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warsamongthestars · 1 month

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One of the most interesting things about TCWs Rex's character arc struggles is that, he's constantly put into contrasts.

Rex, as we know him, stands to be the main representation of a Clone Trooper. He's the first major named CT Character, that isn't Commander Cody, who doesn't have any ties to the films (Unlike Commander Cody), and thus can act and be written with far more freedom to explore.

[ You can't write Commander Cody too much by the end of the day, because one, years of expectations weigh, and two, he still has to shoot Kenobi at the end of everything. ]

Rex has two major conflicts in his arc, that represent the three defining points of clone troopers:

Loyalty to their Brothers

Loyalty to the System

Loyalty to themselves

Let's have some examples.

Our first major touch up with this, is the exact Opposite of all three: Sergeant Slick.

He is not loyal to his brothers (And gets a lot of them killed, whilst blaming the Jedi), he is not loyal to the system (He's a traitor), and he's not loyal to himself (He will make a lot of claims... which are unsubstantiated, because he gets a lot of people killed for purposes of greed and perceived slights).

This one is your easy Villain. Its easy to see, via Slick, that Loyalty to Brothers, Systems and Self is very simple.

But TCWs takes it a step further into complication.

Cut Lawquane, a deserter, is not loyal to the system (because it certainly isn't loyal to him), is loyal to himself, but is neutral when comes to brotherly loyalty.

( I say neutral, because he was willing to slay Rex if it meant staying free and his family safe. He did stop, because he's true to himself, and the self he wants to be isn't someone who kills people... Its just that sometimes, what is wanted, and what it is needed, isn't always the same thing. )

This is the first major bang up to Rex's Character Arc, because now we have a decent enough brother who is absolutely Not Loyal To the System that Rex is. And eventually, Rex lets him go, showing that while Rex is Lawful Good--he leans more towards good, whilst still retaining lawful plausibility.

This step slapped Rex, but it was a surprise he could easily, just simply, file away and not think about too hard. Deserting is going to happen when you're in an army of millions, and if they're off to be farmers instead of soldiers, well that's okay and a very nice thought.

The real kicker was Umbara.

One could argue that the Lola Sayu Mission should've hit Rex, but instead of Rex, it hit Fives the hardest (And with good reason). It's probably why there was an implication of a fallout between Lola Sayu and Umbara ("Just like Old times, Rex.")

And Fives becomes a contrasting challenge:

Loyal to Self

Loyal To Brothers

Neutral to Disloyal to System

Fives would bend the system until it breaks if it meant saving his brothers and more. He's the Chaotic Good to Rex's Lawful Good.

Rex is painfully upright and loyal to the system, so when one of his best and closest brothers decides "fuck this", it shakes him up.

Especially when Rex is finally confronted with how rotten the System gets: by General Pong Krell.

To contrast the contrast, on other side of Rex is Dogma, who is Fives' opposite. The Lawful Neutral.

Loyal to the System above all Else.

Neutral to Disloyal to Brothers.

( It does not help that Anakin Skywalker only recognizes Lawful as being Obedient rather than "adherence and or comfort to a code or set of rules" and thus draws more parallels between Rex and Dogma, than Rex and Fives. )

The Umbara Arc throws Rex through the whole loop, with all its conflicts. Especially the challenges it would make to Rex's whole character and showing him how far things can go.

Until finally, Rex finding what lines to draw in the dirt when it comes to "Loyalty to the End".

... But not enough to save anyone.

Then comes the Conspiracy arc, and while we don't know Rex's side, we do have implication of the aftermath.

The coverup of Fives' death (Because it would've had to been), by brother no less (Another big thing), and with the chip arc, which Rex did look into--would've put Rex up against someone he could not and would not possibly be capable of working through or against: Anakin Skywalker.

( Obviously for narrative purposes, Skywalker can't be stopped less TCWs became an AU instead )

Rex finds that his closest and brightest was labeled traitor and terrorist for his attack on the chancellor, via the very same bulletin points that Rex's character lives by, and it would immediately put him up against Skywalker.

The reason being, is that Skywalker is close to the Chancellor, and likely told Rex to drop any investigation.

And through speculation based on aftermath episodes... and What we know by this point...

I bet that Rex did not want to lump Anakin with Krell as a "System Problem". Because Rex worked with Anakin, and Rex's character falls in line with Anakin, and to consider Anakin to be part of the problem would go against Rex's character--thus, it is "unthinkable" and much easier to simply... Believe that Anakin has the best intentions.

( Even if that came at the cost of Fives. )

( Even though it would come at the cost of the 501st in the future--Rex only did enough that it would save his Life, and Ahsoka's, but nobody else's. He pays dearly for that comfort in Anakin at the cost of Fives, and the cost of Everyone. )

Moving to S7... and the Bad Batch.

Rex comes up against his absolute Opposite once more--in Sergeant Hunter, and the various Bad Batchers.

We've hit full circle.

Hunter commands a small squad that he pretty much lets do whatever, whilst Rex hangs on commands and commanding. Hunter is Evasive, Rex is Honest; Hunter gets stressed by Command, Rex does not.

Hunter is endlessly snarky, whilst Rex is straightforward. Hunter loses his faith midway through Mission, and Rex does not. Hunter's appearance is against all regulations, whilst Rex is clean shaven.

Hunter wasn't made for command, he just wasn't the stronger personality in the Batch to cause problems, whilst Rex is trained and made to command.

The one thing they do have in common, is loyalty to brothers, and the difference is--Rex doesn't hang on to anyone in lieu of the bigger picture, but Hunter does, existing in the smaller pictures.

( That's the TCWs implication-- If I went into the TBBshow, Hunter would not be coming out nearly as good. )

With the other batchers, Rex comes up against each one being individually against an aspect of his character.

Tech is disloyal to the system, he's as far from any sort of clone soldier you can get, and he's not even dressed for it. Tech comes in as a research first.

Wrecker is disloyal to self, bolstering about his skills and making light of the situation before it crashes on him. His disloyalty isn't a case of selling out--its a case of simply not considering himself in any measure. He puts others above him.

Crosshair is disloyal to brothers. He makes it a point to start shit in the middle of a mission, question authority, making disparaging remarks, and attacking a sense of self. The difference here is that, instead of accumulating falsehoods (like Slick), or physically attacking--he attacks the comforting falsehoods that a clone trooper would take on out of loyalty to brothers, system and self. If you're a brother, why don't you act it. If you cared so much for this one guy, why did you leave him behind. If you were that good in your little system, why did the specialists get called in. ( Crosshair is also a dick, but one can understand why he does things. )

Each Bad Batcher serves as a challenge to Rex's character. They are as far from Lawful as possible--but they are Good.

And then there was Echo.

But Echo doesn't serve as a challenge to Rex's character. If anything, Echo might serve as the "reward" for Rex's character arc. He saved at least one Brother, and one of his closest.

...

Unfortunately, Rex's full character arc wasn't ever really fully realized, because he is, fundamentally, a satellite character for other characters to bounce off of, even if those characters are other Clone Troopers.

( hell, Rex serves to contrast Cody, and neither of those too really had full Arcs )

Its why Fives took more attention in Umbara than Rex. Its why Ahsoka gets off scott free at the end of the day but Rex doesn't.

Its why when certain points of Jedi pop up, particularly that even our main character Jedi aren't really all that Lawful Good and do fuck up and waste a lot of brothers' lives for it, that Rex does not intervene.

Because, his character was never given that development to step in and tell someone to "Hey, stop, you are going to get people Killed."

A full Arc would've allowed that, and he wasn't afforded one.

A post TCWs Arc for Rex to get that Development, to fully understand all he went through and implement it into a new character arc, was implied with Rebel's Rex... but is currently unfulfilled.

( Don't be shocked that I don't consider TBBshow to count. )

But there ya go, a nice sum Analysis on Rex.

#star wars #star wars the clone wars #the clone wars #the bad batch #tcws tbb arc #umbara #captain rex #analysis

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amandamadeathing · 13 hours

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This.

People frequently come back in this universe "somehow." It's even more insulting to a week later watch someone else get impaled by a lightsaber and live. Again.

Obscure death (I still don't buy that a body was covered metal and no less than 16 leather pouches and the only salvageable thing was GLASSes, and coincidentally his most distinguishing feature)

No proper, "No, this is for real. We are going to pause the plot to sit with how real this is." Just let it be an awkward bantha in room for conversations where the guilt is all about "I feel bad for myself. I allowed this to happen because of my bad choices! I regret it!" It is the difference between Black Widow and Iron Man's deaths.

Lots of unresolved arcs. This story about being "More than a squad; a family" and redemption. Having all these open-ended things like spending a lot of screen time on a character to have him be, "Nobody from nowhere" is a letdown. Rex and Echonare trying to humanely rehabilitate Clones, but don't even get to try with him.

Yes, conspiracy theories abounded. But they were not unfounded.

I put a lot of the blame on Disney and their business practices. Based on how little merch there is, or how I can meet Hera and Ahsoka, but not Hunter and Wrecker in Galaxy's Edge, The Bad Batch is "just whatever; good for a few bucks from the diehard TCW holdouts."

Their strict 3-and-done policy so they don't have pay their talent more truncated a season and a finale that needed more breathing room. Possibly the writers' and actors' strike limiting what could be created...because Disney didn't want to pay more money. Or cost-cutting measures to keep the last season of episodes shorter than before...because of Disney's money issues.

#Disney killed Tech #avenge the fallen #justice for tech #Star Wars Tropes #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #bad batch #clone force 99 #bad batch tech #tbb tech #the bad batch star wars #Youtube

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Jari'eyc - Chapter 4

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Word Count: 2136

Warnings: References to TCW Citadel Arc and Clone Conspiracy Arc, Domino Twin Reunion, Masking/Ignoring Emotions, Grief, Crosshair needs a hug

Mando'a Translation: uja - honey/sugar Eyay'ika - Little Echo vod - brother

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“How’s he doing?” Hunter asked when Crosshair had returned to the cockpit.

“Confused and upset,” he sighed. “So pretty much back to normal. Omega hasn’t left his side in hours.”

“Figured she wouldn’t,” Hunter nodded. “Probably scared her.”

“She was just getting used to his nightmares, too. This might set that back a bit.”

Hunter nodded a little again, hands tapping at his legs.

“Let’s go,” Crosshair said a few moments later.

“Go?”

“Find them.”

Raze and Fives had been holding each other closely on the floor, taking deep breaths together. Echo was alive.

Both heads snapped towards the door as a knock startled them. They exchanged a glance, retrieving their masks before stepping towards the door.

“Who is it?” Fives called, voice altered by his mask.

“Hunter and Crosshair,” the sergeant answered. “We just want some answers.”

Fives looked at Raze. He could practically feel her anxiety, but she nodded anyway.

Taking a deep breath, Fives hit the button to open the door.

“Thanks,” Hunter said, stepping into the room.

“How did you find us?” Raze asked, brow furrowed.

“Enhanced senses,” he shrugged. “Just tracked you here.”

“Not that hard when he knows the exact scent a reg gives off,” Crosshair added, eyeing Forn.

Raze’s eyes widened as she watched her companion remove his mask.

Fives stood, seemingly unaffected by the intense scrutiny the other clones put him under.

“‘Fives’, right?” Hunter asked.

“Yeah,” he said.

“Echo said you were dead.”

“Probably what Rex told him.”

Hunter’s eyes narrowed at the other clone, but Crosshair turned and started to examine Raze, who shifted uncomfortably in his gaze. “Why would Rex lie?”

“He told what he thought was the truth,” Raze answered.

“So why does Rex think he’s dead?” Crosshair drawled, stepping slightly closer to her.

A firm hand landed on his shoulder.

“Best you back up,” Fives growled.

“Relax,” Crosshair smirked, his attention still focused on the woman in front of him. “I’m practically harmless.”

“I think everyone just needs to take a breath,” Hunter voiced. Without turning around, Crosshair knew he was the subject of his signature “Command Glare” - something his brother had picked up from Cody over the years.

Crosshair pulled away from Fives and Raze, skulking back towards Hunter.

“Look, we’ll get out of your hair,” Hunter said with a sigh. “But Echo’s a smart man. He’ll start to figure this all out soon, if he hasn’t already.”

Fives and Raze exchanged a glance and Hunter’s eyes flitted between them. They almost seemed to have an entire conversation through their eyes.

Fives sighed. “Have him meet me here when he’s ready.”

Hunter nodded once, and he and Crosshair left the tiny apartment.

“So who is she?” Crosshair drawled, slipping a toothpick between his lips.

Hunter glanced at his brother. “How should I know?” he shrugged.

Crosshair shrugged as well as they made their way back to the ship through the streets of Ord Mantell.

–

Fives sat on the sofa, hands twitching nervously. His brother would be there soon. “So much for hiding my identity, huh?” he muttered, huffing out an awkward laugh.

“I should go,” Raze said quickly, her eyes focused on the window.

Fives’ eyes shot up to her. “What? Why?”

She shifted her weight between her feet. “This is already going to be a lot, you know? I don’t want to overwhelm him.”

He closed the distance between them, taking her hands in his. “Uja, I think he’d want-”

“Stop. After everything you two have gone through without each other, you deserve a moment for yourselves. I don’t think- I’m not ready to-”

A knock at the door startled them both. She pulled her hands from his as he stared at the door. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. His brother was on the other side of that door. After all these years, not only was his twin alive, but he was here. He wasn’t the final domino after all. Another knock brought his attention back.

“Uja-” he started, but when he looked back towards her, she was nowhere to be seen. A small breeze flowed through the window. He sighed, walking to the door, trying to shake the nerves off.

The door slid open and the twins' eyes met.

“Echo,” Fives breathed.

Neither knew who moved first, but a few seconds later they wrapped each other in a tight embrace.

“I thought you were dead,” they both cried at the same time, sending each other into a fit of laughter.

Echo could feel his eyes stinging with tears. “I can’t believe you’re here,” he sobbed. “I thought I’d lost you, too.”

Fives sniffled a little. “I’m here, Eyay’ika.”

Echo pulled away and the pair moved to sit at the small kitchen table.

Fives stared at his brother in disbelief. “How did- what happened?”

“The Techno Union found me, and brought me back… sort of,” Echo winced. “Tambor was… using my knowledge of the Republic, all the battle plans Rex and I made. He sold the information to the separatists, and kept my body to experiment on.”

“Echo,” Fives whispered. “I’m s-”

“It’s alright,” he said quickly. “Rex figured it out. He convinced Skywalker, and Cody brought the Batch; they found me and got me out of there.”

Fives was quiet for a long moment. “I should’ve been there,” he scowled.

“You were dead,” Echo argued.

“But I should’ve-”

Echo stopped him, gripping his wrist. “You couldn’t have known, vod.”

Fives sighed.

Echo’s eyes narrowed at him. “But what about you? You got shot by Fox right in front of Rex-”

“We’ve all gotten shot,” Fives argued.

“Fives,” Echo said, his tone filled with an old familiar exasperation Fives hadn’t heard in years. He couldn’t help the smirk that crossed his face.

“We had to fake it,” he said after a moment. “Fox was in on it. I- I wasn’t safe.”

Echo felt a pang in his chest. They were created to be soldiers - to risk their lives in service of the Republic; they’d rarely ever been truly safe. But his brother- his twin- had been alone in this. He listened sorrowfully as Fives recounted the days leading up to his “death”.

“We knew Palpatine would be after me, but when it became clear that Skywalker wasn’t hearing me, we had to end it and find another way.”

“But how did Fox know not to kill you? Why did Rex and Skywalker think you were dead? Couldn’t they tell you weren’t?”

Fives chuckled. “It’s a long story.”

“But-”

“Later.” He placed his hand on Echo’s shoulder. “We’ve got time, brother.”

With Hunter and Tech in a deep, hushed conversation, and Wrecker and Omega playing just outside the ship, Crosshair found himself alone.

That seemed to be a rarity these days. Despite how he was told he often came off, Crosshair hated being alone; it reminded him too much of his training.

He wandered aimlessly around the ship, avoiding the cockpit, trying to find a place to simply be.

The bunks didn’t feel right; he wasn’t tired. He didn’t have use for the tiny kitchen or the cargo bay.

Then his eyes fell on that door. The one he was sure hadn’t been opened in months.

He pressed the button, the doors sliding open effortlessly. Another and the lights came on.

Everything was mostly how J– she left it. Her bunk was neatly made, her small footlocker tucked underneath. Her datapad sat untouched atop the scratchy GAR issue blanket she always hated.

He took a deep breath, releasing it in a slow and shaky exhale as he knelt next to the bunk. It still smelled like J– her; the subtle hints of wildflowers drawing stinging tears to his eyes.

He let them shut, scowling slightly as he kept trying to just breathe, but the mask had started to slip.

She betrayed him- his family. She repeatedly tried to kill them. How was he still in love with her? How could he know that he would still follow her to the ends of the galaxy? Suddenly, he was standing in front of the cabinet where she kept her personal supplies. His hand hovered over the button to release the latch, his palm sweaty and fingers shaking. Another deep breath and he pressed it.

It looked like a mess, but he knew better. “It’s organized chaos,” she’d told him. “I know where everything is.”

His eyes landed on a particular container, her handwriting sprawled across the label, first in Qoljaki, then in a messy, nearly unreadable aurebesh. He smiled. He’d been able to pick his name out from his brothers’ even before she’d relabeled the containers. She’d given him such a surprised look when he’d said he figured it out.

“It’s the longest,” he shrugged, pulling a laugh from her.

He missed that laugh. She told him once that she hated her laugh.

“It’s too loud and sharp,” she’d said, resting her back against his legs as he braided her hair. “I sound deranged.”

They’d argued about it for a while, the discussion ending with a few activities that caused her to need her hair rebraided.

He looked in the cabinet a little more, vaguely recognizing some of the others’ names. But then he saw his own again, scrawled across a folded piece of flimsi, tucked at the back of the cabinet. His heart was pounding in his ears as picked up the note, gingerly unfolding it as though it’d disintegrate in his hands.

Opening it, he discovered that it was written in Qoljaki. He could only read his own name written at the top and J– her name at the bottom. He fidgeted a little. He wanted- no, he needed to read this letter. What if it explained everything?

He tried to think through his options. He could give it to Tech to translate. But what if there was something … intimate in the contents? He knew how his twin felt about her. No, he couldn’t risk that.

Echo? That was a tempting idea, but he had a lot on his plate right now, finding out his twin was actually alive. That, and he wasn’t sure he could handle the sassiness he knew the ARC would give him.

Hunter couldn’t be an option; he had been the angriest among them after their most recent escape from Kamino.

Wrecker would probably feel just as lost as he did.

Crosshair sighed, walking back to her bunk and plopping down onto it, her datapad just next to him. He looked at the object. He knew she’d used it for everything, often citing that if she didn’t write down the little details of things, she’d likely forget them.

He picked it up, tapping the screen gently. It was dead, of course - it’d been months since it was last charged. He scanned the room, spotting her charging cord at the end of the bed. He plugged it in and waited. It would probably take a while, but maybe it could give him the answers he so desperately needed. He leaned against the wall, letting himself be fully enveloped in his memories and the smell of her perfume.

“Crosshair?” Omega’s gentle voice called from the doorway. When had she gotten there?

“Yeah, ‘Meg?”

“Are you okay?”

He glanced at her, peeking through one eye. “‘Course I am,” he answered cooly, thankful he’d been able to keep his voice steady despite feeling like he was on the verge of a breakdown.

“You’re crying,” she pointed out, eyeing him skeptically.

Crosshair lifted a hand to his cheek, honestly surprised to find it damp.

“What is that?” She asked, pointing to the flimsi letter in his hand as she came to sit next to him.

“A note from-” he hesitated. “From a friend.”

Omega nodded once, her curious eyes falling away from him. “Is it from Jaine?”

He sighed. She was far too insightful. “Yes.”

“And that’s the reason you’re crying?”

“Part of it,” he hummed.

“What’s the other part?”

Another deep breath. “I can’t read it.”

Omega looked at him curiously, then down at his hand and he held the note out to her.

“It looks like a bunch of scribbles,” she noted.

“It’s a different language,” he explained. “Jaine grew up on a planet called Qoljak, and this is how they wrote.” He pointed to the looping print at the top of the page. “That’s my name, there.”

Omega’s brow furrowed. “Why would she write you a letter you can’t read?”

Crosshair sighed, letting his eyes fall shut. “I don’t know.”

Omega’s hand lifted to her mouth as her brow furrowed. Just like Hunter, he thought. “Maybe Tech can translate it.”

“Maybe,” he agreed. “But it’s a dead language. And she never got the chance to teach it to him.”

“We won’t know until we try.”

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spacemagicandlaserswords · 9 months

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The Clone Wars 6.04 ‘Orders' Reaction

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r-2-peepoo · 11 months

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One of the most upsetting experiences as a still relatively new Star Wars fan (I became a fan last April):

The first time I watched TCW and got to the Order 66 arc and Rex said “Find him. Find him. Fives.” I swear to god I yelled out loud “FIVES IS ALIVE?!”.

I genuinely believed, in that moment, that Fives had somehow faked his death. I have never in my life been so excited and then immediately so disappointed. I really thought there was a whole conspiracy and cover up happening and Fives was gonna end up being a core member of the rebellion or something.

#clone wars #star wars #tcw fives #arc trooper fives #captain rex #501st battalion

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saturn-sends-hugs · 1 year

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OK I’M DOING IT I’M CAVING

BAD BATCH EPISODE PREDICTIONS:

Heads up I haven’t seen any leaks or researched anything so this probably won’t be accurate pshkssbks (also no spoilers, just trailer references!)

First off, Ep3: The Solitary Clone??? Who??? I’ve seen some people theorizing that this could be Crosshair which would be SO EXCITING LIKE PLEASE!!! I WANT TO SEE HIMMMM. It could also be Rex, Cody, or Wolffe which would be great too (It better not mean Echo is leaving because omg I WOULD SOB NO)

Ep4: Faster To me this seems like it’s probably where we see Tech pod racing, I mean it just makes sense right? I think it’s either that or the Batch has to physically work faster due to the Empire finding out they’re still alive or something.

Ep5: Entombed omg fear. What is that. What does that MEAN. Please tell me it’s just like a semi-filler episode where some of them get trapped in a cave or something normal please let it be something normal and not absolutely devastating mr filoni please 🫠🫠🫠

Ep6: Tribe This one could be really cute!! I feel like this is either referring to the Batch, some actually tribe they meet, or maybe Rex’s group?? Idk, but it seems pretty tame to me :)

Ep7: The Clone Conspiracy and Ep8: Truth and Consequences no. no stop THATS SO MEAN. THATS JUST CRUEL OMG. I feel like this is a direct connection to the Fives arc in TCW and THERE BETTER BE A NAME DROP PLEASE but also IM SO SCARED. On one hand it’s two episodes so yayyy!! But on the other, this really seems like it either has to do with the chips and Fives or some big secret/misunderstanding that might cause some serious tension within the Batch.

Ep9: The Crossing I mean come on. There’s no way this isn’t a play with Crosshairs name, why would this be the title if it’s not. I’m thinking this could be where Crosshair comes back (please), or maybe just Hunter and the Batch finally dealing with the fact that he left in the first place. Or maybe Crosshair is forced to work together with them again for a bit somehow? Or they just cross a big chasm or something and Crosshair is there. Could just be that.

Ep10: Retrieval ITS CROSSHAIR RIGHT. THEY’RE RETRIEVING CROSSHAIR THATS WHO IT IS RIGHT PLEASE I’M BEGGING. I think it’s either that or the Batch goes on some typical retrieval mission and along the way either rescues one of the Batch members from danger or maybe some other person (gungi?)

Ep11: Metamorphosis This could refer to so many things, but I think it might be the whole batch or just one member having a sort of revelation like:

If it’s the whole batch, maybe they’ll change and decide to join the fight against the Empire together

Omega: this could be her learning more about the world and maybe pushing back against Hunter to decide things for herself or disagree with what he wants to do

Cody?: I feel like this could be him breaking free of the control chip, maybe turning on/leaving the empire

It could also be Hunter finally deciding to have the batch join the rebellion, or Crosshair coming back (pleASE), or Echo leaving to join the rebellion alone (NO)

Ep12: The Outpost This one comes out the day before my birthday WOOO!!! My first thought here was Rishi Station, but honestly that connection is pretty unlikely. It could be Rex’s base or maybe the building we saw Cody walking up to in the trailer?

Ep13: Pabu what. is that a guy or…

Ep14: Tipping Point oh this could be so many things. It could be Cody and Crosshair fighting and one of them choosing a side, it could be one of them dying (omg no) making the others more determined to fight the empire, it could be Crosshair coming back (PLS), it could be Echo deciding to leave and join Rex with the rebellion (DONT), it could literally be so many things. In any case, it’s clearly the lead up to/start of the big end conflict, so it’s safe to assume something serious is going down and I’m scared.

Ep15: The Summit and Ep16: Plan 99 Honestly, I have no clue. Big conflict, some crazy Bad Batch plan, my only hope is that it requires Crosshair meaning we get him back by then? Hopefully it’s not like a last resort kind of plan meaning bad things are going to happen but I mean this is star wars, I can only expect pain.

Anyway, that was so long I seriously doubt anyone will read all this but if you have any other predictions I’d love to hear them! I always think these are so fun :)

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TBB S3E8: some thoughts

Spoilers below!

When AZI examined Crosshair's hand and suggested that his hand tremor might stem from mental issues rather than physical ones, it made me think of the phrase "it's all in your head" and how it relates to the clones as a whole. Crosshair's denial and disbelief over the fact that his hand tremor might be mental made me think about the TCW conspiracy arc with Fives.

Fives, after unraveling Palpatine's plot by investigating Tup's "illness" and discovering the existence of the inhibitor chips in the clones, was deemed crazy by everyone around him. Shaak Ti, Nala Se, Anakin, Rex, Kix, Palpatine himself. They all considered Fives to be mentally unsound because the whole idea of using an inhibitor chip to control humans and put other humans in danger was outrageous. When suspending your disbelief, it does seem outrageous. The severe paranoia and fear that Fives felt after figuring all this out made people around him think that he was going crazy and that it was all in his head. Knowing that you know a truth about something—the concrete truth—and then being told you're insane for believing it and holding it as truth is demoralizing. And it can even make you feel dehumanized because it's not "normal" to feel this way.

Fast forward to TBB S1, when Hunter told Crosshair on many occasions that the reason he was being loyal to the Empire was because it was all in his head. The inhibitor chip is making you do this. You're being crazy for betraying the squad and supporting a system that doesn't care about you. Crosshair insisted that he had his chip removed and that this was his free, independent decision that he made.

Now that Crosshair has defected from the Empire, reunited with his squad, and suffered torture and experimentation on Tantiss, being told by AZI that his hand tremor is all in his head has to feel really, really shitty. You were all in your head while you were with the Empire and now you're all in your head about a condition that impedes on your skillset as a sniper. How can you even begin to try to think independently and know objective truth if you're being told you're in your head from both sides?

Interesting (but sad as hell) to think about!

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kanansdume · 1 year

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h4lftruths4ndhyperb0le · 7 months

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My Fics !

I realized I have very little connection between this account and my Ao3 account, so I figured I'd share a list of my fics on here in case anyone is ever interested :) WIPs are at the top, complete stories at the bottom

My WIPs:

In Darkness a Hope

An AU where Anakin wasn't found on Tatooine, Naboo fell, the jedi were blamed and scattered, war broke out, and the Empire began three years later. Anakin meets Ahsoka after she crashes on Tatooine, they run into Rex, and things snowball. Cody is also one of the two true main characters, but you wouldn't know it from his screen time at the beginning.

All That We Intend is Scrawled in Sand

An AU where Kix notices that something is up with Anakin, and that leads him to realize it may be connected to whatever's going on with the Guard. A few illegal choices later, he's in place to investigate. Basically, a Kix-saves-the-galaxy (with help from his friends) AU.

Marked

Also a work in my series about the Command Batch + Rex, featuring all of the commanders and the ways they're marked by the war. So far, Wolffe losing his eye and Rex getting his jaig eyes are written, with Gree, Bly, Fox, Ponds, and Cody still to come.

My Complete Works:

What Walks in the Shadows

Coruscant is haunted and Fox meets one of the ghosts, and proceeds to unravel a conspiracy as result. It's kind of sad but there's as happy of an ending as there can be in a fic where one of the main characters is already dead. It is a fix-it (because I am predictable) but it's set after Season 6 of TCW, so some people are already dead (rip Fives and Thorn specifically).

The Sins of the Father

My first Star Wars fic! AU where Fox manages to stop Order 66 before it's sent out to Cody, but not before Anakin takes the 501st to the temple. Mostly, it follows Luke and Leia coming to terms with who and what their Father is and what that means for them, via grand quests. Featuring: Jedi Healer Luke, Jedi Shadow Leia, Ezra Bridger being a good friend, Luke continually lacking self-preservation, and an ancient Force entity.

A Dance Among the Stars

A series following the Command Batch & Rex through the war. They're mostly short (like 2000-4000 words). Current works are:

The Tidings of War (When each member of the batch says the war began)

Many Meetings (They meet their generals and begin to trust them)

To See Again the Stars (Rex adopting Fives and Echo, and kind of Ahsoka, too)

Sleep No More (Ponds coming to terms with the deaths of his men)

Interlude (Conversations on leave between Rex & Anakin and Cody & Obi-Wan)

What Dreams May Come (Fox and the Guard being not okay)

What Was I Made For (Gree meeting Barriss and trying to help her through her feelings about war)

The Stars Their Ancient Courses Keep (Ponds having a conversation with Boba the night he's taken hostage)

A Buried and a Burning Flame (Five significant sunrises in Cody's life, and also maybe my pride and joy)

Something is Rotten in the State of Coruscant

An AU literally born from me going "What if Anakin was Hamlet?" Obi-Wan dies in the Rako Hardeen arc, and Anakin has to figure out how, exactly, that happened. One of the only times I've actually managed to let a character die, because it literally had to happen for the plot. The nerdiest thing I've ever done, and I stand by it.

#star wars #star wars fandom #fanfiction #star wars fanfiction #fanfic #archive of our own #ao3 author #ao3 fanfic #ao3 #my fic

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