#they're the beard batch now

[zaana]

adding echo, tech and omega!

here's the first three (x)

[fbwzoo]

Have I mentioned I'm having entirely too much fun feeding this lizard? 😂😂 First picture is today's salad - mustard/dandelion/collard greens, plus parsley, alfalfa sprouts, and butternut squash. Second picture is how he thanked me for yesterday's meal. 😂 At least he didn't poop on the leftover salad this time?

[inkyu]

Do you have any old art or comics you gave up on?

I have been given the power to go on a super yap... :happy: :happy: :happy:

I have a lot of stories I gave up on because I had too many (20 if I recall right), but the ones I've kept/survived from my middle school story purge were Two Over A Kind, and Shadow Killed. However I have other stories that came after those two after I entered high school such as Mandela's Requiem, Backyard Thursday, Never So Norm, Collidests, and Rose Burnt, (yes I have a lot of stories, but they're not lore heavy so they might seem short/fast)

Although the only official rendition of a comic out right now would be Mandela's Requiem but I want to re-draw it in a different format similar to my ask blog @ask-the-druggieverse and what Homestuck uses because it's easier and I can gather all the images I draw and upload it YouTube for people to read

As for old art? oh geez I have a LOT of old art....

I'll put it under a read more and separate them by year U_U

Also blood warning (gore maybe too? not sure what to label it-) and huge and tiny spoilers for Mandela's requiem!!! (I just felt very proud of those drawings and I also can't help myself but show the future plans I have for MR's story!!) (and also characters that will appear in MR's epilogues!)

Part 2 Post

(Also if you see this in a fandom tag I.E Undertale, The Last Dimension.... Dream SMP. (neutral) then that's why (This was back in 2020 and I was still in 7th-8th grade at this time (I'm a senior right now) so don't judge me(I only drew beeduo and Michael so don't worry it's not those creature (IYKYK)))

(And no, I don't plan on drawing any DSMP in the near future, maybe if requested and the person isn't problematic (I.E Ranboo, Tubbo etc etc) however for the problomatic ones they will get heavy re-design/name change so they don't resemble their og character/persona to seperate the two more because I don't like looking at them knowing what they did. (Especially C!Wilbur, I view him looking different/being named something else)) (sorry if I keep yapping about this I know people hate the DSMP so much and I don't want to get attacked again (I've been attacked before in the past for liking it back in 2021-2022 on my old TT account (deactivated, my current TT account is dead and I never want to return to TT again.) so just mentioning DSMP on my main blog scares me a bit I hope you understand!))

2025 (Hey!! this Year!! :D)

some of these you've seen I'm guessing, I haven't drawn a lot of stuff yet but it's still the first month of 2025 ^w^, as for the first image It's still a W.I.P as there's other batches I need to complete! (If you wanna see them feel free to ask) I'm also gonna change it so that Cream is the son of Nicecream guy because when designing Cream I had the intentions of him being an OC and not an AU, Nicecream guy legit had 0 part to play when making him

Same goes for Hamburg, Calliope, and Basil as they're based of existing OC's mainly and not undertale OC's when they were supposed to (crazy)

Image Order:

1st: Fiddletale mini batch No.3

2nd: A Backyard Thursday trio!

3rd: Consent!Sans

4th: An ATDV Panel

5th: Someone needed help drawing beards so I made a ref to help U_U

2024

None of these I bet anyone has seen unless they're in discord servers I'm in

Anywhos, these are mostly oc's and 1 MAU I've talked about before (slice of pie verse)

Image Order

1st: My first drawing of 2024!! it's for my my OC story "Never So Norm" I was trying to find a design for Aliza AKA Ty's mom!, I'm gonna re-deisgn her again later because I don't see her as skinny anymore but a little more chubby U_U

2nd: Mandela's Requiem's epilogue characters! for any creepypasta fans out there yes... MR is like super/heavily inspired off of CRP characters, plus Ben Drowned was free game sense no one owned him (Nintendo technically own's this character legally but hey, fuck it we ball), and as for Casey I think you can guess who she's a walmart version of (Rina is completely original, I only added the "the killer" part cuz I thought it would be silly)

3rd: Backyard Thursday god silhouette list! I haven't fully drawn them out and needed some silhouette's to see how they would all look like!

4th: Mandela's Requiem epilogue Chester character sheet! I haven't touched this specific character sheet in a LONG time and need to come back to it as this story is one of the very few stories that has a small cast of characters to work on!!

5th: Slice Of Pieverse unified!Nightmare hehe ^w^ tiny spoilers: In SOPV fusion is a thing after the calamity happened (it's a split timeline of Underverse where Bill!Sans is a bit more important) although this isn't a "fusion" form, families (either blood related or adopted) don't fuse, they unify (essentially they can use each others abilities/their abilities become stronger)

2023 (oh geez, the in-between era of my old and current style..)

All of these are oc's (that includes the DGRP oc)

Image Order

1st: MY SILLIES FROM TWO OVER A KIND!!! ILY GUYS SMMM The main character isn't there but eh, these were re-designs ish as some of them changed from being half-vampire to full human (Duke & Jackey) and some just needed color palate changes or design changes (David & Luu)

2nd: I think my 3rd or 5th attempt at lineless? I don't know but I remember struggling a lot to do lineless so I just kinda just gave up, but hey! Look at me now! I really love lineless art now!!

3rd: My Danganronpa OC Yaku Unmei (or just Unmei) for a cancelled DGRP roleplay (I do not support the creator of the old roleplay. She intentionally or not has groomed minors into being desensitized to NSFW (I was already desensitized to it from the past but it's still fucked up) and wrote proship stuff.(I don't fucking care if it was for "accuracy" that shit was clearly a fetish. I can't believe your friends made me think for a second you weren't a groomer all because you have autism that's fucking insane.)) On a different note because I'm still not over that whole situation and person. (trauma response sorry) Unmei while being the ultimate unlucky student is one of the survivors of the killing game! If it was still ongoing... now she's just a DGRP OC that I might implement into one of my main stories

4th: More Never So Norm doodles! This time of beta-Terezi and Samy interacting! not too proud of how I drew Samy but hey... this is the inbetween era... :3

5th: Our lord and savior Jake Murdalinn who's also from Never So Norm, I love you Jake Murdalinn, my favorite ghost hunter and SFX crew guy

2022 (oh man the nostalgia is kicking in guys) (this folder and before it are so disorganized I cannot tell you which drawing I did after my first one in order U_U)

Oh geez... t h a t e r a... the era where I would just create create create and procrastinate a lot, I'm thankful for all of the characters that came out of it though

Image Order

1st: my Frist drawing of 2022, aka my OC 0-Riguren or Origuren (twas my mash mash words = name era as well), he's from TOAK (and needs a HEAVY re-design and STAT.)

2nd: Fanart of Phillip from the last dimension on webtoon! Also tiny fun fact! Phillip was the other inspiration for my OC Danny (I haven't drawn him yet but I have an idea) (Although the main inspiration was yet again, Karkat Vantas (Homestuck is one of my special interests so I have a lot of stuff inspired from Homestuck))

3rd: a TOAK height chart line up, and my second time trying to make one! my first time was.... augh... heavy note on making a height chart, there are going to be a lot of characters being similar in height and there's no need to worry about that (I worried about it my first time around...)

4th: Ah yes, Fiddletale... and.... Bartertale. (NOTE: Barter is no longer a sans or an AU, he's just an OC that's in BT along with Fiddle(long story but after Fiddletale ends It's no longer an AU however people can still claim it as an AU IDC bc everyone's gonna get re-designs for BT so essentially they're separate characters in a way)), some changes between Bartertale!Barter and Backyard Thursday!Barter: AU: Cis Man, A Sans, Skeleton, Out!Code BT: Trans Man, Half-Human Half-Skeleton no undertale involved, just a regular citizen trapped in a country in a forever winter Also Fiddle and Barter are husbands in BT <3

5th: The very first drawing I've done for Collideists... Also fun fact: This story would have never been made if I never joined an event in a discord server I'm in where everyone was making these species called "Shadow Creatures" I chipped in and created a "Light Creature" concept and things went on from there

2021 (OH HELL NAW JIGSAW GO BACK GO BAAACK :sob: :pray:)

Do you SEE how different my style was back in 2021!? oh lord... I'm like- super proud of my development... heh...

Image Order

1st: Amari Feng, She's from my given up story called "A Fantasized Beginning", I gave up on this story because I had too many stories and this one just had too much stuff going on (In short: It's basically RWBY and MHA mixed into one, kids go to school to become pro-hero's in outer-space because an evil group known as "the dark entropy" were colonizing/taking over planets and the heros had no idea how they kept doing it, and then BOOM!!! PLOT FUCKING TWIST!!! the number 1 pro-hero was the one conducting the evil groups plans all along and the hero get's stopepd by the MC's, although the colonizing and taking over doesn't stop as more villains pop up and hero's continue being hero's but this time the hero's have a easier time saving everyone) I made this story when I was in middle school along with many others, although after I did my story purge the only two stories that survived were Shadow Killed and Two Over A Kind (TOAK had a massive story overhaul and is not like it's OG plotline) I don't have plans to go back to this story, however I might if I complete all of my stories before I die, which I'm sure I will because I'm shortening a lot of them, and if I do I will DEF shorten AFB by a lot because middle school me planned like 16 something seasons (jesus.) (Also Amari was not the MC but an antagonist that later becomes an MC and was heavily inspired off of Himiko Toga(Can you tell?))

2nd: Heh... My first attempt at lineless art.... This is also back when Blipthyn was blue and was named Blueprint, I do not like TOAK's 5th rendition of a story as I was going through a hard time and heavily trauma dumped the shit out of that specific rendition of TOAK and just scrapped a lot of it, only a few things I liked survived in the current 6th? 7th? version of the story and I plan to keep it that way unless it becomes too long in my eyes

3rd: THE CTT!!! CHAOS TIME TRIO!!! Also my fist art/was around the time I met my friends Keter and Geno in the lunime discord server! we all loved undertale at this time and formed this group, a lot of things changed about each character so these are their old/beta designs, however this piece still has a place in my heart because of how special it is to me :hearts:

4th: I'm gonna be for real with you I have no fucking clue who this was for These aren't my characters nor do I remember the person who created these OC's, I do know I was very proud of this drawing because I made the other person super happy, I just dunno who it was so if by any chance you're the creator of these characters hi!!! :3

5th: Heh... Hello Swap <3 ILY <3

????-2020 (I don't know if all of this art was from 2020, all I know is that I shoved a bunch of art in this folder because I didn't wanna loose it XP) (also this only has 4 because I reached the 30 image limit so I will make a part 2 of my yap session U_U)

HEAVY NOTE: I do not support the problematic creators of the DSMP. I am a firm believer in separating the art from artist(s) to an extent. If both the art and Artist are problematic they can't be separated (I.E TCOAAL(I hate this game and creator.))

I do not support Dream, Wilbur Soot, ETC ETC, Even though I don't talk about the DSMP on this blog often I will refer to the roleplay characters with different names to help further separate the RP characters and person I.E: Wilbur: Wynter(Or Winter)(Sorry but ever sense the Shelby stuff my brain magically imagined a different guy in C!Wilbur's place)(i'm being so fucking fr rn, every time someone mentions C!Wilbur I think of someone different same goes for the others too), Dream: Delusion and Ambition(For DreamXD), George: Cogs ETC ETC (In fact I encourage anyone still in the DSMP fandom to do the same cuz Dream is getting a little too close to his DSMP character rn...)

Image Order

1st: Laim! he's also from another cancelled story called 12-15-22-5, or also known as 12-15-22-5 Project: Life this story was a romance between a resurrected angel heading and a human, the resurrected angel's goal from the company he was revived from was to find a way to break someone's heart/love to the point of dying so that they could kill a god (for some reason?? my middle school self never really specified why) However things backfire as the resurrected Angel falls in love with the love interest (heh... not straight BTW...) and other resurrected angels are sent after him and his friends because it'll "sabotage" their plan, I never planned an ending for this story but I do remember that this story was inspired off of HXH and Four Leaf on webtoon

2nd: I'm gonna be so fr I don't know why I made this character (his name is Phrog)

3rd: Ian and Damien's first ever design <33 And also Shadow Killed's first ever concept art! their designs have been changed by now so yeah :(, in fact this art was made back when I was beginning to feel happy again, although that died out because Middle School was super rough for me.

4th: Ah yes.... DSMP.... Beeduo.... and... MICHEAL!!! (This was back when the DSMP was at it's prime from my knowledge... augh...) I'm gonna so fr with you I never saw Michael (Beeduo's adopted child) as white I'm so sorry, I always viewed Michael as black I don't know why I did I just did XP, no hate to anyone who views Michael as white, I just never saw it myself This isn't ship art btw. You will be blocked if tagged as ship. (Not Threatening/Serious)

Part 2 Soon (Mainly for the comics because I reached the photo limit and I wanna show some old comic panels now :( )

[prllnce]

my newest adopt batch is now up!! 🔥 which one would you take home? 😳👉👈 individual images and alt text below cut!

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Image ID: A character design of a petite witch with green hair down to their ankles, billowing over one of their arms which are both slightly outstretched. Their stance and expression is apprehensive, and their colour scheme is a murky green. Their skin is light brown and there are markings of the moon's different cycles on their clothes. END ID.

Image ID: A character design of a pale tiefling with broad shoulders. They're dressed in asymmetrical clothing in white and bright red, decorated with bones. They're wearing a half mask in the same colours, the design a monstrous grin with a creepy eye. Their hair is blood red and to their shoulders, half tied up in a bun. One of their black horns is broken off and they have a red shoulder tattoo resembling the same eye patterns on their clothes but sharp like fangs. END ID.

Image ID: A character design of a muscular person with bunny ears. They have warm brown skin and vitiligo. Their bunny ears are spotted white at the tips, and their tail is spotted a dark brown. Their hair is cropped short and they wear earth tones of brown, yellows and green. Their abs are visible below their crop top which covers a large bust. They carry a curved, wooden staff at their back. They're holding out a hand whereupon a small, blue bird is perched, and they're watching it with a gentle smile. END ID.

Image ID: A character design of a tall, scarred person with slicked back, long silver hair and a greying beard. Their vibe is very vampiric, with a black and red cape. The lining of their coat is purple with cobweb patterns. In one hand they hold a cane, while the other is held up with the palm upward, conjuring blood-like droplets of magic. END ID.

Image ID: A character design of a haughty, light-skinned person with pink hair and cat ears. Their hair is below shoulder length and partially tied up in curls. They're wearing red ribbons at the back of their head, their back, their shoes and their neck. They wear a black corset with gold symbols, and it flares out into a pink, floral half skirt with dark brown tights underneath. Around her thigh hangs a decorated dagger. They have one gloved hand on their chest and a confident smile with visible fangs, and their long, pink tail swooshes behind their fur-lined leg warmers. END ID.

Image ID: A character design of a gentle orc with a large, hairy belly. They have big tusks and hands and are smiling gently at magical sparkles surrounding their lightly held up arm. Their sleeves are sheer, as are long fabric strips hanging from their top. Below the waist they were beige and pink robes, and golden sandals. Above they wear a layered crop top and a capelet with floral, stained glass-like patterns. Their hair is a dark green, decorated with a gold circlet. It's tied up into a bun with two loops around it. END ID.

[xecutivecucumber]

Executive Cucumber's Thoughts on The Bad Batch 03×12!

Spoilers under the cut

Let start out by saying holy heck that was the cool down episode I needed. My sister watched it before me and was able to tell me that Tech/CX-2 wasn't in it for a significant amount, so I was able to get past my disappointment and not be stressed out during the episode. Yes, I'm still on the 'Tech is CX-2 Bandwagon.' I do think they should have revealed him to the audience earlier, because I have to actively avoid Bad Batch social media (*cough*reddit*cough*) for my own mental health because of the negativity around the idea. It's really draining.

Anyway, on to the actual episode!

Today I realized that I might be triggered by Omega being trapped at Tantiss because of some past experiences. (And yes, if you've read my fics you know that I've done it to her too, but I have control over that and I think the problem is the lack of control I have)

Hi Tech! I love you! Please be un brainwashed soon!

I want to murder Hemlock. I don't know if I've ever hated a Star Wars villain like this before. It feels so personal.

It devastates me that they're going to take Omega's clothes away. Clothes that were given to her by people who love her. Ow.

Also you're playing a dangerous game, not keeping those binders on her, Hemlock.

'Is everything all right, Dr. Karr?' 'No, the Jango parent gene got awakened in me and that does not go away'

Why does Emerie think she HAS to do this?

I'm a little disappointed we didn't see Hunter find out about Omega. He's probably just in 'go' mode, honestly. Adrenaline and all that.

Crosshair is so proud of Omega oh my gosh.

PHEE MY QUEEEEEEEEEN

Oh my gosh Tech told Phee about Crosshair. That implies that had more time than we saw. That makes me so happy and sad.

Phee talks about Tech with such fondness. You can tell how much she cared about him. I feel like I'm watching a widow who's processed her grief but still talks about her husband because she loved him.

Also, looking at Phee, she doesn't really have any implied make up on. She's very natural. Good for her.

...Rampart looks kinda good with a beard.

Okay Tech would find the stunt Phee pulled extremely attractive.

This is the closest we've gotten to the original Batch we've gotten in a very long time. It feels good to see them go mission mode with Crosshair.

This is reminding me of Eriadu and I don't like it.

Crosshair asking Wrecker if he remembered whatever plan and then patiently waiting for him to remember lives rent free in my head he's so sweet.

WRECKER'S THEME IS BACK BABY

Also, Crosshair's theme is played in this really fun way?

Crosshair should be allowed to kick Rampart in the balls. As a treat.

Rampart you snake. Crosshair should have shot him in the leg instead of stunning him.

My sister pointed out that the juggernaut represents how the Batch is right now. You cannot stop them.

Man, it's nice to not to be as conflicted when the TK troopers die, as opposed to when clones were sent against them. Quick thought though, does Wolffe have all the remaining clones?

Man these guys get BRUTALIZED.

Them throwing around passed out Rampart is amazing and should continue to happen.

Okay Wrecker has his knife out HE IS READY TO TORTURE A MAN.

Frick you Rampart. He is the worst replacement for Omega.

Aww they probably didn't bring Batcher on the mission to protect her. (Plus she a half trained dog and it was a stealth mission)

And then the boys spent the next hour arguing over who has to call Echo and tell him.

Hemlock you FOULE you're giving Omega ALLIES. Also why are you telling her all this. She will use it against you.

Gall, I hate Hemlock.

Again, I really needed this cool down episode. Though I'm afraid the final three episodes are going to hurt. THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW WHY IS IT STRESSING ME OUT SO MUCH. ALSO WAITING A WEEK FOR EPISODES ALSO SUCKS. A LOT.

[herenya-writes]

@sillywizardvoice asked me if I had any clone OCs yesterday and at the time I did not but two random clones have begun to coalesce in the sleep-deprived recesses of my mind, so imma dump random facts about them here lol

Up first is Julian, sometimes called Jules by his batchmates:

excels in hand-to-hand combat

heavy, front-line fighter

if it weren't for regs he'd have a luscious beard with braids and shit like a lotr dwarf. as it is, he tends to be at least a little scruffy

doesn't talk much but he does sing

learned about Mando battle songs at some point on Kamino and imprinted on the idea of them. he learns battle songs of every planet and culture he can, and his bass voice can be heard on the clash of front lines and around the tents deep in the night.

has pack-bonding instincts and will die for a child he literally just met

a few batches/generations older than Iza

And then there's Iza:

his name is a bastardization of the phrase 'eyes up'. his batchmates were often scolded by the trainers for not paying enough attention to the high ground

now, as a sniper, Iza keeps watch over the battlefield so that his brothers don't have to

can often be found in the training rooms running drills and doing target practice--every seppie he takes down is one that'll never hurt a brother again

didn't think he'd ever see Julian again after Kamino, and he cried when he learned he'd been assigned to the same battalion as his ori'vod.

often cracks jokes, especially with the shinies. honestly, he's kind of a chatterbox, to make up for the long stretches of silence that come from being a sniper

I have no idea who these two are, which battalion they're in, or anything else, really, but I figured I'd toss them into the void! i'm excited to see what else my brain cooks up for them lol

[bellatheinkdemon]

Dandy's World human designs, batch two!

This time with the craft siblings, and the Father Daughter duo (yes I'm aware Toodles and Rodger aren't actually related but let a fella have some fun, m'kay?)

Design notes:

- I noticed that Goob's eyes are somewhat wonky so I decided to incorporate it in his design. I also gave him heterochromia for his whole red and blue scheme.

- Scraps' ears are now a headband, and (though you can't see it) her tail is now a ribbon on her dress.

- Scraps' and Goob's claws are (somewhat) matching gloves. They do have actual claws under them, they just prefer to wear them

- Toodles has vitiligo, mainly because I couldn't figure else what else to do for the eight circle on her head

- I'm also NOT a fan of Toddles' weird poncho/dress thing so I gave her a jumper instead

- Rodger's right eye is mostly blind and is semi lazy, so he usually keeps it closed. (Though his Twisted self keeps it open slightly for some odd reason)

- He also wears a monocle. So if anyone mentions his glass, that's what they're referencing.

- Gave him a small beard, honestly because I wanted to. (He seems like the kinda guy who also wants to grow a moustache as well, but just can't lol)

[tyrantisterror]

A Hundred Some New ATOM Kaiju Pt. 2

We're continuing our showcase of ATOM kaiju who've been lingering in my "to ink and color" pile for years, and yep, it's more retrosaurs. Listen, I have to draw big dinosaur monsters frequently to make life worth living, ok? We'll get to some non-retrosaurs in... part 5, probably.

The last batch had a Crystal Palace Megalosaur-inspired kaiju in it, so we'll start this one with one inspired by the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

Next, some horned goliaths. The first is inspired by a very old styracosaurus toy I found that really emphasized the "lizard" approach of retro dinosaur designs, looking like a bearded dragon with an elaborate crest more than an actual styracosaur. Our second is loosely inspired by Armadon from Primal Rage and Triceramon from Digimon, being my stab at what a bipedal ceratopsian monster would look like. The remaining three are me just trying to have fun with ceratopsians the way I do with theropods.

Stegronox was a fusion of stegosaur and ankylosaur traits in part to open up slots for more non-retrosaur kaiju in my cast of "core 50" kaiju for ATOM Volumes 1 and 2, so when working outside of those 50 I decided to do two retrosaur kaiju who focus on those two indvidually. The akylosaur's name is Ankylus, which is me being cheeky since that's basically what Anguirus's name would be if you translated it differently - they're both just "ankylosaurus" with a few less syllables. Then, for symmetry I suppose, I did an upright bipedal armored goliath to match the bipedal horned goliath, because "What if a four-legged creature stood on two legs" is a pretty easy way to make a monster feel distinct.

Like Stegronox, Pachydon was a combination of two different dinosaurs into one retrosaur to conserve slots in the core 50, and so I felt compelled to do two bonus retrosaur kaiju who took those two components and game them their proper due. We've got a helmeted goliath who takes the battering ram head reputation of pachycephalosaurs to a ludicous extreme, and a duckbill that particularly takes after Miasaura, which has always been my favorite hadrosaur.

We'll close out this batch with some long-necked goliaths. The first, Camarabrak, is meant to be an equal to the other retrosaur kaiju, rather than an "immense even by kaiju standards" one like Bronton. Being bigger than big is, in my eyes, part of what makes Sauropods stand out in pop culture depictions of dinosaurs, which is why I made Bronton so tremendous compared to the others, but now that there's room for more sauropod monsters, we can have one that's in the same weight class as Tyrantis and pals.

The other long-necked goliath is Brontoceratops, which was inspired by a very early reconstruction of Triceratops (I think it may have even been by my ancestor, Edward Drinker Cope, but I can't find it anymore so who knows) that gave it a weirdly long neck. In ATOM canon, Brontoceratops's species does a sort of cuckoo-bird thing, putting their eggs in the nests of horned goliaths and letting them raise it. It'd feature in a story where Tricerak tries to find more of its kind and ends up adopting the baby Brontoceratops and raising it despite it not actually being a member of his kind.

[tapedsleeves]

Thank you <333 Everyone is so loveable 😭 I'm so glad you added Hutton cause I vaguely remember him playing in a few games but the lip sync video is sooo funny

One last batch of questions if you're up to it cause I adore how you describe everyone <3 looking at the roster I think the last guys left are Barbie and ammo? (the funniest nicknames 😂) and guys like Dorofeyev, brisson, and jiri patera but I think they might fall under the Henderson duckling group?

also if you don't mind, I keep seeing patches and Reilly smith pop up when I scroll thru himbeaux's blog. I've heard a lot about marc andre fleury before but I didn't realize how many other ex-players were also so beloved! I'd love to hear about any of them if you have the time

There are actually a couple I haven't talked about in depth, but Hertl & Hanifin have only been on the team since the trade deadline. I don't know probably more about them than you do.

So, here's the list of current roster guys I'm gonna touch on: Ivan Barbashev, Michael Amadio, Pavel Dorofeyev, Brendan Brisson, Brett Howden, and Jonas Rondbjerg

and the traded guys I'm gonna talk about: Marc-Andre Fleury, Reilly Smith, Max Pacioretty, Robin Lehner, Ryan Reaves, Erik Haula, and Dylan Coghlan.

Now you see why I was like "I don't know if I can do it all in one ask" - because not only is team chemistry defined by who's there currently it is SO informed by who's been there.

These blurbs are probably gonna be shorter, because there's (counts) 14 of them.

That's many. And there are some that I don't know a whole bunch about. That's truer for some than others.

Ivan Barbashev Traded to VGK at the trade deadline in 2023. Learned about the trade at the same time as his wife (she screamed in the other room). was very excited to play with petro again, since they're good friends. got headbutted by LT and was very cute about it. his little face when jack yells He's actually just. giggly in general. he was part of the 12 Knights of Giving and was VERY VERY cute about giving ppl their groceries for free. his face on this save is REALLY CUTE. He fell off the bus during the STL parade. this supports my theory that he's made of like. variable density. it's impossible to knock him over and yet he is SO fast and agile? it's fucking wild.

he's got really good taste in sunglasses

2. Michael amadio: UNDERRATED!!!! i love Ammo. based on getty, i think either he and nic roy have very similar schedules or ride in together bc they are almost always in walkin photos together. i'm just now finding this out.

I don't know a lot about him, because he's very quiet, but he's got really nice eyelashes and his face looks very soft. even his beard. even his voice is soft & deep. he seems really nice. just a cool room guy.

3. Pavel Dorofeyev: Dorothea!!!. Ok so this is not his actual nickname. I call him this bc when Dave Goucher says his name on the broadcast it sounds like Dorothea. And when Dave had Laryngitis, and he said his full name, it truly sounded like he said "pebble dorothea." this is his name in my head.

Dorothea is SO cute. He looks like a Tall Bitty to me, and i can't get that out of my head.

I know that's not very informative, but that's just.

true.

when Brendan Gallagher busted his teeth in, alec martinez picked them up and carried them to him. Dorothea is one of the HSK guys, who are the closest.

4. Brendan Brisson - son of famous agent Pat Brisson. babysat by Sidney crosby. Umich guy. lots of ppl know more about him than me. always wants to tuck himself into a hug. this is very funny hwen the other guy is shorter than him

lots of people who followed him at umich know more about him than me, i'm sure.

5. Brett Howden: Bread!!! Just a sweet young manitoban guy. Childhood friend of nolan patrick went through Tampa & New York before coming to Vegas. changed his play style to play with Mark. Was part of the 2018 WJC team, but hasn't been implicated in any crimes :(

Grabbed Marchy by the jersey and yelled "we did it we did it" when they won the cup

Jonathan Marchessault followed up with him after and said "oh i had to tell you, when i had my vision of winning the cup, we weren't wearing the white (away) jerseys. we were wearing the gold ones"

indicating that??? Marchy??? has prophetic visions?? and shares them with brett howden???? what the hell is happenign here i love this so much. (seriously this video has SO MUCH. keegan kolesar kissing marchessault on the face SO MUCH. jack and marchy beign sO romantic about Marchy's conn smythe win "I did it for - you did it for me." / "that's the best thing i've ever seen" and all the i love yous. I just. love them)

6. Jonas Rondbjerg - Ronny is just a really sweet, quiet HSK guy! he's not the main roster, so when he gets called up, he hangs with the guys he knows. He was best friends with Jake Leschyshyn before he got traded to the NYR.

Notable Guys who've been traded

Marc- Andre Fleury - found out he got traded on twitter. Known prankster. Everyone loves him, excellent but aging goalie who is going to retire after 24-25. After retirement, he's moving back to Vegas to live during the non-summer months. If he hadn't been a goalie, probably he'd have been captain. I love him so much and he tried to fight jordan binnington while he was on the Wild.

Reilly Smith - OG Golden Misfit, traded to VGK with Jonathan Marchessault. Jonathan Marchessault said of him that he was relieved when they got drafted / traded that wasn't scared to go to a new place bc he would know somebody. And when Smitty joined VGK for their White House Cup Visit, Jonathan said in the interview after "Everywhere he is is home a little bit"

Reilly started the Battle For Vegas, a charity baseball game during the summer, which is a great time which Jack Eichel took over since Smitty got traded. Said "What a time to be alive" with an absolutely blasted voice while on the ice right after they won the cup.

Max Pacioretty - Traded to Vegas after doing frankly a nuclear option with his prior agent (switching to Allan Walsh on draft day) because talks with Montreal had gotten so bad. was SO happy to be in Vegas. When Stone was traded in February, was kind of worried bc they'd been such rivals during their time in MTL & OTT respectively. but they were almost immediately complimentary of each other. They were best friends. Patch says that he knew, almost as soon as Mark came in that he was gonna be the captain. Which is WILD. Bc it had been almost 3 season without them having one. but Mark is their captain. He was right.

Ryan Reaves - is a GREAT room guy, and a WONDERFUL guy off the ice. Loves a prank. ate spicy chocolate. He's done B4V a couple of summers (he did it last year iirc) and it's just. Really sweet. A lot of these guys just. really really bonded for life during that first year, you know? I know that Belly is still friends with a bunch of the OG Misfits, and so is Reavo (he was pumped to play on the wild with flower, for instance). Reavo said that when mark stone fought tomas hertl that "Those hands aren’t made to fight; they’re made to dance. They’re supposed to be soft." basically "I'd rather they let ME do the fighting, their hands are meant for better things" like. ReAVO MY GUY. UGH.

i love him

Erik Haula - Another guy who does B4V, got traded to the Canes (who mistreated him) and is now with the Devils (who love him). Is still best friends with Karly.

Dylan Coghlan - came to VGK in the Erik Haula trade from the Canes system. Was VERY VERY good friends with the younger guys, Haguer, Roysie, Whitecloud, Keegan, Howden, etc. Went to a concert with Jack, Haguer, & HOwdy/ Also still does B4V and excels at it. Is a defensemen, but when we didn't have any forwards, filled in. I would know him by his teeth anywhere (very distinctive). adorable.

[the-firebird69]

And there are other things that we need to speak about right now though getting a lot of requests for certain beers and the ones we mentioned were getting a lot of requests there are some beers we didn't that were getting requests for. There's not many requests for Narragansett but when you go there people want it. They're asking for certain beers and we're gonna post them because we know we can brew them and we're looking for partners go betweens if you will and right now.

This is one of the ones we get a lot of requests for. It's a fine beer it has a certain brew process that makes it come out pretty good so you don't poop and a lot of people are requesting. We're interested in brewing it we need people who want to help run it to step forwards.

We get a lot of requests for this and it's an odd beer to request it's another beer that's known to be not so good but very cheap and they think it'll be cheap. There's all sorts of jokes but we can make it so it doesn't actually have that side effect some of the batches came out good some of them didn't come out so good and it works this would be our brand we need people to run it and you get a bunch of money certain percent so please step right up

This is another beer that's very nice it's much better than Schlitz and it's not as good as Amsdale but it is nice amsdel is not an IPA but it tastes a little like one and it keeps the germs out. That's what people like. This beer is like a molson it has that taste it's pretty nice and the water's good we'll make it in similar area.

This is ice house beer and recently it has been missing from the shelves they can't brew enough and they are being put out and they can't keep the brew consistent we want the guys who are running it to come to us we can brew it for you and we can meet your orders. The price is right and it's a decent beer It is like a It's like a Miller Lite a little bit lighter it's decent if you can brew it right and we do have the ability and every time

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This beard company is slowing down other beer companies are going strong but those are mac beer companies we have ability to compete with them we are doing it and we do it as a team and change your attitude and your outlook. We want people involved with this beer to come up and say stuff and try and get involved. We wanna team up and have you still on the board and we wanna produce beer we have a lot of fields that need to be harvested and this needs to be one of the products we make it is a nice amber it's light it is tasty it has a different taste than Miller but it tastes good and you it is a drinker's beer you can drink a case of this if you're a bigger person and it won't phase you it tastes good people like to drink it.

This is a decent beer it's a German brew there aren't too many molson is another one but they are being brewed by the Mac proper. We'd love to brew this beer it is a German beer our mother and father want to do it there's a crew that is interested and we would like to sit down and meet doesn't have to take forever if we can iron out the details and we'll stop brewing so please get on the horn let us know we're going to print we're running out of room

Thor Freya

Olympus

Hera good and yes great Zues

[the-starry-seas]

Bad Batch finale stream of consciousness thoughts

THAT EPISODE NAME?!

Oh, right. The cavalry. The cavalry for Tech, the cavalry chosen especially to save Tech, Tech's cavalry.

bestie something about this intro has me fucking nervous I think it's the funeral music

I don't know if I like that this is a 48-minute episode that's a lot of time for things to happen and I don't know if they're gonna be good

"At the time. Yes!" <3

Rampart's talking a lot of shit for someone in smacking range

WDYM THEIR FAILURE IS INEVITABLE

oh shit Emerie redemption arc??? Omega really does make friends with everyone huh

oh shit these kids are accomplishing things!

I really do love Wrecker

"Don't like the sound of that" you and me both babe

"Things are about to get very loud anyways" I support womens' rights but more importantly I support womens' wrongs

FUCK YEAH BEASTIE BOY TIME

what was that scream lmfao he really said EEP

the way Echo's head moved when he heard the Zillo Beast was loose

BECAUSE IT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'D DO 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

why does Wrecker keep groaning you people are worrying me

CLONE FORCE 99 DIED WITH TECH WE'RE NOT THAT SQUAD ANY MORE bestie you are fucking killing me I'm hunting you for sport I'm never gonna recover

"Omega needs you both. I'm doing this alone." I'm not made to handle this kind of stress I need to be sent to the seaside for my health

Hunter and Wrecker immediately like "yeah that's our girl"

MY BROTHER WRECKER 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Hemlock's way too confident I don't like it

suddenly zombie vibes with these red tube men. don't like that thing no sir.

for some reason that double tap really got to me idk man they're just so in sync and i'm 🥺

ah fucknuggets

y'all had no reason to pancake Hunter

WHY ARE YOU ELECTROCUTING WRECKER FUCK OFF

oh my god did they just maim Crosshair

besties they don't have plot armour any more I'm scared shitless

HAVOC 5 BABE I'M SCREAMING

"Hey, kid. And... other kids." lmfao Echo's only ever talked to his one kid before hasn't he

oh this is not a good episode suddenly

what do you mean alterations to your methods what the fuck man cut this shit out (but maybe he tested out the new stuff on Tech who also survived??? one can hope??? I need one idea from this ep that isn't completely horrifying.)

I'm gonna cry over Echo huh

AUGH the clones banding together to help them AUGH 🥺🥺🥺🥺

y'know Hemlock referring to Tech as 'lost' rather than 'dead' gives me a skosh of hope that is most certainly false but that I shall have all the same

well fuck man these freed clones are the new redshirts huh

oh fuck yeah blow that bitch to pieces, RIP Nala Se and all but at least we got rid of that guy

ah fuck they got Echo

this amount of electrocution can't be good for anyone

can't be going out windows like that. can't be doing that.

glowy saber commando is some cool shit ngl

Hunter and Cross are a dream team tbh

THE ARM TAP AND THE NOD

"I can't risk Omega" OUWCH

FUCK YEAH LIGHT THE BITCH UP

oh my god her running to Cross first is just gonna break me

did they just. leave. without Echo and Wrecker. I mean I get it but still rude.

at least Project Necromancer was a total loss

ah, Windows Movie Maker transitions, my old friend

oh thank god Echo's okay

eyyyy some of the redshirts survived!

oh god the Hunter-Echo nod.... I see u

"We've all fought enough battles for one lifetime. Now we get to choose who we want to be. Whatever we want." SCREAMING AND CRYING 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

that family shot I love it so much oh my god

oh no there's an epilogue

of Tech perhaps???????? I will remain delusional until the end

oh shit who's thisoh my god grown-up Omega just look at her

WHAT THE FUCK OLD HUNTER AWOOGA

THE BEARD AND THE HEADBAND AND THE PONYTAIL AND THE GREYING HAIRS AND THE

"You're our kid Omega, you always will be" dissolving into dust as we speak holy shit just look at them they're amazing

god I'm gonna cry

TECH'S GOGGLES ON THE DASHBOARD I'M NEVER GOING TO RECOVER FROM THIS EVER

[theawkwardterrier]

Bake On: A Jamie/Claire Wednesday100 story

Week 1: Cake

Jamie gets his signature - Mam's snow cake - into the oven before he takes a moment to truly size up the competition.

There's the usual crop of grannies and older gents and young mum types, a smarmy-looking middle-aged man Jamie instantly dislikes, a willowy girl he smiles at because she's trembling with nerves, a hulking, wildly bearded lad with an accent Jamie can't place (Welsh?), and then, down in the front corner, far from his back row...

He watches her for so long that he has to rely on the technical and showstopper to make up for his overdone cake.

Week 2: Biscuits

There were many things that Claire considered before entering the competition: that her self-taught skills wouldn't hold up, that she didn't have the sorts of stories and traditions needed for the signatures, that she wouldn't be able to balance it all with her usual work schedule.

She hadn't thought that she'd need to remind herself to focus each time her ears detected a Scottish accent at the back of the tent, or that, after her Kingston biscuits came first in the technical, she'd think about his grin and the light touch of his foot against hers the entire drive home.

Week 3: Bread

"The best simit I've had was off splintery carts pushed by old men who would have considered you mad for criticizing the sesame seeds' evenness."

Jamie looks up from messaging Jenny to find Claire beside him. He'd been trying to stop reexamining his near elimination today. Now he smiles without thought.

"Well, Sassenach, I'll be back next week. That's what matters."

"I suppose that's true." She smiles back, cheeks rosy and rounded, before adding, "You're taking the train, aren't you? I can drive you to the station."

It's an easy walk. The choice to ride with her is even easier.

Week 4: Pie

"Will London surgeon Claire's use of herbs finally win her the title of star baker?"

Her held breath becomes a laugh. She sets down the knife she had been using to carve her pastry top, looking over to him leaning on her bench.

"It might, especially if freelance translator Jamie doesn't get back and give her some competition."

He flashes a grin. "Canna have that. My case is done cooling besides."

She watches him walk away, then resumes, her hands steadier now. She wonders whether he could have possibly noticed her doubts from the back. No, she decides. A coincidence.

Week 5: Pastry

He doesn't notice how long they've been talking until Claire shivers in the midnight chill. It seemingly doesn't register with her - she simply crosses her arms and continues speaking about her patients - but he wants to tuck her against himself, offering his warmth.

Her expression is vivid, and he hates cutting her off (although he'd have hated interrupting her while discussing their fellow contestants, London versus Edinburgh, or today's lunchtime sandwiches). Still, he checks his watch, yawns, says, "Christ, it's that late? We'd better get in if we want to be awake for the showstopper," and sees her safely sheltered.

Week 6: Chocolate

It's meltingly hot in the tent, and everyone's rushing about. Claire's behind on her own bake, and so nearly doesn't notice the cheesecake sitting out at the edge of one of the vacant benches, matching the description Jamie gave of the one he was planning while they'd baked together over the phone this week. Her eyes narrow, and she looks around.

Frank looks back, then immediately glances away.

She places Jamie's cake back into the refrigerator. There isn't time for revenge now, but they can plan together later.

In the meantime, beating Frank will be sweet in its own way.

Week 7: Puddings

"Didna ken this would be the week where I'd remember them so much," Jamie says that night, knowing that she hears him despite his quiet words.

He supposes he should feel embarrassed, tearing up over a batch of clootie dumplings, but he remembers Mam helping him tie the cloth, remembers Da ruffling his hair and Willie saying with his mouth full, "They're good, Jamie!"

And Claire doesn't make him feel foolish, simply places her hand over his, saying, "I don't think there's a wrong time to remember the people you love," so he doesn't feel alone there in the dark.

Week 8: Tarts

She's smiling with satisfaction for the first bit of the drive, star baker title finally achieved and her place in the semi-final assured. It's only as she's shaking her head for her own foolishness at wanting to call Jamie to celebrate when she's barely left him (and knows that he had work to take care of on the train ride home besides) that she realizes what this means.

They've both shown their skill and she's confident in their chances of making it through next week. But even so, even if they get into the finale together, their weekends are numbered.

Week 9: Patisserie

The tension in Jamie's shoulders has nothing to do with two days fussing with choux pastry, or the pressure of next week's final, and everything to do with the countable hours he has left with Claire.

They stand talking in the car park long after the others have packed up and left, after he's missed his train, and he wonders if she might feel the same. Regardless, more time with her doesn't seem like a chance he can miss.

At the next pause, he breathes and asks, "Might ye—Will ye come have dinner with me, Claire?" and watches her smile.

Week 10: Final

The contestants carry their showstoppers to the waiting crowd of loved ones. In classic British fashion, the finale fete is chill and rainy; the camera catches Claire carefully keeping her hair out of her icing.

"Christ, I'd forgotten what the damp did to that curlywig o' yers."

Claire elbows him from her spot beneath his arm, although she is laughing along. "Hush and watch. We're about to lose in front of the entire country, after all."

"True enough. Still, I think we won more than that cake stand o' Glenna's," he says.

By the way she kisses him, she agrees.

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Episodes 7 + 8 Thoughts

Spoilers for TBB Season 2

79's!!! 🍹

Haha, emotional damage *cries*

You know the drill, bullet point thoughts down below!

(Also, I'm writing this a few hours after I saw the episodes so I may be missing some stuff/this may be in a ridiculous order).

Love how the last time we saw that was during the Fives inhibitor chip arc. Love that! (Also, I miss Fives ☹️).

None of the Batch this ep but I still really enjoyed it!

Riyo and Bail!!! We love them both. 🥰

The shear amount of bullshit that came out of Rampart's mouth.😤

Tipoca City destroyed by a storm? What sort of excuse is that?!

Ah yes, this building (designed to withstand harsh weather) built on a storm-weathered planet was completely destroyed by a freaky weather phenomenon that just so happened to coincide with us wanting to get rid of the clones. 🤨

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Man, I love the clones so much. 😭

More clones with beards is something I appreciate. 🥰

SO MANY PEOPLE GOT SHOT IN EPISODE 7 WTF

Poor Slip. ☹️

The number of times I said "IS IT REX?!" to myself in the first episode. 🤣

Eventually I was correct!!!

PONCHO REX

I miss his armour so much, but the rebel outfit... damn.

Are Riyo's bodyguards voiced by Noshir Dalal or am I just hearing his voice in random places because Rampart is haunting me?

ALSO HOW ARE WE PRONOUCING RIYO?!

Did I just get that wrong this entire time or...?

The person shooting clones was another clone. The pain is real in these episodes. 😭

But dark purple is totally Rex's colour. 😏

GONKY! 🥳

Wholesome Echo and Omega moments making me cry again. 😭

Interesting that Omega has taken up meditation. 🤔 It might be playing into the idea of her being Force sensitive but she doesn't seem to connect to it on the same level as Gungi.

Echo doesn't like solitude because of Skako Minor. 😭😭😭

As soon as he brought up what the Batch did for him, I was like "oh, that's interesting considering Echo might be thinking of leaving. I wonder if they're going to play into that this episode. 🤔"

... I was not emotionally prepared.

Rex and Echo actually have more than 5 lines of dialogue with each other this season! 🥰

Echo pushing Omega back so she can't see the body. He's such a good mum. 😭

Wrecker's fear of heights OMG 😭🤣

"This is him doing better." I'm crying. 🤣

Rex saying that they need more people for the Rebellion and Echo considering it. 🥲

Also Echo volunteering to be Riyo Chuchi's witness?! He just wants to help people. I love him so much. 😭

PONCHO OMEGA.

I thought they were going to steal a wholeass Venator for a second.

Love Echo being so intouch with the Batch's plans now and Rex is just like WHAT IS HAPPENING

Tech being annoyed with himself for being 6m out.

Palps is back!!!

Hahahaha Rampart getting arrested makes me very happy. 🤣

BUT THAT PLAN BACKFIRED BADLY

R.I.P all the clones. 😭

...I cry just thinking about the end of this episode

I find it interesting how they have the Batch clustered very close together on one side of the shot and Rex and Riyo close on the other side. But Echo is kind of floating in the middle. Am I looking too much into the framing of this shot? Maybe. But I think it's interesting. 🤔

I thought Echo and Hunter might have talked about this on the nugget mission but Wrecker and Tech knew as well??? 😭

AND THEY'RE ALL SO SUPPORTIVE OF HIM 😭

THEY KNOW THAT HE NEEDS THIS 😭

I KNOW THAT HE NEEDS THIS 😭

I DON'T NEED THIS PAIN THOUGH 😭

Him crouching down and putting a hand on Omega's shoulder.

Him telling her to keep training (I'm convinced Echo taught her most of her combat).

He's so soft around her I can't do this 😭

OMEGA HUGGING HIM 😭😭😭

He looked so surprised but then he hugged her back and I'm literally dying inside

They way he steps forward a bit when be watches them leave

HIS FACE 😭

I remember seeing the trailer and thinking "I don't like the fact that he looks sad there"...

The last shot of Omega hugging Lula 🥲

I WAS NOT EMOTIONALLY PREPARED

So erm, yeah...

If you couldn't tell this episode completely destroyed me. I am lacking all coherent thoughts. No, I will not be okay.

How do I go on from this??? DO WE GET LESS ECHO???

I'm kinda hoping for an Echo and Rex centric episode, but I don't know if that's going to happen. Maybe, but I think we may just not see them until a Batch reunion later on or something.

I feel like I should have more to say but I am struggling to process emotions right now. Might watch episodes 6-8 again later but I need to work out if I am willing to cope with that. 🥲

[silverwings22]

Caught in the Crosshairs: Chapter 53: Afterlife- Five Finger Death Punch

Series warnings: Smut, mind control, canon typical violence, childhood trauma, language, chronic illness

Chapter warnings: Death, exploitation of the clones, violent racism against clones, violence

Translations: cyar'ika: sweetheart Cyare: beloved vod: brother ram'ser: sniper buir: mother/father ba'voduse: aunts/uncles shebs: ass ad'ika: little one ba'buir: grandmother/grandfather

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There were more stormtroopers and less clones now. As much as he'd detested working with regs, Crosshair had to admit that the familiarity was missed. He waited outside a transport for his new commanding officer, leaning on his rifle with his helmet off.

"They're a lot more open now. About hating clones." Mayrin, his ever present shadow that nobody else could seem to see, leaned against the ship next to him. "I dunno why you put up with it."

Crosshair hmphed in her direction, adjusting his toothpick. "Orders are orders."

"Yeah, yeah. Dumb orders." She rolled her eyes, watching a few older regs being led off for their unhappy forced retirement. "They're being thrown away, and those guys don't have anywhere to go. You do. All you have to do is comm her. She'd come back for you."

Crosshair ignored her, narrowing his eyes. She was talking about Miria, of course. She brought the Jedi and the Batch up every time she spoke to him, like she knew them as well as he used to. Combine that with the snippets of her voice he kept hearing, and her appearance in his dreams… "You don't even know her."

"Yes I do."

Before he could snap, a snub-nosed nat born walked up. "CT-9904? I am Lieutenant Nolan… You're out of uniform."

Crosshair quickly stuck his helmet on. Behind him, a couple of the remaining regs were laughing about finally getting back into a combat mission. Nolan sneered. "More clones."

"Problem, sir?"

"I don't like used equipment." 

Nolan walked past him into the transport with a contingency of stormtroopers. Crosshair hissed quietly. 

"See what I mean? They don't like clones, just because you're clones." Mayrin grumbled. "He'll throw you away the first chance he gets, and the Empire will give him a medal for it."

"Shut up." Crosshair grabbed his gun roughly and stomped up the transport ramp. Fucking hell, this kid…

Barton-4 was cold and bleak, and Crosshair wished it didn't remind him of Kaller. He already hated this place, even before the chill seeped into his armor. 

Miria would hate this place. She hates the snow. 

He wasn't supposed to give a shit about what she hated, but the thought lingered stubbornly in the stark white of the landscape. She'd wrinkle her adorable button nose and pull her robes closer at the first icy breeze, taking a step closer to him. 

"You okay, cyar'ika?"

"Yes. It just… reminds me of Illum. I'm not overly fond of snow."

"You sure you're up for this?"

"Yes, my darling. I can do it."

A bedraggled and tired looking clone led then into the facility, which seemed all but abandoned. There were only three troopers remaining from the garrison. 

Nolan seemed determined to be as much of a pain in the ass as possible. "This outpost is disgustingly under-guarded. Where are your men?"

"Dead. Hexx, Veech, and I are all that's left. Barely enough to maintain a perimeter." The commander shrugged. He was bearded, his armor covered in scraps of cloth to maintain some warmth. "You must be our reinforcements. We expected you thirty seven rotations ago. You're late."

"The Empire operates on its own schedule, not yours. You will address me with respect, clone." Nolan sneered.

The commander glanced at the rows of clone helmets resting on crates around them, a memorial of the brothers he'd lost. "In my experience, respect is earned."

Nolan huffed and walked off to inspect the rest of the facility. The Commander sighed, shaking his head before looking at Crosshair. "Name's Mayday."

"Crosshair." The sniper usually wouldn't waste time with formalities, or bother getting friendly with regs. But months of crippling loneliness had a way of worming through his guard in the way a lifetime on Kamino had opened him up to Miria. He was beginning to suspect nothing was going to stop him from seeing her in every single moment, no matter how far she was. 

Is that really so bad? I… miss her. 

Mayday looked at him curiously. "You know the lieutenant well?"

"For about two hours."

The commander huffed. "C'mon. I'll give you the lay of the land." They headed out into the snow. 

"What happened to your men?" Crosshair asked. 

"Raiders, insurgents after the cargo. We've been out here for a year with nothing." Mayday explained. 

"How'd they get around the sensors?" 

"The conditions have degraded our equipment. I requested replacements, but we never got anything." Mayday knocked on a pole lightly, the sensor light on it flickering. "Whatever is in those crates better be worth it."

Crosshair was startled. "You don't know what the cargo is?"

"No. Apparently it's above a clone trooper's pay grade." The bitter tone in Mayday's voice wasn't missed. "If you go to scout, don't go alone and don't go far. You'll freeze to death in your armor if something else doesn't kill you first. They'll like it, though." He pointed up at a circling ice-vulture. "Vicious creatures, but you can't help but admire them. They find a way to survive."

Crosshair glanced up at the circling creature searching for carrion. Keeping themselves alive by the death of others… a part of nature that all too suddenly felt oppressive on his skin. Why did it make him think of that moment on the platform, when Miria reached her burned hands out towards him? He'd been cruel, hadn't he? 

"I don't care what you believe, or what you want."

"I know. But… if you ever change your mind… you can always come home. As long as I'm alive, there's a place for you wherever I am…"

"You won't be for long, will you?"

He was no better than the vultures. He'd been willing to use her death to survive, to stand in the ashes of her slaughtered Order and his own brothers for a chance to be on a winning team. At least the vultures had no concept of right and wrong. What was he doing? 

He glanced to the side at a glimmer of purple and gold, Mayrin shimmering into existence behind Mayday. She gave him a meaningful look, the kind Miria used to give him right before one of her sweet- toned lectures about the value of life. The snow wasn't settling on her armor, she didn't seem cold. 

She's not a hallucination from a head injury. She's one of those Force visions, like Miria talked about…

Like she could hear his thought, the girl smirked. A crooked smile that crinkled around her eyes and mouth.

Before he could start trying to understand what the hell was happening, blaster fire came over Mayday's comm. "Raiders! I'll take west, you go east!"

The two clones split up, heading for the sound of fighting. Battle was at least a comfortable familiarity and Crosshair quickly scaled a watchtower to pick off the raiders. A snow skiff was racing away, not entirely out of range but probably a lost cause with the backup the driver had. So the sniper set his sights on a raider on foot, dropping his helmet scope over the one on his rifle. He'd just lined up when a flare of bright light from an explosion blinded him. 

"Fuck." He snatched off his helmet, rubbing his eyes. He couldn't see, his marksmanship was his defining feature and the onset of a sudden panic that it was useless threatened to snatch his concentration. 

If I can't make the shot, I'm useless. If I'm useless, I'm dead. The Empire won't give a damn about recovery. 

Manda fucking damn it. Mayrin had been right. Miria had been right. Even fucking Hunter had been right! He was never more than a number, and now he was stuck.

He managed to lean into his rifle and fire off a haphazard shot before taking a moment to crumple, rubbing his eyes. They hurt. Everything hurt. He wanted one thing he was never going to get back right now, and he didn't even know how to reach-

"Miria?" He whispered. "I know you can hear me." He repeated what she'd said the last time he'd heard her, when her voice was tight with anger and he could feel the ache of her clenched fists in his own.

Crosshair?!

"I'm sorry, cyare." He mumbled. "For all of it."

Where are you, love? Tell me where to find you.

"You're not coming here. They'll kill you." Crosshair struggled to his feet and headed towards where he'd shot, tracking the blood trail a wounded raider left behind. He could finish this, get Mayday and his men off this outpost before he took a step that he should have taken months ago on Kamino. "I'll… figure this out."

Crosshair. Where are you? 

Her voice was demanding. He'd never heard her sound so forceful… he kind of liked it. That was a voice he could follow orders from. "Doesn't matter. I'll find you." He slid down an embankment after the blood. "Just… wanted to say something first. Something you asked me to say when you started showing up in my fucking dreams."

Cross…

"I still love you."

The radiant warmth that spilled through the bond was a much-appreciated side effect of Miria's delight. Crosshair had a half mind to keep talking, ask her how she was and what she'd been doing, anything to keep hearing her voice. He'd never liked chat before, but it had been too damn long and she was so far away. He'd see her soon, he'd find her and make this entire disaster up to her somehow. 

Mayday slid into the tunnel behind him, startling Crosshair. "So this is how they got through our defenses."

"Looks like it." Crosshair wondered if Miria could hear what he did, because at the sound of the commander's voice she went silent. He almost felt a squeeze in his hand, like an assurance. 

He could still come home. 

They headed into the tunnel until they found the raider, dead against a rock. Mayday nudged him. "I don't know what bothers me more, that he's wearing armor scavenged from my men or that his cohorts left him here to rot."

"No point in carrying dead weight." Crosshair shrugged. He regretted the statement almost immediately, distantly recalling when Rex had decked him in the face for the same kind of callus comment about Echo. 

Mayday just eyed him. "Remind me not to die on your watch."

They crept further into the tunnel, guns up, when they both heard an ominous click. Crosshair froze, looking down. 

"Pressure mine." Mayday groaned.

"Can you disarm it?" Crosshair stared at his own foot on the triangular mine. If he lifted it, they were both dead. He was in no hurry to die now, not with so much at stake all of a sudden. 

"I'm no explosives expert, but I can try. Hold still." Mayday knelt by his feet with a small hammer and a couple L-brackets. "Sure wish I had the equipment for this." He started carefully tapping the brackets into the ice around the mine, not quite flush but enough to hold it down when Crosshair lifted his foot. "Guess it's just us left to look out for each other, huh? What unit were you in before?"

Crosshair’s defenses went up immediately. "Doesn't matter." He couldn't talk about them, as much as he'd like to have Wrecker’s expertise on the mine. He couldn't trust a reg… right? Then again, he was having to trust Mayday so he didn't explode right now. 

"Indulge me." Mayday kept working on another bracket. 

"... Clone Force 99." Crosshair finally murmured. "But they're gone."

"I'm sorry to hear that." Mayday sounded sincere. "I know what it's like."

Crosshair paused. He did, didn't he? He'd lost nearly every one of his squad, kept their helmets and remembered them. He was a reg, but the line between himself and the regs was blurred in the Empire. Maybe he could bring Mayday out of here, like Cody had tried to do for him. He'd fit in like Echo had… Miria would like him. It might even be novel to introduce her to his friend for once. 

"That should do it. Don't lift your foot yet, and when you do go nice and slow." Mayday picked up his helmet and started backing down behind some rock cover. 

"Not confident in your work?" Crosshair huffed.

"I'm confident. I'm just not stupid." Mayday smirked. "Nice and slow now."

Crosshair very carefully raised his foot, breathing out a silent prayer that if there was a divine or the Force or whatever, that it didn't let him come this far just to splatter all over a cave wall. 

Thankfully, it didn't blow. Mayday popped out from behind the rock, giving him a thumbs up. "Let's go back. I'm out of brackets."

They trudged back through the snow miserably, and Crosshair glanced up at the vultures converging on the cave. 

He had to finish this and get the fuck out of here.

Crosshair, beyond the shadow of a doubt, hated Lieutenant Nolan. Not only had he sent him and Mayday to try to recover stolen cargo, but he had refused to let any of his men come with them. It was just two clones on what was definitely a suicide mission. 

"Heard you 99 commandos had a Jedi. She go out in the order?" Mayday seemed to like difficult conversations, or maybe he just wanted Crosshair to think. As comfortable as the sniper was with silence, this was a topic he had plenty to say on… if he could make himself do it. 

"No. She… survived. We were on Kaller." He looked at his rifle. It wasn't the same one he'd shot at her that day with, she was carrying that Firepuncher. He wondered if she thought about that. "She was special."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. Smart, kind… started off shy and polite, but she opened up eventually."

"Sounds like she was more than your general." Mayday mused. 

"... she was. I introduced her to 99."

"Shit, really? I'm sorry, then. You said they were gone." Mayday looked immediately apologetic. There wasn't a clone alive who didn't at least know what that had meant, even if they were made after 99 died. 

"What about you?" Crosshair asked, deciding if he was going to make a friend he might as well use some of what she'd tried to teach him. 

"Nah. Wouldn't mind though… not much chance to meet somebody in the Empire though."

"What if you left?"

Mayday looked at him. "Like desertion?"

"That's not what I said."

Mayday laughed darkly. "My whole squad is dead over some cargo we weren't even allowed to look at. If you've got an exit plan, I'm in."

"Let's get this done then. I… might have an idea."

"Good thinking, vod."

They spotted a fire in the distance and Crosshair dropped his scope to look. Being called a brother again felt good, and quieted the screaming in his head that he was supposed to be an Imperial soldier. "Two guards at the entrance and more inside."

"Shouldn't be too hard for us." Mayday smirked, pulling an electro-stun grenade from his pocket. "On the way back, you tell me this plan."

"Deal."

Their approach was direct, stunning the guards and moving in for a fight. Mayday fought much like Echo, like any reg, making Crosshair’s tactics more effective. Yeah, he'd fit right in. Hunter might even have to give up command, which was going to piss him off and delight Crosshair.

Unfortunately, the raiders had explosives and were too stupid not to use them. A thermal went off, sending the cargo crates flying out of the open sided cavern and into the snow. Crosshair quickly finished off the last of them before Mayday could be overwhelmed, eying the cracked rock behind them. 

Mayday shook his head. "Let's get the cargo loaded up and we can take their skiff back."

Crosshair nodded and they slid down the icy cliffside to the crates. When he reached them, the sniper lifted a white helmet from the snow. "Gear?"

Mayday cursed. "Not a clone helmet, either." He picked up a chest plate. "Toys for their shiny new military, while we get the scraps. We were good soldiers. We followed orders… and for what?"

Crosshair didn't have an answer for that, and shook his head. "We've got to get out." He muttered. "Or we're dead." Maybe there was no reason to even return to the outpost, they could just wait out the Imperials until they took the cargo, then scrap together something to get off Barton-4. Maybe he could even call, like Mayrin said, and Miria would-

A deafening rumble above them caught both clones attention. Mayday paled. "Avalanche. Run!" 

The clones took off like bats out of hell, chased by the lethal tumble of snow and ice. There was a rock outcropping a couple hundred meters ahead, safety if they could make it. They were almost there, they were-

Mayday shoved Crosshair to the side as the ice caught up, sparing him being flattened by a huge and heavy pane of it. He heard bones crunch when it struck the commander, before he was buried alive in the frost.

"Ram'ser! Crosshair!" That was Mayrin's voice screaming for him. "Dig up or you're going to suffocate! I can't dig you out!"

Crosshair was dizzy, trying to figure out which way was up. The snow felt heaviest on his chest, so he struggled a punch that direction. His hand broke the frigid crust like a zombie from its grave, and he dragged his top half up. Mayrin was perched on the snow next to him. "...kid?"

"I'm sorry. I can't dig you out, but you've got to get up. Mayday's hurt and I can't help him either."

"I know." The cold wind in his face cleared his head a little and he brushed snow off his head and shivered. "You're… a Force spirit. Right?"

"You figured it out. Better late than never." She sighed. "Yeah. Get your legs under you. The snow is chest high."

Crosshair nodded, kicking the loose slush under him to get enough traction. When he finally got his spindly legs beneath him, he started wading through the snow. "Where is he?"

"By the rock. He got slammed into it, he's hurt." Mayrin was weightless on the snow, leaving no prints. 

Crosshair followed her, digging through the snow until his hands met plastoid. "Mayday! Mayday!" The commander couldn't die. He finally had a friend, somebody to rely on after he'd lost his squad. And Cody, after he'd stupidly pushed them away. 

The bearded clone coughed when Crosshair pulled him out of the slush. "G-go…" He mumbled. "I won't make it."

Crosshair looked at Mayrin, who gave him a weak smile, before pulling Mayday up. The wind was whipping up, they were about to be caught out in a blizzard. He had to find shelter, and get Mayday back to the outpost for medical attention. He'd put off his escape to save this life, because he couldn't imagine Miria ever forgiving him if he walked away now. 

He dragged Mayday's arm over his shoulder and pulled the wounded man out of the snow, heading for another rock ledge to shield them from the wind and sleet. He'd lost his helmet, but Mayday still had his. He tucked them into a shallow cave and leaned against Mayday to keep them both as warm as possible to wait it out. 

Mayday blacked out against his shoulder as the storm raged. Mayrin sat back on his other side, and though he knew there was no warmth to be found in her presence he did notice the wind seemed to break. 

"I'm sorry. I didn't know about this…" She whispered. "I'd have tried to warn you." Her teeth set on her bottom lip, big lavender eyes wide and nervous. Her shoulders hunched inward, hair hanging at her chin. When she finally closed her eyes, long silver lashes rested on her cheeks. 

Only, Crosshair didn't see Mayrin in the moment. He saw Miria Halcyon. 

"You're hers, aren't you?" He whispered. "Her daughter."

Mayrin opened her eyes and looked at him, smiling faintly. "Look a little harder. You're halfway there."

He examined her face for a long minute. The tanned skin around her eyes crinkled again when she smiled… tan skin and silver hair. Hadn't Miria once told him she found that particular combination attractive on him? "... you're my daughter." He breathed. It was so obvious now. Her eyes, his smile, dressed in armor with a star, moon, and crosshairs painted on the chest plate. The child they'd wanted before everything fell apart was sitting right next to him. 

"Of course. You're the only man she's ever loved." Mayrin laughed softly. "Mama figured it out a lot faster than you did, Buir."

"You've seen her?" He hardly dared hope for good news. 

"Yeah. You needed someone to yell at you, and she needed hope." Mayrin hugged her knees. "She's scared and angry, but she's okay. My ba'voduse are looking out for her. They all miss you."

Crosshair leaned back against the rock. "Good… I'll be back."

"Thank Manda. I'd like to be born already. This Force thing is a pain in the shebs."

Crosshair chuckled under his breath. "You've got my smart mouth."

"I dunno. Mama's pretty sassy lately too." Mayrin laughed. 

"Do I turn out to be a decent father?" Crosshair asked after a long minute of listening to the wind howl. He wasn't totally sure he was ready for the answer, but he had to know. 

"You're the best father." Mayrin assured him with one of her mother's kind looks. "Why do you think I came? Even before I'm born, I already love you."

Crosshair closed his eyes and nodded. "... I love you too, ad'ika." The endearment felt right. "Just one last question?"

"Anything."

"Do we give you a middle name? Miria said a lot of nat borns have them…" He'd never put much stock in the practice, except that he thought Miria's sounded nice. Adeline… he'd looked it up once. Miria meant "miracle", and Adeline was "beautiful inside and out". Her parents, whoever they were, knew what they were doing when they'd given it to her. He'd been an idiot to ever think anything else. To accuse that woman of being a traitor made no more sense than to insist hyperspace wasn't purple. 

Mayrin hugged her knees with a smile. "Nina. After my ba'buir, 99."

"Mayrin Nina Halcyon." The name left the sniper’s mouth like a prayer. "Does it mean anything? Mayrin?"

The girl giggled. "Beloved."

Crosshair nodded. That made perfect sense to him. "I can't wait to really meet you." 

"I'm going to sass you the whole time."

"You wouldn't be mine if you didn't."

It was a bolstered and viciously determined Crosshair that dragged Mayday back to the outpost. There was a goal now. He'd get Mayday medical attention, make his escape plan, and take the commander with him out of the Empire. He could do it. He had to, he had to get to Miria and their daughter. 

Nolan was having the cargo loaded when they limped onto the tarmac. "He… needs a medic…" Crosshair was exhausted, dropping to his knees and doing his best to lay Mayday down gently. The commander's helmet rolled off, revealing a pale face pinched with agony.

"You failed to recover the cargo, so your mission was a failure. He's outlived his use to the Empire." Nolan huffed.

Crosshair froze. No… no, he couldn't just watch Mayday die. Not after all this. Not after coming so far. 

Next to him, Mayday weakly squeezed his hand. The whole way back, Crosshair had been muttering to him about Miria and the Batch, promising him that he'd get to meet them. That they'd love him. "... tell 'em hi for me." He said breathlessly before his eyes rolled back and a weak gurgle petered out. Then the commander went limp.

Crosshair checked desperately for a pulse, but there was nothing. "You could have saved him." He gritted out. 

Nolan sneered. "I'm not wasting resources on something that's no use. And if you ever speak to me again with such disrespect, you'll join him. Now leave him and get back to work, clone. He was expendable, and so are you." He turned his back to Crosshair, storming off.

Crosshair looked at Mayday for a long minute, then up at a circling ice vulture. It'd land eventually, feast on Mayday when he was denied a burial by the Empire that had let him die for no reason but spite. Crosshair finally understood what Miria had been trying to tell him for years, that life was sacred and fragile. So easily snatched away, and the good always died young while the wicked survived to inflict themselves on the galaxy. 

Not this time. 

Before he could think it through, his fingers wrapped around one of Mayday's pistols. "Lieutenant?"

"What?" Nolan snapped, turning on his heel. 

"Don't!" Mayrin screeched, but no one could hear her except her to-be father. And Crosshair had had enough. 

Bang.

A hole of burning plasma punched through Nolan's chest, a shot Crosshair could never have missed no matter how tired he was. He crumpled like flimsi, Crosshair following him to the ground as his last energy was depleted. 

"Buir! Buir!" He could hear Mayrin yelling over the din of stormtroopers ordering him to drop the blaster, but everything was going hazy and he knew he was going to pass out. 

"Tell your mother… I tried to make it right." He mumbled before the rough duracrete under his cheek slipped away and he was unconscious. Maybe she'd be waiting in his dreams again, and he could tell her he was sorry himself. If they didn't execute him, he could. If they did…

Sorry kid. I didn't think it through, but I swear I tried…

He said he was coming home. He still loved her, he'd missed her… so what was this room? 

It was dim, but looked much like the research ship they'd found the Zillo in. Her sniper was laying on a table, limp and pale. Was he hurt?

"Darling?" Miria whispered, trying to touch his face when a door opened behind her. A woman in a lab coat passed right through her incorporeal figure to get to Crosshair, drawing something into a syringe as the clone opened his eyes and squinted. 

"Where am I…?"

"CT-9904, or do you prefer Crosshair?"

"What's going on?" He tried to sit up, eyes wide. The woman pushed him back down, bringing the syringe to his neck. 

"Cooperate, and you just might survive. Don't fight."

Crosshair didn't have the strength the struggle when the sedative flooded his system, going limp on the table again. "...M-miria…"

"Crosshair!"

"CROSSHAIR!" Miria sat upright in her bunk, barely managing not to slam her head into the bunk above her. Hunter rolled over in his bunk next to her, yawning. Tech's head popped out from above, ignoring Wrecker falling out of his own bed when he startled awake. 

"Another nightmare?" Tech looked sympathetic. 

"No." Miria clutched her heaving chest, trying to catch her breath. "No, something else. Something is wrong."

"Are you getting sick?" Hunter sat up. "I thought that thing on Thule was-"

"Not with me, Hunter." Her eyes were wide with poorly restrained terror. "Something is wrong with Crosshair."

[hawthornsword]

Today on Bad Batch! (2x12):

Crosshair:

Audience:

I guess it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, because I was honestly prepared to completely dislike Crosshair and settle in to him being a villain, but then we have seen so little of him that I was getting antsy like, "Where is he?! What's he doing?! What's he thinking?! I need to know!" And then I squealed with delight when the episode started with him.

Nolan: exists

Me: Can we kill him?

Yay new named clone boys!!! (They are just resting safely. They are perfectly fine.) Mayday has a fuckin presence, no? (*swoons a little*) Maybe just a personal preference, but I am digging all the bearded boys. Yes. Good.

"no point carrying dead weight."

"remind me not to die on your watch."

*Crosshair realizing maybe this is why people don't like him and that maybe his batch were a lot more tolerant of his behavior than most and maybe he took that for granted, and he is desperately lonely and seeking connection and has finally realized that he is the one pushing everyone away. 😭😭😭

Oh hey, the huddling for warmth trope, that's usually used for like, romantic confession- Oh, my god I'm dying, my heart. The absolute tenderness. This may be the best huddling for warmth scene I've ever seen. Good job animators! I'm just -

Mayday protected Crosshair and treated him as a brother even though Crosshair was prickly, just like Cody did, and he's finally got it through his thick head that he doesn't belong with the empire, he belongs to the empire - he's just equipment to them - and that belonging with his brothers who actually care about him is worth so much more than than any false sense of grand purpose the empire might temporarily give him. Personal connection will always trump ideaogical bullshit.

And I suspect the thing about Crosshair is that once he commits to something, he's committed. That's it. Now that he knows the truth in his heart, nothing will stop him from acting on it. So he doesn't go subtle, like Cody slipping out in the night. He goes out guns blazing, killing that worthless empire motherfucker, because that's The Bad "when have we ever cared about orders? Batch Way.

That was so satisfying.

I am also glad we are going to pretty much immediately get back to whatever the heck is going on at Mount Tantis. Hemlock is creepy af, I love it. I really want to know what they plan to do to Crosshair tho???? They don't need him to make more clones, they're phasing them out, so what, clones are just convenient for shits-and-giggles experimentation? Like, they've got cloning down. And yeah, we know from Mandalorian/sequels Palps is trying to do Force sensitive cloning, but they don't need Crosshair for that, unless they've already got force sensitive dna and they're gonna shoot it into him to see what happens??? I somehow doubt that they'd risk a force sensitive supersoldier though, so I bet it's something else.

Predictions/wishlist for the rest of the season: I'm guessing Omega will get captured soon and then Crosshair will be like, "okay, let's bust out of this joint baby sis!" And Taun We will probably get killed helping them escape, then the Batch and Rex and Echo and Gregor will arrive, and I hope Omega (and Wrecker and Tech) will be like, "We can't leave the Zillow Beast! It's just a baby! The last of it's kind! Treated awfully just like us! (Big tooka eyes)" and Hunter will be like, "okay fine, we can rescue the beast." And Crosshair and Echo and Rex especially will be like, "wtf, force preserve us Hunter, you can't be serious right now - she makes big tooka eyes once and you do whatever she wants?!?!?! (Because Rex and Echo have experience denying Ahsoka's cuteness, so they have learned already that no good comes from indulging the chaos babies.) And then Omega and Crosshair befriend and get to ride the Zillow beast while it squashes all the imps as it escapes and then they find a nice uninhabited planet to drop it off, and the Batch is reunited and we get a happy ending of the season (and after credits hemlock escapes to be creepy again later, obv).

Meanwhile,

I still need to know where Cody is. Please.

[engagemythrusters]

time to watch what is, I am assuming, the most fucked up shit to ever happen to Mr Crosshair CT9904

God I’m excited to finally see him again!

LOOK IRS MY LITTLE BITCH

Retirement huh

“CT-9904, you’re out of uniform” (puts on helmet in the bitchiest way possible)

I hate this guy. Look am at him. He’s so punchable

OHHHH crosshair beeing snappy about clone hare

Also yeah I wanna punch that guy

But god I think… crosshair finally… finally realising how sucky the empire is…

Crosshair and his bigass backpack

Oh my god I can’t see why is everything so dark

BEARD CLONE

handsome boy!

I love this commander clone

YOU LITTLE BITCH YOU IDIOT I hate you lieutenant nolan

Oh god… oh god the line of helmets… oh god my heart breaks

Mayday I love you <3

The hesitance before he says crosshair… smthn smthn analysis time for me later

I love his wrapped armour

OH NO His eyes!!! He’s gotta be extra sensitive to that poor guy

WAIT NO

He just shot MAYDAY DIDNT HE

O H N O

Okay mayday looks okay… so maybe not…Thank GOD.

In my defense it looked like the person was wrapped up the way mayday was. So. Uh yeah. A few minutes of panick tee em there.

Oh no… oh the lines of helmets… god it kills me.

I am going to kill Nolan with my bare hands

OH MY GOD HE STOLE ARMOUR

oh fod he’s standing on a mine

There’s a lot of “oh gods” that I’m saying but it’s so true

“I could use the distraction” sir you’re disarming a mine. Please pay attention to that 😂

MAYDAY 😂 stop toying with crosshair Jesus

“They’re… gone.” They don’t HAVE to be baby you can just go HOME to them :’(

Maybe between Cody and Mayday… maybe…

literally the last ep of this season is called 99 right? So…

God I’m crossing my fingers… and my hairs haha pun that’s bad hehe ugh

SKDJRKS the sass between the two 😂

Oh boy the anksieties.

Crosshair gets a frien—

Oh my GOD WAIT.

No the All Quiet On The Western Front reference theh made…

MAYDAY IS GOING TO DIE ISNT HE…

F U C K

No mayday baby pls don’t go there no no no I don’t want you to die :(

(Soundtrack is scratching some itches in my brain tho)

God I’m so nervous :(

Okay he’s alive… maybe… maybe I’m wrong…

“We’re good soldiers. We followed orders.” Oh god I’m. My heart is breaking. He didn’t even have that order to follow and it was still activated for him anyway. How much did that change him? How much did he have to push through to be himself again?

Oh NOOO

Noooo mayday…

My heart is breaking I can’t do this oh my god

Hehe okay the arms did make me laugh through the tears hehe

Okay I have to pause for work purposes but just know I’m dying inside rn

RIP it did not save the rest of my reactions. I did come back and finish up but evidently what I wrote after all got deleted. Big frustrating ngl. i wanted to come back to this when the end of the season came to see how this compared to that.

But anyway. That ending cut me up so badly... my heart is aching my whole chest hurts. Crosshair... he is going through so much and now he has to go through more... they're going to make him hunt the rest of the bad batch again, aren't they? To get Omega to make Nala Se work again... PLEASE hasn't he suffered ENOUGH?! Why can't he be saved... why can't they save him... I can't do this. Please save him...

Good ep? I don’t know. My whole chest aches.