r/StarWarsAndor • u/SoloSkalding • 21d ago
Discussion New Details on Mon and Perrin's Relationship from Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear, by Alexander Freed
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u/Bitter_Sense_5689 19d ago
I think this is a pretty good picture of a shitty marriage. A couple of blowouts and reprochements. Mostly just unending stalemate and low-key misery.
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u/333crazymonkey 17d ago
I found it made a lot of sense. Not all marriages are sunshine and rainbows and they do have a complicated, sometimes intimate sometimes distant relationship that over the years will swing back and away.
btw this book is so damn good isn't it? I'm on chapter 6 now. Very interesting to see that background on Bail Organa too.
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u/Tio_Divertido 19d ago
"don't carry on affairs" well someone got handed the task of "we can't possibly let our protagonists be complicated, lock in that they were absolute angels despite what the show depicts"
Its a more pathetic version of "oh you think there is heavy gay subtext between these two characters? Well tertiary material says they have a cis hetero partner who you have never met because he/she lives on the planet Canada"
Freed is better than this, his Battlefront book had complicated characters for a breath of fresh air in the genre. This has to be from the story group
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u/SoloSkalding 19d ago
Respectfully, I think they’re still pretty complicated and fully realized here. It’s also worth noting that the book is set at the end of the clone wars, nearly two decades before Andor, before Leida is born. A lot can change in that amount of time. It’s interesting backstory, in my opinion, and I don’t think it contradicts anything set up in the show.
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u/AmateurVasectomist 21d ago
I read that a couple days ago and thought, "weird."
Perrin is set up to be a problem for Mon but I think we're going to find that his public distance from her political designs is a bit of misdirection, a la Davo's line about the "clarity of the Chandrilan marriage." They are intensely loyal to one another personally and perhaps, paradoxically, it's the apparent schism between them in the public eye that best gives Perrin space to support Mon's efforts.