#*:･ﾟ✧ chat: echo

[shellshooked]

who’s the hero??? SHE’S THE HERO!!!

[echolocati0n-art]

"Do you like me today, Gem?"

SURPRISE! I was one of the artists in @pearlescentzine!

All of the work turned out amazingly and I'm so glad to have been apart of such a wonderful project! Shoutout to the team as well as I believe this was their first zine :)

fun fact: sunflowers represent loyalty and oleanders are toxic :)

(if you like shinyduo, Im also selling shinyduo charms here for only 3 more days!)

@pearlescentmoo @geminitayyt

[augentrust]

still not over caleb having spell mastery of fortune's favor. he's a wizard living and working in the heart of the empire, who's likely still very judicious with his use of dunamancy in front of others, and yet he chose that spell to cast without effort, a little piece of the dynasty that he still carries as one of the first spells essek ever taught him. you can't tell me this isn't the wizard equivalent of keeping a picture of your boyfriend in your wallet

[ardate]

Every Boromir hater makes my enormous love for him grow stronger. Sorry you couldn't understand him, I get him tho and we're holding hands and the whole of Gondor is laughing at you

[tangents-within-tangents]

hi

[kindaasrikal]

Nya and Ronin the uncle and niece duo you could’ve been.

Morro and Lloyd the cousin duo you could’ve been.

Pixal and Unagami the mentor-mentee/older sister-younger brother duo you could’ve become.

CRYPTOR and Pixal the sibling duo we could’ve had.

MR E AS ECHO AND ZANE THE BROTHERS YOU COULD’VE BEEEEEEEN

[teencopandthesourwolf]

Stiles: You wouldn't last 2 minutes in the asylum I was railed in.

[lizzy-not-found]

I’m almost done the next chapter I promise

[wtfforged]

my body is a MACHINE that turns HUNKY MEN into TRANSGENDER HUNKY MEN

[asleepinawell]

[mewguca]

OC AU doodle I had too much fun with... she's fine btw; a bit of possession never hurt anyone!

- the glyph font is taken from crystaluranium in the RW Official Discord, which references a tumblr post by ikayblythe

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since ur here I'll also explain it a bit more...

obviously SLS is echorator in this AU. Her close connection with the Void Sea due to this makes her a frequent target for channeling various entities, willingly or not

some sort of entity? force of nature? will? idk. it's called The Will Of The Void, I guess

and it wants to enforce that cycles remain perpetuated even as timelines are reset or branch out or etc. More specifically in this case it is trying to enforce that specific individuals who became echoes in another timeline shall become echoes once again in this one

and thus SLS can either help willingly or be puppeted against her will, yay! 👍

the idea sprang into my head last night in the shower lol

[augentrust]

the funniest thing the mighty nein reunion could do would be to reveal that caleb learned sending just in time for it to be completely useless

[phantom-of-the-501st]

More TBB Yapping

I rewatched 1x2 and 1x3 and so the only logical thing is to do is to go on a tangent about something that has nothing to do with the second episode and is only fractionally linked to the third episode :D [Look, there is no consistency or logic to my yapping okay. It's just whatever comes to my brain]

"I'm angry at myself. We don't leave our own behind."

Did this line send me down a rabbit hole? Yes. Yes it did. And honestly, the more I think about what happens later on in the show, the more depressing it gets. Hunter already feels a lot of guilt about leaving Crosshair behind because, at the end of the day, loyalty is incredibly important to the clones and it feels, to Hunter, like he's broken some form of oath. They never leave their brothers and yet they left one of their own on Kamino. Now, admittedly, it was the right thing to do in the moment: Crosshair was trying to kill them and it would not have been safe to try and take him with them. That doesn't mean that anything that happened was Cross' fault, but it simply wasn't a scenario where the Batch would have been able to take him too. And this likely makes things worse for Hunter. At this point in time, they believe that Cross is under the influence of the chip (with a little scepticism from Tech) and, therefore, they left a vulnerable brother behind because of something he was unable to control. Hunter would be beating himself up over this.

It gets even worse when we get to the S1 finale and Crosshair chooses to stay with the Empire with no influence of the chip. Cross has felt betrayed by what the squad did and while it was no-ones fault (and a shitty set of circumstances), Cross can't help but feel like his place is with the Empire and not with his brothers (there are other layers to this as well that I'll likely get to when I get to those episodes). Hunter is left in a position where, realistically, they can't take Crosshair with them. Disrespecting his choices is the last thing they should be doing, but that means leaving him behind again. Part of Hunter is going to wonder how things would have been different if they had never left Crosshair on Kamino in the first place. And on top of all that, it would get worse again when they find out what Cross went through at the hands of the Empire. Hunter feels like he has consistently abandoned his brother and that what has happened to him is his own fault. He left Cross on Kamino and Crosshair decided that staying with the Empire was better than coming back to his squad, so Hunter left him behind again and Cross was subsequently tortured. Hunter isn't just the squad's brother, he's their leader, and it has been his responsibility to look after them. He's going to feel fucking dreadful.

And I want to go on a separate tangent for a moment about Crosshair and his view on the loyalty of clones because it got me thinking about Echo's rescue in TCW S7.

"I would have left him for dead too. Besides, he's just another reg."

Crosshair is saying this because he's being a dick, but I think it's interesting to look at this line in the context of The Bad Batch. Cross chooses these words because he knows how much it will hurt Rex. He knows how strongly clones feel about loyalty, because he feels that same loyalty to his own batchmates. Clones never leave their own behind, and so he knows how painful it would be to be accused of willingly leaving a brother. He's not saying it because he means it, he's saying it because he wants to specifically strike Rex where it is going to hurt. So knowing how painful that would be, it would tear Crosshair apart to be left on Kamino by his brothers. He felt like they had abandoned them, and that was one of the most hurtful acts of betrayal they could have done (once again, they had no choice, but it doesn't make it any easier on Cross in the moment). "I would have left him for dead." And Crosshair felt like they had.

Side tangent over, I want to go back to Hunter because if the guilt of leaving Crosshair behind wasn't bad enough, they then lose Tech. While Tech sacrificed himself, they never went back to look for his body because they couldn't. While they didn't have a choice, Hunter has to carry on knowing that they, once again, left a brother behind. Knowing that his brother's body was at the bottom of a mountain somewhere, he likely felt the same as Fives and Rex did after The Citadel: his brother would never get a proper goodbye because they never went back for him. It gives him another layer of understanding as to why Rex fought so desperately to get Echo back. And the thing is, in some ways, never seeing the body is worse because that still leaves room for denial that maybe there is a chance that they are still alive. Especially, since the squad has Echo. I always wondered if Hunter looked and Echo and thought that maybe, maybe, there was a chance that Tech made it out, that if Echo could survive what he went through, then Tech could too. (I guess there is also another thing to explore about whether there may have been a subtle, underlying anger, not necessarily targeted at Echo specifically, but just about the fact that he was able to survive and Tech wasn't. Hmmm, I might have to think about that).

Hunter likely blames himself for a lot of what happened to his brothers, and resents himself for making the decision to leave them behind. But the thing is, in none of these scenarios is it ever his fault, and that arguably makes it worse. He couldn't take Crosshair off Kamino because it was a safety risk, he couldn't take him after the collapse of Tipoca City because going against Crosshair's choice would damage their relationship even further, and it was Tech that sacrificed himself on Eriadu. Hunter never had an option and yet feels like it was his fault that it all happened. His job as a brother and as a team leader was to protect his family, and he failed.

[Okay yap over. Love how this is technically a ramble for 1x2 and 1x3 but covers one line of dialogue from 1x3 and a bunch of waffle about any episode apart from those two. And of course it's angsty :D]

Tags for the peeps: @saturn-sends-hugs @inkstainedhandswithrings @the-bi-space-ace @eriexplosion

[homeforclones]

Omega asks each of the Batch if they would love her if she were a worm:

Hunter: ...yes? Echo: Omega, that's ridiculous Tech: Irrelevant. You are not capable of becoming a worm Wrecker: OF COURSE Crosshair: Are you not getting enough attention

[aceundercoverr]

I need to state this before going back to work for another 4 hours:

I LOVE Zanie!!!!

Look at her bickering with a kid lololol (ignore that Merlin is invisible)

She's just so fun :D

Love her!!

[king-lena]

david gilmour in ‘chit chat with oysters’ dir. adrian maben (1971)