#and yes this is about my ideas for Rex and Umbara and Anakin’s Fall

[jedi-enthusiast]

Girl help, I’m having Thoughts about future scenes that I cAN’T FUCKING WRITE YET

[clonememesfrikyeah]

@i-just-think-that-clones So to answer your questions on my last post, basically yes and yes. So in this au everything in the she-ra universe happened and this would be set way after Adora. Etheria and the surrounding planets are located Deep in the unknown region. Rex finds the sword in the ground in some crazy forest while on an outer rim planet that’s near the veil of the unknown region. He’s on a recon mission when him and the squad he’s with gets ambushed and he’s separated from the group. He stumbles upon the sword and gets this overwhelming compulsion to touch it like Adora did. Of course he does and is immediately bombarded with visions and falls unconscious and wakes up with the sword in his hand.

My take on the sword in this au is it’s blade is retractable so Rex can easily conceal it and tote it with him. He’s trying to make sense of it all when he’s attacked by droids again and soon after transforms into she-ra. After he’s demolished every droid in a mile radius he turns back to himself and now he’s really freaked out and panics a little bit but ultimately decides to stick to the mission and find his squad. After a long ass time of wandering around in what feels like an endless forest he starts to feel like he’s walking in circles even though he’s been tracking his position using the sun and locating equipment and what not. He stumbles upon a strange looking crashed ship and he goes in to see if he can use the radio or anything to boost his locators signal, but instead he finds this matrix crystal holocron type computer drive with an old old version of the Light Hope AI on it. Light Hope explains a little bit about what the she-ra is, and figuring the AI seems to have all the answers to his problem he takes the matrix with him. He eventually finds his squad and their on their way. In a few days the battle on that planet is over and they ship out back to Coriscant.

While he’s there he goes to the Jedi temple archives to do some research on this Etheria place but there isn’t squat on anything like it. Which brings him back to Light Hope who seems have all the answers he needs but like in she-ra she’s hiding things from him. Because this is a very old version of light hope it is still her prime directive to train the she-ra and activate the heart of Etheria which is important for later. Really all Light Hope does is insist he train as she-ra and protect Etheria like a broken record and Rex’s doesn’t really like the sound of that so he just kinda puts light hope on a shelf in his office. So for many months Rex goes about his life in denial and only uses the sword in secret. There were a few times during battle where Rex found himself in a no win situation where he needed she-ra or him and his brothers would die. Of course this is how the 501st found out and Rex swore them all to secrecy.

Figuring how he’s kinda secretly being she-ra now he might as well learn how to at least swing the sword right because the last few times he was she-ra he was a little awkward at it to say the least. He started sitting in on Ashoka’s training lessons when he could and got Anakin to teach him a bit on how to use a lightsaber thinking he could apply the same lessons to use the sword because he has no idea how to swing a sword around the right way but he quickly learns that lightsabers and broadswords are very different. Unfortunately for him he does in fact know someone who trains she-ra’s specifically. So in secret he trains as she-ra with the guidance of Light Hope in one of the training rooms while he has one of the 501st boys guarding the door for him.

After a few months more which would be set after Umbara Rex comes out of his denial stage and he just can’t take not knowing anymore. Why does she-ra exist? What is the sword really? Where is this Etheria? Why does he need to protect it? What is Greyskull? Who was Adora? Why did her ship crash and what was she running from? Why was the sword just abandoned in the forest like that? Who were first ones? What does any of this mean? Obviously Rex don’t know anything about anything, so it was easy for Light Hope to get him to walk through a portal she made with the promise of understanding everything he wanted to know without actually telling him where their going. Essentially light Hope kidnaps Rex to Etheria. She takes him to this old outpost on one of Etherias larger moons that functions as an archive.

It’s important that you know that this au it’s set like 3,000 years after Adora and Etheria is a very different place. So the first ones who were Eternians that were colonizing the planet for resources came back to Etheria once it came of of dispondos and hoard prime was defeated. Eternia hadn’t forgotten Etheria or what it was. They still wanted their planet killing weapon. It took many many years over many generations but Eternia took back Etheria. Like Hordak did with Scorpia Eternia took the descendants of rune stone wielders and raised them to be loyal to Eternia, which guaranteed their cooperation. The only missing piece was she-ra. Which leads us back to why and how Adora came to be half way across the galaxy and got passed a massive veil of black holes and crash landed on some nowhere planet. When the situation with Eternia wasn’t looking good and they had full control of the planet Adora and company tried to destroy the sword but failed. Her friends wanted to find another way but Adora didn’t think there was any way that wasn’t playing right into their hands so she fleas with the sword. Her plan was to basically rogue one herself like Mara did and dive into one of the black holes and get destroyed and be lost forever but something went wrong. See, Adora needed an navigation system to get her all the way across the galaxy, so she used the ancient Light Hope system she found and retro fitted to fly the ship. she got spit out the other side and crashed. Long story short that’s the deal with Adora.

Which brings us back to Rex. So Rex is digging through the archives and find out the ugly truths to why, how and what she-ra is and what happened to the last owner of the sword. So Rex was like uhh, hey can we leave now and she’s like oh no, I used the vast majority of my energy storage just to get us here, it’s going to take months, possibly even a year to get us back. Of course Rex did not appreciate that at all. And Light Hopes not bad really, it’s just she’s a very old program whose deteriorated then been rewired then deteriorated some more. She’s forgetful and has a lot of bugs and glitches which make her seem strange. She repeats a lot of stuff like a broken record because it’s what’s left of her base coding, she seems like she’s hiding things because there are gaps in her memories and it causes her to freeze up. She struggles between new and old coding which often puts her at odds with herself and it’s like she’s two different AI’s sometimes. Mixed with random coding deterioration glitches she can be… unpredictable. Ultimately she’s loyal to the she-ra, she’s just old and forgetful and it can be very unhelpful sometimes. Like now, because she’s stranded both of them on this ancient outpost half way across the galaxy in a sector that can for an unknown amount of time. Just great right? That’s about as far as I’ve gotten brainstorming wise.

[kyber-queen]

Like Real People Do (Rex x Reader) Pt. 4

Summary: Jedi!reader and Rex fall in love but are separated by the war. They meet again two years later, weeks before the Siege of Mandalore. This chapter picks up right after Rex and Reader get back on the star destroyer after their mission. Anakin and reader are chaotic. Rex has so many emotions. 

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 1.4k

Warnings: Rex makes one (1) innuendo, mentions of alcohol, implied sexual content, mentions of death

Author’s Note: Rex and reader finally get their reunion!! This chapter was definitely more ~fun~ so I hope you enjoy!! I was debating whether or not to get a bit ~spicier~, lmk if that’s something you would b interested in as like a bonus chapter or something !! This is pt. 4 out of 7 btw!!

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Rex was seven different levels of anxious. He had made it back onto the star destroyer with little incident, taking a pod with his men in lieu of the officers. He still wasn’t entirely sure whether or not Jedi could read minds, but he was certain that Skywalker would take one look at him and be able to tell exactly what happened behind that tank. Rex took a deep breath and rolled his shoulders. He had made it back safely, he was in the clear, he had nothing to worry abou—

“Rex, we need to talk,”.

Fuck.

Skywalker stood directly in front of Rex, arms crossed. He seemed to take up half the hallway—did he look upset, or was that just Rex’s imagination? Rex swallowed thickly.

“Of course, sir. What did you want to talk about?” Rex was doing his very best to play it cool, but his heart was set to leap out of his chest. Did he know?

“I saw you and the Commander today, and I gotta say, I’m disappointed,”.

He knew. Rex’s face grew sallow, and his eyes widened.

“Sir, it’s not what you think, I—”

Skywalker chuckled at Rex’s panicked reaction.

“Rex, you’re fine. I just wish you would have shown me some of the moves you two did,”.

Huh?

“So this is about—”

“The lightsaber-blaster switch thing. Where did you two learn to do that, anyway?”

Rex breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t know.

“We completed additional training on Coruscant together. The Commander was stationed with my squad, and, well, we ended up working together pretty well,”. That’s an understatement.

“You’re teaching me all of your secret moves with the Commander when we get back to Coruscant,”. Skywalker grinned. “Cody’s gonna be so jealous,”.

“Yes, sir,”.

Rex smiled to himself. Skywalker definitely didn’t want to know all of his secret moves with the Commander.

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Rex spent way too long trying to find your quarters. Asking the General was out of the question, given his earlier run-in. Rex stumbled from room to room, knocking until finally he heard your voice from behind a door. You let him in with a grin, checking behind him to assure that no one had seen him enter.

“Took you long enough to get here,” you said with a little smile. Rex understood the underlying meaning in your words. All at once, the scene laid out before him was made welcomingly familiar and strangely foreign. It was you, but two years had passed. You weren’t the Jedi knight you were when you first fell in love with him, and Rex knew he wasn’t the same underconfident shiny.

“It took me a while to find you,”.

You hummed at Rex’s response, pouring him a drink as he stripped off the top half of his armor. The top of his blacks fit him well, you thought. It always did. You motioned for him to take a seat on your bed. Your room was sparse, the bed and a nightstand being the only furniture present. Rex sat down with a sigh, taking a rather large sip of the firewhiskey. Shit, that was stronger than he remembered. He coughed a little, and you laughed. You took a seat next to him, a foot or two away.

“So tell me, what’s happened in these past two years?”

You searched Rex’s eyes, which answered much faster than his mouth did. War was painful, always had been, but something in Rex’s expression told you that it’d been especially hard on him. You laced your hand with his, and he spoke.

Rex told you everything. He told you about getting shot, and having to hole up in a farmer’s barn for a few nights. He told you the farmer used to be like him. He told you that when that farmer asked if he wanted something more out of his life, the answer was a silent yes. He told you that when he saw the farmer’s wife and children, he saw the family he gave up when you two parted ways. He told you that after he got off that backwater planet, he came to his senses and realized that you were probably long gone. He made it his mission to forget you. He still saw you, though, and he told you this.

He saw you on Umbara. You were alongside him, telling him to be brave, to hell with rules and regulations. Telling him that he deserved more, that his brothers deserved more. Telling him that not a single man should have died on that battlefield, that Krell needed to pay.

He saw you on Coruscant. Your unyielding idealism faded from Fives’s dying eyes, telling Rex that he should have done more. Rex felt stuck for months afterward, your sad eyes and Fives’s death-greyed face following him everywhere he went. You haunted him, sometimes.

He saw you on Anaxes. You were facing him when he found Echo, telling him like you always had that there would eventually be a happy ending for him and his brothers. He despised the hope you gave him at times. For clones, war was loss after loss—when someone was gone, they stayed gone. This time, for the first time, someone came back. This time, for the first time in almost two years, Rex allowed himself to hope.

He told you all of this. Your teary eyes met his, and Rex gave your hand a gentle squeeze. He hated to see you cry.

“It’s not all been bad, cyare. Have I told you anything about the General yet?”

You shook your head, and wiped at your eyes with your free hand.

Within minutes, Rex had you laughing your ass off at Skywalker’s antics.

“He threw you? With the force? Why didn’t I think of that?”

Rex shook his head with a groan.

“I knew pairing you and the General together was going to be a bad idea. He’s already been asking me where we learned our ‘moves’,”.

You laughed. Rex’s chest warmed.

“So, what’d you tell him, Rex? Nothing too incriminating?” You nudged his shoulder playfully, but the concern in your voice betrayed your thoughts.

“It’s alright, he doesn’t know anything about us. Told him I remembered it from training on Coruscant,”.

You nodded, but something in Rex’s words took you someplace far from here. The room suddenly fell eerily quiet.

Your voice broke the silence at last.

“Do you remember?”

Rex furrowed his brow. “Remember what?”

“Earlier, you said you tried to forget about us. It’s been a long time, d’you still remember everything?”

Rex’s features softened as he nodded. He searched for the right words, his eyes falling to your mouth.

“I remember when I kissed you for the first time, I bumped my teeth against your lip and it split a little. I was so scared—I didn’t know how I had managed to fuck up that badly. First I kiss my commanding officer and then I make them bleed? I was certain I had earned myself a one-way ticket to get reconditioned. When you kissed me back I didn’t know what to do with myself,”.

You laughed a little at this, and Rex’s eyes traveled down to your hands.

“I remember the first morning we woke up together—you held my face in your hands and kissed me so gently. That morning was all soft touches and little whispers and that’s when I knew that you were it for me,”.

You sighed gently at this, and rested your head against Rex’s shoulder.

“That’s when I knew, too. You were just so damn perfect. Still are,”.

You turned your head as Rex’s eyes trained on yours. His hand lifted up, the pad of his thumb just barely tracing over the curve of your neck, like he was almost afraid to touch you. His hand found its resting spot just over your pulse.

“I remember—” Rex swallowed thickly. “I remember you liked it when I kissed you here,”.

You stilled, the little spot under his thumb burning throughout your entire body. You moved to nod, but a much better idea entered your mind.

“I don’t remember,”.

His hand dropped from your neck.

“You don’t?” Rex’s face fell, confusion marring his expression.

You shook your head. You swung a leg over Rex’s, effectively seating yourself in his lap.

“I think I might need a reminder,”.

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Like Real People Do Taglist: @pinkiemme @callme-eds @porgnugget  

[hellowkatey]

Febuwhump Day 20

Prompt: Betrayal

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Shattered... (from a Certain Point of View)

Never in Rex's short life did he think he would ever betray his Jedi. None of them. Not General Kenobi or Skywalker. Certainly not Commander Tano. To follow orders was part of his programming, but not only that. He would follow his leaders to hell and back if they asked him-- if he considers Umbara or Zygerria and Kadavo hell, then he truly did. The Jedi have become honorary brothers in his mind. They put their lives on the line right next to him and the others, most of the time more-so. They've saved his life more times than he can count, only to be rivaled by the number of times they've gotten him into trouble.

They earned his respect. His friendship. And the respect and friendship of the other men.

Which is why, when the hooded figure shows up on the holo and utters a phrase Rex has never heard before, but suddenly just knows what to do...

"Execute Order 66"

He feels a part of him snap into place, and another part of him shatter into pieces.

"Yes, Lord Sidious," he replies, a surge of adrenaline and anger coursing through him. The door behind him opens, and Rex tightens the grip on his blaster.

But when he hears her voice...

"Rex!"

So familiar, tugging at memories so fond.

"It's Anakin."

Another name he knows too well. Too closely. The hand holding his helmet begins to quiver.

"I feel like something terrible has happened."

Something terrible is about to happen. It's the strangest sensation. Like his mind has been split into two and both sides are fighting for dominance. One side is telling him to draw his blaster and shoot Ahsoka Tano before she has a chance to do a thing. He's a quick shot, and if he misses there are guards at the door.

Good soldiers follow orders.

The other side is screaming at him. Pleading him. No! This is wrong! You can't do this!

His helmet slips from his grip and clatters to the floor. She's still standing behind him, and he can hear the confusion in her voice as the commlink tones of the other troopers begin to chime in.

"Rex?"

He knows the sound of blasters being aimed far too well. The two guards have received their orders. In a moment Ahsoka Tano will be dead. Rex draws in a breath. The mere thought of that as a truth, makes his entire body feel numb.

"No," he says firmly, but the shake in his voice is undeniable. He turns around, taking in the sight of the two troopers with orange and white painted helmets ready to fire. "I'll do it,"

"Rex? What's happening?"

He doesn't even remember picking up both his blasters before he's raising them, both pointed straight at her head. Staring down barrels, Rex finally looks at her. Looks her in the eye. All he can see in her big blue eyes and young face is the look of utter confusion and alarm. A kid! She's only a kid!

"Stay back!" he yells. His hands have never shaken like this before but now they won't stop. He's taken countless lives in this--this war for the Republic. Or for the Separatists? Who is winning now? Was anyone ever winning? He has no idea. What he does know is his hands have never shaken and he hardly ever misses a shot, but right now it is looking like both of these things are his reality. A part of him is frustrated and a part of him is praying to whatever higher power that may be listening that he misses this shot, please. "Find him," he says, feeling that his free will is quickly being overtaken. Like a parasite invading his brain, the good memories of Tano, Skywalker, and Kenobi are being pushed out by force. "Find him. Fives."

He can't take it anymore.

"Find him!" he screams and then fires his blaster wildly in the wrong direction. It's all the warning she needs. Ahsoka bolts into action, moving faster than his eyes can even perceive. Faster than he can react to her body slamming into his and cracking the back of his head into the console. White-hot pain flashes through him and he crumbles to the ground with black spots dancing before his eyes.

Execute Order 66, the shrill voice echos in his mind. Kill the Jedi. Good soldiers follow orders.

He groans, pushing through the haze of pain and blaster shots to get back on his feet. He hears his name being called, sounding faraway, but he can feel that it's near.

Rex starts to fire again. And again. Not really knowing where he's aiming, just knowing that he needs to kill the Jedi.

And when she disappears, the urge only grows.

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They search the ship. Tirelessly. Frantically. Like nothing else has mattered this much the entire war.

Except it has. Everything has been an uphill battle and we have done it every time with the help and guidance of the Jedi.

He grits his teeth. Nearly slams his fist into the wall of the lift he's in. Their orders are to execute her.

When have the orders of this Lord Sidious ever mattered before?

Rex's shoulder slams into a doorframe he wasn't paying attention to. He hisses at the blunt pain, shakes it off. A squad of troopers passes him in a steady jog.  Headed to their sector. They will find her if they have to tear this ship apart.

He starts to run, but is caught by troublesome droids blocking his path. He slams into one, taking an opportunity to kick it.

"Hey! Hey, out of the way." The droid seems to laugh at him, and he has half a mind to run his blaster through it instead. Then the blast doors shut around him, locking him in the hallway. "Are you cross-wired?"

A holographic Commander Tano appears from within the droid. "Rex. I think I know what's happening. I saw your report on Fives,"

Fives. Rex's entire body shutters at the remembrance of his death. How he fell limp in his arms.

"It isn't your fault." There's a surprising amount of sympathy in her eyes to be looking at the man who just tried to murder her. "You were programmed. Your mind was altered to do this when you were very young. I can help you."

Good soldiers follow orders.

You were programmed.

The hologram dissipates. His eyebrows slant. Another surge of anger from a place deep with him. He points the blaster at the droid as if it could tell him anything of use. "Where is she?"

"I'm right here," as he turns, a burst of electricity shoots through him, and the world goes black.

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The sound of battle wakes Rex up better than any alarm. His heart is already pounding with adrenaline, but when he opens his eyes he finds he is much less prepared for battle than his body seems to be.

His head is pounding. Lights too bright. He tries to process what's going on around him.

Medbay. Lights in medbay. Blasters. Stretcher. Injured? Lightsaber.

Lightsaber. Ahsoka.

Rex pushes through the wave of nausea and finds himself on the receiving end of an endless stream of blaster shots. He'd be more blaster wounds than man if it weren't for Commander Tano crouched at the end of his bed, the bright blue of her lightsabers moving at an impossible speed. She blocks every single blast with perfect precision, but Rex realizes none are being aimed back at the troopers.

The troopers are trying to kill her. He reaches for his guns as a blast manages to strike her shoulder and she staggers back. He aims them as she screams for the droid to respond, her energy obviously waning.

Rex remembers the last time he picked up both his blasters. They were pointed at his Jedi. Armed to kill. But the feeling is suddenly gone from his system. The voice no longer echos in his mind.

He aims. He shoots. This time, he doesn't miss.

Four brothers cry out as his shots hit as they always do, their bodies falling as the door finally shuts. In the sudden silence of immediate ceasefire, Commander Tano turns around and looks at him with those big blue eyes. Her young face is full of confusion and alarm..,. but also hope.

And to see her look at him with hope is the worst possible way she could have looked at him because. when he looks at her all he can see is the reflection of his own betrayal. She shouldn't be staring at him with such concern, moving toward him instead of running away.

His hands start to shake again. He's still pointing his pistols at her, but his fingers aren't even on the triggers. He is just too shellshocked to know what to even do right now. If she ignited her sabers and took him out, he wouldn't blame her in the slightest.

She should hate him. She should kill him. She has every right to that.

Instead, she asks if he is okay.

No, I am not okay... but hearing her voice calms him. Snaps him out of the haze of waking up to such a shock, and he slowly lowers the blasters.

"Yeah. Yeah, kid, I'm okay."

The pounding in his head begs to differ. He reaches up to the source, feeling a thick bandage on the side of his head. You were programmed.

They put a chip in his head to control him when they needed him. To control all of the clones.

"I was framed because I know the truth... the truth about a plot. A massive deception... A sinister plot in the works against the Jedi!"

Shame courses through him at the judgment he cast upon his friend. The disbelief at what he was saying. Fives knew. Fives was right.

"It's in all of us. Every clone."

Every clone.

It sounded crazy at the time. He thought Fives had lost it the way he'd seen countless other brothers descend into madness.

"It's bigger than any of us. Than anything I could have imagined."

Now Rex sees it. The entire plan in action with no way of stopping it. The clones have their orders to kill their Jedi, and he knows for a fact that on their own, the Jedi don't stand a chance against their battalions of thousands.

"I just wanted to do my duty... The mission... the nightmares... they're finally... over"

Fives' last words hit him like a speeder to the stomach. All this time they were put here not to fight and die for the Republic, but to act as sleeper agents until they were needed. Mere pawns created for Lord Sidious's master plan that Rex doesn't even fully understand. What scenario constitutes a purging of an entire religion? It's a war crime at the very least. Their duty was always what they were told to do... but no more. He is tired of being a pawn. He doesn't have anything forcing him into obedience hidden within his mind.

Now, he has a new duty. To stay by Commander Tano's side, and try to stand by those who fought alongside them the last few years. Good soldiers follow orders, but better soldiers do what's right.

[bardicindignation]

For @rhea-imagined and @cross-d-a: my star wars fix-it ideas for question...49 I think? in that star wars ask game from over a week ago (Will I write all of these? Probably not! At least one or two? Hopefully I'll get to them eventually) 😅 Also! If you two (or anyone else for that matter) has any questions or comments, please feel free to jump into my ask box or my DM's! :

1. the No Time Series (yes, I am planning a series, I've already gotten most of the timeline written down) fix-it where Anakin doesn't fall to the darkside, but as a backup plan Palpatine punts him into the timestream (bc he clearly has some kind of access to that force nexus thing in rebels) and sends out a clone he made of Anakin (complete with warped memories) to play out the rest of RotS and become Vader

The title, and also all of the titles of the fics in the series come from the lyrics of No Time because while I was coming up the idea, that song was frequently stuck in my head and the lines seemed oddly apt despite the fact none of the actual subject matter has anything to do with star wars, or anything that happens in the fic

This also includes:

Qui-Gon lives (bc of Dooku shenanigans) but is trapped on a planet neither he or anyone else who lands/crashes there can leave until Ahsoka, Rex, Feemor and their respective battalions (I Do Not See Victory and Death what do you mean Jesse died he's right there) crash shortly after order 66

Anakin finding his way back to his own time and stealing back his men (and then a bunch of other battalions) from Vader

Ahsoka having her own time travel shenanigans

Fives and Tup both live bc reasons

A reunion on Vader's star destroyer in which everyone shows up to rescue either the person undercover, the person who got captured, or the people who hared off do do the rescuing by themselves and everyone has a very, very, weird day

2. Another Qui-Gon lives au set during the Clone Wars where he has very specific amnesia caused by hiding so thoroughly hiding the force that he couldn't be seen or sensed. Ahsoka finds him by accident after leaving the jedi and shenanigans ensue This also includes:

Echo getting rescued a few months early

Ventress the (at first) reluctant ally

Tup and Fives live again

Obi-Wan and Anakin spend a lot of time being Very Confused and Suspicous

Order 66 is avoided

3. Same as before except Qui-Gon ends up on the Trandoshan game-hunting world and meets Ahsoka when she ends up there

Also Including:

more of the trapped padawans/younglings living because they have full fledged (if amnesiac) jedi master with them who can do aforementioned hiding in the force

coded messages/distress calls disguised as lunch orders at Dex's

4. What I'm calling the Informant Sergei au even though that's really only a small part of it: this is the undercover Anakin au which (along with bullying Tarkin) also includes

Secret jedi padawan Mara Jade (also a lot of other ppl undercover)

Han and Chewie getting roped into everything when Luke and Obi-wan need a ride to go pick up Leia, who got into trouble trying to find Luke (they were dreamsharing) and then didn't end up actually needing to be rescued

Obi-wan getting a very weird present from Ventress

Freaks-of-the-force!skywalkers

More Ahsoka time travel shenanigans

The Mandalorian happening a good decade earlier for the express purpose of fitting in some background Bobadin and also Fennec, because I love her.

the aforementioned bullying of tarkin, most of which consisted of a running joke involving supposed-to-be-dead Quinlan Vos. I've actually written the first part of this and you can find it here :)

4. Vader finds out about the chips after seeing post order 66 Cody, is freaked out into coming back to the light and manages to get all of the clone troopers he possibly can onto his star destroyer and successfully fakes all of their deaths, including his own, gives them all the information the Empire has on the Jedi and their brothers and also a list of planets they can use to hide, then peaces out to go it alone with only his guild complex for company. Also including:

A memorial wall(s) of murals that the clones paint on the star destroyer

Gratuitous ghost imagery

Plo lives and is in charge of the little ones

Anakin's planet sized guilt complex

the jedi younglings live

5. Time travel fix it where a whole bunch of ppl find themselves back in the clone wars during the Umbara campaign, some in their old bodies, some not. Includes

Tarkin biting the dust a few decades early

Luke and Leia (and Ezra) stuck in, like, 4 yr old bodies with all of their memories intact

Anakin's List of Acceptable Murder Victims (including Palpatine, Tarkin and Krell)

Qui-Gon unexpectedly finding himself both alive/corporeal and in the past, and immediately making it the Council's problem

Order 66 happening early, but to much less effect

Anakin and Kanan's fun across space roadtrip to save the galaxy

[neurodiverse-clones]

Any specifics on your headcanons for autistic Echo and ADHD Fives? (or really any of them, lol, they all sound interesting)

I have SO MANY THOUGHTS and I’m too excited to have permission to yell about them okay. (Also I LOVE getting asks and getting responses to my posts, so if anyone has headcanons they’d like to send in, prompts to write, or thoughts to add on to this or any of my other ND clone posts, I will probably melt, please do it.)

First, Echo!

I headcanon Echo as autistic for a few reasons. First, he repeats orders. Technically the way he repeats them is not exactly how echolalia presents in most autistic folks, but I mean. It just fits? (And I try to write him with more classic echolalia where I can.)

He also has a hard time understanding and responding to social queues, which is especially prevalent in Clone Cadets (s3e1). His brothers don’t like that he repeats orders, they call him Echo, he doesn’t get it. They want him to shut up in the scene with Colt, he doesn’t. That sort of thing.

Also I headcanon that because physical stims such as the classic rocking, hand flapping, etc. would be frowned upon, he stims verbally and that’s why he kept cracking jokes in the scene with Colt and also why he explained the giant eels in Rookies (s1e5).

Which brings me to my next point, which is that he probably doesn’t process grief the same way as an allistic person would. I mean, who sees a giant eel eat their squadmate and just brushes it off with “That’s why we have the regulation not to go outside”? (Echo, that’s who.)

Speaking of regs! His obsession with the regs, which is super prevalent in Rookies but also notable in Clone Cadets, mirrors the autistic trait of loving and sticking to rules. And his desire to specifically read (and maybe memorize?) the regs is so relatable to me. I hate not knowing the rules, I go into job interviews and ask if there’s an employee handbook that includes the more important rules so I know exactly what I’m doing right or wrong. I feel like that’s part of what Echo’s doing.

And those are just the canon bits that feed into this headcanon! I have so many more thoughts about it! Like, I headcanon that he loves routine, and he needs to know beforehand if there’s going to be a change in routine. I think going to Rishi would have been a difficult but manageable transition, but joining the 501st after Rishi would have been miserable because he lost his squadmates, lost his station, and had no idea anything that happened was going to happen until it did.

I think he’s probably okay with klaxons and similar alarms, because he probably grew up with them, but other forms of auditory overstimulation like his brothers talking too loud are highway to overload.

He probably has a hard time with task switching and multitasking, and so he CAN but it takes extra energy, and he’s burnt out after every battle.

He loves the sound of marching and he loves Dha Werda Verda. I am now projecting directly onto this poor human. Those are rhythmic and he knows what to expect and he loves them. War songs, chants, space shanties, etc—he loves them all.

I imagine he has several special interests throughout his life, including the Rishi eels and Mandalorian history and culture.

Now Fives!

Fives I headcanon as having ADHD-PI (primarily inattentive, for those who don’t know the different ADHD types). He is incredibly smart, as are all the clones, but he tends to be impulsive, a trait which I personally think is magnified when he’s with Hardcase on Umbara.

In Clone Cadets he and Hevy are constantly blazing ahead. On Umbara he’s pretty much in charge of all the borderline questionable stunts he, Hardcase, and Jesse pull. During the inhibitor chips arc, he’s the one who follows Tup, and—yes I know he was drugged but still—he’s the one who goes to 79’s, who goes to talk to Rex and Anakin and traps them in the rayshield, and obviously his first thought when cornered is to go for the nearest weapons instead of thinking things through. Again, I know he was drugged, but even so. Also, in that same scene, obviously he’s of the correct impression that if Anakin and Rex don’t listen, the Republic will fall, but he’s just so distraught when they don’t listen that I immediately think “rejection sensitivity”. (Side note: are we still calling that the Order 66 arc? Since the Siege of Mandalore is more directly related to Order 66 but is definitely called the Siege of Mandalore.)

Let’s go back to happy thoughts, I don’t like being sad about the Dominoes. I think Fives probably struggles with executive dysfunction, and considering how he was raised I would say his most prevalent dysfunction is not being able to tell time because he probably never had to on his own on Kamino, and they were probably raised cleaning up after themselves or Badness Occurring. (I’m sure he had help with that.) He seems to be pretty decent at emotional regulation except for occasional RSD. I bet he has a hard time sleeping though.

Uh hmmmm what else?

I’m gonna be honest, the only ND character headcanon I really have fleshed out is Echo. I have evidence for most of the others but I don’t have many headcanons beyond the evidence yet, and that includes Fives.

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@ap-trash-compactor replied:

1/7 I wanna preface this by saying I agree with everything you’re saying here but I think there’s another layer to how Raffa’s story functions both textually and meta-textually, and to what it illustrates about how many people in the Galaxy /might/ perceive the Jedi, which I personally haven’t seen addressed yet. Sorry in advance if this is something you’ve heard/read/discussed ten million times already, but... 2/7 If you took Raffa’s story out of Star Wars and put it into a contemporary drama, changed the word “Jedi” to the word “police,” and made the particulars about a high-speed car chase? I think it would sound pretty believable. And I think this illustrates something Palpatine does through the mechanism of the Clone Wars to make the position of the Jedi especially vulnerable or precarious wrt to public opinion. 3/7 Even if every single Jedi engages w the power and authority of their military or police role only in the best intentioned, most good-faith way imaginable (which the Umbara arc tells us doesn’t always happen), any time you are in a role where you, even have without wanting or intending to, exercise the power of life and death other lives, you will cause pain and be a target for resentment. Someone will lose someone, and be angry. 4/7 No matter how good or how well-intentioned or how compassionate they are, during the Clone Wars the Jedi are forced into the role of a state authority exercising the power of life and death. They are not only a cultural minority during the Clone Wars. They are also a branch of the state, and in that role they sometimes either kill people, or are involved in events where people die and where, no matter their intentions, they are the face of the state and the voice of authority. 5/7 Many of the military and police actions shown in different episodes of this series leave destruction in their wake. The Jedi’s participation is barely by choice and almost never by preference— but if you are one of the Raffas of the galaxy and your parents just died, the distinction probably does not matter much. I think this is a corner Palpatine absolutely wanted to paint the Jedi into, because it absolutely serves his goals. 6/7 There are not many Jedi during the Clone Wars. Certainly there are not many compared to the problems they are trying to fix. I have no doubt Luminara tried her best, wanted a different outcome, and gave Raffa all the comfort she had the time and the opportunity to give... But if you are one of the Raffas of the galaxy and your only direct experience of the Jedi is like the one Raffa describes? You’re probably primed to consume all of Palpatine’s worst lies. 7/7 If you’re Palpatine, making the Jedi rush from violent crisis to violent crisis doesn’t just distract them from the fact that you’re a Sith Lord — it also makes the Jedi into the face of a lot of negative, hurtful interactions with the state, which is going to impact the way people see them.

I think you and I are very much on the same page!  I have discussed this before (the public’s turning on the Jedi), but I’m always down for discussing it again!  Especially when I love pretty much allllll of this. If you’re Palpatine, making the Jedi rush from violent crisis to violent crisis doesn’t just distract them from the fact that you’re a Sith Lord — it also makes the Jedi into the face of a lot of negative, hurtful interactions with the state, which is going to impact the way people see them. You are spot on with your summation, to the point it’s almost hard for me to respond with anything because I feel like all I can do is bang my fist on the table and go, “Yes!  This is what I’ve been talking about!”  Though, of course, there is a lot going on here that’s making it complicated. This post that you’re responding to is focused more specifically on the theme of unreliable narrators + the close associations this season has had with Revenge of the Sith (the moments that make us sit up and go, “Oh, that’s foreshadowing for stuff in ROTS!” like Padme’s pregnancy, Anakin’s advice to Rex, etc.), but there’s also what you’re talking about here--that it’s been a long-running theme in the GFFA that public sentiment turned against the Jedi and that the causes of that are fascinating. I said a bunch of times that Rafa’s hurt in this episode is valid, that there’s room for both the Jedi acting with honorable intentions and that people don’t trust them, don’t draw comfort from them, that these things are not mutually exclusive and you’re hitting on exactly why--because they were put into a situation where, if they’re not 100% perfect, then they’re going to fall off the pedestal they’ve been put onto.  That any flaw they have will then get magnified a hundred times. Luminara seems to have made a point to go back and try to talk to Rafa, to tell her a phrase that is narratively meaningful within Star Wars on a meta level, like, that says to me that she has really good intentions!  But that Rafa doesn’t draw any comfort from it, as a non-Force sensitive and someone who probably is left to the Republic’s shitty welfare services (which isn’t the Jedi’s jurisdiction, they’re not social workers and we can’t expect them to be), doesn’t undercut Luminara’s presumed good intentions, just as Luminara’s presumed good intentions don’t undercut Rafa’s hurt. And that it’s understandable--because, as the Maul arc in season 5 says, the Jedi aren’t doing the things that they used to do, that crime is flourishing because they’re being so busy with this war they’ve been drafted into.  Even Star Wars: Propaganda makes it clear that public sentiment turned against the Jedi because of a cultural absence, rather than anything they actively did. This is all by design from Palpatine, that he’s keeping them so busy putting out tire fires on Ryloth (who were being slaughtered by the Separatists), on Mon Calamari (who were being enslaved by the Separatists), on Kiros (who were being kidnapped and taken into the resumed Zygerrian slave empire), that they don’t have time to do the things they used to, like take care of a lot of the criminal elements or the outreach programs that we see hinted at in the supplementary material. The Jedi had to make a choice between fighting in a war where entire worlds were being enslaved, that there were only so many of them and they were dying, that they died in droves on Geonosis in Attack of the Clones and they’re dying every day in the war, that they were literally one out of six billion in the galaxy at their height, and that they had a million expectations placed on them.  They have very little political capital/power, yet they’re expected to solve all the problems in ways that will last.  They’re expected to police the Underworld, but also not police the Underworld because then they’re restricting people.  They’re expected to be social workers.  They’re expected to fight and die in a war that the public itself refuses to stand up in.  And when they don’t live up to those impossible perfections, they’re torn down. This is not to set aside that of course there are instances of people like Trace and Rafa, where the destruction wreaked by chasing down someone like Ziro is going to sometimes cause people to get hurt and, honestly, I don’t feel like Rafa really blamed Luminara for that, given the acknowledgement of the crowded platform she was trying to avoid.  But if she had?  That, too, would have been reasonable and understandable!  That it doesn’t matter if the Jedi were doing literally everything they could, that doesn’t mean there’s not also room for Rafa’s hurt.  And that, even if I think there was absolutely nothing that Luminara could say that would have given Rafa comfort, that doesn’t make Rafa’s hurt/viewpoint any less empathizable. My blog tends to focus on the Jedi side of things because those are the characters I’m interested in, not because they’re the only element that matters. In the meta we’re responding to, a lot of the focus is on Luminara and the Jedi because that’s my jam, that’s the part I thrive on, but we’re definitely in agreement that Rafa’s feelings are not wrong and it’s not hard to see where they come from! I do take issue with the idea of--whether it’s true or not, we can all argue about it all day long, but it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not--that if the Jedi are remote and distant from the galaxy, that that narratively is approved of how they then “kind of brought their downfall (aka, violent genocide) on themselves”.  That’s something I’ve seen skirted around in commentary from the creators and I’m wary of it leaking into the narrative in a more substantial way.  But that’s an entirely separate issue from the fact that anti-Jedi sentiments exist in the narrative and that they led to the Jedi Purge/Jedi genocide. As part of the propaganda and manipulations Palpatine did, yes, absolutely, that is one of the most fascinating things!  And that doesn’t mean that there’s not validity to those feelings, even if they’re rooted in propaganda and manipulation! But that, just as there’s room for Rafa’s hurt despite Luminara’s intentions, there’s room for the Jedi’s good intentions despite the public’s hurt and/or mistrust. My thing is that I tend to look at why the Jedi act the way they do and I usually come away with empathy for how they got into the situations they did.  Like, take their alignment with the Republic, which was an organization with corruption down to the roots by the time of the Twilight of the Republic, that that association absolutely led to their downfall/genocide.  But what else could they do?  Being part of the Republic in that way allowed them to actually help people, to have negotiating power, to form treaties that would be honored even when they were no longer on a given planet.  If they weren’t under the jurisdiction of the Senate, they could not have helped as many people as they did, especially because how would they even be able to afford starship fuel or housing costs?  Would they charge people for their services?  That’s a disaster waiting to happen! There’s room for both “the best option for the Jedi was to be part of the Republic and try to improve the system from the inside, which is what they did” AND “the being part of the Republic is what ultimately fucked them”, those things are both true! but if you are one of the Raffas of the galaxy and your parents just died, the distinction probably does not matter much. I think this is a corner Palpatine absolutely wanted to paint the Jedi into, because it absolutely serves his goals. Spot on!  I have fun looking at what Luminara’s intentions likely were and what the context of the structure of the show entails, that Rafa’s character doesn’t have to be a reliable narrator to be valuable (and I say this as someone who actually really loves the unreliable narrators of SW, which honestly is almost literally every single character, very few are ones you can take at face value without seeing the circumstances for yourself), but to Rafa it doesn’t really matter what Luminara did or didn’t say, because that’s not what she was looking for or what she got out of that conversation.  I can’t say I would act differently in her position! And that’s exactly what Palpatine did.  He pulled the Jedi in so many different directions, made them responsible for things that literally no group could possibly have survived with public sentiment intact, and even if the Jedi had been literally perfect (which they weren’t), it wouldn’t have mattered, given that the entire point of the prequels is that you gotta choose between Shitty Option A and Shitty Option B. It’s the galaxy’s worst ever version of, “Which would you rather?” except its real and you have to play the game, because not playing gets you fucked over even faster, like it did with Mandalore.

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Ive been thinking some messy thoughts about Rex’s mindset at the beggining af season 7, when Echo’s arc comes up and Rex is absolutely adamant on going on a wild hunt on some hunch he had, which is a bit uncharacteristic of him. Rex, as the rest of the 501st and their general, is prone on going on difficult suicidal missions and coming up with reckless ideas that eventually work out, but he is arguably pretty level headed and by-the-book. He believes in the GAR, he believes in the chain of command, and he is often wary to challenge it. Most importantly he believes in Anakin and that trust is reciprocated, so he has really no reason to go against this mindset.

He talks about this to Cut Lawquane in season 2, and later on with Fives on the Umbara arc on season 4. Rex believes in the system, not because he’s been engineered to believe in it, but because it means something to him.

By season 7 however... the system has failed Rex one too many times.

(this got super long and rambly so im putting it under a cut) 

  He saw Pong Krell decimate his men for no reason, while he could only grit his teeth and impart orders he knew were wrong. He went along with Krell because he felt it was his duty and because so far, the system had worked. He was constantly challenged by Fives, and then almost loses him and Jesse because of this (and yes, he did try to get punished on their behalf, but only after directly telling them that if they were caught he would be powerless to help them), they lost Hardcase, and then he tragically lost his brothers and had his men kill Waxer's men because Rex went against his instincts and followed orders instead. He was forced into a mutiny, and even at the very end when he has to execute Krell, he is unable to do it. (Even three seasons later, when Order 66 forces his to turn against Ahsoka, Rex' hands physically shake when they are being pointed against someone he feels he needs to be loyal to.) We see a glimpse of Rex's struggles a the very end of the Umbara arc, but it's never really brought up again.

On season 5, when Ahsoka is framed for murder and tried, we see Rex constantly telling Fox that she would never do the things she is blamed for, but ultimately he still follows Anakin to try and retrieve her, and while he knows Anakin trusts Ahsoka, Rex never really does anythign to actively help her. I know the narrative only focuses on Anakin at this point, but by season 5 Rex and Ahsoka's bond has been firmly established and we know that being ordered to chase his friend must have been as painful to Rex as it was to Anakin.

And then season 6 happens. Fives is also framed for attempted murder, against the Chancellor of all people. I can imagine how that conversation with Anakin went, after Kix told Rex about his encounter with Fives at 79s, and it musn't have been easy. Anakin was Palpatine's close friend after all, and I figure Rex must have had to practically beg Anakin to let Fives make his case before they brought him to the Chancellor. And Anakin tried but he's not level headed and he's not nice to those who threaten his friends, and Rex had to stand, powerless, and watch how Fives was killed for it. Fives dies in Rex's hands, telling him how he was only trying to do his duty, and Rex knows. He knows because he knows Fives like he knows himself, and again he chose to follow orders, and he saw yet another friend fall through the cracks. But, what changes here, and we don't get to see this until season 7, is that Rex still files a grievance report, even tho he knows it will fall on deaf ears. At this point, I think, Rex's autonomy starts to really take off and is what ultimately allows him to fight Order 66's command long enough to tell Ahsoka about it. He is expecting something to happen because his trust on the system has been broken.

Which brings me to season 7. Rex is sure he's going to find Echo, despite everyone's doubts, including Cody's. I think he struggles with this certainty, for he is very used to do as he's told, but choses to go with it, and is rewarded when he turns to be right. Rex is unwavering in his faith for Echo when they finally do find him. He has learned what true loyalty means: not the system, but the people. And it really breaks my heart that Echo chooses to stay with the Bad Batch at the end, but I think at this point Rex understands better than ever the importance of making choices based on your instincts and what you feel, rather than on an imparted sense of duty.

Furthermore, what I loved about the mandalorian arc of season 7 is that Rex follows Ahsoka not because she is her commander, because at that poinst she isn't, but because he trusts her and he is loyal to her out of his own volition. Rex is there, waiting for Ahsoka when she comes back, with their men and their painted helmets, and he looks so fondly at her when showing her them. Ahsoka is Rex's friend outside of any form of hierarchy or military order. He chooses to be loyal to her, he chooses to follow her even after she disables his chip, when it would have been much easier to just turn Ahsoka in instead of fighting an entire garrison of his brothers to get her out, because at that point Rex has seen too many friends fall to understand that blindly following orders and real loyalty are two very different things.

My point is that Rex's arc was one of self liberation and breaking out of a mandatory mindset and finding the courage to trust his feelings, and we see it play so beautifully through the seasons.

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Thanks for the tag @purgetroopercody! this looks fun!

how many works do you have on Ao3? 31.

what’s your total Ao3 word count?

447041 what are your top 5 fics by kudos? Worthy of Devotion - A Foxiyo fic, where Riyo discovers that Palpatine is a Sith, deposes him, and is elected Chancellor, and Fox is her bodyguard.

Luckier Than We Deserve - My very first Rexsoka fic! It's set during the Mandalorian era, and involves Ahsoka finding Rex and convincing him to let Grogu heal him. And they fall in love.

A Hylian Marriage - A Breath of the Wild fic where Link and Zelda get married for political reasons, but they also love each other, but they don't know that they love each other. Pure fluff, and I love it.

Children of the Republic - This is a followup to Luckier Than We Deserve, and it involves Rex and Ahsoka realizing that they want different things in terms of a family and children. It's less a shippy fic and more about Ahsoka coming to terms with what she wants, her fears, and coming to understand how she feels about her childhood. This is a pretty personal fic to me. It's also not finished yet, sorry!

Krosis - My only Skyrim fic! It's a Vilkas x female Dovahkiin fic that was pretty fun to write. It was also a bit different from my other stuff since the characters in Skyrim are more blank slates than most of the other franchises I write for.

do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! Reading comments brings me so much satisfaction and so many people don't comment, so I like to encourage it as much as possible and show them my appreciation.

what’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Probably Chaotic Good, a Jedi!Hardcase fixit wherein Hardcase survives Umbara, discovers he is Force sensitive, becomes Mace Windu's Padawan, then kills Palpatine before Anakin completely turns to the Dark Side. All in all, that would be my ideal ending to the Clone Wars 😂

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Probably The Shape of You. It's part of a series that ends happily, but in this one Ahsoka ends up making out with a clone who looks like Rex, then feels terrible for having used him and, even for a brief moment, treated the clones as interchangeable. This is the point during her Fulcrum years where she decides to let go of her feelings for Rex.

do you write crossovers?

No. I typically like to keep things close to canon, so it's not something that appeals to me much.

have you ever received hate on a fic?

Ehhh a few comments that weren't all positive, but not hate.

do you write smut? if so, what kind?

No.

have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes. I think it was to Spanish? I think it might have been my very first fanfic, which isn't even posted on AO3 haha.

have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I'm open to it, but it's never come up.

what’s your all-time favourite ship?

Oh man I don't know!! Maybe Rexsoka? But it changes! Royai, Zelink, KenKao, and so many other ships really capture my heart.

what’s a wip that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

A story following Cal Kestis and Rex after Return of the Jedi as they try to find Ahsoka together. Cal would work through his lingering anger and hatred of clone troopers, and Rex would slowly come to believe that he deserves happiness. Cal would also heal Rex of his advanced aging. I love the idea but it would be a pretty long fic and I just don't think I have the juice to write it right now.

what are your writing strengths?

Character development and voice.

what are your writing weaknesses?

Endings. Also just getting words on the page.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I'd keep most of the language in a story in the language that you assume the reader reads. There are usually decent ways to signal if the character is speaking another language without confusing the reader. That being said, some people incorporate foreign languages very seamlessly into their writing. It's just not very easy to do.

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

Rurouni Kenshin

what’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Probably Do No Harm, a fic telling two parallel storylines--one with Blyla set during the TCW era and one with unfrozen Kix during Resistance era. It was a really nice, self-contained, tightly-constructed fic that had a lot of pathos and never fails to tug at my heartstrings. I am really proud of Worthy of Devotion, but I think in part because of how long it is and that I posted it chapter by chapter, it's just not quite as technically well-written.

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how many works do you have on Ao3? 

102, some of which are art or multimedia compilations

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365,868. Over 120k are from this year 😬

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Oh yes, as someone with really long, thick hair. Actually almost as long as Tup’s in that post’s. When I braid it and it falls down my back, and ends mid ass. You can for sure condense it. There are many styles that would work to do the job. A Suebian knot would do, I think, but it might be too stiff. A loose low bun that’s tucked would work, so would two or three buns. As long as you loosely tie the hair it won’t cause obstruction. A braid then twirling it on the back of your head and pinning it would be good too! Hair at that length can be put up without a tie, in which I know from experience, but I’m sure his brother’s would have bought him some hair supplies. :’) sweethearts,,

I agree with that! They act like they’ve known each other for a long time and seem like they would be batchmates. It just makes sense. Now, there were already protocols on hair length. Anything too much longer then their standard cut was against the REG’s. Short-ish mullets were the closest to long hair they could get without breaking rules. Now, I do believe that which Jedi or Commander they had also determined if they were obliged to follow that rule. And since they were deployed to the 501st, under the usual lead of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, I would assume the REG’s were lightheartedly minded there. It didn’t really matter to them if the clones grew their hair out. I’m sure they’d actually encourage it to give them more individuality.

So my idea is that Tup kept it as long as he could until he was assigned to that legion, then kept growing it out, without stopping to cut it. Because he wanted long hair. “Fuck you Dogma my hair is not gonna get us killed.” But then patted his head.

And YES THANK YOU. Dogma is a shiny, he’s new, younger, hasn’t had any experience apart from the simulations. And Umbara was absolutely nothing, like the simulations. They were placed in a situation where even Captain Rex and ARC Trooper Fives didn’t know what to do. Dogma was afraid, he wanted to protect Tup over everything else, and all he knew were the regulations. So that’s what he used and clung to like his lifeline. He realizes he was fooled by Krell and betrayed his brother’s trust, so he kills Krell himself. Some sort of redemption, in his eyes I suppose.

I do believe Tup was very lost after Dogma was gone as well. :( Poor boy. You said it well and I agree. But I believe that Tup was the big, protective brother of his batch of clones. He wouldn’t leave their sides and once he realized Dogma wasn’t fitting it, he included his brother in almost everything he did. Because if you’re sitting with Tup you’re sitting with Dogma. Period. So when his brother whom he protected with his life was now gone, he was very empty and lost. So Fives did take him under his wing and they got close and Fives taught Tup well. :) He had a little brother to pick on and joke with, talk to and support. He eventually told him about Echo,, heh,, yay.

They did become best friends. :’)

Fives has the requirements of strong willed men on his best friend form. xD

SOrry there is SO MUCH. I just,, this stuff interests me. :’) I like to share my opinon, and I hope you know I wasn’t arguing aoufaobufba just saying what I personally headcanon

but another thing that didn’t fit anywhere else??? I think Dogma would brush and braid Tup’s hair because even the one who stands up for everyone else gets sad, and because Dogma isn’t good with kind words like I imagine Tup would be, he would be able to show his appreciation better physically. So he would resort to playing with his vod’s hair,, y’know? Like I do agree Fives would totally fix it in a routine. But Dogma would only do it to show his love to his bro. :’) and cause it’s soft ‘n curly,, but that’s not the point,, xD

TUP WITH LONG LONG LONG HAIR MAKES ME WEAK I'D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF IT PLEAS E E E!! Maybe something of Dogma helping care for it? Like braiding and brushing?? They have one of my favorite duo dynamics. ;-; I miss them. Also I want to say that yoUR ART HAS STOLEN MY HEART AND I WOULD DIE FOR YOU AND YOUR STYLE. That's all.

AHH ONCE MY TENDINITIS CALMS DOWN I’D LOVE TO DRAW MORE RAPUNZEL TUP!! A lot of People on that post say that his hair couldnt be that long bc it wouldnt fit in his helmet but i have SEEN some insane amounts of hair compressed. Especially bc imo a decent amount of Tup’s hair volume comes from it being textured. I personally think a rly good style for him would be a Suebian knot. It doesnt require any bindings, so it would be easy to do when theyre on the go?

On dogma and Tup, i hc that theyre batchmates! Tup’s been trying to grow his hair out since they were kids, but dogma managed to keep it in check for a long time. I like to think one of the reasons Dogma’s as much of a stickler for the rules as he is is just as much to save his own skin as Tup’s. He loves his kih’vodika :)

I do have a picture of tup being groomed by a brother in the works, but its fives, not dogma. I think that once Tup lost Dogma, he was a little lost and tbh pretty depressed. Since it was fives’s gun that Dogma took, fives felt a bit responsible and guilty, so he took tup under his wing. Having an arc trooper for a big brother is pretty different from having a rules puritan for a big brother, and i think Fives directly helped Tup become a much better man. By the time of their deaths, they respected and cared about one another a lot. Sharing stories about lost batchers, being the only ones of their squad left in active duty, having a distant imprisoned sibling who they both used to follow... they had a lot in common :’)

Best friends :’)

ALSO IM SO GLAD U LIKE MY ART CRIES I LOVE TO HEAR THST IT MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY.....