#sometimes its maintenance and sometimes its the pilot and very rarely shit just HAPPENS
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seeing your special interest get mainsteam attention and people are getting the details wrong... eye twitch
#boeing sucks for a lot of reasons but not all plane problems are the manufacturers fault#sometimes its maintenance and sometimes its the pilot and very rarely shit just HAPPENS#dont get me wrong theyre fucking up a lot its just that unrelated fuck ups are also getting a lot of attention...#like the panel thing that happened yesterday... the model was introduced in 1997 idk how old that specific plane is but probs at least 10#THAT panel falling off is almost certainly due to the age of the plane#the alaska airlines door thing is a big deal because it was a brand new plane so we KNEW FOR A FACT it was a manufacturing problem
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hullo pls can you tell me about your clone ocs?? any and all of them would be just lovely :D
Lieutenant Six! Heās a supply officer in Coruscant Guard Aviation Support Squadron 66. (They handle logistics and are also an OC squadron! So they donāt have pilots but deal with maintenance, parts, ordnance, etc..) Conveniently heās CT-60-3102 which also adds up to six- twice. He likes making the kind of jokes that are usually way too obvious for most people to actually make, indulging in clone humor, and has a very optimistic personality. Heās creative with language (and chewing people out lol), but does not excel at lateral thinking and is routinely defeated by bureaucracy and his inability to think outside the box, (but thatās what he has friends for.) Very nice guy, will absolutely go out of his way to help you, but struggles with coming up with creative solutions on his own.
Trooper Eyes-up! Heās on the younger side and also in the Coruscant Guard where he works at the detention center. He got his nickname in veryĀ unfortunate and embarrassing circumstances wherein commanders Fox and Thorn caught him doing something he absolutely should not have been doing and told him to bring hisĀ āeyes up here, shiny!ā So they gave him his name which heāll never live down. Heās curious, enjoys reading, and is prone to pushing boundaries when he shouldnāt. But heās also honest and owns up to his screw-ups and is kind of resigned to routinely getting shit for the nonsense he gets himself into, but people love him for it because the fallout is amusing. He was unfairly blamed for bringing granite slugs into one of the barracks (which then proceeded to eat the duracrete walls and cause a problem that only flame troopers could ultimately fix.) Heās good at reading people emotionally but his risk vs reward calibration is a little off. In worlds where Order 66 happens, Eyes-up never participates though the rest of his unit does- this is because his latest screw-up put him on SUFR duty (āsweeping up the fucking rainā), Fox telling him to stay outside in the rain and keep sweeping until it was completely dry. Well the ground was still wet when Order 66 was activated, and Eyes-upās visceral fear of upsetting theĀ commanding officer of the entire Coruscant Guard overrode his in-built compliance with Order 66, so he stayed and swept up the rain while his brothers went on to worse and darker things. :(
Corporal Corr: the Coruscant Guard Corpsman who āmysteriouslyā has not managed to promote to sergeant (and likely never will....š) He works under Thorn in the Diplomatic Service, is a great connoisseur of alcohol, and goes extremely hard for the Coruscant Guard (and nurtures a rivalry with 501st guys whenever they go planet-side for whatever.) Heās very serious about the concept of CG brotherhood and becomes a fixture in Diplomatic Service initiation rites (where shinies areĀ āofficiallyā inducted into the group after their first milestone) to the point where he pretty much leads them. Part of this involves shinies mixing a drop of their blood into red paint, and then their older brothers in the CG mix in their own blood as well. The ex-shinies then use the paint for their armor. Corr has been implicated in brewing his own barracks moonshine which Fox and Thorn let him get away with just long enough to let him finish the process so they could see how good the final product actually was when they confiscated it. Corr also has an agreement with Toast clone, where he trades alcohol for the bread that Toast makes in a crematorium oven thatās non-operational on official records but which is very muchĀ operational in a hushed, practical sense. (He also has Toast score the bread surface with the pattern of the CG symbol because he canāt help himself, and has tattoos of the CG armor armbands and legbands actually over his arms and legs. Some might describe Corr as overzealous, but he believes you need passion and strong bonds in life or you have nothing. [This guy is also kind of a joint OC with my friend who runs a Coruscant Guard blog here!]
Are you sick of the Coruscant Guard yet? Well I have 12 more guardsmen alone where this came from and 13 if you count this next guy; I wasnāt kidding when I said I had half a platoon worth of OCs.Ā
Kov, rank to be determined, pronounced likeĀ ācove.ā (I might change the spelling to better reflect that.) Heās in one of the Special Tactics Groups of the Coruscant Guard, a unit which I made up to work kind of like a SWAT team. He and his STG are also part of a designated force that can respond extremely quickly to developing situations and get there first to deal with the trouble before anybody else comes in. His STGās motto isĀ āmade to kill, decanted to dieā and he has a target tattooed over the side of his face to go with it. (They get shit from non-CG and units that think all they do is give out parking tickets and stand around looking pretty in the Senate building- these guys very much do notĀ do that.) His face is very expressive, and heās decisive, straightforward, and unfortunately comes off as kind of low on empathy. He wants people to see him as very pragmatic though heās actually rather idealistic and kind of naive about certain things. He and his best friend are very interested in plants- Kamino didnāt have any, and theyāre generally rare on Coruscant. Thereās something calming andĀ āconstantā about them that he enjoys. He likes taking photos of the ones they find together and looking them up later to learn about nature/biology. Kov learns he really likes children, but is uncertain/a little afraid to let himself interact with them because heās worried about what sort of influence heād have on them (and on a deeper level whether heād learn from them that heās not actually the person he thinks he is or tries to be.) He and a Twiālek woman who immigrated from Ryloth sort of fall into a relationship without meaning to, and they both learn a lot from each other and grow as people. (Iām planning on having her take him to a botanical garden that he had no idea existed, and sometime during their visit he realizes he loves her even. He has trouble putting it into words in his mind, but he definitely knows.)Ā
Okay last one, Iām sorry! :(Ā
Lieutenant Rakia of the 212th, part of Slickās direct chain of command. He goes through Geonosis with his best friend and batchmate Arak. When they were cadets on Kamino, and Arakās helmet saved his life during a training accident but was partially shattered, and Rakiaās random compulsion to bend down and pick up a shard of the helmet inadvertently saved his life too during this incident. Arak and Rakia kept the small plastoid chunk, carved designs over its surface, and exchanged custody of it for years. Before Geonosis Arak gave it to Rakia. Rakia survives but somehow canāt find the chunk where itās supposed to be in his utility belt, like it just disappeared, and Arak goes missing and is presumed KIA during the battle. On a deep internal level, Rakia has similar realizations to Slick, but because his personality is different he takes that in another direction. He doubles down on a deep trust and faith in the Republic and the Jedi because heās subconsciously afraid of what it means about his life and purpose if those things are notĀ the things he should believe in. He sees that theyāre all cogs in a machine, but his response is that thatās a good thing. He finds something very personally significant about the idea that all those tiny cogs come together to become something much bigger. So his own internal tendencies towards a collective approach and trusting the leadership he was instructed to trust all his life just get kicked up to higher levels after Geonosis in the face of his anxieties.Ā Ā
In normal speech heās casual and kind of playful, but when he gets angry he becomes overly explicit/didactic about things and snaps a lot to the point where he can be condescending even without meaning to be. Rakia has an artistic side but doesnāt get to explore it much at first. Heās clean-shaven and lets his curls grow out a bit because he likes how he looks that way, but otherwise looks like everyone else and doesnāt want to visually distinguish himself from his brothers too much besides the slightly longer hair. He wants to be someone others look up to and tries to ignore/deny parts of himself that he doesnāt feel fit that ideal image he wants others to see. Part of that ties into him really struggling with grief but not even allowing himself to contend with it and find closure, stuffing it back down and ignoring it to negative effect. It also ties in to him resisting discovering himself as an individual beyond a certain point/his comfort zone because heās afraid that will isolate himself from his brothers, but resisting that (and continuing to deny his grief/keep it bottled down) ends up doing that exactly, leading him to feel cut off and alone in certain ways that compound the problem in a bad spiral. (He gets out of it, I promise.) So because Slick is busy developing his own radical ideas and solutions which he can tell no oneĀ about (on top of feeling like heās the only one whoās cottoned on to something nobody else can see,) thatās isolating too, and he and Rakia understand each other a lotĀ better than they think they do in some respects, regardless of their disagreements.Ā
I know you didnāt ask for a six paragraph essay. Sorry I just really love these guys.š
#my stuff#my writing#asks#Rakia is an alcohol from the Balkans and Central Europe#Arak is an alcohol from the Near East/nearby regions#I don't really even drink but I liked those names so I made them into clone names#and made them batchmates#I love Rakia so much
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