#thanks for the ask cal!!!

[happi-tree]

Lovingly looking at you with my brown eyes 💗🤎

ACK-

Erm. Hi 😳😳😳 wow has anyone ever told you your eyes are really pretty /p <333

[stealingpotatoes]

tl4j but in the ot actually au would just be ahsoka shaking her head quickly in the background whenever obi-wan tries to teach luke The Jedi Way i feel

1. thank you for reading the tags and giving me an excuse to draw this and 2. i don't think luke would have time to find them in ANH, but after...

(commission info // tip jar!)

[animatedjen]

What if cal gave bode one of his lightsabers the other half? or?

That would've been really cool. Had Bode's identity been discovered earlier, had his fear not kept him from trusting the Hidden Path, he would've been an even more powerful ally for Cal and the Mantis Crew.

Sometimes I think about how, aside from Cere and Cal facing Vader at the end of Fallen Order, Cal has never fought alongside another lightsaber in the games. Every other saber was held to his head by an Inquisitor, a Sith Lord, a Memory, a Raider, or a Fallen Jedi.

Trilla, Masana, Ghost Tapal, Malicos, Vader, Dagan, Rayvis' Raider lieutenants, and Bode.

Cal needs powerful foes to challenge him, and allies who help but never surpass his (aka the player's) ability. Ludonarrative harmony is important when balancing the story and gameplay elements, and Cal's role as a lone warrior plays into both.

But the Jedi series also cares a lot about symbolism when it comes to lightsabers. In Fallen Order, Cal's entire character arc is represented by the condition of Jaro's saber. He wrestles with his identity throughout Survivor, and after fighting so many fallen Jedi and their kyber-bled weapons, he builds pyres for Cere, Cordova, and Bode. Any hope of a Jedi ally is gone.

Knowing Cal's saberstaff can split into two pieces, I'm curious to see if the third game would incorporate this with a (potential) Force-sensitive Kata story? But that's probably a whole different post.

[calwasfound]

#1 with Technoblade mayhaps

this was a VERY long overdue homage :]

[kazanskys-mitchell]

jj do you have an icemav headcanons???

thank u for asking cal i have so many (this isn’t even all of them i dont think)

- ice fell first, mav fell harder

- mav likes coffee, ice likes tea better but will drink coffee occasionally

- mav loves when ice pulls rank on him, it’s definitely a turn on for him

- ice was pining after mav SO HARD in the first movie and you can’t change my mind

- in the locker room after goose dies, i fully believe ice wanted to give mav a comforting hug but couldn’t bring himself to do it

- they both think that the other person is the better pilot but they’ll never say it out loud

- being the little spoon is ice’s favorite thing but he’ll never admit it

- mav will absolutely climb on the counters to get stuff out of kitchen cabinets. ice puts stuff on the top shelf just to spite him

- ice can cook, mav can bake

- ice will work through any sickness no matter how shitty he feels. mav will also, but then he’ll get so sick from overworking himself and make ice take care of him (and complain the whole time)

- mav has ridiculous pet names for ice, meanwhile ice sticks with the classic pet names for mav

- ice is always really gentle with mav (sexually and not) and mav loves it but also loves to be manhandled

- mav loves pda, he gets ice to love it too (it takes a while but he’s successful)

- i firmly believe that mav is a house husband and loves to do things around the house for ice

- mav is a horrible driver, therefore ice drives them everywhere

- as they get older, ice is silently insecure about himself once the grey hair starts to show, and mav is always reminding him how much he loves him (in more ways than one if yall know what i mean)

- mav calls ice “tommy” just for laughs because he knows it annoys ice

- they can’t sleep without each other

- mav wears his ring on his dog tags, and ice wears his on his finger

- ice loves to splurge and buy mav gifts whenever he can

i definitely have more but this is all i could think of rn

[flammabel]

I'm sorry, I will probably be annoying by like a lot of your Cal screenshots.

BUT THEY ARE AMAZING! HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL! YOU ARE SO FANTASTIC TOOK THOSE SHOTS🔥

Awww, thanks. 💙 I did hear my notifs going a lot, so I was wondering at first 😅. I'm glad you like them, and thanks so much for saying such kind things. Means a lot to know they bring people joy 💙

And yes, he is very beautiful 🥰

[voidcat-senket]

Ohhhh perhaps spyscrapper for 38? On the kiss prompt list??

38. ...running out of time Bode’s breathing is heavy, loud, fast. Full, billowing breaths he can’t seem to slow down. He’s teetering at the edge of a breakdown. He’s been teetering at the edge of a breakdown for weeks, but it’s really here now, no longer a fantom haunting his shadow but reality, inhabiting his body, making his fingers numb and his heart race.

It’s not the edge. He’s falling off. The comm is in his hand, his finger hovers over the button, and he has to make the call. If he doesn’t make the call today, the Empire won’t be here tomorrow, the Archive and the Path will move to Tanalorr and it will be ruined.

Exposed. Unsafe. And he’ll have lost his last, his first, chance-hope-dream. The first breath of fresh air he’s had in. Four years? Is that it, four years? Four years with his leash getting shorter and his collar getting tighter, tighter, tighter, sold to the only bidder for a golden cage for his little girl that will become an iron trap if he so much as misses two check-ins in a row?

He’s lurking in the corner but he needs to go outside so he can fall into pieces privately. But. Cal and Merrin are still out there, aren’t they? He wants to beg Cal to make a different choice, get on his knees and cry, but if he does then… his desperation won’t make any sense, after Cal already reassured him. After Cal thought he did and ripped the rest of Bode’s meager hope to pieces instead. If he does, all his secrets will spill out. If he does, even this meager, desperate last chance where he loses everything but Kata will disappear. Cal doesn’t forgive betrayal- not if it comes from the Empire.

And Bode is part of the Empire, no matter how he feels about it. He sold himself.

Death followed him long before that.

The next exhale sounds too wretchedly close to a dry sob for his liking, and he clamps a hand over his mouth, doubled over, a steadying arm against the wall. His vision swims and darkens, his nostrils bellowing with each panicked breath. A hand presses to his shoulder. His back all but slams against the wall as he yanks himself away. Cal’s hands lift up, held out by Cal’s shoulders, as the redhead takes a step back. “Sorry! I was calling your name but I don’t think you heard me.”

Bode didn’t hear anything. Not a thing. What was he thinking? Doing? He wasn’t thinking that was the problem. Cal must see something in his face, because he steps forward again, frowning, concerned. He reaches out again but slowly, his hands gently framing Bode’s shaking shoulders before curling around his upper arms. “Bode, it’s okay. Breathe with me. Let’s just calm down, and then we can talk, get you some water maybe. Okay?” Bode clenches his teeth together, presses harder into the wall. “Bode, hey. Hey. We’re fine, okay?” A damnable smile blooms, Cal’s green eyes sparking warm, the man reaching out for him in the Force, wrapping him up in Cal’s fiery presence like a reassuring blanket, and Cal says: “tomorrow we’ll move and we’ll all be safe and everything will be alright.” Bode’s breath stops. He slides down the wall until he’s sitting, and his insides are all ashes. His hand shakes as it falls from his mouth and he can’t see Cal for the tears falling from his eyes.

Cal, kriffing Cal. Why did Bode have to fall for him? An idealist. A man who can’t see danger staring him in the face. Who can’t listen to the reasonable voices around him, and yet who is so good that they can’t help but let him lead over and over again.

Cal only scoots closer, cradling Bode’s face between his hands and pressing their foreheads together. “I’ve got you. Breathe with me. We Jedi,” Cal jokes, trying to ease the moment, “we’re really good at breathing, you know.” Kriffing Cal. Bode wants years with him. A lifetime.

“I’m s-sorry,” he whimpers, gripping the sleeves of Cal’s jacket. He gets tonight, and then nothing. Nothing after that. Never. There’s no more time.

“I’m so sorry.”

“Nothing to be sorry for.”

Cal will change his mind tomorrow. He’ll understand tomorrow. They’re over, tomorrow.

Bode turns his head. His lips press into the heat of Cal’s palm, mark it with his sorrow.

This is their first and last time.

There’s nothing inside him he’s allowed to give. Nothing worthy of Cal

[kanerallels]

if you do merrical decorating for Christmas i think I’ll legally owe you money

Have some adorable fluff! That'll be $7.50 (I kid lol)

Cal had never known Rambler’s Reach could look so festive.

Pyloon’s Saloon was a glittering mass of lights that he could see from a distance as he approached. Nearby, Doma’s shop was a little more sedately arrayed in blue and purple lights, while the other houses erred on the more eclectic side.

As Cal came to a stop at the back door, he saw a shape moving at the top of the building. There was a burst of green flame, and then Merrin was standing next to him with a smile.

“Welcome home,” she told him, catching hold of his hand. “How was your trip?”

“Good,” Cal told her, unable to hold back a smile of his own. “Everyone’s settling nicely on Tanalorr. How are things here?”

“Better now that you’re back,” Merrin said. “Kata and I were waiting to decorate the garden for you—Pili said that we can cover some of the plants with lights if we don’t uproot any.”

“Well, let’s not keep her and Kata waiting,” Cal said, and they headed inside together, still holding hands.

Christmas ficlet ask game!!

[sillyhahasilly]

Caldre date hcs??

okay okay so.. i dont think in canon they would EVER go on anything they would label as a date. I imagine that their relationship was something that could not be labeled. The "romantic" stuff they did were never talked about, they just did it.

HOWEVER I can give you some things that they def did in my mind that might as well have been dates :)

cal and andre spend hours upon hours in andre's basement. they do pretty much anything there. watch movies on a vhs player (mainly horror and shitty slashers), listen to music without conversation, talk. I think that the deepest conversations they ever had with each other happened in that basement. It is also the place they have the most sleepovers in.

they cruise around in andre's car a lot, going where ever catches their eye. when the base of their hangouts is at cal's house, sometimes they drive to a parking lot or something to get away from his siblings. they'll sit there with the windows down sometimes playing music until the sunsets. sometimes cal will involve some weed.

they are very spur of the moment when it comes to any plans that aren't zero day.

they go to parks near eachothers houses and walk through it, fucking with shit or kids. sometimes just talking.

tbh, they are kinda lame. they dont hang out together with other people or go out to parties or wtv, esp not andre.

when one of them wants to hangout after school they pass notes to eachother in class saying what they want to do. cal does this more often

i am a firm "cal is unemployed and unlicensed" believer, so andre obv spends the most money on the other.

sometimes cal gets paid by his parents for watching his siblings more than usual or mowing his neighbor's lawn and he will use that money to return the favor. he will pass a note to andre saying, "i am going to treat you tonight babe" as a joke. andre gives the biggest eyeroll ever to that, sometimes he calls cal a slur. he knows to expect a movie or a jumbo bag of chips and soda soon tho. thats the closet they got to actual dates.

i would totally be open to making a post about what they would do if they werent to riddled with homophobia in a modern au or smth when it comes to dates if someone is interested!! i js luv repressed homosexuality

[mushiewrites]

Ok, I went a little crazy thinking about this

Dream would absolutely loose his mind, stuck on his side, hogtied, cause there is absolutely no way he can protect his poor tummy, especially if his ler is sat behind him, holding him on his side so he can't roll on his front.

I can imagine Sap and George taking full advantage of this opportunity, not having to worry about accidental injuries caused by flailing.

"Can't take it cutie~?" You don't really have a choice~"

okay this. this has been sitting here for a while because Reasons <3 but holy cow. this concept? chefs kiss. dreams poor tummy 🫠

he'd have no way to escape or block anything...he's just completely at their mercy....

just imagine it.

somehow, george and sapnap convince dream to let them tie him up. they dont tell him how, but they give him the biggest puppy dog eyes and beg him nicely, praising him and telling him how he's always so good for them, and how much fun they have playing with him. and dream folds almost instantly. he can't say no to them, he loves them so so much!

and now he's on his side, hands behind his back, legs bent up and all four limbs tied together. sapnap is behind him with a grip on the rope, holding it down against the bed and preventing dream from turning over to block his now very open and vulnerable tummy. he whimpers when george appears in front of him, slowly lifting up his shirt and giggling nervously when he feels the cool air hit his skin

"what do we have here?"

and before dream can ask what george means, he feels light fingers tracing over his scar above his right hip. he jolts forward, a squeal flying out of him before he can stop it. sapnap uses his free hand to grab onto dream's right elbow, pushing down on it slightly to keep him still as george explores the dark purple lightning bolt along dreams skin. and strangely enough, dream has never been subjected to such light tickling there before. and it's...devastating, to say the least. he's thrashing as much as he can in such an immobilizing position, twitching his torso forward and back, moving his hips from side to side with the little leniency he has. but it's no use - george's light tickling just keeps going and going. and finally, when the fingers stop tracing, he's able to take in gulps of air. he thinks it's over.

then he feels fingertips tracing his lower tummy. he knows hes fucked. dream screams out when george circles the middle of his tummy, pleading and begging for the tickles to stop. but does george stop?

absolutely not.

george just giggles and adds his other hand into the mix, now squeezing up and down his sides as dream cries out in a panic. george moves his fingers over the sides of dream's tummy and it makes him shriek, and now he's really moving between the two. sapnap sits up on his knees and leans his body weight over dream's limbs, successfully stopping him from moving at all. now george is free to explore the rest of dreams tummy, paying close attention to the edges of his bellybutton as he traces a finger around it. dream is in shambles. he has tears in his eyes and his face is bright red from laughing so hard. he can't plead, he can't beg, he can only laugh and laugh and laugh as his poor little tummy is tortured with tickles.

they're both teasing him, telling him how cute he is, pointing out how awful it must be to not be able to move, to be stuck, forced to take the tickling.

"look at him trying to get away, sapnap! he's so cute, thinking he can escape!"

"where are you trying to go, cutie? you're stuck here with us - you're stuck with the tickles."

"his tummy is jumping! that must mean he likes it!"

then george changes tactics. he goes back to lightly tracing over dream's lower tummy again, and dream is near hysterics. george know's he can't possibly take much more, but there's no safeword said, and he's always one to push the limits anyway, so he continues.

george finds the spot just above his hips and presses his thumbs in deep, making slow circles and driving dream to silent laughter. not even a second later his safeword is called, and finally the torment is over. sapnap works on untying him while george runs a hand through his hair, praising him and cooing over how good of a job he did, how well dream took the tickles, how good he is

dream's curls are a mess from flailing and shaking his head against the sheets. his cheeks are wet with tears from his laughter, and george uses both thumbs to wipe them away, rubbing soothingly under his eyes on his upper cheekbones. when he's finally untied, sapnap and george rub where the rope was securing him, gently soothing his wrists and ankles with gentle touches and plenty of kisses. this of course sends dream into light giggles, and the two can't help but pull him in a big cuddle pile, continuing to play with his hair as they hold him close. they take turns kissing his cheeks, his temples, the top of his head - anywhere they can to make him blush. they trace over his back, and within minutes dream is asleep, too exhausted to threaten the revenge they both know is coming.

[sybaritick]

for the cursive; how about a favourite recipe? Some delicious treat you want more people to enjoy.

my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! simple but effective i have made these a dozen times. (Did I realize I was going to run out of room on the index card, yes)

the recipe is originally from online but I adjusted some things slightly (the amount of sugar most importantly lol, to decrease it a little, and this is also half the original recipe in general) but they are super good. If you use unsalted butter, increase the amount of salt slightly, like 3/4 tsp instead of 1/2 tsp. Use dark chocolate or semisweet chocolate chips.

The first two steps you should do with a hand mixer if you have it (on medium). The third step, mixing in the dry things, do with a silicone spatula so flour doesn't go everywhere. I bake these on parchment paper on a baking tray, that might seem obvious but for anyone who hasn't done much baking that's a good way to keep them from sticking. (And if people can't read this I don't blame them: the temperature is 375F, or 190C). :)

[happi-tree]

Me before watching the Barbie movie: Barbie and Ken are gonna be ace4ace!

Me after watching the Barbie movie: Barbie is aroace but placed into a relationship due to having to abide to heteronormative standards enforced by marketing from the real world, and it’s breaking free from being a romantic relationship that helps her become human and flawed and real and herself.

SO REAL OF YOU TO BE SAYING THIS CAL!!!! 💗💗💗

And also. Ken seeking out a relatively heteronormative relationship due to the real-world marketing that has been pushed upon him and lacking the three-dimensionality to question it because it is simply, quite literally, what he was made to be,,, he has no reason to believe in the possibility of anything other than the role of "Barbie's boyfriend" assigned to him,,,

Barbie is SUCH an aroace icon to me and I love her for it!!! Ken,,, I have no clue what his deal is but I hope he'll figure it out eventually <333

[stealingpotatoes]

well since ahsoka died and was brought back by the daughter that one time on mortis does that make her some extra spicy force being too?

i love how almost all of tl4j have some relation to mortis

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

[animatedjen]

One thing I find jarring when playing Fallen Order and Survivor back-to-back, is how Cal goes from having very dark, coal grey eyes to bright green eyes in the span of five years. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on why Respawn made this change, and if you prefer one eye color over the other.

Love this question! There's a few things that impact the design changes between FO Cal and Survivor Cal.

The biggest change is how the two games handle their overall color. Cal's eyes have always been somewhat green, but Fallen Order's visual design is a muted color palette with darker shadows. That "look" fit the story Respawn was telling, and Cal spends much of FO exploring darker spaces like scrapyards, tombs, ice caves, and Imperial facilities. Very few of the game's cutscenes take place in well-lit spaces.

Cal's character design also includes a strong brow, and because of how Fallen Order renders light, his eyes are often in shadow. Add in stylized environmental lighting (the red tint of Dathomir, the blue-green of Zeffo tombs) and the iris quickly loses its green-gray tint.

Survivor has a more vibrant color palette and more complicated lighting, including how Cal's eyes catch and reflect light. More of the story takes place outdoors, and indoor spaces generally have more lighting. Also did I say vibrant?? Just look at how bright the SU poncho is compared to its (almost navy blue) FO counterpart.

Visual design is also influenced by time and technology: AAA games have changed a lot between 2019 and 2023, and the methods of rendering light/color/texture in real-time are growing exponentially.

Comparing a similar environment (the couch on on the Mantis) makes the color/lighting changes really obvious. It's easy to say new = better, and from a strictly technical standpoint that may be true, but I appreciate the thoughtfulness of Fallen Order's color and how the color stylization served the story. But that's probably a whole separate post.

TLDR; the design difference is likely a mix of technical advances and intentional color choices by Respawn's art teams. But I do like the bright green eyes! They look more green-blue in shadow and gold-green in direct sunlight, which is a neat effect.

[sketchupnfries]

Friend just finished Jedi Survivor. I *immediately* sent them all the turbo dogs stuff!

That's awesome!! :D I hope they enjoyed the Turbo Dog CHAOS haha Have a Turbo Dog Cal!

[rabbit-harpist]

doddle requests.... i would not be myself if i didn't ask for gal. how about a gal? put him into any situation at all or have him stare into nothing– ill be the happiest person in the world anyway ^_^

gal braiding his hair… i need you to know that this is the one and only time i’ve drawn this man, cal, this is for you