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solo asked what my oldest and newest fandom have in common. After some soul-searching on what my oldest fandom was, I decided it was the Yoko Tsuno bandes dessinées. I don't think I was ever fannish about the Donald Duck comic books or various children's lit I read, and I think Yoko and Khâny were the first shippy feelings I had, even if I didn't write any fic for them the first time round.
My latest fandom is ... well, it's Star Wars, whichever way you slice it. Technically the latest piece I saw was the prequel trilogy, but I'd seen The Clone Wars earlier, so I was already into the era, and I played Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO between them, so either the PT or SWTOR, depending on your interpretation.
Anyway, as for the actual question, the trivial answer on what they have in common is blue-skinned space babes. Khâny could honestly pass as Pantoran.
Left: Khâny. Right: Riyo Chuchi.
The canons are actually pretty compatible – the Vinéans (Khâny's species) come from the Andromeda galaxy and escaped to Earth due to their Sun going supernova two million years ago. This counts as a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so honestly someone could write a crossover where the Vinéans are a colony of Force-blind Pantorans and I wouldn't even blink. There's also a similar sense of swooping scale and a lot of exploring old ruins on Vinéa when they go back.
In addition, the protagonist, Yoko Tsuno, is a highly qualified electrical engineer and mechanically minded. She also has an engineer's approach to problem-solving, in that she doesn't spend any time waffling over why, but sets out solving problems and being nice to people. If it is not Jedi philosophy, it is reasonably compatible with it. And of course on the Star Wars end, I don't think I would like Anakin Skywalker half as much if he weren't a relentless tinkerer and mechanic.
(Also it seems like Roger Leloup has written and drawn another few albums that have also been translated into Finnish. I last took a look when Khâny had made a hybrid Vinéan-human baby based on her and Yoko's DNA; it seems Yoko has gone on a bunch of time travel adventures since.)
...it's actually funny how much they have in common now that I think about it. What most strikes me about Yoko Tsuno is Yoko's ever-growing collection of female friends and mentees, which is not really something I associate with Star Wars, lol. Though I suppose looking at Yoko's general kindness and ability accept situations as they are before fixing them, the fact I like the Jedi shouldn't be that much of a surprise.
solo asked what my oldest and newest fandom have in common. After some soul-searching on what my oldest fandom was, I decided it was the Yoko Tsuno bandes dessinées. I don't think I was ever fannish about the Donald Duck comic books or various children's lit I read, and I think Yoko and Khâny were the first shippy feelings I had, even if I didn't write any fic for them the first time round.My latest fandom is ... well, it's Star Wars, whichever way you slice it. Technically the latest piece I saw was the prequel trilogy, but I'd seen The Clone Wars earlier, so I was already into the era, and I played Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO between them, so either the PT or SWTOR, depending on your interpretation.
Anyway, as for the actual question, the trivial answer on what they have in common is blue-skinned space babes. Khâny could honestly pass as Pantoran.
Left: Khâny. Right: Riyo Chuchi.
The canons are actually pretty compatible – the Vinéans (Khâny's species) come from the Andromeda galaxy and escaped to Earth due to their Sun going supernova two million years ago. This counts as a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, so honestly someone could write a crossover where the Vinéans are a colony of Force-blind Pantorans and I wouldn't even blink. There's also a similar sense of swooping scale and a lot of exploring old ruins on Vinéa when they go back.
In addition, the protagonist, Yoko Tsuno, is a highly qualified electrical engineer and mechanically minded. She also has an engineer's approach to problem-solving, in that she doesn't spend any time waffling over why, but sets out solving problems and being nice to people. If it is not Jedi philosophy, it is reasonably compatible with it. And of course on the Star Wars end, I don't think I would like Anakin Skywalker half as much if he weren't a relentless tinkerer and mechanic.
(Also it seems like Roger Leloup has written and drawn another few albums that have also been translated into Finnish. I last took a look when Khâny had made a hybrid Vinéan-human baby based on her and Yoko's DNA; it seems Yoko has gone on a bunch of time travel adventures since.)
...it's actually funny how much they have in common now that I think about it. What most strikes me about Yoko Tsuno is Yoko's ever-growing collection of female friends and mentees, which is not really something I associate with Star Wars, lol. Though I suppose looking at Yoko's general kindness and ability accept situations as they are before fixing them, the fact I like the Jedi shouldn't be that much of a surprise.
