#I can get behind the Cody and Dogma theories but come ON

[im-no-jedi]

been seeing some people say that X-2 can’t be Tech because, apparently, in other dubs, each of the TBB boys have different VAs (not everyone can be DBB apparently 😝), and the VA for X-2 is the same as Hunter and Cross in some of the dubs.

I want y’all to think about that for just a second.

1) X-2’s voice is heavily modified, so it honestly doesn’t matter who voices him, he’s just gotta vaguely sound like a Clone.

2) if he is Tech, then using the same VA as him to voice X-2 would spoil the surprise in the dubs (trust me, this has happened before with other shows).

3) using the fact that the VA voices Crosshair to support that absurd theory of a second Crosshair is just grasping for straws, I’m sorry 😂

[letitrainathousandflames-archive]

Late Rex (minific)

When Fives and Echo walked in the mess hall to get their breakfast, only the higher ranks had gotten there yet. Commanders and ARC troopers were supposed to be up earlier to inspect the troops and take care of their affairs, not to mention they should set an example - Fives wasn’t particularly happy with this aspect of his job. Lucky shinies and lower ranks got to sleep a little longer and he’d always envy them for that.

“Hope the caf is decent today.” he yawned “Wait, no. I actually would love to play the Dogma.”

“Won’t you leave the man alone already?” Echo raised an eyebrow at him

“When he manages to unclench his ass, yeah.” Fives snickered, grabbing a tray “Now wait a second. Commanders Cody, Wolffe, Fox, Gree, Bly... where the kriff is Rex?”

Echo looked around as Cody approached the two of them.

“Huh. Odd.” Echo agreed “Where is he?”

“Fives, Echo.” Cody nodded at them “Where’s Rex?”

“We don’t know, sir.” Echo shrugged “We... expected him to be here about now.”

Fives stroked his beard.

“Hm. Okay. Okay, we manage it until he arrives, all we have to do is not alarm the men about his tardiness and...”

Cody was drawing in a deep breath. Oh no.

“Captain “Follow the Codes” Rex is late for the very first time ever!” he boomed in the silence of the first hours of the day “What do you guys think that happened?”

Wolffe didn’t even look up from his coffee, grumbling something about ���here comes that little shit again”. Meanwhile, Cody erased the board with today’s food menu and wrote in large aurebesh letters: THEORIES FOR WHY REX IS SIX (6) MINUTES LATE. Wolffe groaned, but Bly snickered as Fives and Echo facepalmed.

“C’mon, you guys, i’m waiting!” Cody demanded “Fifty credits to the man who gets it right!”

Bly shrugged.

“Uhhh... He had a massive hangover and is still asleep.”

Cody wrote “massive hangover” on the board.

“Real nice, but not very plausible. That asshole can drink like a full bucket of beer and can still shoot a clanker dead in the face. Next?”

Gree was supporting his elbow on the table and his chin on his hand, visibly still a little sleepy.

“Eh... He slept through his alarm.”

“All three of them?” Cody raised an eyebrow as he wrote it on the board “Hardly. C’mon, be creative. Let’s get the 501st opinion here, Fives, Echo.”

Echo put his hands up, backing up.

“Uh, sorry sir, but to talk behind our Captain’s...”

“He picked up a twi-lek at the bar,” Fives theorized, furling his brow “took her somewhere and is still there getting some.”

Cody threw his head back and goddamn cackled as Echo smacked Fives on the back of his head with a muttered “dude!”.

“Stars, yes, we’re getting somewhere!” Cody wrote ‘Gettin Some’ as he wiped genuine tears of joy off his eyes “Okay, next?”

Fox shrugged.

“He’s in sick, poor sod couldn’t even leave his bed.”

Cody wrote that and practically swayed his way to Wolffe, sitting right next to him and raising one of his arms.

“Wolff, my good friend...”

“Put your arm on my shoulders and you’ll lose it.” Wolffe growled, eating his breakfast like nothing was happening; Cody slowly put his arm back down

“Oookay.” he sighed “C’mon Wolffe, be a good boy.” Wolffe glared at him “Okay, no dog jokes. But please. I must know.”

Wolffe sighed too, rubbing his forehead.

“You won’t let me eat in peace, will you?”

“Nope.”

Wolffe shook his head to then cross his arms over his chest.

“Fine. I think Rex has been having an affair with a civy for like 1 year. He just managed to get someone to make him a new ID under the name “Wrecks”, which honestly sounds just the same so he won’t have problems getting used to it. He got a facial surgery not to look like a clone anymore and he took the opportunity to give himself the chin dimple he always wanted. He and his secret partner just had their secret wedding and are heading to live in hiding in a small farm in the countryside of Lothal. They even have a pet lothcat named Hissyfit, and Rex plans on having four children with his secret partner. The men who gave him the new ID and the facial surgery? Dead. Can’t leave any evidence. The man is off the radar. We’ll never see him again.”

Silence followed the sound of Wolffe’s theory as he took another sip of his coffee. Echo hesitated.

“Uh. Uh, Commander Cody, what... What was your theory again?”

Cody was just staring at Wolffe like someone looking at a black hole inches from obliterating your entire ship - in awe, shock and a good amount of fear.

“I...” he cleared his throat “I just thought he did got drunk yesterday and ended up sleepin in the wrong dormitory, like” he gestured vaguely, still stunned “the 104th, and is taking long because his locker and his uniform are all the way in the 501st building. Like, ha ha. Classic. But... But I don’t know anything anymore now.”

Wolffe put his cup down and gave Cody a terrifying smirk.

“Maybe you never knew anything, vod.”

“Stop scaring me!”

That was when a voice came from the doorway:

“What is going on here?”

Everyone turned to see Rex standing there, and Rex looked from his brothers to the chalkboard where Cody had placed the bets. The entire place when completely silent and Rex walked in. His steps echoed in the silent room - if one of Tup’s many hair clips were to fall on the floor, they’d be able to hear it, so silent it was - Rex walked past the long tables, past the piled up trays and closer to the board. Without uttering a word, without moving a single muscle of his face, Rex grabbed the piece of chalk and placed a single tally mark right beside “massive hangover”. He took a step back and frowned like he used to when he’d consider military strategies with General Skywalker and then he placed another mark by “gettin some”.

He put the chalk down, wiped his hands and turned to the men to then politely nod and walked out without a single word. Although it seemed impossible, the silence was even thicker now. Slowly, very slowly, Cody got up and reached for the pocket of his blacks. He walked to Bly, placing fifty credits on his hand and then he walked to fives, placing fifty more on his hands. The soldiers looked at each other, unable to break the silence, and finished their breakfast without another word.

[torrent-captain]

@nieithryn​ replied to your post “//I actually read Rex’s wookieepedia page yesterday, so I wanted to...”

(My only comment is that Cody and Rex are noted to have been in the same ARC class somewhere, and considering that Cody is actually the head of trained ARC program, I always thought Rex and Cody were trained before Geonosis. That being said, I've always supported the theory that the 501st is a Battalion like the 212th, both under the 7th Sky, and therefore under Obi-Wan and Cody's purviews, which would explain quite a bit -

- especially in relation to how Cody and Rex are not only so close, but why Rex is rubbing elbows with the bigwigs so much: Anakin's position with Obi-Wan gets him better than his rank would normally allow, and Rex's position with Cody does the same for him. Either way tho I love all of this, and this is really well thought out and fit together, the GAR is a messed up thing at the best of times, so coherent theories are hard!)

(Oh, also, I like the idea of there being training and biological differences between CC and CT units, and regs preventing CTs from getting above a certain rank, that makes a lot more sense than the theory I was going with!)

//I really like the idea of them being in the same ARC class. How Cody and Rex were so close was a can of worms that I really didn’t want to open in that post but that just makes sense. ARC training is where things start to get messy because it’s relatively well-defined in Legends and then almost completely neglected in canon. For me, Rex’s relationship with rank is him constantly running into the accepted limits of what a CT unit is supposed to be able to do, so making him an ARC trooper late was an aspect of that. However, it’s also really interesting to me to directly compare a CC unit to a CT unit in ARC class. Maybe he and Cody were in the first class to accept CT units, or maybe Rex was a year/semester/whatever unit of time behind him in the program. Either way, because Rex was a CT unit, he definitely struggled with some of the material, and Cody probably helped him through it.

After all, up until the moment that Rex enters that ARC class, he has standard programming. Sure, he’s proved somehow that he’s smart enough/strong enough/tough enough to be in an ARC program, but biologically he’s exactly the same as any standard trooper, and that comes with some deep-rooted ideas about how much you’re worth to the GAR. I always think of Sinker’s line to Plo about being “just clones.” They know what they are, and I feel like CT units get that a little harder than CC units, who, while expendable, are somewhat less expendable than your run-of-the-mill trooper. And you can work through a lot of that with ARC training, but you can’t work through all of it, and imo there’s always this tiny insecure part of Rex that’s saying that he’s just a clone and that he’s expendable, despite all his training.

And that’s why Umbara hits him so hard, and that’s why he loves Fives so much. Fives either doesn’t have or completely ignores that insecure part of him that comes from his CT background, and he’s able to fight against what Krell is saying despite the fact that it is so dehumanizing. What happened on Umbara is proof to Rex that he is just a clone, that whatever training he gets can only help him so much, that there is a hard biological limit as to how much he can think himself equal to any other sentient being. Dogma could shoot Krell, and Dogma didn’t have ARC training. It’s like the first time you become aware that your perceptions could be fundamentally flawed because you’re human and you’re perceiving things through human senses. At Umbara, Rex sees the hard limits of what his biology and his internalized, habitual belief system can do for him.

(Another line in Umbara that I like to think about is in Carnage, when Krell explains that he’s betraying the Republic because he saw the future and he wanted to be the apprentice of Count Dooku and whatever, and the only response that Rex has is “You’re a Seperatist.” He’s not. Krell’s not a Seperatist! But for Rex, the world is the Republic and the Confederacy, and his education never showed him a different side of any story, ever. So what do we do after the war? When the enemy has been eliminated, when defining myself by the fact that I belong to the Republic doesn’t say anything anymore... what then?)

Anyway.... that was a really long rant. Sorry about that!