#cx2

[clonebrainrot]

Okay hear me out. Ultimate Clone X theory

Clone X is Soup clone.

My evidence for this theory? Plenty when he talks to Crosshair about Joining them when he had the chance? He’s talking about during the food fight. This entire time he has been biding his time. And what is a river if not the soup of nature? I feel this in my bones. All other theories have been rejected as inferior Dogma? Nah! Tech boring! Cody? Ha give me a break. Slick? Derivative. It’s soup clone. The ultimate villain.

[talesfrommedinastation]

One of my favorite scenes in Season 3 of The Bad Batch was the snipe-off between CX-2 and Plo Koon’s Golden Child Commander Wolffe.

You could tell in that brief interaction that those two LOATHE each other. Total Mean Girls vibes. I’m here for it.

“IT’S CLASSIFIED!”

“WELL I’M IN CHARGE!”

[spacemagicandlaserswords]

dOmIciLe

[mformarsala]

you know what pisses me off about cx2 not being tech? that it did not go anywhere. it's not like cx2 turned out to be some other named clone. it's not like cx2's anonymity had a pronounced impact. and its not like tech's death was meaningfully utilized after cx2's reveal.

you can straight up change cx2 to being tech and it would change absolute fuck all in the final episode.

[levi-venn]

Been having Thoughts about the Mirror Batch! I picture Void and Memento with black hair (like most of the regs), and I picture Headshot with gray hair a couple shades darker than Crosshair's. Do you have any headcanons about what they look like? Or if they have any tattoos?

I'm so happy you asked! Here's your answer below. For anyone curious about these OCs, here is more information on The Mirror Squad

Physical Appearance of the Mirror Squad

Striker

It isn’t often Striker is found without his helmet and his jumpsuit which helps regulate his hypersensitive senses. However, his helmet and suit can’t protect him from the sensory overload of his own hair. For this reason, Striker isn’t just bald. He is hairless. He has pale thin cuts over his body from shakily and obsessively shaving any hair he can find. Circuit crafted a laser hair-removal device for his brother to protect his skin from that dangerous obsession.

Striker has no tattoos.

His eyes are a stormy light gray that constantly bounce around his surroundings, drawn to every sound and flicker of light that isn’t often heard or seen by his brothers.

Circuit

We actually get to see Cryptid-style images of Circuit in the series finale of Bad Batch. While Circuit's hair is cut short here, Circuit's hair tends to be up in a messy bun, his face scruffy from sheer disinterest in personal grooming until Headshot tells him to clean up. His hair is salt and pepper, the white strands borne from the stress of his augmentations. 

Circuit is a brilliant artist and is covered in tattoos he applies himself. The gentle buzzing and the consistent rhythmic pain allieviates the stress of his overactive mind and calm his twitchy body.

While his skin heals, Crunch happily volunteers as his “canvas” and will sit for hours while Circuit tattoos his brother. Circuit's tattoos are a series of colorful vectors, geometric shapes, a strings of lime green binary that spell out things like “I joined the GAR and all I got was insomnia and this tattoo” and “If found, return to Crunch”

Circuit is leaner than his brothers teetering on underweight due to an instable, high metabolism and nausea caused by sleep deprivation.

Crunch

Crunch's pigment is lighter than his brothers, more freckled, with sandy blonde buzz cut and a neatly trimmed beard. His eyes are dark brown that are rumored to turn black when he is in "Rampage Mode", though this is mostly due to extreme pupil dilation.

Most of Crunch's body is tattooed at this point thanks to Circuit. Crunch’s favorite tattoo is on his chest of a Rancor wearing a rainbow party hat sitting next to a broken growth jar eating uj cake. This was a surprise tattoo from Circuit for Crunch's "Growth Jar Day", a holiday only Circuit and Crunch celebrate. 

Void

Void, our Eerily Calm Soldier, has no tattoos as he does not see the point in them. “The body is a decaying vessel, temporary like everything else.” Void does, however, see the point in paying special attention to his hair. In fact, Void is obsessive about his coal-black hair (black hair in honor of Fanfictasia's suggestion!), sculpting it daily into a short, narrow mohawk. His facial hair is meticulously groomed into a devilishly thin mustache with a stripe of hair on his chin.

Void has a multi-branched, red lightning scar on the right side of his chest that travels up his shoulder. The scar is from a mission gone wrong that resulted in Headshot saving his life, earning a permanent scar himself. Void never speaks of that mission, but he refused medical treatment of his own scar, wishing it to be permanent. It was a souvenir of the time Headshot saved his life.

Nothing "moves" Void emotionally, but Headshot's self-sacrifice was a fascinating event he thinks of often.

Headshot (CX-2)

Above is concept art for CX-2 ("Sniper Clone") by Dawn Carlos for the official Star Wars Bad Batch Episode Guide.

Headshot is the only Mirror Squad member that kept his appearance as close to a Regulation Clone as possible. It helped diffuse tension between his brothers and the Regs since the Regs saw him as a “familiar face”. This conscious choice was also part of his larger plan to convince more Regs to defecting from the GAR (a plan that ultimately sealed his and his squad's fate to be put On Ice, their memories wiped, and become CX Troopers).

Headshot's facial scar came from an IG-100 MagnaGuard's electro staff, a scar he earned saving Void from a fatal blow. Under normal circumstances, Void doesn’t aid his squad unless directed by Headshot, but on this mission the injured Void scooped up his unconscious brother and carried him back to base himself. Void nursed Headshot back to health personally, firing warning shots at any medics who tried to approach. 

Most of Headshot’s wound healed, leaving only a single long facial scar.

Void never talks about the incident, but the squad noticed Void was quicker to obey Headshot's directions after that day.

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Thank you again for the ask @fanfictasia. These characters are so much fun to explore and they develop just a little more with every ask!

[clownbloody]

Yes yess excellent stuff. Oc + Canon Commission for @unholyleaf love their oc she was super fun to draw. Of course with CX-Tech love him. @@touch-in-the-night

[tech-aficionado]

I need everyone to stop what they are doing and join me in my latest fixation.

I’m seriously considering a AO3 book club and making a discord server dedicated to reading and sharing fic. I’m already on a few TBB servers (and I know there are many amazing ones out there too!), so maybe one more would be overkill? Idk.

Anyway, @niobiumao3 has crafted something ASTONISHING and yall need to come with me into this CX-2 Tech rabbit hole because my gods it’s incredible.

[isaidonyourknees]

Wait so Tech really is dead?

I’m never recovering

[aledigangi]

"Guessing metaphors"

(re-edit) Film: expired & cross-processed Kodak Supra 800 Camera: Cosina CX-2 Find more at linktr.ee/ale.di.gangi

[talesfrommedinastation]

He's a Seattle hipster circa 2012 and looking at him makes me irrationally angry because I WAS HIM AT ONE POINT.

::rides angrily off on fixie bike to job in the finance district::

One of the questions I have that was left unanswered... Is he wearing booty shorts, leg warmers, and socks? 3 pairs of tall socks? Socks and two bicycle shorts? Seriously, what's going on there.

[clonebrainrot]

[talesfrommedinastation]

"Are you afraid of me?" CX-2

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It's 'CX-2 as Tech'....or is it?

(It is OC Sunday, sooooo....)

What if...there was another round of deviant clones being experimented on in Kamino?

What if, part of the Empire's demands included giving those other deviants to Hemlock?

What if THAT'S CX-2's true identity?

Also...what if Crosshair wasn't the Clone Force 99 member who got taken to Tantiss? What if it was someone else?

This has been haunting me for some time, and will be explored in the upcoming chapters of To Guard Against Titans.

[spacemagicandlaserswords]

Can anyone read the Aurebesh in these screenshots?

I'm trying to translate it myself but it's slow going and I'm probably getting some of it wrong so if anyone else can decipher what they say, please feel free to add it in a reblog or something

The top two are from when CX-2 is breaking the encryption on Phee's coordinates to Pabu

The next three are when CX-2 is flying towards Pabu and somehow makes his ship undetectable so that The Marauder (rip) stops detecting it

The bottom screenshot is straight after when I think CX-2 selects some coordinates or something similar

[momojedi]

so good!!

Cringetober Day 15 Animation Meme

SPOILERS FOR ALL OF BAD BATCH!

[levi-venn]

Years from now I'm going to look back on Spring 2024 as "Spring of the CX-2 Conspiracy"

It's all I can think about.

Also, he's Fives.

Anyway...

[boggsart]

best theory ever, 0/10 for not being real tho