Strawberry girlfriends Ahsoka and Barriss from my modern AU!! ;)
Purge Trooper Cody finally finds Obi-wan on Tatooine and is about to Take the Shot til he sees obi chug caf straight from the caf maker and not go to bed for the following 25 hours and cody jusr motherhens himself out of the chips control with sheer willpower to get that dumbass to Sleep
this is so funny, like
purge trooper cody has a simple mission on tatooine and randomly sees obi-wan buying a plum or something at the market and goes full !!! gotta follow him
so he follows him to his hut and observes him for a while just to see obi-wan never ever going near is bed, eating junk and swallowing liters of coffee in a span of minutes and listen, cody could have killed him right there and then but he still has a minimum of honor so he can't just shoot a dehydrated idiot man who's in absolutely no condition to fight, so naturally he has to enter the hut and passive-aggressively cook that man a soup
obi-wan has no idea what's going on but he's vibing
I was just talking with a friend, and explaining why I adore the clones so much, so I thought I'd yell my love into the Tumblr void, as well.
They're so fascinating to me because, as children, they're treated as interchangeable parts, conditioned to believe that they don't matter as individuals. But despite that, they develop (depending on your adherence to canon, Legends, or whatever) their own culture and very distinct personalities.
They're generally so brave and selfless, which I imagine you can partly chalk up to the awful conditioning they were subjected to, but I also like to think that their closeness growing up fostered genuine concern for the welfare of others.
I could cry until the end of time over some of them getting the chance to learn that they possess their own inherent value, outside of their usefulness to the Republic and ultimately Sidious.
All of my favorite stories focus on the clones' agency and individuality, despite much of the Galaxy (not the Jedi, of course!) treating them as expendable pawns.
And then you add their age into it and I turn into a puddle on the floor. T_T When it comes to life experience, they've had so little, and even if you just look at their biological ages of 20-26-ish throughout the war, they're so young. I'm 39, and the thought of these poor kids going through all the hardships they face is too much for my heart.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
me, rewatching my favourite media for the hundredth time: it’s about the comfort. it’s about the nostalgia. it’s about lacking the necessary emotional bandwidth to take in and process new things in this year of our lord 2021
Like, Anakin might not know that Rex defected. He promoted Appo but technically Appo’s still second in command of the 501st, under Rex (Rex is still listed as a Captain because Anakin is really really fucking awful at paperwork). And then when Rex doesn’t show up, the obvious conclusion is that he’s dead, but Anakin still doesn’t let him get listed as MIA or KIA because that’s HIS CAPTAIN, dammit, and he’s lost Ahsoka, Padme, Obi-Wan, and literally everything else he ever cared about, he doesn’t want to face having lost Rex, too. And he works better with Rex than with anyone else (mostly because Rex has become accustomed to his bullshit and is Very Good at taking Anakin’s spectacularly stupid nonsense and Making It Work), and really he can’t picture leading the 501st with anyone OTHER than Rex at his side.
And then Rex keeps not coming back. But Vader still doesn’t remove him from the system. For years and years. And eventually everyone stops mentioning it to him because they tend to get force-murdered if they do.
So long story short, Rebels-era Rex is technically the commanding officer of Vader’s Fist, and the system still recognizes his codes and lets him in, and technically if he walked up to any stormtrooper while wearing his old helmet, the networks would recognize him and tell the stormtrooper that’s your CO. So if Rex realized this, he could just waltz in and take control of the most feared stormtrooper legion in the galaxy and as long as Vader wasn’t around, no one would stop him (they’d all be very confused, but they wouldn’t stop him). And maybe vader walks up at this point like “what the hell is going on here” and sees Rex and is just like “REX there you are where the FUCK have you been?” and Rex is like “uuuhhhh i had engine trouble on the way back from Mandalore” and it’s been 20 years but Vader knows how shitty Rex is at piloting and really anything involving flying and ships so he’s like “sounds legit”
Canonically the public loved and supported the clones and wanted them to be treated like real people so like………..betcha they made action figures………
Anakin is so sweet wtf he genuinely wanted to make Wrecker happy by letting him set off the detonator, such a tiny thing but he was on his own part of the mission, saw something and thought “Wrecker would like this I’m gonna get it for him” wtf and he JUST met him. He really does care so much about people and have such a big heart, I’m gonna miss my nice boy when he goes dark side in a few weeks 🥺
FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING NEWS
Holy fuck i finished the timeline, y’all.
If you want a copy as reference, before I, you know, mess with it for my OWN means? A PDF copy is HERE.
Enjoy my ranting commentary. >_>
Not sorry.
EDIT 2/21/19:
Heeeeeey…..so. This suddenly got a lot of notes all of a sudden. A very kind person (I shan’t name so they don’t get Tumblr alerted like mad) was smart enough to tell me to credit the PDF with my info.
Also I kind of went back in and cleaned it up a little. So. IF YA WANT. It’s a little nicer in the beginning for everyone.
And uuuhm, so. I also tried to fix the GAR? Because I am that type of crazy.
SO! Here, have a fixed GAR (pdf)
8D
no one is doing it like temuera morrison, he really got himself cast in a big tv show like that and did everything within his power to portray the character with as many specifically Māori traits as possible. actively encorportating the haka into how he fights? specifically requesting a weapon which could be wielded like a taiaha?? and then theres a whole section in the doco about how important using Māori culture in boba fetts character was. absolute fucking national treasure
I love how explicitly they made Rex’s role in Anakin’s secret relationship with Padme. It wasn’t a complete secret. Rex not only knew, but actively aided Anakin in hiding the relationship. Rex literally enabled him to talk to his secret wife, and it’s clear that this happened a lot.
Now more than ever, I want to see Rex meeting Luke. This just adds another layer to what that interaction must have been like.