#TBB Background

[talesfromcordonia]

Choices Background - Hotel Suite

As seen in the books - ACT, AME, BP, BSC, ES, FR, GG, GUA, HC, HSS:CA, KOD, LOA, MM, NB, OH, PM, PTR, RCD, ROE, SB, TBB, TDG, TE, TF, TGOU, TH:M, TNA, TPA, TRR, WB

(Tag 1)

[tangents-within-tangents]

Was curious about what else Tech had recorded

those boys really get around

[dindjarindiaries]

2 and 3 apples tall

[redbean-nom]

palpatine: help me budget this my empire is dying

[nika6q]

Tech and Phee

[bad-batch-lurker]

I was walking to the subway last night, when it occurred to me that there’s no way Tech doesn’t have an in-universe fan club.

After he wins that riot race, he immediately became a number of people’s favorite racer, and the fact that he disappeared absolutely fueled their fervor. People spend inordinate amounts of time breaking down his strategy. There are definitely message boards on the holonet speculating about his “real” identity and “where is he now?” Tech-stans fight with dudebro equivalents about whether or not his win was a fluke.

My evidence? I know how fandom works.

[snotbuggle]

Shower Day! Time to get clean

Station showers are not the most glorious things, but it’s better than stinking for weeks on end.

There were parts that I wanted to add to this initially, but the motivation to do them was gone by the end of it. Still, I’m pretty okay with how this turned out.

[electrikworm]

Using the @wrecker-week prompt "Pabu Beach Day" as an excuse to draw another pin up :)

[letshareapapou]

Heyaaa! I was wondering if I could request Crosshair for Mermay, but maybe with a silver eel/moray eel type tail? He feels like the type to be able to swim all ✨streamlined✨

It's a-morayyy~

[talesfromcordonia]

Choices Background - Recording Studio

As seen in the books ACT, AOU, TBB, PT

[cad-faoi-maeglin]

Sometimes I like to think about how Echo's integration into Clone Force 99 went, because while an Arc who served under General Skywalker should surely be able to keep up with the Bad Batch's antics, I can also see some major sticking points, the biggest one being death/mortality.

Clone Force 99 have been together since they were cadets. They trained together, ate, slept and bathed together. All their missions have been together. Their entire lives they've had each other and will assert that they need no one else. They hold themselves apart from the 'regs' and as a result, I'd imagine they tend to know very little of what it's actually like to be part of the general rank and file, to be part of a large batallion. They have a 100% success rate on missions (which do not involve them being used as cannon fodder, they are commandos after all) and while Wrecker's scarring and apparent memory issues imply that major injuries have happened to them, they are all alive. They have made it this far into the war as together as they have always been. They treat danger as an opportunity for fun and to show off. Any mission that isn't pushing them to the fullest would be a waste of their time and their continued success and survival is something they put down to skill, not luck.

Echo, on the other hand, knows what it's like to be one of the few survivors of what should have been one of the most boring and uneventful postings in the GAR. He knows what it's like to have one mission wipe out almost all his squad. He knows what it's like to be the last one standing. He knows that there's more than a little luck involved in survival. There is never a garantee that everyone will make it back from a mission, even Clone Force 99 are aware of that, but they have never experienced it, not the way Echo has, and when you've never experienced something yourself it becomes very tempting to think of it as something that happens to other people.

What would it have been like to bring all this grief into a group who almost treat their missions like a game? What would it be like to be so keenly aware that any of them at any moment could be killed while everyone else is on an exciting romp through the galaxy? Did it grate? Did he say anything? Did they find him a little over protective or over cautious? Was he? It would be interesting to see an exploration of someone who has known so much death would fit in with the group who seem to think they are somewhat untouchable.

[dennysaurr-r]

bad my batch (and fives)

[soapsbadart]

Omega and Lyana studying at the batches house, echo doing his best to help them with their math homework.

Unfortunately for Echo, math has been changed since he learned it on Kamino.

And of course Crosshair damaged his new prosthetic so Tech is preoccupied with fixing it.

Wrecker has taken up cooking since their retirement, and since he can’t help study, he might as well provide the snacks

Hunter is just taking in the scene of his family, safe and at peace. To him, there’s no better view than the one in his kitchen

[collophora]

My biggest regret is that we never got a shoot where their helmets take damage, they just fly away conveniently v_v

[accidental-spice]

Emotional support background characters my beloved

Happy Star Wars Day, and may the Force be with you!!

[tangents-within-tangents]

Easter Egg Clones

Info/quotes from the trivia galleries of the episode guides on Star Wars.com and etc

Cody

"This character—complete with rocket backpack—was named after Commando Cody, an homage by Star Wars creator George Lucas to the serials of his youth." (wiki, from the dvd commentary)

(further proof we should have seen him use his jetpack!)

Goji and Rod

Self-explanatory lol, discussed in the episode featurette

(cool reference, Dave, why didn't you actually show Rod's helmet?)

Appo

"The arrow shape on [Appo's] helmet is a nod to the character Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender, a show series supervising director Dave Filoni previously worked on"

(hilarious that they didn't mention that Dee Bradley Baker voiced both of them)

Gregor

"Clone Commando Gregor's helmet markings are based on the hash-marks that Boston Bruins goalie Gerry Cheevers stenciled on his mask to denote the stitches he would have gotten had he not been wearing protective gear."

Doom

"Clone Commander Doom's colors closely resemble that of classic Marvel Comics villain Doctor Doom"

Thorn

"With his wing-adorned helmet and a rotating blaster called the 'Hammer,' Clone Commander Thorn is a nod toward the classic Marvel Comics superhero, Thor"

Let me know if I missed any