Can You Imagine How The Clones' Speech Patterns Change Once They Are Out Of Kamino? Not Just The Slang

I think the funniest bit of ppl deciding Fox is their Blorbo of choice is that the prime counter argument is that he has a grand total of like 5 minutes of screentime.

Which. Sure.

But have you considered that out of that 5 minutes he spends like 3.5 minutes hitting Iconic Poses.

Like That guy on one knee with one pistol raised as he talks into his Com? Fox. The affronted manager being yelled at by Karanikin? Fox. The bitchy guy with his arms crossed talking to Ashoka? Fox.

And his promo image Pose???

Like. Sir.

Current mood

asleep

All clones deserve a thank you. Too many people take their efforts for granted (even they themselves think this way) 😞

In the last panel, Fox hesitated when he heard the thanks, but he was really touched…🥺 (The four-panel comic can't quite express that feeling.)

if disney came out with a mini series solely focusing on the Clones (this time around) it would be so popular... Imagine episodes of just Rex and Cody going on a mission or featuring how Cody got his scar or if the command batch is as close as fans wish they were. Wolffe's fight with Ventress. Fox leading a squad of new shiny guards around the Senate and showing exit ways to use in emergency situations. Gree and his first encounter with an alien animal species. Bly after his first successful mission on Felucia...

Imagine 40 minute long episodes of Clone Trooper Bliss. It would be so popular. Sigh.

Gotta be honest my favorite Commander Fox fanfic trope is “I love committing treason! Do you want to meet all the troopers whose deaths I’ve faked?”

A doodle I did with my friend (kind of) of my favorite part of the Changeling route

"And be nice and quiet while you're in here!"

"We're still enemies, Bachelor."

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(Short, truncated, but hopefully not reductive) Russian history lesson!!!

A perspective that needed to be beat into the dirt when I first started playing Pathologic was that the Bachelor was a city dandy and dandies inherently imply conservatism, which is a British Victorian ideal that has been described like this: "the upper classes were expected to affirm their masculinity through sexual distance, abstinence and self-control," a kind of "cerebral, self-denying asceticism" (Ashish Nandy, The Intimate Enemy; btw). The image of a well-dressed, well-spoken and educated man is found in a lot of core western texts - like Pride and Prejudice, where Darcy is in an ideologically conservative space because he's a part of a protective wealthy class.

But, you know, be careful that bias doesn't drip into your interpretation of Daniil Dankovsky, because his political and social positions are wildly different. The Victorian upper and upper-middle class were historically borne from an accumulation of luxuries brought in through global dominance and colonialism, which drove that subsection of people to the far right. Also, because of this wealth and national expansion, people were moving to cities (to London) in droves. England shifted from a rural to urban-based country. "By 1851 over half the population lived in settlements of 2,500 or more, peaking at around 80 per cent by the 1890s," according to an article by R J Davenport, just to give you some numbers.

Okay, but Russia? "87 percent of the population was rural when revolution broke out in 1905, and 85 percent still rural when it erupted again in 1917" (Dorothy Atkinson, Stats on the Russian Land Commune). Of the small percentage are the intelligentsia, educated people who went to college, which was at first dominated by nobles and then by the turn of the century was overrun by "commoners" (like Dankovsky, who in a monarchical society mostly made of peasants is still beneath high, noble classes)

From these commoners came liberal radicals, and from some of these liberal radicals came futurists. This is what Dankovsky is (Futurism/Utopianism. You see).

(Okay, Russian futurists are different from Italian futurists and there were many different types of Russian futurism, but everything came from Marinetti)

This revolution was running parallel to other cultural revolutions inside Russia, inside cities, and parallel to the Bolsheviks. But post-revolution, Lenin condemned the intelligentsia as the chaff between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, in assistance to the bourgeoisie. So they are all summarily stomped asunder.

But this is where the Bachelor is! This is where he's coming from. And I think all modern Russian media that concerns itself with futurism or the culture surrounding 1917 is written with the inexorable knowledge that all of this Utopianism will be usurped by the USSR. Dankovsky may be doomed by the narrative but the narrative itself is doomed by history.

This is not in-depth at all, I'm sorry, but I hope it's serviceable.