#Groundrunner100

[groundrunner100]

I’ve gone down the rabbit hole…

[moonlitalien]

Of ALL alien species to EVER exist in Star Wars, which is your favorite???

Devaronian for sure!! They are so interesting, I love the design differences between males and females, and their culture is so nice. I have a looot of Devaronian OCs!

[wolveria]

In your honest opinion, do you think Star Wars: The Clone Wars will return???

It’s kind of funny you asked that - I just watched a video today on why Disney cancelled the Clone Wars. And if what he said is true, then I don’t think it will return in the form of a TV show.

We should be getting more new Clone Wars material in the form of comics and books, however. I know the Ahsoka novel isn’t technically in the Clone Wars era, but it at least focuses on a character from the show. And Maul just got a new comic too. Again, I don’t think it’s during the Clone Wars, but rather in his early years before he appears in Phantom Menace.

I hope we get more Clone Wars stuff. Especially about the clones. I’m not sure that we will, since Disney seems to want to stay away from the prequels, which is a damn shame. :/

Thank you for sending me an ask!

[battlekilt]

The tragedy of Fives is the tragedy of Fox.

Inspired by this post by @groundrunner100 — But it got too long and the meta was a severe angle off from their good post. Check it out.

Honestly, the tragedy of Fives is a tragedy he ultimately shares with Fox.

We the audience know that Fives isn't crazy. We the audience know what is only a few months away. Which is why his exchange with the cab driver really reminds us that we are down the path of a tragedy no one can stop.

Fives asked, "You ever hear the one about the people engineered to kill, engineered to kill their best friends, their leaders, and they don't even know it?"

We the audience are screaming in our hearts. We know he is telling an ending we already know.

Because our answer is, "Yes, we have heard the tragedy of the Clones—the tragedy of YOU."

At this point, we had come to know Fives from the cadet who barely graduated to become a Trooper, was assigned a milksop station that never should have mattered, but became the linchpin of an upcoming battle for Kamino. There he is taken in with his fellow 'barely managed graduated from Clone School' classmate by the, "Oh shit, it's the 501st." We got to see the irony in how it was at a postponed matched up for the fate of Kamino, where we also had first met them, that Fives had proven his merit and was sent off to become the most elite Trooper there was—an ARC. We saw the tragedy of when he lost his brother, his old very ARC-like independence when he stood as the voice of Rex's better heart. And in this last episode, we were so subtly reminded of why he was an ARC Trooper—we were reminded how proud he made "Captain Rex or Sir."

When the audience first saw Revenge of the Sith, the Clones were still very much presented as mirrors without minds. Cody was the first Clone we really saw named, and all we got was that he knew how to do a cool spin with his helmet, and Obi-Wan liked him well enough to remark to Anakin, "Good man." At the time, it was phrased and presented to the audience that they hadn't known each other for very long, for why else would Obi-Wan choose that moment to remark to Anakin his opinion of this Clone Commander?

No longer do we look at the Clones and only remember their helmets when they raised their blasters and killed Master Mundi or the pretty blue Twi'lek Jedi on that pretty jungle in snow. They were more than just the smart men who nodded to each other, slowed their speeders down, and swiftly took down a Jedi that they had just been riding beside. When the 'ugly Jedi' Lucas created so no one would like him was shot down by his own men, now we are sobbing because we have context.

So, when Fives so summarily tells the tragic fate of he and his brothers to a cab driver that just hears a lot of stories, we know that this story is true. We know that though he is in a time when we are begging for things to say, it cannot be changed.

Fox is just like Fives. He is exactly like Rex. He is no different from Cody. He... is a faceless pawn on Palpatine's board. Worse than that, the fact that we never see Fox's face simply reinforces the fact that in this story, Fox is just a prop.

However, we also know that because Fives is so vivid with life and personality, that Rex is so warm and comforting, and Cody is a long-time friend we've gotten to know since ROTS... we know that under that helmet, Fox is a person.

Fox never gets to be a person. He has no one to tell him what Fives told the Cab Driver. He has the position of someone who has never been told the future. He is a stern and true to his duties as Cody and Rex because he is an honorable, dutiful Clone... as they were all bred to be.

We want to make context for him, stories for him. We want to make sure he is a person so that his tragedy is just as sorrowful as Fives. We want so bad for there to be little quirks to him, loves for him, humor and joy in him because ultimately… Fives got that. We didn't see most of it, but we knew it was there. He was expressive, he loved his brothers, he smiled so large and bright, and he obviously brought joy in Rex's life. Did Fox have anyone to be so proud of? Was anyone just as proud of him?

Tragically, Fox doesn't get to hear Fives's story. He doesn't have the context to consider that maybe this ARC Trooper can stop the real betrayal of the Republic.

Fox is the plot reinforced. As we foolishly beg for Anakin and Rex to listen to Fives, to DO SOMETHING because we do not to relive that tragic moment when Order 66 goes out—when the galaxy we came to know during TCW comes to an end.

While Fives knows the truth, he is the fate that cannot be changed. Fox is the blasterbolt that secured the future, that kept the story on the path it needs to unfold.

Fives and Fox are so much like two characters out of a Shakespearean tale or a Greek Myth.

As I say to people, if Rex has apex-level plot armor, Fox... had a noose. He was doomed from the start. There was no way out for him. No one to show him a way.

I think that is one reason why so many people love Fox. We are drawn to his tragedy, we are compelled to rip off that mask that reveal the face under it.

Since he is ultimately as faceless as any other Clone we never see, he is a mystery in this tragedy. The desire to humanize him before his tragic fate comes to pass is painful, it is visceral. We seek for ways to secure him love because the tragedy has no love for him—that was given to Fives, so as he dies in Rex's arms, so too does our foolish hope that all this could have been prevented.

There was never any salvation because Fox was the poor unlucky bastard who held up the blaster and took the shot. Because the fate is going to happen. Fox's only mercy is that to us, who get to see the broader, colorful tapestry of the story—we who look at the woven segment dedicated to the Clones, we have paid attention, and we cannot forget him no more than we could forget Fives.

We knew Fives's face, his face that, other than that goatee and his simple tattoo, is very much a 'Cody Copy' face, complete with 'The Cody Cut.' We have memorized his boyish smirk, his bold idealistic bravery, we watched his rise to an ARC when he came out from the bottom. We know his story, we knew he told the truth. We know nothing about Fox. We know that as a Clone, he has the face of the Clone—but as we've learned with Fives, we also know that they are so much more than that face.

Their duality is we know Fives and know nothing of Fox. The same way Fives knew the truth, the future—he knew how the story will end, and he brings hope that maybe it can be stopped. We know nothing of Fox—he knows nothing of the truth, the future—he doesn't even know that he is what secures the ending of the story. Saving Fox would have saved all the Clones, we know... that was never going to happen.

Both just wanted to do their duty, that's why we can see their entanglement, their mirror image.

Fox is in 'Fates' with Fives.

[groundrunner100]

My Bat Symbol

In celebration of Batman Day, I drew my own Batman symbol.

No references used, completely freestyle. Will probably use it for a Batman drawing down the road.

Happy Batman Day, my fellow Dark Knights & Caped Crusaders!

[groundrunner100]

Unheard Love

My 1st time drawing Princesses Midna & Mipha.

Out of the 2, Midna was the most difficult to draw.

Upon completion, I realized I botched up Mipha’s inner body color, but in my defense, I couldn’t find my colored pencils.

ANYWAYS…

Midna x Mipha, y’all! 2 of the most BEAUTIFUL women in The Legend of Zelda franchise getting freaky with each other!

It’s given me ideas for what to draw next!

ENJOY!

[groundrunner100]

My Destiny 2 Resumé

Going on a 1 month hiatus from the game. I’ve got a backlog of video games I want to play.

[groundrunner100]

Was bored today, so I drew my own version of Ultra Magnus from Transformers.

Will touch it up, & color it eventually.

Let me know what y’all think about it!

[groundrunner100]

Anodite Tali’Zorah - Preview

See the full image on X.

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[groundrunner100]

My squad if I worked for Team Rocket.

(P.S.- Smeargle’s my Meowth, & would be voiced by Wayne Knight).

[groundrunner100]

My New Years Resolution for 2021.

In November of 2020, we got our cable boxes swapped out for new ones. One night, I decided to surf the tube, and checked the guide for Cartoon Network to see what was on. What I saw was genuinely depressing. NOTHING but The Amazing World of Gumball, & Teen Titans GO!. This is Cartoon Network at its worst.

So, after a month and a half of research, I have come up with a more diverse schedule for the once critically acclaimed channel, and will be sending it to Cartoon Network headquarters.

I’m not doing this for monetary gains, I’m doing this because I grew up with Cartoon Network, and to see what has been done to this channel, & what they’re trying to do behind the scenes, is a fundamental betrayal of what they were.

You may think I’m wasting my time doing this, but just remember: one man can make a difference.

I’m sending this in mail by the end of the month, so take a moment of your time to see what I have to offer them. Seems like a home run in my opinion.

[groundrunner100]

Writing a letter to the CEO of Disney is more ideal way to make a difference, than sitting in front of a camera bitching about the problem, don’t you think?

In all seriousness, though. If The Fandom Menace is unhappy with what’s happening to Star Wars...

WHY. DON’T. THEY. DO. SOMETHING. ABOUT IT?!?

[moonlitalien]

If you were to choose between Ahsoka Tano, & Darth Talon, who would you pick?

THIS IS SO UNFAIR AHSKAHSF......I would have to say Darth Talon just bc I want her to step on me so bad 😔

[groundrunner100]

Star Wars: Captain Rex (Phase 1).

Check out the rest of my art at groundrunner100.deviantart.com

[groundrunner100]

Not even COVID-19 could keep Slenderman away.

Happy Halloween, y’all! 🎃