#How dare Filoni did what he did

[klmwrites]

So i just got about watching episodes 15 and 16 of TBB season 2 today. Major spoilers ahead!

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This was my genuine reaction upon watching both episodes:

What. The. Hell?!!

There is alot to unpack here, mainly because we got not one but TWO shocking revelations here. I'm not gonna try and disact them in this post, my mind is still reeling from what I just watched. I will however discuss the three plausible theories I have seen swimming about online with regards to Tech's death. They are:

1. Tech is alive. One of the best explanations I have seen with this theory thus far is that he managed to grapple(?) onto a cable car pillar and slide his way down to the ground and sustained major injuries in the process. Nevertheless, he is still alive.

2. Tech died during the fall, and his body has been detained by Dr Hemlock for experimentation.

3. On Dr Hemlock's orders, Tech was rescued midair and brought back to the facility alive.

My heart aches for Tech, it truly does. But if we are to be realistic, it would seem at present circumstances with the limited information we have at hand on the situation that number 2 seems to be the most realistic option. This is because:

Based on where the batch was stranded, it did not seem that they were near any cable car pillars. Even if they were, realistically it would be impossible for Tech to slide his way down to the ground. Tech most likely only had one grappling hook on his person, and even if he didn't would it would not have been humanly possible to direct his own body towards the pillar and subsequently slide down to the ground. Unless he has a few tricks up his sleeve we were not aware about....

It would make sense that Dr Hemlock would take Tech back to the facility to be experimented on. He always used clones as scientific subjects, but just imagine not just a clone but a genetically enhanced clone? Dr Hemlock would absolutely have a field day if he had his hands on one such clone. Knowing his character, he is most likely indifferent to the aliveness of Tech, and coupled with the height the latter fell from it is most likely Tech is now corpse lying in the morgue of Hemlock's lab.

It is worth noting that alot of people predict that Tech would be back in season 3 as a darktrooper. I honestly think that is possible, and seeing a cold and calculating version of Tech working for the empire would be absolutely terrifying.

I'm genuinely curious about people's sentiments on where Tech's story will go from here, so imma be doing a poll on it. Now excuse me while i crawl into a corner and bawl my eyes out 🥺😭

[silver-starss]

I have (spoilery) Thoughts on Ahsoka episode four

First of all how dare you

Second of all how dare you

THIRD OF ALL HOW DARE YOU

Bro why is Hera taking Jacen on this mission? I know she has a penchant for lugging around badass kids, but he's what, 10? A bit young imo.

Called it. Marrok was a red herring. Filoni knew that we'd all go nuts about the identity of yet another cool masked dude and let fan speculation run wild. Though him turning to dust does bring up new questions...

Sabine and Shin round two! I like that Sabine was actually able to use her armor/equipment this time and fight Shin on more even ground.

That moment when Marrok died and Shin seemed genuinely shook? And Sabine recognizing this and trying to take advantage of Shin's shookness? *chef's kiss*

Really good special effects in the shot with the ring coming out of the atmosphere! That was stunning!

Ahsoka and Baylan fight was genuinely cool, and the choreography felt much more Ahsoka-esque. Particularly that flip she did, which didn't look wired like the one from Ep 2.

So Clan Wren is dead. :/ Not surprising, I assumed that would be Sabine's character arc when the series was first announced (feeling survivor's guilt after the Purge), but what does Ahsoka have to do with that? Is it an emotional support thing?

Sabine joining up with the bad guys makes sense. Her #1 priority is finding Ezra and they're her only means of getting there. She's probably planning to gun down Thrawn in the process, though I imagine Baylan is fully aware of that and planning accordingly.

On the bright side, this gives us more opportunities to explore her rivalry with Shin...

Speaking of, love the dynamic with Shin being the feral one yet actually listening to/respecting her master. I imagine there's a story there and I'm very curious to hear it.

I don't know whether to be mad or impressed that Jacen said part of the Iconic Star Wars Line but not the full thing.

Beautiful transition between the ocean and the World Between Worlds. It looks absolutely gorgeous in live-action.

Why and how is Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds?

HAYDEN ALREADY???? I didn't think he'd show up until episode 5.

"SNIPS" (!!!!!)

Holy fucking shit I'm losing my mind.

He looks way better than he did in Kenobi, but the de-aging isn't 100% great. Still though.

Interesting that Ahsoka's first instinct was to call him "Master". Old habits (and attachments) die hard I guess. They're going to have some serious issues to sort out next ep though.

Lmao casuals must be super confused by this ending. Imagine that.

Goddamn that's a cliff-hanger. And on the strongest episode so far!

[shoulderholsterfreak]

So, I keep seeing people expressing how disappointed they are that Filoni is "going with legends!Thrawn," but to me this sentiment makes it clear that they've probably never read past the original three books, or even the Thrawn Trilogy itself.

Let me explain.

The Thrawn Trilogy is only three novels. There was also the duology (Visions of the Future and Specter of the Past); the stand-alone novels Survivor's Quest, Outbound Flight, and Choices of One; the short stories Crisis of Faith, Side Trip, and Command Decision; and a few other non-Zahn novels and a couple video games wherein Thrawn is present if not in a starring role.

In all Zahn publications after the Thrawn Trilogy, we see a character that, aside from the random political/social debuff introduced in 2017, has a personality and morality system that is nearly identical to the one in canon.

It's in legends where you get Thrawn saying "we do not make war on civilians" and "as civilized beings, it is our duty to minimize suffering" (from the short story Crisis of Faith which takes place weeks before Thrawn began his campaign against the New Republic, so any excuse of "oh he got worse as Palpatine's influence deepened" doesn't really hold water).

And just look at the Empire of the Hand. If you want to know what kind of man Thrawn is, look at the organization he himself founded. To summarize, this is what an alien refugee taken in by the Hand had to say about it:

“The Empire that Senior Captain Thrawn is carving into the evil that pervades our worlds is not the Empire you chose to leave. His is an Empire of justice and dignity for all beings. His Empire is one we gladly serve. One we are willing to die for.”

Basically think the group of aliens and Chiss brought together at the end of Lesser Evil, add Imperials, and multiply it by 1,000.

This was in legends. That’s the vision legends!Thrawn had for a more ideal society. Rebels!Thrawn isn’t even true to what was available to Filoni prior to the canon books’ publications.

Now we can argue if Thrawn was as morally bad in the Thrawn Trilogy as he was in Rebels or not (I say short answer: T3!Thrawn’s greatest sin—for which he was killed—was apathy toward suffering in favor of results, Rebels!Thrawn simply enjoys hurting people because he’s a Bad Guy), but even if they DID hold the same fundamental values, they don’t have the same personality. Thrawn in the 90’s trilogy was expressive, he was having fun, he smiled and shrugged and fiddled with things and pet his ysalamiri. He was sassy and sarcastic and dry-humored and irritable. He was charismatic and, dare I say sometimes relatable. Sure he wasn’t a good person but that’s not the issue here. Thrawn had life to him in the Thrawn Trilogy.

In contrast, Thrawn in Rebel’s personality could be summarized as “creepy evil smart guy who likes art.” He’s really nothing more special than every Saturday mastermind cartoon villain out there. He’s bland and dry and lifeless and he’s scary not because of his intellect or his willpower or ability to read people but because he’s tall and skinny and lurks in the shadows and he’s got cheesy pipe organ theme music.

TL;DR: (as something a friend of mine mentioned) Filoni’s the kind of guy who goes with the very first idea that pops into his head. He goes with his first impression and runs with it. He’s not basing this guy on legends!Thrawn—he’s basing the entirety of it on the very first paragraph of the very first book the character shows up in.

[yen-stanning]

Incoherent and shook thoughts from Ahsoka episode 5

SPOILERS AHEAD

Guys, was that real? Did we really see Anakin in clone wars armor? Did we see Anakin vs. Ahsoka again? Did we really get Anakin teaching Ahsoka one final lesson?!

WAS THAT ALL REAL? I need confirmation because I have been in this weird daze every since I watched it this morning like... WHAT'S HAPPENING?!

My Clone Wars heart 😭😭😭😭😭😭

And the ending with the purgill and Ahsoka in her white suit?!?! My Rebels heart 😭😭😭😭 Ezra is coming home 🥹

AND TO HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN: 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣 YOU ARE SO LOVED!!!!!!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

I hope Lucasfilm gave him a big paycheck for this, because that was perfection!!! A perfect performance!!!! He did what he had to do and omg the result was just incredible, INCREDIBLE!!!! He's iconic, he's a legend, and he is the moment. THANK YOU HAYDEN 🥹✨️

And Dave Filoni, how dare you pull on my heart strings like this?!?!?!?! HOW DARE YOU but also thank you 🫡

Basically, still feeling like this 👇

Like I am NEVER shutting up about this. This was everything 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[stardusthuntress]

You guys I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS (for Dave) after those two episodes!!!!

BAD BATCH SPOILERS PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!

WHO is going to be Hunter’s impulse control next time a smol bean that needs a family pops up in their path?

Why is it called Echo Base, and we never see the clones on Hoth? I’m SO WORRIED ABOUT THIS. DON'T HURT ECHO THE MAN HAS TAKEN ENOUGH WRATH ALREADY!!!

Hunter is now missing his sanity check and voice of reason. How much more exhausted is the poor man gonna get?

WHAT THE FUCK did they do to that poor clone!!! Please tell me they didn’t also do that to Crosshair!!! Who was he, will we ever know or are we gonna have a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial going on now? And did anyone else panic when Rex went to turn the man’s face, worried we were gonna see a 5 emblazoned on the man’s right temple? They gave us Echo back, which I am forever grateful for, but Dave seems intent on doing things like that in the most painful ways now. I wouldn’t be surprised if he brings Fives back in a way that is completely the opposite of what he died fighting for. But this man was a sniper… who was he? And again, what did they do to the poor man?

When is Cross coming home? That means he has to now, right? Because Hunter needs him to be a voice of reason?

Rampart - FINALLY!!! But also WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHEEV!!!!!

Filoni - HAVEN’T THE POOR CLONES SUFFERED ENOUGH YET??? I KNOW UIU HAVE NEW FODER FOR EVIL BUT GIVE THE POOR MEN A BREAK PLEASE. And no I do not mean just filler episodes, tho I do fricken MISS the lightheartedness of those episodes now.

I am glad Rex got his Echo back tho. Those two need each other more than ever now. The last of the boys in blue… fuck that hurts… but Echo was the Batch’s moral motivation and Omega’s source of emotional stability and “no sharp objects, you already remind me of Fives” expression, and… SO MUCH ONE SENTENCE DOESN’T DO IT JUSTICE.

AND HE'S GOT HUNTER SO FRICKEN CLOSE TO JOINING THE REBELLION NOW!!! What was that he said to Rex “if you ever need us, just say the word” or something like that? That’s gonna be the finale, isn’t it? Rex calling them back for a mission together that solidifies them at Rex’s side in the rebellion? BUT WHAT'S IT GONNA COST THIS BATCH???!!! DO I WANNA KNOW??? (I don't think it would be good for me to know, my heart's already broken rn man, but now it’s in my mind I have to think about it)

Speaking of, we know Rex lives because Rebels, BUT PLEASE LET ECHO SURVIVE THIS SEASON!!! IMMA CRY FOREVER IF THAT'S WHY ITS CALLED ECHO BASE!!! AND TECH AND HUNTER AND WRECKER AND CROSSHAIR NEED TO SURVIVE THIS TOO!!! I don’t think I could watch another of the men go down. It hurts enough when it’s clones we just met, DON'T YOU DARE TAKE ONE OF THE MEN WE HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN LOVE WITH DAVE!!!

And for the love of all things sacred in Star Wars IS CODY ALRIGHT??? I feel like I need that damn deep breathe seagull to truly stress just how tired I am of asking this question. Somehow I don’t think Filoni is gonna let us stop asking that one tho....

Idk about you guys but I need to know that more than 3 clones survive and have a good life. I need to know that Rex’s little group isn’t alone in the Galaxy.

'scuse me, Imma go cry in a corner till I fall asleep now. THAT ONE HURT DAVE!!!

[questforgalas]

Thoughts while watching Ahsoka Ep 4!!

(wow was this a rollercoaster, get ready for a lot of caps lol)

Seriously so in love with the set design

I’m gonna say it, I love Rosaria’s Ahsoka, she’ll never top Ashley’s but I love this portrayal of grown up, v traumatized, had to mature way faster than she wanted Ahsoka

Seriously this cinematography and set design is gorgeous

Ooooo mysterious droids

Utterly obsessed we get a live action night sister like so fucking cool

FALLEN JEDI?!? THATS THE EPISODE TITLE???? Fuck me

Gawd Sabine’s armor in live action is so cool

Ugh Ahsoka is so traumatized over Anakin. My wittle babygirl

NO HUYANG!!!!

UM OK POP OFF HUYANG THROWING HAYMAKERS LIKE A CHAMP

Is that the first ever droid brawl in Star Wars??? Absolutely amazing

SABINE USING THE BESKAR

A JEDI AND A MANDALORIAN

I LOVE AHSOKA WITH HER WHITE SABERS

“Stay together. You always did better that way. In my opinion” PARALLELED TO OBI WAN’S “we’ll be fine as long as we stick together” SOMEBODY SEDATE ME OH MY GOD

Jacen 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Oh my god Hera bringing Jacen and pulling the “when you’re a general but for now you’re my kid” line what a freaking boss ass mom

CARSON

Lord almighty Ray Stevenson was so good I’m so sad he isn’t able to enjoy this fucking killer performance he delivered

Oooo great robe drop Shin

Oh my fucking god do I love Ahsoka’s cocky slow eye flick to Marrock she is so good with the quiet confidence (that’s so Obi-Wan by the way)

Yo this fight choreography is fucking sick

AHSOKA PULLING AN OBI WAN AND MAUL IN THE DESERT AYO FILONI I SEE YOU

Fucking Jedi and their dramatics with robes lol

COMING OFF THE BAT WITH AN ANAKIN MENTION OHOHO BALON

“Really? He never mentioned you” AHSOKA YOUR ANAKIN IS SHOWING

Do you think Anakin and Obi-wan’s force ghosts are munching some popcorn positively giddy watching their padawan sass and slay like a legend?

How dare you mention her walking away Balon

Yes babygirl slay

Um such a good tennis match of dialogue here between Balon and Ahsoka???

Oh my god she’s so fucking beautiful 😭😭

Absolutely in love with the quiet of this scene, hearing the hum of the lightsabers and Ahsoka’s steps as she circles, felt so meditative and suspenseful at the same time

This happened so long ago but so funny that Marrock was the subject of every pre-series theory and he ended up being just some dust dude lol

Very cool shot of Sabine’s helmet in the forefront as Sabine fights with the lightsaber in the background

Yasss use that beskar Sabine

“Your legacy and your master’s is death and destruction” Balon come over I just want to have a chat

Ohhhh your padawan is potentially dead and you lose all focus?? Wonder where you learned that from Ahsoka

Smart move Balon going right for the family feels

Oh fucking hell Sabine honestly? He’s a white boy with blue hair he’s not worth it

Love the noises the map makes, sounds like a video game

JACEN’S FORCE SENSITIVE LET JACEN BE FORCE SENSITIVE

THE WORLD BETWEEN WORLDS?!?!? THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok but the way my eyes immediately welled up when “Hello snips” echoed

Ok the fucking eye acting with the “Hello snips”?? In a split second she went from cool, calm, collected Ahsoka assessing her bizarre situation to surprise, eagerness, and youth in a split second

IT’S HAYDEN’S VOICE OH MY GOD IT’S HAYDEN’S VOICE HAYDEN SAID SNIPS IM GOING TO THROW MYSELF OFF OF A BRIDGE OH MY GOD IM SOBBING

IT’S. ANAKIN. HE. IS. STANDING. RIGHT. IN. FRONT. OF. HER. FOR. THE. FIRST. TIME. SINCE. BEFORE. MANDALORE. I AM A BLUBBERING MESS OH MY GOD I DIDNT EXPECT IT TO HIT ME LIKE THIS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD LOOK AT THEM HIS EYES ARE SO FOND SHE’S SO HOPEFUL JUST AT THE MERE SITE OF HIM I WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS

UGHHHHH and then the fade out to the horns of Vader's theme holy shit Filoni

[contrispos]

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Season 2, Episode 03: The Solitary Clone

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Hi, I’m sorry I didn’t do my reaction to last week’s episode, but life got in the way lol. Instead I’ll do both E3 and E4 today:))

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What’s this

who dis

new planet yay

I don’t like the TK armor

is that Lyste

I feel like that looks like Lyste lol

screams

oo scawy

except for the governor guy

he silly goofy

who dat

cool

sounds like a pyke

he is so nervous wtf

oooo droids

CROSSHAIR

MY BOY

omg

Kallus moment

imagine waking up to that alarm

why are the hands so detailed

ah regs

I love you

HEY don’t be mean to my boy

can he not eat?

ugh rampass

STOP WITH THE NUMBER

32 ROTATIONS!!!?????

NO

STOP

Cross just go to you brothers I beg you

oo Cross goin to da new planet

FUCK YOU RAMPASS

HE CAN BE COMMANDER IF HE WANTS

wait

Cody????

ARE WE GETTING MY BOY CODY BACK!!!???

CODY

YES

MY BOY

WHERE ARE THE COLORS

I HATE THIS

he sounds so different😭😭

Oh no don’t u dare call his husband a traitor

NO

FILONI I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL GO TO YOUR HOUSE AND FUCKING BREAK EVERYTHING YOU OWN

YOU DON’T DO THAT

I CANNOT HEAR THAT PHRASE ONE MORE TIME

I WILL PHYSICALLY COMBUST IF I EVER HEAR THAT AGAIN

AND HE SAID IT SO CASUALLY TOO😭😭

they’re all so…. dull

oh no don’t you dare make that parallel to the bad batch arc in cw

oo he mad

why is she attractive

i swear animated star wars characters are so attractive every single time

droids with missiles? what?

omg they’re gonna die

OMG THEY HIGH FIVED THAT IS SO ADORABLE

slay Cross

I was scared for a sec

ooo what are they gonna do

whats the plan

how can Cody see literally anything ever

oo

this is interesting

did he aim there or…?

HOW DOES HE NOT FLINCH AT ALL

omg he’s gonna shoot down the barrel

omg

that was hot

WHY IS THE ANIMATION SO FUCKING GOOD I CAN’T HANDLE THIS

Crosshair do be slaying

ah clones with names

we do love clones with names

okay so he’s not Lyste

”we’re here to help” Cody please SNAP OUT OF IT

why did he say droidekas like that

drowAiedickas

Crosshair became french

oo

pew pew pew

I LOVE THE SOUND DROID POPPERS MAKE

oh that was slay

ooo gymnastic droidies

omg

that was brutal

pew pew pew

omg yes

the little disc thingies

I love when he uses those

omg

omg Cody that was sexy my guy

omg Silence by Destril anyone??

oh what are they gonna do now

HOLY SHIT

HOW THE FUCK DID HE GET THAT SHOT WTF

oo

peace was never an option😭😂

oh

what’s he gonna do

omg

Cody

CODY IS TAKING AFTER OBI WAN WTF

Cody I love you so much

omg

Crosshair no

Cross

no

omg is Cody gonna go AWOL

this just shows how fucking terrible the empire is I swear to god

Cody is so going AWOL

that memorial is so fucking beautiful

Cody

Cody please go for ur sake

Crosshair please get it through your thick skull YOU ARE NOT DOING THE RIGHT THING

THE ANIMATION OF CROSSHAIR’S HANDS HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING THAT DETAILED

omg can you let the man EAT!!???

oh no you didn’t

YES HE WENT AWOL SLAY

he is just openly insulting all clones wtf

specifically Crosshair

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Okay so that was…. something…. CROSSHAIR PLEASE JUST FUCKING GO TO YOU BROTHERS I BEG OF YOU

[thatonespriteobsessedbitch]

ok Thoughts™ on the last seven episodes of the bad batch because I procrastinated a lot lol

Entombed:

not much I can remember since I did watch three episodes one after another but I did almost cry when Mel "died",

felt like the weakest episode so far tbh

Tribe:

literally sobbed from as soon as Gungi appeared until the end credits rolled,

was prepared to send Filoni my therapy bills

The Clone Conspiracy:

god I love Riyo,

my boy?!?!!! my rexy?!?!!

tbh it took me like three weeks to find time to watch the next four episodes so I don't really remember what happened in the first three but yera lol

Truth and Consequences:

everyone but Megs skipping stairs on their way off the Marauder 😂,

Echo momming omega 🥹,

Echo wants to help the rebellion so much,

I'm literally so scared for omega in the Senate, I feel like she's gonna die or something,

oh fuck oh fuck rampart

ok he didn't notice her I think

also he has one hell of a chin

bail is out here nick furying

BURTONI????? THAT BITCH I ONLY KNOW FROM FICS????

burtoni is gonna fuck them over I'm calling it

I know what happens with echo bc I accidentally stumbled across spoilers but I can see the exact moment he decided to help rex

"he's still not better with heights?" "this is him better" 😂

that's one way to get on a venator

they're just stealing a whole ass venator at this point

idk what Rex was thinking asking for tbb to help on a stealth mission, these fuckers are less stealthy than fucking Skywalker

riyos a badass

oh rampart you're fucked

and it was all for nothing, great 😒

low-key bawling at how omega had no clue what was going on

The Crossing:

omegas sarky this episode, I like it lol

damn that was almost a lion king moment

megs needs a helmet fr tho

omega has attachment issues

tech and emotions don't really get along lol

I'm slowly becoming more and more of a tech girlie by the episode

so tech is definitely autistic

the cave is kinda really pretty tbh

this planet reminds me of the gerudo desert from botw

Retrieval:

who knew Gonky would eventually be useful

this benni is pissing me off ngl

not the marauder

how dare you call Gonky a defective power droid you shit plant

the Mando adoption gene is gonna flare and they're gonna adopt Benni I swear

mokko got what he deserved

Metamorphosis:

idk who this boy is but he is becoming a blorbo very quic-- oh nvm he's dead

damn the greenery around that base is stunning tho

wtf is going on????? this feels like a Halloween episode so far

NALA SE?!!?!!!!

dr hemlocks kinda a dick

her concern is warranted, tech, because something massacred the crew on this ship ffs

this feels like the brain worms arc

I'm probably wrong but is that a baby zillo beast?????????? I haven't watched that arc in ages but it kinda looks like one

ok I googled what the zillo beast looked like and I swear to GOD THATS A FUCKIGN ZILLO BEAST

it's fucking eating electricity

omg it gets bigger everytime it eats electricity

OMG I WAS RIGHT!!!!!! it is a zillo beast

awww tech protecting megs 🥲

I simultaneously can't believe the empire decided to clone the zillo beast but also can't believe they waited so long to clone it

we all know palps was eyeing the mofo from the beginning

yeah no shit palps made the order before he was emperor, he was the one who ordered it to be brought to coruscant in the first place

and our boys are gonna be revealed to be alive

tbh how they didn't know with tech's whole racing shebang is beyond me

omg and they're going after omega again 😒

also I'm sick rn so this might make no sense but too bad

[gaykarstaagforever]

So Din WAS going to find the circuit board for IG-11 himself. We just had to interrupt that with the Bo-Katan scene where she tells him to go to Mandalor (which he already was going to do...?), end the episode, do the circuit board quest on Tatooine at the start of the next episode, then he goes to Mandalor like Bo-Katan said.

I don't want to tell Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni's hat how to make TV shows, but maybe do the Peli Motto thing at the end of Episode 1, then Episode 2 starts with him trying to join up with Bo-Katan, she says fuck you, he goes straight to Mandalor.

Why would you do it the other way? It doesn't make sense. I really don't understand why they did it this way.

I like the part when Din and Grogu and R5-D4 were exploring an ancient ruined mine and got attacked by frost trolls.

Why do I suddenly have an urge to play Skyrim? Huh.

And I feel bad saying this, but stop trying to make R5-D4 a thing. Seriously. He is a one-off sight gag of an exploding prop robot from a 46 year old movie. Leave it alone. This season of course has Grogu, and also those cute little mechanic guys. You don't need to be pushing Wacky Broken Coward Robot on the 6 year olds.

I mean, it didn't work back when Lucas tried it with C-3PO. And that was when the only alternative was a 7 foot Sasquatch who screamed like a walrus all the time. And kids picked the Sasquatch.

Also...I'm not saying this show has become a stunt man gesticulating in Mandalorian armor while Pedro Pascal got paid to record lines out of context over Skype on the set of the Last of Us. But I am saying that if they decided to make the next season that way, I can't imagine it would look radically different.

[Aside: Disney, out of all the streaming apps I use, yours is not the worst, that would be HBO Max, that shit crashes every time you dare to use your phone for anything besides watching 20 year old Adult Swim cartoons. But only the Disney+ app keeps coughing and sputtering every time my wireless connection gains or loses a bar. Shudder doesn't do that. Fucking TUBI doesn't do that, and Tubi is free with ads.

Stop arguing with DeSantis about what the King of England said you can do for 10 minutes and fix your shit that you keep making me pay more for.]

[mothnem]

Ahsoka is boring now as a character. She has no more arcs. Filoni had them all pass behind the scenes so he can have the perfect Light Goddess NOW. (I have my own issues with the Daughter, Son, and Father Mortis Arc but now is not the time for that.)

I want an Ahsoka scarred by Anakin's teaching. I want all the lessons he taught her to come and bite her in the butt. I want his lesson regarding the Malevolence to make an appearance, "It doesn't matter what you are told, just do what you want. It'll be fine." The only reason the Malevolence arc didn't come out really bad with even more dead is because Anakin has the devil's luck. And he's a main character. We see a bit of it in the Wrong Jedi. Ahsoka ran, with Ventress, a known Darksider and Separatist, casting even more blame on herself. And she did it just like Anakin would have.

I want the "lightsaber training" to make an appearance while training in Luke's Jedi Temple and him tell her off about that. And when she defends it, saying that's how her Master taught her, I want someone to snark "Oh? The one that became a mass murderer and Genocide Hobbyist? That Master?" And for her to get angry about that. How dare they say that! Darth Vader couldn't have been Anakin! He was... just..... and she doesn't have a justification that the person can accept.

Maybe they had a cousin, a baby cousin, barely a few weeks old. And maybe that cousin, was going to be a Jedi. They never forgot. And they're not a Jedi. They won't forgive. Anakin murdered their cousin before they could even sit up by themselves.

"Goddess of light reborn" Ahsoka is so fucking boring. Give me an Ahsoka who is GENUINELY dark, who is more obviously struggling with all the negativity she is feeling. Give me an Ahsoka who is following in her master's footsteps and might not even realize it. Give me an Ahsoka who forgives Anakin not because attachments are good actually, but because she's falling herself and can't accept the truth about him anymore than she can accept the truth about herself. Give me an Ahsoka who is giving into her anger and grief and guilt because it's too painful to do anything else. Give me an Ahsoka who turns on everyone in her life because she can't handle anyone's pity or sympathy and she can't lose anyone else. Give me an Ahsoka who is legitimately cruel and apathetic because it's too much effort to care again. Give me an Ahsoka who is getting into petty fights just to lose them so she can feel something again. Give me an Ahsoka whose first response to people asking her for help is always no. Give me an Ahsoka who more obviously hits a rock bottom.

And then give me an Ahsoka who can only be saved by remembering the Jedi. Give me an Ahsoka whose salvation comes in the form of forgiving them and mourning them and remembering their teachings and advice. Give me an Ahsoka who tells herself "there is no emotion, there is peace" and feels BETTER afterwards. Give me an Ahsoka who may never again feel ready to be a Jedi herself, but who refuses to let go of that heritage and turns to it when things get hard.

She's not a goddess, she struggles to turn from the dark every day, she still feels angry sometimes, she still is bowled over by her grief sometimes, but she's a fighter. She's a survivor. She can get back up and dust herself off and try again. She can do better.

[fireflyfish]

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[sailforvalinor]

Things I Want To See In Bad Batch Season 2

More details on what exactly was done to Echo in Clone Wars Season 7. What is the machine/man ratio? How did it interfere with his chip? How similar is he to Tseebo from Rebels?

We’ve gotten Hunter, we’ve gotten Wrecker, we’ve gotten Tech, now we want Echo’s dynamic with Omega

Echo’s dynamic with Hunter

Echo’s dynamic with Tech

Just MORE ECHO OKAY

More Hunter knife tricks

More background Omega mimicking her brothers

A tiny 0.5 second cameo of lil scrapper Cal Kestis on Bracca. Nothing huge, just to let me know he exists

As many subtle (or not-so-subtle) Legends references as you can cram in there. Republic Commandos? Oh yeah. Cloning Jedi? Joruus C’baoth??? I DARE YOU

Some explanation as to what the FRICK the Kaminoans were doing in that old abandoned base, whatever they had going on in that lab looked like a horror film from the 50s

MORE REX

An Ahsoka cameo, or her voice over a comm, or at least Rex mentioning/making vague reference to her

Just something to let me know that they’re together and okay that’s all I ask

Periodic Cham/Hera updates

HOWZER??? IS HE GONNA INCITE A CLONE REBELLION???

Echo talking about Fives

Crosshair redemption arc, but the slowest of slow burn redemption arcs, like, it doesn’t even have to happen this season

We have Rex, we have Gregor, now where’s Wolffe?

If this is going where I think it’s going, hints about the Empire tracking down Force Sensitives (ahem, Grogu) to clone them?

A Tech and Omega solo arc where they’re stuck in a dangerous situation waiting for the others to rescue them and Tech has to take Hunter’s usual place for Omega and struggles to fill his shoes, because out of these four emotionally awkward soldiers he is the MOST emotionally incompetent and Omega very desperately needs emotional input

Basically I want the two extremes of Tech’s tendency to use information/logic as a crutch and Omega’s need to fill her emotional void to collide, thank you very much

TINY BAD BATCH FLASHBACKS

More Omega hugs, just more hugs, more hugs all around

More of the Dad Batch being Dads. Don’t even try to be subtle anymore, Filoni, we know that Star Wars is secretly an elongated saga about fatherhood in space, BRING ON THE PARENTING

[padawanlost]

Hey there! First of all I wanna say that I love your blog 😊

If I may, I wanted to ask you something regarding the Jedi Code. What did it say exactly about love and family? From my understanding, they were forbidden to form attachments, yet one Jedi (can't remember the name) married and had several kids. So, as long as there was no love or risk of attachment, they could marry and/or have kids?

I'm so confused

Before anything else is said, we need some context. The Jedi Order is over 25000 years old, which means a lot of things changed over the years. what’s really important to keep in mind is that theirs rules were no set in stone. There’re multiple variations of the “Jedi Code”. Also, not every rule the Jedi had to live by were part of the Jedi Code. Some rules were more about tradition than the code itself. Because of that every generation of the Order has its own particularities. That’s why the Prequels Order was different from the Old Republic’s Order and that was different from New Republic’s Order.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about the prequel era Jedi.

1 – Jedi were NOT allowed to marry or reproduce (without the Council’s authorization):

“If anyone finds out that I’m expecting a child, I’ll be thrown out of the Jedi Order and I won’t be able to serve. I have to carry on. I can’t let the men down.” Skirata was furious. She felt it. She could see it, too. And if she thought that was bad, it would be nothing compared with how the Jedi Council would react. She’d be kicked out of the Order. She’d no longer be a general, no longer able to play her part in the war. [Karen Traviss’s Triple Zero]

2 – Jedi were allowed to have sex, but they were not allowed to have romantic relationships or to have any kind of emotional attachments to their sexual partners.

“Jedi Knights aren’t celibate. The thing that is forbidden is attachments and possessive relationships.” George Lucas.

“But ol’ Pellaeon’s just having a spot of romance, if you know what I mean. It’s not like he gets attached to any of them, is it? Is romance allowed? Can you have a spot of romance if you don’t get attached?” Ahsoka’s stripes became more vividly colored, embarrassed. Yes, she obviously did know what Coric meant by romance. It wasn’t the word he usually used for it, but Ahsoka was only a kid, and Rex had decided from the start that talking about that sort of thing was something best left to her Jedi Masters. Yes, General Skywalker, I think that’s a job for you, sir. It wasn’t a clone’s duty at all. “Romance,” Ahsoka said stiffly, “is acceptable. Jedi are not … celibate. Just … no attachment.” [No prisoners. Karen Traviss]

He felt his fingers fist. Don’t you lie. Not about this. Don’t you dare.  “You love her.” Monotonous blasterfire filled the silence between them. Then Obi-Wan nodded. “Yes, Anakin, I love her. But I was never in love. For a short while Taria and I needed each other. And when we no longer needed each other, we parted—and remained friends.” So that was how it worked, was it? Stay aloof, stay detached, never let yourself feel too much, too deeply, and the Order didn’t care? So if Padmé and I pretended we weren’t in love … [Karen Miller’s Star Wars: Clone Wars Gambit: Siege]

3 – Jedi were not allowed to have contact with their biological families;

“After the Jedi Masters decided that it was too dangerous to train anyone familiar with fear, anger, and any other emotion that might lead to the dark side, it was agreed that Force-sensitive juveniles, adolescents, and adults would no longer be eligible for enlistment or conscription. Instead, they sought out and adopted Force-sensitive infants who would be raised and trained at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant; to prevent any emotional attachments that might cloud judgment, most recruits would never have any subsequent contact with their families.” [ Ryder’s Windham’s Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]

The entire baby Ludi case

Still no word from the Jedi Council about what happened at the Battle of Naboo. Watto is beside himself with fury, complaining that if I can spend a hundred credits to send a message, then the Jedi can spend a hundred credits to answer. It worries me that it’s taking them so long. Three days should be long enough to figure out whether you were at Naboo, and whether you’re still alive. […] Shmi seemed to believe that Watto genuinely missed the boy. Leia had trouble accepting this, but was forced to at least allow for the possibility when Shmi reported that Watto had actually made a gift to her of the ten credits she had borrowed to help pay for her message to the Jedi Council. […] An administrator on Coruscant had finally replied to Shmi’s ’Net message: Anakin was well, but the Jedi did not discuss the activities of their Padawans even with parents. Even that was enough to elate Shmi. [ Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning]

4 - The love they were allowed to experience was nothing like how we experience love in real life:

Who wept their tears on the inside, where they would not be seen. To weep for a fallen comrade was to display unseemly attachment. A Jedi did not become attached to people, to things, to places, to any world or its inhabitants. A Jedi’s strength was fed by serenity. By distance. By loving impersonally. [Karen Miller. Wild Space]

It was impersonal. It wasn’t like loving your family or your friends. It was more compassion, than love (the kind of love that connects you to someone on a emotional level).

Instead, they sought out and adopted Force-sensitive infants who would be raised and trained at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant; to prevent any emotional attachments that might cloud judgment, most recruits would never have any subsequent contact with their families. [Ryder’s Windham’s Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]

“Not that Luminara is indifferent, but that Luminara is detached. It’s not that she doesn’t care, but she’s not attached to her emotionally. And at the end of the day, one of the questions that I guess I pose is, is that really a good thing? Is Anakin’s way of being so compassionate wrong? Because on a certain level, you have to accept that the Jedi lose the Clone War. So there is something that they’re doing that’s wrong.” Dave Filoni

Nobody asked the obvious—whether clone troopers were everyone else or not. Joc looked from Ahsoka to Rex and back again. “What’s wrong with attachment?” he asked. “Why can’t you have attachments? You mean love, right?” Ahsoka looked at the clones wide-eyed but in slight defocus, as if she was trying to recall something. “Love is acceptable,” she said at last. “But not attachment.” “What’s love if it isn’t attachment?” “Attachment is … putting personal relationships first, caring about the people you love so that it influences how you act.” Ahsoka seemed to be picking her words carefully. Coric stared back at her. “You know, it affects your judgment.” [ No prisoners by Karen Traviss]

5 - The exceptions:

There were some exception to these rules, most of them happening during a different time (Old and New Republic Eras). However, there’s one notable exception all the rules above during the prequels: Ki-Adi-Mundi. Unlike most Jedi he was allowed to marry multiple wives and have multiple children and still remain a jedi. They allowed it because he belonged to an endangered species, so him being in a polygamous relationship was part of the greater good. Fun fact, he was emotionally attachment to some members of his biological family.

[bitchin-beskar]

you’re safe in his arms

Rating: M

Warnings: Mentions of death, physical violence, more panic attacks. But also kisses.

Pairing: Din Djarin x Reader (no use of y/n)

Word Count: 2.7k

A/N: SO IM FEELING A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT THE FINALE. THIS IS ME ATTEMPTING TO FIX WHAT FILONI AND FAVREAU BROKE. ENJOY. (ALSO MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 EPISODE 16: THE RESCUE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK)

THIS IS A SEQUEL TO A PREVIOUS STORY, YOU CAN READ PART ONE HERE!

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“Master Skywalker, there are too many of them! What are we going to do?”

You watched in horror as Master Skywalker ignited his lightsaber, the blue blade glowing in the darkened room. You were hidden in one of the vents. You’d gone to the nursery to try and rescue some of the younglings from the blasters of the clones. When you’d seen Master Skywalker, you’d felt relief, hope, only for it to die a violent death as he began to slaughter the younglings right in front of your eyes.

You clasped a hand over your mouth, trying not to scream as he murdered the children one by one, each of them too young to defend themselves. When he struck down the last of them, he paused, and you held your breath as he turned towards the wall where you were hidden. His eyes were a violent, malevolent yellow, red-rimmed and angry as he seemed to pin you with his stare. 

You were growing lightheaded from holding your breath, but you knew if you dared take a breath now it would be your last. He took a step forward, and–

“Wake up, prisoner!”

You jolted upright, scooting backwards until you were pressed tight into the corner of your cell, as far from the guards as you could get. You were panting, chest heaving as you tried to breathe through your lingering panic. There were two stormtroopers in front of you, blasters at the ready. 

“Get up.”

You shakily tried to get to your feet, still off-balance from your vivid nightmare, and apparently you weren’t fast enough, because one of them marched forward and gripped your arm, yanking you to your feet roughly, jerking your shoulder and causing you to cry out. 

“Shut up, prisoner,” one of the troopers sneered, the back of his hand snapping against the skin of your cheek, your head jerking sideways with the force of it. The other trooper jabbed you in the back with the barrel of his blaster, shoving you forward. “Move it. The Moff wants to see you.”

The walk through the corridors of the ship was silent, with the occasional muzzle being shoved into your back as you stumbled along. As you rounded a corner, you watched as Mando stumbled back out of a room, with Moff Gideon furiously attacking him with what looked to be a black lightsaber of all things. You stumbled to a halt, in shock. 

“What the–”

You immediately turned, grabbing the blaster that was still pressed into the small of your back with your bound hands, using it as a club to bash one of the stormtroopers before flipping it around and shooting the other one. The one you bashed tried to get back up but you quickly shot him too, waiting to see if he’d get back up. He didn’t. 

You turned again, just as Mando used his beskar spear to disarm the Moff, the saber flying towards you as he pointed the spear directly at the Moff’s throat. You dropped the blaster, catching the saber in your hands as Mando’s head jerked around to see you standing there, hands cuffed, eyes wide, with two dead troopers behind you. 

“The kid’s in there,” he mutters, and you immediately dash for the door, needing to see Grogu with your own eyes. He’s perched on a small bunk, his tiny hands cuffed in front of him the same as yours. Tears fill your eyes as you fall to your knees in front of him, hands trembling. You’re afraid to reach for him, the last time he’d seen you, he’d been snatched from your arms, what if he thinks you let him go on purpose–

A soft coo reaches your ears, and you refocus to see Grogu with his little hands outstretched, just like every other time he’s asked to be held. There’s such love and trust in his eyes, it takes your breath away, and immediately you scoop him up into your arms as best you can with your hands still bound. Grogu clutches at the fabric of your shirt, burying his face into your neck with a soft sigh. 

You press your lips firmly against his little head, thanking the Maker that he’s unharmed. You hear footsteps behind you, but you recognize the sound of Mando’s boots. He kneels next to you, and you turn your head towards him, tears finally falling.

He reaches out to cup the back of your neck, pressing his head to yours, the same way he did the last time you saw him. You can feel his fingers trembling on your neck, and his other hand comes up to rest on Grogu’s head, as though reassuring himself that you’re both here and alive. 

“Let’s get you out of these,” he whispers, tugging gently at the cuffs encircling your wrists. You nod, watching as he works a small blade into the locking mechanism, the cuffs popping open only seconds later. He does the same for Grogu, and helps you stand. His hands encircle your arms, and for a moment he just stares at you, before slowly reaching up to cup your cheek, his touch gentle as he wipes away your tears. His palm rests over where you’re sure you’re already developing a bruise, but you refuse to flinch. 

“Come on,” he murmurs, tugging on your arm gently. “The others are on the bridge.”

***

You officially hate Moff Gideon.

It’s an odd realization to have, especially as you’re falling to your knees next to Mando, where he’s laying after taking multiple blaster hits trying to protect Grogu. The others on the bridge are taking care of Gideon, he’s not the one you’re worried about at the moment.

You help Mando sit up, even as Cara is smashing the butt of her rifle into Gideon’s jaw, knocking him down. Your hands flit nervously over Mando’s armour, trying to make sure he’s okay, that he wasn’t shot somewhere that’s only protected by thick layers of fabric. 

His hands grasp yours, stopping your jerking movements. He slowly stands, helping you up as he does so. He bends to grab Grogu, handing him to you as he looks at the security holos. You watch as well, feeling an odd mix of emotions as you watch the figure fighting with a lightsaber. You know that Grogu needs a Jedi to train him, but you can’t help but feel sick at the idea of him being taken from you. 

Mando orders the others to open the doors as you watch the Jedi take down the last of the Dark Troopers. None of them quite seem to understand, so he does it himself, and you move to stand just slightly behind him as the doors slide open, revealing a figure in a black cloak with a green lightsaber clutched in his grasp.

He sheathes his saber and slowly lifts back his hood, and your heart plummets. You know that face. There’s blood rushing in your ears, and all you can hear is the little youngling pleading “Master Skywalker there are too many of them! What are we going to do?” over and over in your head. You don’t realize you’re hyperventilating until your vision is blocked by beskar as Mando moves in front of you. He crowds you back against one of the panels, filling your vision, his hands on your arms, fingers tightening when your breathing doesn’t slow. 

You’re shaking your head before you hear what he’s saying, desperate whispered pleas already falling from your lips. “No, nonono, Grogu can’t go with him, please, you can’t make him go with that man, please Mando, no–”

Mando barks something over his shoulder, but you can’t recognize the words. You do realize that the others are leaving the bridge, but you’re still in fight or flight mode, poised and tense, ready to fight Mando if you have to in order to keep Grogu away from the Skywalkers. 

The panic is overwhelming and the edges of your vision are starting to go dark when Mando manhandles you over to a chair, shoving you down into it and kneeling at your feet. His broad chest is cradled between your thighs, his hands gripping your waist, visor tilted up and trained on your face. You can feel his chest rumbling, and as your hearing slowly returns, you realize he’s speaking to you.

“Breathe mesh’la, just breathe, it’s okay. It’s alright, you’re safe, just breathe, please.” 

Grogu squirms in your lap, pressing his face into your stomach as he tries to calm you down too, his soft coos and whimpers muffled by the fabric of your shirt. 

Mando must see as your breathing starts to slow, because he sighs in relief. His thumbs are rubbing soothing circles on your sides, and he waits for you to speak, knowing that you’ve got to explain why you don’t want Grogu to go with the Jedi, the one you both have been searching for. 

“I can’t trust him, Mando. I just can’t,” you whimper, voice breaking. “H–His father, he was a Jedi once too, b–but he changed, he fell, he became a Sith,” you whisper, as though you’re going to be attacked just for voicing the words. “His father slaughtered children, Mando, I can’t let Grogu go with him. He may be a Jedi now, but what if he falls too? I can’t give my son to that man, please, don’t make me do this.”

Tears are streaming down your cheeks as you clutch Grogu tighter, and for a moment, there’s only silence, like Mando’s trying to process your words. He finally speaks, and it's the question you’ve been dreading. 

“How do you know?”

You close your eyes tightly, hanging your head. “Because I was there. I was a Jedi padawan. I watched as his father killed younglings in front of my eyes.” 

Your voice is a whisper, and when Mando shifts in front of you, you flinch away, terrified of his reaction. 

“You’re a Jedi?”

His voice is strained, and you let out a small sob. “I was training to be a Jedi when the Purges happened. An old friend told me to run and to never use the Force again, in order to stay alive. The first time I used the Force in over twenty years was when I was trying to get away from the Dark Troopers.” Your breath hitches, tears continuing to escape from beneath your closed eyelids. “I’m sorry.”

His hands leave your waist and you shrink back into your chair, head bowed as soft sobs wrack your frame. You’re curled up on yourself, terrified that Mando’s going to insist Grogu goes with Skywalker anyways, terrified that he’s going to hate you for keeping such a huge secret from him, when suddenly there are warm, soft, bare hands cradling your face.

“Cyar’ika, look at me. Please.” 

You shake your head, eyes staying tightly shut, and Mando sighs. His voice sounds different, and you don’t know why, but before you can ponder on it, he repeats himself.

“Please, cyar’ika. Open your eyes.”

You slowly open your lids, but when you see what’s in front of you, your eyes fly open in shock. It’s Mando in front of you, but–

“Your helmet!” 

Your gasp is loud, a hand flying over your mouth as your eyes slide shut again automatically. “Mando, your helmet, I’m not supposed to–”

“No.”

The single word stops you dead in your tracks. 

“But I want you to look.”

You shake your head again, and this time, when Mando sighs, it sounds almost amused, if slightly exasperated. 

“Cyar’ika, I had to remove my helmet in front of a room full of Imperials in order to find the two of you. I only have one regret.”

“What’s that?”

Your voice is a whisper, and when he speaks again, his voice is just as quiet. “My only regret is that my son and the one I love didn’t get to see me first.”

Well, that sure gets your eyes to open again. 

You stare at the man in front of you in shock. He’s only removed the helmet, but it somehow makes all the difference. His hair is a dark brown, his eyes even darker. He has stubble on his cheeks, a little mustache, and his nose juts out just the tiniest bit. His lips are full and pink, and they look extremely soft. He’s looking at you like you’re the most incredible being in the galaxy, and you feel your cheeks heat under his intense gaze.

Grogu coos loudly, and you’re startled out of your exploration of Mando’s features as the tiny baby in your arms wriggles, trying to get to Mando. He holds his tiny arms out, and Mando leans forward, letting Grogu pat his cheeks, Mando’s eyes slide shut, soaking in the feeling of Grogu’s touch as he does so. You watch the two of them, your heart thumping loudly in your chest.

When Mando finally looks back up at you, you’re sure you must be imagining the dark, heavy look in his eye as his gaze focuses on your lips. You bite the lower one self consciously, and immediately his thumb is there, brushing over the skin of your lip and pulling it from between your teeth.

“Can I kiss you, cyar’ika?”

His question is whispered, and your response is equally hushed. 

“Yes.”

He leans up, at the same time as he guides your head down, and he presses his lips to yours. Eyes fluttering shut, you whimper as he sucks your bottom lip into his mouth, tongue soothing over where you were gnawing at it. His hand slides from your cheek into your hair, keeping you pressed against him as he kisses you thoroughly. You’re running out of air, but this is the one time you don’t mind, because if he didn’t keep kissing you, you weren’t sure you were going to survive. 

His tongue darts into your mouth, gently brushing against your own, and you whimper quietly. For someone who’s been under a helmet their whole life, he’s surprisingly talented, although you don’t exactly have a lot of experience to compare it to. 

When he pulls away, you moan quietly at the loss. “Mando–” you start, but he cuts you off.

“Din. Call me Din.” 

You open your eyes, staring straight into his as he gives you this intimate piece of him, this secret he carries close to his chest. You cup his cheek, and he leans into your touch, eyes soft as he watches you.

“Din.” 

He sighs as you say his name, turning his head and pressing a kiss to your palm. You’re mesmerized by him, and you pray that if this is a dream, you never wake up. 

“What did you say to me before, on Tython?”

It’s a question that’s been bugging you ever since, desperate to know what he whispered to you in his native tongue when he thought one or both of you was going to die. 

“I love you.”

Your eyes widen, your heart fluttering as he utters those three little words. 

“I didn’t want to die without telling you, cyar’ika. But I do. I love you.”

You can’t resist anymore, and you lean forward to kiss him again. He lets you lead, groaning when you shyly press your tongue to the seam of his lips. He lets you in, and you fall even deeper in love with this man, this beautiful, breathtaking man, who would tear the galaxy apart to find you.

“Please, don’t give Grogu to that man, Din. I haven’t used the Force in years, but I don’t trust Skywalker. I’m willing to try and learn again, for him.” You look down at Grogu, who’s looking up at you with his big dark eyes, a sweet smile on his little face. 

“I trust you more than I would ever trust anyone else, cyar’ika.”

You feel a soft fluttering sensation that you recognize as hope. 

“He can stay with us?”

“He can stay.”

You fall forward, throwing one arm around Din’s shoulders as you hug him tightly, Grogu cradled between the two of you. As Din’s own arms come up to wrap around you, you sigh. You’re safe in his arms.

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✨Bad Batch S1 Finale Pt 1 Spoilers✨

AHHHHHHHHHHHH Y'ALL AHHHHHHHHHH SEND HELP

Let's look at the absolute chaos that was my train of thought during this episode...

- A trap? Right away? No build up? Only stress? Yeah this is gonna hurt my feelings a whole lot isn't it

- Speaking of hurt feelings, Cross looking Hunter square in the face and saying that they would come him makes me wanna cry. Like the fact that Cross is fully aware of gravity of them leaving him behind and the fact very clearly upset him UPSETS ME!!!! I just want him to be safe why is that so much to ask for

-ECHOOOOO!!! Look at him go! being all level headed and further stepping up as a leader! I'm so proud of that sweet boy

-Tech...back at it again...laying down underneath a control panel (how long until the edits come out? Just wanna make sure my schedule is clear)

- Lol something about Gregor hanging out with Cid is VERY funny to me

- Ahhhhhhhhhhh Kamino.....y'all I'm so scared

-Fuck you Rampart

- HOLD UP!!!!! FORESHADOWING??? ARE WE GETTING CROSS BACK??? PLEASE???

- Something about Echo asking where the rest of the fleet is doesn't sit right with me

- Tech's gentle tone while he talks to Omega is just so 🥰

- Serious shout out to the animators!

- Ok hidden elevator tube thing is pretty cool looking

- ECHO CHECKING IN ON OMEGA!!! FEELINGS!!! EMOTIONS!!! AHHHHHH!!!

- Adding to the list of things that hurt my feelings, Omega having to push her trauma aside in order to save her brother....wtf filoni why must you do this

- Me: *sees TK trooper standing in the control room....thinks about Shaak Ti* HOW DARE YOU STAND WHERE SHE STOOD!!!!!!!

- "They don't leave their own behind...most of the time." AHHHH SHIT NO CROSS SAD HECK NO BIG UPSET

- "We didn't have a choice." "And I did?" I AM NOT OK RIGHT NOW I DON'T THINK Y'ALL UNDERSTAND

- Hold up is that why no one ever saw Omega? Because she could only move around via the tube system?

- Wait she was there????? That's why she knew so much about them from the beginning. The poor baby was separated from her brothers.

- Hi AZI!

- Crosshair's sigh before he said it was time to go....BRAIN VERY FULL. Is he gonna? Is he? Y'all?????

- Agh seriously the extra wide shots in this show are just immaculate

- Tech, my love, the last time you said you all were gonna do something he wouldn't expect, Cross was all like "Teehee gotcha bitch"

- BOYS DON'T GO UP THERE!!! FISH IN A BARREL! REPEAT! FISH IN A BARREL!

- REX??? IS REX GONNA POST UP??? PLEASE

- I'm living for Cross with dialogue. The pure sass and sarcasm from that man is just *chef's kiss*

- Omega...sweetie...not the murder bots...the boys are still up there

- "We're loyal to each other." "You weren't loyal to ME."

- The fact that we have gotten more character development for Cross in like 10 mins then we have the whole season is...interesting, but somehow it works. I'm not complaining by any means

- Pls don't shoot the baby

- THE MIRRORS!!! CROSS!!! YOU ARROGANT SOB!!! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!

- THE WAY I CALLED CROSS BEING ALL LIKE "IF MY BROTHERS WON'T SAVE ME I'LL JUST DO IT MYSELF"

- Direct shot from Omega! Look at her go! Echo must be so proud!

- THE THEME MUSIC WHEN CROSS STARTED HELPING THEM TAKE DOWN THE DROIDS!!!!!

- Hunter....growling....while talking down a murder bot....with only a knife....hmmmmmm

- He didn't get his chip out. There's no way. The Empire would never willing give up having control over him. Why would he say that? I'm not ok with this. That's it! Add that to the list of things that hurt my feelings

- Hunter finally being visibly worried about Cross...thank god we finally got something

- STUN ROUND!!!!! HE'S FINALLY COMING HOME!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

- For crying out loud Hunter, respectfully, just hug the damn child it's not that hard

-"You did the same for me." CALL BACK TO THE RYLOTH EPISODE

- Hunter doing the right thing and not second guessing the decision + Omega looking at him and acknowledging it is fantastic. It's such a brief moment but it's so important

- AND NOW THE THING THAT HURT MY FEELINGS THE MOST: THE DRAMATIC MUSIC AND THE SHOTS OF DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND THE CITY! like it's so beautifully done but also fucking hell they really did just blow that place up

- If Crosshair really did think the Empire cared about him, what's he gonna think when he finds out that they open fired on the city while he was still there?

So normally I do a "final thoughts" section at the end of these things, but I think I'm gonna save that for either after pt 2 or I honestly might just do a season wrap up later, so look for that next week.

But yeah this episode was so well written. A lot of it hurt my feelings, but I'm not mad ya know what I mean? Anyway this is gonna be a long week before pt 2...I'm already stressed out.

(PS thank the maker they announced that season 2 is happening because I don't think I could physically handle them pulling a Rogue One)

[djarinbarnes]

can I have number 8 with Mando, if you write for him?

Evanescent Sparks - The Mandalorian

8. Hands brushing unexpectedly.

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pairings: din djarin x female reader

word count: 1.8k

warnings: none other than the reader being an absolute klutz and an awkward, blushing mess

a/n: so this is basically Chapter 5 canon, which I've done a twist to... This is my first time writing for the Mandalorian.... Seeing I have little to no knowledge of the Razor Crest’s interior other than what I’ve seen in the show, I've just freestyled the things from the events of chapter 5...... I don’t even know if this is good, please don’t come after me, but HERE YOU GO I love you guys and <3 stay safe

a/n 2: I’m trying to quit using y/n, so don't mind me.

I don't own the Mandalorian, © Dave Filoni, Chapter 5, The Gunslinger

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You remember clearly when you met him the first time. One day he was just there. At the hanger where you worked for Peli, along with her droids. You’d heard him from around the corner, that modulated voice insisting on no droids, and you immediately knew you had to investigate.

There was something interesting in the way the armor on his body caught the light of the dual suns of Tatooine. You’d heard about Mandalorians in the brief years of school, the stories of the Clone Wars still fresh in your mind. You hadn’t ever thought you’d see one in real life though, yet here he was.

You knew he had to be sweating under all that heavy beskar and the clothes underneath it. He didn’t say much though. He never really talked about himself, you noted. You watched him from afar when he took off on one of Peli’s speeder bikes.

“SPARKS!” you cringed at her tone, knowing you had a long night in store for you. You reluctantly made your way down to the center of the hanger, stopping dead in your tracks when the giant crest came into view.

“Holy shit.” You muttered under your breath, taking in the holes from apparent battle, the dripping of uncertain fluids coming from the exterior.

“We have a fuel leak among other things that needs to be fixed. He requested no droids, so it’s all on us, unfortunately.” You watch as she makes her way around the crest, her indicator constantly beeping as she points it to the aircraft.

“I’ll handle the leak first, then fill it up.” You mutter out, finding your welding tools before getting to work on the Razor Crest. You feel a hand on your arm just after finishing the weld, turning to find Peli standing in front of you.

“Don’t fill it all the way. He only paid us 500 credits.” You nod and push your goggles up to your hairline, wiping your brow with the back of your hand, the warm, dry air on Tatooine making you sweat more than you’d like. “You should really be careful next time, you know. Sparks can ignite fuel, you know.” Peli let out a laugh as your eyes widened.

“Dank farrik, oh my maker.” You laughed at your mistake, realizing you could’ve easily blown up the hanger. “I wasn’t thinking. I’m sorry Peli.” You look at her apologetically, to which she just lets out another laugh.

“He’s something, I know that. A Mandalorian, here in my hanger… It’s crazy.” Peli makes her way into the makeshift kitchenette of her hanger. She comes back quickly with a cup of ruby bliel, handing it to you with a nod.

You quickly gulp down the gooey drink, relishing in the way it sated your thirst. With a nod, you move around the crest, welding over holes from the blaster fight it’d taken a toll in. You quickly locate all the holes, welding them quickly but efficiently, climbing the ladder way more times than necessary.

You were sweating buckets, your whole t-shirt soaked through under the dual suns. You jumped and slid down the ladder quickly, gliding to your feet with a heavy puff. You let Peli know that you were done, and that you were going to cool off.

Once inside the confinements of the living quarters, you pull off your soaked shirt, letting it fall to the floor with a dull thud. You pull out a wet, cold cloth from the cooler, dabbing it all over your bare torso to cool yourself down.

You find a clean shirt and pull it over your head, grabbing another cup of ruby to cool you further. You make your way to the doorway of the hanger, looking over the dusty terrain of your planet. You sigh in content before squinting your eyes, trying to see something in the distance.

It was almost never boring working and living with Peli. But sometimes, you did miss the rush of Mos Eisley. You could barely see the city from 3-5, but you could dream. Dream about the cantinas and the bustling life you left behind.

You turned after a few minutes, walking back to where Peli had sat down with her droids and started a game of sabacc. You knew Peli was a master at the game, which was why you never dared to challenge her. Yet you sat down across from her, watching as she laid in three bolts and a motivator.

You silently laughed, damn well knowing she was going to win the hand over those stupid, no-good droids. You watched as she threw around the cards, making the droids tilt their heads in her direction, clearly confused as to what she was doing.

Your ears picked up the sound of something you didn’t recognize. Your head whipped toward the crest, your head tipping to one side. “Peli?” you carefully spoke up, making her look at you. Then she heard it too.

“What is that sound?” You carefully asked, and she shrugged her shoulders, pointing to a droid and asking it to fetch her blaster rifle. You both got up and you reached over, grabbing your own small blaster, holding it in front of you as you both walked towards the crest.

“I’d stay in that ship if I were you!” you heard her yell, before you both lowered your weapons, your eyes landing on a small, green creature making its way out into the sunlight from the dual moons setting on the hanger.

It looked… sad? You and Peli gave each other a look, before both your heads snapped back to the crest, from the sound of the creature giving a little wail. You watched as Peli handed over her blaster rifle to one of her droids, before crouching down, slowly.

“It’s just a…. child?” you spoke softly as Peli lifted the thing off the gangway, arms stretched in front of her.

“Let Peli take a good look at you...” You heard her say before she turned, her eyes catching yours. “Alright, there we go… Did that bounty hunter leave you all alone in that big nasty ship?” you smile at her chosen words, listening closely as the child let out another small wail.

“What… is it?” you spoke softly, stepping closer to her.

“How do I know what it is? Give me a second!” she stared at you, before turning her attention back on the child in her arms. “Alright! Would you like some food? You hungry?” The child let out another sound, and you sighed, putting your blaster into the hands of one of the droids.

“You feed it; I’ll get back to work.” You said as you grabbed your toolbox, making your way into the crest. You welded up the holes in the hull quickly, before strapping the box over your shoulder to climb the stairs to the cockpit where, what you suspect to be the navigation log, has been beeping your ear off for the past half an hour.

You sigh when you finally enter the cockpit with both your hands over your ears, trying to keep out the brain-numbing noises that are way more prominent in the closed-off space. You light all possible bulbs in the cockpit quickly before locating the log and the red alarm button, that’s been going off.

You quickly lay down on your back under the panel, finding a few detached wires that may have set of the alarm. With swift fingers you untangle the wires from the main panel, before reattaching them to the navigation log. You grin when the beeping stops and push yourself from under the panel.

You rise from the floor and, unexpectedly, comes face to face with the dank farrik Mandalorian, startling you. You feel your heart pick up the pace of its beating, and you find yourself just standing there… Unable to do something. You hadn’t even heard him come in, and the crest was barely what you could call soundproof.

“I… I’m sorry, Mandalorian, I was just fixing some wires under the panel and…” you try to look everywhere but the helmet, where you’re certain a pair of eyes are judging you. “Um… excuse me…” you whisper quietly, before brushing past the statue of a man in front of you.

You stop in your tracks as you feel your hand glide over fabric, then finding a certain warmth you hadn’t expected. Skin? You stutter as you feel something that could go for electricity and take a step back, turning to face the elephant in the room, and finding that elephant to have discarded his fucking gloves. A blush creeps into your cheeks, and it makes you want to crawl into your own oblivion.

Was he allowed to do that? Possibly. You just hadn’t expected it. You had expected a pair of leather gloves, but they were nowhere to be found. You quickly made your way around him to grasp your toolbox, before quickly muttering out a sorry, leaving the cockpit faster than your own feet could carry you, causing you to drop your toolbox on the way down the ladder.

“Dank farrik!” you yell out, quickly getting your toolbox upright, before hurriedly pushing your things back into the metal box. You scurry out of the crest, hiding your reddened face from where Peli is sitting with the child. You didn’t need her to ask questions.

Once inside the, what you assumed to be safe space of the hanger, you quickly pour out the contents of your toolbox to rearrange everything the way you like it. It a fairly easy task, except when you come to the conclusion that you’re missing one of your favorite screwdrivers. You used it in the cockpit and you- fuck - you probably forgot it there in the midst of your trembling, blushing mess of an encounter with the Mandalorian.

“You forgot this.” You let out a yelp as the modulated voice speaks up behind you, startling you yet again. You turn and find him right there, in your hanger, screwdriver in his not-so-glove-covered hand, making you gulp down a fair amount of saliva that’s gotten caught in your mouth.

“Thanks.” You whisper before taking the tool from his hand, the warmth of his palm sending even more shockwaves up your fingers, though your arms and right into your heart. He had to notice the way your skin got clammy and your heartrate picked up, but he just turned on his heel and left the hanger, leaving you to think over what the fuck just happened.