#really enjoy how literally every snippet i found for neyo makes him sound like the worst human being imaginable

[yellowocaballero]

i am eagerly awaiting the no chip au and frothing at the mouth with excitement i Love the original and it sounds like you are increasing the things i liked about it (characters are uncool jerks sometimes shfkfkdks) (in realistic and logical ways considering their history)

It's cool to know that was what you liked about it! That was also very much the compelling part about it for me too. I think I eventually ended up finding the No Chip thing much, much more compelling than the original story because it forced every character to take accountability for their actions. In Roleswap, Ben's PTSD and trauma was experienced as if the clones had done it purposefully, but of course they hadn't. It left everything wrapped up kinda neatly. The situation was nobody's fault but Palpatine's. But in the nochip thing, we're left wrangling with. The entire complexities of human behavior.

There's a lot of different reasons why people believe what they believe, do what they do, and commit atrocities while they're at it. I ended up going a lot into the many, many different reasons that people do the wrong thing while knowing that it's wrong. Daddy issues, mostly, jakldsfjlasdf. But also everybody has a different perspective on it. Rex, Bly, a nd Neyo in order:

They all suck. Like, they are all acting like horrible authoritarian fascists. But it's all for such different reasons. Cody's an authoritarian because he thinks it'll protect his little baby, Rex is an authoritarian because what if the authority is super cool and awesome?, Bly is an authoritarian because that's how found families work right, and Neyo's an authoritarian because he has anxiety. Very, very different motivations for the same result. Fascism.

Very excited to post all of it!!