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[playingitup]

Guys, which mandalorians from the time of the civil wars (Death Watch vs True Mandalorians vs New Mandalorians) do you think have the potential to become Mand'alor? Like, if the Manda (mandalorian Force) were to choose people for their potential as leaders, who could be a candidate?

For now i have

Pre Vizsla (young version, not his dad bcs Tor is a fuck ass bitch)

Jango Fett (Jaster is indeed dead and jango is off escaping from slavery)

Satine Kryze (shes using this potential in her advantage while also pretending it doesnt exist which i find funny)

Bo-Katan Kryze (is about ten years old and the most stubborn kid ever, doesnt yet understand wtf this is about)

Anyways, if you guys have anymore sugestions id like to hear them, i dont really like that the only options i have for now are all nepo babies, considering mandos arent supposed to have a line of succession like that

[cabbagege]

Qestion-talking post

Tbh Idk how many people will see it, but If you're interested in talking to me, like those guys on the kitchen in the middle of the night: you're welcome with any topic or questions (In DM or comment section or whatever)

While I'm working on heavy arts, want to entertain myself with conversations (without any obligations or judgment, please!)

Here I have some questions, which were occupying my mind and personally wanted to discuss, but again, see the first paragraph:

Never watched Andor (shame on me). Why the hate and why it was 'forced'?

Do you think that Jango Fett genuinely was freaking out, when he saw the first clone of himself?

Do you think there where any 'defective' clones other than 99? I mean... Probably, it should take a lot of time and tries to make 'perfect defective clone'. So, maybe there's somewhere in the Galaxy (or whenever) another TBB, but the one that was a failure.

Still, 'cloneshipping' thingie. Can we consider it as a bad term and part of the fandom, or we don't care about that? Is that happening because Internet community became too soft and sensitive or this fenomen was having hate for all times? (And can we consider cloneshipping as relative-relationships? Or is that self-relationships? )

To the previous question. Is that okay to sexualize clones that look like 30 y.o. man but in reality they're like... Twelve??? (Am I going to jail because of pixel?)

How bunch of Jedi (we remember that some races are more sensitive to the force than others) never saw Palpatine coming? No argument 'for plot', only wrong answers

Do you have Star Wars OC? Show me. Tell me. I need to know.

I'm done! If you want - you want to talk with me about that.

If you don't, well, I'll do my schizophrenia job

[esamastation]

Some rather dark Star Wars thoughts that could become stories.

1. Imagine a manipulative Padme. She saw a naive, very suggestive Jedi padawan. She saw an opportunity. For reasons of tradition and position, she needs kids. She doesn't necessarily want the husband to go with the kids. Not that she necessarily wants the kid either, but whatever, tradition. As former queen and current senator, Padme is at the top of her career ladder, not likely to ascend any higher with Palpatine going so strong. The only way for her to go now is down.

But if she has a Jedi's kid, a Force Sensitive kid, she can not just appeal to tradition but she'll forge undeniable bond with the Order of Jedi Knights itself, with the Republic's Peacekeepers - and there's a good chance she won't have to mind the kid for long, just long enough for the Jedi to pick up on what happened and get the kid for training! So, she decides to seduce Anakin and string him along until needs are met. 

Except then Tatooine and the Tuskens happen - and the only reason they're on Tatooine is because Padme brought them there because Anakin wasn't putting out because of his weird vision nightmares! Now Padme is complicit in mass murder, an event that would easily destroy her career. And she isn't even pregnant.

And then Obi-Wan Kenobi calls for help from Geonosis and that, Padme thinks, sounds like good way to cover up this whole mess. Except, then there's war.

And from there on it goes.

(alternatively, Padme is Palpatine's protege, same as Anakin, and all of it was planned from the start. Just a few suggestive words and nudges here and there with little bit of Force to grease those gears...)

2.  Jedi impersonators are probably pretty common across the service and entertainment sectors for various services. From children's birthday parties to more adult parties, Jedi lookalikes gotta be pretty popular. There's probably thousands more of them than there are actual Jedi, now that I think about it. 

Jedi going undercover as Jedi Impersonators for reasons of undercover work. Jedi hiding in a convention of Jedi impersonators. Jedi in dire straights, stranded on some distant world without credits doing the work of a Jedi impersonator for quick cash. Take your pick.

3. Palpatine totally could've had Anakin's body completely and perfectly reconstructed. He had access to Kamino and cloning tech, he could've cloned a dozen Anakin's to use for spare organs, limbs, skin crafts, everything. It probably wouldn't have even cost much in the grand scheme of things. 

I bet there's a book that addresses this exact issue and Palpatine obviously wanted to keep Anakin weak, in pain and angry for purposes of control and Dark Side mastery, but, like…

There's buncha stories there. Like, what if he did reconstruct Anakin via cloned parts? What if he didn't and Vader knew? What if crazy hermit Ben Kenobi kidnapped Vader and reconstructed him against his will? 

4. The original Jango Fett based Clone Army was just a marketing trick. What the Kaminoans are actually after is a market for clone tech itself.

The Kaminoans make clones, they mass produce clones, but they have no buyers. There's no call for their services, people barely even use cloned organs in surgeries and such, and use of clones for cheap labour is illegal because it's categorized as slavery - but the Kaminoan tech is most advanced it's ever been and they're just ripe to take the galaxy by storm. All they need is an opportunity.

So when Dooku and Sidious hatch their plan, Kaminoans hatch their own. The Sith are conveniently creating an environment ripe for war and custom order personalised armies are just the sort of thing Kaminoans can do. So, they sell their first army at a pittance and wait for the fall out.

(This would demand that the clone production time is much faster, so, let's cut that down to 2 years at most. Two years from insemination to fully equipped trooper, with liberal use of mind control, brain chips and so on.)

With the spark that is the First Battle of Geonosis, and the biggest publicity stunt in centuries plays out just as designed. Palpatine becomes the supreme chancellor, pronounces that Clones are War Machinery, not People, so it's not really slavery - and so, the markets are open. And the Kaminoan PR teams get to work.

The Republic is attacking! The Confederacy is building droid armies! The galaxy isn't safe! There's War behind the corner! Wouldn't you feel safer with your own personal army, built to your exacting specifications?

And soon, everyone who was anyone would have a clone army of their own. And with the sudden booming success of the cloners of Kamino, soon copycat companies start popping up all over the place, offering the same services, but cheaper and closer, for better and for worse.

Let the Clone Wars begin.

[tossawary]

You know, given all of the cloning and other evil experiments that Palpatine apparently had going on, it's a little remarkable in hindsight that he never targeted Shmi Skywalker personally.

Like, this woman apparently reproduced asexually and gave birth to one of the most powerful Force-sensitives of all time; I don't generally characterize Sith Lords as having great scientific curiosity or a sense of wonder for the universe (or bothering to remember "little" people exist most of the time), because their whole deal kind of precludes that, but it seems reasonable that one might conclude that there's potential power in investigating this.

If Anakin was friendly with Palpatine for the latter half of his childhood, it seems like it could have been relatively easy for Palpatine to learn things like 1) Anakin's midichlorian count (which he can use to tell Anakin that everyone else is just jealous of his power) and 2) Shmi's situation on Tatooine (which he can use to foster resentment between Anakin and the Jedi Order for not helping Shmi too). Just get Anakin a little frustrated and he'll probably start talking! Palpatine could make some concerned offer to send someone to check on Anakin's mother - it is the least that Naboo can do for the family that helped to save them, the Chancellor might say, but he would prefer that such favoritism remain a secret between them - and then Sidious would have Watto's exact address no problem.

And it's not like it would be hard to kidnap Shmi. Palpatine (as Sidious?) could pick some random bounty hunter and order them to go buy her, because this amount of money is presumably pocket change to him, and if Watto resists selling her off to a stranger, the bounty hunter can claim that they've come on behalf of her son. And if that doesn't work or if Shmi is already with the Lars family, there's always violence. Palpatine can just lie to Anakin and say that his agent discovered Shmi was targeted by enemies of the Jedi Order. Oh, what a shame they didn't protect her!

I don't know what would happen from here. Sidious could potentially contract the Kaminoans as a private, anonymous citizen to research Shmi and see if she'll be useful to him at all; the Kaminoans seem to be in the business of designer babies for specific clients (Jango + my vague memories of some "Clone Wars" comic). Which means that Shmi could be unhappily, awkwardly hanging around Kamino, probably still enslaved, when Jango Fett and the clones business is going on. For years, potentially.

Ideally for the Sith, the Kaminoans would be keeping Shmi in an entirely separate facility most of the time, away from the army intended for the Jedi and the Republic. But Jango might be sent around the planet on errands or something and the Kaminoans might need to use very specific equipment at some points, and I am a fan of grand plans being ruined by chance encounters or workplace logistics, so I think it would be fun if Shmi met Jango or Boba. Maybe Palpatine assumed that the Kaminoans had already disposed of Shmi or were keeping her on ice, due to a badly worded email or something else mundane, because the Kaminoan forgot the right Basic word (it's not their first language!!! or a translator malfunctioned or something) during their space phone call.

There's lots of Canon Divergence directions for this, like more serious angst or drama or thriller horror being imprisoned by a Sith Lord (somewhere besides Kamino) or discovering what's being done to the clones. Shmi could end up being rescued by Jedi and helping uncover Sidious. Or she could have a different tragic ending.

(This whole post regarding Shmi and cloning is partially inspired by that one post pointing out that Rey looks a lot like Shmi, and given the strange circumstances of Anakin's birth, any attempt to clone Anakin might have created a clone of Shmi instead. I still think a "Rey as Anakin's clone" is a fun sequel trilogy AU.)

I'm leaning towards fix-it and comedies of errors ideas because the prequels are tragic enough for me. Currently, I'm thinking about Shmi eventually ending up as part of young Boba Fett's gang somehow, because it's amusing to me that he was somehow a recurring antagonistic figure on that TCW show despite being a child. The other bounty hunters are like, "Kid, did you... bring your mom on this mission...?" And Boba Fett is like, "No!!! She's my ship mechanic!!! But if you touch her, just so you know, I will fucking kill you."

I think that both Anakin and Boba would fucking hate being adoptive brothers in any way, shape, or form. And the idea of Luke and Leia someday having an "Uncle Boba Fett" is also very funny to me.

(EDIT: I'm currently dubious regarding a Jango/Shmi ship because Jango does participate in the creation and enslavement of the clone army. Like, it's the Kaminoans who do it, they hold most of the blame and they would have gotten someone else if Jango hadn't done it, but Jango is very much there and at the very least complicit in a horrifying series of crimes against millions of people. Depending on how you characterize Shmi Skywalker, an enslaved woman, I don't really think she'd be cool with that. She let her child go off to become a Jedi because she thought it would be a much better life for him, while Jango sold his own "children" off into war for money. So, I'm currently thinking that Shmi might like the innocent child Boba, but she might honestly dislike Jango quite a lot.)

[feybarn]

Hello! For the ship and kiss- Jangobi and a kiss out of jealousy/envy, please? Thank you <3

There was something beyond frustrating that it was this that made Jango jealous. He’d seen Obi-Wan flirt with untold number of people without so much of a twinge of jealousy, often more amused than anything else. He had dealt with Obi-Wan’s close relationships with Jango’s own clones with… all right, there had been some jealousy there, but Jango had worked through it before it had caused problems. He had gotten over the fact that Obi-Wan would never prioritize Jango, not really, not when his duty to the Republic and the Galaxy still existed.

And yet this.

Obi-Wan sat on the bridge of the deck meditating with Vos of all people and Jango… he was practically seething with jealousy.

Not that there was anything romantic about the situation. Obi-Wan considered Vos a good friend, trusted him beyond all doubt while simultaneously declaring him the most annoying man of his acquaintance.

And Obi-Wan shared a bond with him. A bond that Jango, as force sensitive as a particularly boring rock, could never share with Obi-Wan.

It had been one thing to deal with with Skywalker, but there was a parental element to that relationship that made it easy to deal with. And the other Jedi all seemed to have slight bonds, but Jango could deal with that as an organizational factor.

But Vos.

Obi-Wan had called it a pair bond. Jango hadn’t been particularly bothered. So, Obi-Wan had a psychic friend. And then Skywalker had gone on a rant about how he didn’t get why Obi-Wan would let Vos in so intimately and…

Well, that was about when Jango had started getting jealous.

Obi-Wan and Vos stirred on the deck of the ship and Jango startled. The two stood, talking to each other in low tones as they headed in his direction.

”—heading out tomorrow,” Vos said. “There’s some whispers in the outer rim about potential Sith involvement. Someone needs to check it out.”

“Be careful, Quin,” Obi-Wan said.

Vos smirked. “When am I ever?” He passed by Jango, turning his smirk on Jango for a moment in a way that looked all too knowing.

“Obi-Wan,” Jango interrupted. “We got some intel in. I thought we should take a look.”

Obi-Wan turned towards him. “Of course, priorities.” He looked at Quin. “Come see me before you leave,” Obi-Wan told him.

Vos sent a sloppy salute Obi-Wan’s direction before sauntering away.

Obi-Wan turned back to Jango. “All right, what do we—”

Jango leaned forward, tugging on Obi-Wan to manage a bruising kiss. Vos didn’t get to do this. Jango was the one who got to do this.

Obi-Wan sighed when he pulled back. ”Jango—“

“I know,” Jango said. “Just… Let me?”

Obi-Wan examined him. “Quinlan is dear to me.”

“I know,” Jango repeated. “I’ll work through it. But… but please, let me do this.”

A pause. Finally, Obi-Wan nodded. He leaned in, kissing Jango back. It was softer, gentler. “I love you, Jango Fett,” Obi-Wan told him. “Please… let that be enough.”

Jango would try.

[milling-around]

The Bad Batch Finale and Joel Aron’s cryptic tweet

Okay so Joel Aron, Director of Cinematography Lighting & VFX at Lucasfilm, tweeted this:

Initially, I thought that this was going to be the runtime of S3E15 The Cavalry Has Arrived. This episode being longer would make sense as it’s the finale of the show and it’s close in length to S1E1 Aftermath. However, I saw a screenshot floating around the other day that says the runtime of the final episode “spans 24 to 25 minutes”.

If this episode is the typical length then this timestamp must be referring to a different piece of media. The question is, what media? In an effort to determine what could happen in the finale, I went to that point in the films to see what I would find. None of them strike as much fear in me as what’s happening in A New Hope.

The Phantom Menace - Anakin has just won the pod race and they are celebrating his victory.

Attack of the Clones - Jango Fett and Boba Fett have just attacked Obi-Wan with seismic charges.

Revenge of the Sith - Anakin is looking out over Coruscant from the Jedi Council room. He has just revealed to Mace Windu that Palpatine is a Sith.

A New Hope - Before leaving to disable the tractor beam on the Death Star, Obi-Wan delivers a line which may foreshadow what’s to come in The Bad Batch.

Empire Strikes Back - Luke is trying to lift the ship out of the swamp on Dagobah.

Return of the Jedi - Luke, Han, and Chewbacca, along with the droids, are captured by the Ewoks.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Anakin and Ahsoka are heading towards Tatooine to deliver Jabba’s son back to him.

At 01:09:56:01 in A New Hope, or as close to it as I could get (Disney+ sucks) this is what we see:

Sorry it’s a photo of my computer, I don’t know how y’all take screenshots of Disney+.

“Your destiny lies along a different path from mine.”

Many people have been theorising that the show could end with the Batch and Omega surviving but being separated, either by choice or by circumstance. This line from A New Hope, as well as the fact that Omega’s voice actor, Michelle Ang, has described the ending as “bittersweet”, definitely make that a solid theory.

Maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree though. There’s also speculation about whether Omega is force sensitive, so maybe Luke using the force in Empire Strikes Back is the real clue. Despite Ventress not believing Omega to have a high m-count, and her not being one of Hemlock’s designated m-count specimens, we have seen characters with a low m-count who were capable of wielding the force. Sabine Wren, for example.

Still, Omega being force sensitive doesn’t prevent the theory that she gets separated from the Batch from being true. It could actually be a reason for that separation because she may pursue training or decide that her proximity to the Batch endangers them.

But wait, there’s more!

At this timestamp in S1E1 Aftermath, Omega is on the Marauder with the Bad Batch (minus Crosshair) and they’re setting off on what will be her first big adventure. Omega’s Theme is playing and she’s gazing out at space with child-like wonder. While they’ve just parted ways with Crosshair, the overall feeling in this scene is hopeful.

If the tweet is referring to this episode, it could mean that we get a wholesome Bad Batch family moment. Whether Tech is there or not may rely on CX-2 being unmasked. Perhaps it’s bittersweet because Tech truly is dead or because he’s alive but they cannot save him from the Empire. Or maybe it’s bittersweet for a whole host of other reasons.

Honourable mention

@kiffobaby also looked into what is happening at this timestamp if you combine the runtimes (including credits) of all episodes in clone relevant story arcs and didn’t really find anything of note. If credits were removed then it would put at us a different point in the arc, however it’s unlikely that we’d be looking for a timestamp in an arcs combined duration anyway.

If you’ve read this far, I love you and don’t worry, we’re almost done.

Secret 16th episode?

Seasons 1 and 2 each had 16 episodes which leads me to speculate that this timestamp could actually be the runtime of the final episode, a secret 16th episode.

Is it likely? No. Can I dream? Yes.

[fanfic-obsessed]

Eldritch Everyone

I have read fantastic stories where Obi Wan/ the Jedi are Eldritch creatures and other stories where the Clones are Eldritch, because of Kaminoan experiments. Let's merge the two with a twist. 

The twist is they are different types of eldritch beings who do not know the other is Eldritch. 

As always disregard any established lore that contradicts this. 

With the clones it is because of Kaminoan experimentation. It will never be quite clear what the Kamnioan’s were trying to do…or if they accomplished their goal. But the Kaminoan experiments on the Clones (with the exception of Boba Fett) genome connected with…something beyond. Something they had no idea what to account for. 

For the Eldritch Clones I am taking heavy inspiration from the incomparable Quarra’s The Force of my Love.  The Clones are a hivemind, existing paradoxically as part of the hive and individually all at once.  Their forms are nigh on indestructible and mutable, meaning they can shapeshift (they, in fact, make the choice to keep Jango Fett’s face and shape as their ‘main form’-partially due to spite, partially because the Kaminoans expect it). They are able to travel instantaneously to any clone that is part of the Hivemind(by contrast this instantaneous travel is limited to only to other members of the hivemind).  Unlike Quarra’s clones they cannot tell the difference between Sith and Jedi(for reasons that will be elaborated on later). They have eidetic memory which, combined with the hive mind, means that what one knows all of them know and none of them ever forget.  This version of the clones have no particular connection to Mandalorian culture, nor any other culture, save perhaps the Jedi (The propaganda that they are created for the Jedi still exists and frankly pales in comparison to how awesome the Jedi actually are). 

The Jedi are Eldritch through their connection to the Force, which is sentient (by certain definitions) but so utterly alien to anything on the mortal plane that there is no direct comparison. Now it needs to be made clear from the first that it is not just Force sensitivity that makes one Eldritch, the connection to the Force is just not strong enough.  There are additional rituals that the Jedi, and the Sith of Old, go through to become what could be considered Avatars of the Force (specifically the Light Side for the Jedi). These rituals were passed down from before the split between Sith and Jedi.

I say Sith of Old here, because Bane, in creating his rule of two, did away with many of those rituals (never realizing their worth) because several of them required more than 2 participants.  There are three rituals in particular that apply here. First is a ritual to allow oneself to fill completely with the Force (making themselves, for a lack of better terminology, larger than their mortal forms), which Bane kept as he believed it simply made one more powerful (and could be accomplished alone). The second ritual, also one that Bane kept, helped to hide the Banite Sith from the Jedi(it also disguised what was happening to the Banite Sith due to the first ritual, even from themselves), though that had always been a side effect of the ritual, not its intended purpose; this ritual is the reason that the Clones cannot sense Jedi and Sith seperately. The third ritual makes one a conduit of the Force (letting the Force pass through oneself) which Bane did away with. It is important here because mortal beings are not meant to be filled to the brim with the Force, without the release valve of the second ritual it causes them to rot from the inside out.   This is important because by the old definition of Sith, the Force Cult that has dedicated themselves to being the Avatars of the Dark Side of the Force, there has not been a Sith since Darth Bane (barring one exception) and why the Banite Sith tend to rot while still living, the longer they are immersed in the Dark Side.  Dooku did not rot because he had done the rituals as a Jedi, though he had not dedicated himself specifically to the Dark, so he never took on the title of True Sith. Ventress, through her training with Ky Narec, had also completed most of the Jedi rituals, meaning she was not a Sith but as closer to it than Palpatine. It was actually Maul who, in growing up submerged in the Dark like he had been, accidentally completed a version of the lost second ritual, and became a True Sith in the old meaning of the word. 

These rituals are meant to immerse a Force Sensitive in the Force itself, giving the connection more strength than it would have otherwise.  The Force abilities that we see the Jedi, and the Sith use, are because of the Rituals and why those that do not go through either version have much subtler/weaker abilities. It also means that the Jedi (and the Sith of old+Maul) give off the eerie impression that, no matter the size or species, they are somehow so much larger than they appear. That there is something beneath their skin trying to get out. Also being plugged directly into Force in the way that they are skews the way they view reality.   It can be hard for the Jedi to connect with beings that are not at least a little Force Sensitive and the Jedi care deeply, but sometimes cannot see what the actual problem is (saying ‘there is no death there is only the force’ is not meant to be a trite saying nor do many of the Jedi quite understand why it is not as comforting as they think it is).

At the beginning of the Clone Wars, both the Jedi and the Clones hide their eldritch nature from each other. Both groups had experienced how showing their nature to the wrong people can break minds and they had no wish to hurt the other. 

The first sign that something was…strange was how in sync both groups were.  The Jedi marveled that the clones never cringed at the sight of them (and that which moved under their skin when they lost focus). The Clones were ecstatic that the Jedi never questioned when they had knowledge they should not have, nor the few occasions when multiple clones spoke from the same mouth.  

Nat born officers would make comments, not directly but meant to be overheard, how the Jedi Padawans grew more ‘other’ every time they visited the Temple on Coruscant. The clones would only stare blankly, to them it seemed like the Padawans were simply growing into themselves. 

Various Jedi and clones began to fall into love (Familial, romantic, sexual, platonic, and other).  It is Depa Billaba and Gray who first confess, and in confessing reveal their respective natures (Depa is the one who made the first move-as soon as the Clones knew of the Jedi’s nature they each sought out their Jedi).

The main reason that Jedi do not get in romantic relationships with non Force Sensitives (and Padme has no Force Sensitivity) is that theri nature pushes them to connect at the deepest level they can with their loved ones.  This can mentally damage non Force Sensitives.

For Obi Wan, if Cody had not confessed, Obi Wan never would have.  He had tried, before, to have romantic relationships with non force sensitives. A few times he had even managed to deny his own nature until the relationship dissolved naturally (Obi Wan, like most Jedi could be…odd, even when trying to fit in). It had become clear through his life that it just was not worth the pain to act on those kinds of feelings.  The knowledge that Cody could bond with him fully, was interested in him both romantically and sexually was a joy. Obi Wan was not even off put that by dating on clone, he was in affect dating all of the clones at once (who were also dating other Jedi)

Sometimes the Clones and Jedi switched partners. For instance Mace Windu, who was primarily dating Ponds, loved the Theater, which Ponds was ambivalent about but Bly also loved the theater (which Aayla actively disliked). So Bly and Mace had a standing monthly date night to a variety of theaters all over the galaxy, and at least once a year end up acting in a performance. Or how Fox was one of the only Clones that was not bored stupid at the Anniversary Ball, a pretentious event of a small but rich mid rim planet to celebrate the ratifying of a treaty, that Obi Wan is required to go to every year (even the years he was actively at war). So Fox is Obi Wan’s date, while Cody and Vos (who primarily dated the Coruscant Guard), would use the night to break up some kind of ring(slavery, drugs, smuggling, etc.)

Rex found that he fit neatly into Padme and Anakin’s relationship, somehow providing a stabilizing influence on their bond.  Padme and Anakin had bonded after the first battle of Geonosis but it was a case of Anakin being young and stupid and reckless, and Padme not actually understanding what Anakin was talking about when he tried to explain the risks (She thought he was saying that it might hurt her, and she was reassuring him that she trust him to be careful. He thought she was saying that she knew about the risks and was Force Sensitive enough to not be harmed).  There was already some damage done to  Padme’s mind (mostly in terms of willpower, personality, and impulse control) by the time Rex joined the bond, and not all of it was correctable, but most was. 

It is not the Jedi and the Clones that disrupt Palpatine’s plans (though the chips never worked, so eventually they would have). It was Dooku, Ventress, and Maul. Maul was the first True Sith, though it was accidental, in almost 1000 years. Dooku knew what it meant to be Jedi/Sith in the original sense and could tell that Palpatine did not. Ventress, like Dooku, had gone through the Jedi versions of the rituals (those rituals may have been passed down since before the split, but time had caused a bit of difference).  Because Palpatine has the deeper connection to the Force but not release valve, for lack of a better term, he is more immediately powerful but in the long run is doing far more damage to himself than he realizes.  Sometime before Maul would have gone after Satine, he encounters Ventress, who recognizes him as an actual Sith and brings him to Dooku. 

These three decide that they are going to destroy Palpatine (for being a Pretended Sith) and rebuild the actual Sith Order with the full Sith rituals. Maul is a bit surprised to realize that he, by himself, is more than a match for Palpatine (Since this was the man that had tormented him since childhood; he always had the picture that Palptine was bigger than life). Dooku then publishes all of the wrong doings he knew of from Palpatine’s entire circle-CIS and Republic alike- (and he knew about 80% of what was eventually uncovered). Then all three of them fuck off to Morriban to begin their research into resurrecting the Sith Order. 

The Jedi Order and the Clones collectively decide to let them, on the basis that at least they know where the three Sith are and it keeps them busy.

[vodika-vibes]

So I had a hilarious thought, and I need to share.

Jango Fett hates jedi. It's a well known fact. Well known enough that he's willing to allow himself to be cloned because it'll ultimately bring down the end of the jedi.

Maybe. Possibly.

Jango Fett is also about as force sensitive as a piece of granite.

It's perfect. He's perfect. A perfect test subject.

And then, several years later, Cadet Alpha-17 throws a temper tantrum (as young kids do) and blows a hole in the wall with his mind.

Jango Fett isn't force sensitive. But the force exists in all things.

And the Force does not like it when someone tries to kill her favorite children.

(Boba Fett, decanted at the same time as Alpha-17, is also force sensitive, and Jango has to have a come to Jesus talk with himself. Somehow, this saves the Jedi from Palpatine. And the Republic from becoming an Empire.)

[herenya-writes]

Buir aka Cody and his karked up relationship with one Jango Fett

Okay so I've had some thoughts rattling around my head for a fic, but i'm already writing a fic and this one is a bit outside of my wheelhouse, so i'm tossing said thoughts here for now. maybe i will one day write this. maybe not. enjoy?

Alphas call Jango “Prime” but the CC batches grew up knowing him as Buir, at least in the beginning

Jango gives Cody his name. Kote. Likes Cody. Listens to him, teaches him. Cody calls him Buir.

Jango chooses Boba. Young Cody doesn’t really understand the consequences of this choice until later.

All of the trainers remark that Cody has the same drive Jango Fett does, the same viciously clever mind. The same honed strength. Cody tries very hard not to show how much the words mean to him, especially when they could drive him apart from his vode.

Buir chooses the other side. Buir becomes Jango Fett. Cody won’t even call him Prime like the younger batches will. He hates the reminder that betrayal to the only family he’s ever known is as imprinted into his dna as his fighting skills are.

The war comes. He is named Marshal Commander and assigned to High General Obi-Wan Kenobi. He makes himself a beacon of all that a vod needs to be. He creates processes to hide vode who would otherwise be reconditioned or decommissioned. He is so very, very careful around Kenobi, who seems so perfect.

His loyalty feels torn between bleeding for his brothers and bleeding for his General.

Later, he meets up with Wolffe (and maybe the rest of the batch?). It’s after the rest of Wolffe’s battalion has been destroyed. Wolffe names General Plo ‘Buir’ and he does it with bared teeth. Daring Cody to call him out. (Cody leaves? Cody shouts? Cody panics and makes Fox help him find all the things he can do to keep Wolffe safe if it comes to that?)

Late in the war (after Umbara?) Cody is helping a brother who is pretty out of it. He’s young, barely earned his paint, and he mumbles something like ‘thanks, buir’. Maybe one of the medics hears it and teases Cody a little, but Cody completely shuts down. Sirens are going off in his skull screaming that that’s a name he has never been worthy of, not with so much blood on his hands that he is never going to be able to wash off. Rex calling him ori’vod is hard enough—he couldn’t save the rest of Rex’s batch, he barely saved Rex—and this?

He holds himself together until he reaches his quarters, and then he sobs his heart out. Maybe Obi-Wan is there to comfort him, but there’s only so much that can be said. Obi-Wan knows a thing or two about failing your children (they never should have been your children).

Optional happier ending: Crechemaster Cody. The little ones (clone and Force-sensitive alike) call him buir, and he names them ad’ika. He no longer needs to raise warriors.

[cienie-isengardu]

Masterpost

Making a master post for my analysis and theories, so I would not need to look for them in the depths of my blog. The list for sure won’t include every piece ever posted on tumblr, but should have the more ambitious or important project. 

STAR WARS:

Mini-series:

The Funeral Rites of the Clone Troopers: <The psychological and spiritual preparations for death pre-war> ⭐<What happens to the body of dead clone trooper [part 1] [part2]>⭐ <Conclusion> 

Jango Fett and Walon Vau: Age Difference & Childhood Trauma ⭐ The Laws, Orders, Jaster Mereel and True Mandalorians pre-Galidraan ⭐ Galidraan and its consequences ⭐(the final part about Kamino is not written yet)

Satine and Pre Vizsla: political & social position ⭐ Wealth: clothes < • > paintings seen in their residences < • > living conditions < • > personal ships < • > servants and guards, part 1  < • > servants and guards, part 2 (WIP)

Cienie’s take on Mandalorian Culture:

Kad Ha’rangir and mandalorian traditional weapons part 1 — part 2 — part 3 – part 4 — part 5

Arasuum - stagnation as symbol of death, not sloth, renamed as Arasuum - the God of Death, not Sloth part 1 — part 2 — part 3 — part 4

Original Mandalorians and Gai bal manda ritual

Hod Ha'ran, the god of visions, prophecies and magic

God of Death as a mighty Beast

Mandalorian laws

Mythosaur, beskar and water

The life experiences that shaped Anakin Skywalker: childhood in slavery ⭐ growing up in Jedi Order (p. I) ⭐ growing up in Jedi Order (p.II)

Anakin and marginalized groups: clones and droids < • > Tusken < • > female Twi'leks + additional Vader & droids

Anakin and Clone Troopers in Legends sources [2002 - 2005]: part I —  part II — part III (WIP)

Anakin’s traumatic experiences in slavery: Star Wars Episode I: Anakin Skywalker ⭐ part II (WIP)

One-shot metas 

Darth Vader and the violence against imperial low-ranking soldiers (Old Trilogy)

Mandalorians choosing their leaders vs Darksaber as legitimization of leader

You stole the Mandalorians from me, and then left me to die on Concord Dawn…

Tor Vizsla and “hire your own enemy”type of trap

Jaster, Tor and Montross

Star Wars Fact Files about Tor Vizsla

Star Wars Fact Files about Tor Vizsla II (Vizsla's mindset)

Pre Vizsla doesn’t get enough credit for his duels one on one against Force sensitive foes

He should have been protecting her better if he wanted to keep her…

Jango Fett Open Seasons: Retreat vs. fight no matter the cost

My RepCom Musing:  Control Issue

My RepCom Musing: lekku language

My RepCom Musing: Men in kitchen… or lack of thereof

JF:OS/My RepCom Musing: Mandalorian armor color scheme

JF:OS/My RepCom Musing: Hair and mandalorian norms

Jaster Mereel seen by Dooku, Jango Fett and Tor Vizsla

My RepCom Musing: Arla Fett and Death Watch

My RepCom Musing: Vau and different sexual orientation(s)

Cienie’s Star Wars sidenotes (Jedi healers and Force healing)

An answer to ask about portrayal of stormtroopers/501st as being intensely loyal to Vader

Alpha & Cody and how they addressed or talked about Anakin in Legends sources (2002-2005/6)

A Mandalorian Tradition?

The Funeral Rites of Taungs and later Mandalorian Warriors.

[An answer to ask, originally answered from side-blog, archeo-starwars] Jedi Temple

The obedience of clones - or why I dislike TCW!idea of inhibitor chip and following answer

The case of Krell’s death?

Anakin making sure Obi-Wan get medical help & will not sidetrack on his way to medbay

How exactly Jedi intended to explain killing Chancellor Palpatine to senate and citizens of Republic?

Clone troopers & the movie “Soldier” (1998)

Jango Fett’ childhood on Concord Dawn

Arla - Mandalorian name?

Jaster & Tor

A bit about The Mandalorian s03′s take on mandalorian culture

Jango and “save yourself”

Mandalorians and thrones

About Children of the Watch 

An answer to ask about Sergeant Kreel’s lightsaber

Jango Fett as seen by Count Dooku, Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker 

Cienie’s headcanon: Strill’s teeth

source material research

How Jedi made Anakin Skywalker feel through the years

How Yoda made Anakin feel through the years

Notron Cant - Taung language and Mandalorian dialects

A bit about Mandalorian Sigils

Darth Vader & Maximilian Veers

Adi Gallia: Human vs Near-Human source material

The way Tor addressed Jango through the years

Sources: Jango Fett sold into slavery

Anakin / Vader seen as warrior in various sources 

An iconographic summary of the main and side characters from Jango Fett: Open Seassons (1-4)

Jaster Mereel's Supercommando Codex - source material

MASTERPOST for MORTAL KOMBAT, ONE PIECE and AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER here

[pacificwaternymph]

You know what? I don't think Omega is purely a clone of Jango Fett.

Cuz like... Look at her versus Emerie, who is another female clone

They do not look alike at all. They don't have the same eyes, nose, mouth, hell, I don't even know if I can say their face shape is the same.

From an animation standpoint, I can kind of understand. Omega was already pretty visually distinct from the rest of the clones (which I have my gripes about, but I digress) so they couldn't just put Emerie's face mold on her and call it a day. But like... what??

So here's what I'm thinking: I think Omega's DNA was blended with another person's, probably someone force sensitive, maybe a Jedi. Not one strong enough that it carried through to her and made her force sensitive, but enough that her blood was able to retain the same properties, thereby explaining why the original m-count of blood samples is retained when mixed with hers.

The only question left is: who's the Jedi?

[austinbrickco]

Minifig Monday -Omega is a young, enhanced, and unaltered female clone of Jango Fett in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. She’s a skilled member of Clone Force 99, traveling the galaxy with her “brothers”. Before the Empire, she worked as a medical assistant for Nala Se on Kamino. 

Genetics: 
Omega is one of the first three female Jango Fett clones in Star Wars canon, along with Emerie Karr and Sister. She’s said to be the only clone with unaltered DNA besides Boba Fett, but season 2 revealed Emerie is also a clone. 
Abilities: 
Omega is Force-sensitive and has compatible blood with other Force-sensitive people. The Empire could use her to recreate Midi-chlorian counts in others. 
Weapons and skills: 
Omega is skilled with an energy bow and other weapons, but also uses her intelligence and strategic thinking for her squad’s survival. 
Personality: 
Omega is compassionate, showing empathy for Crosshair when he defects to the Empire.
#lego #starwars #legostarwars #starwarslego #legocollector #legocollection #legobuild #legobuilder #legominifigure #legominifig #legocommunity #starwarscommunity #legocontent #starwarscontent #thebadbatch #cloneforce99 #omega #theclonewars #minifigmonday #clonewars #clones #lucasfilm #disney #playwell #maytheforcebewithyou #austinbrickcocollection #austinbrickco @lego Austin Brick Co Play well and may the force be with you…

[areyoufuckingcrazy]

“Dark Water”

Chapter Forty Seven: Variables Unaccounted For

The Bad Batch x Reader

It was late into the night cycle when Tech finally called the rest of you into the main hold of the Marauder.

His datapad was pulled up, the blue glow painting hard angles across his face. You stepped in last, arms crossed, your boots scuffing quietly on the floor. Omega leaned against Echo’s side, drowsy but alert.

“I’ve been monitoring old Kaminoan frequency bands,” Tech began without preamble, “looking for any anomalies—communications, genetic requests, anything from facilities that should be long abandoned.”

“And?” Hunter asked, arms folded.

“I found something.”

He turned the datapad to show you all. A series of encrypted logs, time-stamped weeks apart, spooling from a server signature that was unmistakably Kaminoan.

“What does it say?” Echo asked, narrowing his eyes.

Tech adjusted his goggles.

“It confirms the destruction of the original Jango Fett genome,” he said quietly. “What remains is too unstable. The Kaminoans—what’s left of them—have been forced to switch templates.”

You didn’t move, but your stomach tightened.

“They replaced it with a different genetic foundation,” Tech continued. “Yours.”

The room went dead silent.

“They’re cloning me?” you asked, eyes narrowing.

“They’re not mass-producing soldiers,” Tech clarified. “Not yet. In fact, the data indicates only a handful of successful attempts. Five at most. One failed and was terminated early. One escaped—presumably, you. The others…”

He paused.

“…Are unknown.”

Hunter ran a hand over his face. “So what, they’re trying to build a new army with [Y/N] as the template now?”

“No. That’s the disturbing part,” Tech muttered. “They’re not making soldiers. The biological markers suggest something far more selective. Enhanced cognition. Higher Force sensitivity. But also… emotional suppression.”

“Sounds like the worst parts of me,” you said dryly.

Wrecker looked like he wanted to punch a wall. “But why her?”

“Because the original [Y/N] was the last living blood of Mand’alor the Great,” Echo said softly, eyes flicking toward you. “And if you can’t control Mandalore through politics…”

“…you create a version of [Y/N] who can be controlled,” Tech finished. “Sidious tried to use the original. Now he’s trying again—with clones he can shape.”

You felt something cold settle in your chest. A memory that didn’t belong to you flickered—sitting on a throne, holding the Darksaber, being called Mand’alor by enemies and allies alike.

None of it was real.

Except maybe it was.

“How do we stop this?” Echo asked. “What’s the play?”

“We find the remaining clones,” Hunter said. “We make sure none of them end up under Imperial control.”

“And if they already are?” Omega asked quietly.

No one answered.

You looked at the screen again, your face reflected in the data. Not [Y/N]. Not a soldier. Not a queen.

Just… you.

A copy.

But a copy still breathes.

⸻

Kamino - Facility Sub Levels

The rain hadn’t stopped on Kamino in months.

The sea lashed at the grey domes, and lightning cracked across the horizon like a warning. Inside the cloning facility—what remained of it—floors gleamed sterile under white light, but the silence was heavier than it should have been. Most of the cloning engineers were long gone. Only a skeleton crew remained, hand-picked by Nala Se, and bound by fear more than loyalty.

In the sublevels of the facility, behind multiple layers of clearance and biometric scans, three cells remained sealed.

Inside each sat a version of you.

They wore plain black tunics, stripped of armor or identity. The Kaminoans had stopped referring to them by names—they were just [Y/N]-2, [Y/N]-3, and [Y/N]-4 now.

Each clone had been an attempt to perfect what you—the rogue clone—had undone.

And each had failed.

In the observation room above the cells, Nala Se stood still, her gaze unflinching as she monitored the feed.

“[Y/N]-2 shows signs of high aggression and volatility,” her assistant droned beside her. “Incompatible with political control or infiltration missions. Conditioning unsuccessful.”

“[Y/N]-3 shows potential combat skill, but will not follow basic orders unless sedated.”

“And [Y/N]-4?”

The assistant hesitated.

“She refuses to speak. No implanted memories. No loyalty markers. She… simply watches.”

The monitor focused in on her—[Y/N]-4, the quietest of the three.

She sat in the corner of her cell, cross-legged, staring at the wall as if listening for something. She wasn’t violent. Wasn’t emotional. But there was something in her eyes that unsettled the guards.

Nala Se’s voice was cold. “Terminate?”

The assistant was about to answer when she held up a webbed hand. “No. We don’t have enough viable DNA left. The original clone was only retrieved through luck—and since then, degradation has occurred.”

She turned back to the screen.

“These are all we have left. The Emperor will not accept failure.”

A shadow moved at the far end of the lab. The assistant lowered his voice. “Shall I inform him of the recent behavioral instability?”

“No,” Nala Se said flatly. “Not until I can provide a solution. We cannot afford another execution order.”

A sudden shriek echoed down the hallway—metal slamming, something heavy falling. A guard’s voice shouted, cut off by a sickening thud.

Nala Se’s gaze flicked back to the screens. One of the cells had gone black.

“Which one is that?” she asked.

The assistant checked the readout. “It’s… [Y/N]-2. She—”

The feed snapped back on. The inside of the cell was in ruins. Two guards were unconscious. The clone stood in the middle, blood smeared on her knuckles. She was breathing heavily, a mad glint in her eye.

“You’re not gods,” she hissed at the overhead camera. “You’re just leeches trying to carve perfection out of someone else’s bones.”

She spat at the lens.

Nala Se didn’t flinch. “Sedate her. Reinforce the cell.”

“And if she breaks out again?”

Nala Se’s long fingers tightened against the console.

“…Then we call the Inquisitors.”

⸻

Kamino’s storms raged harder than usual that night, as if the planet itself rejected what was being done.

Inside the sublevel freight hangar, three stasis pods were lowered onto a discreet transport vessel. The pods hissed softly with coolant and sedation vapors, the soft lights illuminating the pale reflections of three almost-identical faces—[Y/N]-2, [Y/N]-3, [Y/N]-4.

Each bore your likeness. But none of them bore your soul.

“Are they stable?” asked the masked officer overseeing the transfer, his voice modulated.

Nala Se gave him a long glance before turning to her datapad. “Sedated. Restrained. Monitored. They will remain so for the duration of transit.”

“Where are they being taken?”

She didn’t look up. “That information is above your clearance.”

The officer hesitated. “They’re dangerous. You’ve said so yourself.”

“All living weapons are,” she replied, and walked away, the hem of her white robes fluttering behind her.

The ship, sleek and dark as obsidian, rose above the roiling waves and vanished into hyperspace without beacon or identification. The Kaminoans didn’t file a flight plan. Not even the Empire would track this vessel.

Only one knew where the clones were going.

⸻

Unknown Region — Location Redacted

The world was cold. Barren. A forgotten moon orbiting a dead system. The skies were black, the air thin. A storm never passed here, because no wind ever blew. The facility was built beneath the moon’s surface—hollowed out long before the Clone Wars ever began.

The Empire had found it after the fall of the Zygerrian slave rings. Silent, shielded, buried under meters of rock and secrecy.

This is where they brought the failures.

The transport settled into the docking station with a hydraulic thud. Droids swarmed the stasis pods. Clinical hands. Not human.

A figure emerged to greet them. Tall. Cloaked. Not Imperial. Not Kaminoan. But authorized.

“The assets have arrived,” the lead droid announced.

“Excellent,” said the figure. “Put them in separate containment. Begin neural observation and sensory restriction immediately.”

“What of reconditioning?” the droid asked.

The figure looked at the clones.

“Not yet. Let them dream.”

⸻

Deep beneath the facility, the clones were installed into soundproof, windowless chambers.

• [Y/N]-2 twitched slightly in her sedation, knuckles still scarred from the Kamino incident.

• [Y/N]-3 whispered names in her sleep. Names no one fed her.

• [Y/N]-4 stared at the ceiling even with her eyes closed. Silent. Waiting.

In the dark, under endless meters of stone and silence, the ghosts of you remained trapped.

Not dead.

Not free.

Just waiting for purpose.

⸻

You spotted Tech crouched under the Marauder’s main console again, half his body buried in cables. Sparks lit up his face every few seconds as he soldered the final piece of the stabilizer relay back into place.

“You nearly done?” you called from the porch, hand shading your eyes.

“I would be,” Tech muttered, “if not for the substandard field patching someone applied to the hyperdrive manifold.”

“That was me,” Wrecker grunted. “It worked, didn’t it?”

“It barely worked—”

“Boys,” Hunter interrupted from the fence line. “Let him finish.”

The ship hummed as Tech sealed the panel. Then something beeped sharply behind him. The cockpit’s terminal flickered to life.

“Huh…” Tech frowned. “That’s… not right.”

Echo, who had been helping fix a burst irrigation pipe with you earlier, set the spanner down and moved toward the ship. “What did you just pick up?”

Tech leaned into the console, typing rapidly. His brows knit.

“Encrypted transmission. It’s on a closed Kaminoan band. Old format. Barely still functioning.” He tapped a few keys. “It’s not a distress signal, but it is a data log. With active biosign readings.”

Echo stiffened. “Clone signatures?”

“Yes. Three, to be exact.” Tech turned and looked across the field toward you. “All genetically identical. All match [Y/N].”

You stood in the middle of the tilled soil, the sun warming your back, a bucket of compost forgotten in your hands.

“What the hell are you saying?” you asked.

Tech descended the ramp, datapad in hand, and showed it to you. The transmission was a garbled mess of metadata—facility IDs, stasis logs, protein synthesis markers. But the biometric code was unmistakable.

They weren’t just clones. They were you. Again.

You didn’t say anything. Not yet.

⸻

That night, you sat outside the farmhouse with Shaak Ti. The stars overhead were quiet and clear, just like always. Wrecker was snoring inside. Omega was asleep in the loft.

You watched the fields. The wind in the fences. The land you’d built with your hands.

“We found something,” you finally said.

“I know,” she answered.

You turned your head. “Of course you do.”

Shaak Ti’s expression didn’t shift. “What will you do?”

“They’re me.” You stared forward. “Or, some version. I can’t ignore it.”

“No,” she said softly. “You can’t.”

You rose to your feet, dusting dirt off your hands. “We’ll leave tomorrow. Or the next day. Let Tech finish.”

She nodded, but her eyes were distant.

You stepped toward her, tone light, trying not to make this into a moment.

“We’re going to just check something out. Shouldn’t be gone too long.”

Shaak Ti studied you silently. Her expression was unreadable, her silence stretching just a beat too long.

You tilted your head. “What? You’re not gonna tell me to bring a jacket or something?”

She smiled—but it didn’t reach her eyes.

“No. I trust you to prepare yourself. And I trust them to protect you.”

You felt the strange weight in her tone. Something unspoken. Something final.

“…You’re not going to try and stop me?”

Shaak Ti stood slowly, her gaze still fixed on the stars. “No. But I will ask that you let me say goodbye.”

Your brow furrowed. “Goodbye? I’m not going anywhere permanent.”

The Togruta looked at you like she was seeing straight through time itself.

“Shaak…” you hesitated. “You’re not leaving the farm, are you?”

She looked toward the field. The wind passed over her lekku like a breath.

“No,” she said softly. “It is you who won’t return.”

Your lips parted, but she turned away before you could respond.

Some part of you already knew she was right.

⸻

The low hum of the Marauder’s systems echoed through the dusk-lit clearing. The ship, finally repaired, cast long shadows across the wheat-colored dirt, its engines ready but idle. Inside, the air was heavy with tension.

Echo and Tech sat shoulder to shoulder at the console, the decrypted signal crackling in fragmented Aurabesh across the display. Holo-maps glitched, fuzzed, cleared.

“Definitely not Kamino anymore,” Echo muttered.

“Agreed,” Tech replied, fingers dancing across the keys. “Coordinates triangulate to the Outer Rim, deep in the Obenri system. A classified Imperial research site. No public record of the facility exists.”

“So off-books even by Kaminoan standards,” Echo said grimly.

Tech zoomed in on a floor schematic. “The clones were moved there within days of the Senate receiving confirmation of your survival. Nala Se’s genetic data entries stop shortly after that. Either she lost access—or someone higher up shut her out.”

You stood a few feet behind them, arms crossed. “And the clones?”

“Still alive,” Echo said. “Barely. Stasis pods. Monitored around the clock.”

“No other movement within the facility,” Tech added. “It’s not being used for broader cloning efforts. This isn’t about army production anymore. This… this is personal.”

You swallowed that down. Of course it was.

“They didn’t expect me to get this far.”

“No,” Tech confirmed quietly. “They didn’t.”

In the hold of the Marauder, the rest of the squad gathered as the stars began to rise outside. A caf pot steamed on the galley counter, long forgotten.

Hunter unfolded a map on the table, the projection flickering blue across the wood. His tone was sharp and commanding again—his mission voice. It had been a while since you’d heard it like that.

“Obenri System. One entry point. One exit. The compound’s built into the cliffside, meaning escape routes are limited. We go in fast, stay quiet, extract the clones, and get out.”

“Clones like her,” Wrecker clarified, glancing at you.

You nodded.

“You sure we want to extract them?” Echo asked, arms folded. “They’re not stable. And we don’t know how many failures they’re keeping off record.”

The room tensed.

Hunter didn’t rise to it. “We don’t leave them behind. Not again.”

There was a long silence.

“Shaak Ti said something last night,” you murmured.

They all turned to you.

“She said I wouldn’t be coming back.”

The words floated in the air like smoke.

“Well,” Echo said with a tired smile, “she’s been wrong before.”

⸻

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[cabezadeperro]

2024 in review

I wasn't actually going to do this this year, but what the hell.

2024 has been--weird. I think it's the year I've written the least since 2020, word-wise; it also saw me writing something non-Star Wars related for the first time in four years. These two things may or may not be connected.

Anyhow, this is a pretty short list with five fics that for whatever reason I find the most interesting. They aren't my favourites, they're not the best; but they were hard to write, or I learned something writing them, or I had fun, etc.

half agony, half hope. 34k, codex, T, also known as the persuasion AU though it's more of a homage to one of my favourite novels ever. it was extremely hard to write and it took me a while to get out of my own way and just do it.

you'll like it if you enjoy pining and yearning, smart and competent people so deep inside their own asses they can't see what's right in front of them, the agonies of being 20 and responsible for the lives of millions of people and a clone trooper, jane austen, cody being fucking stupid.

home alone. 2.9k, jango fett/obi-wan kenobi, E. part of my daredevil AU. I don't think it's a very good fic, and I feel too self-conscious to reread it and find out if it's actually bad, but that's okay. The fact that I wrote something like this (that is, something that's quite a bit of my comfort zone for a couple reasons) is good enough imo.

you'll like it if you enjoy fics that are pwp but a bit to the left, trans jango fett, obi-wan being the annoying kind of service top, established relationships and domesticity, superhero AUs that aren't actually about superheroing.

islands. 9.4k, codex + anakin & rex, T. The Force Sensitive Rex fic. I am very proud of this fic. I think it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and I had a lot of fun writing it. I loooove writing these three in different combinations, and I really enjoyed having them interact in such a weird scenario.

you'll like it if you enjoy shrimp emotions, Force Stuff TM, force sensitive clones, fics where there's no Anakin bashing that acknowledge that there is something very wrong with him (affectionate), cody and rex being obsessed with each other, rex being a messed up lil guy.

smoke signals and code. 3.5k, jason todd/tim drake, T. This fic was my return to Batman comics and to this ship after a decade. I think it's kind of rough, but I'm still pretty proud of it, and I had so much fun writing them again and coming back to this world and these characters. In a lot of ways it was very much like coming home.

you'll like it if you enjoy unresolved sexual tension, calculated violence, characters who are too clever for their own good, that very specific brand of fucked-up-ness you find in late 90s/early 00s batman comics, ships that take the trope "enemies to lovers" as a challenge.

irradiated. 1.5k, vader/rex/cody, E. I wrote this as a gift for a friend. It's the kind of fic that is only supposed to be liked by one person--if anyone else enjoys it, that's great, but it is very much tailored for one person's tastes. In this case, that means it is weird as hell. There's a POV change half-way through, it's more of a character/relationship study, it actually doesn't have a plot, it sits right on the border between experimental and presumptuous, I'm not that sure it works. And I had a lot of fun writing it (and my friend liked it ❤️).

you'll like it if you enjoy second person point of view, Vader being weird, a bit of body horror in your not quite smut, open/ambiguous everything, Imperial Era stuff, weird style choices.

[mock-arts]

Cover Illustration for @popjeckdoom’s fic for the swbigbang, “Bonds of Beskar: Dagger’s Dominion”

Rated M Check it out on Ao3! (Also on Ao3, this art)

Wolffe has been struggling to adjust without his eye, and struggling, even more, to remember why it was taken. Nightmares remind him of a mysterious journal left behind by his grandfather, Jaster Mereel, which reveals Ventress' true purpose. As his grandfather wrote: "Whoever controls The Dagger of Mortis, controls the Dark Side.” What was once the idle musings of a history buff becomes a race to find the Dagger before Ventress, and as a consequence, find his grandfather--who was the last person to have it, before he disappeared.

Meanwhile, Boba has a mission of his own. Track down Anakin Skywalker--and bring him home.

Wolffe/Master Fay, Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Fox & Obi-Wan Kenobi, Cody & Fox, Boba Fett & Rex, Din Djarin & Boba Fett, Bly/Aayla Secura

Alternate Universe - Mandalorian Empire, Alternate Universe - Sith Empire, Alternate Universe, NOT AN INTEGRATION AU, Force Sensitive Boba Fett, The Clones are Jango's Sons, Fluff and Angst, PTSD, Torture, Mind Control, Mental Illness, Recovery