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[[Category: Short stories]]

{{Story
|title={{PAGENAME}}
|image=Mawhonic.png
|author=[[Captain Henson]]
|series=''[[Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic]]''
|length=5,158 words
|source=[https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tales_from_the_Boonta_Eve_Classic/works/59949748 AO3]
|date=October 26, 2024<ref name="Discord">Ken Palpatine (@shisstopus) on Discord ([https://discord.com/channels/1197017424042664016/1197161203798114364/1299845761558905005 link]), "https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tales_from_the_Boonta_Eve_Classic
Day 5, we've got Rock Bottom: Mawhonic's Tale by Captain Henson."</ref>
|timelineplace=32 BBY
|preceding="[[The Spice of Life: Gasgano's Tale]]"
|following="[[Mending the Broken: The Tale of Ark Roose]]"
}}

'''"Rock Bottom: Mawhonic's Tale"''' is a short story written by [[Captain Henson]]. It was released on AO3 on October 26, 2024<ref name="Discord" /> as the fifth story from the ''[[Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic]]'' anthology. It is also the fifth story in the print release of the book.<ref name="Boonta">''Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic''</ref>

==Plot summary==
[[Mawhonic]] reflects on his loss at the [[Boonta Eve Classic|Boonta Eve]] while drowning his sorrows at the [[Racer's Edge]] cantina.<ref name="Rock">"Rock Bottom: Mawhonic's Tale"</ref> [[Gasgano]] antagonizes him, and the two get into a fistfight that is soon interrupted by the [[Mandalorian]] [[Ka'thar Fell]], who incapacitates Mawhonic with a dart.<ref name="Rock" />

Mawhonic enlists Ka'thar to hunt and kill [[Sebulba|Sebulba's]] kin as revenge for making him crash during the Boonta. The pair later meet with Mawhonic's manager, [[Ziss Heiss]]. A masochist, Heiss requests Ka'thar record her kills and send him the footage.<ref name="Rock" />

In a brief epilogue, Ka'thar privately contacts Mawhonic to let him know she will be joining [[Jango Fett|Jango Fett's]] ''[[Cuy'val Dar]]'' and will "disappear."<ref name="Rock" /> Mawhonic realizes the futility of revenge and sets off to race in the [[Vinta Harvest Classic]] while entertaining the possibility of training a rookie to  succeed him.

==Appearances==
===Characters===
*[[Ka'thar Fell]]
*[[Gasgano]]
*[[Ziss Heiss]]
*[[Mawhonic]]
*[[R1-U2]]
*[[Sebulba]] {{Mo}}

===Locations===
*[[Malastare]]
**[[Sebolto's palace|Sebolto's death stick factory]] {{Mo}}
**[[Ziss Heiss' office]]
*[[Tatooine]]
**[[Podracer Cantina]]
**[[Racer's Edge]]

==References==
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