#also rip sorry for the long absense life has been a rollercoaster lately

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While we're talking about Tup, do you have any hcs of the more underappreciated members of the 501st finding a tiny? Like Jesse, Hardcase, Tup, Dogma...

okay hello i’ve returned from the abyss ready to answer this:

hardcase: i mean the bitch is so insanely hyperactive he would 100% be too touchy and he’d freak a tiny out almost immediately. but he is also super intrigued and wants to get to know them. instant urge to protect. he would talk too loud and too often and the tiny would be really scared of being hurt accidentally but hardcase would literally die if he hurt a tiny. it would take a while to gain the tiny’s trust but he’s constantly saying things like “no i won’t hurt you!” until the tiny starts to believe him and he gets so happy. would spend so much time thinking about them and different ways to care for them and carry them around. he would be obsessed with them and would constantly be giving them little trinkets from the battlefield. in his spare time he just chills with the tiny and together they fix things around the ship or they build hooks and other gadgets for the tiny to use. basically hardcase is like a really energetic older brother who would do literally anything to protect his tiny

dogma: he would assume the tiny is up to no good. he would pick them up and bring them to rex and rattle off some reg manual shit and rex would be like “dogma you need to calm down this thing is obviously not a threat to us” and dogma is just extremely uncomfortable around them for a while. the tiny is very obviously terrified of him. it’s a very tense relationship but once it becomes clear that the tiny is not a spy, dogma feels like shit for being so cold toward them and very awkwardly apologizes to the tiny. they stay really skeptical of dogma for a while but once they just get used to his personality and the way he is, they know he’s just a very rigid person and wouldn’t do anything to harm them. they bond slowly over time, mostly when dogma is between missions and he gets to decompress a little bit. the tiny actually helps keep his head clear because they’re almost so far removed from the war that it’s refreshing

tup: oh man oh MAN he would be the softest with a tiny. absolute sweetheart. he would be very caring but also very nervous around them because he’s so aware of his relative size. he thinks the environment is too dangerous and chaotic for a tiny but at the same time he cannot bear to just release them into the wild or let them be on their own so he kind of has to talk himself into being okay with harboring the tiny. and he is able to talk the tiny into being okay with it too. he would keep the tiny a secret for as long as he can but it doesn’t last very long, and he’s like babbling about how he needs to protect this tiny and please oh please let them stay and he convinces rex and his brothers to be cool with a tiny hanging around. the tiny and tup become super close friends after that and they would do literally anything for each other, even in the face of grave danger

jesse: he would be a little awkward and uncomfortable with a tiny at first. not so much afraid of them but like, astonished that such a tiny being can exist and be just as intelligent. he’s a little degrading to the tiny at first but he quickly realizes just how skillful and resourceful they are. the tiny would stand their ground and he gains a lot of respect for them being able to be so confident around a bunch of giant clones. since he was the one to discover them he takes it upon himself to take care of them, and he frequently asks his brothers for help and advice because he wants to get it right. at first he gets a little bothered by the tiny because he treats them like an obstacle he has to overcome, but he learns that he can be an effective soldier no matter if he’s caring for a tiny or not. once he starts treating them as an equal and not like a pet or a child that needs constant attention, things become much easier for him and his new tiny friend

bonus kix: obviously as the medic he would be the most overcautious and overprotective of them all. he would like regulate the tiny’s diet and exercises and shit and the tiny is like “bro i’ve been eating dirt and grass for the last 20 years” and kix has to very quickly adjust to caring for a tiny as opposed to caring for a bunch of clones. the tiny is a little nervous of a doctor/scientist type until one day they get hurt or lost and kix is the very first person to find them and fix them up. trust instantly gained. and kix finds that he can confide in the tiny about a lot of the horrors he endures bc he doesn’t feel the need to always be strong around them. it’s a very healthy relationship where they both offer each other lots of valuable things and they rarely spend time apart from one another