#bad batch questions

[wenalena]

Happy summer, dearest ✨

[kapuchino357]

shut the hell up, i know why Hunter got his tattoo

"oh he's so dedicated to his edgy skull motif he put it on his helmet, that's so fun-- oh. oh fuck." ~ me

[here-comes-the-moose]

Okay so we all know the Bad Batch is unhinged, right? And they have a bunch of crazy plans, right?

How probable is it that they had a classic “flirt as a diversion method” plan?

[teadrawstuff]

YES. I am on the bandwagon that Tech is CX-2

[cloned-eyes]

Big info drop under the cut

Ghoul

CC-1313 I Formerly Commander Jenot of Battalion 331st (destroyed)

Currently leading Special Cloneforce Hellhounds

Backstory

Upbringing

CC-1313 was raised and trained to eventually become a Clone Comander for the GAR. The majority of his childhood years were spend with his batch brothers and fellow soon to be Commanders Fox and Wolffe to which he remained a close bond of brotherhood even after the tragedy of Toydaria and his fall into absolute disloyalty of the GAR and the Republic. During this time he still used the name Jenot.

Tragedy of Toydaria

Jenot and the 331st served under Pong Krell for the first few months of the war. Even though the 331st was a very skilled and sturdy battillion it suffered great loses under the reckless and uncaring lead of the Jedi General. Shrinking it down to half it's size in the span of only three months.

While still unshaken in his loyality to the GAR and the Republic Jenot couldn't help to develop doubts and distrust in his supiriours. Struggeling a lot to keep his ranks together and his men motivated.

Eventually the separatist launched a grand attack on Toydaria and even though Pong Krell was well aware that he hadn't the capacity to stand against it he still gave the order to engage - although not leading his men himself but calling in the Jedi Knight Uros Io who at this point just recently rejoined the Jedi Order and lacked any practical expirience on the battlefield. Even though General Io was an extremly skilled Jedi, she was of no use as a General in a dire situation like this. And even though she realised her short comings and let Jenot take charge it was apparent that with lacking men and gear this battle was one that couldn't be won.

They managed to hold the line for three weeks before the overpowering seperatist forces started to push them back. Jenot watched his men die like flies and was aware that it would be a shared fate. Being pushed back to the capital the last remaining men of the 331st were killed by an airstrike. A fate Jenot almost shared but escaped due to General Io keeping him alive long enough for the arriving reinforcements to evacuate them.

Recovery on Kamino

For his recovery Ghoul and a handful severly damaged other clones of his battilion were shipped to Kamino while General Io - who suffered from great injuries herself - was treated back at the Jedi Temple. Due to a missunderstanding only Jenot was actually treated on Kamino. His recovery the only one prioritised while the rest of his men were utilised as test subjects for kaminoan expiriments - all of them lethal.

Unable to move or talk or respond in any way Jenot had to wittness the rest of his loyal battilion perish and listening to the staff in charge festered an untamable rage and hatred for the GAR, the Jedi and the Republic. His trust and loyalty shattering for ever, turning him into the man he soon would become. Even though his life was spared due to General Io, he began to nurse a life long hatred of her. Blaming her orders for the inhumane deaths of his men.

During his time in recovery Jenot developed a habit of sneaking out of the medical wing in which he was treated. Seeking silent corners for himself where he could watch the see outside rage. It was in one of those fateful nights he found himself in the company of three clone cadets who had caught rumor about "dead clone walking" - a ghoul risen from the battlefield.

Jenot, unable to overcome his anger and pain- decided to show those unsuspecting kids the reality of war and the reality of what it meant to be a clone: being property and being exploited.

Little did he know that those three exact cadets would become his new squad only two years later.

Embracing the crude name whisperd behind his back, he decided to let Jenot die and embraced the man he had been beaten into - Ghoul.

A Dead Clone Walking

Even with the loss of his arm, fingers, hearing and lower face Ghoul recoverd exeptionally swift. Making no secret out of his newfound hatred for the GAR supiriors in charge intended to get him decommissioned. Plans that fell short due to General Io convincing the Jedi Order to extent protection over the clone commander.

And while Ghoul proved himself to be difficult to work with he was also exceptionally skilled. The decision was made that he would operate solo, taking on special tasks that where considered suicide missions. Whether he failed or not was relativley not important. If he succeeded the Republic had intel, if not they had one pesky clone less to worry about. While getting accostumed to his new prosthetics and regaining back his former strength Ghoul was shortly tasked with overseeing the training of Cloneforce 99. His battlefield expirience deemed highly valuable and wanted to be taught to the expirimental unit to better their chances of success later.

After Kamino

Ghoul spend his time with achiving the impossible. Retrieving whatever was asked off him. He was well aware that the missions picked out for him were exclusively lethal ones. Yet he returned every single time to spite the GAR. To make a point. He was avidence of what the war was actually. The ugly shadow of the Republic. And he wasn't to be silenced. During this time his mind spiraled deeper and deeper into rage. His opinions became borderline traiterous and he walked a very fine line of getting caught for them. It was also the time he dettached himself from the idea of clone brotherhood. Getting rejected in the truth he had lived by fellow soldiers and shuned out, being nothing but a ghost story for them Ghoul grew resentful. Usual loyalty and empathy clones reserved for eachothers died out in Ghoul. Isolating himself even further from others, going as far as questioning if the men he called his actual brothers saw him still as an equal - Saw Ghoul as an equal - or if they only tolerated him because of what they once had.

Becoming Human again

Being pressured by Wolffe to join him for a drink at the 79's Ghoul met Odessa, a Twilek bartender and refugee from Ryloth. Having no interest in making "friends" Ghoul didn't spare Odessa much mind, just as everybody else. But fate brought both of them back together over and over again, causing a presumed dead side of Ghoul to seek out connection again. Slowly falling in love with the gentle, bubbly Twilek back on Coruscant. Giving him an actual reason to come back. A newfound motivation to keep fighting. Not for the GAR, not for the Republic but for her. Falling helplessly in love with her.

Asking her for her hand only a year after only to almost die on a mission and going mission for months afterwards. Leaving a pregnat Odessa behind, unbeknown to him. Though luckily being offered the chance to return due to the unyielding loyalty of his new unit. His Hellhounds - Wizard, 2020 and Fang - who had accompinied him during the mission and kept searching for him after being seperated and eventually succeeding in tracking him down and bringing him back. Greatly injured but alive.

Order 66 and the aftermath

During Order 66 Ghoul was still recovering from his injuries. Allowing himself to spend some time with his wife and newborn child. It didn't take him long that with the fall of the Republic the time of clones was also limted. While during the Republic he had imunity granted due to the Jedi he was defenseless under this new Imperium. Determined to keep his family save Ghoul deserted and escaped the Imperiums graps just in time.

Settling on a small, unimportant planet in the outer rim where he and Odessa build a live for themselves. Around two years after the fall of the Republic, awaiting a second a child Ghoul was visited by Rex, Echo and an old friend Howzer. The three seeked support in their cause to save clones. Ghoul, while initially unwilling to help feeling resentful over the treatment he had reviced over telling the truth even before Order 66 still, eventually agreed to help after Howzer explained that his Hellhounds had fallen victim to the Imperium aswell and were held captive.

Though never fully part of Rex's and Echos clone rebellion, Ghoul often found himself helping out.

With the years passing Ghoul and Odessa had another two kids - teh youngest seemingly sensitive to the Force. Doing what he was best at, Ghoul spend his time building a Guild for Bounty Hunters. Most of them other clones but also his oldest son and daughter. Though the latter eventual leaving the family business to travel the universe alone.

Trivia

Jenot is the polish word for Raccon dog.

Ghoul is deaf and requires hearing aids. Odessa taught him Ryl sign language. He's fluent in basic sign language and Ryl sign language

Ghoul due to his lack of a real tongue can't taste regular food. Odessa makes him super spicy protein bars that he can take onto mission with him.

The tattoo on his right arm is Odessas Lekku pattern. He got it before he asked her to marry him.

Ghoul killed a stalker of Odessa without ever telling her. It also sparked his friendship with Halo - who was an accidental wittness and helped him dispose of the body.

Ghoul is the middle brother of the Vulpus Trio- Fox, Ghoul, Wolffe

His favorite colour is azure blue. It reminds him of Odessas eyes

The order of his children is Vahan, Tarkona, Reyk and Rha

Ghoul can understand Ryl but is very rocky when it comes to speaking it. His kids love to tease him with it.

His favorite drink is Oryxxian Catsblood. An alcoholic beverage that leaves a nice warm burn in his throat despite his prostethics

Ghoul was very proud of his beard and its one of the things he misses dearly since his injury.

Vahan and Tarkona are characterwise carbon copies of Ghoul, while Reyk and Rha resemble Odessa

Odessa is @therisingdarkness character. Their kids as well as the Hellhounds are our shared effort

If you want to know more about Ghoul and Odessa check out these amazing fic of her

Five times (Ghoul x Odessa story)

[nika6q]

One of the questions I have that was left unanswered... Is he wearing booty shorts, leg warmers, and socks? 3 pairs of tall socks? Socks and two bicycle shorts? Seriously, what's going on there.

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Okay but I wanna talk about something that has been bugging me for ages and it's the number of questions I have about what Echo knows about Fives' death. Because we never actually see Echo finding out about Fives, so exactly what he knows is kind of left up in the air but then I have so many questions about it.

There are two things we know for certain. 1) Echo knows that Fives is dead. 2) Echo DID NOT know about the chips.

So coming off of that, how much does Echo know? And what has he been told about how it happened? Is it a case that he knows that Fives is dead and that's it? Did he get told he was shot? Was he told it was a virus? (Tbf I find this one a little bit unlikely seeing as, at the end of the day, Fives didn't die from a "virus" he died from a blaster wound and that's gonna be in his files).

But then coming off of that, if Echo doesn't know anything other than "Fives is dead" then why? Was that his choice to not know anything else? Was it whoever told him? And if he knew Fives got shot then how much does he know about the circumstances? Does he know that Fives was shot by Fox? Was he told that a "virus" had made him crazy before he was shot? Does he know that there was a warrant out for Fives' arrest for attempted assassination of the Chancellor? And if no, then why???

I also wanna know why he wasn't told about the chips. I can kind of understand the idea of that info being held back because they don't want rumours spreading around the GAR of something that none of them were sure was true to begin with. But then who made the decision to withhold from Echo the whole thing about his brother running around trying to warn people about this conspiracy? Even if they weren't sure it was true, did they just go "yeah, Fives kinda lost it" and Echo didn't even question that? Or did they just go "nope, not telling Echo anything about conspiracy theories" to avoid the risk of Echo doing digging by himself, finding out that the Chancellor has been up to some weird stuff that resulted in his brother's death and then going to the Chancellors office and tossing him out a window?

Anyway that's my ramblings for the day

@saturn-sends-hugs @inkstainedhandswithrings @the-bi-space-ace

[honeybuns-bb]

wow that was simultaneously an extremely satisfying and extremely unsatisfying ending

[talesfrommedinastation]

Happy Tech Tuesday!

Don't know what he's taking a selfie of, y'all figure that one out ;)

@deezlees @eyecandyeoz @thecoffeelorian @leenabb104104 @autistic-artistech @perfectlywingedcrusade @deoxd @auntie-venom and everyone else who likes the old boy!

[frostycatblr-fandom-files]

Nothing "former" about that ARC trooper status. I have spoken.

[wolveria]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm too harsh with making Hunter a little bit dumb and oblivious.

And then I rewatched episode one, and he asks, "Don't you have a family somewhere? Parents?"

And Omega says "Parents?" as if that's the stupidest thing she's ever heard and he's the dumbest motherfucker she's ever met.

And I can rest assured my headcanon of himbo Hunter is correct.

[pandorademos]

"Don't avoid the question" Omega picked up a friend at the beach! She is not allowed to keep it.

@summer-of-bad-batch prompt #9! Woo!

[here-comes-the-moose]

Some guy: *insults Echo not realizing Crosshair is within earshot*

Same guy: Why do I hear boss music?

[isurrendertoclones]

Crosshair’s new hand has a wrist-mounted toothpick launcher

[chaioticcoffee]

i was rewatching TBB with my bf and it made me realize just how much it breaks my heart how well Crosshair knows his squad, but they didn't seem to know/care abt him enough?? idk 😭

like yes of course they care- in their own way,,

bf also said he understood why they could never retrieve him, but changed his mind after Wrecker had lost control himself and once they went after Hunter with only 4 ppl in the squad (we both still get the squad to a certain extent)

ALSO² WHAT IS UP WITH THE SUBTLE HINTING AT THE CHIP STILL HAVING EFFECT. .. BUT WAS NEVER ADDRESSED? 😭 I LOVE THIS SHOW BUT RAAGAHAHWHHQHH explodes

[dindjarindiaries]

Trying to figure out if this Crosshair focus is a season 1 Hunter kind of focus or a season 2 Tech kind of focus if you know what I mean