#Echo 17

[mantleoflight]

"WELCOME TO THE WORLD, NEW FRIEND???" || Echo-17 & Risen!Rhulk

[its-a-full-galaxy]

"Y'know, nobody knows how long us Guardians actually live. Like, so long as we've got our ghosts, we're functionally immortal. We don't age, we don't die die, and we don't usually get sick. Eh, most of the time. But even then, so long as we have our Ghosts, we can just keep coming back - well, at least as long as we have the Light. Can't really do anything when you don't..."

[mantleoflight]

Thanks for the tag! :D

Echo-17 actually LOVES singing. She loves singing, music, and dancing! She actually sings a lot when she's not on duty or in a battle somewhere. She sings when she travels, when she cleans, and wherever she feels she can. Her songs actually reflect how she's feeling, and are one of the ways she expresses herself so her feelings aren't all locked up inside her chest.

Her ghost Whisper also sings! As ferocious and snappy as Whisper can get, she does love her guardian and they both love and understand each other's music. Whisper also sings when she's expressing herself, specifically when she feels like she can't express herself in normal worlds.

Through this, Echo and Whisper have actually learned each other's musical language, learning when a song is directed for them or for someone or something else. Of the two of them, Whisper has actually studied the different methods and modes of music such as Rasputin's anti-vex songs that wove messages and protocols into the music, and the Hive Death singers and how to reverse engineer their death song into the Harmony's "Song of Life".

They both dance too, often dancing and singing with each other when on their own. They actually do talk about what each song and dance means between them so even though others might not get it, there isn't any miscommunication between them.

Can your OC sing?

[clonememesfrikyeah]

Scenario

Due to an employee error the ration bar factory accidentally laced all their product with space weed, what do you think happens to the GAR?

[somestorythoughts]

So there's posts and fics with Alpha-17 as an Arc trainer.

Echo probably had to do a lot pf physical therapy/training after he was rescued. Alpha-17 from what I've picked up of the comics probably had to do the same.

So how about Alpha-17 looking at this trooper and he remembers training him and his brother, who's gone now, and knows the two of them were competent as fuck even if he's not gonna tell them that, can't let the younger vod get cocky, and he's all too familiar with grieving and recovering SO the day after Echo and the Batch land on Kamino he shows up in the training room they're using just like "come on you little shit time to get you back into shape."

And Echo just turns to Tech and goes "Maybe you should have left me in that stasis chamber."

The Batch just kinda blinks at that cause they haven't heard him joke much and Alpha-17 just goes "still a little shit. good. now get your ass over here before I have to come get you."

[mantleoflight]

//ECHO’S AUDIO FINS DO THIS TOO!! YEEEEEE!!!

when tfp shockwave’s antennas move like cat ears reblog if u agree

[merlincmgirl]

Clone Kinktober 2024

So I decided to set myself a challenge. I haven't wrote smut for a while and I thought this was the perfect opportunity. So I decided to write for our favourite copy and paste men. I tried to make it as random as possible, typing out a number of clones and kinks and then using an online tool to randomly assign one to each other. Some of them fit perfectly - others were more of a challenge.

The list is below and I will be linking them as soon as the story posts!

Gif Source

Kinktober 2024 List

Period Sex - Fives

Anal – Rebel!Rex

Rough Sex – Alpha 17

Submission - Gregor

Dirty Talk - Echo

Sensory Deprivation - Hunter

Domination - Howzer

Praise - Keeli

Power Play - Waxer

Toys - Neyo

Ice Play – Fox

Edging - Dogma

Outdoors – Wolffe

Overstimulation – Cody

Lingerie – Bly

Breeding - Kix

Sex Tape - Jesse

Group - 501st

Handcuffs - Rex

Armour Kink - Boba

Sex Pollen – Tup

ABO - Hound

Spanking - Hardcase

Wax Play - Thorn

Gentle Sex – Fireball

Title Kink - Mayday

Threesome - Wrecker & Cross

Masturbation - Tech

Exhibition - Boil

Oral - 212th

Bondage - Jango

[mantleoflight]

The Drifter is just going to put a cold ass Stasis hand on the back of Echo’s neck and grin at her.

“What’s up, little sister? How you holding up after everything?”

Echo sat at the back of the Annex docking wing, her legs hanging idly over its edge. A warm breeze drifted over the sunset valley beyond, the light making the far-off mountains gleam with purple majesty. She hadn't gotten out of her jumpsuit yet, the garish bright orange clashing wildly with her turquoise plating.

She breathed in the faint tower ambiance, almost as meditative as a Warlock when an icy hand gripped the back of her neck.

"FUCK!" She squawked, jumping to get away from the hand only to have her bottom half slide cleanly off the edge of the annex. "SHIT!" she shouted twisting to grab the deck and anything to stop her fall.

One hand caught Drifter's pant leg while the other hooked around the wide seam of an unlevel plate. With her fall stopped, the young hunter managed to hoist herself up, getting a knee over the edge before flopping back down on the Annex deck.

Echo panted hard, certain that whatever Exos had for hearts was pumping extra chunky peanut butter over that.

"I think," she said between breaths, "I'd be doing better--If I wasn't almost scared to my death--again. OUGHHHHHHH."

[mantleoflight]

Echo couldn't help but duck her head as the dark legend's words reached her.

"Oh Traveler, he heard me," she squeaked quietly.

Beside her, her ghost hovered by her head, the spines on her new shell glinting almost merrily. "Yup, he heard you," Whisper said, the smirk in her voice easily caught by her guardian. "And you're gonna deserve everything you get if he gets ya."

Echo ducked her head and scanned around for an escape. The place had plenty of routes to escape but the question was would she be able to get to them before this legendary Dregen got to her first? Probably not.

"Ohh, Drifter's gonna kill me for opening my big mouth if this guy doesn't kill me first," Echo muttered. She couldn't escape, so she might as well negotiate. 'Well, roll charisma, Echo, your life depends on it,' she thought and looked back at the man in question.

"Nah," she called back in reply, "only the ones who could squish me flat just by looking at me. Cabal Centurians, Fallen Walkers, an Ascendant hive Knight or two. That sort of thing." The young guardian gave a shrug. "You fit the whole thing and could probably flatten them first if you wanted. At least that's what I get from the look of ya."

"He's just standing there..... MENACINGLY!" Echo-17 @mantleoflight/@pawnshopsouls

@mantleoflight

Beneath the cowl his brows arch up in question, looking over his shoulder for a moment before completely turning around to see who has spoken. Guardians making an annoying comment upon his presence was certainly becoming a more common happening, perhaps their recent victories over the things that go bump in the night made them bolder.

Not that he could blame them.

Their fights have been substantial, world ending, and yet here they all are despite the odds. Yor hadn't supposed they would have ever gotten this far, not alone, but their allies are now numerous and filled with the unlikely.

"Do you regard every stranger like this."

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

“Anakin Didn’t Care About The Clones”

As a way of pushing back against the idea that Anakin was the only Jedi to treat the clones well, many Jedi apologists have argued that Anakin didn’t care about the clones or that his strategies got several killed, at all. Some even act like Anakin was abusive to Rex by cherry picking certain moments such as asking Rex to keep his marriage secret, running to Padme instead of Rex or Ahsoka after the Blue Shadow Crisis or the time he and Ahsoka threw Rex off that wall on Geonosis. Do people not understand the difference between comedic slapstick and abuse?

Was Anakin’s treatment of the clones perfect? No, all Jedi-clone relationships suffered from power imbalance and the clones being unable to leave as Cut and Slick pointed out and he wasn’t the only Jedi to treat the clones as individuals. What he did as Vader when he used them to storm the temple was despicable and as a former slave, he should have advocated more for their rights. Yet Anakin, before falling, valued the clones as individuals and encouraged free thinking in his men. In legends he struck up an odd friendship with Alpha 17 and gave him his nickname as well as encouraging him to do so for the gen 2 clone commanders he was training who would become Cody, Appo, Oddball, Thire, Bly, Gree, Neyo and Bacara. As Vader, he still held a fondness for Commander Appo and was somewhat dismayed by his death.

As for canon, his friendship with Rex was one of the closest of Jedi-clone bonds. Rex trusted him with his life as he reminisces in Rebels and Anakin was willing to share his secret about his marriage with Padme. Asking your friend to keep secrets, unless actively harmful, is not abuse. Nor is asking your friend who has the equipment to do so to assist in training your student like in TOTJ. It wasn’t just Rex that he cared for though. He encouraged Dogma to take breaks and be less of a stickler as seen in the clip below which also shows him complimenting Rex’s ingenuity and working with him and Fives as a team to evacuate the battalion after being ambushed by Umbarans.

Continuing on, he showed a great degree of concern for Tup when his inhibitor chip malfunctioned and drove him insane, fighting hard to rescue him. He also was willing to help Rex rescue Echo and work with Clone Force 99. Anakin was one of the few, besides Fives, who actually looked saddened by Echo’s apparent death while everyone else was focused on the shuttle. He later jokes with Echo after rescuing him and despite their squabbles earlier, lets Wrecker have fun blowing up Admiral Trench’s ship.

While not as close as Rex, he seemed to have a genuine bond with Fives as well. Sharing the story of his heroics as a child that inspired Fives’ plan of dissent against Krell and Fives admitted that while reckless, Anakin was always leading his men in the front rather than make them do all the work. Fives was comfortable enough to make dick jokes with him as well as share the information he learned about the inhibitor chips. Anakin complimented his quick thinking and while Fives was always vocal about being seen as a person over a number, one thing they shared in common, it’s implied Anakin is the reason he’s very independent and willing to go against orders for what he sees as right. While Anakin may have gotten defensive when Fives accused Palpatine of being behind the chips, he was still horrified by his death. TCW may be an episodic show but one could interpret that Anakin’s behavior in the Clovis arc was the result of having just lost two people close to him, Fives and Ahsoka, and Padme working with someone who endangered her before had him on an edge, not wanting that to happen again.

To say Anakin didn’t care for his men based off a few cherry-picked scenes is dishonest and is argued by people who think he was just bad even before falling. Was he perfect or the only one who treated them as individuals? No but he was not just an abusive, uncaring ass. The first scene in ROTS showed him wanting to go back and help the pilot squad. He gave his men like Fives or Broadside difficult tasks not because he didn’t care but because he knew they were capable. I wonder if, from his twisted point of view, Vader saw a bit of Rex and Fives in Veers and Piett due to their efficiency and ingenuity as military officers. Vader was complicit in the enslavement of the clones during Order 66 and needed to answer for it if he lived but to say his relationships with his men prior to that were abusive when there’s no evidence of that in the movies or TCW is lying just to make him seem like an irredeemable monster.

[mwolf0epsilon]

What started out as a redraw of a tooka cat from one of the star wars comics because it'd make for a neat emote, became an exercise in battling the Horrors™ through turning some clones into the cutest of space kitty cats.

Oh, and Tooka Rex still became an emote anyway so, win-win!

[mantleoflight]

Echo watched him, observing his response and the response of his wounded darkness. He seemed both tense and pleased with himself. Was it triumph at her decision to withdraw her deepsight? Or smugness in knowing he had something she wanted? His question, however, made her cock her head.

"Transactional?" she said, tilting her head. She thought back to all the adventures she'd had, all the missions she'd gone one and he had a point but... "Isn't everything?" Echo asked, looking up at him curiously. "I mean, that's how everyone gets what they want if they can't kill you for it. And everyone wants something, don't they?"

She looked up at him, leaning on her knees. "Oh, I don't expect you to do anything to help me," she said, grinning with a shrug. "I expect you to do stuff that will help you. Again, that's what everyone I've ever encountered on your side does. Always out for number one while convincing others to worship at your feet. Well, maybe not yours but definitely Oryx, Xivu's, and Savathuns."

Echo let her voice drift before fixing her gaze on him again. "No," she said simply, "But I don't know who you serve. I know their name, I know they're considered an enemy, but I don't really know who or what they are." She paused, cutting herself off as if she were about to say something that might get her punted across the room.

So, she let the words die on her tongue and instead chose a more tactful thought.

"Which begs the question," she continued, sitting up a little straighter. "Why do you serve them? What did they do to earn your loyalty?"

Echo watched as the Disciple approached, his yellow eyes fixed on her as her blue optics fixed on him. He was tall and regal, as proud in his posture as she was scrungly. It was like a raccoon meeting a duke or something! She grinned at her own mental comparison as she made her own notes on the gargantuan figure.

Fire engine red covered his elegant body, though it was marred or maybe accented by the web of black scars that threaded across his shoulders and thighs. They almost looked like roots or veins and gave him a more ominous look. She'd need to ask him to pose for her some time so she could draw him! Get down the lithe figure that booted so many guardians across the way.

Echo leaned back on her haunches and laughed lightly. "Coward? Ha! I just wanna know how you did it! As a hunter, I'm a firm believer in the old adage of 'live today, fight tomorrow'. Cowards yield and run away, then grovel when they're caught. We've got an Eliksni stuck on Europa who fills that category. Nah, you fought and got away with your life. That's a skill anyone with a brain should use!"

The exo paused and looked up at the Disciple's rectangular head and held out a friendly hand. "Name's Echo, and you?"

[frostbitebakery]

Alpha 17 for @glimmerglanger, @krakenantlers, @other-peoples-coats, @mis-mcgifsten, @deathdovesong, and @thelibrarysnake

[kastillia]

[incorrectclonewarsquotes]

Fives: Maybe we should split up, and cover more ground?

Echo: Great idea. That way Alpha-17 can pick us off one at a time

[coldbrewarts]

Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes?

But it’ll never change you and me

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