#i dont really take part in clone shipping

[darth-kote]

Must... Must write smth very filthy and sensory-related at 79s. Or at some other club in the lower levels. Smth about those neon lights and the juxtaposition of all the sin and debauchery below the most pristine-looking place in the entire galaxy... very inspiring.

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hi everyone im really really normal isnt it really cool and normal that sol held onto this little metal name plate like it was the most precious thing he owned and carried it around with him all the time, even as a synth knight soldier, a little metal plate that had his name "solum" and was the only thing that tied him to who he is and where he comes from. "this is the only thing i had when i came to the waterpark, just this word". just one half of the plate. how did he know "bufo" was his last name? how did he know that metal plate was his? how did he know? when sol almost dies in king of dragons he dreams of a swamp that hes never been to. and its cool and normal that sol carries fragments of a person hes never been around with him forever, a history and a family and a context of what he is he doesnt even understand, that is and isnt his

and isnt it really cool and normal that sol was an abandoned and forgotten nobody in the waterpark, and then he was brought to launchpad and told he *was* somebody, he was an extension of another person, its boy wizard *and* frog pal, "familiars always smell like he person they work with", and then "the gloves are not the same i dont know whats going on what am i what am i", and then "humanoid animals are often viewed as cute by other humanoids and could be used to perpetuate mothership propaganda", and then "why clone me im just a frog im nobody", and. the memories of childhood and sense of identity that launchpad and the synth knight program offered him crumbled down overnight. hes not a synth knight and he was never a frog pal and if hes not mothership than what is he outside of that? except the kicker is that he *was* mothership, more than anyone else; "theres always the consideration that you were made in a mothership lab". that he is just an extension and a copy of somebody else.

and its so cool and normal that sol, from the very beginning, an unnamed desire that alexandrite tapped into, that almost lost him to the network, "you... could find my family? ... i have a few things id like to say to them for sure". sol finds out hes a clone and one of the first things he says was "i think that mightve been the closest thing to a dad ill ever have". brad and bron. sol wants to know swag so bad, he wants to impress him, he wants swag to like him. he practices in front of a mirror meeting him. when they finally meet face to face all sol can say is "i hate the fact that you exist". and still he fights so hard for swag. swag exists and sol is two of a kind now. sol doesnt know what he is anymore. sol sees flashes of clones at the edges of his vision. this is as close to a family as he can get. and swag was a wanderer who wanted to see the world outside his home, but sol was always looking *for* his home. sol fought for swag, but at the end of the day. swag daniels the ship of theseus. "what happens to the people who were trying to transport that got replaced by alexandrite? where does that matter go? / it disappears". "youll always be a part of me, you *are* me, how can i let you go?". sol bufos spore network, a representation of who he is, someone defined by his connections and bonds to other people. and thats the thing that ends up saving that last fragment of swag who survived, and kept on fighting to stay as the original sol bufo. swag still never got to take sol to moonstone .

anyway. cool and fun. sol bufo frog with the most twisted and mangled sense of self in the whole entire world. sol bufo who thinks of himself in terms of other people, who was by design an extension of someone else. sol who fought so hard for the family he just found out he has, and loses it in an instant. sol bufo who keeps on asking "who am i". "no matter what, you are solum bufo. and you are a good frog"

so. im normal about it

[im-smart-i-swear]

survivor

^heres a slight alt version cause i couldnt decide whichever i liked best lol!!!

overall im really quite proud of this, i started this out as just a loose sketch not rlly knowing if ill even finish it bc of how complex the thing is, but i somehow did it???? yay?????????? the perspective/sizing of objects is a liiiittle wack n i kinda lost steam when doing the dead clones n it SHOWS lol but whatever, this is still the most complex piece ive dont in FOREVER, and also i am really patting myself on the back for the fucking ship. like JESUS first of all i had to rewatch the black paladins n take a fuck ton of screenshots to decide what parts of the cloning facitlity or whatever it is to include, n then i had to DRAW IT and it was SUCH A PAIN but! after i laid down the sketch n blocked in the colors it went surprisingly well?? and also this whole piece was done with almost no multiply layers for shading, i did most of it '''''by hand''''', so thats just yknow. another thing i put much more effort into than usual but i think it payed off, theres only so much u can do w multiply, sometimes you just gotta go in and draw the fucking shadows yourself!!!!

(i suppose this could thechnically be funky guys related, i can def see it fitting into that aus world, it can absolutely be interpreted as buddy right after the events of the episode, but i do kinda like to imagine it as an entirely seperate thing? like a bleaker timeline where no other clones survive the crash and kuron slowly dies from untreated wounds, malnutrition, dehydration and exposure<33333 yay!)

[sixtysixproblems]

(kicks down door) hey. hey guys. keeli & ponds have the same rusty colored armor, in i think the exact same shade. keeli was a captain and not a commander, so logically it's possible he served under one. so keeli was one of ponds's captains and i will die on this hill. considering how talented he seemed to be in the little screen time he had (and considering he was trusted highly enough to serve directly with a jedi), he could have been Ponds's second-in-command even. ya'll. ya'll what the FUCK am i supposed to do with this at 12 fucking am.

have some semi-organized/semi-incoherent thoughts:

this battalion seems to have really shitty luck with Clone COs getting fucking twc is a tragedy'd because YEOWCH. like can you imagine, your captain and all the clones with him die in a self-sacrifice last stand, and then your commander + command crew of a cruiser dies to bounty hunters. like i bet it's not THAT uncommon, and the 501st had a lot of plot armor in a way, but still?? that relatively early on in the war both times too?????? and can you imagine being Mace (and possibly Neyo) and having to navigate that morale disaster on top of your own probably messy feelings on both situations? like yikes oh my god.

well now i'm drawing parallels between their deaths, gee thanks. and now im wondering that after keeli died in that way, that was a big part of why Ponds chose to go down with the ship? like, from what we gathered of him, it seemed to be in character regardless...but if Keeli and a bunch of other men had died under his command, i bet it didn't even feel like an option to abandon the command crew/admiral-- even if it seemed implied (or at least in my interpretation) that ponds wasn't obligated or even expected to stay on the cruiser.

both deaths are written to make the audience feel shitty despite not really knowing these characters, but for different reasons. keeli's feels very "classic tragedy" aka it sort of echoes some greek/roman myths and tragedies for me. like it's very honorable, brave, and it's a heroic sacrifice, and because twc is twc it's a brutal fight pretty damn clear (to my recollection at least) no one got out of that fight alive. you root for the characters because they're pretty fucking likable instantly because of what they're willing to do to protect the twi'leks, even if you can tell they're doomed from the start or you're on a rewatch. you know why it has to happen, you just cant help but hope it won't. filoni seems to like this trick a lot cough cough fives

Ponds's death by contrast, was intended to feel pointless, and that's where the sense of tragedy/audience's sadness comes from at least in part. keeli's death was sad because even if these characters could have lived, they were too good to take that road and instead picked the greater good, and it was just...fucking sad, man (its 12 dont come here for good analysis). By contrast, despite ponds having a pretty impressive handle on the situation actually (he seems to get under Sing's skin a little, and it's my opinion/headcanon that the CT number he gave was a lie), it's not like he's actually in control of the situation/has any agency at all. It's cruel and it's unfair and feels pointless, especially considering he survived the ship crash and survived the bounty hunter's attack on the survivors-- and especially contrasted with most other named character TWC deaths, which are almost always in battle/a heroic sacrifice/etc.

so yeah, moral of the story, while the deaths have some parallels to me, they're also very different. filoni used different writing tricks to make me you cry over another barely mentioned copy paste man. again.

very unhappy considering the HCs of Rex both being close to Keeli (often as batchmates), and being stolen adopted by Cody & CC batch. i'm also very unhappy about all of this in general.

one thing that's interesting, is that clearly keeli's death can be pulled off without any previous screentime (sobs). but i dont think ponds's death would have worked as well if it wasn't for his (albiet brief) screentime in the ryloth arc. like, in hindsight, oh boy-- there is no reason (I can parse out, at least) to give precious screentime Mace Windu's random clone commander primarily to make him more likable-- via a good report with Windu, and wanting to pass on rations to the civilian/sad about ensuing warcrimes-- if you weren't, oh i dont know, trying to get the audience a little attached or at least remember his name for when you fucking kill him. like yeah, those scenes served dual purpose, but the other plot-y goals (like "here's the horror of fucking war again in our pg7 show") could have been pulled off other ways with characters that get more focus/the audience already knows (Cham, who would have a more emotional reaction, and Mace, who the audience already has a rapport with). maybe im thinking too far into this, but Perhaps Not.

my "first" (probably not, but first watch since i was ten) of That Scene involved "oh fuck that isn't the nice commander from ryloth right" (checks wookipedia) "fuuuuuuuuuck--", so. it still would have been sad, but it's a lot more sad if you remember (even vaguely) who he is and have your (anakin sad boy voice) "that was ponds" moment.

yeah idk how to end this. suffer as i have, i guess?

[clonehub]

i was for a while thinking "how would clones with varying levels of brain damage get the PT and CT they need so that they don't regress and have an awful quality of life in a truly awful situation?"

i don't want to a Swiss Family Robinson thing where they basically fit and mold their circumstances to be as close to normal life as possible. like these guys are not going to be in trees or building anything that's uniquely complex. that takes time and energy and tools that they don't have. i dont like idealistic protrayals of survival.

but i also want them to actually be taken care of to the best of everyone's ability. they're disabled and they deserve care and attention.

the venator-class star destroyer is still accessible. it's split open down the middle, but they were able to construct bridges across. there's no plumbing, but there are some lights. some parts of the ship aren't completely level, so none of the physically disabled clones can access them. They still use a lot of the ship for sleeping and storage though. gradually, the company spends more and more time outside.

they've got tents outside. anything having to do with cooking is outside. there's some holes in ceilings and such and they make do with natural light because they're quickly running out of fuel (the first winter was colder than they expected and the ship has no heat of any kind).

but the brain damaged clones. the most i can think of is medic Milo knowing enough about PT and CT as part of his training to get some form of a rough help/guide/plan in place. lots of the high-needs clones need to be on a strict schedule for one reason or another. the clones themselves are organized and driven enough that able-bodied clones can and will follow this schedule and work to meet the needs of their brothers (both from a love for their brothers and orders from the captain, Sprint).

so nobody's really ever like, alone? if that makes sense? there's clones who need help feeding themselves and getting to the toilet and who have severe memory problems. there are clones who can't walk or don't have the physical coordination they used to. clones who can't communicate well. they need someone with them almost 24/7 because the environment isn't safe. they're trying to clear hazards and fall risks from the site and monitor who goes where at all times. they have a buddy system, but there's a point where the system fails and that becomes a whole thing.

they might have to constantly learn on the job, tbh. Milo knows about PT and CT but he's definitely not an expert and not specifically trained in those things. he learns p quickly that preventing decline requires constant interaction and a lot of repetition (per the video i just posted). he also learns about the contours of mental health because he has paraplegic clones who can't move and have to stay put, meaning they need their brothers to come to them and give them the social interactions they need so they don't get depressed.

they've been marooned for close to a year and they're approaching the next winter, so they're not completely new to all of this. idk what's needed to make solar power but i wouldn't be against them figuring it out. they can get maybe a handful of lifts to work, but there's a risk to that of course. whatever scrap metal they can pull from the ship, they're using to build more permanent structures outside (cooking area with a roof and ventilation, outhouses if not toilets with functioning plumbing).

the gunships are used for going back and forth to the sea (for water, which they can use for daily things and also salt, which they get from the sea water) and to the mountains to hunt or get more wood (they soon cleared most of the trees from their immediate area.)

[raisinushigher]

hi im just gonna put my thoughts on every clone high ship i can think of here

jfgogh - i think its cute. i can definitely see jfk like uplifting gogh and him falling in love over like the most basic display of kindness and jfk just being like “haha woah there guy i didnt mean it like that” but then he realises he Does

gogh x gandhi - LOTS of mixed feelings on this one but it is pretty interesting truth be told. like, the way gogh didnt just sit back and take what gandhi did to him and instead retaliated, i like that, i like the thought of two tiny guys having the most unnecessarily intense rivalry ever, but i know that isn’t really the way the ship is portrayed often rather than wholesome stuff . you interpret ships however you want though

gfk i think is the name for it - im so sorry as a gandhabe connoisseur i know how annoying it is when people say this about a ship that absolutely entraps you but i think jfk and gandhi are more accurate together as just silly friends who see eachother like once a month. jfk casually brings up a girl hes dating (or rather just having sex with frequently) and gandhi is like wait what happened to the other one? like hes very out of the loop but he listens and they both hype eachother up a lot

ceasgogh, gogh x christo, ceaser x christo, whether it’s any of those seperately or polyamory - i love this one so very much for literally no reason. maybe its like a nostalgia thing cuz i remember people talking about them sometimes in 2020 and being like Aw that’s cute but idk something about them feels so like. objectively correct. like yep that’s the little background trio standing together in an episode as they should be

abefk i think - i like it!! even though it’s barely known apart from jokingly i really like the classic 2000s rivalry between a nice boy and an asshole jock thing that was going on between them before ponce’s death, i admit i miss their interactions. i miss how theyd refer to eachother with their last names. also the part in season 2 episode 6 where they both were recalling memories of the grassy knoll and abe went “i used to get food thrown at me” and jfk continued “i used to be the one throwing that food”. i like them

joanabe - i know this one is like barely a ship but i still need to talk about them badly. their friendship is so important to me. the way its always been them whether it’s joan crushing on abe or the other way around, they’re just so special to eachother in any and every way, and both struggle with the choice of helping the other or doing things that hurt the other but ultimately raise their chances of getting together. tbh im so interested in whats gonna happen with them in the finale, and in the next seasons bc i doubt their back and forth crush thing is gonna last the ENTIRE show like itll be getting a new sort of premise or main character focus which im excited for

joanfk - some of the fanart is absolutely adorable COUGH COUGH ORT SMORT COUG but its just not for me man. biggest two factors as to why i dislike it being how it overtook the fandom, and how to me they just never had any substance. they have a fun dynamic and the season 1 finale was sweet but idk it just never affected me that much. also bc i always knew it was gonna crash and burn. like that is not a stable couple as cute as it is sometimes. like at all. and im happy episode 7 finally addressed it

abe x cleo - again, not really a fondly talked about ship, but they are pretty dear to me. it’s the way cleo was clearly playing with abe at the start but actually saw the charm in him and was actually upset when he finally digested his feelings for joan… i really hope they’re gonna be good friends in the future bc episode 7 seemed to be sort of a start for that friendship and them learning to be ok around eachother after the finale…

joan x cleo - ive always been scared to talk about this one bc some people see them as sisters, which i Really dont. they never acted in a sisterly way at all, and the living together thing lasted for like what. one episode. so i doubt it had any affect on how they view their relationship. but again absolutely fair if it makes you uncomfortable for this reason! but yeah i do like them. very very good trope and there can be some really cute stuff done with them dynamic wise

gandhabe my heart and soul my romeo and juliet my sun and moon my red and blue - AUGHGGGGG MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE. EVER. IN THE WHOLE SHOW FOR EVER they just have such sweet interactions and everything they do they do with the other in mind and i want them to have an emotional reunion in the season 3 finale sO SHRGFRHRVRRRRR RR RBR R R R. RR R. sorry this is mostly incoherent screaming rather than actual words I just DUCIGJGN LVOE GANDHABEEEEE EEYEHEEE THEYRE END GAME!! THEY ARE END GAME WHETHER ITS AS FRIENDS OR ROMANTICALLY RHEY ARE THE ONES

ok now onto the ones involving the new gen clones

harriucius - i like them its the second het ship in the show ive ever actually liked!! they just both go so well in so many ways, they both have almost the exact same struggles and cope in similar ways, but harriet has more of a hands on attitude with her problems, while confucius tends to avoid things. im VERY interested in how their relationship will go and i dont really think anything’s gonna happen to them bc i cant picture the show pairing either of them up with anyone else (mostly confucius tbh 😭)

joanharriet - i WISH this one was more acknowledged by the fandom like i think its the least popular one at least involving the newbies.. can you tell im a sucker for ships that are literally just two close friends who love eachother more than anything. lol. when i think of them i think of episode 5 which makes me extremely happy. like look me in the eyes and tell me that was not an absolutely beautiful wonderfully wrapped episode

johnfucius - gonna be honest i dont like this one. i know this is a really rich thing to say while talking about clone high season 2 but it just felt rushed, and especially with how they barely did anything after sleepover. like they were literally crying both of them being like OMG I FINALLY HAVE A FRIEND!! and then they proceed to have the most stale interactions with the most notable one being in the next episode and it’s literally just confucius encouraging jfk to avoid his problems like he does. not really good. but again if you enjoy them all the power to you, im happy you found something you like that hasn’t been ruined and seems pretty docile and chill compared to all the other ones :o) it’s very much a mostly fandom based ship

kahlopatra - BEAUTIFUL. BEAUTIFUL. I HAVE NO WORDS JUST BEAUTIFUL. there definitely was a lack of suspense like based off the intro and the slight buildup throughout the series BUT that literally doesn’t matter. out of every canon couple they are the absolute cutest im obsessed with the effect they have on eachother. especially on cleos side of things like ahhh!!!! she found someone she actually connects to genuinely!!!! i am so happy for her!!!!!!

tophucius - not much about this one its just pretty fun and silly . i feel bad for the people who thought something big was gonna be going on w them but the small details peppered in about them in sleepover were nice. i always liked how when confucius saw that topher typed your instead of you’re, he went “i thought so” like to me that confirms they do this all the time and they know it’s them. also really funny to imagine them being sworn enemies online but when they actually see eachother in school theyre Like oh shit hey man what’s up! hope youre well! like not even through gritted teeth or anything they’re just so chill irl for no reason

abetoph - Sigh i sure did save this one for last. while im a lot less comfortable with it now i still love thinking of them pre episode 8 and i do think their relationship is just ever so slightly more interesting now with the added double crossing n shit added to it. but im also sad they’ll never be the way they were may 24th to june 14th again . that specific time period of them is so comforting to me for no reason, all the memes and running jokes in the fandom involving them, all the wholesome fan work of them sleeping in tophers bed, watching stuff on tophers computer together, abe being tophers voice of the reason and the one person he actually likes, it’s just so … man. We Could Have Had It All. i love them for ever.

thank you so much for listening

[trudemaethien]

OK I had to do it again because I got a ship I really want to see you give a try if possible:

The Ship: Wolffe/Mereel Words: content, education, combination & absent

this is not really shippy buuuut …lol you’ll see why. srynotsry (i should maybe update my post to say i dont write wolffe ships, like at all hides chaula in my pocket)

“Oh no,” Fox said under his breath, and then louder, “Go home, Mereel, you’re drunk.”

“Am not,” the clone disputed, and to Wolffe’s judgement he didn’t seem that intoxicated, just a bit manic.

Fox sighed and murmured to Wolffe, “This Null just finally figured out it’s okay to like boys. Clone boys, particularly. I’ve been keeping it out of Skirata’s ears, but kark, he makes me so tired.”

“He behaving himself?” Wolffe murmured back.

“Mostly,” Fox shrugged wearily.

“Who’s your friend, Fox?” Mereel said with a leer at Wolffe. Fox opened his mouth to fend off the undesirable advances for Wolffe as he’d done so many times before for his reticent brother, when Wolffe held up a hand to halt him.

“I’m Commander Wolffe,” he introduced himself with his customary dignified reserve, and held out his hand. Fox leaned back and kept his mouth shut.

Mereel took Wolffe’s hand and held onto it instead of just clasping it. “Bet I could make you howl, my good man,” he said provocatively, trying to tug Wolffe towards him. He succeeded in maneuvering the two of them closer, but only because he moved himself.

“I’ve never heard that one before,” Wolffe said with heavy sarcasm, subtly leaning back by straightening his already proper posture to something so rigidly immaculate, he could be the illustrated standard in the regulations.

Mereel smirked anyway. “Well, how about it?” he asked with what he probably thought was a winning smile.

Wolffe cocked his head. “I’m going to assume you weren’t decanted a mannerless cur, and your abysmal knowledge of etiquette is a combination of an absent father, a lack of education, a minimum of discipline, and a complete misunderstanding of the concept of subtlety; and that is a generous assumption on my part. If I were so inclined, I could write you up for several things, soliciting not the least.”

The meaning of the rebuff was penetrating Mereel’s skull in real time, and wide-eyed, he tried to step back, but Wolffe still had him by the hand and now he was the one prolonging the contact.

“I won’t, because I prefer to conduct my own correction in a more direct manner. I gave no indication I would be interested in your intentions, and in fact, if you’d been paying attention, you would have seen indications that I was not. It’s not due to your pick-up approach or technique that I am calling you to task, though those could bear significant improvement, but the fact that I was uninterested and you failed to notice.“

Mereel had dropped his eyes guiltily and stopped actively trying to escape Wolffe’s grasp.

“Furthermore, just because you’ve figured out what gets you going does not make you a Force-blessed gift to mankind, and not everyone is going to fall at your feet just because you smile charmingly.” Wolffe paused a beat, “What will make you a Force-blessed gift to someone or other is not so superficial, and it will take time and self-reflection and honest effort, to determine. No amount of shallow hookups are going to fill the metaphorical hole inside you.”

“Wow.” the pushy Null was still looking at him with wonderment and desire in his eyes. “I am…absurdly turned on by being chewed out.”

Wolffe’s lips thinned.

“—Sir, sorry, sir,” Mereel added with a bit of genuine respect.

“I’m still not interested,” Wolffe said shortly. “In general, in anything sexual or romantic. Glad I could assist you in your kink discovery though, trooper.” His tone was very dry. “Please remove yourself from my presence, now.”

Mereel nodded and beat a hasty exit, and Wolffe called after him, “Try pulling someone who will take you properly in hand!”

“Aww,” Fox cooed, “you’re such a soft touch, Wolffe. I hope you know how much inadvertent innuendo you dropped on that poor kid.”

“Shut the fuck up.”

Smack Down 🔒 https://archiveofourown.org/works/51601057

i also owe you a last line or two… *checks notes* —three!! ahahaha it has been waaay too long

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welp. the wips are going nowhere, so i think ill just post this and put those IOUs back on the list 😅

[thegeminisage]

star trek update time. tuesday we did ds9's "til death do us part" and "strange bedfellows" and wednesday we watched voy's "juggernaut" and ds9's "the changing face of evil."

til death do us part (ds9):

going to be real, if my fiance called off the wedding because god told him to and then came to his senses, i'm not sure i'd go with it as easily as kasidy. this isn't even the first time he's made a terrible fumble with her. love and light to sisko cuz he's amazing but she could do better

it's kinda not fair to sisko either because so much of the main cast gets to have love interests with OTHER CAST MEMBERS. kira, odo, jadzia, worf, ezri, bashir, and quark are all fully-fleshed out regulars who gets to fall in love with other fully-fleshed regulars, even if that love is sometimes unrequited. but sisko gets? a side character?

and don't get me wrong, kasidy's cool and all, but i don't know the first thing about her except that she likes baseball, she's independent, and she can't cook. i couldn't tell you the reasons she and sisko work (or don't work!) the way i could with the other ships. the most interesting thing she ever did was get roped up in maquis drama and we forgot about that the next time she showed up and never mentioned it again

also didn't love the worf/ezri in this episode...like, she realizes she's in love with julian because the breen told her so? because he was chasing her in a dream? seems like like if he's chasing her in a dream she's running away from his smothering affections!!! again: least interesting choice

the "counselors interpret dreams" throwback to ezri junior cub scout counselor were also bad.

winn and dukat smooching: traumatizing. i hate win SO MUCH i dont want to watch her smooch anyone!!!!!!

strange bedfellows (ds9):

STAND-OUT EPISODES

the worf/ezri in this one was a lot better. nice and complex. even if they don't get together, as long as it's complex, i'm happy. that said, i wish it wasn't in service of shoehorning a julian/ezri romance in there at the last second, but still

WORF BREAKING WEYOUN'S NECK. and damar immediately like yeah okay time to have an arc. he was so invigorated by the sight of that guy dropping dead (for like the...third? time?) he was motivated to do something with himself. damar's arc with weyoun has been so funny genuinely like. imagine killing this guy and the next day he comes to work and then worf kills this guy and the next day he comes to work and so you're like alright that's it and the first place you hit after you go rogue is the fucking cloning facility. it is SO PERSONAL with damar and weyoun

i really, genuinely enjoyed kai winn's arc in this episode too, which is not anything i ever thought i'd say. like the prophets don't talk to her because they knew one day she'd do all this fucked up shit but she's doing it because they don't talk to her...a child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth etc. this whole time that winn's been a monster it's because the prophets made her that way. and let's not forget the things she did and went through in the occupation - stealing from the religious coffers to buy even just one more life and get them out of the labor camps, taking beatings and watching over prisoners...she did all that while never feeling that connection with her gods, never getting the comfort of that faith that everyone around her had. like of COURSE she isn't going to step down. she and dukat are like because they both need to be liked and what made him insane was putting him in a position where he would inevitably end up being hated but what made HER insane was that she spent her whole long life being ignored. but the pah wraiths talk to her. the pah wraiths make her feel special. finally, someone is listening to her! all she has to do is get in bed with the devil, literally. inSAAANE

juggernaut (voy):

first of all, b'elanna has never looked better

i'm always glad when we get an episode about her where people don't talk down to her about her temper problems. also, she embodies the righteous fury of the evo-terrorist. she and kira would get alone

did i mention b'elanna hot?? i loved watching her beat that guy up with a stick. even though i also felt very bad for him

first likable malon in this episode too. like the guy they worked with. good for him

neelix was so nice to b'elanna in this episode too...idk why but for some reason when he said "nothing a fresh coat of paint couldn't fix!" it really gave me the giggles. love and light to kes but he is SO much better now that kes is gone

chakotay almost getting killed. very fun. he was so dirty when he tried to get out of sickbay. we need more star trek episodes where everyone is just very dirty all the time

the changing face of evil (ds9):

hands down best part of this episode was winn finding out she literally had fucked the devil. MWAH!

i do kind of wish she'd commit. she spent this episode being wishy-washy. girl, you've decided on sacrilege. it's the coolest thing you've ever done. fucking go for it. all that stuff i just said about her downfall being cool is wasted if she doesn't fuckin GO for it

still though she killed that guy. blood on her hands. no going back now girl

even though i don't like ezri/julian it was really funny to have her chilling with worf while he critiqued her taste in men. i do wish she was doing this as a lesbian but at least it was fun

I'M SO SAD ABOUT THE DEFIANT. that's MEAN. she really was such a good ship.

damar hitting the cloning facilities. i know i said so already but it's SO good.

TONIGHT: voy's "someone to watch over me" and ds9's "when it rains..."

[differentfandomsandthings]

( TBB S2 EPISODE 7 & 8 SPOILERS)

CLONE BAR

Some Clones are not happy about Kamino being destroyed. "All those cities, all those people." Lots of guilt. Questioning Rampart specifically. Everyone thinks a cataclysmic storm destroyed Kamino thanks to Ramparts cover up. Now with the clones out the way Rampart is trying to push a recruitment bill.

New clone names Cade and Slip :D love the beard Slip😌

Cade really texted Rampart and gave him an ultimatum. "You tell the empire or I will!"...yeah that's not going to end well😬😬

Annnd Cades dead..but slip gave them...the slip 😉..sorry..

Was that Crosshair?👀...Nope!

Bail Organa!

CHUCHI!!!!

Old hag of a senators (can't remember her name atm) wants to decommission the rest of the clones because of their accelerated aging 😡🤬 but Chuchi is fighting for them❤ "They are not droids we can just discard! How can we make a new army without a plan in place to take care of our current one!" " How do you know what the clones need? Have you asked? Do they know about their future?" I love Chuchi!! But I have a feeling Rampart might want her out of the way...

Rampart is acting tough but I know he's feeling the pressure. The bill has been put on hold many times. If people start digging and find out what really happened to Kamino its not going to end in his favor.

Chuchi is legit, ok. She went to talk to the clones about what they want. They want to keep fighting but she's like " Yeah I understand but what happens when you get to old for that? Let me help." She really cares about them🥺

Slip tells Chuchi what really happened to Kamino and warns her to be careful.

Annnd Slip is dead 😔

REX!! and he saved Chuchi.

Assassin clone? He calls himself A believer?

End of episode 7

Episode 8

Gonky!!!!

Gungi taught Omega how to meditate but she said it doesn't work for her the way it does for him...but she still likes to do it. Asked Echo if he wants to try.

Echo said he doesn't like being alone because of Skako Minor. Said the bad batch saved him.

Omega: Is that why you joined?

Echo: It Was were I Was needed at the time....Echo PLEASE DONT LEAVE THE SQUAD 😭😭

I liked that he opened up about his pass to Omega a little though.

Bad batch meet up with Rex and Chuchi. They are going try and get the data from Ramparts ship. They are going to split up, Omega is going to go with Chuchi to the senate.

Let's get to work >:(

Lol Omega mean mugging Rampart 😠...and did Rampart not recognize Omega?...Did he meet Omega in season 1?

Omega: Where is the clone Senator? We're part of the galaxy too :(

Senator Burtoni...she don't give AF about Kamino or the Kaminoans or so she says.

That pissed Omega off. Just spilled the beans on her being a clone and being on Kamino when it was destroyed

Chuchi is really fighting for the clones and trying to get proof. It makes me sad knowing it's all going to be in vain😔

Once again..Echo PLEASE DONT LEAVE THE SQUAD 😭😭

✨️stealth✨️

Holy crap they actually got the evidence! Poor Omega has to watch that again though😔

Palpatine 😡

They threw Rampart under the bus!! Like yeah he did it aresst him!🤣🤣 I was not expecting that🤣...is Rampart out of the picture? Like for good? Can't be. Definitely not.

Palpatine blames the clones as well for follow Ramparts orders without hesitation. This gives him an excuse to pass the bill and make clones obsolete. Making way for stormtroopers.

The music! The music!

Everyone played right into his hands again!

Omega learned a lesson again. Just because you tell the truth doesn't mean the consequences are always good.

Echo: The fate of all clones are now sealed because of us!

ECHO IS LEAVING!! I knew it! They have been hinting at it this whole time but nooooo!!!😭😭😭

Omega: you can't leave! We're a squad a family🥺

Echo: I'm going where I'm needed

Omega: we need you too😭

Echo: it's not forever. Keep up with your training

Omega:HUG..yes sir🥰🥰😭😭

The music! The music!

The end scene with Omega hugging lula alone I'm crying man 🥺😭

The batch took Echo leaving in stride but I have a feeling Omega is really going to take Echo’s absence hard and I wonder how the rest of the batch will handle it. Maybe that's why she's going to tell Tech "We're more than that, we're a family."

I know they're going to reunite with Echo at some point because of the leaked screen shot of her hugging Echo again. I just wonder how long they are going to be separated for🤔 🥲

10/10 episode even though it ended on a sad note. At least no one died. None of the main cast at least.

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Blue Chapter 1

So I'm trying my hand at a multichapter OC x Canon fic and wanted to post the first part to see what people think.(I'll think of a better title later dont @ me)

This is the OC info

Summary: After numerous Traumatic events as a front line medic for the Grand Army of the Republic, Dr Izrin Voz takes a post on Kamino, wanting a break from the gruesome realities of war while still helping the clones as best she could. While there, she meets Clone Force 99 and gets involved with their aloof sniper. Pairing: OC x Crosshair

Pre-Echo to start off with, it's going to follow canon as best as I can with a potential divergent point. Eventual Smut. No relationships in this part, this is just giving y'all a bit of an idea about Izrin's character.

Pls give feedback because this is my firs time writing OC x Canon so I wanna know what everyone thinks. Thank you for reading my loves <3

Izrin took a deep breath before walking of the transport surrounded by various clones and other medical personnel. A permanent placement on Kamino was never something that she was really expecting, nor that she ever really wanted before now, but life is funny like that sometimes.

After long stints aboard different venator class ships, working among some of the best and bravest clones in the galaxy, after watching those same clones be marched to their deaths repeatedly while there was nothing she could do to help, she was ready for some routine. With one final look towards the pilot, she took her small bag of personal belongings and marched off the ramp with her head held high.

At the bottom of the ramp was a Kaminoan woman, beside her a small human girl. “You must be doctor Voz” the kaminoan spoke in the intonation typical to her species, voice soft and melodic as she inclined her head slightly in greeting “I am Nala Se, chief Medical Scientist on Kamino, you will be reporting directly to me during your term here. My assistant, Omega, will take your bag to your room.” She motioned towards the small girl next to her who gave her a small wave before grabbing your bags and retreating out of the rain into the building. “Come, we have much to discuss” with that Nala Se turns and leads Izrin into the large cloning facility on Tipoca city.  While walking through the winding, sterile white halls, the Kaminoan tells Izrin about her duties here on Tipoca City, while being quite overt in her displeasure about having an outsider involved in her operation.

This is fine, Izrin thought to herself, as she watched a young group of clones no older than ten or eleven walk down the halls, as long as I’m here I don’t have to watch them march to their death. I can help them in my own way. Nala Se stopped walking in front of a door, uniform with each of the other doors along the seemingly never ending hallway “This is to be your office. You will be examining cadets and clearing them for active service, should you have any questions, your comm has my frequency. I trust you will perform up to our standards.” Without another word Nala Se turned and walked down the long hallway, presumably to her own lab or wherever she worked from.

With another sigh, Izrin opened the door to be greeted with yet another sterile white room, fitted with two beds, a small desk with a terminal on top of it and various medical equipment. She could do this. She could.

The first few weeks passed by in a blur, wake up in her tiny quarters to the ever present Kamino rain, eat whatever slop was served in the cafeteria, check over various squads for anything that would stop them from performing less than optimally out on the field and repeat.

“Something on your mind doc?” the clone trooper she was checking over currently looking up at her with those bright eyes. The eyes of a man who hasn’t seen the front lines yet, the eyes of a man who didn’t know what horrors awaited him after he left the safety of the walls of Tipoca City. “Nothing CT-0216, still just getting a feel for how everything works around here” she smiled down at him before looking up at the readouts from his blood work. Another totally healthy clone, another piece of meat for the Republic to throw at the seemingly never ending waves of battle droids.  “Please, call me Cutter” he smiled.

She both loved and hated it when the clones would tell her their names. Knowing their names made it harder for her to send them out, to send them away from their safe haven. Knowing their names made it harder for her to forget the names of the other clones that she was not allowed to put in her mission reports, reduced to only their numbers, regardless of which Jedi general she served under it was always the same. Log the CT number as deceased and move on with the war. Swallowing the lump in her throat she looked down at Cutter with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes “Well Cutter you’ve got a clean bill of health, I’ll send your file through and you and the rest of your squad should be getting your first assignment in the next few rotations”

You don’t want this, she thought. You don’t want to be there, you don’t know what its like for you out there, but the look of fire and determination on Cutter’s face made her bite her tongue. This is what he wants she had to remind herself. This is what he was designed for. Thankfully, Cutter was her last patient of the day, having already seen the rest of his squad, she could retire to her quarters soon. She could log the rest of the files, forget their names and let sleep overtake her. Not long to go now.

“You’re a legend doc, I’ll see you around” she couldn’t help but smile at his enthusiasm, no matter how misplaced it was “You stay safe out there trooper” and with one final nod, he was gone. Gone but not forgotten. No matter how hard she tried she could never truly forget them, any of them.

Reclining back into her chair, setting her glasses down on the desk and running a hand over her face and letting her hair down from its regulation bun, Izrin fixed her eyes on her terminal. Not long to go now.

A chime at her door alerted her to a visitor, hurriedly pulling her hair back should Nala Se be coming to check on her, she opened the door to reveal Omega standing there with a bright smile on her face. Izrin couldn’t help but smile back at the young clone. Omega had such an infectious enthusiasm that was impossible not to share, she held up a cup of caf before walking over and sealing the door behind her.

“Did you hear? 4 more successful missions! They should be on their way back now! Maybe Nala Se will let me talk to them this time” Omega puts the caf in front of her on the desk before sitting in the seat opposite, fidgeting with nervous energy. “Omega, I don’t track Clone Force 99’s mission reports like you do, but I’m glad their doing well” she gave the girl a small smile before putting her glasses back on and sipping on her caf, slightly sweet just how she liked it. “They aren’t just doing well Iz, they are unbeatable! You should meet them, they are so cool” Omega was spinning slightly on the chair, a stark reminder that she was, in fact, still a child.

“Meg, how do you know they’re cool if you haven’t spoken to them?” Omega frowned and Izrin inwardly cringed, maybe that was the wrong thing to say.

“Well… I just know. I think you’d like ‘em. If they get back to base tonight, you could watch while Nala Se does their post mission check-up. She never lets me join; I don’t know why… But I’m sure she wouldn’t have any issues with you tagging along” her smile really was infectious, “And why would I want to do that Meg?” Izrin asked, eyebrow raised as Omega shrank slightly into her seat. Caught. “Well… if you meet them… maybe you could bring me along some time and you could introduce me” she was looking up at her with such hopeful eyes. Curse this small child for having her wrapped around her finger. With a resigned sigh, Izrin places her now empty mug down on the desk. “Alright Omega, if Nala Se lets me join her when they return to base I’ll see what I can do. But absolutely no promises, she is not exactly my biggest fan” and as though speaking her name summoned her to Izrin’s office, Nala Se walks through the door eyes training on Omega.

“We have much work to do Omega, please stop distracting Dr. Voz from hers” Omega looks sheepish but quickly gets to her feet following Nala Se out of the office before giving Izrin a quick wave. “See ya Iz, have a good night” The door swooshes shut behind her and the young Pantoran is left with nothing but a pile of reports to submit and her thoughts. Maybe she would meet this Clone Force 99, if for no other reason than to help Omega meet her brothers. The kid deserved some joy in life and if meeting these specific clones would do that for her then who was she to deny her. Izrin was never the best around kids, but Omega felt like an old soul, far too old for her age and it made her sad. Kids should be allowed to just be kids.

Hours later, the conversation with Omega having slipped from her mind, after submitting her final reports for the night and wiping her weary eyes, the sound of her comm chiming gives her a slight scare, the ID telling her that Nala Se is requesting her presence in the other side of the medical wing. Odd she thought, what could Nala Se want with her at this hour. With a frown and one final look over her office she makes her way to the indicated room, bones aching after working for the last 12 standard hours before standing in front of a door that looks identical to her own, hearing boisterous laughter from inside.

Of course, these must be the clones that Omega was talking about, but… she didn’t talk to Nala Se about them, maybe Omega had taken it upon herself to volunteer her for this. Shaking her head at the young girl’s antics, she inputs a code into the door and steps inside to meet the… clones? These guys didn’t look like standard clones, while they shared a few similar features, these ones all looked vastly different.

Doesn’t that defeat the idea of… clones?

Her attention was initially drawn to the source of the loud laughter she had heard out in the hall, a hulking mass of muscle clad in a Republic issue black under suit had a grey haired clone in a headlock. The former with a massive smile on his face while the latter… well if looks could kill. Scanning the rest of the room, she saw one with long hair and a bandanna, half of his face covered in dark ink, speaking softly to a clone wearing goggles with his head down in a datapad. Nala Se was nowhere to be found, leaving her seemingly alone with the clones.

The one in the bandanna turned to face her before addressing the rest of his brothers. “Boys we got company, quit messing around” his tone was authoritative, the leader of the squad by the looks of things. All eyes in the room landed on her, making Izrin shift uncomfortably on her feet. “I’m Dr. Voz, Nala Se instructed me to meet her here” she managed to keep her voice steady as her gaze flicked from one clone to the other.

“Yeah she said something about needin’ to do something else and that she sent another doctor down. I’m Hunter” he was definitely the leader, but she didn’t get long to think about it before the goggled man started talking “you are a Pantoran” he stated, adjusting his goggles. She smiled, stifling a slight chuckle “what gave it away?” the clone takes in a breath, looking like he’s about to go on a rant about the defining physical characteristics of Pantorans when he was interrupted by the grey-haired clone “tch she’s joking Tech” he says putting a toothpick in his mouth. The one with the goggles, Tech, seemed to deflate slightly before the massive clone with bulging muscles walked over “yeah ignore him, he can talk for hours about anything and we gotta get to the cafeteria before they stop servin’ food” he beams.

Hunter sighs, shaking his head “this is Wrecker, Crosshair and Tech, we’re Clone Force 99.”

Maybe Omega was right, maybe she did like these clones.

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wills/wonts

a list of things i will and wont do, take it as a guide on requests!

WILL DO - general

canon x reader scenarios

oneshots

stories (you can requests stories on their own or request stories through additional posts (making a part 2 and so on) from oneshots)

imagines

canon x canon ships though this really depends on the ship

AU writing

angst

hurt comfort

fluff

neutral, trans, nonbinary, masc or fem reader

qlw, qlm, qlnb ships

nonhuman reader/au

disabled and/or ND (x) reader

+child reader or parent reader (esp for the regressors and cgs out there)

prompts or tag games

crackships and joke fics

matchups

WILL DO - fandoms

transformers (prime)

the umbrella academy

critical role specifically c1 / TLOVM and c2

DC including young justice, comics, animated justice league etc

Marvel including mcu, comics, xmen etc

the owl house

genshin impact

tower of fantasy

star wars including prequels (ep1-3), sequils(ep4-6), clone wars, rebels etc

star trek including ds9, voyager, enterprise and so on.

little witch academia

shera and the princess of power specifically the one from netflix

wakfu

lego ninjago specifically the early content as im not too familiar with the latest seasons from nya being the water ninja onward.

Stargate SG1

Mortal Kombat

DND honor among thieves

HTTYD

resident evil

doctor who

terra nova

honkai star rail

legends of chima

WONT DO - general

proship content toxic, abusive, pedophilic and/or incestious ships are a huge no. i dont do adult x minor, i dont do bully x victim, i do NOT do yandere or anything romanticizing people with bpd or old.

smut i will not write sex scenes. i can write implied stuff but i wont go any further that that, i'm not comfortable writing that out, but i am fine with writing tension and flirting and stuff

real people dead or alive, im not writing about real people.

pr.gnancy(e) topics unless canon in a setting (like season 3 of wakfu), im not doing any of that. no x with child reader or anything.

no x oc while i may write fics with my own oc's im not comfortable writing for other's. (at least not unless we're close friends and i know the oc) most of my fics involving my own oc's are just me sharing their story anyway, usually not a romance canon x oc plot.

WONT DO - fandoms

bnha/mha

fnaf

youtubers

celebrities

hamilton the musical

Harry Potter

WONT DO - ships

perc'ahlia (percyxvex) just personally uncomfortable with this ship

reylo (reyxkylo)

lloyd x any of the ninja

kaeluc (kaeyaxdiluc)

any of the Hargreaves ships they may be adopted but theyre still siblings.

this is very prone to updates!!

i also do headcanon posts over on @/beecanons and a lot of the stuff there also applies over here!

if theres anything youre unsure of, please ask!

inbox does not close, request anytime, i just get to them slowly!

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#5

one of my favorite parts of im2 is how many times vanko has a plan that doesn’t neccecarily involve tony being there and then tony shows up anyways. like. these long-term plans vs tony’s impulse decisions and pure insanity.

like! he’s not supposed to be driving! he showed up in a racesuit less than like two minutes before the race was supposed to start! vanko was there to cause some chaos to draw tony out, he didn’t expect him to be driving.

and then the expo fight — vanko knows about the palladium. since tony is so close to kicking it (once again i am Convinced he was prepared to die the day after his birthday but that’s another post) i fully think vanko was ALSO planning on him being dead by the expo event. and clearly that was fine with him, since he wasn’t neccecarily trying to kill tony, but kill people at the expo and fuck up his legacy and memory (because you KNOW that even if it was hammer drones ™ ™ ™ the fact that rhodey’s suit was involved and it was at the expo and they’re shameless ripoffs would always make people associate that tragedy with tony)

except then tony figured out the new reactor stuff and, again, shows up anyways. and i think it’s very fun.

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#4

POV you are the race car driver who has just been removed from the grand prix at the last second because the guy who sponsors your car had decided that he wants to drive instead so now you’re sitting in a nearby bar, cussing him out over a beer when you hear people shouting at the TV, and look up and see some guy with lighting whips slice the car you were supposed to be in clean in half

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#3

i dont trust the idea of smart TVs but i think a really fucked up fun way to use them is for some company to make a sitcom, and when you watch the first episode it’s refreshing because the laugh track is really unobtrusive. it almost feels like there’s actually an audience reactions to it instead of pre-canned stuff.

and then you have to take a day’s break before the second episode and… hm, the laugh track is more populated. weird. the third episode is the same.

the forth episode it’s even more apparent, but it still feels more genuine than most, and one joke even gets a startled snort out of you.

you watch the rest of the show, a bit weirded out by the increasingly apparent laugh track, but otherwise it’s fine.

a couple weeks later, you watch it again with a friend. …don’t you remember the first episode barely having a laugh track at all? did they change the audio? that’s… weird.

you get to the 4th episode and the part you found the funniest

to your horror, you hear your own laugh in the crowd

91 notes - Posted March 12, 2022

#2

ghost ships don't really exist.

haunted ships, of course. there's fleets on fleets of haunted ships, still sailing the seas, still manned by their long-dead crew. but the ships themselves aren't ghosts.

see, ghosts have souls. ghosts are the remnants of dead things that used to, once, live. there's plenty of haunted forests, if you know where to look. ghostly trees intersecting with their children and their children's children, overlapping forests going back ages. but those trees don't follow their wood to the ships they're made of (if the felling of a tree even kills it at all, when the roots grow deep and send clones up through the soil, on and again and again, because trees are hardy and it takes a lot to kill one) and those trees don't haunt the boat when it sinks.

the spectral "ghost ships" many see aren't the ghosts of the ships themselves, and more a manifestation of the ghosts of the crew.

so. ghost ships don't exist.

or, at least, the didn't.

things changed after we started flying. ships and crews are ships and crews, built to sail on water or in space. those first specters -- even more ghostly set against starry backdrops -- were new, but not surprising. ships are ships are ships.

and crews are always crews. they're what make ghost ships so potent, more than any single haunting. it's the power of cooperation, of community.

(no one visits the ghost cities, wiped clean from the earth but still shimmering, mirage-like, from distant roads. too many dead, too many restless. ghost ships are, compared to those, quite docile)

and stories travel well enough. in those early days, there's few enough spacer's dead that all of them are known by name. ships are still named, as in the old sailing days, bold across their sides. you know when you see a ghost. you, likely, will know the names of those still crewing her.

the thing no one expects is when ghost ships start turning up that never held a crew. some that crashed, some that were abandoned, automated computer-run ships that had just enough adaptive programming to deal with most problems that would come their way. most of them.

ships that were, as horrible, as heartless as it sounds, that were expendable, because they were empty.

turns out? they were never really empty.

and-- we didn't know.

how could we have known? even i didn't know, and my contemporaries and i had been the ones who had built these systems. these... these AIs. we hadn't known.

that's not and has never been enough justification for forgiveness.

but we didn't know. we didn't know that those smart little systems we'd made and gave bodies in the form of bulkheads and solar panels and room enough only for cargo and sent out into space on journeys that could and would take centuries could... grow.

it sounds stupid when you say it like that. we'd built them to grow, to learn. just... not this much. gods, never this much.

because when those first ships had arrived at their destinations, when only some of those first ships had arrived...

they were alive. alive enough that they could feel loneliness. alive enough that they could die.

alive enough that now? all those poor lost ships we wrote off as expendable, all of them... they're out there, still.

and they are restless.

and i am so, so sorry.

1,199 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

march is such a fantastic month for holidays. we have MAR10 day, we have pi day, AND the ides of march. truly what else do we need.

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13 sentinels blogging #?? Finishing remembrance

what command ship in orbit?? Oof yeah fights are getting harder, kiddie gloves are coming off.

Juro: Shiba says 426 izumi is 3 times older than kurabe which fits in with him getting "killed" last loop at 32 and being born the previous one. So ida has aged normally he does look 32 but what about morimura she was 32 when she killed izumi and saved teen ida but she died that time. So where'd the current morimura come from either she is escaped the destroyed city and is 48 and the sprite doesnt show it, she got another clone and accelerated it's growth, ida was able to reconstruct her dat despite dying or i once again got the chronology wrong. Oh but there's also the ufo... I really need to go check the event viewer. And then there's okino who i cant tell if they've been using sector 0 or not. I take back everything, nope im just confused. Unless the prison scene happened before the he killed the compatible. Wait why is onishi here i though each loop every person is recreated in the same sector. Ok... Morimura was a student 1 loop ago... Oh i forgot that ida wouldn't normally age past 16 so when we see him at 19? 20? That must have been the next loop. Yeah i dont know when any of these events happen.

Ok so morimura WAS trying to turn kurabe juro into 246 izumi juro, got confused whether it was just 426 in shiba or if morimura was also trying. Morimura was already trying to recreate 426 izumi before kurabe juro ever found 426 in the android. And then kurabe tamao was the one to create the kurabe juro personality. I'm assuming this is android tamao, grandma tamao really is a wasted character but if an older version exists in 1984 why dont we see 56 year old versions of the other characters? Like older miura and hijiyama in 1984. 426: hey what if we changed the rules of the game so that we scored points for every kill, a meta prize. Damn this game because scored points from kills are how the neta system is upgraded. Wait that also means in the 426 izumi was the one that saved everyone because as seen in the final battle he did change the rules and now i can upgrade sentinels with meta chips. Wasn't sure for.. well even now if his method of saving the world would even work considering he also tried the kill everyone strat. Hmm this is the 2nd? 3rd time megumi, is 426 really the cat?? But that last scene from 2188 implies the cat is 2188 major izumi. 2188 juro war buddies with megumi's dad.

Time to sort through events. Right ufo okino died to get morimura and izumi out to sector 0. Next .loop they're undocumented and bomb shikishima's interstellar project. Oooh prison scene is earlier. Right morimura had to leave izumi behind so he got imprisoned as 426. Kaiju invade, morimura picks up ida and the other compatible. 426 izumi does the murdering. Morimura sacrifices herself to send ida to sector 0. Oooh I see the morimura of ida's loop was also sent with him that's how she end up 16 years "in the past" and also meeting up with ida. I see where i hot confused, forgot there could be multiple morimuras running around at the same time. The other part i was confused about was last time i saw the scene i still thought the two morimuras were the same person but no they're from different loops. So ida and morimura on sumire bridge are the current ones in the game. So it is 3 loops total: okino morimura izumi ufo, most of the stuff, the ida and morimura from the last loop but not the older one he was with in the current loop. Watched relentless nightmare again, sooo that means he failed to kill the morimura of that loop, that shot wasnt fatal because she then grts sent to sector 0 and the current loop. Rewatching reunion see morimura wonders if okino and juro escaped thats why i linked it with the ufo scenes but nope not connected.

Megumi: huh you saying that tamaobot was juro's "baa-chan' this whole time because that's who megumi made a deal with to live with juro. Cat is tied to juro's physical location, yeah wow izumi i think has more costume changes than morimura. So the "magic gun" expands the deimos' capabilities but why do that, unless only way to upgrade sentinels is to let deimos upgrade too an arm race... So was 426 izumi wandering around as an android AND a cat or did the cat only come after the android was destroyed... Or maybe the cat was plan B from the start. Gonna be real this is my least favorite romance so far juro shows no interest in megumi the entire game and it's only in this one scene where he suddenly loves her. To be fair his head is a mess with 3 set of memories and a new personality but still there like no build up or chemistry. Also this is the only scene where he has current loop's izumi juro's memories. Actually scratch that last sentence he does reference piloting in the final battle. Im not even against this romance in concept if anything in concept its really interesting but i didnt like how it played out in game. Maybe its the insomnia talking but does that mean 13 sentinels had catboys all along.

Shu: miyuki being tomi actually makes sense. History with ida who is the one chasing her communications, former live steam singer and last i know of she 426 stole her android body and rhen she because the AI of a sentinel in the failed battle of 2064. "We're genetically identical" is such a devastating insult coming from ida. Ida is such a control freak, says he loves kisaragi tomi but refuses to respect her as a person or allow her any automony. Sentinel 16 is outside the sectors in orbit (or what) inside the command ship i dont know what that means. The moment black suit put away his gun yuki should have grabbed ida's. Eh natsuno i dont remember this.

Ryoko: 426 set up the shifting gates? Gouto says that it was shinonone that gave 426's code to sekigahara that caused the dd426 infection in the battle of 2064. Ahh this is what i get for taking a break i dont remember why 426 caused the infection. Then what was it that ida had ei do to modify the sentinels in 2064? But the flashback reveals that ida wanted ryoko to secretly use dd426 to unlock the sentinels abilities and make them more powerful, going behind morimura's back once again. Ryoko puts dd-426 in ei's sentinel to prove that ida was right. Morimura fails to get the deinfection password from ryoko before she loses her memories. With the sentinels infected morimura gives up on using them which begs the question why are they used in the final battle is everyone just going to get brain damage? Dd-426 sounds like a precursor to the meta chip upgrade system so its possible the magic gun fixed everyone. How did ida get dd-426? Were they working together?

Tomi: ah so thats how they ended up cooperating she was blackmailing okino see this is why i like tomi. Hmm the end of tomi's story matches up with the begining of juro's. The orbiting command ship is an artificial satellite that presides over terraforming for the second stage of the interstellar development project but werent the sectors stuck in 3rd/final phase? Inaba can see all the residential ward system from space huh maybe we arent in the matrix unless the satellite is a part of it too.

[archer3-13]

Thank you all for all the asks, I encourage people incidentally to ask away if they like. I might not always have a good response but I try to generally have a response.

anyways im gonna answer ya annons together though cause theres enough of you all on generally the same subject that its simpler this way.

its the perpetual curse of the player avatar character in the fe format really.

They're about as into it as humans are really: generally not seen as okay/a societal taboo but some people are just really into it/Blaise enough about it regardless.

as for the point of the dlc, my best guess would be its there for much the same reason cindered shadows is in three houses: someone in management demanded the game have a dlc campaign/they started working on dlc as part of the usual development cycles these days but didn't want to make something directly tied to the main campaign for whatever reason. So, welcome to alt fanfic filler arc land where the stakes simultaneously dont matter/matter way too fucking much and can be conveniently ignored in the main campaign/story with ease. With that said from a story angle I do like fell xenologue more then cindered shadows anyways, but then I have a soft spot for mirror dimensions in fiction. the fell xenologue isn't as good as it could be even by those standards though.

I needed to parse the whole thing a couple a times to take the wall of text all in, but dont worry about it. what your saying is generally sound and its always interesting to hear how different fandoms approach the same thing in different or similar ways.

I knew people liked tsubaki and selena but I didn't know that one was the ship considered most cannon of fe14 selenas ships. Which as ya point out does make how she gives birth to her mothers identitcal [visually anyways] clone kinda funny in that context.

Honestly I just think its an issue of how fandom has so much purity wank going on in it these days, not even anything specific to fe. Its not enough that the blorbo is your favorite, your blorbo has to be a MORALLY GOOD PERSON too regardless of if the original text outright states that they arent a good person or not. Hence the oddly puritanical standards everyone holds characters too these days, like we had suddenly warped right back into the 1950's in terms of how mercilessly hard your judging your neighbour for having an unkempt lawn for.

I haven't engaged with the dlc characters as much compared to the main cast, so this isn't gonna be a 100% definitive answer sorry.

madelines a hard classic general, gregorys your inverse sage res tank unit with meh spd, zelestia is high on spd but average across the board otherwise, and nels the myrmidon to rafals mercenary. What ya see with their base stats is what your gonna get for them as units really. if your asking whos gonna be your most helpful, id say zelestia so long as you do the dlc early enough as their levels dont scale from what i understand.

zelestias got some chonky speed, and shes otherwise a mage knight on a flying dragon in her unique class with soulblade her class unique skill presenting some interesting avenues of exploitation in taking the average of an enemies def/res in damage calculations for swords. Give her some investment and I imagine

given the game was supposed to be released a lot sonner then it was, its not entirely surprising that the dlc came out so quick. I wouldn't quite say its 'era' is over yet mind, that simply depends on what comes out next and when.

With all that said, considering how fast it all came out I wouldn't actually be surprised if they announced a second pack of dlc if the first pack and engage as a whole does well enough. its not a sure thing but not impossible either.

I kinda wanna get a hint as to whats gonna come next though. Which is one of my bigger frustrations with is and fe really, i wish they communicated what they're plannin with the fans more.

I dont even think its ideas they're lacking in, its just a seeming reluctance on the koei assisted titles to release the additional maps the 3ds dlc ones did. all of the games since awakening have had an additional dlc campaign of sorts for instance, but in both three houses and engage they dont bother to include any of the gold or exp or weapon dlc grinding maps the 3ds games had, or try their hands at anything equivalent to the robust selections of weird dlc maps the 3ds games often hand like the festival things. engage i feel does better in this regard through the additional dlc emblem trials and campaign over three houses sitting with a dlc campaign alone but still.

i dont think your wrong.

given the trend of the mirror elyos having characters with opposing traits or aspects to their main counterparts, you could certainly head cannon that xeno sombron actually does come from his world compared to main sombron. I dont think theres any specific confirmation either way.

[beepbeepdespair]

stargrave update: HOLY SHIT lots happened. heres a summary. so first of all we got a new society member!! her names roman she seems really cool and she liked my frog earrings. anyway gork, the one that died, is off doing errands for death (read: the guy that plays him wasn't in) and we unfortunately did not crash when landing on the new planet which i think would have been a lot more fun

we met this guy called commander weiss and his soldiers and we all got new abilities from this daemon orb we got. someone got digital clones which is pretty cool. someone else has a nemesis now and will have a duel with said nemesis whenever they see them, and i dont really see how thats an ability but the guy playing him really wanted that so at least hes happy. mine is... well... beyoncé and shakira merged consciousness?? i mean its because the girl that plays her is hardly ever in but its still weird. anyway we share turns and abilities now and damage is equalised between us. oh and one more thing i have a butler now???

ok so when we arrived we were told there were several areas we could have control of which were all pretty decent except one which was awful because the buildings had been destroyed in a battle and the only survivor was this butler. we all had to roll and whoever got lowest had to take that area. guess who got a fucking 1 😶 anyway yeah that butler said hes gonna dedicate his life to defending me now and will help me in battle but also im suspicious of him because as soon as i got him the dm ran over to the captain and whispered something in his ear 😬😬😬

i think he said that my butler is a demi-something?? and when he was putting the figures away he said "ignore what the butler turns into" and i saw it and it had big wings but idk what it was. anyway i dont trust him but he's along for the ride now so. oh well. also we unanimously chose to support the humans in the war but i jokingly brought up the idea of beyoncé secretly supporting a different side and trying to sabotage the team which im not doing rn but. considering it

anyway some weeds, which are essentially zombies, showed up (i made the obligatory "can i smoke them" joke) but they got a 1 on their will roll which made them so incredibly slow that our dm said we'd have time to take our guns apart and put them back together, have a nap and go shopping before they got to us, which we did! well the shopping part at least

we had 35 loot from defeating that robot and void demon (got great satisfaction from knowing i essentially got that for us by finishing them off 😏) so 5 each. apparently we probably wont get the chance to go to a shop again for a WHILE so we just spent all of it. i mean by the time we leave this planet we'll probably have killed almost all the inhabitants so that makes sense- made a deal with the guy playing our ships ai hiem that if i got a tazer he had to get a portal gun which we did so im very excited to use my new tazer now. anyway yeah thats it for now

[icouldntfinditsoiwroteit]

Hi. I loved your kanan story.

I just had a thought for a fic starter, with female reader or gender neutral if your more comfortable.

What if just after order 66 was supposed to happen a young padawan, 12 to 15 years old was cornered by rex cody and wolffe, but she somehow escaped all 3 of them and their men. Maybe she had special jedi abilities that made her especially dangerous to herself in their eyes.

Fast forward to rebels era where shes with kanan in full armor with a Helmet and a fake identity. Things are going well. But then they run into old Rex, Wolffe and Gregor on Seelos. Despite her precautions, they somehow figure out who she is (could be voice, mannerisms or an old physical tick she never grew out of).

They snap right back into their "fatherly" yandere tendencies. And this time. They are not letting her go. They will take her, Ezra and Kanan. And they WILL bring them home where they belong.

With their family.

With the clones.

After all, the jedi must be kept safe.

(I know this is really long and you dont have to write it if you dont want to.)

Ok so this story will also be part of my yandere clones au, the reader belongs to the species Nakild, which is a species I made up a while ago, I haven't made a post about this species yet but will at some point, just to keep it short, they are a humanoid species with a long tail resembling that of a crocodile or even dragon, their scales cover a majority of their body, only their face, and stomach is uncovered when they don't let their beast out, letting the beast out is basically them taking the form of a dragon, the form depends on each Nakild just like the scales.

The color of their scales depends on their environment, making it so that most Nakilds that travel space have black and grey scales, but they all have a color since birth that remains in smaller parts for their entire life.

Also, their claws and hair are considered very important, besides them helping them to survive, they are considered sacred basically and cutting or ripping them off the way some people do to their cats is seen as desecrating their bodies.

"How do you think our new master will be like?" Ashoka asked as she paced around the small room in the ship they were in.

"I've heard many things about Master Kenobi and Knight Skywalker, I think they will be good," (F/N) answered thankful that they had managed to enter the planet and out of separatist fire as they tended to some of the scales in their arms that had been ruffled up before.

The reason for (F/N)'s squad to be called "lucky squad" is due to them picking names after luck amulets in a sign or camadery with (F/N) who is a runt.

Runts who grow beyond 10 are considered good omens and good luck to the Nakilds.

Anyway let us begin:

"In fact, we should be arriving in a few minutes, so you won't have to wait much longer," (F/N) assured as the ship began going down into the planet.

The ship began landing and they both quickly stood in front of the door.

"What can you see?" Ashoka asked.

"There is a group waiting in the landing port already, our masters are there," (F/N) informed as they used their eye visor to see beyond the sheep.

As the ship finally landed they both stood patiently in front of the door as it began to go down, letting the natural daylight in, Ashoka and (F/N) quickly went down the ramp to greet the Jedi.

"Two younglings?" (F/N) heard Master Kenobi say and held a breath in nervousness as they tried to keep their tail as neutral as possible.

"And who are you supposed to be?" Skywalker asked an R2 unit beeping in response.

"I'm Ashoka and this is (F/N), Master Yoda sent us," Ashoka began.

"We were told to tell both of you, that you must get to the Jedi temple immediately, there's an emergency,"

"Well, I don't know if you've noticed but we're in a bit of an emergency right here,"

"Yes our communications have been a bit unreliable, but we've been calling for help,"

"Master Yoda hadn't heard from you so he sent us to deliver the message," (F/N) explained as they looked at Ashoka worriedly.

"Great, they don't even know we're in trouble,"

"Maybe you can't relay a signal through the cruiser that just dropped us off," Ashoka offered.

Timeskip

(F/N) couldn't help but curl their tail around their leg as the communicator lost signal and the cruiser that had dropped them off had to retreat away from the separatists that had attacked them.

But soon both Jedi turned their attention back to them as Master Kenobi spoke.

"My apologies, we haven't been introduced,"

"We're the new padawans sir, I'm Ashoka Tano,"

"And I'm (F/N) (L/N),"

"Wait, why are there two of you if only Obi-Wan wanted a padawan?" Skywalker asked confused.

"I was assigned to Master Skywalker actually," Ashoka informed much to the shock of both Jedi.

"It is I who was assigned to you Master Kenobi," (F/N) added.

"What?!"

"Nononono, there has to be a mistake,"

"It's him who wanted a padawan," Skywalker pointed at Kenobi who looked quite amused, and (F/N) could tell Ashoka was also amused but they themselves couldn't help but feel nervous as they began scratching their head but stopped before it became too noticeable.

"No, Master Yoda was very clear, he assigned me with Anakin Skywalker who had to watch over my training," Ashoka explained.

"But that makes no sense," 

"We'll have to clear this up later, those droids won't take much to figure out our weapons," Kenobi pointed out.

"I'll go to Rex to see how everything is going," Skywalker said with disdain.

"Take her with you," Kenobi said with a smile as he prompted Ashoka to follow Skywalker.

*Good luck,* (F/N) wished in a purr only Ashoka could listen, this prompted her to send a reassuring smile as she left to follow Skywalker and left (F/N) with Master Kenobi who turned to her.

"I will need to inform Cody about this too, shall we?" Master Kenobi looked at (F/N) who quickly nodded.

"Yes, Master Kenobi,"

"Call me Obi-Wan, there is no need for any formalities with me padawan," Obi-wan gave them a smile as (F/N) stood there for a moment shocked before following after him with a relieved smile.

Timeskip

(F/N) took deep breaths as they ran down the levels of Coruscant, trying to lose the clones that had spotted them earlier.

*Damn it, I had to be impatient like always,* (F/N) admonished themselves as they made a sharp turn into an alleyway where they stopped behind a dumpster to hide and rest for a moment.

(F/N) took a deep breath to regain strength, thankful for the rain that also helped to keep their body from overheating.

*Okay, I can't stay here anymore, I need to get in a ship and out of here now,* (F/N) thought with urgency as they scratched their head desperately but quickly regained their composure and moved to stand up until the sound of footsteps against the water alerted them of someone being in the alleyway.

(F/N) froze as they lowered themselves to the ground, ready to pounce into the opposite wall of the alleyway to get enough impulse to get to the house's roofs.

"(F/N)!" A voice called out, a voice (F/N) was very familiar with.

*Cody...what is he doing here???*

"C'mon kid we just want to get you back to safety," Cody assured but (F/N) only huffed knowing the "safety" he was referring to.

"Please, your squad is getting more worried by the second, we're all worried," Cody called out again.

(F/N) then heard another pair of footsteps on the other side of the alleyway, (F/N) made eye contact with Rex, both froze like deer in the headlights but (F/N) didn't wait for him to make the next move, jumping towards the wall and in less than a blink in the hash roof with the rain once again soaking them completely.

BUt (F/N) didn't even get a second to assess their surroundings because someone slammed against them and tackled them, making the both roll around the roof towards the ledge which they almost fell off if (F/N) hadn't managed to get a grip on a pole, now (F/N) could see it had been Wolffe who tackled them, he was hanging from one of their feet with a vice grip as he also recovered.

*The hell??!?!?!* (F/N) thought as Wolffe turned to glare at them.

"This game has gone on for too long brat, unlike the others, I'm not as paci-HEY STOP KICKIN-BRAAAAAT," Wolffe screamed as (F/N) manage dot get him to let go of their leg before standing up and running off avoiding the other clones that had been close.

(F/N) kept running until they came to a halt slamming onto the railing that prevented them from falling into one of the floor's ship ports that went from the first level to the last, it was a very nasty fall, but as (F/N) looked around and saw that they were surrounded the fall became more appealing.

"Kid please, don't make this hard, I know this is scary but you need to-" Cody began as (F/N) turned around to see him accompanied by Rex and Wolffe.

"Scared?!" (F/N) couldn't help but ask in indignation.

"You claim to want me safe but you tried to rip my damned claws out!!" (F/N) yelled as they shuddered at the memory, it had been the last straw that made them run away.

"(F/N) please, you need to understand we were trying to protect you," Came the voice of Clover from (F/N)'s left side.

"Those claws have hurt you so much and you even used them to get away from safety, they are just a danger to you!" Acorn said beside him and (F/N)'s heart ached so much at the thought that the squad she had trusted with their own life would ever try to do something like that, they even knew the meaning of such an action from them, so why?

"Get away from me!" (F/N) yelled and ruffled up their scales as a warning as they let their body morph a bit more unto their full form as they hopped onto the railway, using their tail to keep their balance.

"KID!"

"(F/N)!"

They yelled but (F/N) only glared at them.

*It's either jumping or going back, and like hell am I doing that,*

"Kid, we'll stop with your claws or anything, just please get off that railway!" Wolffe pleaded and (F/N) had to admit it was quite the sight to see the stoic Commander Wolffe plead alongside no one less than Cody.

"We'll let you see Obi-Wan, just get down!" Cody tried to persuade but (F/N) had already made up their mind.

(F/N) then looked at Cody dead in the eye as they ruffled their scales once again but this time completely as they took a deep breath and jumped down, the last thing they heard was the screams of the clones, but for some reason (F/N) felt that they would be fine, after all, it had been the force that had guided them here.

Timeskip change of pov

Cody sat behind his desk as he filed datapad after datapad before the door chime went off.

"Come in," Cody said and the door opened and let in Lucky squad, or in other words (F/N)'s squad, Cody had always known them but by now he could probably tell if there was a single hair missing on their heads, it had been already ten years since (F/N) got away and eight years since they lost their track.

"Sir," They all saluted.

"What is it that brings you here, anything new to report?" Cody asked even though he knew what they would say and ask, they had poured their entire beings into getting (F/N) back.

"Sir, we believe you know," Rabbit answered.

"I believe I do, and if you do then what are you here for?" Cody asked wanting nothing but to tell them about the news, but he planned to keep it a surprise, he wouldn't admit it, but he had grown attached to them since they came here from Kamino to be assigned as (F/N)'s scout squad, he has always been fond of the names they chose, symbolizing luck just like (F/N) as a hole.

"Why did you planet-bound us?" Carp asked the most hot-headed of the group.

"Carp," Red pulled him back, even if it was clear he shared the same feeling.

"I'm afraid that with the recent attacks towards our cargo ships I had to move some of the troopers here to keep the cargo ships safe, but then we needed more troopers here, you aren't the only ones and this won't be permanent, just take this moment to rest I can tell you need it," Cody explained.

"With all due respect sir, but we don't care about our rest, we need to find and bring (F/N) back!" Acorn spoke up.

"Acorn, I know it has been hard on you after-"

"I was there sir, I should have done something!" Acorn interrupted and Clover stepped beside him in support since they had also been there.

"And you will, but you won't be able to do anything if you are exhausted, do you think you'll be able to do anything in the shape you are?" Cody asked coldly and ht squad seemed to sober up.

"So go to your quarters have a good night's sleep and report for duty tomorrow, you are now dismissed," The squad didn't put much of a fight under Cody0s glare and left the room.

Cody sighed in relief, he knew they probably resented him now, it would all be worth it to see their smile later, he thought as he took his comm out and read Rex's last message.

"We have them,"

A few days before

"We are not doing that!" (F/N) refused their scales ruffling up.

"I like this just as much as you do, but the information we need and there is no one I can trust this that isn't you (F/N)," Ashoka tried to persuade as (F/N) paced through the small room scratching their head in frustration.

"Why me, any of us for a matter of fact, they'll recognize us!"

"Not you though," Ashoka pointed out and (F/N) stopped looking back at the hologram.

"Your species changes quite a bit as they age, you have changed and if we put on top of that your armor and voice modification, your basically someone else," Ashoka explained.

"Not to forget that your armor and scales make it so that you can't be stunned as easily as anyone else,"

"Yeah but should I remind you that my species basically closed off their planet during the clone wars, there's basically one Nakild for at least every 100 planets Ashoka," (F/N) pointed out.

"How many people even figure out you're a Nakild?" (F/N) remained silent since Ashoka was right in that, no one had ever managed to figure it out, thanks to the armor and to a few force suggestions that (F/N) had implanted in the armor to keep people from noticing them for to long, nothing too noticeable, just to make themselves uninteresting.

"I feel like I'm going to regret this...what clones are we talking about?" (F/N) asked after a long sigh.

"It would be Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor," Ashoka informed, (F/N) remained silent for a few seconds as they just stared at each other.

"Well....fuck,"

Timeskip

(F/N) stood waiting where Ashoka had said the meeting place was, but no one had arrived and it was already ten minutes after the time they had agreed.

Even if (F/N) wanted to not stand in the open like they were right now, Ashoka had said that it would hint at their nature, so (F/N) could only sigh while their tail tapped on the ground as they remained alert to their surroundings until their heard footsteps approach them,

(F/N) turned around immediately and saw the three clones fairly you looking.

*The hell, don't tell me they found a way to reverse their quick aging!* (F/N) cursed and ignored the ache caused by the thought that once upon a time it had been something (F/N) had wanted to help and find.

"You the clones I was sent to meet?" (F/N) asked trying to calm their beating heart.

"Were you expecting any others?" Rex asked with humor that (F/N) didn't mirror.

"Who knows, any clone could be acting like the ones I'm meant to meet,"

"How about we cut the chase and get to the point," Wolffe barked.

"Aww c'mon Wolffe I bet this is going to be fun," Gregor offered a smile.

"I do agree, do you have what we asked for?" Rex interrupted them before they could begin to argue.

"Depends on what you brought," At this Rex pulled out a small box.

"This is all the coordinates you asked from us, you can check if you want," Rex offered as he opened the box where four data drives were.

(F/N) took one and quickly scanned it, the result is shown in their visor, showing no tampering, trackers, viruses, or anything, they did the same with the others and the results were the same, but as (F/N) scanned the last one they tried to scratch their head nervously, only remembering the helmet when they scratched it accidentally.

"Everything's alright, so here is the info and credits you asked for," (F/N) handed over the two data drives that they had been tasked to switch.

"Hey, weird question but your a Nakild aren't you?" Gregor asked and it seemed as if the world had frozen as (F/N) turned to him.

"What?" Was all (F/N) could say.

"Oh, it's just that your tail is clearly that of a Nakild, but don't worry I won't tell, I know how bad the galaxy is with your kind," Gregor assured with a smile and went back to looking around as if nothing while (F/N), Rex and Wolffe only stared at each other.

"Anyway, I don't have all day, are we doing the trade or not?" (F/N) snapped back to Rex.

"Yeah, let's do it," Rex said as they handed each other what they had come for.

"I thought Nakilds stayed on their planet," Wolffe commented.

"Well, my family left long before the clone wars, so here I am," (F/N) lied as they quickly packed the data drive and were ready to book it until a shot grazed against their should, tearing the armor off as the group went down to the floor as more shots were fired.

"THE HELL!!" (F/N) yelled.

"NOT US!" Rex yelled back but as he and Gregor began crawling somewhere safer Wolffe stopped them and made them look and (F/M) who was also crawling in the opposite way, but their shoulder was easily seen, alongside the scales in it that made Rex remember.

Flashback

"Rex rex rex!" Ashoka yelled as she ran up to him and began dragging him back to the cargo bay.

"Is there a problem?" Rex asked worriedly.

"No, but (F/N) just shed and you need to see their shoulders!" Ashoka assured as they got to the cargo bay where the troopers were meant to be repainting their armors, but instead, they were all huddled up over someone, probably (F/N) Rex deduce as Ashoka made their way trough until they reached the center where (F/N) sat clearly embarrassed beyond belief as everyone awed and complimented the scales on their shoulders.

"(F/N), I brought Rex to show him!" Ashoka said exited and (F/N) just covered their face.

"Ashokaaaa, I told you not to tell everyone on the ship," (F/N) hissed.

"C'mon, it looks cool,"

"Yes, it's actually very heartwarming," One of the troopers assured and the rest made a sound of approval which seemed to just embarrass (F/N) even more, but they finally let their hands down to show their shoulders.

Rex hadn't been very aware of it before, but he did know that (F/N)'s scales were mostly beige, brown with a few dark purples mostly in their extremities, but where there had once been beige scales, there now stood a mix of 501 blue and 212 orange scales.

Rex couldn't help but feel happy but also curious, had they painted them?

"It's just because they are colors I'm regularly around nothing else!!" (F/N) yelled and they all couldn't help to cue as Ashoka hugged the giggling.

"But aren't those permanent?" Ashoka teased and (F/N) just pushed her away while hiding their face.

End of flashback

Said uncovered shoulder had the same mix of colors he had seen all those years ago and Rex couldn't help but yell in worry as (F/N) managed to get to the other side and stand up like them.

"(F/N)!" (F/N) in fact froze and turned to look at him before darting off managing to avoid the blaster fire.

The three managed to follow a bit later but were able to catch up to their slumped form in an alleyway.

"I told you the sedative would work," Gregor said cheerily as he sent a signal to stop the fire.

"We're lucky that shot managed to get through that armor," Wolffe muttered.

"And that this was actually a Jedi," Rex added.

"Please, there are only 27 Nakild out in the galaxy right now, of which 19 are Jedi who managed to get away, which makes them be around the 28% of Jedi who have escaped, they are really crafty to manage that, so we obviously needed a way to knock them out with one shot wich is hard considering stun shots basically do nothing bu tickle them, so I got to work and-"

"What matters is that we got them back," Rex said interrupting Gregor and not letting him begin to rant as he kneeled and took the helmet off, revealing the aged and tired face of the little padawan Rex had heard Cody rant so much about.

*Oh little one, so long away from safety, but don't worry we found you,* Rex thought as he stood up.

"Help me get them to the ship," He said as he took a hold of their upper body.

"When did the damned brat get so big?" Wolffe asked no one in particular as he took a hold of the lower body, remembering when Plo had spoken so much of them and little Soka.

"Nakilds naturally grow quite a bit, actually this one is fairly small in comparison to the average one even for a runt," Gregor explained as he helped with the middle part of the body and the tail.

"Why are they so small then?" Rex asked as they walked.

"Nakilds grow during their entire life but hit their major growth spurts when they are around 15 to 20, they are only small if they are malnourished and don't get enough rest,"

"Damn, if we had found them before or if we hadn't let them leave, they would have managed to grow strong and healthy," Wolffe cursed as they finally got to the ship.

After they secured (F/N) and made sure they wouldn't wake up until after they got back home Rex relaxed and took his comm out to send Cody a message.

"Cody,"

"Yes?"

"We found (F/N),"

"What?"

"Did you get them back?!"

"Before I tell you I need you to not info the lucky squad,"

"Why, they've been going insane searching for them?"

"I want to surprise them,"

"Alright, I how long will you be here?"

"Three days,"

"I can get them here in two, so I guessing you have them?"

"We have them," This was the last message that Rex sent before he turned his comm off and dozed off into a pleasant sleep, eager to see the reaction of his little sibling went they see their Jedi, searching their tech could wait.