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sunshinesdaydream · 10 months

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart Part 1

Pairing: Rex x Female Reader Rating: General Audience for this part but minors DNI as future parts could be less G rated. Summary: Rex has been busy the whole war and has a wonderful group of people surrounding him. Fives, Echo, Jesse, and Kix conspire to talk him into signing up for the same matchmaking service they used Right to Love. Note: Greatheart(oc clone name)is a name I pulled from a Robin McKinley retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Content Warnings: Anxiety and symptoms of (based on author's personal experience) also other various "neurospicy" situations. Word Count: 1036

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart Part 1 of ?

Rex paced the length of his quarters. He should have known better when Echo and Fives approached him with Kix and Jesse.

Fives had a talent for making anything sound reasonable and was the master of the rousing speech. Combined with Echo's strategy, Kix's “you'll do what's good for you” energy, and Jesse's support ... they could have talked him into anything.

But they chose to talk him into signing up for a matchmaking service. It sounded good at the time, he'd already met all of the people the four of them were dating now. Everyone seemed happy, well suited to each other, they even were well suited to the group at large.

And he wanted a person like that himself. He was surrounded by his people, but it still felt like something was missing. Rex knew it was a good idea to do this. He hadn't the time to go out to meet people before and now he saw that while the others may have had fun, it's not what he wanted.

Knowing it was a better idea than trying to go out and meet someone on his own did nothing to stop the familiar roiling in his stomach like a Kaminoian storm, or the tense electric feeling that crawled under his skin and sent him fidgeting and then pacing. Usually he could tame the sensations, in situations he was familiar with. With familiar goals and objectives, things he had trained on for hundreds of hours.

But for Rex, this was completely uncharted territory. The only experience he had was being subjected to his brothers' escapades. He refused to ask the quartet that were going with him to the office for “moral support” and to do the optional questionnaires for friends. He wanted to ask if the friends were optional.

When they all arrived at his quarters wearing civis he immediately said, “Okay, let's go,” He hoped using his “command voice” would cover his anxiety.

But these four in particular knew him too well. Kix grabbed his arm, and pushed him further into his room. Helped immediately by Jesse, who would always follow the medic's lead.

“Something's wrong,”Kix said. “What is it?”

Of course Kix would notice. He could sniff out a distressed brother from the other side of a Venator, let alone the same room.

“Nothing, it's nothing.” Rex sighed. “Let's go,”

At Kix's frown the others moved into a circle around him, Fives stood directly in front of him, hands on his hips.

“If Kix says something's wrong, something's wrong,” Fives said.

“Nothing I am going to discuss,” Rex said, curtly. “Now, move out,”

“That's not going to work,” Fives told him, “We're here as your brothers, not your troopers,”

“Rex, tell us what's wrong,” Echo's hand was on Rex's shoulder.

Rex set his jaw and looked at the floor, fighting the heat rising to his cheeks, and the fidgeting his body reflexively wanted to do.

“I don't know what I'm doing,” he said, quietly.

Jesse barked a laugh, “Is that all? We barely did,”

“And you never took shore leave, always organizing the next deployment,” Kix pointed out.

“Had to fight you to get you to get some decent sleep,” Echo added.

“When you did have free time you spent it with this one,” Fives gestured to Echo, ”Drawing up MORE strategies,”

“Like you were doing anything productive, "Echo answered.

“We aren't arguing about that again,” Kix jumped in.

“The point,” Echo began.

“We figured that already,” Fives finished. “We're going to help you,”

“Maybe Kix and Echo, you...no,” Rex told Fives.

“We will ALL help him,” Echo said, before Fives could protest.

“Later, now we need to go,” Kix looked at his chrono.

“You got this!” Jesse patted his shoulder as they entered the hallway.

They chattered around him on the lift down and the transit to the office, while his stomach turned to full blown nausea. They were already planning a get together.

Rex clenched and unclenched his fist by his side. Civis didn't lend themselves to fidgeting the way his gear had. The ridge on his gloves or the hilt of his blasters he could run his thumb over and no one notice anything off. No one could tell if he didn't make direct eye contact when he wore his helmet.

Kix interrupted the other three, “Can we at least get him through the profile part first?”

The brother at the desk in the lobby of “Right to Love” introduced himself as Greatheart and shoved datapads into the other fours' hands and hurriedly waved them off towards an open conference room.

He picked up one more datapad and motioned to Rex, “Moral support can sometimes be too much. Come with me, there is a quieter space for you,”

Rex nodded and followed.

“They seem... excitable,” Greatheart commented.

Rex took a deep breath and released it, “They always are.”

“They definitely care about you a lot,” Greatheart gestured Rex into a room with a smaller table.

“Whether I need it or not,” Rex answered, a bit more relaxed as Greatheart handed the datapad to him.

“It's pretty long, but there is no rush. After you submit it, we'll send someone in to talk to you. Water cooler in the room,” he said. Then he hesitated, “The questions...just go with what you know. Some of them are open ended, and can feel vague. I know the higher the rank the less time you had for leisure at all, or even thought beyond the war. Take your other life experience and use it for your answers.”

Rex nodded and went into the room, sat down and took a look at the first question. Without the brother's advice his anxiety probably would have hit new heights.

'What are you looking for in a potential partner'

He closed his eyes and took several deep breaths. His first thought was wanting to feel steady, comfortable, safe. His people, that's what helped him keep everything in check. It's what he wanted, but closer. Rex thought about their traits, taking the stylus and beginning to answer the questions.

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sarcastic-sketches · 2 years

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Creche Guardian

Kitsune!Anakin context here but TL:DR a Force Temple takes issue with Anakin’s human form and transforms him into a Kitsune as that’s more becoming of the Chosen One and better reflects his Force connection. Anakin is not impressed.

A side effect no-one expected from Anakin’s transformation was for the younglings in the Creche to love him. They already had childish awe for him on account of all his nonsense and daring feats. He's a General, the Chosen One, and one of the youngest Knighted Jedi. That has many connotations. But most importantly to them, he now comes with massive fluffy tails??

He has to go to the creche as part of his duties after he's knighted to teach them what he has learned to get where he is… only to have about four kids bury their faces in his tails (which now number three) that are built like cushions almost immediately.

Crechemaster: ... Ah Anakin: Help me

There is no escape Skywalker, enjoy your new Creche duties. And he... does?

I've spoken about my thoughts on Anakin burying any parental instincts he might have once had, in another life, but when he tries to pry the kids off of him they are all just so sad. They don't want him to go and jesus christ does Anakin long to be wanted. Even if he’s a little confused by their antics and overwhelmed by all the questions. Of which none have to do with his Knighthood. Kids are simple in comparison to adults so Anakin stays put. Just for this session, he says to himself, only to be found three hours later by Obi-Wan, fast asleep with colourful chalk dusting his fur and children passed out all around him, using the tails as pillows. The Crechemaster looks delighted.

With the transformation, Anakin had slight concerns because he felt that the Kitsune form was actually just a reflection of the monster he could become from within; his propensity for rage and violence. But the kids don’t see a monster. They see a massive fluffy creature who likes to play with them. Anakin has always had mischievious streak, he likes to play games. It goes a long way to helping him accept the more negative parts of himself and that there are always facets of one's being that won’t always be good - it’s how you choose to deal with those faults that matter.

When he eventually develops more tails as the war goes on, he submits to having some of his free time while on leave from the frontlines be in the creche (He’s not as desperate to see Padme in this AU). Sometimes teaching, sometimes helping the Crechmasters wear the more energetic ones out by racing through the Room of a Thousand Fountains. Sometimes just dozing in the middle of a pillow fort, bracketed by his tails on all sides like a padded chair with the younglings haphazardly lying all over them because soft. They feel especially well rested after having a nap on him and seem even more energetic when they wake up, to the Crechemasters consternation. (Like conductive charging your phone but with the literal walking talking Force Nexus)

He has so many little siblings. They’re so small and so fucking funny. He’s realising that kids are hysterical actually and he’s now a big brother to lots of baby Jedi who he can introduce to all the Temple droids, as well as show them all the service tunnels and ventilation routes. He can teach them verbal binary with whistles just to piss off the Crechemaster (revenge for not helping him in the first place) and suddenly all the kids are just conversing in short beeps and trills to a pack of mouse droids.

Anakin: My army grows Mace: Skywalker, for the love of…

Kids are simple, but they are also more delicate and he can’t let his lack of emotional control hurt them. They react poorly to his outbursts of irritation.

Anakin: I'm a monster. I made them cry. Obi-Wan: Ah. What happened? Anakin: Two kids had picked a fight with each other. I tried to separate them but they're so wriggly. I must have lost my temper or gotten snarly because suddenly all of them were crying. Obi-Wan: ... Anakin: I'm awful. How do I fix it? Obi-Wan: If I had known all it would have taken was childcare to get you to learn patience and mindfulness I would have thrown you in there years ago Anakin: You'll help me? Obi-Wan: Anakin, of course I will

Oh man, imagine when he works out how to do illusions.

It would require a level of control he does not currently possess (ever in canon tbh) but he has enough power to make them very convincing. Maybe he practices for the kids? He recreates stories into visual shows, just weak manipulations of light at first but then the more he does it, the more his natural flair comes through and he can make entire productions fill the creche rooms. He bases his stories off of tales his mother used to tell him (given his mother is still alive it's not nearly as traumatic to talk about).

Every Jedi knows that Skywalker is prone to attachments, so obviously him spending so much time with the kids has a lot of them worried but there are new baby force sensitives coming in and younglings are always leaving to become initiates. It gets him used to the idea that though he doesn't see them anymore they're not actually gone. Things come and go with time.

Still, if anyone were to hurt any of the younglings they would have to deal with a very angry, very big Kitsune guarding the doorway and all his many sharp teeth. I’m not saying he’d kill a bitch in the Temple, but the Order would absolutely never see the intruder again.

Kitsune are possessive, they guard what is theirs.

He may or may not skip chances to meet with the Chancellor when he’s planetside simply because he did promise to spend time with the younglings next time he was in the Temple. The Chancellor will understand. You just don’t disappoint kids.

The Chancellor does not understand and actually accuses the Jedi Order of keeping Skywalker from him, only the Council had no idea that Anakin wasn't meeting with the man anymore. Intentionally or not. Obi-Wan may or may not victory-punch the air when he hears the news and goes to spend time in the Creche with Anakin and all his tiny siblings. Anakin has decided that the part of his Kitsune self he wants to embody is the Protective element. He becomes the Big Brother to so many and solidifies his role as a family member within the Order regardless of how he thinks the Council views him. Loyalty secured.

Then there’s Order 66…

There’s AUs where O66 gets prevented because he manages to get his head out of his ass, but what if he does all that, works on himself, finds a place within the Order he’s happy with and O66 happens... anyway? Palpatine was ready to hit the button regardless in RotS, he just wanted to know if Anakin was in or not. In this AU, he most certainly is not. Plus, Palps doesn't have quite the same strangle hold on him as he does in canon. Got nothing to bargain/manipulate him with either since Padme isn’t his secret wife so their relationship wasn’t a card Palpatine thought he could play.

So, O66 happens and people are in the same places as they are in canon. Only when the call gets sent out this time, Anakin is actually in the Temple already. In the Creche. He has to face down against his own men in blue and white, who are not listening to a word he's saying and actively trying to kill him. Him and the younglings he's with.

Anakin is remembering Fives ranting about clones being forced to kill Jedi and wishing he were here now. Fives who is still out there somewhere, having run when Fox conveniently missed his shot but no-one has seen him since. Anakin is thinking of Rex, who is with Ahsoka, and how this could destroy them both. To say he's a little conflicted is an understatement but it probably only takes one very near shot at one of the kids for Anakin to bug out.

You do not go after his kids.

He doesn't normally go full fox mode in the halls anymore because he's gotten fairly big, but it certainly works as a body shield to stop any more shots making it through while he shepherds all the younglings into the ventilation system where the clones can’t follow. Anakin tries to go easy on his men, incapacitate rather than kill because he knows what is wrong here, but good god they are not making that easy and he is so very angry.

It doesn’t occur to him, until much later, that he referred to the younglings as his kids. Those parental instincts hit him hard.

When he feels it’s safe to do so he follows the younglings he squirrelled away by going Teeny Fox Mode and finds them all huddled together at a junction. They’ve met with a couple of Padawans whose Masters had also yeeted them to safety and a group of Initiates who have learnt the value of hiding in the ventilation system from Ahsoka Tano (It’s the Gathering gang, I love them so sue me). As a Knight, they kind of all default to Anakin to know what to do and there are not a lot of options. They can’t stay in the vents forever and they have to get off Coruscant, but to do that they need a ship big enough to cart all of them away that can leave atmo.

Then he remembers there's a Paladin-class corvette being retrofitted as the new Crucible ship in the hangar. The hangar is not as empty as he would like when they get there but the Crucible II is still there and he’s got no other choice but to chance it.

He can now use every trick he’s ever learned to get the clones patrolling there to leave; his illusions, better force control, himself as a meat shield. All to get the kids into a transport and the fuck off Coruscant. Ganodi mentions she has flight sim training and is immediately put in the co-pilot seat. They miss Bail arriving at the Temple by a few minutes as they leave the planet and jump to hyperspace. Anakin wants to find Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Padme, and Rex. Anakin has no idea what Palpatine has done at this point all he knows is he is now responsible for these baby Jedi and needs help. Please someone help him.

He’s covered in blaster burns, very confused, angry, and sad all at once. One of the Padawans, suggests naptime in a fit of hysteria and Anakin thinks that’s the best idea he’s ever heard. Ship wide naptime. Sure, why not.

#Kitsune!Anakin #star wars #star wars au #sw au #Anakin Skywalker #star wars writing #I've been looking forward to posting this one #order 66

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milfcutlawquane · 1 year

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Because I love you

#this can be taken as both the inmortal rex au or post order 66 #i think it has the same impact #perart #digital art #fanart #star wars #the clone wars #not-quite-immortal rex au #commander cody #captain rex

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corvidscreams · 1 year

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I like this too much not to post it on its own.

#kesett #cal kestis #boba fett #calboba #star wars #star wars fallen order #star wars fan art #my art #technically this was posted with the kesett week compilation but look at them #They’re adorable your honor #no order 66 au #jedi survivor

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ct-51-4305 · 1 year

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【NSFW】Cody/Rex

Imperial Officer Cody AU

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←Previous Part

#captain rex #commander cody #cody/rex #clonecest #post order 66 au v1

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varpusvaras · 1 month

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Beru found out about their new neighbour on a one pretty unremarkable day.

Owen was out that afternoon, gone to recycle some of the old machinery parts they had left after one of their perimeter sensors had finally been worn down by the increased storms. The desert was calm that day, thankfully, as Luke had started to become very restless from not getting to go outside in days.

Perhaps Beru should've realised that such restlessness was going to make Luke forget their usual rules, in his haste to get out of the house, as all of a sudden she noticed that the immediate area around the house was uncharacteristically quiet, and not full of noises made by little boy playing space battles.

She didn't, however, get too far in her searches, when there was a tall shadow casted onto the sand right next to hers.

"Excuse me-" The man didn't even get to finish what he was saying, when Beru had already reacher for the prybar in the toolbox and turned around, gripping it tightly and ready to strike.

The Suns were partially behind the man, obscuring his features momentarily from her. She was tall and broad-shouldered, standing straight with his head held high even in the heat of the day. On his arms he held Luke, who had his arms around the man's neck in a relaxed, loose grip.

That made her loosen up her grip from the prybar just a little. Luke had the gift of knowing when to trust people, even if sometimes that trust overextended itself a little. The man's hold of Luke was, however, also relaxed, which made him a bit more trustworthy to Beru.

The man bend down and placed Luke onto the ground, and by doing so, he gave his face enough shadow for Beru to see him better.

He looked young, if a bit weathered, with some lines already forming on his face, though Beru could tell that they were in places that usually got creased up when someone was constantly concerned about something. There was a long scar running down the side of his face, showing up starkly as the skin around it had tanned more recently. It was the thing that told Beru that the man had not spent too much time on the desert yet, despite his clothes having already been weathered as well, and his footing being even enough on the sand. His dark, curly hair looked like it had only now started to grow out of a very well-maintained shorter cut. Another sign of him being a newcomer.

Still, there was something familiar in him, something Beru couldn't quite place, and she wasn't quite sure if that should've made her relax more or be more suspicious of him.

The man looked at her. His dark eyes were just as weathered as the rest of him, but still kind.

Beru made her decision. She lowered the prybar, and let go of it with her other hand, grabbing at Luke instead.

The man's shoulders lowered a bit as well.

"Excuse me", he said. "I saw your nephew had gotten a bit far away from the house."

Beru looked down at Luke. He looked up at her, and gave her a bit of a sheepish smile.

"Yes", Beru said, and looked back up at the man. "Thank you."

The man nodded.

"No problem at all", he said to her, and then turned to speak to Luke. "Stay where you're supposed to. The desert is a dangerous place."

"But you were there by yourself as well", Luke piped up, not able to resist the urge to talk back just a little.

The man smiled at him. Beru though he had a rather nice smile, even if it was worn down as well. She wondered what kind of hardships he had gone through, out there in the Galaxy, to seem like he had been sanded down by a multiple of storms already.

"I've seen a lot of places that are worse than this, kid", the man said. "I'll be just fine."

He then nodded his head again at Beru, lifted the back of the dark blue cape he had draped over his shoulders over his head, turned around and walked into the desert without another word.

Beru watched him go, ever so slightly confused about the whole interaction. She only moved his eyes away when Luke tugged at her hand.

"Did you know him?" He asked. "I've never seen him before. Not here or in town."

Beru shook her head.

"No", she said. "Did he say anything to you?"

She had not had the mind to even ask the man his name. She looked back out in the desert. He had already disappeared somewhere beyond the dunes.

Luke shook his head.

"He did know you are my aunt", he said. "And not my mom."

True, Beru realised. He had called Luke her nephew, without any introductions.

She decided not to be too alarmed about that. There weren't a lot of people who lived in the area. Chances were that the man had just heard about them already, and remembered who lived in the house.

Still. Not a lot people lived in the area, and even less had any business around there either. On top of that, even though she was more than sure that she had never seen the man before, Beru thought he had looked awfully familiar in some way.

"He seemed nice", Luke said. "He felt nice."

"If you say so, my little sun", Beru said. "Your feelings are often very precise."

She decided not to tell Owen about the man that evening. He would've just gotten unnecessarily worried about it.

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Beru saw a dark blue cape in the corner of her eye.

When she turned, it wasn't the man from the desert, even if she was sure it was the same cape, with the tattered edges and faded shoulders.

She did know the man wearing it, though. Ben seemed to feel her eyes on him, as he also turned to look at her, and very briefly nodded at her before he went back to dealing with a customer.

Beru thought about it as she went on her business, and she walked back by Ben's stall as she came back.

Ben was already packing up by then, and Beru saw that he had also made purchases, as he was tying some wares that Beru didn't believe he had brought all the way from his house to the town. At the top were a new bedroll, and a pair of boots that even from afar looked too big for Ben's feet.

Beru smiled, before turning away. It really seemed like Ben wasn't alone anymore. That was good.

#idk just wanted to write something about desert husbands #a hot new bombshell has just entered the desert #sw #tcw #my writing #snippets #beru whitesun #commander cody #luke skywalker #obi wan kenobi #codywan #desert husbands #post order 66 au

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sorry-but-no-sorry · 1 month

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I just wanted to give Dogma and Crosshair a good life 😭

#clone wars #the bad batch #clone trooper #star wars #clone trooper dogma #clone trooper crosshair #tbb #tbb crosshair #crosshair #ct 9904 #dogma #post order 66 #post order 66 au

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ominouspuff · 1 month

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*The Office theme starts up*

Fanart for @chiliger’s Purge-Trooper!Cody comic that’s had me laughing out loud many times. Vent-Dweller you are dear to me. Thank you for creating, @chiliger!

@interested parties, the medic’s gun reads “olde Betsy”, and “tranc-66”.

#fan art #artists on tumblr #star wars fanart #Fanart of fanart #chiliger #Purge-Trooper!Cody #Vent-Dweller #Plague-Trooper Medic #I don’t know what their name is so I came up with a stand-in #Post-order 66 AU #Comic AU #Chiliger’s OCs #Loathsome Coworkers Fanart

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jedi-lothwolf · 9 months

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Codywan Week 2023 Masterlist!

Author's Notes: I just wanted to say this was a very fun writing challenge and the only one I've ever finished one time!! I had so much fun with the prompts!

All of the summaries/notes/warnings will be at the top of every post!

Day 1: Cody With a Lightsaber

Day 2: Tatooine Husbands

Day 3: Only One Bed

Day 4: Secret Relationship

Day 5: Sith Au

Day 6: Caf and Tea and Filmiswork

Day 7: Dancing

@codywanweek

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fanfic-obsessed · 2 years

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Fixing Little

This what if is not quite a fix-it as it fixes very little. What if, in those moments as Order 66 went live, the culmination of what was happening (the ‘betrayal’ of his men, Anakin’s bond going dark, the sheer amount of death he could feel) broke Obi Wan just a little further than in canon. He didn’t go dark, though if he didn’t go dark then he may actually be incapable of it. But deep inside his soul, the part of him that can do what needs to be done for the galaxy just…shattered.

He returns to Coruscant, sees the temple burning, and abjectly refuses to believe that Anakin did this. Full on denial, it must be someone else wearing Anakin's face (he tells himself that the technology already exists). He doesn’t say anything to Yoda, whom he fears will break the denial.

He rationalizes that if someone is walking around disguised as Anakin, then Padme could be in Danger. They must have Anakin restrained somewhere (he can’t be dead, Obi Wan would know if he was dead), and she could be used as leverage. He goes to her. She has heard horrible rumors about what was happening, what Anakin had done. Obi Wan denies the rumors, convinces her that someone else must be using Anakin’s face and they needed to get her somewhere safe so she can’t be used against him. She tries to argue back that they need to rescue Anakin. Obi Wan tells her that she and her Children have to be protected, that if they are to have any hope of reducing Anakin from whoever had him, they need to make sure that Anakin’s family could not be used as leverage. They don’t know what is going on, just that it can't be safe for her/the kids. In this conversation it comes out that the 212th had fired on him, that Cody had fired on him and he couldn’t deal with that right now. He admits that they had an understanding, they would explore their feelings for each other after the Clones were freed, that he was in love with Cody. He muses, with an almost manic hope, that they missed, that maybe shooting him off that cliff was the only way to protect him (In this universe it was not, it was a fluke).

They escape, fleeing into the Galaxy mere hours before a crowd of thugs (not even professional enough to be called mercenaries) sent by Palpatine to kill Padme and make it look like a Force User did it (to further tie Vader to Palpatine). One even audibly muses that all it would have taken was a specific hit to the stomach and they could have made it look like she had been force shoved into miscarriage and death. Instead they knock a few things around and make everything look rifled through, thinking that would be enough.

Vader returns two weeks later from Mufustar. He has killed the Separtist leadership, and has secretly adjusted the Chips in the Clones so that their loyalty was tied directly to him, not the Emperor (Anakin is many things but actually stupid is not one of them. He knows that Palpatine has betrayed his last few apprentices and wants insurance). He finds Padme missing and their home ransacked and is ready to blame the Jedi (Though he is not sure who survived and who didn’t), however unbeknownst to anyone, even Padme, he had planted a number of spycams in her apartment (Anakin justified it with making sure he could track her if she was ever abducted, but let’s be honest that is not what he was using for, as quick to jealousy as he was).

He watches the videos. Sees Obi Wan not only defends him, but puts Padme and their child’s safety over everything. Hears how in love with Cody Obi Wan is (thus not likely to be lusting after Anakin’s wife). How broken up Obi Wan is over Cody trying to kill him. A switch is flipped for Anakin/Vader. Before Obi Wan (if he still lived) was a Jedi, an enemy who might have abducted his wife. Now this was Anakin’s Obi Wan, who had chosen him over the Jedi. It occurs to Anakin that even after agreeing to fall, he had continued to have visions of Padme’s death for a few days, but the last vision was the night before this video. This cements the fact that somehow Obi Wan had saved Padme.

Then he gets to the second video, where the thugs break in. It is somehow clear that the Emperor had sent them to hurt or kill Padme and their child. He memorizes the thugs faces (this is still very much Vader, these thugs are going to wish for death).

Vader calls Commander Cody to him. In this universe the personalities and memories of the Clones are largely intact, the chips merely enforce that the Jedi are the ‘enemy’ instead of ‘ally’ and that anything that the chip labels ‘in charge’ says is correct (Each clone rationalizes the orders differently). When Cody arrives he calls Vader ‘My Lord’. Vader cheerfully announces that Cody does not need to call Vader, My Lord. He would be one of the few who were privileged enough to call him Anakin when in private, Lord Vader or Sir when in public. Vader announces to Cody that Obi Wan survived, that the 212th had missed. Before Cody can offer up any reasoning, but not before Vader feels a sharp spike of fear (Cody fears that the whole Battalion was about to be punished), Vader tells him that was a good thing because it turns out that Obi Wan Kenobi was not actually a traitor. When given the opportunity he chose not to betray Anakin, or Cody.

Vader has Cody watch the first video from Padme’s apartment. After it ends he is quiet for a moment, then asks if Anakin knows where they are. Anakin does not, he says that in the chaos of the Empire rising, it was clear that they did not know who to trust and so are hiding for Padme and Obi Wan’s safety. Vader reiterates that he and Cody needed to make it safe for them to come home. He also tells Cody not to feel guilty for shooting at Obi Wan, that it was likely even Obi Wan didn’t know he wouldn’t betray them all at the word of the Jedi.

Vader had been planning on sending the 212th out to hunt the remaining Jedi, but he would need them for something even more dangerous. He then shows Cody the second video. Vader tells Cody that the Emperor is the reason that Padme and Obi Wan are not safe to come back, to come home. Cody thinks about it for a few minutes and says that Fox told him slugthrowers are particularly effective against Force Users. Vader claps him on the back and says ‘good man’. Slug throwers are rare enough that they are only able to outfit three platoons with them. Those three take point when the 212th, backed by the Coruscant Guard storms the newly appointed imperial Senate.

After killing the Emperor, Vader considers who should lead the Empire. He knows that he does not want to be Emperor, all he wants is his family. He knows it’s not safe enough for Padme or Obi Wan to be in charge, and making Cody in charge might take time away from him being with Obi Way (As far as he is concerned Cody is practically already his in-law, emphasis on the his). Cody suggests Commander Fox, remembering that he was practically running the republic.

Fox is collected and agrees on a few conditions. First Vader/Anakin is to make some kind of binding vow that he would not hurt Fox or his brothers ever again. Anakin agrees, so long as they do not do anything to hurt his family. He wants to know why they were so ready to obey so Anakin tells him about the chips. His second condition is that his chip needs to be removed, if he is to be in charge he will be actually in charge. After his chip is removed, Anakin convinces him that the rest of the chips should remain in, to keep the clones from feeling the guilt of what they had done. Fox agrees. They agree to change the chips so that Anakin and Fox both default to the higher authority, and that the clones have as much free will as possible without letting them realize what they had done. Fox’s final requirement is that the remaining Jedi fall under his personal protection (unless they are actively working against the Empire). Anakin agreed and they announce that Fox is now the Emperor. A few politicians protest, Mas Amedda is among them, Anakin kills him in a horrific way. Then Fox and the CG also kill a few Senators as a message (some of the worst as far as abuse of the CG went). The clones work both to secure a panet of their own, subdue any rebellion against the new empire, express their displeasure with those that had mistreated them, and search for the surviving Jedi.

A galaxy wide announcement that the Jedi were no longer traitors, That any survivors can come forward to interact with the GAR and get help in rebuilding. There were not many who came forward.

The 212th and the 501st specifically hunt for Padme and Obi Wan, who have buried themselves deeply enough that they have not heard any news. By this point a few months have passed.

In their hidey hole, Padme is recovering from giving birth to twins. It has become abundantly clear that something is broken in Obi Wan, something that is not healing. By this point they have realized that if Obi Wan goes to rescue Anakin (as they both still believe that he is being held somewhere) that he will get them both killed. The only thing keeping him even remotely in the present is Padme and the Twins. He was successful in using the Force to keep Padme alive during childbirth, but anything beyond that sends him into a strong panic attack. They are waiting for Padme to heal so that she could go to figure out where Anakin is being held and rescue him. They are on a barely inhabitable moon, with no contact with anyone.

Because of the conditions they are living in (Slightly wonky gravity, abundant but not particularly nutritious food, A sun that is a bit too weak to provide all of the nutrients that they need), the twins are nearly two before Padme is fully healed from their birth. Before she is comfortable taking them and their shuttle into the wider galaxy. Obi Wan and the twins stay in their hideaway and Padme is telling herself that she is not anxious over the fact that they have no way off the planet if something goes wrong. But a single woman alone is easier to disguise and hide than traveling anywhere with two toddlers (A man alone would be even better but whatever broke in Obi Wan just wasn’t healing).

She has no way of knowing but her face (and Obi Wans) is among the best known in the Galaxy. The Empire has been looking everywhere for them and the first Cantina she stopped in to see where to start looking for her husband, she is captured (Exceedingly gently. Lord Vader, right hand of the Emperor, was very specific about what would happen to the person who so much as a bruise on Padme Amidala).

There is a small company of Imperial Troopers (all clones, because Emperor Fox only trusts nat-borns that can make a binding force vow, as any serving Force Users would need to) in a small barracks on the smuggler's moon that Padme chose. This is where Padme is locked up, in as comfortable a room as can be until ‘Lord Vader’ and the two battalions he headed up arrived. They were about a week out. Padme is panicking, and nearly escapes three different times in the first day (this is aided by the fact that none of the clones were old enough to have fought in the Clone Wars). Afraid of hurting her they finally have to sedate her to keep her comfortable.

Padme wakes up on the Resolute, Anakin is sitting next to her. He calls her angel and acts like the man she married, felt like her Anakin, if she could ignore the gold ringing his blue eyes. And unlike Obi Wan, Padme is not in broken denial. She realizes that the rumors that Obi Wan had so fervently denied were true. Her husband had murdered the children at the temple.

And she has two choices. She can challenge him. She and Obi Wan had spoken at length about what pulling on the darkside does to a being (Though Obi Wan only remembered about half of those conversations) and Anakin always had a temper. It would be too easy to rile him to the point that he killed her on accident. Obi Wan and the children would never be found. They would live and die on that little moon, never having to see.

But her brother would continue to drift. As the children got older and needed him less. She could already see the signs, the substance of him vanishing. And her children would never see beyond the gray dust of their little homestead, would never know anyone but each other.

Or she could accept him.

Padme took a breath, “are you able to pretend?” She asks, “at least for a little while?”

Anakin caulked his head, confused “Padme?”

Padme had been a queen, had been a senator, she had given birth and left her children behind to find her husband. Padme was so tired of being the strong one (She had enough conversations with Obi Wan, late at night that he never remembered, to know that he had spent so long being the strong one. Too long. She could not begrudge him the cracks in his soul, but at the same time she wondered when she would break and how). “Are you able to pretend you never touched the dark? For Obi Wan’s sake?”

She couldn’t ask for her children, who were not yet old enough to understand. By the time they were, all pretending likely would be done. She could not ask for herself, because she had already seen. But for her brother, for the ice that had made his cortis core brittle, she could ask.

For a moment she watched the gold spread, a thread of jealousy twining its way through his abrupt glare. Then she watched him take a breath and the gold receded again, and then further until all that was left was blue.

She smiled at her husband, “Thank you. I think the only thing that has kept him alive some days was the thought that we would rescue you. To find that had been beyond his reach from the start would have killed him.”

She heard a soft, wounded noise from further away. There, a few feet from her bed was Commander Cody. “Where is he?” The commander asked.

She gave the coordinates, which were then passed onto navigation. The 40 hour trip in her little shuttle was cut down to 6 in larger ships. Those six hours were spent with Anakin basically hanging off of her and getting a little information on what had been happening. Emperor Palptine, the Sith Lord did not surprise her as much as she thought it should have. Fox the successful, mostly benevolent Emperor was somehow even less surprising. She insisted they had a story to give Obi Wan when they picked him up (Anakin escaped ‘captivity’, freed or fixed whatever caused the clones to fire on the Jedi, killed Sidious (who in turn had killed Palpatine. She did not want Obi Wan to deal with the guilt of Anakin spending time with a Sith Lord while under his care) for being Evil, and put Fox on the throne because he honestly had no idea what to do next). The Clone troopers, particularly the ones from the 212th were practically vibrating in excitement over getting to see Obi Wan again.

She puts her foot down and only Anakin and Cody would go down with her to collect Obi Wan and the Children (Anakin: Wait Children.Plural. Padme: Twins, I named them Luke and Leia). She had been gone for longer than she had hoped and did not know what kind of day Obi Wan was having.

The kind of day he was having was panicked, which frankly was a bit better than dissociative, but only slightly. He had the children herded toward the back of the cave they lived in, shaking but clearly putting himself between them and danger (she didn’t know if it was the potential real danger the ships represented, or something that was within his head). He held no weapon (Hadn’t been able to hold so much as a knife for anything other than cooking). She managed to get him calmed down, convince him that they are safe and that there were people here who he would want to see.

It became immediately clear what Padme was talking about and why she insisted on a story to tell Obi Wan. Neither Anakin nor Cody had seen him look that fragile before. They are able to keep the story Padme concocted and get everyone back to Coruscant. No one is quite sure how to help Obi Wan (Therapy. The answer is so much therapy. Seriously, even in this universe he has issues that go so far back that he is the only one left alive who even knows what happened, and he is far from reliable. However no one thinks about getting him therapy, mostly because they all need it and are avoiding it).

It helps, a little, that the Force is a little lighter than it had been (the death of so many of the Jedi and the chips balanced against Sidious’s death and the reprogramming of the chips). He gets better every day that they don’t require him to be anything other than Cody’s Husband, Anakin and Padme’s brother, Luke and Leia’s Uncle. He avoids most of the surviving Jedi (Save Quinlan Vos, who is the only person who never triggers a panic attack, an Anxiety attack, or a dissociative episode) until years later and never even looks at where the temple once stood (The Jedi could not return to it, not a one, the convergence of the Force that it sat on was just too polluted in that location. Eventually it was decided to tear the building down and build a new temple, knowing it would take thousands of years to the living nature of the old oneInstead of building it on Coruscant itself, it is built on Centex-1, one of Coruscant's moons which had been outright given to the reformed Jedi Order). On his best days he can say he is friends with Fox(helped by Vos’s clear affection for the man), he can accept the affection of the clones (he almost never has an issue with the 212th because they only tried to kill him, and Obi Wan had terrifyingly little issue with people trying to kill him. He tries so hard with the members of the 501st that marched on the Temple, but their signatures in the Force were embedded in the temple of his memories), and even occasionally leave the home that Cody had built (What had been a top level senatorial apartment) for them while he and Padme had been hiding. On his worst days he can’t even leave the mini greenhouse that Cody had created in one of the rooms. They do not tell him about the chips, or how the chips are still in. The fiction that Anakin did not march on the temple, that someone else was wearing his face, is maintained with a vicious force by everyone who interacts with Obi Wan regularly (Anakin is still half Vader when not in Obi Wan’s presence and is very specific about that point).

At some point after Padme and Obi Wan have been found, Rex comes out of the woodwork. Ahsoka is held behind in case something goes wrong. He and Ahsoka have been members of the Rebellion since its inception (Even with Fox in charge, this really isn’t a fix-it and his Empire is only somewhat better than Palpatines. The biggest change is who is being oppressed and how). Rex manages to get an audience with Cody (Who is head of the Imperial Forces, and longtime brother in law to Lord Vader), and tells him desperately about the chip. He is flabbergasted when all Cody says is “I know”. Rex protests the slave chip, Which Cody fully admits is still in his head. Cody scoffs, “I Ordered Obi Wan shot. If the chip comes out I have to face that. Do you think the 501st should have to live with what they did in the temple? That Bly should have to relive shooting Aayla Secura for the rest of his life.” Rex argues further, reeling and feeling betrayed. Cody says “The Vode know about the chips, have for years. Any Vod who wanted to get the chips removed, are very much able to. Few signed up after a squad from the 104th ate their blasters after waking up from their surgeries.”

Rex eventually leaves. His mission had been to seek out the people he remembered, people he had loved, and feel out if they were open to being recruited for the Rebellion. They can’t. He is not allowed to interact with Obi Wan at all. Padme had decided, in the Med Bay of the Resolute, that she would accept her husband unconditionally. She mourned the Republic and the Freedom it implied, but has rationalized that the Republic she loved never really existed (She is also carefully shielded from the worst offenses). Cody has bought into the Empire, whole heartedly (there are some consequences to years of having the chip in his head identify Anakin Skywlaker and Emperor Fox as the highest authority), and with him goes 99% of the Vode. Anakin, well it would hurt less if he was unrecognizable. But this is an Anakin that never lost his wife, who got everything that he ever wanted and still faces few consequences for his decisions (his only true binding the vow never to hurt the Vode) and Fox, as Emperor was never really an option (Rex had hoped for a moment that Fox was just as much a puppet as Cody only for that to be dashed when he was told the Fox had no chip any longer).

He leaves behind the memories of the people they were and reports that the only one he could not get a confirmation for was Obi Wan Kenobi. The Vode in particular watched him leave, it was always hard to watch your brother from the other side of a battlefield. They didn’t begrudge him his new loyalties, could tell that he didn’t betray them even as he fought against them. It looked so lonely and they hoped he would come to his senses soon.

There was only one attempt made, after Rex left, to recruit Obi Wan into the Rebellion. Bail Organa reluctantly helps a few younger members of the Rebellion ambush Obi Wan. It had been a good day, Obi Wan was out at an open air market with a few members of the 212th on leave. Though the Clones had been free now for longer than the war had lasted, the one he was with had a seemingly never ending delight for such colorful, unique places and Obi Wan delighted in seeing that happiness. Three well placed distractions were what it took to separate Obi Wan from his honor guard long enough for a Rodian, a Zabrak, and a Human to corner him. Their pitch, unfortunately emphasizing his duty to help the Galaxy by fighting the empire, managed to hit every trigger he had in the space of thirty seconds.

The resulting force-fueled panic attack cracked buildings, transparisteel, and walkways for eight blocks and 16 levels in either direction. It was also captured in entirety (Pitch included) and streamed live across the galaxy. It takes a bit of time to get Obi Wan calmed down so that his men can get him back home, and by that time the damage was done. To the Rebellion. It’s one thing to want to fight tyranny, it’s another to watch the organization that is supposed to do that badger one man into a panic attack insisting that he has to fight the Empire.

It is this footage that changes Rex’s mind and brings him and Ahsoka home.

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Against his better nature, Fox had run.

He'd run and it hadn't been enough. No matter how fast, no matter how clever, always one step ahead. His brothers are gone.

In the first days, he hadn't considered what that actually meant. He hadn't considered what losing control, what being forced to act against everything that you were, everything you always had been, would do to a person.

The war had taken Ponds from them before anything else could. That was a kindness, Fox knows that now.

He's been running and running and he's starting to think, that he's been carrying a torch in the hope of passing it on to people already dead and buried. She'd told him there would be nothing left if he didn't run. Well Fox had run, and anything that they ever had is long gone all the same.

In the first weeks of the empire, his brothers had fallen like dominoes. One by one, the empire burnt through them in a way that made the war, made Kamino, look like nothing. A week in and 3 of the guards men had survived. Thorn later fell at vaders hand. Friendly fire, nothing but a karking temper tantrum.

As the years passed and his brothers wretched back more control, a new foe plagued their ranks. Bly was the first he heard of, first chance he got; he put his blaster to his head just like he'd once done to his general.

From what he'd heard, Wolffe went the way of his jedi too, a ship exploding during a mission. It was a kindness Fox supposed, a quick death. Better than this leaden burden, this throne of nothing.

Fox had run because running might have saved them, it hadn't though, it wasn't enough. He hasn't stopped running but still, his brothers are lost to him, they lost to each other.

There is nothing left to go towards, he's just running on the spot, without them. Now there is just him. Now there is just the chase.

He finds himself sometimes, thinking of the prime. In his old age, Fox has begun to develop a strange affinity with the the shabuir, an understanding of what it means to be the heir to a dead legacy. How that feels, knowing that you can't quite put it down but you can't quite look at it all the same, how that pulls at you.

He still has no particular hunger to clone himself. To sell himself again and again, giving away any freedom he might have found to a master that would undoubtedly fuck him over. Selling himself in to a kind of slavery that would persevere long after his death.

Fox has never known freedom well enough to want to give it up for anything. Always just out of his reach. You can't give what you don't have.

Any claim the republic once had on him had died the day it burnt. But Fox now finds himself chained by his duty. By debts owed to members of a family long dead.

Fox can not rest while the empire lives. He'll burn it all down long before he lays his head to rest in whatever shallow grave his shitty attitude had more than earnt him by now.

That's the root of the problem. It's not the task itself weighing him down, it's that Fox has never been the person who should be carrying it.

Born to a galaxy that had already had enough of him, Fox has never been able to bring anything new to the table.

He's clever, but never as fast, as Cody. He's fierce, but without Wolffe's loyalty to balance it out, it serves as a disturbance rather than a asset. Bly saw the good in people, he made the most of what he had, lived each day to the fullest, but Fox has only ever been able to see the bad. It's why they stuck him on Coruscant in the first place. He's never struggled to recognise someone who's given in to their worst urges because Fox has more in common with those people than he does his brothers.

He's always known that there's something within him that's bad. Whatever was in Jango, that allowed him to be manipulated in to allowing something so terrible, that lives within Fox and he's always known it. It's deep inside him, festering as it bides its time, waiting for him to give in to it. To let it take over.

Fox isn't a good person, he came to terms with that long ago. Isn't good, but his brothers are. His brothers were good people who were made to do things they never could have done. That's why he can't stop. That's why he can't rest. He owes them this.

Even if nothing had shown him what kind of person he was before now, Fox would know it today. This is the kind of situation that can only be a punishment.

Bad things happen to good people every day, but this? This isn't just a bad thing. This is the kind of thing that only happens if you deserve it. He's sure of it.

Were Fox better, this wouldn't have happened. But Fox is bad, he's always known it, and so, rather than an every-day kind of tragic event, he's earnt himself this.

The empire are hunting him. The empire are always hunting him. But today, they have sent someone new.

Right now, Fox is being tracked by his brother, by Cody. They've primed him and pointed him in Fox's direction. He's close. He can smell Fox's blood, he can smell his fear.

Fox isn't scared of dying. He never has been. He regrets that he can't complete his mission, can't do this one thing for his brothers after everything that he's taken, but well, is it that surprising that he wasn't up to the job?

With every day that passes, when he looks in the mirror, he sees less of the vode in his face. What is left in front of him, staring back at him, calls to memory only one person. Fox looks like Jango more and more every day and he hates it.

He looks in the mirror and he sees someone cold. The kind of person that would sell children. That would let his genetic material be made in to people, people with hopes and dreams, people given no choice but to betray those hopes and dreams. People whose bodies would one day, be puppeted around like droids. Forced to watch as their hands betray them and all that they've ever loved again and again.

Fox wouldn't do that. But now, he knows how he might.

Maybe it's good that he dies here and now, at his brothers hand, before he can become the kind of person who would.

And that's the ultimate betrayal of his brothers really isn't it. The one person spared the chips control, the one person who gets to dance just outside of the empires reach, who gets to still be the person he always has been; never actually needed to be controlled to do awful things.

Here Fox is, outside of the empires reach and yet, he'll still do terrible things if he's allowed to carry on. Fox already understands why Jango did what he did. He doesn't want to know what he himself will do if he carries on living.

He'll never be at peace but maybe it's time to close his eyes all the same. To say goodnight.

He's scared but not of dying, not of pain, but of what this will do to Cody. Anything that's left of Cody anyway.

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