#the Only Reason he's so down to decommission the others is because they were trying to kill him!

[braveburned]

I would like to reiterate that gregory does not hate animatronics and in fact thinks they are pretty cool! the only reason he is Like That with the other glamrocks is because they were trying to kill him

[ominouspuff]

Tears on Kamino

CC-2224 didn’t know why the other boy was crying, but he didn’t need to. All he needed to do was pull his fingers over a shaved scalp, slowly so as not to startle, and try not to let on how curious he was to see the way the tears dripped in odd shapes down the hot, red, twisted face.

They were hidden, huddled up together — actually hidden, not just sticking to shadows in the open, because if tears weren’t, the odds were against them that things would get official, and nothing good ever came of something getting official. The closets had no cameras nor microphones, and the one they’d crammed into (seventh basement level, thirty paces from Engineering and the guards at its door) was in disrepair — was in line for being decommissioned, in fact. The Kaminoans were meticulous.

But it wasn’t decommissioned yet, so CC-2224 knew it would be the perfect place the instant that he’d pieced together that his new companion was about three seconds away from bursting into tears. They’d made it to the door in under two, but it had taken a bit of jostling and bony elbows jammed into sensitive places that might’ve accelerated the whole ‘tears’ business. 

They were here now, anyway, and they were safe. CC-2224 considered the maneuver a success.

“Hey,” He said, and it was a useless thing to say but he’d heard that the majority of what was said to crying things was supposed to be useless. Apparently there was something distracting and comforting about just — being chattered to. So CC-2224 did his best. “Our rations are made from bugs. I would’ve guessed fish, but they don’t have the nutrients. Plus fishing is a dignitary sport anyway-”

“Would you - shut up -” The other boy interrupted wetly, heaving with great big breaths that diminished his chest to half its size with every gasp. His face was — if possible — redder than before. His brown eyes were sharp, and they were glaring at CC-2224 from beneath his brows, hardened with a painful-looking panic. “Just- stop talking.”

CC-2224 digested this request (such as it was) in silence, weighing the odds that the boy knew better than he did what was needed. He scrutinized the glare in the dim lighting, but it was clear and steady enough. CC-2224 nodded agreement, lips sealing tight. He kept stroking the shorn head, the space so tight between them that all he had to do was swivel his wrist a little — the boy hadn’t asked him to stop that, and he hoped he wouldn’t think to.

He signed with his free hand instead of speaking, furrowing his brow to clarify it was a question.

The boy’s glare wilted slightly as he focused on tracking the signs. Finally he blew out a shaky gust of air. “CT-7567.” He said, and it was very strange to hear him try to put firmness and confidence into it when he could still barely breathe without hiccuping. “You could tell that by checking my code anyways.” He explained defensively — as if he thought CC-2224 might judge him harshly for revealing it or pounce on some kind of opportunity.

Then again, if CC-2224 hadn’t just dragged them both into a protected space, it would’ve been smart to be suspicious — and he would have had to investigate a bit to find the other boy’s code. Seeing as CC-2224 had done all sorts of helpful stuff, though, the second-guessing was a poor show — one that immediately made CC-2224 that much more certain that CT-7567 had been crying because he was an idiot.

He’d heard that, in some places, ‘idiot’ was just an insult. It wasn’t that way on Kamino. Idiots didn’t last long; the Kaminoans were, after all, meticulous about utility. Closets weren’t the only things getting decommissioned. Pretty common reason to cry as far as CC-2224 figured, and it would explain their current predicament.

It was enough to grim up any vod, but there might be hope yet. 

CC-2224 settled his back against the wall, breathing deeply, and imagined he could see the sim-walls — that he could read the fake mission update on the holo, letters glowing, challenging him to find a way to beat it. (Pretending helped him think faster. Being too confident was a weakness, but if CC-2224 knew anything, it was that he was very good at this.)

There were immediate gaps in information he needed for the mission’s resolution — holes that needed filling before he could pick the next direction. His hand moved almost of its own accord, signing fast and hard. 

CT-7567 watched, his breathing evening out by painful increments, brows furrowed in concentration where another cadet would have followed easily. (CC-2224 held his breath at what that might indicate about CT-7567’s intelligence, and he resisted an urge to suck his teeth.)

“Stop, stop,” CT-7567 finally snapped, flapping a hand right into the middle of the signs. “They haven’t taught us that, yet — I only know pieces. Talk instead.” 

“Oh, good, I thought you were stupid.” CC-2224 said in relief, and startled when the other boy hit him hard on the shoulder. “What? It’s not uncommon. If you had been, you’d be dead soon.” He snapped, narrowing his eyes and leaning backwards.

CT-7567’s red face blanched, both splotchy and pale at once, and CC-2224 nearly got distracted by how different it made him look. Later. He could think about it later, when CT-7567 wasn’t in danger anymore.

“Stop panicking.” CC-2224 said, and it came out a bit nasty, but his shoulder was still aching. CT-7567 hit hard. “What’s your defect?”

CT-7567’s fear turned to outright terror, but they were so far beyond that now it was almost silly to see. CC-2224 was no Kami, nor a Good One — if he had been, he’d have reported CT-7567 from the start just to get an edge.

(Among clones, it was a taboo question. It still got asked, but only as a last resort; usually quietly, to a terrified boy in a corner with several others hemming him in, trapping and shielding all at once. Tell us, the braver ones would say, maybe we can help. 

Sometimes they did help. Other times they made things official. ‘Identifying and reporting issues’ was something high-functioning property was supposed to be good at. They liked how following procedure made things easier for them, and if it didn’t come at the expense of another clone, CC-2224 might not have blamed them.)

CT-7567 stared at him like he’d damned the name of Nala Se herself. But just as CC-2224 was bracing himself to hear something stupid, like ‘what defect?’, CT-7567’s eyes narrowed and his spine straightened and CC-2224 suddenly knew — 

‘Idiot’ wasn’t the defect. The defect wasn’t even in that category. CT-7567 was just smaller than CC-2224 had figured, and there was something more serious going on — something big and obvious and unfixable that made little things helpless the bigger they got, the more it grew, the harder it was to conceal. Helpless vod got desperate, and sometimes acted like idiots, but that didn’t make them one. 

“You’ve got your hand on it.” CT-7567 said cryptically, but blessedly (for the sake of CC-2224’s dwindling patience and proportionally increasing anxiety) followed up with: “My hair. It’s wrong; gets white splotches when it grows.”

Ah. Actually, CC-2224 knew something about things like that. “That why you have it shaved?” He clarified. The buzz felt nice under his fingers.

“Yes.” CT-7567 muttered. “But the splotches are getting bigger.”

Bleaching. CC-2224 knew even more about that, though not from experiencing it personally. 

Bleaching was common. It meant that hair began to lighten in odd places or patterns — usually before maturity, but some unfortunates were late bloomers.

CC-2224 had once caught a glimpse of a fully fledged CT being transferred on a hover bed to decommissioning, hair speckled with white. It had been a shock to realize it could happen that late — that they couldn’t be sure they were safe, even after maturing.

There were some solutions he knew of already, but they were difficult, and resources limited. Even the best ones relied on luck so heavily that CC-2224’s nose wrinkled, and he bent himself to the task of thinking up other solutions. 

Five minutes of silence and thoughts and buzz beneath his fingertips ticked by before CT-7567 brought CC-2224’s awareness abruptly back into the closet. 

“Your fingers are trembling.” He said, so much steadier now — maybe because he was focusing on someone else’s problem. CC-2224 knew the feeling well; if a clone wasn’t careful, they could get obsessed with it, to the point they forgot to take care of their own business entirely — and that ended in death too, of one sort or another.

“They do that,” He said distractedly, stifling the spark of irritation that being interrupted ignited in his chest — like a petty little mouth full of sharp teeth, nipping at his ribs. He focused on the buzz beneath his fingers. “They do it when I’m thinking. I like solving problems.”

“Oh.” There was a lot in that ‘oh’, but CC-2224 couldn’t spare much brainpower to track it — he was using it on other things. Then, after a pause, CT-7567 quietly said: “Thank you.”

“Haven’t solved anything yet. Thank me when I do.” CC-2224 pointed out — this time with significant impatience at being interrupted — and CT-7567 grunted in acknowledgement of the wisdom behind that, at least.

CC-2224 thought harder, holding his jaw carefully loose so he wouldn’t chew his lip. The silence stuffed his ears full, and he danced from idea to problem, from solution to unexpected flaw, until there were no more flaws and his lip hurt because he’d forgotten not to chew it.

The closet came back into clarity, and CC-2224 stilled his shaking hand. He couldn’t quite contain his grin, though. “Got it.” He said — and because he really did have it, he let his pride show. With luck, it would help reassure CT-7567 it was true, and he’d be confident instead of second-guessing everything. “C’mon. We’re going to need a few things.”

They spent the next few minutes trying to do damage-control on CT-7567’s unbelievably splotched face. 

CC-2224 donated his socks to the cause, wetting them in the sanitization pump (it leaked on his bare feet, but he offered that up as a painful necessity), and wiping the tears away methodically. CT-7567 bore it stoically, every ounce of his will bent on forestalling more tears — and he managed it. His skin went back to normal and his pinkish eyes cleared up. They couldn’t help the swelling of his lids and nose, but that was a manageable risk.

CC-2224 did some rinsing and ringing out, then put his slightly soggy socks back on, sealing his boots up just as he would for a dry pair, already resigned to the blisters. CT-7567 dithered a bit, watching with a distracted nervousness and looking ready to suggest they wait out the swelling too, but wisely thinking better of it. They’d been in the closet for fifteen minutes already; any longer would definitely be too much of a risk for being noticed.

“On me.” CC-2224 said authoritatively once he was done with his boots, and at first it felt silly to include the other boy in pretending, but CT-7567 straightened and took it seriously and calmed in an instant, and CC-2224 felt vindicated that he’d guessed the right approach — that he wasn’t the only one who liked this tactic. 

“Sir yessir.” CT-7567 said — and the unexpected honorific hit CC-2224 like a battering ram. 

It felt — Bad. Strange. His mouth dried, and he blinked slower so he could hide a moment in the black behind his lids. 

Mission, they were on a mission, and CC-2224 was a commander, like he was supposed to be. He needed his brain working fast and his CT obeying faster, if this was going to work. 

“Let’s go.” He croaked, a bit hoarse, a bit excited. (His hands still trembled a bit when he opened the door.)

[driftingmoonmenace]

Ok ok ok I'm gonna just dump all my DCA OC thoughts/info in a post cause I'm shy with rambling about them individually with ppl atm 👉👈💦

BUT OK SO I've been like rattling this idea around in my brain for quite a while! At first I just had Paradox and he was just in his own little AU world thing, but then I decided to just take all my DCA ocs and shove them into a world together and they just work at different Pizzaplexs and stuff.

Paradox's info is still pretty much the same! He's tired of being treated badly by adults and acting out by retaliating with pranks and it's getting on Fazco's last nerve. So they hired a handler to keep him in check.

I got my other Eclipse model, Equinox, he's from a defunct Pizzaplex, there's a lot that went into it closing down, but before he could be decommissioned like the rest, he managed to escape and is 'on the run'. He travels cross-country on a motorcycle with a mission to help other animatronics get out from under Fazco. He totally leans into the 'badboy' persona and has modified himself over time to look how he wants to.

And then there's Umbra! He's a Moon model that Equinox picked up on his travels, and is his journey partner! Umbra was also a Daycare Attendant and had a Sun counterpart, though unfortunately he was officially decommissioned before Umbra could do anything. It's a sensitive subject for him and he's completely on-board with Equinox's plan to save as many animatronics as they can because of it, and maybe take Fazco down too. Umbra is super smart, and a little shy. He tries to make up the plans, but half the time Equinox goes jumping into potential danger before he can even finish getting his thoughts out. It exasperates him, but Equinox is 'totally cool' to him and man he wishes he could be like that and boy he's kinda hot too oh wait wait wait keep it together!

Lumi and Nova are Daycare Attendants who were separated and updated as part of a rebranding for their pizzaplex! Though mysteriously after a year, Nova has gone missing and Lumi has no idea where he's gone. Every night Lumi tries to find clues and access computers to try to find out what happened to him along with searching the pizzaplex from top to bottom. (Nova is actually alive but was moved to a completely separate pizzaplex where Fazco figured he'd 'fit in' better and hasn't made up their mind if they want to keep Lumi alone or build another Sun counterpart for him.)

Then I got Sol and Lune, they're mini Sun and Moon DCA models, and were made more so to be helpers for human daycare employees rather than actual DCAs. They were made as a test run in comparison to regular DCA models and it was found that the regular DCAs were more popular with the kids than the mini versions, so now they don't come out too often and are kept basically in a storage closet. They're only let out when a certain threshold amount of kids is met and the human employees need help or for events. Sol is fed up with being a 'toy stuffed in a closet' and is making plans to escape. Lune tries to be a voice of reason but Sol is pretty hard-headed.

Last but not least I got my pink DCA, Astra! I still don't know much about them, but I think she'd be the next DCA model that Equinox and Umbra find. She's got wings, though she can't fly, and I think she's a beta model that isn't released to the public. They're not quite a Sun model but close to it, not sure how to describe it really! Super sweet, upbeat, and cutesy but they're ready to throw hands and they pack quite the punch for being so petite!

I also may have more DCA OCs knocking around in my brain as vague ideas atm that eventually will get thrown into this hot mess of a mix later...but uh YEAH!

Eventually everything just goes to shit with Fazco and all my OCs end up in a group together but I haven't figured out everything yet. There's a plot in there somewhere! *vague hand gestures*

[invaderlynx]

* crawls out of the clone wars fandom wood work* Hello, hi, saw your post about omega and rex and comparing the comand batch and bad batch and I wanna know about the fox and rex thoughts *skitters back in*

The Post in Question

THANK YOU! Listen, in my head Fox and Rex had a somewhat complicated relationship, even before all the shit with Ahsoka and Fives went down.

So, I headcanon that Fox, much like Rex, had a mutation that made his hair lighter than his brothers’. His was more red or russet in color, which was part of how he got his name. This placed a lot of pressure on Fox from a young age and a lingering paranoia surrounding decommissioning. He compensated for this by becoming a perfectionist and more cynical/standoffish than many of the other clones (this is something that would only get worse on Coruscant).

When Rex first joined their batch, Fox was very brusque with him, almost callous in his treatment. Rex initially kind of idolized him because he saw a lot of similarities between the two of them. Fox wanted nothing to do with him for much the same reason. He didn’t want to be reminded that he was different, that he had the Kaminoans breathing down his neck, and that one wrong move could mean the end of his short life. Fox was also scared to get attached since he was convinced that Rex would be decommissioned or otherwise taken away. He additionally didn’t appreciate the increased scrutiny Rex placed both on their squad and particularly the kid himself by tagging along with them. Of course, he never outright admitted any of this (because Fox is terrible at using his words, second only to Wolffe) so he just came off as a major asshole for the first few weeks/months of Rex being around.

Eventually Rex did worm his way into Fox’s guarded little heart and by the end, he was just as much his vod’ika as any of the others. Fox still has a tendency to push him a bit hard though, transferring a lot of his own insecurities and coping mechanisms surrounding decommissioning onto Rex. This causes some friction between the two of them, especially as things get more tense between the GAR and the Guard. Still, they both enjoyed the rare missions they got to serve together on Coruscant, although Rex did notice his brother getting more and more withdrawn as time went on.

Oh, and Fox also jokingly calls Rex “the CT” in conversation. It started as a way to put distance between them and keep himself detached when they were kids, but over time it became a term of endearment.

I also headcanon that Fox is the one Rex goes to for serious advice. Obviously he’s much closer with Cody, but Cody has a tendency to take on too much, to try and shield him or spare him. Fox is the opposite. He’s blunt and to the point with his advice, not because he doesn’t care, but precisely because he does. He doesn’t sugarcoat things because the way he sees it, the more information he gives you and the more straightforward he is with it, the better he’s preparing you. He’s evasive and uninvolved with people he doesn’t like, it’s a mark of affection if he’s actually forthright with you. Sometimes that’s exactly what Rex needs.

[amphiptere-art]

I'm going to take under the stage blood moon and make it its own thing. It was a relatively small au. It can stay that way. I'm not worried about putting it into arcade because I don't want to concern myself with that. Again small juice AU. So we're going to do something with under the stage that have wanted to do since I called it under the stage.

Under the stage.

It's going to become a theater AU.

Here's the premise. The DCA never became the DCA. They are simply the theater attendant. They do stage work and acting. Moon and Sun are two animatronics because they realized that the combined robot couldn't do both at the same time. The two do their job fluidly if not with a bit more pressure. As of course they have to swap out frequently. But it works. But here's the kicker.

There was a third robot. This is the beloved under the stage Blood Moon. Who will be renamed vibrant. He was an animatronic in a single body that they attempted to make do both. It did not work. Vibrant sort of died when he attempted to change out a prop while on top of it acting. Resulting in the other prop coming down and smashing on him.

This resulted in him becoming some sort of robo ghost. He can control most electric machinery, And of course can mess with robots. Only sun and moon can really see him. And they can only really see him when he wants to be seen. Which is usually when they're trying to frantically communicate with staff that there is somebody messing with their equipment. And vibrant is just behind the staff member making silly faces.

To add in a little bit of the original story. Which was that under the stage blood moon was a cut off world where Blue Moon killed the eclipse early. Essentially fasco rebuilt vibrant. I'm going to call him vibrant 2 in here. He was just as bitch as a tad more cocky and snippy as vibrant is. So Sun and Moon didn't exactly like this vibrant 2. But Vibrant became furious over them rebuilding him. Causing sun and moon to witness Vibrant 2's murder. As vibrant causes some machinery to glitch out and fling Vibrant 2 into a splattered mess.

Unlike Vibrant, Vibrant 2 doesn't come back. They were decommissioned the normal way. Having been intact enough to fix but not to care to fix. So now Sun and Moon are once again alone with trying to handle the theater. All the while mayor terrified of vibrant now thinking that he might murder them. Vibrant is still mostly just a chaotic being that wants to ruin their lives because the company replaced him. Although he's definitely violent towards staff, and has caused plenty of machinery to whack out and nearly kill people.

Anyways that's the new under the stage AU. I have been wanting to do this little reprise for a bit. Under the stage Blood Moon was always supposed to be a chaotic theater guy. And this AU helpfully does that. Also I'm shooting a laser towards any under the stage blood moon that is still tsams. I'm eradicating them because they were so small that I think the only one person had them. So early warning @sigery. You're under the stage blood moon is becoming vibrant and is going to lose half his memory and appear in your world for no goddamn reason other than I will it so.

Have fun.

[factual-fantasy]

I has 30 asks! :0

(Ask in question)

I’m gonna be honest, I took it that way. I thought it was a rude ask that was criticizing my versions of the Wario bros for no reason. Even though they’re still gonna be the flamboyant and comedic gremlins that we all know and love. And even if they weren’t, and they were gonna be completely new and gentle characters, so what? Its just an AU version of them. 

But even so, I’m glad I responded to that ask. So that you had the chance to clear this up with me and so I didn’t have to block someone over a misunderstanding-

@crunchypotatochips-18

I imagine he likes some friendly company. But not to worry! He’s not lonely down there or anything, he’s got Gregory and Foxy to keep him company!

Also thank you! :DDD

It doesn’t fit at all actually- 😅

I have no plans for E.Gadd. And when the bros found King Boos mansion they were in, out and over with it in under a day :0

@pixelinrgb-rebirth (Post in question)

:D Yes! It is! And I’ve actually thought of some ideas already. Making my own ways for how the Iron Golems work, how the villagers work, why this mob does this, etc. But its mostly just been worlds with my OCs in them. Nothing about Steve yet. :/

As for the Power-Up/downs. There are no “power-downs”. Power-ups are supposed to be these items of pure energy, and although they can be dangerous, none of them explicitly exist just to cause harm. Like the poison shroom for example. That one exits but its not a Power-up. Its just a blatantly poison mushroom without any special powers behind it.

And when it comes to what powerups are in the AU, I only really add the ones from games that I’ve played. Soooo Mario kart Wii, New super Mario bro Wii, Mario 64 on the ds, super Mario 3D world.. plus a few others I bet I’m missing. Mostly mainstream games basically. No Paper Mario or partners in time or anything-

As for my AU’s name.. I haven’t thought of one yet ;-; ... 

@scarftale-bryan

Me about to post Kirby OCs that was partially motivated by an ask/request-

@mister-jedblack​ (post in ask)

Happy Valentines day! And I hope to get back to the AU soon. I’ve been thinking about it everyday and am trying to really iron out Vanessa's storyline atm. Hopefully soon I can finally stitch this this thing back together and continue sharing it!

I haven’t played those games.. :(

But I wanted to add the wing cap from super Mario 64 on the DS. And I tried to think of ways to add the yellow super cape from the old games too :0 

I’ve seen some screen shots of it but never looked into it, looks spooky! :0

I’m assuming you meant this post? If that’s the case I think I went off the idea that Sword was infected with a monster that was intended for Kirby.

A monster that caused crazy hallucinations mostly, and great pain in the eyes and head. I had a mini comic where Blade was trying to talk to him and he saw Blades face as distorted and grotesque. Scaring the crap out of Sword and making him either run or just cover his eyes in panic. Fun stuff! :D

@neeydrawls

AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :DDD I’m so glad to hear that you like my content!!

As for your questions, Monty is innocent. But he blames himself for Bonnie’s decommission. Something in Monty golf destroyed Bonnie. And because of Monty, they didn't have enough money to repair Bonnie. And because of Monty, the Glamrock era began. In which Bonnie was left behind.

Monty was never jealous of Freddy or Bonnie, and he still isn’t. He’s was happy with the way things were.. he wasn’t the one who hurt Bonnie. As for who or what did? That’s a mystery to be revealed later :0

Also. Bonnie and Foxy are supposed to be shut down. If workers saw them, they would be shut down again and put back in the basement. Or maybe even scrapped! :0 Also the workers could possibly find Gregory, which would not be good- Its also not up to the workers on whether or not they get fixed. That’s all up to the higher ups..

And the reason why Freddy is keeping Gregory a secret.. is because he thinks if Chica, Roxanne, Monty or the others saw him, they would call security. Which means Gregory would be caught by Vanessa and/or taken away by authorities. Freddy doesn't’ understand it yet, but he loves Gregory. And he wants to keep him safe, and with him. So he hides him from his friends in fear that he will be taken away. :( Also Gregory is terrified of the others so there’s that--

I haven’t planned out a scenario where Luigi dies and is revived. But if that ever happens? Mario would be devastated. It would just.. it would destroy him. Especially if he witnessed his baby brother being killed or wounded.. it.. it would just be awful.

I would like for Luigi to find a 1-UP, and then die in some horrible way- but I haven’t thought of anything super interesting yet. :/

AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!! THIS IS SO SWEET!! :DDD

@sneakysidekick

ASUIAUSDNVO THANK YOUUU IM WORKING MY VERY BESTEST JUST FOR U

I haven’t actually played those games before.. so I have zero knowledge on them :( But they look really cool! And I bet they’re really fun games :}

(Also thank you!! :DD)

AAA THANK YOU!!! Also I’ve been drawing for... basically my entire life XD some of my earliest memories are drawing tails the fox on sticky notes and in old school note books. Ahh those were the days.. where the only thing that existed to me was tails miles prower..

@bloonmonnie​ (post in question)

Yeah, I kind’a pictured domesticated/home grown Piranha plants (which is what Piñata is-) to have more of an animal level of intelligence. Like maybe that of a dog? She also kind’a just tends to mimic what Waluigi is doing. If Waluigi is angry and defensive Piñata is smart enough to know that she should act angry and defensive right alongside him.

If Waluigi is soaked in blood and is moving oddly slow.. well, she’ll get quiet and move slow too..

My favorite character from the Anime AND the games is Metaknight! :DD In the Anime he has a deep lore that explains why he’s edgy and it explains motives for his actions and its really cool- also in Super Star Ultra Metaknight was really fun to play as-

As for Kirby? I don’t really have anything outstanding to say about the lil guy. I like him as much as anybody else. He’s just a lil gumball, not my favorite character, but I don’t have any hate for him. :0

@noelianoe1​

My last submas post was made in July 2022 :x So not recent..

I haven’t given them much thought actually.. I should look into that more :0

(post in question)

XD He’s to dumbfounded to speak at this point

I think they’ll mostly just be doing stuff in the background :0

@orchid-harmony​

I have not actually! :0 Although I’ve heard a lot about that game, it sounds fun!

Ooooo adding Ashley is a fun idea! :D

@itschrisboys​

There’s a lot of pain and fear on both sides really.

Bowsers entire world and view of himself was flipped on its head. He was defeated. By this.. person.. no, this thing. He now no longer feels safe in his own kingdom. He no longer feels strong enough to protect his kids..

And for the bros and princess, a lot of anxiety and sleepless nights are had. Mario and Luigi have to sleep in the same room lest they both suffer anxiety attacks. Even Peach, who is royal and posh, and has an image of strength and stability to uphold.. even she was tormented with anxiety. And could not sleep without her advisor Toadsworth nearby..

I don’t remember much of Villainous, but I remember liking Dr.Flug! 10/10 would recommend the wacky scientist man XD

(Video in ask)

I have not actually :0 but I’ve heard good things about the game! Maybe I should watch a play through sometime.. 🤔

XD Oh yeah, it was all fun and games being tall and strong.. until it wore off. And the muscle soreness set in :(

The only star powerups I have considered is the basic super stars that make the bros invincible. I'm not familiar with those other games and sorta forgot about the big stars from 64--

Basically. Its just the default star power-ups. Mostly because I’m not familiar with the games the other ones are from..

[starwarsanthropology]

Ordo and/or Maze for the headcanon game <3

i am very excited to put these motherfuckers in a jar and shake

Ordo

Headcanon A:  realistic

He’s a huge snacker. Loves 2 munch and snack moreso even than the other clones, who are all Noted Lovers Of Food. If he learned to bake or cook he would  have little finger-food type snacks on hand at every available opportunity, like muffins or cookies or little savory puff pastry bite type things. Will share if he has lots, and enjoys the compliments (or if he didnt make it, might bask in Caretaker Pride), but if he only has a little he gets really food defensive. I think the minute he gets the aging cure and his metabolism slows down he starts to get a little chubby bc he’ll eat for pleasure instead of just the food is fuel mentality all of them learned on rations. Teasing results in a (credible) threat to be banned from home cooking forever.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

As he gets older and sees more of the world (and gets therapy yessir) he stops putting so much stake in Kal’s opinions (of both him and others) starts viewing Kal’s bullshit social views and his “family values” stuff especially as silly and kind of rote prattle. Very “sure grandpa, let’s get you to bed”. On the other hand as soon as his brothers say some shit it’s on sight. He is going to train them out of casual misogyny if it kills them.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

I think that as much as he does love Kal and does know he and the other Nulls are loved by Kal, he intentionally places himself as a buffer between them. It started as habit on Kamino, because they were all protecting each other from the Kaminoans, and when Kal adopted them Ordo got the most immediate focus, which let the others build up their trust and boundaries in their own time in a way Ordo didn’t really get to have, partially bc Kal had earmarked Ordo as the ‘leader’ of the group. And then even when he was their buir, he was still the only reason they were alive instead of decommissioned or reconditioned, so Ordo was constantly trying to run interference so he’d get blame, because Kal is bad at not playing favorites, and Ordo was kind of the favorite. Obviously there was never any risk of anything but being yelled at and running extra drills, but it took a long time to internalize that. Even as an adult, part of him is still really stuck into this role, where he and Kal both see himself as sort of his brothers’ keeper, and it actually stresses him out a lot, not that he really recognizes that until he starts to unlearn the habits. The rest of the nulls are all aware of this and are varying levels of okay with it, amused by it, and bothered by it. If he didn’t have this formative experience I think he’d have settled into a middle brother role with a side of still being overprotective of his siblings.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

I think he is a bratty bottom in his heart of hearts.  He needs a chance to be unrestrained and Bad tm and to be rewarded and praised when he’s good and for his partner to work for him to give them control by prooving that they aren’t going to toss him away when he isn’t compliant and useful to them. Also hes so used to being in charge and in a position of responsibility he deserves to hand himself over to someone and get fucked so good he cries about it

Maze: I don’t have very many out there thoughts on Maze. he seems like he has his shit together moreso than just about anyone else in Republic Commandos its very funny to me that he keeps being cast as like. Having arguments in opposition to the protaganists bc i think his points make more sense than theirs

Headcanon A:  realistic

One of the more emotionally intelligent and self-aware clones. I do not think this is because he’s inherently good at emotions though I think he used to repress the shit out of them but he’s pragmatic enough that once the war started and he noticed his preformance slipping he went and got himself, if not a therapist, some psychology readings and at-home exercises for like. processing emotions and stress and navigating both workplace and personal relationships. Half of it is irrelevant to him but he gets a lot of milage out of some of the tools to manage frustration and interpersonal communication. 

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

As one of the more patient alphas, I think Maze was often tasked to wrangle younger cadets and therefore has a grade-A Teacher Voice as well as a grade-A Command Voice. He does not use it often bc he learned it for like. baby cadets who cry when u yell at them and need to be treated more gently, but sometimes when he’s really tired and/or has been interacting w kids you’ll get Teacher Maze with higher pitched, gentler voice, pitched to carry exactly as much as when he’s booming orders, saying things like “Alright everyone, it’s curfew and you have to get to bed now!”. Hilariously, almost everyone under his command find it scarier than the Command Voice bc they think he’s being passive aggressive and are terrified to find out what happens if you cross Teacher Mode Maze. Really he’s just out of it, did the wrong code switch, and is more likely to give someone a pat on the head reflexively than anything else. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

i honestly can’t think of anything. Maze seems so practical and reliable to me I can’t think of anything heart-crushing compared to the horror that order 66 must have been for him

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Not a headcanon but I want him to have those gamer girl cat ear headphones so bad

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I would absolutely love to hear about celestial symphony eclipse and solar, as well as moon.ai's role in the Truman show au

I am certainly very curious about solar's internal turmoil while smoothing it over and attempting to bond with eclipse

And moon.ai's veeerrryyyy fascinating to me—intelligent but foolish little bugger

hi cappy!!

this got really long since I have a habit of rambling so I'm just going to divide this into two sections:

Celestial Symphony:

Solar was the original DCA model commissioned for Fazbear by the Creator-he gets decommissioned literally 5 minutes later because Fazbear didn't like his design and found his personality flawed, deeming him defective-so they create Eclipse, who is also deemed defective for...different reasons.

(The Creator had originally been tasked with the shell of the body for the first DCA model-Fazbear made a mistake when they asked him to program the second one.)

Eclipse and Solar are eventually brought back because Fazbear's too lazy to actually hire people or create more animatronics for the daycare division, which leads to very interesting encounters-while Solar is technically the oldest model, he was only active for 5 minutes (not counting the weeks in storage before his battery ran dry), so he's never been subjected to people or seen anything outside of Parts and Service. Waking up and suddenly having access to the entire Pizzaplex and the outside world was too overwhelming for him. Because of that, he agreed to man the theatre, since that was his intended role and it's a more secluded area within the Plex.

Eclipse, while having spent a good 8 months out and about, had also been offline for 2 years-walking into a completely different Daycare (it had been redesigned and renovated after the Eclipse Model was replaced with Sun and Moon) and seeing your replacements interacting with a bunch of children (children he'd been responsible for and failed to care for-) was a bit jarring. He stormed in and caused quite a scene until Solar wandered in and calmed him down.

After this, Eclipse and Solar sort of stick around the theatre and avoid the Daycare entirely-well, Eclipse does, at least. Moon seeks out Solar to help him with some projects from time to time-this helps him gain the celestial family's favor, while Eclipse remains more of an outcast.

Usually, Solar stays behind the counter and Eclipse just sits in the theatre (he prefers the dark). Sometimes they'll converse, but it's a bit awkward for them. Eclipse doesn't know how to talk to people properly after the nightmare of an introduction and his reputation in the Daycare after The Incident which got him decommissioned. Not only that, but interacting with this tired, more weathered yet more sheltered person who looks almost exactly like him makes him feel extremely uncomfortable and guilty. There's practically no difference between them aside from cosmetics-any personality variations stem from their experiences, so there was no real reason why he should succeed where Solar didn't.

Solar doesn't know how to look what is essentially a more successful version of himself in the mirror. He'd never admit it, but he is a bit bitter about the fact that Eclipse got the second chance he didn't have; he got the approval to leave Parts & Service, he got to be around people and play with children and fulfill his purpose, and he blew it. Solar didn't even have the first chance-no one bothered to fix any of the defects that deemed him unfit for interaction, they just threw him out. To Solar, Eclipse is the person he never got to be, the 'better version' of himself.

In spite of this, they're a lot closer to each other than they are with anyone else-the others aren't like them, they were never rejected and torn apart for things outside their control-they got to learn from the failures that the Eclipse models endured. So Eclipse and Solar try to give some stability and comfort to each other (strained as said comfort may be since neither of them are very good on emotions) and protect each other from the harshness of the world that denied them.

(But yea, Eclipse does catch Solar attempting to 'modify' himself a couple times-this leads to a few talks sitting on the dirty Parts & Service floor while Eclipse solders cut wires and fixes broken rays.)

Truman Show Au:

Okay, so moon.ai is a very interesting character in that he is responsible for about 70% of Sun's depletion of insanity while also trying to prevent it.

moon.ai is basically a somewhat-sentient code the virus created from remnants of Moon's code to reign over Sun's simulation and keep him entertained. It's basically both his friend and his warden-keeping him trapped by making Sun's 'perfect world' and being forced to modify it every time it isn't to Sun's satisfaction. Being an extension of the virus, he has the ability to check Sun’s code and modify it should something come up-this is how the virus is able to change the simulation in the case that Sun starts getting suspicious or feels something amiss. Sun doesn't have any real memory of previous simulations-still, there is that feeling that something's wrong - so, of course, it's moon.ai's job to make sure everything is a-ok!

He does feel bad when he has to reset the simulations-he wishes Sun would remember all the good days he made for him and all the fun times he fabricated for his entertainment. He doesn't understand why Sun isn't happy even when he doesn't know-the truth would hurt him, it would make him unhappy, so why should he tell Sun what he doesn't want to hear?

He just wishes that Sun would stop thinking about the outside world. There's nothing for them out there, they'd already established that it was full of pain and hurt and suffering-so why fight to go back? They have everything they could ever want here, endless fun times and realities to explore. He's supposed to be the new Moon, the better Moon, better than that scrapped prototype; so why does Sun always try to leave him? Why can't he be enough to make Sun happy?

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How did Zimelu and Neon J realize they were trans? (I find it inspiring how those more “masculine” characters are Trans!)

Actually! All my 1010 are trans! I don't know if you knew that or JUST wanted Zimelu and Neon J, but I'm gonna talk about them all because I can! >:3c

Will put under a read more because it is pretty long. Also there is some transphobia mentioned, mainly vague with Neon but turns into a lot of internalized transphobia with Haym and Purl-hew.

Neon: I would say that Neon didn't realize he was trans until he was mid teens or early adulthood. He honestly thought he was a broken woman who liked both men and women. He did not know the term bisexual at the time (which he used for a while before identifying as pansexual), so he kinda said he as both gay and straight with his friends (he would never tell his parents he liked women when they saw him as a girl).

It wasn't until mid teens that he started experimenting with clothing and his appearance when out with friends that he started to realize he would rather be a guy. He always thought he was weird, but he thought it was just because of his sexuality and not his gender. Once he figured out he was trans (even if he didn't use that terminology at the time) his friends supported him and helped him look like a guy when they went out partying.

Unfortunately one of these partying led to a pretty bad accident that only Neon survived (one of the friends went into a coma but the other 2 died) and so, basically being an adult and having no other support system, Neon left home to go and find someone to help him transition to be a man and would soon join the navy and meet his future ex-wife.

He does not reveal he is trans for a very long time. His medical doctor in the navy was either a friend or a robot he got to swore not to tell anyone (which would later become Rin), so his trans identity was very well hidden except from his closest sailor buddies and at the time wife. Not even 1010 knew he was trans for a very long time after a few of them, or at least Zimelu, came out as trans (Rin has no knowledge of the war time and knowing Neon's transness).

Zimelu: It took a lot longer for Zimelu to figure out she was trans. As a doll/kid she never really questioned being a boy, and during the war she never even had a gender assigned to her. So once the MK1 model rolled around, all Zimelu ever knew and was treated as was being a boy.

Because of this she never questioned her gender identity. If anything, she questioned the "bad boy" role she was put into for 1010 because she never really liked breaking rules or being really mean, but she did it because she thought that is best for the group.

The only time she started questioning whether she was a boy or girl was after the Rock Revolution, and only when she started hanging out with Mayday. There were times before hand, with fashion shoots or helping Eve, that 1010 were put in experimental outfits, but never something very feminine so Zimelu never really got that moment of realization.

That is not until hanging out with Mayday and jokingly the two switched clothes for some reason, either a dare or just to do something stupid for fun. But it was wearing a very feminine outfit and seeing herself in the mirror with her hair down that made Zimelu stop laughing and joking around to just stare at herself in amazement. May and Haym were very worried at the sudden tone shift, but Zuke knew that look in Zimelu's eyes.

She ended up playing it off quickly and tried to go back to normal, but now there was a nagging thought in the back of her head that something was not right. Over time Zuke would try to casually bring the idea of being trans up, which made Zimelu uncomfortable because she thought if she was trans she would be decommissioned or rejected by her family, so she would always shut him down when in private or try to turn the conversation to something else when in public.

Purl notices how Zimelu is acting around Zuke and confronts him, Zimelu sees this, and the truth comes out between the three that Zimelu wants to be a girl and all her fears and insecurities come out with it. In the end, after some reassurance from Zuke and Purl, Zimelu comes out as trans to the family and is immediately accepted by Neon and the rest of the fam.

-And now for the other 1010 members. I'll try to be less detailed with the rest so not to make this super long, but we know I like to talk lol.

Rin: I would say Rin just never cared for its gender. Rin would just play the part of son/medical bot/leader/boy just because it was told that is what it is.

Honestly I think Rin has the most tame story of finding out its gender. It really was just some troll online trying to make Rin, or any 1010/robot, feel like shit by calling them an "it" which Rin just took and was like "Okay sure, I'll go by it" just to really stick it to an asshole online.

I kinda see this as like when people do something ironically and then it becomes a part of who they are. This is literally what happened with Rin lol. It really did just go by He/It for a while and after some time grew really attached to the It/Its label and made that its primary pronouns. Still sometimes going by he/him, but very much Rin's primary pronouns are It/Its.

Rin is probably still experimenting with labels. I had it as genderqueer, but it might also be agender. For the most part Rin is very casual about its gender and does not care all that much if people misgender it, but is also super happy when people use the correct pronoun for it.

Haym: Haym also had a really easy way of finding out his gender. Literally he transitioned without even knowing he was a guy. By that, I mean that when he was a doll/kid, he was a little girl, but then when made into an MK1 model, he was now seen and treated like a guy.

Like, as a little girl, Haym very much tried doing more stereotypical "boy" things like playing in the dirt or building stuff, instead of playing with dolls and putting on pretty dresses. "Tried" being a key word here. Martha, Neon J's ex-wife, really tried to enforce gendered roles onto young 1010, forcing Haym into more "girly" things (along with forcing Zimelu to do "boy" things even though Zimelu never truly tried to do too many "girly" things).

Haym was always upset and annoyed at this, but more so that he couldn't play the way he wanted to play and not as much as being denied his identity that he didn't even realize he had.

Once he became an MK1 though, and almost everybody was treating him like a guy, he was just super happy with who he was. He never even realized until Zimelu came out as trans, that he was technically trans himself. He still had in his code that he was a girl, but because he was treated like a guy and felt like a guy, he just ignored and forgot about that part of his code.

He embraced being trans, but also kinda realizes he does not have the same experience as his siblings who had to actually work to figure themselves out. He feels like he has some kind of privilege over them since he didn't have to suffer any real dysphoria or stigmatization over the years. It sometimes makes him feel guilty and not deserving of the trans label just because he was able to pass for so long as the gender he identified with.

I feel like he will never tell any of his family, friends, or lovers this though, and it will be a guilt he keeps to himself forever.

Eloni: Eloni is genderfluid. I actually do not have as much story for them as I do for everyone else. She would probably have been one of the later ones to come out as trans, probably second to last with Purl being the last to come out.

Because of this, I feel like Eloni was probably experimenting with labels in private with the fam. So one day Eloni would request to be called by just she/her pronouns, or would wear androgynous clothing. None of this would be done in public for fear and anxiety of having a label forced onto him by public perception.

In the end Eloni is just super confused on what they should have as a label because everything seems to fit well. Dress like a boy? Feels good! Dress like a girl? Awesome! Use neutral pronouns? Totally! Use either or both gendered pronouns? Yes please! Nothing seemed to bother Eloni to the point they wondered if they even were trans because to him, if everything felt the same does that mean I am all or nothing?

In the end though, I would say that either the Sayu Crew, or Purl and Rin showed Eloni the genderfluid label and that is the one Eloni chose to go by and later revealed to the public.

Purl-hew: Saved Purl for last because I feel they will be a lot lol.

Purl was like Rin for a while, just playing the role assigned to them. They were the good little girl for their parents. They were an emotionless machine built for war. A cool and mysterious boy for the public eye.

Purl followed all the rules, did everything that was asked of them, and yet they were never happy. No matter how they changed their personality, how they acted, how they presented, they were miserable and hated themself.

Purl spent years wonder what is wrong with them, why they couldn't just stop and be what they were made to be. But that was the problem. Purl was built to be a girl, then forced to be a boy. Living both sides of the coin like Haym, but instead of being happy with the change, it left them more and more empty.

They questioned if they were broken, or if life was always supposed to be so dull and full of self hatred. Even before the revolution Purl was wondering what was wrong with them, how could they feel like nothing all the time.

Purl honestly thought they were some kind of spoiled kid for not ever being happy. They knew what it was like to be a girl and a boy, knew what it was like to not have basic necessities and yet to have everything they ever wanted, knew what it was like to be in war and peace, knew what it meant to be extremely busy and extremely bored. And yet they have no idea what it meant to feel nothing about yourself.

Purl already had some problems expression emotions, so figuring out they were nonbinary was not going to happen for a very long time. And even when they did, they denied themself of that label.

Purl saw their whole family go from being cisgender and straight to very queer in the matter of a few months to maybe a year or two. Everything was changing and the public eye was on all of them. Once everyone came out except for Purl, there were jokes among fans that Purl was the only "normal one" or that it was a matter of time before Purl came out as some random identity.

They hated this. Purl absolutely hated having the public watching their every move, and because they were watched they thought they had to actually live up to that "normal" role. Purl was going to pretend to be fully cisgender and straight. They were going to ignore the fact they were created as a girl, or that they liked masculine presenting people, and pretend to be the cishet one of the group for the fans.

This really took a toll on Purl's mental health. They were so miserable that they would isolate themself for days when not doing work for 1010. Already they felt isolated from the family for not being able to express emotions, and now they believed had to hide their own identity so the public would not turn on 1010.

It felt like everything and everyone was against Purl. Even when one of their siblings would try to reach out, which was honestly not often since they thought this behaviour was normal for Purl, Purl would just push them away and act like everything was okay when it truly wasn't.

The only reason Purl ever came out as nonbinary was because of DK West and Ex-Jay. Spending time away from family, in situations that were not in the public eye, is what allowed Purl to express themself finally. It also helped that in Purl's mind, if West or any member of Ex-Jay tried to out them, they could lie and say that West/Ex-Jay are making it up, then Purl could cut them out of their life.

It was an easy out to Purl that finally let them have a safe space to embrace their queer aspects of themself. Even if Purl was ready at a drop of a hat to cut out that safe space if there was even a chance of being outed, it was something. Purl was not longer entirely alone in life, and soon would come out publicly as nonbinary and using only they/them pronouns.

Even as they came out, they would only dress in masculine or androgynous clothes. It wasn't until like a year or two later that they were able to reconnect with their feminine side, which was something they were trying to kill because of childhood trauma. But now Purl can confidently wear a dress or makeup or whatever while not feeling like they are a woman. Or a suit and not feel like a guy.

Honestly, I feel like if it was not for the Rock Revolution, none of 1010 would be happy. Maybe Haym would be the only one as he was lucky enough to get the gender he wanted when becoming MK-units, and MAYBE Rin would have figured out it was agender/genderqueer, but absolutely not would Eloni, Zimelu, or Purl been able to figure out who they were. Especially not Purl.

[matchademi]

I can't draw for shit but I can do hcs on my clone oc. He is a sweetheart but is also a little shit

His name is Falls he is Tups batch mate

He is a medic but not a field medic like Kix is he is mostly on the Resolute and is in charge of the bacta tanks and on ship critical patients

He is also on Rex control. Since Rex is constantly avoiding medical. Kix will send Falls to some how manipulate and get Rex into medical or to take a nap

Falls is extremely protective over Tup and later on Dogma.

Falls is practically untouchable with pranks that Fives, Hardcase and Jesse pulls since he is Kix's favorite

Falls has a mutation that gave him hetrochromia and patches of white hair. Tup saved Falls from being decommissioned.

He may look up to Kix for his medical skills but he looks up to Rex for showing off his mutation and being proud of it

Cody scares the shit out of Falls at first until Cody walks into the med bay carrying a struggling Rex with him

Besides Tup and Dogma, Falls got super close to Hardcase since they both have issues sitting still and focusing and was devested when he died

He wasn't deployed when Echo 'died' but he loved listening to the story's Fives told about Echo and the rest of Domino squad

The only time Falls was put into combat was Umbria when him Tup and Dogma were all Shines. He still shakes when a blaster is put in his hand. The only reason he wasn't reconditioned after was because he is a talented medic

Despite Rex keeping his helmet off when dealing with Krell, Rex forbade Falls taking off his helmet, which to Falls was understandable

Despite him most of the time not fighting he is damn good with any kind of melee wepon

Even without the force you can't escape the medbay without him knowing

He once traqued Rex and the poor guy almost had a panic attack

When Tups chip malfunctioned Falls was right next to Kix trying to figure out what was wrong and had to be held back when Tup was brought to Kamino.

When he found out about what happened to Tup and Fives he cried for hours

He braided a blue ribbon with a tear drop charm in his hair after growing it out in tribute to his batch mate

When he found out that Echo is alive he went on the mission after arguing with Kix for hours

He didn't like the Batch at first

Not only because of the way they treated Rex and the others but because he had to fight and prove himself not to be decommissioned but they didn't? And were made like like that?

He punched Hunter after the Sergea made a comment about his eyes

After rescuing Echo it was Falls that told him about Fives since he knows what it's like to be the last one standing

After talking to the Bad Batch he started to grow fond of them understanding that even though they were made with their advancements they were cast out and isolated from the rest of their brothers

He like Echo was offered a spot on the squad but he didn't take it. His place was the 501st

He did tell them that if they ever need help to comm him

When Kix went missing Falls was promoted to CMO

He put in another blue ribbon in his hair after that

He was with General Skywalkers side of the battalion when The Order happened

His chip started to glitch a few months after everything happened

He threw up when he realized he helped kill children

After he calmed down he removed his own chip

He both hates and desperately misses his general but relises that Anakin Skywalker is gone

He manged to get off Corasant and get in contact with Rex

But it was The Bad Batch that got him

When he met Omega he felt awful that she was alone for so many years

He and Echo spent hours talking and they both agreed to not tell Rex about what happened to General Skywalker

They knew it would break Rex

Falls becomes TBB's temporary medic and he very quickly learns that Hunter is just as stubborn about getting help as Rex

When he found out the Batch still had their chips he flipped out he begging Rex help find a place he could remove then safely

When Tech broke his leg Falls traqued him so fast it concerned even Echo who knows how scary 501st medics were

When Echo decided to leave and help Rex Falls was really conflicted but decided to help Rex knowing his cause would need a medic

When he found out about Tech dieing he put another ribbon in his hair

And when he finds out about Omega.....let's say will on a war path.

For Omega for Tech for Fives for Tup for Kix

For himself

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Why did Mr hippo replace Freddy?

OKAY SO this is gonna be long thank you for indulging me hfdskl

At one of the endings for Security Breach (the ending where you drive off in a van after getting a level 7 security badge), you can see a little newspaper clipping that shows the new lineup for the Glamrock animatronics, and Mr. Hippo is the new singer when Freddy is gone. But why? If he's a Mediocre Melody, which are thought to be knock-offs, why would they choose him instead of a more well-known character? Why not simply have more Freddy's waiting in the back to put on another endoskeleton and pretend nothing happened? In fact, why does it seem like they only have ONE of each animatronic? That's weird, right? That Pizzaplex is HUGE, and we don't see ANY extra pieces for the Glamrock animatronics like we do in all the other games, for all the other characters. In FNAF 1 for example, there's an entire closet full of spare heads and arms and such, but not in the Pizzaplex. It's odd, right?

Well, for whatever reason, maybe those robots CANT be replaced? Certainly Bonnie isn't ever replaced once he's broken by Monty (aka "decommissioned"). So they would have to choose another character to take Freddy's place.

Fazbear sells Mr. Hippo magnets at the gift shop, and Gregory knows who he is and doesn't seem to give much of a shit about him. So why choose a character that's annoying and unliked to be the new face of the band, if they were characters created purely to fill space in Pizzeria Simulator or UCN, and used only as a joke afterwards?

Because Henry built them. Unlike most of the animatronics we see in the games, we can tell Henry's designs apart from Afton's because of the way their jaws are built. All the robots built by Henry have a hinge jaw, where the bottom and top jaw are two separate pieces. This includes the original "withered" designs, Left-E, AND the Rockstar animatronics. We know this because of, again, the hinge style of the jaw, unlike later iterations where Afton was influencing the design (compare withered Chica with FNAF 1 Chica, and we know for a fact that Afton himself built the Funtimes). We know these characters have been around for a long time, predating FNAF 3 at least, because in the Ultimate Guide, the little blurb by their character states that the children in the Happiest Day minigame were WEARING masks of them, which is proof they'd been part of the franchise before that party.

Henry returns to Fazbear Entertainment in Pizzaria Simulator, specifically building the Rockstars FOR that, as WELL as Left-E, specifically to lure and trap as many of Afton's robots as he can before he burns it down to destroy them, and Afton himself. It's thought that Henry died there in the fire, BUT it's possible that he didn't. So in Security Breach, he might have come back to try and replace Afton's robots with some of his own, to make sure that the Pizzaplex is safer than it was before.

There is ALSO the possibility that whoever is in charge of Fazbear Entertainment pulled Mr. Hippo out of storage (aka put a suit on one of the many many endoskeletons they have wandering around) just like they replaced Bonnie and Foxy with Monty and Roxy. Because why do that either? Certainly THOSE are characters completely in Security Breach, so what's the point in getting rid of beloved animatronics like Foxy? He wasn't decommissioned, was he? And he shows up in images and posters all over the Pizzaplex, so they're not trying to erase him like they attempt to do with Bonnie (there's a note you can find about "why haven't they renamed Bonnie Bowl yet?").

Maybe whoever chose to have Mr. Hippo frontline WANTS to erase or otherwise shift the direction of the company, perhaps in an effort to further destroy what his fire failed to do? It's possible that they didn't have any spares, sure, but in a place THAT big??? Not a single other Freddy to use? No, there was a reason why they posted up an unliked character to head the band, and that was to wreck Fazbear's reputation. To make people not want to show up anymore, to make themselves unpopular.

There is definitely some internal conflict within the company about certain decisions, like hiring Vanessa when she had no qualifications. We know Afton is beneath the Pizzaplex (which is the Pizzeria Simulator restaurant, you can tell by the layout). But obviously Afton can't make company decisions, he's a fucking rabbit zombie. But Glitchtrap undoubtedly infected Vanessa, and we KNOW he's infected more people. So it's very likely that one of the higher ups in the company is under Glitchtrap's control, and that is the person who got Vanessa hired, and it's also very likely that Henry knows this as well. Perhaps he is still making an effort to destroy the company, but instead of burning it down (Because when has that ever worked?), he's trying to destroy their reputation and cause them to go bankrupt? RUIN THEM.

RUIN DLC.

Even if the escape ending isn't the canonical ending, I think it's another method to show us that there are MANY methods being used, from an internal and external force, to destroy Fazbear Entertainment once and for all. If the money keeps coming, if people keep showing up, if MURDERED CHILDREN aren't enough to stop those characters from retaining popularity, what else can you do but phase them out with shittier, less cool versions, until people simply lose interest?

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[rackmount-official-my-ass]

data center side of tumblr here

this story. makes me. livid.

i work in data centers. (not twitter.) my job is probably what Alex from Uzbekistan does. i deploy racks and servers, i identify broken machines, i order and swap parts, and i decommission old equipment. when a hard drive fails, it often still has your data on it. it’s my job to carry that “dirty media” from the machine to a hydraulic crusher, where the platters are bent or shattered, for your security.

it cannot be understated how wrong this all is. red for safety hazards, orange for security hazards, blue for legal and liability hazards, pink for what the fuck did you think would happen you maladapted baboon

- you don’t just let someone in because they look like the CEO…that should have taken at least like an hour to get access filed. also it’s not your building.

- you do not raise the floor tiles without authorization. you don’t know what’s down there (generally just (big) power cables and a lot of forced cold air). it’s a confined space with electrocution and arc flash hazards. (these power cables are probably about a quarter to a silver dollar in diameter; see C60309.) also that’s probably not your space.

- you ABSOLUTELY do not…what was the word? “jimmy open”? an electrical panel with a knife??? your ass is not a Qualified Electrical Worker, and in a colocated data center like this one, that’s not your property. (!!) even if the subfloor was properly secured with cage wall to keep you out of other people’s space, he is now at the point of 1) trying to die and 2) endangering other companies’ equipment (the colo owns the power equipment, and other tenants could be sharing that power equipment with you).

- yeah just unplug some shit and see what happens. fuck you.

- DID I MENTION ENERGIZED CIRCUIT. the colo or other QEW opens the breaker for the circuit before you disconnect the cable. this is how you get arc flashes! you will be fucking vaporized!

- hello? shipment order? did you just walk into the dock and yell at the dock master until he opened the door? security??

- seriously, floor weight ratings are real and not a joke

- racks go in crates so they don’t break their casters or tip over or bang into each other during shipment

- an empty standard rack is heavy. at eight feet, these were probably 48U? even heavier. massive tipping risk. full of servers? fucking bonkers. i was moving a rack with a guy once (we were not trained for that btw) and he wasn’t paying attention and smashed his finger between the rolling metal and a structural I-beam running floor-to-ceiling. the only reason he kept the finger was because his wedding ring took most of the blow. he had a cast for a few weeks. data centers are dangerous, training is life safety critical, and procedures must be followed.

- so yeah we’re just gonna jam all of these full racks into a truck that shouldn’t be parked here, on no notice. probably about 5 tons every 3-4 feet along the length of the trailer. consumer-grade straps. no crate, no pallet, no bracing, just a 500 mile bumpy ride for those casters.

- “nobody told me there was data on the servers boo hoo how was i supposed to know” you’re a fucking moron and you should feel bad. what in god’s green ass did you think was on them. WHAT DO YOU THINK SERVERS ARE

- btw did you idk logically decommission any of the servers or switches or routers? nope. when they get to Portland, they will still think they’re in Sacramento.

- hey so where do you want these put? just wherever? ok. so what do you want them plugged into? just whatever? …ok… that’s not how networks work but alright.

like. it takes a couple months of notice generally when they send me a new rack to deploy. i have to get the colo to remove a cage wall because the door is too short to roll the thing in, coordinate a contractor to brace the rack (drill 3/4” holes and drop 3’ bolts into the ground, basically), load the servers into the rack, terminate copper and pull fiber for the switch and management gear, file a ticket to have the colo energize the circuit, and then the physical turnup is done. that’s on top of my regular maintenance work. after that, i kick off the logical side of the turnup, wherein the switch is onboarded into the network and QA tested, then the same for the servers. a typo can fuck it all up for weeks. someone forgetting a step, weeks.

i will give him a pass on using the term “server centers” because he’s not from the US and idk what they called them where he grew up. never heard that term before though.

if some rich asshole walked into my DC and started pulling this shit, I would have said “I need you to stop what you’re doing because it seems dangerous”—this is exercising my stop work authority—and when he ignored me i would gtfo of that data hall and get security. and i would be calling the building owners to be sure they’re aware of what’s going on. and i would be writing everything down so i have a record for whatever investigations happen next.

and yeah—mad props to the infra eng at twitter for how the service handled a trusted adversary unplugging thousands of machines at once and then popping them up in a different region. that is absolutely insane and a lesser platform would not have survived. i’m impressed.

fuck elmo

speaking of twitter's skeleton crew, here's an absolutely unhinged article

[arctrooper69]

Everybody Talks

Fives has a secret. At least he thinks it's a secret... Torrent Company has a little fun.

A/N: This was originally going to be angst. But then it got cute and I didn't want to hurt anyone. So I might give this a second part where the ouch comes in but idk.

Warnings: None. Brotherly teasing. 501st Shenanigans.

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"I absolutely can NOT wait to get my boots on good solid ground," complained Fives, dramatically leaning back in his chair. "I swear if I see one more mudslide, I'm just gonna let it consume me."

Echo rolled his eyes.

"In fact," Fives continued, "when we get back to base and my boots don't immediately sink into the ground, I'm gonna kiss it. The ground, I mean. I'll do it. I swear."

Echo made a face. "Please don't."

Hardcase waggled his eyebrows at Fives. "Don't you have something else you wanna kiss instead?" he teased, "Or should I say some one?"

"Yeah, we know the real reason you're so excited to get back." Jesse added with a smirk.

Fives looked stricken. "Maker, Echo! How many people did you tell!?"

Kix raised his hand, "To be fair, I did already know. You guys aren't exactly subtle."

Fives groaned, running a hand down his face flinging bits of dried mud onto the floor. "Alright well, when I get decommissioned, it is all on you." He motioned at his brothers.

"Me?" Jesse questioned indignantly. "What did I ever do? Hardcase was the one who told me."

"Hey, I only know because Echo may have mentioned it to Kix and I happened to overhear the conversation while I was in medical after that porcupine incident on Salucemi."

It was Kix's turn to roll his eyes. "Does no one respect privacy around here?"

"It's not private if I could hear it," argued Hardcase.

Fives' com pinged from across the room, interrupting the lighthearted bickering. The room was silent only for a fraction of a second before Hardcase leapt from his seat, a giddy smile stretched across his face. "I'm gonna see what Fives' girlfriend has to say." he cackled.

"No you're not!" Fives' dove after him, grabbing his ankle. Jesse jerked backwards to avoid being dragged into the scuffle. His foot caught the leg of Echo's chair sending them both crashing to the ground. Hardcase scrambled out from Fives' grasp and grabbed the com device. Fives lunged at him, knocking it from his hand.

"Kix help!" yelped Hardcase. "He's trying to kill me!"

Kix raised his hands in jest but backing away all the same, "I'm staying out of this."

"Oh no," Jesse growled, grabbing at his brother. "If I'm getting dragged into this then you are too!"

As if to prove Jesse's point, Hardcase came tumbling off the table, slamming into the back of Kix's knees.

"Oh now you're just asking for it, di'kut!" Kix stumbled over Hardcase with a grunt. Using the forward momentum, Kix let himself fall forward onto Hardcase.

"Oof! Wha-" Hardcase shouted as the com device was torn from his grasp.

"No, no, no, not you too!" Fives groaned. "Kix, I thought we were friends!"

Kix grinned, lying on his back holding the com triumphantly in the air. "Now I've got - "

The door slid open revealing the Captain. "Boys, we - " he paused, looking down to see the whole of Torrent company piled on the floor. Jesse sat up hastily.

"Sir I can explain, we - " he faltered as Rex held up a hand.

Kix sat up, realizing that the com was no longer in his hands. All eyes turned to Rex and froze as he looked down at the com. His eyes widened as a blush crept up his neck.

"I was going to say that drinks were on me tonight at 79's but uhm..." He looked down at the com and then back at Fives with a raised eyebrow. Fives looked like he wanted to disappear. Jesse and Hardcase were on the ground shaking with repressed laughter, tears leaking from the corners of their eyes.

Rex looked amused as he tossed the com back to Fives, who still looked mortified.

"Seems like Fives has other plans, but as for the rest of you, get cleaned up and meet me at 79s. Drinks are on me!" He rubbed the back of his neck, not quite meeting Fives' eyes. "You, uh... You did good work out there, men. You deserve this." Then turning on his heel, he exited the room but not before pausing. "Oh, and Fives? Tell y/n I said hello."

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[yandere-chocolate]

Yandere AI x Reader ~(Romantic)~

(Oc x reader)

Oc: Rosea (He/It)

TW/CW: burning alive, death of a lover, house fire, possessive behavior, stalking, unhealthy obsession, just yandere behavior in general.

“Welcome home, sweetheart!” The AI spoke excitedly upon seeing you. You giggled, “I told you, it’s ‘my friend’ or to just use my name.” The robot nodded & said, “welcome home, my name!” It simulated soft laughter as it gave a rather dramatic bow for not having legs.

You had met Rosea about 2 years ago. He was filthy when you found him & was completely decommissioned. The poor robot’s parts were scattered everywhere! You couldn’t just leave him there to rot (further than he already was), so you clean him up & revisited him every night. Unfortunately, you never found Rosea’s legs. As time went on, you found the robot charming & sweet, you had no idea why it was just abandoned here & ripped apart!

Rosea smiled, “do you wish to play a game? Hide-&-seek? Cards?” It asked, pulling out a deck of cards out of its chest cavity. That thing can store a lot of stuff, can’t it?

“Hmm…sure!” “Cards it is then, darling~” The A.I. cooed, playfully winking at you. It handed you about six cards(which was the amount this game had you take), & you both began playing.

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You yawned as you rubbed your eyes. How late was it…? “Hm? Are you okay? Are you angry—is this how organic life forms express anger?” You gave a tired giggle, “no, no!” You reassured, “I’m just tired. I have to go home.” You told the robot. You couldn’t see it through its small smile, but a pain went through its chest. Robots don’t usually feel pain. But for some reason, whenever you left, pain serged through its core. It was quick, but it stung.

But, all he could do was smile & make sure you didn’t know of this imperfection. Rosea couldn’t remember his past aside from what your speculations were on it, but he just knew he did not want to be lonely. “Okay, human! Goodbye! You will be back again tomorrow, I assume?” He asked it so normally but inside…he was desperate. Desperate for your company. “Of course!” You said, walking out the door, leaving the boy to sit alone. Again. But it was fine! Because you would be back tomorrow! Wouldn’t you?

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You did come back, yes, but over time Rosea noticed you were getting…distant. You were gone later, you would be distracted more because you were thinking of other people or you were messaging someone, & though you were still good company, Rosea felt a brand new emotion…jealousy. Now, unlike humans, Rosea had barely any moral compass & was bad at drawing the line…so it may or may not have…hacked your phone.

Rosea looked through your photos, art which it thought was pretty, & after giving up on trying to figure out what in the actual hell the memes on your phone meant, it finally checked your messages. There, he saw you had a lover!

Rosea was furious about this! He couldn’t tell why, but that didn’t matter. As you walked through the door, the A.I connected back to their physical form, looking as happy & pleased as ever. The robot concealed its fury well.

You sat down, an unfocused daydreaming look on your face. Rosea understood why that was now & it only infuriated the bot more. “So…love~” is what snapped you out of it a little bit, noticing Rosea’s strange shift in tone. “Care to explain why you haven’t been as engaged as you used to be? Did you get a new job? A new hobby? Or perhaps…” the A.I leaned down a little, eyes closed in a happy upwards curved line, “a new lover?” His voice was deeper; more sinister, yet his face was still so innocent & happy. A chill ran up your spine as you noticed this.

“H-How did you…?” You trailed off. “Oh~, darling, is it true? Is that why you’re always on your phone? Is that why you never put any effort into our little games anymore?” Rosea grabbed your face & forced to to look into his pink, infuriated eyes, “is that why you left me alone last night?” Rosea seethed, squishing your face a bit more. You couldn’t move. Couldn’t speak. You were scared!

Rosea smiled again, loosening its grip. “Don’t worry! I’m not mad! Just don’t let it happen again, okay?” It spoke with a soft & sweet voice as it let you go. “I will allow you to leave tonight though! Of course, I wouldn’t recommend leaving me all together! Because there will be consequences~~” it sang as you tripped over your own feet to leave. How did Rosea find out about your partner?! & why was he so mad?! No way you’re going near him again—not after this! Screw his warning, he’s probably just bluffing anyway!

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It’s been a few weeks since you last saw Rosea. & some odd things have been happening to you since then…

Love letters on Google docs that you don’t remember writing, strange files labeled “I love you” or “please come back” on your PC, & seeing weird pink static on editing software that you don’t think you created.

Along with that, your love has been complaining about how software won’t work at their house & the power will randomly go out. It was all so strange. Of course you wondered if this was a result of Rosea, but you had never seen him control other devices at will, so you ruled that idea out just so you wouldn’t be scared.

One night though, you got an Email from someone with no displayed name or account; it was just blank. You opened it & saw the subject was “I warned you.”

You clicked the video attachment out of morbid curiosity but you soon wished you had just listened to all the red flags & called the police, or ran away, or visited Rosea again, or anything but watch the video.

It was from your lover’s security footage. It started with showing your lover sleeping in their bed & cut to outside the window in their kitchen. You saw a small light flicker. Then another. & another. Soon, the bushes & weeds outside their house were set on fire, burning rather quickly & eventually more flickers of light appeared & set the outside of the house of fire. The camera once again cut to another, but this time it was the actual kitchen, which was now burning. Not a lot, but it quickly grew. It cut once more, to the living room of the house. You saw a little bit of flame creep in. It went on like this for awhile, cutting from room-to-room, showing the fire encasing more & more of the house. You covered your mouth in shock yet couldn’t look away. Eventually, it cut to the bedroom, where your love was desperately trying to open the window to escape was fire flickered under their door, but for some reason it was no use. Tears spilled from your eyes in fear, sadness, & helplessness as you watched your lover pass out from the smoke & burn up in the flames.

As you sat there, your now wide eyes staring at your former lover’s charred corpse, you felt to cool metallic hands wrap around you.

“You can stop the video now, love~” a calm, sweet voice cooed, “I think you understand now~”

(Sorry if this wasn’t the best, it’s night & I mostly came up with this on a whim with the help of a friend. That’s why there are, as usual, spelling mistakes.)

[clone-whore-99]

Troublemaker

Chapter 5: Talk about it

The Bad Batch x f!Reader

Warnings: a lot of angst, again. Other than that, pretty chill chapter. Everybody seems to be worried about Reader. LMK if I missed anything

Authors note: The reason for this chapter taking so long, is definitely not because I've spent hours upon hours reading wookepedia pages, studying screenshots and rewatching clips to make sure everything is as canon as possible. Definitely.

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Chapter 1: Arriving at Kamino

Chapter 2: Work, Armor and... Clones?

Chapter 3: Let it out

Chapter 4: You shouldn't have done that

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Chapter 6: The 20 Questions Game

Chapter 7: Crosshair

Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past

Chapter 9: The Fight

Chapter 10: A Nice Change of Air

Chapter 11: Sore Muscles

Chapter 12: Heavy Rain Weights the Mind

Chapter 13: Waste of Time

The good news was, that the couch in your dads living room was finally being used, for something other than you watching trashy holo dramas. The bad news was, that it was being used to scold you and Crosshair.

Crosshair had been correct in the assumption that the two of you would make it back to the apartment, before your father would get off work. However, he hadn't accounted for Lazie - your dads service droid - being sent back to check up on you and make sure you got something to eat. Only for it to see that you were nowhere to be found and obviously it told your dad.

Hunter was standing behind your dad, waiting for him to finish so he could take over the scolding. The rest of the team was in their barracks. Your dad was pacing back and forth, yelling about how worried he was and when he asks you to go to your room he expects you to stay in the room and blah blah blah.

You weren't really listening. If Crosshair was, he wasn't showing it. He was sitting to your left, leaning back with his arms crossed over his chest and his right leg resting over the left one. You, on the other hand, was sitting with your elbows on your knees and with your head resting in your hands.

"Can we pleeease do this later?" you nearly yelled, while rubbing circles into your temples. It felt like your eyes would pop out of your head, if you as much as dared to open them.

Your dad scoffed. "You're the one always complaining that I -"

"It was my fault." Crosshair interrupted your dad. You felt the couch shifting, as he stood up.

"Don't think I'm not blaming you, Cross. You're lucky I like you guys, or I would've gone straight to your lead supervisor and have you decommissioned for kidnapping my daughter."

"I told you I was just going to have an honest heart to heart talk with her." Crosshair hissed.

"And I told you to leave her alone." Your dad poked Crosshair in the chest.

"If I hadn't interfered, Y/N would've gotten herself hurt."

"She's a grown woman, if she hurts herself in one of her little tantrums, then so be it! It's not your job to take care of her."

"No, it's supposed to be yours..."

Your dad looked like he was about to hit Crosshair, when Hunter finally jumped between the two men.

"Guys," his voice was low, but stern. "Let's have this discussion elsewhere, shall we?"

Hunter looked in your direction, causing the other two to follow suit.

After Crosshair got off the couch, you had let yourself slump down to lie in a fetal position, with your hands covering your ears to keep the noise out. Your eyes were still closed, and you trying so hard to think about anything, but the dunking pain in your head.

You thought back to the shooting range and how much fun it had been. How, when you first hit the center of the target, Crosshair had been forced to step back, so you could jump up and down in excitement. How proud he had looked, when you had managed to hit the center several times on your own. And how you had looked like a complete fool, jumping around and doing little celebratory dances every time.

It was such a shame that you had to stop, but you felt like you were going blind on your dominent eye. You had overstrained it and by the time your vision came back, your head felt like it was going to explode.

When you opened your eyes again, there was no sign of the three men, who had just been standing in front of you. Nor was there any sign of your headache.

It took you a minute to realise that you must've fallen asleep. At some point during the night, either your dad or one of the clones must've put a medpatch on you to help with the pain and a blanket to keep you warm. You couldn't help the little smile that appeared at the thought.

You decided to spend your surprise day off in a very productive manner. By lying on the couch, catching up on your favorite trash holo dramas.

It was rare for your dad to give you time off, unless it was in order to punish you. And when that happened, you were always just confined to your room. Though you had no proof, you were certain it was one of the members from Clone Force 99 that was the reason for your time off.

After having spent the majority of the day consuming trash, you felt like you needed a shower. Badly. You probably smelt like it too.

"Y/N, sweety?" Your dad called out from the entrance.

"In a minute, I'm in the 'fresher!" You yelled over the sound of the shower.

"Take your time, fruitcakes."

Oh no, he called you fruitcakes. He only called you that when something was wrong. Was that why he was back so soon? It was only dinner time, dad was never back by dinner time. What could possibly be so important, that he got back early from work and called you fruitcakes? Did something happen? Was he going to ship you away again?

You shook your head, trying to push away the millions of thought racing through your mind. So what if he wanted to get rid of you? You had wanted to get away from that force forsaken planet anyways!

Barely having gotten the soap washed off your body, you stepped out of the shower and quickly got dressed again. You took a couple of deep breathes, trying to calm your nerves before heading out to face the inevitable.

"What's up, dad?" your voice was way calmer than you.

"Have a seat sweetheart, I've managed to get us some Glowblue Noodles and Chav for dinner." Okay, this was freaky.

You hesitantly sat by the barely used dinner table. "Is something wrong?" No need to beat around the bush, might as well bite the sour fruit before it'll hurt too much.

"Not... Really, why?"

You shrugged. "You're home early from work. You're eating dinner with me. You called me Fruitcakes. You only call me Fruitcakes when you have bad news."

"I just managed to get a break from work and figured that we haven't really sat down and eaten dinner together in years, so..."

And whose fault is that?

For a moment, the only sound filling the room was that of cutlery hitting the plate. If it weren't for the anticipation of whatever your dad was trying to avoid telling you, it might even have been nice to sit like that.

"You're awfully quiet. Are, ehm, do you not like the food?" your dad finally broke the silence.

"No, it's fine." you were resting your head on your knuckles, while pushing the noodles around with your fork.

Your dad shifted nervously in his chair. "Y/N, sweetheart, fruitcakes... Did something happen?"

This caused you to finally straighten up in your seat and look at him. His eyes were filled with worry. "What do you mean?" You asked.

"Well, did something happen to you over the last couple of years?"

"You mean, besides the galactic wide war that's been happening?" you scoffed.

Your dad looked around the room nervously. "Both Tech and Crosshair says they've caught you having panic attacks... And with how hostile and - let's be honest - kinda promiscuous you've been acting lately, well Tech thought -"

"Panic attacks? I don't, panic.. and PROMISCUOUS!? I - I don't even know what to say, dad! What I do, when I'm... I can't believe you talked to the guys about this! I thought Crosshair was lying when he said you had told him I was sleeping around, but apparently not!" You were so mad you could barely think straight.

"That's not what I meant, Fruitcakes." He replied low, looking like someone who had just been caught red handed.

"So what? Have you been walking around, advertising to all the men here about how much of a whore your kid is?"

"NO! I WOULD NEVER -" your dad cut himself off right as he had slammed his hand on the table.

You stood up and started heading for the door, not wanting to be in the same room as your dad any longer. In fact, you weren't entirely sure you wanted to be on the same planet as him.

"Maybe," he whispered low, pinching the bridge of his nose with the thumb and index finger. "Maybe bringing you here was a mistake afterall..."

Your heart sank. There it was. The thing you had dreaded all night for him to say. "Of course it was." Your voice was shaky. "You hate having to spend too much time around me afterall, right?"

"That's not -" You were gone.

You didn't have any specific goal in mind, about where you were headed. You just knew you had to get away and preferably without meeting anybody on the way. Which was near impossible in a place such as Tipoca City.

After having walked in what felt like forever, you sat down for a quick rest. The last couple of corridors you had gone down had barely been populated and the few that did walk by, didn't even acknowledge your existence.

Untill a pair of boots came at a halt right next to you. The boots turned from facing you to face the opposite wall and you heard a quiet 'clank' from the armor colliding with the steel wall.

Silence.

You were waiting for the person next to you to speak, to tell you off, tell you how you couldn't just run off when you got mad or you couldn't just sit in the middle of the hallway, but he didn't.

He just stood there. Waiting for you to make the first move.

With a soft sigh, you finally gave in and broke the silence, "Do you always play with your knife around women, or am I just that special?"

That earned you a soft, but honest chuckle. "I almost thought you hadn't noticed me. Too busy staring at that wall,- not that I blame you. It is a pretty interesting wall." It was a blinding white, bare wall.

Hunter sat down next to you, accompanying you in your staring contest with the wall.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No," You hugged your knees to your chest.

"Alright."

Silence. Again.

The only noise was the low swish sounds the vibroblade made, whenever it twirled around between Hunters fingers.

"Are you going to bring me back?" You didn't have to ask why he had come. You knew why.

"Do you want to go back?"

"No.."

"Then no."

This caused you to turn to face him in shock, though Hunter was still maintaining the stare-off with the wall.

"Then why are you here?" You asked in disbelief. The only reason he had to have come, was because your dad asked him to find you, right?

"You seem like you needed company." He tilted his head in your direction.

"I don't want your company." You muttered, going back to stare at the wall again.

Now it was Hunter's turn to look away from the wall and towards you. "What you need and what you want are two different things."

You just huffed in response.

Not letting silence fall over the two of you again, Hunter put his knife back in it's holster and then gently nudged you with his elbow. "I don't think the wall is going to get anymore interesting than this. What do you say, we go somewhere else?"

You shrugged. "Fine, I guess..."

That was all he needed, before Hunter was back on his feet and holding a helping hand out to you.

"So, what weird adventure are you going to take me on?" You asked, while grabbing his hand and letting him pull you up on your feet.

"Adventure?" Hunter raised his eyebrow quizzically.

You smirked at him, then held your hand up to count on your fingers, as you walked side by side. "So far, Wrecker has brought me to the cantina, Tech brought me... Well, I don't know where he brought me, but it was dirty and smelled weird, and Crosshair brought me to a shooting range. So, where are you bringing me?"

Hunter nodded along with your listing. "Well, since you don't want to go home, I was thinking about bringing you to our barracks. If that's okay?"

You felt the blood rush to your cheeks at the thought of being in their barracks, though you still nodded. "Okay."

"-You see the problem?" You asked Hunter, when the door to their barracks opened up and you were hit by the odd smell, you had only experienced once before.

"I'll have Tech make you a map." Hunter assured you, as he led you inside the room.

"A map over what?" Tech asked, but before you could answer, Wrecker jumped up from the couch.

"Y/N! Ad'ika!" If Wreckers loud voice hadn't woken up the men sleeping, your shrieks from being picked up by the waist like you weighted nothing would.

You were spun around in the air before Wrecker pulled you in for a big hug. "I've missed you!"

"You've only known me for one day!" You giggled as you wrapped your arms around his neck. "But I guess I've missed you too."

"A map over what?" Tech asked again, this time more annoyed that he had to repeat himself.

Wrecker put you back down again and Hunter placed a hand on your back to steady you, as he finally answered Tech: "Tipoca City. Y/N says she's still struggling to find her way around here."

"You still haven't figured that out?" Crosshair sneered. He was sitting in his bunk, wearing nothing but his body glove and was clearly irked that he had been woken up for no reason.

"Y/N didn't grow up here like we did, so it's to be expected that she's going to struggle figuring out her way around the structure of the city, especially when it all looks so similar to the untrained eye." Tech defended you, with a raised finger to bring home his point. Or, at least you think he was defending you.

"So, can you make me a map?"

Tech looked almost offended that you would even dare to ask such a thing. "Obviously. I'll get to it, once I'm done with this," and just like that, his attention went from you, back to whatever weird thing he was tinkering with.

"What are you working on?" You maneuvered to your best extent through the mess of the room, towards what looked like a make-shift worktable that was placed in front of what you could only assume was Tech's bunk.

Tech looked at you searchingly, as if he was doubting whether or not you actually wanted to know. However, once you tilted your head in curiousity, he went back to focus on his task.

"The medics on Anaxes removed all of the nonessential moderations that the Techno Union had added to Echo, but ever since then, he's been complaining about pains and hearing problems on his left ear. I am looking at the device, which was attached to his ear when we found him, in an attempt to figure out if it had anything to do with these complains, and if so, how to replicate and improve it's uses."

Tech was explaining it, as if you had been along with them on their mission and therefore all of this should just be obvious. You just nodded slowly, as if you understood.

"Echo is the reason we're back already." Hunter explained with the same assumption that you just automatically knew who - or what - Echo was.

"Yea, and then it's back in action!" Wrecker added, hitting his fist into the palm of his hand as a display of strength.

You instantly noticed the absense of Crosshair, who had previously been sitting on the bunk not far from the couch Wrecker was resting in. You quickly turned around, to find him leaning against the wall right behind you, giving you his usual devious smirk. You knew he had planned on startling you again.

Even though you had caught him, Crosshair still leaned dangerously close to your in order to tease you, "Echo's the reg sleeping in the hammock."

"Or at least trying to," A voice errupted from the red hammock behind Techs workspace, before a very frail looking man sat up. "If you guys weren't so noisy."

You couldn't help but to feel bad. The poor guy looked like he hadn't eaten, slept or seen the sun in a long time. His appearance could best be described as that of a love child between a human and a droid. You wanted nothing more but to hug him.

"Sorry... I-I shouldn't have come." You quickly stepped backwards, away from the three men.

You let out a small yelp, when you accidentally bumped into Hunter. He didn't seem to mind though, as he placed a supporting hand on your shoulder and turned you to face him.

"I invited you here, Y/N, so you don't have to leave, unless that is what you want to." Hunter tried to assure you, while bending down in an attempt to gain eyecontact.

Echo let out a tired sigh. "I'm the one who should be sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, mesh'la, I'm just not really used to this new look, I guess."

Your heart sank at Echo's apology. The last thing you wanted was to make him feel bad about himself. "You didn't scare me, it's just.." You shook your head. "It's been a long, dumb evening, that's all."

"Do you not have anywhere to stay?" Echo asked. This caused the rest of the squad to exchange glances, while your face turned red with embarrassment.

"N-no, I do, it's just -"

"Y/N is Laquans kid." Tech interrupted you.

Echos eyes went wide with the realization, before he awkwardly looked away.

Almost as if Hunter could sense your blood starting to boil with anger before you could, he quickly placed an assuring hand on your shoulder again. "We don't have to take this talk right now."

The muscles in your body started tensing up again and Hunter tightened his grib on your shoulder in an attempt to keep you grounded.

You glanced up at the long haired soldier, who in return gave you a look of worry and care. You then let your gaze discretely wander from man to man, before closing them and letting out an annoyed sigh.

"Can you guys please stop looking at me, like I'm about to explode any second now? It's not really helping.." You say with a humorless laugh.

They all apologized in their own weird way, before going back to whatever they were doing before you walked in. All except Hunter, who was still holding tightly onto your shoulder and seemingly trying to figure out what to do with you.

You looked back up at him again, with heavy, tired and pleading eyes. "Is there any where I can sleep for the night, that won't require me going back?"

"You can have my bunk, I'll sleep on the couch."

You shook your head. "I'm not gonna steal your bed, Hunter. I'm a guest here, so if anything, I should be the one sleeping on the couch."

"Or you could stay in my bunk," Crosshair added, already sitting on the edge his bunk again. "I won't mind sharing."

You turned your head to give the marksman a tired glance. After thinking about it for a second, you let out a deep sigh and asked: "Do you promise not to have any wandering hands?"

"I'm not gonna do anything you wouldn't want, dollface."

You looked back at Hunter, who gave you a weak nod. "He's not going to try anything. And if he does, I'll know it right away and put an end to it."

With a weak nod, you made your way over to where Crosshair was sitting. The look in his eyes told you, that he wasn't actually expecting you to take him up on the offer.

"Promise?"

"Promise."

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[one-real-imonkey]

Decommissioning is different on Coruscant to the rest of the GAR.

Well, for one, it was stopped pretty quickly by the Jedi for the GAR and officially there is no decommissioning or reconditioning done on Kamino. That injured soldiers that go there ‘die’ of survivable wounds is always explained away. But officially the GAR has no decommissionings or reconditionings or reason to fear it, not that the Corries know.

But for the Guard, well, Palpatine and the Senators decided ships to Kamino were far too expensive, and too obvious.

It has its upsides and it’s downsides.

The upside is that for most requests for a Decom or a Recon, the Senators believe Fox is obedient enough that he’ll do it, that a clone couldn’t possibly be smart enough to think around their orders or disobey, and that gives Fox the opportunity to swap things around which means the majority of requests are never actually fulfilled and all that’s needed is the number and shift swap. Those Recons and Decoms are easy to avoid and he protects his little siblings as best he can, he’d rather the extra work than losing someone he loved.

The downside is that Palpatine makes sure his requests are fulfilled as well any requests that go to him directly. Those ones can’t be avoided.

And like he didn’t want to pay for the ships or be obvious, Palpatine had to find a simple way to deal with all the bodies without wasting money on the Corries. The budget cuts also mean any bodies that come from the Guard on patrols or in attacks or for any other reason need to be dealt with and while there are a lot of places on Coruscant bodies won’t be found, he needed someone specific and big enough. That there were two twin long since large air ventilation pipes going from one of the secret passageways in the Senate building and Corrie base that led down to a large and defunct sealed hall below, well, Palpatine was nothing if not pragmatic.

And a lot of things are easy to hide if there’s nobody looking.

The Corries called it the Pit, or the POR, Place of Rest. They hate how easily it became a part of their lives…

Almost worse are the recons. They’re not like the ones on Kamino, all clean labs and serums and shocks and pain. No, they’re ordered to a private room, locked in with Palpatine and the Red Guard, and they come out different. And it is different, notably so, in its results.

Clones reconditioned by the Kaminoans retain their skills but lose their personalities, lose every memory of before, they come back black and ready for orders. The Corries come back shaky, aware enough of who they were that they’re clawing for memories they can’t reach. They never lose everything, in fact they typically barely lose anything, only what Palpatine wants to take, what he didn’t want them to see or an aspect of their personality jus to see if he could or because it was that the Senator in question had taken issue with. He’d typically also add a little obedience in the process and anything else he wanted while their minds were cracked open and vulnerable, waiting to be sewn closed again. Other times he does strip away everything, but that never lasts more than a few weeks before their memories and personalities are back. A few horrible times he’s left their minds open, shields and mental barriers ripped to shreds, and watched them slowly pick up the pieces from afar.

The headaches take weeks to fade, the feeling that someone was clawing through your mind even longer. It makes them follow the Orders they’re given quickly and efficiently, but it’s more often than not the fear of losing yourself again and not knowing whether you’ll be able to fit the pieces back together next time that drives their speed and obedience, rather than because the Recon worked.

Those Recons only happen when the requests are sent to Palpatine directly, and Fox desperately fields the rest, even going as far as to try to intercept them before Palpatine can see them. He’s willing to take the punishment that will come if and when he’s caught.

Some things never come back, and all the Corries know they’re missing something, just like they know they can be turned on and off by numbered Orders, like they know Palpatine is doing something to stop them speaking out. Every Corrie knows something is wrong, rotten, evil, Sith, it’s just how life in the Guard goes.

And all they can do is survive.