#repcomm doesnt do that

[verpineshatterrifle]

i have a theory that the massive amounts of hate kal skirata gets is related to the tcw-ification of the clone wars era and how it doesn't take the idea of being in a slave military all that seriously but that's an essay for another time

[captain-rex]

You can't tell me Jango doesn't care about the clones at all, he isn't a heartless monster that only cares about himself (and boba).

[lazerbang]

bad lip reading star wars songs commentary

because i legitimately love these songs and listen to them unironically. the verses are unmatched mad lib nonsense but the verses manage to be oddly deep.

bushes of love

every day i worry all day, about what’s waiting in the bushes of love something’s waiting in the bushes for us something’s waiting in the bushes of love

do you ever feel like you might get ambushed by a sphinx if you get too deep into an intimate relationship? yeah me too and this absolutely nonsense song manages to convey that feeling while ben kenobi assures you that he’s been there

SEAGULLS! stop it now!

this one doesnt have a chorus but i had to include it if im going to do a commentary on bad lip reading star wars songs. yoda introduces you to the inevitability of tragedy and the malevolence of seagulls

not the future

even though it looks like it's the future it's really a long, long, time ago when there were knights, and they got into fights using sabers of light just remember- even though some things look so familiar they're not really on Earth yeah, it's a galaxy far, far away alien DNA walking ‘round every day, and no one notices

perfect star wars nostalgia song. look at this masterpiece. 10/10 promise you’ll be sucked back to when you saw a new hope as a ten year old and spent the next month making lightsabers out of cardboard tubes. chewbacca’s soft background vocals really tie the whole thing together.

hostiles on the hill

twenty nights in the ice is a long time when there's hostiles on the hill it's not about what they want you just gotta walk your walk twenty nights in the ice is a long time when there's hostiles on the hill it's not about what you wear it's all about where you are

i can honestly imagine a really dramatic repcomm music video set to this. luke tells you not to let the bad guys affect your actions, just keep bopping along and send those atat walkers crashing down. (you are like cinnamon) 

it’s not a moon

they've got the ultimate power in the universe and before it gets better it's getting worse it's not a satellite but it can light up the sky when it blows

the bigger they are the harder they fall, huh? the worse things are and the bigger the tyrannical galactic power gets, the prettier the fireworks are when you blow up their superweapons. 

[verpineshatterrifle]

okay so your post abt alpha-17 and the other alpha arcs got me thinking (and im sorry for using you as sw google but in my mind you're Alpha Legends Lore mutual) who ARE the oldest clones? I feel like everything got... really confusing with a bunch of super secret REAL first clones getting shuffled into the order. is boba the oldest? in my mind it goes 1 boba 2 nulls 3 alphas 4 the rest of the initial clones that obi-wan saw in aotc but I have no bloody clue 😭

I AM HONORED TO BE YOUR LEGENDS LORE GOOGLE MUTUAL

ok so. sources probably conflict bc this is star wars, of course they do. what i care about is repcomm so we're just gonna go with that as our primary source with wookieepedia as secondary sources

first we gotta get some dates. unfortunately star wars doesnt really give months for most dates but years is still a starting place. these dates are all pulled from wookieepedia, legends page when applicable/different

also we're using geonosis as our date reference point since the timeline is honestly so hard to work with

order 66 happens 19 bby

1st battle of geonosis, 22 bby, the clone wars are 3 years long

boba fett's birth date is listed as 32 bby, meaning he was 10 at geonosis. cody, rex, ordo, fi, spar, and sull are all also listed with a birth date of 32 bby, so we're down to a difference of months here. essentially they're all the same age though- boba himself, troopers, nulls, commandos, and alphas

I REPEAT. ALPHA IS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY OLDER THAN THE CORE OF THE GAR. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. HE ISNT THE ONLY ALPHA EITHER.

but who's actually oldest? and is wookieepedia entirely correct? this is the part where i open repcomm and ignore everything else. i don't even know if anything else contradicts because i'm not checking

chapter 1 of triple zero, kal has just arrived on kamino. it's eight years before geonosis, and 2 years into the cloning program

(ALSO ITS SO FUCKING GREAT THAT THIS IS KAL'S INTRODUCTORY LINE LMAOOO <3)

he does see a lot of clone babies in gestation vats, just like we see in attack of the clones as well as cadets of varying ages- the kaminoans continue producing troopers through the entire ten years of the cloning program, so yes, the 'first generation' (clones deployed at geonosis) ARE older than a lot of later clones. but we dont really have a lot of those later clones as named characters as far as i know

anyways

the nulls appear to kal to be 4 or 5 (also peep jango apparently being legitimately shocked by them)

chronologically the nulls are NEARLY two, which probably means like 1 year and 11 months or something

(pause for me to cry about this entire scene, 'kal was instantly proud of all of them,' 'how would you like to be called ordo, he was a mandalorian warrior,' kal teaching them to embrace their fear as a mechanism their body uses to help protect them, but this is gonna be long enough as it is)

and then we have jango showing up with boba. no real indication of if boba or the nulls are actually older, but it's implied that they're very very close in actual age, if not the same age. we also get mention of the commandos and the alphas.

now, this is now just down to what i think and what makes sense to me. the whole point of the nulls is that they were experimental units- the kaminoans wanted to see if tinkering with the genome would be worth it, and ultimately decided it wasn't. it would actually make sense to me if the nulls were at least a year or two older than the rest of the clones- the kaminoans need time to see if their experiment panned out, don't they? but the nulls are also 10 at geonosis

while the nulls have been flash-trained and put through some trial runs at this point, it's indicated that the alphas and commandos aren't quite ready for training yet. this could be because the alphas and commandos are just a bit too young yet, it could be that the kaminoans put the nulls through training at a younger age than they're doing for non-experimental units. not totally clear

this is another point that is important to me: multiple times the nulls pass for clone troopers. i keep seeing headcanons of them being noticeably taller/bigger than other clones and while it is true that they're canonically slightly heavier, i think the difference is probably like 10-20 pounds, most people cannot easily tell the difference. ordo puts on corr's armor and just notes that it's slightly tighter than he's used to. mereel infiltrated kamino in trooper armor unnoticed, even while directly speaking to a kaminoan

here is my opinion on it: -the nulls and boba are basically the same age -the alphas were created next, but a few months after. by this point the kaminoans had decided (possibly because of the nulls' high mortality rate in gestation) that the alphas would be fully unaltered aside from the accelerated aging. the nulls' behavior 'issues' proved to the kaminoans that this was the right call -the commandos were created at the same time or shortly after the alphas. we're talking within weeks if not days. they have minor genetic changes to work better as a team but that's about it. -the troopers then begin production, now that the kaminoans have lots of practice altering jango's genome. heavy alteration for better social cooperation and obedience. -we're talking a span on like 4 months for all of this

you could say that ordo's gray hairs support the nulls being maybe 4-6 months older than everybody else, but i really think he is just that stressy, and there's also book evidence for clones actually aging at variable rates depending on how much stress they're under

quick note for omega: i think her existence is just insane and she's only here because disney was making a children's show and needed a child character (and girl so they can get inclusivity points), but i could see her being made anywhere from at the same time as boba to up to 3 years later. her wookieepedia page doesn't say, because the bad batch never bothered to give us any concrete information on... anything.

WE ARENT EVEN TOUCHING ON EMERIE. WHAT THE FUCK

[verpineshatterrifle]

Tagged by @arliganzey to post four of my favorite characters, and then let you guys pick which one I'm most like:

Kal Skirata: (my own art because i have NEVER seen canon art or fanart i actually agreed with about how he looks) my favorite man ever of all time. i am his defense lawyer. i want him to adopt me. i picked up triple zero today for a bit and giggled and kicked my feet and twirled my hair every time he was on the page.

Bardan Jusik: (also my own art because AGAIN i have never seen art of him i TRULY agreed with) 'verp you picked two republic commando characters' and you're damn lucky all four of them aren't from repcomm ok? bardan is my brother. he is my boyfriend. he is my son. he is my patron saint. he's an allegory to me he is a metaphor for everything he is my horrible little stinky rat man. i love him

Faramir: i went through lotr phases ok. first it was legolas because of course it was i was 12. then it was aragorn because of COURSE it was i was 15. and then my eyes began to open and i had a boromir phase. and then TRUTH WAS REVEALED TO ME and i realized faramir is in fact my favorite lotr character. everything i said about bardan applies to him except for the horrible stinky rat man part. faramir is perfect

Link (Twilight Princess): FORMATIVE TO ME. 'verp he doesnt have a real personality he's a voiceless video game character' HAVING A COOL SWORD AND DOING NEAT FLIPS IS A PERSONALITY OKAY. HE TURNS INTO A WOLF. LOOK AT HIS OUTFIT!!

...... shit i guess i like blonds.

NPT: @bones4918 @winterinhimring @viscanpikamine @zanabes @finerafin

[verpineshatterrifle]

RepCom fandom be like the female characters are all wives [negative] because there's something bad about being wives/mothers I guess? then proceeds to write endless brother-brother incest related content where the ships exist almost exclusively for the man pain. Fi repeatedly thinking or saying he wants a wife/family but forget Parja ship him with Sev because angst. The fandom loves to shit on both the female characters and KT so they should just admit they hate women.

the repcomm fandom is such a complicated hot mess.... i'm not saying kt is a perfect author, but her stuff really resonates with me, and its so clear to me that 90% of the fandom didnt even like the books

like, its been a few years since i started blocking the REALLY bad ones, and i try not to make a habit of hate reading but here's some of the impressions i got:

-almost everyone who hates kal is inserting things into his character that arent there in the books. i'm pretty sure they latched onto a religious boomer stereotype and are holding on for dear life. ive seen people claim hed disown his kids for being gay?? when hes never anything but accepting of his sons even if he doesnt get it??

-all the takes ive seen seem very Performative Woke, like you said theyll make wild off the wall crack aus and the most implausible fix-its. karen wasnt playing with that. in repcomm, bad things happen. every character has massively screwed up somehow. they keep trying their best to do what they can anyways. not to mention she called out the republic for the same kind of Performative Wokeness thats a big problem on tumblr- the republic is crumbling, rotting and using a slave army while they talk big about justice and democracy.

-i really get the feeling the tumblr fandom hates the books. and then they create based off of hate. and that sucks and it doesnt even seem like fun.

-i feel like part of the hate for besany is claims that shes nothing but a hot wife for ordo.... which. sure. if you dont think that the small things matter, if you dont think quiet commitment is valuable... besany represents the Civilian, the place most of us readers are in- angry about the army but no real way to help. i love her so much because she seized her chances to do something, to change what she could, even though most of the time she was scared spitless

-these books are a love letter to messed up people who care. literally no character is purely good, not in the classic star wars way, not even bardan, and thats deeply comforting for most people. but if you have a rigid, idealized, demanding, frankly radical leftist view, then its very, very uncomfortable.