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Waxer lives. Period.

My submission for week 3 of @waxerboilmonth “Waxer lives” prompt.

~After the events on Umbara~

Fives: ...So yeah, that's what happened.

Anakin: Oh my God. That's horrible. How's everyone doing?

Fives: We're copping, but Rex took it the hardest. I've never seen him so upset.

Anakin: Where is he?

Fives: In the shower.

Anakin: Shower?

Fives: Yeah, when Rex gets upset he takes REALLY long showers.

Anakin: How long will he be in there?

Fives: I don't know. He took a chair in there.

Anakin: *mumbling to himself in Huttese* What a waste of water.

Anakin: REX, GET OUT OF THE SHOWER!

Rex, from across the building: NO!

Anyone got a Krell's Battalion Fic AU where they join the 501st on Umbara?

need angst

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CT-7567 | Rex/Reader, CT-7567 | Rex/Original Female Character(s), Pong Krell & CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, CT-5597 | Jesse, CT-6922 | Dogma, CT-6116 | Kix, CT-5385 | Tup, Clone Trooper Hardcase (Star Wars), Pong Krell Additional Tags: Post-Umbara Arc (Star Wars), Umbara Arc Aftermath (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Hurt/Comfort, Warning: Pong Krell, POV CT-7567 | Rex, Trauma, Mild Blood, Umbara Arc (Star Wars: Clone Wars), CT-7567 | Rex Deserves Better, 501st Legion Needs a Hug (Star Wars), blood as a heavyhanded metaphor, somewhere between an oc and x reader Summary:

“What? You’re following Krell’s orders?”

Rex shrugged helplessly. “I have to. He’s my general.”

“He’s an asshole who doesn’t deserve to be a Jedi,” she said incredulously. She jerked a finger at the medbay. “He’s the reason I’ve been filling out coroner’s paperwork in between the flood of patients. He’s going to get you all killed, and then I’m going to have even more paperwork to do. He’s a horrible general and he should be stripped of his command.”

“And who’s going to do that? You? Me? You’re a medic with no commendations or medals, and I’m a clone. He won’t listen to us. My hands are tied.”

“He doesn’t need to listen. He needs to fall off a kriffing building.”

//

Rex tries to get his men through Umbara unscathed. A medic makes his job difficult.

Falls:*is staring at a blaster, his hands shaking without even touching it, but he shakes his hands out and grabs it he aims and fires at a target he hits it dead on because of course he does he is a trooper bed he then turns the safety on his hands shaking badly almost throwing the blaster away from himself* KARK IT ALL *hides his face in his hands* they are right.....I'm a defective coward...

Jesse:no your not kid your traumatized and I honestly don't blame you

Falls;it was you in front of the firing squad. I could have talked Dogma out of it if I just...

Jesse:listen kid that would have happened no matter what. Fives, and I both have big mouths. We would have gotten in trouble. Dogma was being manipulated

Falls:he was my Vod'ika my batcher I.... and now I can't even hold a damn blaster. What does that make me!

Jesse:A damned good medic, you did everything you could. Even though you weren't trained for it, you kept Kix sane, and that's all I could ask for since you helped MY batcher *ruffles Falls hair* You're a good kid rookie

Falls:*smiles a bit* thank you...

[pretend this is a bunch of roses I am on computer and lazy]

Fives didn’t know what to expect after the Umbara campaign ended; he hated to think it but he didn’t fully expect to survive that hellhole no matter how hard he fought to survive.

This one I started on a month ago however I got stuck at one point on how to connect two points within the plot so it might be a while before I finish it

rewatching tcw is so sad they keep killing the clones :(

your bodies seed the stars

Day 7! The way work was going I thought I'd never finish this but here we are...

After the Battle of Umbara, reality hits Cody hard and he needs a moment.

Cody and his soldiers survive--live--as best they can. Seven-story collection.

Stories for 212th Appreciation Week. And speaking of loving clones, everybody should totally check out this post about Land Backin Aotearoa and donate or boost.

Title taken from the song Fire N Gold by Bea Miller.

(Ended up posting these days after I completed them, but whatever)

loyal captain Dogma and brave arc-trooper Hardcase

you know what’s the most subtle Shitty Thing™️ that Krell has done is?

bad enough he already calls the clones by their CT numbers, but he actually says the numbers different than EVERYBODY ELSE in the show.

Usually the numbers are spoken individually, right? So Rex (CT-7567) is CT-Seven-Five-Six-Seven. Or Echo calling himself CT-One-Four-Zero-Nine. Even AZI-3 says each individual 5 in Fives’ CT number.

But Krell says shit like “CT-Seventy Five-Sixty Seven” or “ARC Trooper-Fifty Five-Fifty Five”

Not only does he not use their chosen names, he also deliberately uses an abbreviated form of their birth numbers because apparently a bitch CAN be bothered to learn them all, he just can’t give the clones the satisfaction of at least hearing their full number the way it’s familiar to them. Like he somehow found a way to make their depersonification WORSE.

the bitch.

Do you ever think about how the vast majority of clones never had the experience of seeing the blood of their enemies? Like. How often did they shoot at non-droids? Jedi use their lightsabers, those immediately cauterize wounds. Was Umbara jarring for them? Were they surprised to see the clear transparisteel of their helmets? Had any of these men ever seen fear in their enemy’s eyes as they leveled a blaster at them? Had any of them ever had to reconcile with that thought? Did most of them feel like the war was just one big training simulation until that first moment they had to fire on a sentient (if they ever had to fire on sentients at all)?

oh THIS!! yeah i think the troops who get the most combat with sentients are pretty much the coruscant guard.

and umbara is a curious case. the 501st at least takes prisoners there (i don't remember droids ever being made prisoners), but outside of that fives and rex have no issues double-tapping umbaran soldiers who are already down.

i think when it comes down to it, the clones are all professionals. they've seen what blaster bolts and shrapnel can do (and have been doing!) to their brothers and the people they are defending, at which point the simulation effect would well and truly be gone.

that being said! there's a unique dilemma to be had here for people like the clones (who are largely perceived to be made for war, who would not exist without it) about killing people who were not made for war and who would exist without it. that's a very special sort of existential crisis.

and the ones who have shot at sentients will carry that with them one way or the other. umbara was ultimately overshadowed by the whole krell affair taking up most of the trauma, but people are people so i'd say the boys definitely remember the faces they saw behind the enemy visors. war sucks like that

wow people weren’t kidding when they said the Umbara arc was fucked up

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Thanks @shortcuts-make-long-delays and @shootingstarpilot for the tags – apologise for the delay. I always appreciate the kick to get my WIP doc back open! 🫶

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