scavenge and collect anything and everything that looks remotely useful. Or pretty. Or both.
Leaping off the building, he glides down to the ground just near Boba. At which point it will become clear that Link is also armed; on his back is a long Sword, and a complicated-looking compound bow. He does not, however, have any armour.
"...Hi," he says. "You looking for something?" Maybe Link can help?
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While he isn't too interested in the boy or where he might be going, Wesker finds himself yet again wondering what exactly the reasonings of their captors might be for trapping children in this place. Children that will be little more than additional baggage when things inevitably turn serious.
"Don't hurt yourself with that, little Lancelot." Wesker hears himself saying dispassionately as he passes the boy, towering well above him.
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Yet, when the young man speaks, his words are far from hostile. Boba stares for a moment— then, slowly, lowers his weapon.
"Uh," he says. "Yes? I'm looking for the parts to build something..." His eyes flicker enviously to the shape on the young man's back. "How'd you get that sword?" he asks. Certainly something like that would be better than a spear made of junk.
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Unfortunately, at Boba's question Link has to shake his head. "Came here with me," he says. And even if Link was willing to give it away, he couldn't - not this sword.
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"I know what I'm doing," Boba growls at the man's back. He's used to people mistaking his age for ignorance, but it's never not annoying.
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Seeing that fine sword, Boba almost feels embarrassed to admit his own purpose in scavenging. "I need to find something sharp," he mutters. "And something to use as cordage."
Technically, he's found plenty sharp bits of rusted metal scattered around the city. It's finding something small enough and of the right shape to use as a spearhead that's been tricky.
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But for now, he looks at Boba's broom handle and hums softly. "You need a blade?" he says, thinking. "Blunt weapons are easier."
After all, it didn't need a point to be effective. You could do a lot with a club, or even just a staff.
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He actually has experience fishing with a spear. Maybe clubbing fish over the head would work, too, but Boba hasn't actually tried that before. Generally speaking, you didn't actually want to get into the water on Kamino unless you wanted to go from hunter to prey.
He glances over the man's shoulder again, this time at the glider on his back. "Did that come over with you, too?"
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As for the glider, he shakes his head. "There were competitions. It's mine. But it was a prize."
He's not entirely sure how it came to be a prize. If the Agrii had it all this time, why didn't they just give it to him at the beginning?
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Turning his head back just about enough to cast a glimpse back at the boy, Wesker gives him a dismissivle wave. "Go slay your dragon."
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"Huh. Maybe I can get my jetpack back that way." And his father's book. Not that Boba is going to mention that now. He'll just make a mental note to keep an ear out for such events in the future.
For now, though: getting a weapon. He turns back to his search, frowning as he scans their surroundings. He'd been heading towards a dilapidated building when the stranger had interrupted him, one that looks like it might've been a workshop before part of the roof caved in. Boba continues towards it now.
"I've found lots of scrap metal lying around," he says, glancing uncertainly back at the stranger. "But none of it's the right size or shape. And I don't have the tools to change either of those things..."
It'd probably be too much to hope for that the stranger has a fusion-cutter among his belongings...
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But this kind of tool use isn't something Link is familiar with. He certainly doesn't have a fusion cutter, whatever that is. But, maybe there's another option.
"Could sharpen your staff," he says. "Make it pointy."
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"I'm not invincible," Boba retorts. "But I've still killed worse than you with less than this."
Maybe he's only killed one person and maybe 'killed' could be more accurately rendered as 'tricked someone else into killing him for me,' but there's little doubt in Boba's mind that anyone could be viler than Libkath, even this arrogant stranger.
Quietly, he hopes that this isn't going to become a physical altercation—though if that's the only alternative to letting the man talk down to him like that, then so be it.
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He gives a short shake of his head. "I'm not in the business for hurting children, so you can refrain from attempting to bait me, little knight." A pause, then: "What's your name?"
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He's not quite ready to give up on his original plan yet. Still, as he glances over again at the stranger, another idea occurs to him.
"Can I use your sword for a second? I just need to notch the top of this." He raises the wooden pole by his side. "It'll make it easier to set a spearhead in."
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He's the one who started the name-calling out of nowhere. All Boba is doing is making sure it doesn't go unanswered. The request for his real name just gets an indignant huff.
"Do you really think this is how you meet people?" Boba asks, throwing that condescending tone right back at him. "Insulting them in the streets?"
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He makes the conclusion of his little experiment clear by simply trning away again fully and proceeding on his way.
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Still, that doesn't mean he can't help.
"I could do it?"
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He considers for a moment—then steps closer to Link to show him where to cut. "Right here," he says, drawing a line with a finger on one end of the wooden handle. "Maybe just this deep." Again, he uses his fingers to demonstrate, holding them about one-and-a-half inches apart.
And then, because he can't help his curiosity: "What happens if someone else wields your sword?"
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He draws the Sword. It's a beautiful blade, and anyone with any appreciation for weaponry will be able to tell that this is something special. And this, the Sword that Seals the Darkness, the Sacred Blade, the legendary Master Sword...Link uses to casually cut a notch into the pole.
The question, however, has his pausing a moment. He's not entirely sure exactly what would happen to someone else, if they tried to wield the Sword. He just knows, a deep instinct embedded down into his bones, that it wouldn't be good.
"They...can't?" He pauses again. Remembers how the Sword tested him, judged whether he had the strength to wield it. Remembered the Deku Tree's warnings. "Maybe painful. Maybe deadly."
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—and then quickly steps back at the words 'painful' and 'deadly.' Pretty or not, Boba's definitely not touching that thing.
"Thanks," he says, taking the pole back from the young man. He examines the notch made on the end and gives a hum of satisfaction. Then, he keeps heading for the collapsed storefront. He still needs to find a spearhead, after all.
"I bet you could use that sword as a trap," he says, voice tinged with envy. "You could just leave it somewhere you a know a target would be and wait for them to pick it up." And then they'd explode or whatever happens to non-authorized would-be sword-wielders. He shoots a glance back at Link. "You're lucky something like that came through with you."
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Needless to say, Omega is curious, but she hasn't yet gotten around to reaching out to set up a meeting. She's been thinking about it though.
She's doing so right now at the diner, over a bowl of soup, dunking a piece of bread into it. The girl hasn't bothered to unsling her energy bow from her back, but she's used to having it there in its folded position.
Settled on the table beside her is a mothcat, a green-furred feline with strange, feathery antennae and fanned out wings with a speckled design. This one's small and a bit on the pudgy side, and currently looks to be napping.
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There's only one other person inside right now, though Boba is initially too focused on getting something to eat to pay them much mind. It's only after he orders his own soup and bread that his gaze wanders to the only other person inside the diner—
—and their pet. Honestly, it's what grabs Boba's attention first: the fuzzy, winged creature sleeping on the table to the stranger's side, intriguing in its alienness. It's only after a few moments of observation that his attention turns to the stranger herself—and that he feels jolt upon realizing that he's seen that blonde hair once before, in the directory shortly after his arrival.
He's not hunting her. If he were, he'd be much more subtle in his approach. As it stands now, he walks up, only slightly tense, and speaks as plainly as anything:
"Hi. Are you Omega?"
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Omega blinks at the person, the helmet putting her on guard instantly. But the voice...she squints at the t-visor.
"Who's asking..?" she says cautiously, more out of uncertainty for what this other kid could want from her than that he had any designs to attack. Except that he does have a weapon. Her eyes flick to it briefly. All she has in hand is a piece of bread, and Tumble isn't the best of her mothcat squad.
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Unnerved as he is, it takes a few seconds for Boba to realize that he probably doesn't cut the friendliest figure right now. He's wearing a Mandalorian battle helmet and holding a spear; he'd be wary, too, if someone approached him like this.
"Uh... My name's Boba?" he says after a moment. He wonders if she's heard of him. With his free hand, he lifts his helmet up to expose his face. "I'm a clone—like you, I think."
Not exactly like her, obviously—but if there's another explanation for her looking the way she does, he can't think of it.
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"I'm Omega," the girl finally confirms, some of her wariness easing off in favor of a smile. She sets the bread down so she can turn towards him. "It's nice to meet you, Boba."
Most clones tended to ignore her, so she's happy to actually be acknowledged by one. Perhaps because of their whole situation here?
"Have you been finding things all right, here? As well as anyone can, anyway."
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For a moment, there's just a heavy silence as Link looks at Boba.
"...No," he says quietly. "Not with the Sword that Seals the Darkness."
Not ever.
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"I guess," he says with a shrug. No one has truly tried to harm or kill him since he got here, which makes it technically less hostile than most of the planet's he's been to previously. His main problem with it is that he isn't allowed to leave. "I haven't been here very long."
He's not so interested in talking about the planet, anyway. He's more curious about Omega herself and the circumstances behind her... well... existence.
"Can I ask you something?" he broaches. Somehow, just coming out and asking her why her face is like that strikes even Boba as a little tactless.
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...Maybe it has something to do with the fact that this blade is, apparently, 'the Sword that Seals the Darkness.' It's an imposing name, one that has Boba re-evaluating if it really is just an ostentatious, bio-coded blade. It sounds almost... magical?
"...Okay," Boba says after a long moment. "Um. Don't do that, then." A pause. "Do you still want to help look for parts?"
It was just an idea.
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Omega tries to offer him some reassurance with her smile. She nudges the stool beside her with a foot, an open invitation if the boy wants to sit.
Her expression is open, innocent and curious as Boba asks his question, a question to lead into another question. Clearly she's already accepted him as someone to trust, or at least not someone who might cause her trouble.
"Sure," she nods, looking at him expectantly.
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But even if Link is still deeply unnerved by Boba's suggestion, it's not enough for him to refuse to help. "What else do you need?" he asks, as he sheaths the Sword.
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Once he has the go-ahead to proceed, he asks his question: “Why do you look so different?”
It’s blunt, but not malicious. If anything, the fact that she does look different inclines him to be a little friendlier than he’d be with most of his father’s other clones. At least with her, he doesn’t have to think about whom she’ll grow up to serve—or whom she’ll grow up to look like.
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“I still need to find something to use as a spearhead,” he says. “And something like rope, to tie it.”
He ducks into the threshold of the partially collapsed storefront. There’s some faded signage for hardware at the entrance, which Boba finds promising. “It has to be sharp, but not too brittle. My dad told me that even a sharp stone can work, but a most of the time you need to carve it first…”
A pause. Boba realizes he’s forgotten something. He glances back at the stranger.
“My name’s Boba, by the way.”
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"I don't know," she admits. "This is how I've always been."
She tilts her head at Boba. "Why do you ask?"
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“Well… you’re a clone, right?” he broaches, feeling a bit bewildered that he has to explain it at all. “And so am I. But we only look kind of alike.” A pause, and then, in case she hasn’t figured it out: “That’s weird.”
Surely she couldn’t have missed that she’s the odd one out amidst all the other clones. Could she?
“I mean… Did they make you like this on purpose? Or was it an accident?”
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"I don't know though. If I have a purpose, that is. I've mostly been Nala Se's assistant once I was old enough."
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There's pieces of broken glass. Sharp, certainly. But not durable. He rummages through some of the rubble inside. There's some broken off pieces of wood, once part of some shelving. Not quite right, but Link collects them anyway, just in case.
He does, however, managed to find a curled up piece of thick cord. This, at least, should be useful.
He wonders back to Boba, and shows it to him.
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"I don't get it," Boba mumbles, brow furrowed. "Why would they use my father's DNA just to make Nala Se an assistant?" There must be another reason. Unless... "You are a clone of Jango Fett, aren't you?"
It seems unlikely that she isn't, but then, none of what she's said sounds very likely in the first place.
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"Your father's..?" She latches onto that phrase. No clone's ever referred to the originator of their DNA as 'father' so far as she knows. "That's the only DNA sample that the Kaminoans have been making use of for all this time," she admits with a frown.
"I'm a clone like you, but no one's ever told me much about why I'm different. I just know that my brothers are too. But they were genetically altered when they were young, part of an experimental unit. So most of them look a lot different now than Regs - that's what they'd call the regular clones."
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'Kaminoan experimentation' seems like the closest to an answer he's going to get. Boba accepts it with a nod, though, to his own surprise, he doesn't feel much satisfaction in finding it out. If anything, it makes him feel a little unnerved to imagine them experimenting with his father's genetics. He tries to play it off with a shrug.
"Okay. I was just wondering." A pause. "I'm different, too, even though I don't look like it. Jango Fett was my father. They didn't alter my DNA at all."
A fact he evidently takes some pride in given the way he says it.
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The girl blinks at him, brightening a little. Someone else who was different. Just...not in the way that her squad is. "Really? How old are you?" she asks, all at once curious. "I never knew there were any direct clones. So...you're not a cadet, then?"
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Boba thinks it's a little odd that she'd asked about his age. Could she be like him in that regard as well? "What about you? Did they make you grow up faster like the others? Or do you age normally?"
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But things are better because she's with them- or at least she was. Still, she doesn't think staying would have made anything better for them. Omega smiles a little.
"I'm about fourteen now. Dustin helped me calculate when my birthday will be, here, so I'll be fifteen in a few months."
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Time differences are still such a strange concept to her. Even though she knows Echo's from some point ahead of her, it hasn't seemed so far as to be disruptive.
"When the Clone Wars ended, the Republic became known as the Galactic Empire."
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He knows this place has some kind of dysfunctional relationship with time. That's how they can be here for so long and then return home with no memory of it nor time having passed—allegedly, anyway. Boba prefers not to think about it too much precisely because it sounds so impossible. It makes him feel like he's being told a lie and worse, he wants to believe it.
But now here's someone else telling him that she's from after the war—and Boba realizes, it makes some amount of sense. After all, how else could she be older than him? He was the first clone of his father ever made.
"So you're from the future?" His tone is uncertain. Maybe her aging has been accelerated like the rest of the clones and she's lying, but why would she do that? "Does that mean the Republic won?"
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"I guess you can say that. I'm not sure when you're from to really know otherwise. "The Republic won, and the Supreme Chancellor became Emperor."