#NOT cloneshipping

[stealthetrees]

Imagine Echo’s first night in the Bad Batch barracks and it’s like 2 am and he’s scrolling Grindr after updating his profile while super depressed and he get a random message and it’s from Fives, who’s death was greatly exaggerated and was adopted into the Coruscant Guard.

They both demand photos of the other to prove they’re real. Echo looks like a ghost and Fives is in Corrie armor with Fox passed out on the floor in the background with a medic checking his pulse.

Direct prequel to this post

[oddfaun]

Crosshair likes to do a little trolling on pride month

[here-comes-the-moose]

Crosshair: I can’t go, stress is bad for the baby.

Hunter, panicking: WHAT??? WHAT BABY???

Crosshair: Me 🥺

[coldbrewarts]

“Shhh verd’ika, ori’vod is here”

@keldabekush brought back the winged au. I had to.

[dangraccoon]

Just Fine

Day 30 ~ recovery ~ hospital bed ~ holding back tears ~ "what have I done?" ~

Cody

Word Count: 925 Content: inhibitor chips, mind control, mandalorian traditions, secret relationship/marriage, brotherly affection (NOT cloneshipping), implied/referenced suicidal thoughts

Mando'a Guide: ori'vod - big brother verd'ika - private (rank), can be used affectionately for a child as "little soldier"; depends on context osik - shit buir - parent haat'miit be riduurok - oath of marriage nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la - not gone, merely marching far away (paying respects to a fallen comrade)

“The surgery is complete,” AZI chirped.

“Thanks, AZI,” Rex nodded.

The room set aside for chip removals was clean and somewhat bare, unlike the rest of Hunter’s well-loved house on Pabu. Tech had said it was to maintain a “sterile environment”, but that didn’t keep Rex’s need for a distraction at bay.

The anxiety of waiting for a brother to wake up after his chip removal washed over him like a high tide as it always did, so he watched his ori’vod’s chest rise and fall with his breath. It was always nerve-wracking, but it was worse when he was close to the brother.

“Rex?” Omega said, appearing beside him, her hand resting gently on his arm.

“Yeah, kid?” he tried to smile.

Omega saw past it. She was good at that kind of thing. “He’s going to be okay,” she assured him.

“Yeah,” he nodded. “I know.”

“Then what’s worrying you?”

Rex sighed, running his hands over his face. “Most of the batchers were lucky; their chips didn’t activate before they were removed. Wrecker and Crosshair were a bit different though, right?” 

Omega nodded. 

“Well, for a lot of us, the chip… it changed us. We didn’t know about them at all. Only the few of us who did know could fight it because we knew what we were fighting. Everyone else, though… they didn’t know that they were doing things they wouldn’t normally do. And almost all of them were led to do… horrible things.”

Omega gasped softly, tears starting to line her eyes. “Cross felt so guilty once we removed his chip. He wanted… he tried to…”

Rex nodded, taking her hand in his. “But we were there to help him get better. He doesn’t want that anymore,” he reminded her.

She nodded, wiping a stray tear on her sleeve. “Do you think Cody will feel like that when he wakes up?”

Rex sighed, his eyes turning back to the former commander. “It’s hard to say. Echo was looking for his file so we could get a better idea of what he went through, but…” Rex’s chest ached.

“But?” Omega nudged. 

“Before the… the end of the war, Cody was–”

Rex was cut off by a soft groan from the bed. He jumped up to be in his brother’s view.

“Rex,” Cody chuckled. “Should’a known you wouldn’t go watch a holo-drama or something.”

Omega giggled on his other side. “He didn’t leave once.”

“Hey verd'ika,” he grinned warmly at her.

“How ya feeling, vod?” Rex said, his hand gently touching Cody’s arm.

Cody seemed to pause to think about it. He glanced at Omega briefly before looking back at Rex. “I’m fine. Would you believe my head feels lighter?”

Omega chuckled again and Cody’s lips pulled into a smile at the soft sound but Rex’s eyes narrowed. He knew this dance. “Cody,” he nearly growled.

“Rex,” Cody responded, his voice perfectly affable to anyone who didn’t know better. Rex, however, did know better. He knew that tone was a warning. Not around her.

Tech entered as the door slid open, eyes on his datapad. “Omega, I am in search of my ten-millimeter span– oh,” he said, his eyes lifting to see Cody smirking at him. “It is good to see you awake, Commander.”

“And it’s good to see you haven’t changed, Tech,” he chuckled.

Omega scowled. “Your ten-millimeter? I put that back.”

“It is not in its place,” Tech informed her.

“I always put it back!” she grumbled as she left the room, dragging Tech with her.

“That batch,” Cody grinned. “Don’t think I’ve ever–”

“Alright, cut the osik, Codes,” Rex interrupted. “How are you really feeling?”

Cody tried to look irritated at being interrupted but failed, his eyes falling to his lap. He sighed. “I’m tired, Rex.”

Rex nodded and kept listening but Cody didn’t continue. “Cody, you’re not the first clone to get his chip removed, and maker-willing you’re not the last–”

“I mean it, Rex, I’m fi–”

“Yeah, you’re ‘fine’,” Rex threw his hands up as he walked away from the bed. “You’re ‘fine’ like Crosshair was ‘fine’. You’re ‘fine’ like Howzer was ‘fine’. Like I was ‘fine’. We’re all just ‘fine’.”

Cody’s eyes shut. “How’d Bly and Gree feel? Or Grey? How about Wolffe? General Koon was like a buir to him. How’d he feel when he got that thing out?”

Rex turned back. “What?”

“They loved their Generals and they killed them,” Cody explained, his voice that perfect commander facade of emotionless calm. “You can tell me about Howzer and Cross if you want, I don’t doubt they had their share of shame and guilt. But I’m not sure they executed the person they loved more than anything.” His voice cracked at the end, his jaw setting.

Rex sighed. “I know the two of you were… close, but I didn’t–”

“No one did,” Cody whispered. “It needed to be that way.”

“Cody–”

“We said the haat'miit be riduurok,” Cody sniffled, unable to stop the tears from flowing now. “On Geonosis, at Point Rain over a private comm channel. We… we thought it was the end. M-maker, Rex– what have I done?”

Rex’s heart dropped into his boots. He didn’t know what to say– how do you comfort someone who was forced to kill their husband? He came back to sit on the edge of the bed, wrapping his hand around the back of Cody’s neck. He gently pressed his forehead to his brother’s.

“Nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la,” he whispered, pulling his sobbing brother into a tight hug.

Mando'a Guide: ori'vod - big brother verd'ika - private (rank), can be used affectionately for a child as "little soldier"; depends on context osik - shit buir - parent haat'miit be riduurok - oath of marriage nu kyr'adyc, shi taab'echaaj'la - not gone, merely marching far away (paying respects to a fallen comrade)

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[the-starry-seas]

soft Aces bit, I guess

“You know you don’t have to lie about not being able to sleep, right?” Fury asks, hanging the magnifying glasses on a hook above his desk. “You can just tell me.”

“I know.” I just worry that you won’t rely on me if you know how weak I am. That I’ll be failing as your brother. You always protect us – I need to protect you too.

“Hm…”

A thinking look like that is never good on Fury. It’s far from his usual curiosity of scientific discovery, and more ‘how can I most effectively make trouble in this situation’.

“What?” Blue can’t help asking.

He doesn’t get an answer, just Fury picking up his datapad and handing it to him. Blue takes it, confused, and then gives an undignified squawk as Fury scoops him up and carries him off.

“You could warn me before you do that!”

“I could.”

Fury settles down in the blanket-filled nook that he usually doesn’t let people anywhere near. Blue’s back is against Fury’s chest, a blanket pulled around them both, and the warmth and quiet is strangely relaxing. Blue holds the datapad as Fury starts working, watching his hands move and the way the code on the screen changes, and tries to let it soothe him.

Hours later, when his head tilts to the side and his fingers loosen around the edges of the datapad, Fury’s still there to protect him from whatever nightmares might try to return. Blue’s not sure what to call it, but he thinks it might be peace.

[lothcat-lothcat-lothwolf-run]

this would go crazy on the holonet

[yunyun160]

He really is worn out.

[rexsterss]

This is how Rex knows that Cody’s landed safely on Coruscant.

Inspired by this post.

[quatredraws]

I haven’t posted anything in years, but since I’ve gotten into Star Wars a few months ago I’ve managed to put pencil to paper again! This is all to say:

Thank you @mandalorianbrainweasel for posting “beautiful without our war paint”, because I loved the way Alpha takes care of Fox from beginning to end!

[alabyte]

Tech loves his personal space. Crosshair also loves Tech's personal space.

I genuinely think that we are all chronically short of clones sleeping in puppy piles (even if there are only two of them)

WIP uncolored version under the cut because I like it for some reason:

[spacesureisviolenthuh]

Star Wars antis are the worst because if we’re being so so super serious… the clones were fucking eachother. Like, come on, 2 million+ people who almost solely interact(ed) with eachother? These bitches are having sex, that’s just a fact.

[lychgate]

aaaa yea u know what u can have the cropped version where we have no idea why Waxer lookin like that off to the side

[brooks-skirata]

Referencia:

[omaano]

Hi! May I send you a polyam prompt - D1 with Echo/Fox/Fives? :3

Sorry, Fives, everyone prefers their Caf to you, especially in the morning.

Thank you for the request @ithillia ❤️I had to shift around the pose a little bit because I couldn’t fit Fox in there any other way 😅 that level of smush is just not his way

Polyamorous/platonic poses

and the other drawings I've made for them

[binkyisonline]

Like a warm sunbeam on your skin