#commander 17

[jedi-starbird]

Alpha-17 and Obi-Wan being friends (derogatory) on 17's part and friends (threatening) on Obi-Wan's part is such an underrated dynamic

They could be so funny and terrifying, like Obi-Wan went through a soul shredding experience with Alpha-17 as his only company. They're friends because what else are you gonna be after you witness each other at absolute rock bottom from torture.

It's like 'dog put in cage of cheetah who's threatening to go crazy', except the dog is a grizzly bear and also threatening to go crazy.

Emotional support trooper except the trooper in question has never done any sort of supporting in his life and is actively an emotional distress trooper to a great number of the CC batch.

I want them texting everyday, I want Obi-Wan mailing handmade BFF bracelets to Alpha and Alpha sending pics back of him flipping off the camera but still wearing them, I want Alpha using Obi-Wan to keep track of and occasionally terrorize his cadets, I want 17 ending problems in the GAR (like Krell) before they begin because Obi-Wan has him shipped out on a personal transport at the first opportunity, decked out with slug-throwers Obi-Wan got him for his decant-day.

Natborn officers think this is all just an odd indulgence of General Kenobi, the Vode, however, correctly identify it as a goddamn threat and their danger assessment of Obi-Wan ticks up significantly.

When Alpha arrives on Kamino, Shaak Ti presses a shiny new comm into his hand. It has the Jedi Order symbol painted onto it alongside a smiley face sticker, and it pings immediately with a new message: Hello! I hope you're settling in well!

Alpha stares at the message, stares at the singular contact named 'OWK' and then stares Shaak Ti in the eye as he pitches the comm straight into the ocean. Shaak Ti's serene smile only grows larger as she calmly reaches into her robes and pulls out an identical comm, only this one has a frowny face sticker, and presses it into his hand. It lights up: I'm afraid we've bonded, Alpha :). Alpha shuts it off and pockets it with resignation.

Cody arrives on Alpha-17's personal recommendation.

A-17: He's the most difficult little bastard I have. You're perfect for each other. OWK: Thank you, he's very handsome :3 A-17: No. Stop.

The first thing he asks once he gets comfortable is who his general is texting so much that has him swinging his legs and twirling his hair. Cody assumes it's Anakin, given they seem joint at the hip anyway, but little does he know Obi-Wan's ability to consistently have the Weirdest Relationships Ever.

"Oh, it's Alpha-17, I understand you're familiar with each other?" Hmm. OK. Cody.exe is experiencing a processing error, please hold. He exits the room instead of answering. The next day he peeks over the General's shoulder when he's texting and sees walls of rambling messages from Obi-Wan. Alpha-17 replies every hour with a single text: Lose this number. Obi-Wan giggles. "He's so funny." he says.

When Obi-Wan meets the rest of the CC batch, Cody makes sure to stand perfectly angled so that he can record the reactions when his general cuts off their introductions with "Oh, no need, Alpha-17's told me all about you." It's always immediate FEAR.JPG followed by a slow spiral of What The Fuck.

What do you mean by that General. What does that mean Cody. What do you mean they text. No. Cody. What the fuck is happening, Cody. Alpha-17 doesn't have friends he has enemies and enemies he tolerates enough not to shoot on sight.

OWK: Wolffe reached for his vambrace? when I mentioned you A-17: That's where he keeps his spare knife. OWK: Hm that does explain the way he eyed me up, ambitious. A-17: Clearly not enough, he should have followed through. I taught them better.

[wolviecat]

PART FIVE

Fox, Hound with Grizzer, Old Wolffe with wrong number, Warex, Boil andNuma, Kix with plush Jesse, Aalya and Bly, Jango and Boba with Alphas

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[tattycoram]

Obi-Wan, gazing at Cody: I'm gonna marry that idiot one day Alpha-17: I have a strict no returns policy

[cc1010fox]

Jango: Seventeen... Alpha-17: Yes? Jango: ...Are you ok? Alpha-17, with a few teenaged clones climbing him and trying to wrestle him to the ground: Why do you ask?

[chiliger]

It’s a sign of affection.

[roseaesynstylae]

Alpha-17 definitely encountered one of the Nulls while raising the CC batch and he definitely handled it by chucking the cadet he was carrying at them. The Null — who for the sake of clarity we’ll just assume was Ordo —, regardless of any moral deficiencies, caught the cadet on instinct, having not expected 17 to just do that.

Unfortunately for him, the cadet was Fox. Who promptly started attacking his face like a rabid honey badger.

(It took a full forty-five minutes to pry him off Ordo, and it only really worked because 17 got bored and told Fox to get his ass over there so they could rejoin the others.)

(Needless to say, 17’s kids aren’t too impressed with the Nulls.

Cody: Well if it isn’t Flighty McBitchass.

Mereel: Great, you’re one of his.)

[twinterrors29]

Alpha-17, scruffing a growling cadet: this is my son Wolffe, he keeps trying to bite my throat out with his teeth *puts the growling cadet down, then scoops up a different cadet, this one snarling* Alpha-17: this is my other son Fox, he almost bit a chunk out of my leg yesterday *returns the snarling cadet to the floor just in time to snatch a third cadet out of the air as they try to pounce on him from behind* Alpha-17: this is also my son Cody, he keeps trying to flying tackle me-

[crashlanding-skywalker]

Fordo: Where are the kids?

Alpha-17: They're playing hide and seek.

Fordo: Where?

Alpha-17, looking at him: I don't think you get how the game works.

[ominouspuff]

No Man Left Behind / Something Worth Dying For

REQUESTS / BLOG EVENT

Request from @razzbberry - Palette #1 - Alpha-17, Cody - Death of the Cynic in Me

Notes and close-ups beneath the cut!

Notes: I think Seventeen would, both subconsciously and consciously, keep his cynicism as long as possible. It’s how he thinks the world works, but it’s also a survival tool. It’d be a very, very slow death.

It’s put to the test with Cody — not because Cody is special among his fellow clones, but because he’s one of the first that bothers to fight Seventeen on his own terms. The argument is always the same. Cody wants to talk about what he hopes to be, someday, after he is a soldier. Seventeen thinks he’s stupid to think that’s possible, or that he’d be capable. Cody knows it, and he, might not be. Seventeen thinks it’s even more stupid, in that case; what a waste of energy.

It develops. When they’re older, and in the thick of war, one day Cody risks his life for the chance to save a brother that was going to die anyway. Seventeen yells at him for fifteen minutes once he’s conscious about luck and stupidity and the trouble it’s causing Seventeen and the false hope it’s engendering in others. Cody says he can disagree all he likes, but he doesn’t give a fig, respectfully. Seventeen thinks Cody can go try to get blown up again, if he thinks so.

There’s no point fighting for a better tomorrow; they’re bought and paid for to fight for something else, FOR someone else. Seventeen is prepared for being fodder, as a result. He’s prepared for unfairness and the bleak life that they’re living. Instead he watches as Cody defeats odds time and time again, somehow managing to balance being an exceptional military leader with a secondary war to live for something more, running himself ragged and — inexplicably — gaining ground. Each of those little victories are a little death for Seventeen’s cynicism; a chipping away. A little seed of Cody’s brand of hope takes root, awkward and begrudging, fond and tentative.

Then Order 66 happens. Cody’s efforts for a better life are in vain, and Cody himself-

Cody may never know that Seventeen was right abut just how helpless they were. Now he only knows that Seventeen is a traitor, apparently, because Seventeen — for once in his life — was the lucky one and his chip malfunctioned.

And Seventeen could say ‘I told you so’. He could rest, vindicated and resigned, in the fact that every dream Cody built up and everything he thought was worth dying for is pointless, now — as he always suspected it would be.

But it isn’t fair, even by Seventeen’s standards.

“What are you doing,” Rex will rasp, caught in a strange role reversal as Seventeen paints an armor set with Cody’s golden colors. “He’s not coming back, Seventeen. He can’t. It’s pointless to keep going after him, you need to stop.”

“No,” Seventeen will answer, unbothered, “I don’t think I will.”

“We can’t — we can’t keep hoping,” Rex says, because he means he will probably have a breakdown if he imagines there is even a pitiful possibility he could save his brothers and then have to turn away from that scrappy chance for the greater good and Rebellion, and all that. “We’ve got to move on.”

“Go on.” Seventeen will invite sincerely, one brow raised because he knows Rex better than that.

“Do you want him to shoot you?” Rex will finally yell, all knotted up at the thought of losing Seventeen too, even though it’s funny because Seventeen was never kind to Rex.

“He can try,” Seventeen will say, touching up the last of the paint. He will stand, wiping his fingers, and pick up his pack. “See you when we get back, then.”

Alt version:

[kingtuna]

Alpha-17: Why are there little handprints all over the wall?

Cody: Why are there little handprints all over the wall?

Rex: Because I have little hands

Cody: Because he has little hands

[redbean-nom]

Cadets

(aka trash children, chaos children, and children who understand 98 is getting graded on this)

Inspired by @thefoundationproject! Closeups under the cut:

jesse got this pic from jangotat:

[mereelskirata]

Saw this. Thought of Alpha-17 and Cadet Fox. The rest is history.

[tattycoram]

Alpha-17: Anything interesting happen on patrol? Wolffe: Not really Alpha-17: Nothing at all? seriously? Wolffe: Well Cody did get hit by a speeder Alpha-17: What?! Are you o- Fox: Over or under Cody: Both Fox: Awesome

[cc1010fox]

Fox: Pew pew pew! Jango, peering into the barracks: What is going on in there? Alpha-17, smiling: They're pretending. Jango: Oh? What are they pretending? Wolffe: Vvvvv--woosh woosh! Alpha-17: It sounds like clones versus Jedi. Fox: Pew pew! Jango: Ugh...I'm going to put a stop to this... Alpha-17: But it's good for their-- Jango, barging into the barracks: You should be training-- Alpha-17: Play fighting is trai-- Jango: --better. Fox, confusedly glancing from Wolffe to Jango: Better, sir? Jango: Your strategy is a losing one. There's only one way to fight a Jedi, in hand-to-hand combat. Alpha-17, letting out a relieved sigh: Why don't you show us, Prime? Jango: Which one of you is the Jedi? Wolffe: I am, sir! Jango: Bring out the lightsaber. Opponent? Fox: That's me, sir! Jango: Stand by me. I want you to see from my point of view. Wolffe: Ffssh! Jango: See the lightsaber. Watch his stance and hands so he can't claim he cut you when he didn't. Fox, smirking: See, Wolffe? Even Prime knows you're a cheater. Wolffe: Shut up, Fox! You're going down for that, Jango Fett! Wuaw wuaw! Jango, dodging the "lightsaber": Watch, move, and wait for your opening... Fox, concentrating: An opening...There! Jango, before lunging at Wolffe: Right! Wolffe, falling to the ground in a tackle: I could just slice you like this! Cody, laughing: You dropped your lightsaber! Both of your hands were open! Jango: Exactly! The Jedi will drop their lightsaber, but that doesn't mean they're defenseless. You have to strike hard and fast. Once you have them down, use your superior strength to stun them and either knock them out or kill them. Do you all understand? Alpha-17, smiling at the scene: I think this is a lesson they'll never forget.

[the-pixel-lover-extravagant]

You know the thing about me is, if i found myself in the Star Wars universe during the clone wars my priorities would not be expose Palpatine and fix the galaxy, that’s just out of my hands. Nae, my priority would be to wife up an arc trooper and convince them all to rebel so we can settle down on a forest planet far far away. That my friends is do-able for me

[twinterrors29]

Alpha-17: you'd better be taking good care of my Jedi, Cody Cody, without hesitation: