#tay rewatches the clone wars for therapy

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Favorite sibling moments that made me fall in love with The Bad Batch during their TCW Arc - "The Bad Batch"

Just their entire intro scene

Crosshair's subtle smiles as Hunter introduces them and brags about their abilities

Crosshair's not subtle smile as Hunter brags about him 😭

Tech's excited smile as he listens to Hunter

Hunter's entire tone as he introduces his brothers

Hunter's fond smile as he watches Wrecker butt in about the Yalbec

Tech bursting in on the middle of Hunter scolding Wrecker to dump his Yalbec facts causing Hunter to tiredly shake his head

The tired "I'm so sorry he does this all the time you get used to it" eye Hunter throws at the regs followed immediately by another fond smile

Tech sizing up Jesse as he talks back to Crosshair

Hunter keeping Jesse back, defending his brother while simultaneously being like "i know he's a dick, but he's our dick so just leave it"

Crosshair snarkily bragging about Wrecker to the regs and his smug proud smile the whole time

The casual stances the Batch all take as Wrecker gets Cody out, complete confidence in their brother to move an entire gunship to get the commander out

"That blast gave away our position" "Huh, thought getting shot down gave away our position" Sibling 101: sass each other even in the face of a battalion of droids marching on you

"Hey Crosshair, look! This little clanker likes you" as Wrecker shoves a droid head in Crosshair's face

Crosshair's "Grow up, Wrecker" (literally what siblings haven't said this to each other at some point????? I still say this to my siblings and we're all 30-40+)

Tech's eye roll watching the exchange, and then Wrecker turning around and annoying him with the droid head just for Tech to throw the glare of glares at him

Crosshair and Wrecker chatting at the camp and Wrecker laughing at whatever Crosshair said

Tech's very pointed and very quick defense to Hunter's senses when Jesse and Kix are picking fun. The look he throws at them saying "talk more about my brother I dare you"

Wrecker absolutely loving Crosshair instigating a fight with a freaking captain (seriously, his face is so smug behind Crosshair like Wrecker, your brother is sassing a commanding officer, calm it down)

Wrecker jumping in as Jesse moves toward Crosshair

Crosshair wrestling Kix for no reason other than to let Wrecker continue being a menace to Jesse

Tech's attempt at trying to intervene - I've been there Tech

"Boom! You take too long"

Wrecker mocking Tech's "delicate operation" to Rex

The entirety of how in synch they are in combat

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Favorite sibling moments that made me fall in love with The Bad Batch during their TCW Arc - "A Distant Echo"

Not so many here since this is a more Rex-centered episode and their faces are mostly covered, but still some gems

Hunter not being able to not smirk/smile when talking about his brothers to other people

"me and the boys will tag along" biggest smile when he says "the boys"

Being completely unfazed by Wrecker's antics aka doing thrusters with Gonky while eating a turkey leg (or the Star Wars equivalent)

meanwhile Rex is literally staring at him completely dumbfounded

The three step plan of Tech calculating the Poltec's elevation to then let Crosshair use him as a shooting stand to then pass off the grappling hook to Hunter

"Hope nobody's scared of heights" and then the in synch, unspoken look back at Wrecker 😂

Wrecker stepping in to fight a captain even though Crosshair absolutely deserved to get beaten to a pulp in that moment (Crosshair babe, I love ya but honestly)

(also shout out to one of Rex's sexiest moments)

"Hey, Crosshair, check it out" "Yeah, it's a lift" "Well, we already knew that"

"Don't worry Wrecker, I'll hold your hand"

"Hey cut it out sarge" shoving Hunter into the lift

Unspoken, in-synch disregard of Anakin's pep talk to run head first into the hangar, causing as much chaos as possible

Shout out to Anakin's exhausted look he throws at Rex as the Batch run out as if HE HASN'T BEEN DOING THAT TO REX FOR 3 YEARS

Tired parents Anakin and Rex during TBB Arc

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Favorite sibling moments that made me fall in love with The Bad Batch during their TCW Arc - "On the Wings of Keeradaks"

Literally just this moment while they once again face down a battalion of droids

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Crosshair seamlessly avoiding the droid Wrecker picked up and swung around anticipating what Wrecker would do

Crosshair again avoiding a droid Wrecker throws behind him while they guard the door and throwing a look at Wrecker before resuming shooting

Wrecker's soft smile at Rex and Echo's reunion 😭 (let him have Crosshair back and let us have an entire episode that is the squad's reunion please TBB writers I'm begging you)

"Great, now how do we get up there" "Oh I can help with that!" immediately grabs Hunter and throws him in the air

"A heads up would've been nice!"

"Well I hope there's a ship we can steal" "Let's hope this trip isn't for nothing" Echo already meshing with the sibling sass

"That's fine, but if you fall don't take me with you"

(Oh not, that last one really hurts now doesn't it)

"Oh no, I looked" followed by Tech's eye roll

Hunter encouraging Wrecker across the beam

Wrecker no hesitation jumping to grab Crosshair as he falls when he literally 15 seconds earlier was panicking about how high up they were (A+ choice by the creators)

"I do have a brilliant idea" "I'm hanging here!" Sibling 101: sass opportunities must be taken even when dangling above an abyss

(Oh no, these new parallel realizations are really starting to hurt)

"He records everything. It's a hobby" Sibling 101: all opportunities to mock your sibling must be taken regardless of the situation you're in

Crosshair's trust in Wrecker to hold him so much that he continues to shoot and take down droids even while dangling above an abyss being held by the ankle

"How else? We jump?" Echo's eyes as he processes what Tech just said

the knife throw Wrecker executes to Hunter so Hunter's dual-wielding (literally have watched this arc countless times and I just caught that, so freaking cool)

THE SHOULDER TOUCH AND NOD CROSSHAIR GIVES ECHO SAYING "HEY YOU OK? HANGING IN THERE?"

The bridal carry to throw Wrecker and Hunter execute 😂😂

While Tech translates to the Poltec's Crosshair looks at him with a smile in the background

**(the link is crediting a post I put the gif in previously and tumblr is being weird not letting me copy and past it from their masterlist but the gif is actually by @proadhoghog, please check their work out)

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Favorite sibling moments that made me fall in love with The Bad Batch during their TCW Arc - "Unfinished Business"

Not nearly as much screen time with the Batch this episode, but some of the greatest gems (if ya know, ya know)

"Please tell me we are blowing something up" Hunter's very subtle chuckle

Crosshair narrowing his eyes at Anakin like "please for the love of god just let him blow something up"

Hunter and Crosshair's looks between each other when Hunter says "And the regs think we take risks"

"Tech, can you rig an interface?" "I assume that's a rhetorical question" Tech babe he's only been around you for a day stop sassing your future bestie

The teamwork between Tech and Echo while rigging the signal - they weren't even a squad yet but they flowed together so seamlessly

Hunter and Tech's looks when Echo explains his plan

"Was there ever any doubt?" "Some" TECH. HON. 😂 Be nice to your future bestie!

Wrecker handing Hunter his rifle with no words and Hunter accepting it because he knows what's about to happen

"Time to release the wrecking ball!" "Honestly, I feel bad for those droids"

They literally cannot be more proud of each other's abilities and skills it kills me

"Ohhh! He's gonna try and top me. You watch!" again, sibling competition combined with the little chuckle during "You watch!" - he's so proud of Crosshair

"You miss me?"

"RELAX WRECKER YOU'LL TOP HIM NEXT TIME" "NO HE WON'T" i 👏 love 👏 them 👏 so 👏 much

(please please Jennifer I'm begging you, give them back to me)

Crosshair's hand-on-the-hip head shake as Anakin hands Wrecker the detonator

The seamless sentence add-ons when Echo asks them why they're not following the Jedi

Tech's smile growing bigger as Crosshair and Wrecker speak

Hunter's constant look of fondness at his brothers (I actually cannot handle it anymore I need them back together)

Wrecker and Tech's warm smiles at Echo as Hunter invites him to join the squad

CROSSHAIR'S SMILE AND NOD AT ECHO WHEN HUNTER SAYS "well, find us"

(listen, I'm such a Crosshair softy and especially when he was going down the arc he was in season 1, I admittedly dug up and grasped onto anything I could to prove that he loved his brothers and the empire arc wasn't permanent for him so yes that moment when I caught it during a rewatch really stuck out to me)

(I also grasp onto anything happy to counter the sadness in Rex's face as he walks away from Echo ok?)

Moral of the story: JENNIFER AND BRAD I WILL GIVE YOU ANYTHING TO HAVE THIS DYNAMIC BACK I CANNOT BEG YOU ENOUGH

Wow wow wow this really made me miss these boys and love and appreciate them even more even though we're literally only 4 days after season 2 ending. Thinking I'm going to do a whole TBB series rewatch and do this for each episode and then schedule the posts weekly. That'll at least be 30 weeks of positive TBB content and possibly ease the ache a little

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Going to blame my PMS that's a week away on me crying while the Batch emerge from the Marauder for the first time and nothing else