#goes in his tag because finding things in DMs is so needlessly difficult

[the-starry-seas]

I was talking about Oxygen yesterday and came up with some lore things

He's always been a dual wielder, both with blasters and knives. He finds melee weapons very interesting and is annoyed by the fact that they're antiquated and irrevelant on GAR battlefields. Obi-Wan teaches him some lightsaber forms and he's not Force sensitive but he's very into it. He finds a pair of lightsabers on the black market and just steals them, what are they going to do about it? He redoes the hilts to match and thinks they're very fun.

He's obviously always been different from the other clones, so he's chill with leaving his squad behind to hang out with Obi-Wan. He wants them to end up happy but he's not going super out of his way to achieve it. They go their separate ways after the GAR gets broken up and he's not feeling abandoned about it. They're grown men, they're fine doing their own thing. Obi-Wan asks a lot of questions about "are you sure you don't want them to come with you" and "do you feel lonely" and "we can have them visit all the time" and Oxygen is lowkey like "would you cut it out you're weird". He doesn't say it but Obi-Wan picks up on it and doesn't bother him too much once he puts things together.

Him and Cody are very much neutral about each other. Like two cats being introduced for the first time. They warm up to each other eventually but Oxygen is not at all the sort to be like "oh you're hooking up with my genetic donor so we should be nice to each other". Him and Obi-Wan are also on neutral terms (on Oxygen's side). They're strangers and he has no connection to them! He just wants to be a soldier! Let him be! The only reason he actually has anything to do with Obi-Wan (not that he'd admit it) is that he lowkey always wanted his own clone and technically now he has one. Nobody can be more like him than Obi-Wan, y'know? And then Obi-Wan is charming and kind and Oxygen is all "oh no I'm getting attached".

He feels weird about it because he spent months doing the whole "we are NOT friends do NOT perceive me" but now "what if they perceived me and were nice to me". Cody saw this coming from a mile away because he assumes that everyone likes Obi-Wan a lot. He started a betting pool with the rest of the 212th about how long it would take and he was right on the money and is very smug about raking in all those favours (clones bet in favours instead of money).

He develops a taste for dark chocolate, the stuff that's like 90% cacao and therefore rather bitter. People flirt with him a lot and he's always 'I think the fuck not' because why are you paying attention to him you simply must quit that shit immediately. He hates being alone so he tags along to all Obi-Wan's meetings and learns a lot along the way. Otherwise he sits in some of the busy areas of the cities and gets into the habit of carving the pigeons and squirrels he sees around the fountains. He leaves them on the rim of the fountain so whoever wants one can take one.

Oxygen assumed he wouldn't find the face-sharing thing weird because he grew up in a cloning facility and is used to the idea of clones. But then he actually met Obi-Wan and was like hmmm no I don't like that. But they get used to it eventually, cause it's not like they can't LOL

Oxygen doesn't have the beard so people can tell them apart easily. Anakin is deeply weirded out at the beginning, he doesn't care for any of this shit. Plus he's got issues about Obi-Wan paying so much attention to someone else instead of him but he doesn't ilke, mention them. Mr Never Says Shit. He never gets used to Obi Jr walking around but he eventually gets slightly less weird about it.

Sometimes he pretends to be Obi-Wan (his accent is intentionally horrible). Most people let him get away with it because it amuses them and they're glad he's joking around with them. Cody never likes it and acts like a cat with all its fur fluffed out, they're identical in so many ways and he approves of their similarities.

He has a habit of sharing his lunch with stray dogs but he never brings them home because like. What is he gonna do with so many dogs. He helps get a lot of them adopted though! He also teaches a family friend's parrot to yell peoples' names in Obi-Wan's accent (perfect this time) and Cody never truly forgives him for how much it startles him every time.

Also he doesn't want to have a pet because he doesn't want to be responsible for keeping them alive. But that concern does not extend to plants and he has a pachyphytum type succulent in his bedroom because Obi-Wan said it would be good for him. He doubts that it's actually like, beneficial, but it's not awful? So he keeps it.

Obi-Wan would offer Oxygen the plants that he inherited from Qui-Gon but would turn him down. The plants seem to have Emotional Significance and he doesn't wanna see what happens if he accidentally kills one. Also he's not sure he wants more than one plant because he doesn't think two are more useful than one? Do they do things? I think he'd accept it if Obi-Wan got him a flytrap plant though, he thinks it's cool when plants actually do things.

He'd like having a small-ish droid around the house. Put a solar panel on top so it's self-charging and he doesn't have to worry about it 🤔 One of these little dudes, a rolo droid! He's painted 212th gold instead of green.