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Drawing for @lexavalon052 of their OC Arya! I’ve only known Arya for a day and a half but I’d die for her

That Familiar, Yet Unfamiliar Feeling - Part 8

Summary: Lost and adrift after the events of Order 66, Ahsoka and Rex struggle to find their place in this new reality. Both need to deal with the loss in their own way; as they help each other in this shared struggle, their relationship blossoms into something neither expected. As the threat of the Empire grows, can such a tentative, new connection be sustained? Or will they be torn apart by their duty to fight?

Fandom: The Clone Wars

Pairing: Rexsoka

Rating: M

Chapter Word Count: ~5,400

Another chapter, up a little early this time! Please enjoy <3

They’re, like, 6 in this one or something, so they’re all ROUND BOIS. I headcanon that Wrecker decorates Lula more on his own in the future

Favourite gifs of my favourite clone troopers 💗💕

Jesse smirking 😼😏

Rex smiling at Echo 😭🥹

Cody's slight smile while introducing clone force 99 ( This man!! 🥵😍 He is so hot for WHAT!?)

Howzer telling Rex to interrogate Crosshair 🏃‍♀️🧍Rex please swap with me 🤭

Wolffe being adorable 🥹✋ Look at his pouty face 🥲

Fives genuinely tweaking because he can't lie to save his life 😂😭💀

Gregor 🤭 I love this scene overall because of his adorable voice but he also looks so good 🫣

And lastly Bly being adorable in the background when general Aayla is talking 😭🥲 Just look at him--

(banging on table) PLO'S BROS PLO'S BROS PLO'S BROS

insomnia's a bitch bc i finished this at like 11 pm and it is now (about) 7 am and im vibrating as im typing this out. anyways last capcut edit (hopefully!!) and last edit before mini hiatus (less fun)

sidebar; huge fkn shoutout to whoever made this playlist. its now canon that this is what plo would have the wolfpack play over their comms on missions

(x) click me!! choose me!!

(shakes you violently by the shoulders) CLONE SUPREMACY

besito besito para clawzfilms on tiktok for the original <3

sorry in advance to anyone expecting art or fanfic outta me capcut's got my ass in a hyperfixated chokehold

HE WAS IN THE WHAT?

CW flashing/strobing lights

did anyone tell anakin about the inhibitor chips or were his last memories of the 501st handing them off to ahsoka and then them proceeding to try and kill her

do u think he blamed himself.

do u think he did the same "well she left the order a while ago" that rex pulled.

do u think he kept ahsoka's lightsaber along with the padawan strand in a drawer on the death star.

do u think luke ever reminded him of her.

did anakin ever get to grieve ahsoka.

immediately read this post like anakin and ahsoka arguing about 3PO and because anakin would definitely refer to obi-wan as mom, much to his chagrin

shoutout to my brother for setting me up for this

I was watching that arc where yoda takes his spiritual journey and he see’s that vision where there’s no war. If obi-wan has to go through something similar— see a vision of anakin (no battle injuries, happy and at peace) and ahsoka (who didn’t grow up on the battlefield and didn’t leave the order)— my heart might just break.

a quick art of Padme Amidala (Preview. Full art is available on my Patreon) Sorry to be so inactive this week, but I haven't had much time to bring new content What other characters should I draw? I was thinking about Ellie from TLOU ;)

crosshair and anakin would be smoking buddies :) modern au!

my babies

*happy beeps*

[got to thinking about artoo helping anakin record those videos for ahsoka 🥹]

I would personally disagree with the sentiment that TCW is the worst interpretation of Anakin.

I understand the point. But, I feel like clone wars can act as a way of looking at Anakin from an outside perspective. The rest of these characters don’t see Anakin suffering until it’s too late we aren’t seeing what a mess he is how fragile he is how his fear is consuming him.

he’s putting up walls.

Ahsokas just happy to see him again, Obi-wan is growing tired and wearing thin these are things we see the most in that final season.

Season seven almost acts as how Ahsoka saw Anakin. Strong, Quippy, Always looking out for the little guy.

To her the Anakin she left was just as whole and alive when she returned.

we know that’s untrue but that’s what she sees.

I understand that the show itself probably wasn’t reading in to deep and was using nostalgia off of the previous seasons to drive season seven.

but. I choose to look at it in a sadder way a way that allows for that version character to exist.

The clone wars is about Ahsoka and Rex at the end of the day. And to them, Anakin never changed.

To be fair considering there were presumably a couple hundred Jedi running around killing most of them is great. Plus the rest of them being forced into hiding and incredibly disorganized is also really good.

And finally a good number of escapees are either elders who are gonna die soon anyways or padawans who have little training and are unskilled

Anyway Order 66 wasn’t that effective huh

We’re lead to believe in the original trilogy that Obi-Wan and Yoda were like, the only two to make it out. But then you watch the shows, read books and comics, play Fallen Order, and you’re like. Now hang on just a minute. Because Ahsoka Tano and Kanan Jarrus make it, Cal Kestis and Cere Junda make it, Grogu survived as a BABY, all of the inquisitors technically, now Gungi, and according to wookieepedia my beloved

Master Kirak Infil'a

Master Coleman Kcaj

Master Obi-Wan Kenobi

Master Taron Malicos

Master Jocasta Nu

Master Oppo Rancisis

Master Luminara Unduli

Master Uvell

Master Quinlan Vos (presumed)

Master Yoda

Knight/Jedi Temple Guard the Grand Inquisitor

Knight Cere Junda

Padawan Ferren Barr

Padawan Caleb Dume

Padawan Gungi

Padawan Cal Kestis

Padawan Trilla Suduri

Unidentified Rodian Jedi youngling

Former Master Eeth Koth

Former Padawan Naq Med

Former Padawan Ahsoka Tano

Zubain Ankonori

Selrahc Eluos

Fifth Brother

Grogu

Khandra

Ka-Moon Kholi

Mususiel

Masana Tide

Nari

Nuhj

Seventh Sister

Kira Vantala (According to legend)

So that’s 33 confirmed individuals and god only knows how many else ???????

All I’m saying is Order 66 was not that effective

I’m just saying this could’ve worked great in The Clone Wars since it did have that balance of kid show and showing pain of civilians in war.

Like I’m thinking specifically something like the Ryleth or Ondelon with War in Teo fronts where we see the civilians and can understand where they’re coming from while also having it be fucked up to stab this would be redemption in the back

Basically, we need a new clone wars aka a kids show that actually is able to get away with exploring things like this

There are, like, a lot of very good reasons this couldn’t be done in an animated children’s show, but a plot beat I’ve always wanted to see in an animated show is that you’ve got, like, the typical animated show set-up, plucky and idealistic rebels against a massive and nebulous evil allegorical empire, you’ve got all the archetypical characters who show up in shows like that, you’ve got obvious implications atrocities are being committed by the bad guys but you never hone in on it beyond the general signifiers like burning buildings in the background. (yes I am thinking about She-Ra here.)

You’ve got your peridot type or your Scorpia type or potentially your zuko-type. The clearly-antagonistic-but-obviously-engineered-to-be-likeable-enough-to-get-a-redemption-arc type of character. You have them slowly go through the motions of realizing the empire is bad,  or realizing the power of friendship, or having a moment of connection with the protagonists and realizing that they aren’t Thriving ™ under the oppressive system.

 So they do what these sorts of characters usually do and defect to the protagonists side, and the protagonists chalk up another win for team principle and compassion, and they accept the defector with open, if cautious, arms…

And then a supporting character pulls out a gun and shoots the would-be redemptee in the head, because their entire family was in one of the buildings that the redemptee set on fire in the background during a previous one-off episode. 

And, to be clear, this wouldn’t just be a mean gag or a one-off commentary on audience sympathies or out-of-universe discourse on redemption arcs. Episodes going forward would deal with the fallout of such a nakedly ruthless act of retaliation.

 It’s now next to impossible to deal with would-be defectors in good faith anymore because it’s been proven the heroes can’t stop acts of vengeance in their own homes, its not clear who among the heroes is even extending the olive branch in good faith to begin with or if it was always a trap. If things ever turn in the heroes favor, Bad guys are now escalating the stakes and fighting to the last man, because they know they aren’t gonna be forgiven if the nicest person in their ranks couldn’t be forgiven. There’s internal political tension about what to do with the assassin (nothing, they need the manpower) and how to go about disavowing the action when half the group doesn’t even want to disavow it- the redemptee might have been nice, but they also burned buildings full of innocent people, a lot of people are just glad they weren’t the ones who had to pull the trigger. Friendships end over this.

A lot of narratives about forgiveness in these kinds of shows are more about how it’s interpersonally healthy and beneficial to forgive and let people grow. I want to see a narrative about how that’s also, like, politically the only path forward if you don’t want to lock your society into an Orestian blood bath, which I have always found to be a much more compelling argument against revenge in general, just as, like, a rule utilitarianism thing. I want a bittersweet ending that’s essentially tracible back to that cathartic, unretractable decision to kill that one likable flunky.

Of course, it would be very difficult to set this up without telegraphing that this is the kind of show that does That Kind Of Thing, and the actual killing can’t really happen until season two at the earliest, so I’m having a hard time figuring out a way to execute this where it would maintain its punch.