Aww, thank you! I really put a lot into the worldbuilding, so I'm glad all the research and effort paid off! The Mando'a in particular; I am garbage at inventing conlangs wholecloth, but give me a partial dictionary and I will cobble together words all day (if you haven't read it, might I shamelessly recommend my fic I only need your name (to call the reasons why I fought), an entire fic dedicated to turning Obi-Wan's name into a Mando'a word? XD). I love language so much, and it was important to me that any Mando'a I added sounded right but also linguistically made sense. Coming up with a word for Master was a small part, but vital to the tone I wanted for this fic, and I'm pretty pleased with my offering XD
In doing a role reversal au, I knew I wanted to get it as close to full reversal as possible, and specifically look at the scene of finding the clones on Kamino, which is such a juicy character moment. But thinking about doing clone!Obi-Wan in that way didn't quite jive with me (a different idea for clone!Obi-Wan...well, I have too many plotbunnies always), and I didn't just want to make all the clones Jedi. But making the clones Mandalorian is a common enough reversal, and that is an organization that structurally feels very like the Jedi Order, so setting up the idea of their military being the equivalent of the Jedi in canon felt natural. From there, I really enjoyed developing the (you're right! very fucked up!) concept of lab-grown Jedi (because is it really a role reversal if the Jedi aren't lab-grown like the clones were? the theme is culture and bodily autonomy!). And all those differences (Cody finding the Jedi here versus Obi-Wan finding the clones in canon, how the Jedi might relate to a culture that isn't really theirs but they're expected to emulate) stemmed from there.
In short (sorry, I got excited!), yeah, this premise is fucked up! And I loved writing it! Thank you for commenting!
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