History Webcomic / ThisPlaceWasHome

* AuthorAppeal: Many of ND Stevenson’s favorite tropes show up in this story, including shapeshifters, a villain-centered story, gay women, and Zam Wesell herself, who ND has often cited as their favorite ''Star Wars'' character (next to [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Mara Jade]].)

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Zam explains to Boba that she keeps up the look of a human woman, despite being a reptilian Clawdite, because she feels more aligned with it than her birth appearance. She also mentions having to take gene therapy to sustain her transformation. All in all it resembles a trans person describing their transition.

* AffectionateNickname: Zam starts calling Boba "little dude". [[spoiler: It sticks well into Boba’s adulthood.]]

** When recovering from a krayt dragon attack, Zam jokingly claims it ate her leg, brandishing a stump. However, her leg is fine, she just transformed it as a prank.
** On Coruscant, as in canon, Zam loses an arm fighting Anakin and Obi-Wan. [[spoiler: After escaping with Jango’s help, she replaces it with a prosthetic.]]

* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler: Zam and Boba]] have one near the end, complete with a Big Damn Hug.
* BrainUploading: [[spoiler: The "decoy clones" of both Boba and Jango have implanted memories from their original counterparts. According to Jango, "The decoys will think they're us. In any way detectable, they will be."]]
* BrickJoke: The first time Fennec meets Boba, she pranks him by shapeshifting her leg, saying she lost it in a battle with a Krayt Dragon. [[spoiler: In the epilogue, the original Boba asks if she’s playing a similar joke on him, only for her to tell him that she really got her arm cut off.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Unlike the movie the comic is based on, the characters curse, discuss sex, and use recreational drugs.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Jango, Boba, and Zam manage to exit the bounty hunting life and become a makeshift family. Meanwhile, our Boba reaffirms that he's happy with the path he's forged and remains on Tatooine to be the rightful ruler of his territory.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Zam cryptically suggests that Jango would have done anything to protect Boba -- "even something really fucked up". [[spoiler: In the next scene of the epilogue we learn that Jango commissioned clones with his and Boba’s memories to be used as live bait in case something went awry, something that Zam indicates he had a lot of reservations about.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: A subtle variant, but [[spoiler: Zam's]] questions towards Boba in the epilogue gain an entirely new meaning when [[spoiler: it's revealed that our Boba is a "decoy clone" -- she wanted to see if he still wanted that life, or if he'd grown beyond it.]] Our Boba's answer indicates the latter, so he ends up passing.
* SpottingTheThread: On Tatooine, Boba realizes something is up when [[spoiler: Fennec seemingly has an artificial arm. She turns out to be Zam Wesell in disguise.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Zam’s species is cold-blooded, so when her and Jango land on an ice planet, she ends up nearly freezing to death before Jango conserves her body heat by cuddling with her.
* ThatManIsDead: All but outright stated by [[spoiler: Jango]] in the epilogue:
--> ''[[spoiler: [Our clones]]] can keep the ship. The armor. The name. I’m getting us all out of here alive. They’ll never find us.''
* TomatoSurprise: In the epilogue it turns out [[spoiler:Zam faked her death, and she, Jango, and Boba fled the war while distracting Obi-Wan with a pair of clones, meaning the Boba Fett we’ve been following from Episode II all the way to ''The Book of Boba Fett'' is a clone of another preceding Boba.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Zam and Jango have some close romantically charged moments. He snuggles with her on a cold planet to preserve body heat, they discuss how Boba seems to see Zam like a mother figure, and it’s revealed they almost slept together once.
* WhamEpisode: The epilogue reveals that [[spoiler: Zam faked her death with the help of Jango. Jango then cloned both himself and Boba to throw the Jedi Order off their trail before the three of them went into hiding.]]

** [[spoiler: "Fennec" transforming into Zam's human form reveals that she faked her own death.]]
** Once again returning to the events of ''Attack of the Clones'', we watch as ''Slave I'' leaves Kamino, with Obi-Wan in hot pursuit. [[spoiler: Pan down to reveal Jango Fett watching the whole thing unfold from the landing pad. He walks into a bedroom to find Boba and Zam talking while she recovers.]]
* WhamLine: To clarify the TomatoSurprise as detailed above, Jango clarifies [[spoiler: exactly ''who'' Obi-Wan went after.]]
--> '''Jango Fett:''' He took the bait. [[spoiler: He's following the decoy clones to Geonosis.]]

''This Place Was Home'' is a SliceOfLife fancomic set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe written and illustrated by [[Creator/NoelleStevenson ND Stevenson]] (''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'').

* {{Expy}}: Zam’s playful personality is reminiscent of Nimona from Stevenson’s [[{{ComicBook/Nimona}} own comic]]. Nimona herself was based on Zam Wesell, making the imported disposition almost recursive (if still ND’s invention because Zam wasn’t particularly cheerful in her few scenes in Episode II.)

* AdaptationalSexuality: While in canon Fennec has shown no explicit attraction to anybody, in the comic she claims to have slept with countless women.

[[https://www.imfineimfine.com/p/this-place-was-home?r=pm75j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct The comic can be read here.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Jango, Boba, and Zam manage to exit the bounty hunting life and become a makeshift family. Meanwhile, our Boba reaffirms that he's happy with the path he's forged and remains on Tatooine to be the rightful ruler of his district.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Jango, Boba, and Zam manage to exit the bounty hunting life and become a makeshift family. Meanwhile, our Boba reaffirms that he's happy with the path he's forged and remains on Tatooine to be the rightful of his district.]]

* AuthorAppeal: Many of ND Stevenson’s favorite tropes show up in this story, including shapeshifters, the story centering on villains, gay women, and Zam Wesell herself, who ND has often cited as their favorite ''Star Wars'' character.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Fennec Shand in this comic is noticeably more humorous than in the Disney shows where she tends to be haughty and TheComicallySerious. Some of this could be attributed to [[LadyDrunk her being drunk or high on weed]], while other times it’s possibly a clue that [[spoiler:she’s being impersonated by Zam Wesell.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Zam indicates that Jango would have done anything to protect Boba -- "even something really fucked up". [[spoiler: In the next scene of the epilogue we learn that Jango commissioned clones with his and Boba’s memories to be used as live bait in case something went awry, something that Zam indicates he had a lot of reservations about.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: Zam]] indicates that [[spoiler: Jango]] would have done anything to protect Boba -- "even something really fucked up". [[spoiler: We later find out that Jango commissioned clones to be used as live bait in case something went awry, something that Zam indicates he had a lot of reservations about.]]

* {{Expy}}: Zam’s playful personality is reminiscent of Nimona from Stevenson’s [[{{ComicBook/Nimona}} own comic]]. Nimona herself was based on Zam Wesell, making the imported deposition almost recursive (if downplayed because Zam wasn’t particularly cheerful in her few scenes in Episode II.)

* AuthorAppeal: Many of ND Stevenson’s favorite tropes show up in this story, including shapeshifters, the story centering on villains, gay characters, and Zam Wesell herself, who ND has often cited as their favorite ''Star Wars'' character.

* BrickJoke: The first time Fennec meets Boba, she pranks him by shapeshifting her leg, saying she lost it in a battle with a Krayt Dragon. [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Boba asks if she’s playing a similar joke on him, only for her to tell him that she really got her arm cut off.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Zam starts calling Boba "little dude". [[spoiler: It sticks to Boba’s adulthood.]]

** On Coruscant, as in canon, Zam loses an arm fighting Anakin and Obi-Wan. [[spoiler:After escaping with Jango’s help, she replaces it with a prosthetic.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Jango, Boba, and Zam manage to exit the bounty hunting life and become a makeshift family.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: A subtle variant, but [[spoiler: Zam's]] questions towards Boba in the epilogue gain an entirely new meaning when [[spoiler: it's revealed that our Boba is a "decoy clone" -- she wanted to see if he still wanted that life, or if he'd grown beyond it.]] Our Boba's answer indicates that he has.
* SpottingTheThread: On Tatooine, Boba realizes something is up when [[spoiler:Fennec seemingly has an artificial arm. She turns out to be Zam Wesell in disguise.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler: Zam]] indicates that [[spoiler: Jango]] would have done anything to protect Boba -- "even something really fucked up". [[spoiler: We later find out that Jango commissioned clones to be used as bait in case something went awry, something that Zam indicates he had a lot of reservations about.]]

* WhamEpisode: The epilogue reveals that [[spoiler: Zam faked her death with the help of Jango. Jango then cloned both himself and Boba to throw the Jedi off their trail before the three of them went into hiding.]]