#republic commando triple zero

[arliganzey]

bed chem.

(part two: juno.)

Qibbu’s Hut, entertainment sector—strike team operational house—early evening, 371 days after Geonosis

So … how long does it take two squads to finish their meals in the bar?

Long enough, I think.

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After a hot shower, Etain and Darman fall back into bed, both sated and exhausted. Darman brushes Etain’s wet hair out of her face and pulls her into his chest. As long as they were alone, he would steal as much of her as he could.

Etain takes a deep breath, memorizing the way Darman feels—the firmness of his body against hers, the strength with which he holds her, and the peaceful way his mind comes to rest. He is a glowing light, bright and warm like a campfire at full burn.

The future is as inevitable as the turning of the galaxy, but for now, Etain basks in Darman. She looks up from where she’d curled her face into his chest to find him staring at her intently.

“What?” she grins.

“I’m counting your freckles.”

“Counting my freckles? Why?”

“Someone’s got to,” he insists.

Etain giggles, running her fingers over his shoulder. “How many are there?”

“At least ten.”

They both break into a fit of laughter. Etain rolls onto Darman, lying on him like a big pillow, and stares down into his face. They’d already made love twice and three times would be too much, not to mention surely the others would be back soon.

She kisses him anyway with nothing more than a brush of her lips. “Now how many?”

“I’m up to twenty-nine.” Darman grazes her skin with his fingertips, making idle shapes along her back, and if Etain doesn’t concentrate on his mind, then she can let the randomness of his touches cause a shiver.

They keep pausing to stare at each other, and Etain continues to marvel at how different he is from his brothers. It’s in his eyes, and the way he smiles, nothing at all like Niner or Fi or Atin or any of Delta.

Darman’s head rests back onto the pillows. Etain is staring at him, and he isn’t used to someone who isn’t one of his brothers paying such close attention to him. “You don’t have to read my mind, you know. You could just ask.”

“I wasn’t—oh, Darman.” Etain sits up.

And Darman flinches, realizing he’s said something wrong based on the way she frowns. “I didn’t mean it like that.”

“I know.” Etain smiles, a little sad to think her Jedi-ness would always be strange to Darman. “I was only admiring your eyes.”

“My eyes?” Darman’s brow knits. He thinks she’s the one with eyes worth admiring, green with flecks of amber.

“Mhm.” Etain brushes her hand over his forehead. “And your nose.” She follows the bridge of his nose. “And your lips.” Her index finger lands on his lips, one of the softest parts of him.

Darman flushes. There is a joke in there about saying he’s one of a kind. He forgets to say it as Etain traces the line of his mouth.

Her hand goes lower, down his throat, over his collarbone. When Darman locks eyes with her darkened gaze, he doesn’t have to read her mind to know what she’s thinking.

[ahsokahearteyes]

Is it just Something Wrong With Me that I read the “nice uniforms” comment from Fi as kinda horny for firefighters or was this some kind of uniform envy???

Further, I think when most people think “hot firefighter” they think of guys (or just image search hot firefighter; it’s mostly men).

My theory/headcanon is if this is meant to be a suggestive joke about firefighters in uniform, it would be assumed to be about brave hot dudes with their jackets unzipped and washboard abs on display. but Fi actually just heard this joke in a holo-sitcom and is repeating it with no knowledge of that detail. Like when someone repeats a joke they heard on Seinfeld that doesn’t make sense outside of New York City lmao

[itsagrimm]

Everyone: Ordo is so cool and dangerous and unpredictable. HELP. He has a gun. Etain, a force user: Ordo is just stress and PTSD in a trench coat with daddy issues. So sad. Ordo: "You know what, Etain? At least I have a dad. Fuck you."

[nocturius8015ficore]

Go listen to his cool reading! 🤩🤩🤩

Today is chapter 13.2 and 13.3 from the second book Triple Zero.

[hellfiresky]

My favourite part of Triple Zero so far. RPC? MRU? In the fuckin DWANG?

[kodicrome-212]

I like Etain but she also reminds me one of those middle/high school girls who has had a boyfriend for under a week and is already planning their wedding and how many of his children she’s gonna have.

Like girl, I know his lifespan has been shortened but please just calm down for a minute.

[comicchannel]

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[singsofecho-misc]

"And they looked four or five years old, but Orun Wa had definitely said they were two. Skirata suddenly wanted to ask them how long they'd spent in those awful suffocating transparisteel vats, cold hard tanks that were nothing like the dark comfort of a womb. It must have been like drowning. Could they see each other as they floated? Had they understood what was happening to them?"

[nocturius8015ficore]

Kal Skirata, Jango, Orum Wa and the Nulls (by me, Nocturius)

Nocturius: Oh crap, I thought I've already shared that one here, but, hey, enjoy!

It's a piece I made on Krita last Winter. It feel aaaaaaaaaaaaages ago since do RC and TBB content (well... mostly memes tbh) on a regular basis.

It took me over 50h to do. 9 characters, Tipoca City and the work of light and storm. That was an hard one for sure! Still not 100% happy with the perspective, shading and composition but that's a ''me'' problem as an artist. I tried hard to respect the books description and also material from The Clones Wars and Attack of the Clones for the visual as reference pictures. I found some useful concept art online too. That was a very formative project. I think it was the first time I did piece directly on Krita instead of scanning a sketch. I was getting more confident with my stylet and wacom!

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Here some WIP, for the funzies.

Go well with that fine fan-made audiobook reading of that exact scene! (no need to have read the first book to enjoy ^^)

[galaxyofjedi]

Re reading republic commando I love this man so much he knows his brothers so well 😭😭😭

[kodicrome-212]

FUCK Walon Vau man, idfc that he’s got a Star Wars dog that he loves more then anything in an attempt to humanize him. I think that Atin should get to stab him repeatedly, you know as a treat.

Kal is a problematic old man that I love but Walon is a problematic old man that I hate

[arliganzey]

Kal sending Zey a meeting request on Outlook then giving his son a big smooch is why Triple Zero is my favorite in the series

*｡٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧*｡

[roseaesynstylae]

Alpha-17 being a mother hen to the other Alphas* is something we need to see more. Jangotat survives because Alpha stomps in, shrieking obscenities, and drags his ass away, pausing only to yell at Obi-Wan for daring to put his little brother in danger (nevermind that that's what they're currently supposed to do). Maze doesn't tell him about Ordo punching him because if he did, Alpha would make sure the body wouldn't be recognizable as a corpse. Muzzle and Fordo don't get that brotherly overprotectiveness because they're just as prone to mother-henning as Alpha is. On their days off, the three of them team up to make the lives of anyone who dares fuck with their siblings hell.

*Specifically the Alphas that serve the Republic. Do you really think Mr. "They grow up loyal to the Republic or they don't grow up at all" would be at all sympathetic to Sull and Spar's reasons? The best case scenario is that he tells them that he's pulled some strings (read: blackmailed and threatened) to get them back into the GAR scot-free and if they do not accept it he will break their fucking limbs and drag them back.

[starwarsanthropology]

They were not fighting.

[arliganzey]

Re: Zey's giant lightsaber. I started poking around Wikipedia a bit. I thought Makashi would be a lightsaber form that might lend itself to using a 'greatsaber' (WHICH EXIST, KINDA) but I think Makashi sort of implies more of a fencing/epee style. I looked up some videos. My limited knowledge of two handed/greatsword fighting is a lot of the moves rely on using a crossguard, and I don't see any Jedi having the gall to have a crossguard in this era. Especially not Zey. But still! It's cool!!

I do think Maze and Zey develop a close relationship during the war. Maze knows Zey as "General Zey" and Bardan knows his former master as "Jedi Master Zey", and obviously Bardan starts to drift during the war and he no longer has as close of a relationship with Zey.

But yeah we don't really get a lot about Maze's thoughts on Zey prior to Order 66--he goes from punching Ordo for interrupting Zey's meeting (Triple Zero) to him telling Ordo he doesn't like that Zey disagrees with the Chancellor/Republic (Order 66). A lot of it is foreshadowing so the audience has enough to believe Maze goes through with Order 66 for the BIG REVEAL in 501st that he doesn't. But Maze goes HARD for Arligan when they get to Kyrimorut, so even if he saved Zey based on him being "nice" and making caf, I think Maze and Zey got even closer going through the Ordeal.

Like... I headcanon after Maze pretended to shoot Zey, he somehow managed to drag his "body" out of HQ to a transport or whatever, and that's how they got out. Zey was super beat up from having escaped the Temple, and nobody probably questioned an ARC trooper moving a Jedi body? Anyway. Trauma bonded for sure.

Do you have thoughts and/or headcanons about Arligan Zey you would like to share? 👀👀👀

YES I WOULD LOVE TO TALK ABOUT ARLIGAN ZEY THANK YOU FOR ASKING

I have a lot of thoughts/hcs, but for now, sticking to my most canon-related ones:

Basics: I think he’s around 49 years old, 6’4, and built like a truck. I imagined he’s pretty clean cut at the beginning of the war and stops caring by the end of it since his hair is described as “shaggy” in 501st. Krad did a really great little comic with Zey and Bardan way back when I was RPing Ordo on tumblr. (circa 2015, wow!) But I'm imagining him younger than that now.

It’s literally nowhere in the books but I feel like Zey deserves to be kinda handsome. That’s my little headcanon treat.

Since he’s a big guy, I think he has a massive lightsaber (SHHHH WITH THE JOKES I KNOW HOW THAT SOUNDS) and wields it with a greatsword style that I am manifesting into lightsaber combat existence.

I have soooo many thoughts about his relationships with Bardan, Etain, Kal, and Maze (and Vau) but they all could probably go in their own separate posts. I really like the 'shssh don't let dad know' energy Zey brings to the story, and the fact that he's only seen through the rest of the cast's perspectives and they all have different takes on him. He gives me professor vibes in the beginning and then someone who's at the end of his fucking rope by the end of it. And I'm obsessed with the fact that Maze saves him and sneaks him to Kyrimorut. A lot of the Skirata gang have mixed feelings about him, but Maze (and Bardan) make the call to save/help him and I just think that's neat.

[verpine-art]

Republic Commando: Triple Zero