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sisaloofafump · 4 months

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Bats

Animated version of this. Character list under barrier:

These are characters who have bat symbols, not other characters on the teams (like nightwing) who does have a symbol that is similar in form but doesn’t stand for the same thing. Obviously I’m missing some people and the ones that are here have many variations of their look and I just chose one of them. I’ll probably rearrange the animation so the symbols are in this order, but that would require reanimating parts and ion wanna do that right now

Also, so they’re all on the same post, this art I had drawn because I had gotten a comment previously about the symbols looking like underwear

#very tired #okay #dc comics #batman #bruce wayne #my art #Stephanie brown #Cassandra Cain #barbara gordon #batgirl #kate Kane #batwoman #Duke Thomas #Jason Todd #red hood #batwing #luke fox

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varpusvaras · 3 months

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Fox is a very athletic guy, okay. Very athletic indeed. He has gone through so many different combat training and battle modules from the moment he learned to walk. His running speed, reaction times and jump distances rival those of actual professional atheletes.

Unfortunately, not a single thing in his training is useful when it comes to learning how to dance. Fox had liked watching people dance...well enough. He had like watching Bail and Breha dance, certainly. But then it dawns on him that weddings include dancing in front of everyone. Then it dawns on him that since it's his wedding, he needs to be the one dancing.

Oh. Oh no.

#fox might be crying just a little bit #then he realises that he needs to learn how to dance both parts and he is definitely crying #he does have very patient teachers but he just doesn't like it when he doesn't already know how to do something #which is mood #I might write a ficlet about this later I'm too tired now kshks #sw #tcw #commander fox #bail/breha/fox

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0vergrowngraveyard · 7 months

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Ghost Crew pt 1

Miles “Sails” Prower:

While he was alive, Miles Prower was a crew member of the Westside Pearl. He was bullied relentlessly for his two tails, some crew members going as far as breaking his vocal cords and dangling him over the ocean.

At one point, the crew was experiencing a huge string of bad luck. The captain blamed the fox kit and Miles was thrown overboard and he eventually drowned.

Knuckles the Dread saw potential in him so he was invited to leave the afterlife and become the first member of the Angel’s Voyage. He helped Dread repair his ship and get her moving. Somewhere along the way, he gained the nickname “Sails”. Despite being mute, the crew know what he’s saying (most of the time)

Sails can usually be found up in the crows-nest

Black Rose:

While she was alive, Black Rose was a member of the Little Planet’s Heart. She was known for being a fearless fighter and a kind soul. She quickly made her way up to being one of the captain’s favorites, but in the process she made a lot of enemies.

While exploring an island with some of her fellow crew members, they stumbled upon a rare artifact. Before she could grab it, she was betrayed. Her fellow crew members attacked her and set off explosives, causing a cave in and starting a small fire. She lost her hearing in one ear and eventually died of asphyxiation.

Captain Dread respected her and her accomplishments so she was invited to join the Angel’s Voyage. She quickly became close with Sails and agreed to help out in any way she could. Due to her partial deafness, sneaking up on her could prove disastrous (for the person doing the sneaking).

Black Rose can usually be found at the bow, cleaning weapons or singing

random ghost crew fact: at night, they are corporeal so that’s when they work/attack the most. During the day, they spend their time messing around or just chilling (sonic is absolutely devastated that he can’t ruffle Sails’ bangs…also that his friends and little brother are dead in this world but that’s besides the point)

#this is very poorly written/explained but i’m tired so like #captain dread au #sails the fox #black rose #knuckles the dread #sonic prime #sonic prime au #art

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cutter-kirby · 7 months

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i could talk about the parallels between the dreemurr siblings and the skeleton brothers and how one is more reserved and is closely related to your choices and willing to make the hard choices that their brothers can't while the other is more energetic and refuses to kill even in the face of certain death and is closely tied to belief and hope and how both are so extremely codependent and how the dreemurrs were doomed because of it but the skeletons avoid their fate

but instead i'll just say that chara and sans are joined in "my brother is the coolest" solidarity

#there's something about how chara is shaped by your choices and sans is the judge #also they're both jokesters #you know for a fact they would find each other so fucking funny #toby made them incapable of interacting because he knew they'd be unstoppable as canon best friends #papyrus and asriel's death parallels make me run into walls #(az's original death)#just the complete unwillingness to kill and belief that mercy is always possible #that belief gets torn from asriel #but papyrus is still going strong #love that for him #undertale #chara dreemurr #asriel dreemurr #sans the skeleton #papyrus the skeleton #i'm very tired so sorry if this is incoherent #but boy do i love toby fox's sibling characters #do i even have to say 'don't bring shipping into this'#sorry. forgot i was making an undertale post. (sarcasm)

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deathsbestgirl · 7 months

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Please talk more about how not fine Dana Scully is, people really tend to underestimate how fucked up she truly is, honestly the way she manages to hold onto her kindness and integrity through so much violation is kind of miraculous

sometimes it makes me a little crazy. like, dana scully was so light in season one. she smiled and laughed a lot, she teased mulder, she loved working on the x files with mulder and it was obvious. even on the days she would get frustrated with mulder for doing something crazy. and i think that's true throughout the show, until the later years where it meant losing mulder, giving up her child, going on the run...

but. for me, a change occurs in beyond the sea. probably more for the audience than scully or mulder.

scully sees her dad's ghost before she even learns he's gone. she had her parents over for dinner and wanted him to be interested in her work, instead of being disappointed with her career choice. he only asks how it's going right before they walk out the door, and then he's gone. part of her wants to believe she really saw him, but it's also really scary. she almost looks for x files with similar happenings but as she finds them, slams the door instead.

she buries herself in the case as soon as the services are over. she believes boggs as mulder nearly begs her not to. when mulder is shot, she loses it on boggs. and in the end, she tells mulder she's afraid to believe.

scully was afraid to believe before she was abducted. after her abduction, believing is more terrifying. she clings to skepticism and focuses on proof. in their line of work, only what you can prove really matters. it's what mulder needs her for, and later on, she clings to it harder even though she can't deny there are certain fantastic things she believes in.

after her abduction, everything is heavier for both mulder and scully. we saw how lost he was in 3, how self punishing & self hating. and when scully comes back, she's determined to get back to work. she won't take any time before heading back because that would mean sitting alone with what happened to her and she can't possibly deal with that. fear of the unknown to the extreme.

scully never believed samantha was taken by aliens. then she was taken like her, returned completely battered an inch from death with no memory of what happened. whether that was the work of whoever (or whatever) took her or her own mind...either thought is terrifying.

in firewalker, mulder is so cautious with scully. he can't bear her disappearing on him again. he tries to keep her safe and it ultimately puts in a dangerous position. but she's quick, and she saves herself while the girl handcuffed to her dies on the other side of the door.

mulder was so gentle with her after her father died, calling her dana for the first time that we see. he does it again in lazarus when jack willis/dupre kidnapped her. he's careful with her feelings whenever she's vulnerable. after her abduction, in firewalker, when he finds her alive, he cups her cheek like he did in beyond the sea. she is so precious to him, they're best friends. and she tells him she's fine over and over again.

in irresistible, the case already disturned scully on a core level. she couldn't comprehend the violence and violation of what donnie pfaster did to the dead, and later his victims. as a pathologist, she can't imagine desecrating a body. what she does, she does because she cares about people and justice. she can't save them when they're already gone, but she can find the truth and honor them.

in season two when they're separated and she's teaching again, she goes on about the man lying dead in front of her.

"what this man imagined...his dreams, who he loved, saw, heard, remembered...what he feared...somehow it's all locked inside this small mass of tissue and fluid."

and her student calls her spooky.

although scully doesn't love people the way mulder does -- untethered, unchecked -- she loves humanity & her country, and she wanted to do something important with her life. she decided in squeeze to be on the victims' side, like mulder. with mulder.

all through irresistible she is so disturbed and trying to be strong and hide her feelings from mulder, so she goes back to d.c. for a therapy session & to get them some leads. and then as soon as she comes back to work the case with mulder, donnie pfaster makes her a victim again. so shortly after her abduction and almost dying in firewalker. karen kosseff tells her how vulnerable she was, and it's like it almost doesn't seem real. because she doesn't remember, she healed, and if it weren't for the missing time & everyone around her having lived those horrible months without her, it would be like it didn't happen.

she fought like hell against pfaster. injured from a car accident, bound & gagged, in a house she didn't know. hallucinating him as other evil men & the devil. she was spiraling and she only had herself to depend on in the moment. hoping that mulder & co would find her in time. but ... the man worked quickly.

she didn't seem too affected after lazarus, but she believed it was her friend and that he was sick. after her abduction, she didn't have anything to cling to. after pfaster, she had mulder and she only leaned on him when she was completely overwhelmed & he wouldn't let her deal with it alone.

she has new fears.

she loses her sister and mulder loses his dad. both murdered by the same people. aliens or the shadow government, when they decide scully is a problem they have her abducted or attempt to have her killed. and she can't really do anything to prevent it when she has no idea what or who she needs to protect herself from.

there are a few moments that really stick out for me, that i just think it's clear she's not okay. scully bottles things up and keeps her pain close. she doesn't unleash it, does her best to hide it & bear it alone.

but in piper maru, skinner tells her they're letting melissa's case go inactive. cold. she's opened her eyes to government conspiracies. and she flat out tells skinner "if i may say so, sir, it has everything to do with interest. just not yours, and not mine."

there's no reason they couldn't solve her sister's murder. they have the weapon, and like scully says, they can catch people with much less. and then she goes down to the basement office where mulder is working on a case. he's going through everything, actually doing some normal pre-investigation things. and he won't ignore what's going on when so many men have suffered and may well die, just because the government is trying to sweep it under the rug.

and scully loves him so much for this.

(side note: i always love when mulder does this. it's like "do you think i'm spooky?" he wants her to think of him as well as he thinks of her. they're best friends. it matters to him what scully thinks of him. a rarity.)

then there's wetwired. scully watches all the tapes they find and very quickly becomes paranoid about mulder, specifically. now, i don't think she really believes it, i think it's a thought that scares her when she's at her lowest. but she was assigned to the x files to debunk his work, he gets neck deep in alien & government conspiracies. she didn't always understand the specific dangers of their particular work. she's so ashamed when she's back to herself, and mulder doesn't blame her at all. and when she starts talking about what she remembers, mulder takes her so seriously. mulder believes she saw something, but like the others, she misinterpreted what she saw because of the heightened paranoia & anxiety. one woman thought she saw her husband cheating with a blonde, and it was her neighbor with his golden retriever. so it's very possible she did see someone having a meeting with the cigarette smoking man outside their motel, or at least someone involved with their case.

scully is always afraid to be taken again, to be murdered. she knows the smoking man has something to do with all of it. she knows she stayed because of mulder. and she will continue to work on the x files with him. because it isn't just about him anymore. she needs answers too.

and then there's the cancer arc. i wrote all about memento mori already, and i think that all says a lot. but then there's gethsemane. kritchsgau told scully the shadow men gave her cancer to make mulder believe. it guts her, it almost kills him, but they know where her cancer came from and they haven't been able to do anything about it. i can't get over the way her voice cracks in redux. mulder is waiting for her in darkened bedroom and tells her that everything goes back to the fbi. her abduction, her cancer. she wasn't ready to face where her cancer came from, and mulder tries to help her. and any time she almost has a grip, another thing makes it come crashing down around her. the men who had her abducted, her sister killed, gave her cancer being part of the same institution she is...that's unbearable.

scully grew up with a father in the navy. they love their country, they trust their government & military & law enforcement. the x files turns everything she's ever known and understood about the world upside down.

and then there's seasons 8-11. i don't have anything to say except: scully is NOT okay. she gave up her son and has never forgiven herself. she thinks about william everyday and prays he's safe, that she did the right thing. as if there even was a right thing. you never see a more raw or vulnerable scully than in the revival. and if mulder wasn't there holding her together and doing what she couldn't...i don't think there would be a scully.

#i can talk more about s8&9 + the revival #but like. scully is just never the same after her abduction #her light becomes something very different #mulder and scully are always the light in dark places #but mostly they're each other's light in their suffocating darkness #dana scully #the x files #txf txt #beyond the sea #lazarus #little green men #piper maru #cancer arc #gethsemane #reduxes #mulder and scully #fox mulder #also i got lazy and did not look for scripts or even transcripts #this is just my brain and i'm so tired l

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typicalopposite · 7 months

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Aight so here’s my take away from the deleted scene… and also let me add I think in reality it could easily work the night before the Oscar scene… after they get home (although they would have been drunk so idk) or happen after and the dock scene is the day AFTER the Oscar scene…

Anyway! I think the point of Henry’s story is to say that even though the boy is tugging at the piece guarding his heart, and even though it’s in those moments when he’s pulling at it that the princes heart can beat freely, and even though the boy makes the prince feel alive… he is still not able to get the piece off… that’s why he ends the story there. the princes exposed heart is still hidden by the piece of armor… and so it can not be shown(read: given) to the boy.

Henry is saying Alex has taken down almost all of his guards. He (Henry) has given more to him (Alex) than he has anyone before (which is why he tells Bea he felt himself getting too close) but he still can’t give him his heart.

But I think Alex was hearing just pull a little harder… so he decides to confess and so the story goes…

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb spoilers #kinda #rwrb deleted scene #campfire scene #alex and henry #henry hanover stuart fox #alex claremont diaz #alex x henry #firstprince #im very tired and wrote this immediately after watching the scene so bare with me

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allforthe-gay · 2 years

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headcanon time. so the Foxes have a group chat (obviously) and Nicky is just always. sending shit. anything, all the time

a picture of two cats he sees on the sideway together and captions “Andrew and Neil” to which the two just respond with middle finger emojis. any time he reads a new book and just. fucking. sends long ass rants about his favorite and worst characters and the book as a whole. a picture of him on his bed and captions “god i wish erik were here ;)” after which Aaron blocks him. sometimes Nicky just sends spontaneous keysmashes in all caps that everyone ignores. he sends anything

Renee's nice and whenever she's not busy she tries to follow whatever it is he's sending (if coherent) with conversation, and if it's interesting enough Matt and Dan and Allison join in

Kevin muted the group chat a long time ago bc one time Nicky is sending message after message about how satisfying it is to eat snacks before Exy matches right in front of Kevin because it's fun to piss him off and Kevin just replies “stop” to which Nicky responds with a "no <3"

Andrew blocks Nicky too after the time he sends 97 messages in a row to the group chat. when that happens Neil's phone vibrates so much it falls off the table he left it on. he just stares at it across the room for a moment before just leaving it there and goes to find Andrew

#this is based on my last post in case you didn't notice #neil has a smartphone in this btw #neil josten #andrew minyard #renee walker #dan wilds #matt boyd #andreil #aaron minyard #kevin day #allison reynolds #nicky hemmick #the foxes #the idea of them having a group chat makes me :D #i apologize if this is incoherent i am very tired rn #all for the game #aftg #aftg headcanon

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ravensilversea · 2 months

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Victory Comes Late

Summary: Victory came too late for Ponds and for so many other brothers. Three years of war plus some months of hashing out a peace treaty written in the blood, sweat, and tears of his brothers but makes no mention of them at all. It’s a Senate proclaimed accomplishment, like they hadn’t refused to even consider peace for three years.

Tags: Canon Divergence, Palpatine Dies AU, Post-War, Light Angst, Grief/Mourning, Reunions, Bittersweet Ending

The largest exhibition hall in the Jedi Temple is almost too small for the sheer number of clone troopers in it now. Really, it is actually too small, but none of them are too concerned with the concept of personal space when this is the first time they’ve all been together for three years.

And yet, Fox pulls his helmet off and tucks it beneath his arm. His guard brushes past him, calling out into the space that’s already echoing with brothers trying to find each other. And yet, they aren’t all here.

Rancor Battalion is still on Kamino and participating in negotiations alongside General Ti to hopefully place the cadets and tubies into the custody of their brothers. The thought alone is almost inconceivable: entire batches of clones who never have to serve on a battlefield, who can stay together and stay alive for years longer than their elder brothers could.

“You joining the party, Fox?” Stone asks, coming to stand beside him.

“You really think Salvo would let us miss it?” Fox walks into the exhibition hall instead of just hovering in the doorway. “Besides, someone has to tell them all how the chancellor really died.”

Ao3

Stone coughs into his hand. “Would that be the actual story or another one of your tales this time?”

Fox refuses to learn about any of the details of Chancellor Palpatine’s, unfortunate, accident. It would ruin the fun of coming up with stupider and stupider ways the late chancellor died and sharing them around the caf brewer. Call it his own personal revenge against the man who insisted on calling each and every one of his brothers by CC or CT number and number alone, the way the Guard all but tiptoed around him, how many of his brother assigned to the chancellor’s guard when traveling off planet simply disappeared without a trace, and every single shiny who the chancellor sent down into the lower levels who came back in a body bag, if at all.

“I have a list of stupid ways for asshole politicians to die, and this might be my only chance to share any of them,” Fox says primly. “Allow me my fun.”

Stone shakes his head. “If you say so.”

They weave through a particularly thick crowd of brothers, and someone flags them down. “Hey commanders, I think your squads are meeting over on the stands!”

“That’ll be Cody’s idea,” Fox mutters as Stone thanks the brother for the directions. “Always did need to be on top of things.”

“Not sure the stands top Tipoca City’s comm tower.”

Fox looks up at the ceiling that rises so high above their heads it can barely be seen and then gives Stone a look.

“Okay, so maybe they could.”

The commander squads are gathered in a clump in the middle of the stands, and sure enough, Cody’s yellow-orange paint is higher than anybody else, shining like a beacon. Fox and Stone pass Alpha Squad on their way up the stands where Wolffe and Thire look about two seconds from murdering a squadmate or two.

“I’m sorry,” Gregor says just as they pass by, “but do you think you could repeat that? Or maybe replay it? I’m not sure I heard you correct-ly!” His voice rises sharply as he falls back under the weight of two brothers, and Fox hops up a handful of rows. Stone jumps back with a curse.

Poet looks up from their padd with a distinct ‘can you believe I’m stuck with them?’ expression of their face. Fox bites his lip and shakes his head, mentally wishing them good luck.

Force, Alpha’s only missing Blitz whose stuck on Kamino. They all made it, the lucky bastards.

“Fox! Stone!” Salvo slams into Fox with a broad grin and pulls Stone up the remaining steps to wrap his arm around him too. For a moment, the three of them just breathe. “It’s good to see you again,” Salvo whispers.

“Yeah,” Fox pulls away and meets Gree’s eyes over Salvo’s head. “Wait until you hear what happened to the chancellor.”

“The old one, right? Cause the one we have now is an upgrade.” Gree throws a thumb back over his shoulder. “C’mon, we grabbed a spot by Chimaera.”

Fox starts laying out the first ‘So this is what I heard from somebody who heard it from somebody’ as they walk lengthwise along the stands until Gree and Salvo pull them down onto the benches. Just above them sits Chimaera Squad with it’s three near-silent members. As he tells his story, Fox watches Neyo try to get Keller and Faie to say more than a few words strung together, and it suddenly hits him that both Lock and Colt were dead.

The story ends, and his brothers make noises of disbelief. “Oh really?” Fox says. “Well, how about this one that I heard from a janitor who heard it from his sister’s husband’s brother’s friend.” Stone buries his head in his hands with a groan.

Ponds would have told Fox to stop by the second story, but he’s not around to hear them. The lack of protest from that quarter sits heavy in Fox’s chest. He barrels through the story anyway, almost even more spitefully.

Victory came too late for Ponds and for so many other brothers. Three years of war plus some months of hashing out a peace treaty written in the blood, sweat, and tears of his brothers but makes no mention of them at all. It’s a Senate proclaimed accomplishment, like they hadn’t refused to even consider peace for three years.

Almost four years of war because of one man who strung them all along like dew drops on a tent-line.

Fox’s eyes land on a small empty space in a sea of brothers, and his next words die in his throat. There’s a brother standing in the middle of the empty space. He’s thin with shaved hair and implant scars. What’s left of one arm is in a sling across his body, and Fox knows who he is even without the blue of the 501st edging his almost shiny-white, probably borrowed armor.

Come get your Dominoes, Rex had messaged three years ago.

Unless they’re commanders, I don’t claim them, and even that’s debatable, he had messaged back.

Within days, Rex had informed him that due to the sudden death of their commanding officers and the subsequent lack of collection by Fox (Fox had rolled his eyes at this), he was personally taking them under his wing. Rex then spent every other message to Fox bragging about ‘his Dominoes’ like there wasn’t hundreds of Domino training squads spread throughout the army.

For a moment, Fox selfishly wishes that Echo truly had died on the infamous Citadel mission. Seeing him standing alone in a sea of reuniting brothers when Fox is the one who killed his last squadmate…

Victory really did come too late for Rex's Domino squad.

The reunions and conversations continue on around Fox, blurring into the background. A sea of noise and color turning into a drone as a time seems to slow, but Echo never blurs. He continues to stand alone, seemingly in the middle of a swirling galaxy of brothers without a single person to welcome him home.

Fox finds his feet moving without any input from him. He's halfway down the stairs before Salvo asks him where he's going. “To get another Domino,” he says, almost under his breath, but his squad hears him just the same.

The floor of the exhibition hall seems to echo with his footsteps. Which is impossible. First of all, the sheer number of clones in the room alone would drown out any noise Fox could possibly make even if they weren't talking at loud volumes. Second of all, there was no way in hell that the Jedi didn't sound proof this room within an inch of its life given the number of lightsaber duels- duels between children at that!- this room must have been used for.

Maybe his footsteps are echoing through him, Fox muses. He takes another step and feels it in his chest.

Time and sound suddenly crash into Fox. Conversations burst into a roar, suddenly Fox can hear so many squadname jokes all at once. It no longer feels like he's stepping through taffy, and all he can do is stand there. Like an idiot. Just in front of Echo.

Force, all he has to do is lift his arm and he could touch this orphaned shell of a brother.

Well, maybe not a shell, he reconsiders as Echo straightens, jutting his chin out a bit and brown eyes flashing with a challenge. There's still quite a bit of fight left in his one, which is more than Fox can say for the Chimaera commanders back on the stairs.

“Echo,” Fox says, figuring that's as good a start as any.

“What do you want, commander?”

Fox falters. Opening and closing his mouth, he glances back at his squad who have ceased any and all conversations to stare at him trying and failing to talk to a CT.

“If you're here to apologize, don't. There's nothing you can say,” Echo continues, and Fox winces. If it was his squadmate shot and killed by another's hand, he doesn't think he would have said those words so mournfully acceptingly. No. Every trooper in this hall would likely have to hold him back from trying to beat the shit out of the one who killed his squadmate.

He flexes his hands, tries not to imagine how Aurra Singh's neck would feel wrapped in them as he squeezes the life out of her for what she did to Ponds.

“It's not something that can be forgiven, no matter how much I regret it,” Fox says. “But that isn't why I'm here, trooper... Echo.”

“Then why, sir?”

For a moment, Fox hesitates, unsure of whether his invitation, his touch would be welcome, but he decides to do it anyway. He reaches out and gently grabs Echo's remaining wrist and lightly tugs it in the direction of the stadium. “Come on. No Domino gets left behind.”

He waits for Echo to take the first step, watching his brother's eyes blink, widen, and then sharpen. Echo looks past Fox towards the Domino commanders, and whatever he sees there, convinces him.

Fox settles Echo down in the empty spot where Ponds should be, and the way Echo looks around with brighter eyes and a harsh swallow tells him everything about how Rex's little dominoes must have gathered too.

Setting that aside, Fox turns back to his brothers. “Now, where were we? Oh yes, so the Chancellor had ordered breakfast and for some reason, this involved fish. And you know how fish have these tiny little bones they don't always manage to get out when preparing them?”

Gree sighs loudly as he realizes where Fox is going with this latest story about Palpatine's death, and Salvo begins slapping Fox's knee like that's going to stop him. Behind him, Echo muffles a snort, and Fox grins.

Victory came late, but not too late. There are still brothers here who were saved after all.

#star wars #commander fox #arc trooper echo #commander stone #raven's pen #*shakes out scrivener and another years-old one-shot falls out* oops #anyway i made a phonetic alphabet for star wars and fox randomized into the commander domino squad and that was too perfect and tragic #also squadnames are like childhood nicknames and wolffe and thire are Very Tired about the jokes made about theirs lol

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dracocheesecake · 1 month

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The Chameleon and the Fox: Headcanon

Warning: Potential spoilers for KFP4

The Chameleon, after Zhen's first betrayal of the Den, was then very careful to start putting further emotional wedges between Zhen and her former "family", starting with insinuating that Han never really cared for her, and that every interaction she had ever had with him was purely transactional (totally not projecting).

It got to the point that many of Zhen's more pleasant memories of the Den were corrupted, leading to her having an unnecessary and false hatred of them- which in turn she accepted, as it became a justification that absolved her guilt for what she did; what she did wasn't betrayal, it was standing up for herself; they deserved it, for how they treated her; if they really had cared for her, they would have done better to look after her. It never occurred to her that maybe the Chameleon had her own reasons for having Zhen be the one to face the denizens of the Den to deliver her messages and threats, to be the one to make the demands for tribute, to turn in their hiding places- to be the one that stabs the knife in their backs, the knife the Chameleon ever so generously provided.

And when they hate her, when they in turn make their threats, who bears the brunt of it?- Zhen of course. See how they are so quick to turn on her?- Obviously because they never cared for her to begin with. The Chameleon would never do that to her, would never threaten her with violence, would never turn on her; the Chameleon was the only person who cared at all for Zhen, to teach her the only rules of the world that mattered, that would lead to her success and betterment:

1) Trust no one.

2) Someone always gets hurt.

3) No one cares for your feelings.

Except for the Chameleon, of course.

#kung fu panda #kung fu panda 4 #rewrite sorta #the Chameleon #zhen the fox #headcanons #actual gaslighting and emotional manipulation on the Chameleon’s part #BECAUSE THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO INTERESTING #she's horrible and we love her #sorry if this isn't very coherent pretty tired rn

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