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[aahsokaatano]

hello! I love your work with the Soft Wars EU (16 is canon to me now). do you think kix ever mentioned also being a CC adoptee or did he and rex like. run in to each other while visiting 16&17's house?

also just wanted to say how i particularly like the ways the alphas' naming culture is subtly distinct from the CCs/CTs in how they use their numbers or different names/nicknames with different people (like 44/medix/meds) that go beyond the normal -ika type nicknames! (which inspired the headcanon that fordo(a-77) and 17 both go by Sev when in the same room/conversation specifically to confuse people lol)

- redbean-nom

Thank you so much! 16 is actually @ninjatwins's OC, but I'm very thankful that I was allowed to include him in 44's backstory!

Regarding Kix, I think he was quieter about being a CC adoptee compared to Rex and Keeli haha but he never tried to hide it. That would have been pretty difficult anyways, since Brix is both his ori'vod and the 212th CMO in my world! So Rex knew about it long before the Vode went Home 😄

The idea of 17 and Fordo both going by Sev to fuck with people is VERY funny to me, especially since that is a canon character in... one of the video games or book series I think? I am not the most widely versed in those areas of SW media lol but I'm like 95% sure that there's a canon clone named Sev that I've seen people talking about haha

[redbean-nom]

When is the best moment to chase and catch the sun? I keep starting to run but it just goes up further in the sky and I have to keep waiting again, there must be some good moment to get it

from where do you hail strange anon. and for what do you ask this

anyways I'd say 6am on the west coast. or 7:30 in the winter.

[hinderr]

hello hopefully im not bothering you with the deluge of fathers son asks! anyways just wanted to drop in and ask - did grogu stop listening to din's recordings at some point in his sithification arc?

- redbean-nom

oh no buddy youre completely good with the asks i loveee reading your father son's asks!!!! they always make me start grinning. i think grogu would definitely like, taper off listening to the recording's the more he got into the "mission". he mmost likely didnt even realise that he like, stopped listening to them, but even if he did he'd probably chalk it up to just being so focused on the task at hand and not at all that feeling of guilt that claws up his spine every time he thinks about his father, or anything like that

[sesamenom-misc]

projie 2020:

projie 2024:

Funniest thing in the whole wide world is opening a completed fic and seeing the author’s note for the first chapter say something like “unlike my other fics, this will be a shorter one! Expect it to be complete within three months or so” and then you look at the stats and the fic is 100k+ words and took two years to finish

[sesamenom]

maglor with a lightsaber

(btw i started posting my star wars doodles over at @redbean-nom! definitely not leaving here but i did want to separate my star wars/dnd stuff for ease of organization)

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Do you think a clone (star wars) could defeat a first age elf (silm)? Me and my girlfriend have an argument about that right now....

Well... the clone has a gun...

As far as I know the silm elves are not immune to blaster fire XD. Even though Feanaro might be able to develop armor with is and then the clone would be in trouble. Hm...

@redbean-nom as the expert, what do you think?

[sleeping-ocean]

HELLO???

WHY DID I NEVER KNOW THIS

on spotify desktop app the star wars songs have lightsabers that change when you click on it and it changes the type and color!! editing to add all the lightsabers:

tagging moots @redbean-nom @sesamenom-misc @beachedsandcastles

the only thing that could POSSIBLE be better is the dark saber sword

[thefoundationproject]

apparently wac 47 is canonically a rebellion operative

(does vaughns show have an episode of oh-no's rebel pilot adventures :0 )

- redbean-nom

This is INCREDIBLE information you have just made my entire day!

Vaughn’s show ABSOLUTELY has an episode of 0HN0's adventures. It's probably the same episode with the ship's pets all being secret agents a la Perry the Platypus and doing all their agenting where no one else notices.

[wanderingjedihistorian]

hi! i saw the post you reblogged about fic backstory and now i'm curious - is there any specific event/detail you've thought of for soft wars that you never found the right place to add into the story? you're definitely one of my favorite soft wars writers!

- redbean-nom

I honestly had a whole list of additional stories I wanted to write for my corner of the Soft Wars sandbox. One thing I wanted to dive deeper into was the museum I had the Vode build on Concord Dawn and the different ways they recorded their stories and the stories of their fallen brothers. I think it would have been an interesting way to explore what preserving history and memory looks like for a group that never had the opportunity before.

But the Soft Wars muse is well and truly gone for me, and I don't see myself writing any more for that AU.

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Wow, I thought he was a sith for a second..., awsome art!

Darth Feanaro and his seven aprentices is not that bad of an idea, now that I think of it...

maybe in the old republic?

hmmm...

@redbean-nom, as the official star wars and silm combiner, what do you think?

May I present... Caranthir the Dark.

Also, this was so incredibly satisfying to draw, even if it did take just a bit longer than my previous works. Plus it's my best digital piece as of now, and I'm incredibly proud of it!😁

[hinderr]

hi! idk if you've watched tcw (spoilers ahead), but there's the arc where Angry Teenage Boba takes jango's armor and ship and embarks on a quest to get revenge by killing mace windu, then after breaking out of prison becomes the head of a crime syndicate (at age 12), starts a gang war with cad bane, and proceeds to spend the next 20 years bounty hunting and basically trying to live up to what he sees as jango's legacy. and anyways i have so many Thoughts about Angry Teenage Grogu doing the *exact same thing* - taking his father's armor, a replica of his ship, abandoning almost everyone in his quest to kill gideon, and after breaking out of house arrest he's started bounty hunting because that's one of the major things grogu remembers about din - !!! and it reminded me of that scene where he didnt want to paint his armor because din never did, and how he's trying so hard to be what he thought din was like, strong and fearless and shiny because that's what he remembered as a baby, that he's started losing sight of what din wanted *for him* - a peaceful, non-main-characterish life surrounded by loved ones.

(okay this ask is getting very long and i hope it all shows up right lol)

poor boba's probably sitting in the palace (speaking of, boba's like 70 now right? since he's 10 yrs younger than anakin who i think is about the same age as grogu?) despairing about how grogu, this kid he's raised and rescued, is making Every Single Mistake he ever made, how he tried so hard to be who people remembered his father as, the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, the jedi-killer, et cetera, and in that he only became the person jango was at his lowest, most depressed point, having pushed away everyone who ever cared about him, and how he only dragged himself back out after falling in the Sarlacc and spending the next three(?) years half-dead ;-; and now he's watching grogu going down the same path for the same reasons and he really doesn't want the kid to get mostly-digested in order to reflect on his life!!

but also he's about as socially capable as his rancor and he doesn't know how to explain this all to grogu, and now he left and isn't answering comms, and boba can only hope grogu doesn't push vars away too, because one friend is better than what boba had at that age, at least. and grogu's despairing over the 'clan of two' stuff and boba despairing over how he doesn't know how to tell grogu that he was literally in the exact same position, that jango died and he was left alone. and he doesn't even have his father's actual helmet anymore because he destroyed it in the explosion trying to kill windu, and the metaphors are so obvious!!

anyways just. the parallels here are heartbreaking, and i really do hope grogu de-sithifies himself enough to have an actual Conversation before boba dies, because boba spent 24 years chasing the echoes of his father's ghost and grogu's just started ;-;

-redbean-nom

I LOVEEE THIS ASK. THIS AND THE ONE YOU SENT PREVIOUSLY ALSO ABOUT YOUNG BOBA because you understand EXACTLY what i was going for!!!!! BOBA UNDERSTANDS. More than possibly ANYONE else he understands and he ALWAYS SAYS SO. Everytime Grogu tells him he "can't possibly" understand his grief, Boba's reaction is to almost always say, quietly, that he in fact can

But what Grogu needs isn't actually understanding. Grogu needs to accept. He needs to put it down. He's carried the weight of his father's death, LITERALLY with the helmet on his back, ever since it happened. And it's been preventing him from moving forward and growing and living. He needs to put his grief down and to do that he needs to realise to putting it down won't make him lose it (just like how he tends to fret over leaving his father's helmet outta sight for fear of losing it Grogu cannot imagine a life and a world where he is not drowning in his sorrow). Because Grogu has grown up losing and losing over and over that it's become a part of him. Unintentionally he's cemented himself as that kid who lost his dad

But he could be more. He could be more if only he'd let people in. Dream-din once said to him after he ran away that he was upset Grogu did that and "abandoned the people who cared about him". Because god people do care about him. But Grogu is so enveloped in his grief that he doesn't even know who he would be without it. Every time he thinks about a life after avenging his father he comes up empty

And it's delicious that Boba knows exactly what that's like. He's likely the person who'd understand the most but BY VIRTUE of being able to understand he's also had to live it and damn if it doesnt still hurt to think about, decades and decades after. Damn if Boba wasn't also shaped by his grief. Aurgh these two are so everything to me im so happy you understandddd YOU UNDERSTAND!!!

[thefoundationproject]

i've had an idea rattling around for a while, inspired by the friendship is space magic ending, where neyo, gree, and bacara drag maul back for The Jedi To Deal With. he is accompanied by savage, feral, and morley the talking snake. anyways eventually maul gets somewhat rehabilitated and the opress brothers are promptly recruited for boba's burgeoning Fullfall squad :)

- redbean-nom

That would be spectacularly delightful. Plus it would be hilarious to see an outside perspective on just how IN TO IT the clans get over Fullfall. Sabotage encouraged and all!

[overlord-of-fantasy]

I did not like my birthday colour, so I picked the beautiful colour of Thrawn's eyes. Here is a quick drawing of him and his five-head trying out Coruscanti make up, right bevore beeing forced to chop his luscious hair off. Poor guy.

Have fun drawing, if you want to: @lanthanum12, @curufiin, @atane-is-here, @thewizardblues, @thelien-art, @neldeathstar, @mmad-lover, @momo-t-daye, @stealingpotatoes, @essenceofarda, @fflewddur-feanorion, @gia-batmm-crickle22, @kindanathy, @numenhore, @redbean-nom and everybody else, who likes to draw!

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[thefoundationproject]

hello :) i was thinking about a soft wars canon au and anyways I had the idea that bacara and neyo (and the rest of the prominent priest cadets) are unusually chip-resistant because of their specific training - bacara through davin's make-and-breaks/particular brand of psychological torture making him more wary of the chip's orders being a trap, and neyo through priest's training specifically overriding the "inhibitor" part of the chip and damaging the overall control it has on him.

- redbean-nom

Ooooh that would be such an interesting concept! And seeing how the chip makes others behave so WEIRDLY would also make them extra suspicious. Sooo much room to explore there

[thefoundationproject]

hello! i just reread Return Volley and.

Colt leaves twelve foot bright blue horns to block Gree’s front door and invite too much attention from his neighbors.

this is even funnier after tales of the jedi because now we know what an akul looks like and it does not have blue horns at all, so *what exactly did colt deliver???*

- redbean-nom

Real answer: I had no idea what akuls look like

Better answer: Colt is a *troll* and at some point Gree is going to think about researching what one does with an akul and he's going to be VERY annoyed that what he actually has is like Torgutan angus steak of zero cultural reverence. And Colt is going to know he's annoyed and that will make him even more satisfied.

[thefoundationproject]

hello! i think you said ppl could send you random asks in a previous post so-

what's something you'd want to write (soft wars or otherwise) but never figured out how exactly to approach it?

- redbean-nom

Hello and definitely yes!

Fight scenes. Definitely, definitely fight scenes. Or I guess more like I'd love to write an action fic. Maybe a heist story! But the flow of action, a lot like the flow of a fight scene, really doesn't gel for me. I love reading them and I always think "ooh what if I did a heist scene like this!" But then I try it and hate it so much I bury it ....