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I know this nose art is for the Bad Batch, but I can’t help but imagine another Clone Unit with a stronger claim on the Senator as a mascot. (And how much Anakin would FLIP THE FUCK OUT)

— Morale Booster

“REX!”

… And it looks like the paneling repair will have to wait, as his General’s boots appear next to his head beside the transport’s landing gear. He pushes himself out from under the machine on a dolly, flat on his back.

“Sir?”

“What is THAT?!” his fearless leader yelps, pointing dramatically, emphatically upwards and towards the nose.

He scoots out farther, past General Skywalker’s legs, and props himself up on his elbows to take in the three-quarters-finished pinup Hardcase has been taking such pains with for the last four hours.

“Morale booster, sir. Couldn’t do something clever like the 104th and their Plo’s Bros or anything, so–”

“So you chose SENATOR AMIDALA?!” Did his voice just crack? It did.

He shrugs. “Sure. She’s been through enough hell and high water with us.”

“She’s a SENATOR!”

“And she’s a keen eye with that blaster,” he reasons, jerking his head up to the painting, and the flawlessly detailed replica of the Senator’s favored sidearm, primed to fire and held at a jaunty, confident angle. He even got the chipped paint over the trigger guard right.

“Got the looks for it too!” Hardcase yells down from where he’s shading in a long bare stretch of thigh, pausing to vigorously shake his can of spray paint. “We might finally be able to give the 327th a run for their money, with General Secura and all.”

“GENERAL SECURA is half naked on the nose of a transport?!”

“What? No!” Of course not, that’s just tasteless.

There’s a clatter from up above as Hardcase puts his paints down and leans over the scaffolding, a hand wobbling skeptically. “Well… Technically…”

“She’s in her usual outfit, y’know, with the–” Rex explains, and zig-zags a finger down from his head, mimicking the General’s lekku straps. “–and the leather pants.”

“It’s just a little leg, Anakin, I don’t see what you’re so upset about.”

Oh thank all the stars and little planets. Backup. General Kenobi steps up beside his former Padawan to admire the paint job himself. “Excellent work on her hair, Hardcase,” Kenobi continues, tilting his head.

“Thank you, sir. Run a probe with some white and a little metallic gold through the wet paint, gets it to streak so the shine looks real.”

General Skywalker is starting to do that thing where he puffs up like an angry coppi lizard and splutters furiously while he tries to think of something else to be upset about. He can hear Fives rolling his eyes from the opposite side of the transport. General. Honestly. If you’re trying to keep a relationship secret, openly displaying your klik-wide jealous streak is not how you do it.

“The 212’s is worse, anyway,” Kenobi muses idly, as Hardcase carefully adds the supposedly “very distinctive” freckle high on the Senator’s hip, just below the split in her modified favorite Council dress. Skywalker starts to go wide-eyed at that, because his sabacc face out of genuine combat is complete sleenshit, and startles when his master continues.

“She’s on the 212th transport too?!”

“Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. We can’t have duplicates, that defeats the purpose,” Kenobi says, in that too-reasonable tone he takes on when he’s deliberately fucking with his former Padawan.

“'Cept Master Ti,” Echo yells, from somewhere inside the paneling he and Rex had been working on.

“Except Master Ti, yes,” Kenobi agrees, and shrugs. “But that’s to be expected. Rather like how so many people have that arm tattoo of a heart with the ribbon that says ‘Mom’.”

Rex personally knew of at least eight other clones that had that exact tattoo, though the ribbon was usually striped like Master Ti’s headtails, and nods agreeably. That seems to have sufficiently diverted Skywalker, or at least confused him.

“Then how is it worse?” Skywalker asks, a little desperately, then his face lights up completely with slightly malicious anticipation. “Is it the Duchess?!”

Oh boy. Rex looks up at Hardcase, who is biting down on his paint-splattered fist to keep from laughing, as General Kenobi gets that look.

“Certainly not,” Kenobi says sternly, and waits a full beat to drop his bombshell. “It’s me.”

Skywalker just stares.

“Though I’m reasonably certain Duchess Kryze had something to do with it, given the way I’m half falling out of my robes.”

Now he looks vaguely green.

“Or it’s some perverse joke of Master Windu’s. It seems his style. Cody refuses to tell me.”

And before Skywalker can come up with anything else to protest, Kenobi adds:

“Besides, Senator Amidala loves it. Hers, I mean. I haven’t asked her about mine.”

Apparently even Jedi can choke on air when sufficiently surprised. But really, where did he think they’d gotten the preliminary sketches from?

Behold, the Domino Twins

Absolute finest troopers!

SPOILERS AHEAD

“This isn’ t forever.”

Curious how speaking up for what’s right has become an act that causes a stir … unlike inaction, apathy, or ignorance.

Riyo Chuchi in “The Clone Conspiracy” | “Truth and Consequences”

GIVE ME A SPIN OFF SHOW ABOUT ECHO AND REX RIGHT GODDAMN NOW

!! tbb s2e8 spoiler alert !!

ECHO IS CONTINUING WHAT FIVES COULDN'T FINISH.

SOMEBODY SEDATE ME.

I CAN'T STOP CRYING.

I don't know which is worse, echo having an unknown fate with rex or the bad batch losing a solid 40 percent of their impulse control.

Behind every fanfic update, there is a writer being turned into THIS as they await your reactions

after the rise of the empire:

ahsoka: *despressed on some outer rim planet, trying to hide who she is, dealing with grief and guilt

cody: *slowly realizing what hes done, and what empire is doing, struggling to find himself in the middle of all the mind control and propaganda

rex: *feelimg like hes standing alone against the empire, trying to fight it while mourning all of his falles brothers, missing ahsoka and anakin

obiwan: *dead inside, living in a cave on a desert, no will to live, crying over a bowl of worm based stew

meanwhile the fucking bad batch: oh wee lets adopt this kid and have adventures in space lez gooooooo

I know approximately three and a half things about Star Wars, but many of my friends know Lots about Star Wars, so I ran this by them and they said it was Chill, mostly @atagotiak. And the thought is this:

Modern AU where Ahsoka just points at Obi-Wan and goes “that’s my dad” and he goes along with it for ??? Reasons IDK she got in trouble with a mall cop and he’s like “Well fuck it she needs me to pretend to be her Legal Guardian” because he’s just barely old enough to pull it off… but… he kind of… doesn’t stop? The joke doesn’t stop.

He already knows her, because I’m imagining that Ahsoka is like… IDK some kid that Anakin is tutoring through a Big Brothers Big Sisters type thing.

(Obi-Wan’s still waiting for approval to be a foster dad but Ahsoka can recognize his dad qualities from a mile away.)

And she just knew Obi-Wan as Anakin’s older professor friend.

I imagine Ahsoka probably got in trouble for something relatively silly, like walking on the ledge around an indoor fountain as if it were a balance beam. She didn’t do anything Bad, just Technically Rule Breaking. Possibly the security guard was ignoring her as a ‘kids will be kids’ thing until she fell in and got soaked.

Later she keeps the joke up. Ahsoka, to Obi-Wan, on sight: Hi dad!!! Anakin, looking between them: Okay, what happened while I wasn’t watching and am I supposed to put a stop to it.

“Obi-Wan, did you adopt my little sister?” “Er… no, I don’t–I don’t think I signed any paperwork.” “In spirit.” “Ah. Yes, in that case, it’s a fair interpretation of events.”

“Well it’s really more like she adopted me, after all she’s the one who just declared that I’m her dad now.”

You know. From a certain point of view.

“Obi-Wan, you can’t just adopt Ahsoka without telling your husband.” “Ah, no, she asked him before I realized it was more than the shame to get her out of trouble.”

Alternatively somehow, some way, Anakin ends up her legal guardian. Anakin’s her dad now. Yes he’s 20 and she’s 14, what of it?

Obi-Wan can pull off “Yes I am their father” because the beard makes him look older. Technically, he’s like… idk thirty-five? Old enough to be feasibly a dad, if not necessarily Ahsoka’s dad. I’ve been told that people usually assume Human!Ahsoka would be black, but this entire AU is about adoption so [shrug emoji] that works!

And also like. Obi-Wan has Big Gay Vibes. Mall security will absolutely just assume.

(He’s bi? I think? I’ve been told he just flirts with almost everyone they meet? But his vibes are that of a millennial gay dad who goes shopping for organic food in Flushing despite owning a condo in Bed-Stuy. Not quite a hipster, but close.)

(Would he do this? I don’t know. But the vibes are there.)

(Mostly it’s the beard.)

If Ahsoka alternates between calling him Dad and calling him by his name, it also helps sell the “adopted slightly older” thing she was going for… which eventually becomes reality.

EDIT NOW THAT I KNOW MORE ABOUT SHIPPING NORMS AND WHATNOT:

The husband is Cody.

ahsoka: i’ve decided i’m planning a wedding.

rex: whose?

ahsoka: obi-wan and cody's.

anakin: they’re engaged?!

ahsoka: they will be.

Rex: You do realise there's a rumour going around the GAR that you're in love with General Kenobi?

Cody: A rumour? Are you telling me people are doubting it?

You can just tell Cody spent too long with Obi-Wan not to try and work out the situation peacefully and it hurts

Cody: *physicallf carrying Obi-Wan out of the war room* Come on, General, it’s go-the-fuck-to-sleep time.

Obi-Wan: Ahh. Go-the-fuck-to-sleep time. I know it well. It’s the most sacred three times of the week.

Cody: *stops dead in a corridor* …please tell me that was a joke?

Obi-Wan: I would never joke about go-the-fuck-to-sleep time. It was Master’s favorite time the first few years we were together.

Cody: *closes eyes and counts to five* We’re going to talk about all that later. *keeps heading off to Obi-Wan’s quarters, with more purpose this time*

something i realized thats been driving me insane about this scene is the lighting.

look at him. he’s casted in orange light. his armor color from the war. the Mandalorian armor color for freedom.

as he sits there and disobeys the Empire, as he sits there and negotiates (after Rampart says word for word “we do not negotiate.”) and he’s painted in orange light.

as he sits there and proves that he’s still the person he was during the war- one of the best people, good to the bone- he is shining in his color. the Empire tried to take who he was from him with the chip, and they took his orange from him and painted it over with grey, but here he is proving he’s just as good and kind as he’s always been and here he is still covered in orange.

light and color symbolism you will be the DEATH of me

Personally if I’m going to imagine Cody in the Kenobi show verse he has to come into it after the events of the show. I have a hard time believing Obi Wan would have been in such a dramatically bad depression and sleeping on the floor of an empty cave if Cody was his husband the whole time

I was thinking about how the real beauty of Codywan is that they are only really allowed to exist in the quiet parts of the war and then I remembered the quote from Everything, Everywhere, All At Once which I think describes them perfectly.

“I wanted to say… in another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”

Except replace laundry and taxes with paperwork. I think this is Cody’s perspective in particular. This idea of this being the most boring part of his day but it’s a privilege for him because he gets to do it with Obi Wan but also because it’s so completely ordinary. He doesn’t see Obi Wan as this all-powerful Jedi, he just sees him, and that is who he loves. It’s not that his abilities as a Jedi aren’t impressive, but Cody loves the person behind all of it and he would’ve loved him without any of it too. Even though he never took these moments for granted during the war, after Order 66, he still feels like he has. He’d do anything to get that back but it’s his fault that he can’t (or so he believes).

For such a dark episode, the colours of the animation are beautiful.

I think this is the moment Cody decided he was done. He sees the clone troopers leaving, numbers dropping. The Empire arriving with TK troopers to take over. While being led by a guy who just executed someone who surrendered for peace.

I don’t know what’s happening with his inhibitor chip, but it sure looked like he had his own mind made up at this point.

Cody, in one corner, throwing hands and going absolutely feral on a commando droid, releasing some pent up emotion via clanker violence

Crosshair, in the other corner, giving Cody the “can you just STOP FOR A SEC AND HELP ME” eyes

barely but we did it

Dear Filoni,

If we, as a community, are not aware of Cody and his wellbeing by Wednesday, we will raid your house and beat you with sticks. This is not a threat, but a promise.

Sincerely, me and many others

“Being dead in the Empire’s eyes has its advantages” yeah unLESS YOUR BFF’S CHIP IS WEARING OFF AND HE’S DEFECTED TOO AND HE WON’T COME LOOKING FOR YOU BECAUSE HE THINKS YOU’RE DEAD 😭😭

anyways hopefully ~that~ doesn’t last long because Cody will track down TBB and learn that Rex is alive within……..like……a week? yeah?? surely it won’t take a whole season aahahhahahahahahahahahaha

i have no time. i am a stressed junior in college who also works and wants to have some free time so my mental health doesn’t explode. i have fifteen textbook chapters to read a week and stats homework on top of that. i have no time.

oops, what’s is this? an entire AU based off of Cody leaving the Empire and starting a clone rebellion? oh well, guess i have to write this now. it’s fine, Cody commands my entire brain at this point

There's a Big Mission in the morning. Anakin has a nightmare and can't sleep

Obi wan, fretting: some valerian tea, i think *goes off*

Cody: hey Anakin*sits by his side. Puts arm around him* Go to sleep or i'll put You to sleep.

Anakin: ...

Cody:...

Obi wan, when he comes back and finds Anakin asleep: My dear, You have such a way with him.

Cody, sharpening a knife: it's a gift

I HAVE ONLY ONE THOUGHT AFTER THAT EPISODE

(credit to @techsluvr for the meme lol)

Only thing I'll accept is Cody is never seen again in Bad Batch and he reappears with his own live action show since we're doing all the character study mini series.

I will also accept Cody-centric Obi-wan Kenobi show season 2.

Current working theory on why Rex hesitated and Cody didn’t during O66 is that Ashoka’s status of technically-not-a-Jedi allowed Rex a moment of, like, cognitive dissonance whereas Obi-Wan is one of the Jedi-est Jedi to ever Jedi

The Obi Wan show has created a natural set-up for Cody to come back into his life. Obi Wan successfully stayed totally under the radar on Tatooine, even if Cody was looking for him, why would he find him? Until, of course, a big fat bounty is suddenly dropped on his head and he’s spotted in multiple places and gets into a public fight with Vader and the trail is suddenly hot.

And Cody would know that means the hunt was on for people out to kill him, so even aside from wanting to find him for himself, he might just want to try and run a bit of interference on that.

(………..This also could apply to Ahsoka but idk if that could work with rebels continuity)

Obi wan, about to do something stupid and looking for Dramatic Feelings moment: You love me, right?

Cody, suspicious: normally i'd Say yes, but i feel like this is going somewhere i won't like

Bad Batch episode three Cody rant-

yes, Cody DID learn a lot from Obi-Wan, such as how to negotiate properly, but i think it’s also important to recognize that that’s just who Cody is and who he always has been.

Cody has ALWAYS been undeniably kind and has ALWAYS had a good sense of right and wrong. this is why he’s universally loved by every single clone we see- the Batch who hated regs loved him from the start, including Crosshair. every battalion we saw him interact with has always had a DEEP respect for him because he is, fundamentally, a GOOD person. he’s one of the best people we see in all of Star Wars.

that’s not something he learned from Obi-Wan. thats just who he is. and i think that’s something Obi-Wan really loved about him.

Cody is to the bone a kind and caring person. he is extremely loyal to those he loves and there is nothing that matters more to him than those he considers his family- that’s why he was calling his troops by their name, even when no one else was. that’s why he was genuinely distraught when Nova died, and had to be bodily pulled away from him even thought his own life was at risk. that’s why he was kind to Crosshair even though no one else was willing to even sit with him.

Cody is his own person, just as Obi-Wan is his own person, and while they absolutely have a lot of similar traits, those aren’t things they gained from each other.

Cody didn’t suddenly start being kind because Obi-Wan taught him that- we know he’s been like that since he was taking Rex under his wing on Kamino, and did the same with every other troop he encountered. he’s just an intrinsically caring and deeply kind brother. he didn’t decide to start vying for peace because he thinks Obi-Wan is dead. Cody’s ALWAYS been a fair person tries to hear everyone out. that is just who he inherently is, just as that’s who Obi-Wan inherently is, and that is the reason they love each other so much.

i think the reason this episode was so good at showing just how good of a person Cody is comes from the fact that he is alone. he is entirely in command. there is no Obi-Wan there, there’s no one he has to listen to, he is the sole commander here. and yet, even at the pressure of his superior officer, he doesn’t loose his morals at all, and consistently shows how kind and sweet he is. he isn’t doing that because of Obi-Wan, he’s doing that because it’s who he is, even with the inhibitor chip.

of COURSE he would question the Empire and leave as soon as the chip started wearing off, and of COURSE he’d carry the guilt of Order 66 squarely on his shoulders. he is a great example of someone who knows right from wrong and people who ever questioned him don’t understand his character at ALL.