The squeal I let out when I saw my boys in comic form. Feels so good to see them again since bad batch ended. And Wolffe in his red colours! Looking forward to this read definitely, a nice add to the collection 👌🏻
This took me about two months to finish and it's the biggest piece I've ever done. Inspiration came while I was listening to Fast Car by Tracy Chapman one day, and the vision of Hunter and Omega swaying to the rhythm together came to life before my eyes. Listening to it more brought a realization that some parts of the song fit the story of these two almost perfectly, taking them on a journey from the very first episode of the show to the day peace is restored in the galaxy - like the first verse talking about their beginnings and the second one describing the struggles of living from job to job that we see in season 2. But the core of the story - of the show, of this duo, and of these characters separately - can be brought down to these four lines:
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
In case Tumblr messes with the quality, you can find the separate pieces, in order, under the cut.
I have to say with the exception of my boys Rex, Cody and the bad batch. The rebels shelf does have a special place in my heart the first series to get me into Star Wars since the prequels all those years ago. Now look where we are 💕
Now that we have an ending to the bad batch, getting to see our boys live happily ever after is something I could’ve only dreamed of.
I only wished Tech was there to also be apart of that. But part of me understands his sacrifice to save his brothers and sister, and it was so heroic of him I couldn’t imagine him going down for anything else. It wouldn’t have felt right for anyone else to have died because then what would his sacrifice have been for?
Also slightly grateful now that we didn’t get see Tech’s body, as I don’t think I could have that image in my brain. We get to remember Tech just the way he was and always will be in my mind 💕
Rebels really gave us different and believable ways of grieving for each character. Hera hanging out with her oldest friend Chopper, finding some way to blame herself for Kanan's death and then honouring his memory in her family's Kalikori. Ezra wandering off alone, lost and directionless without his master, but slowly coming to accept Kanan's loss and letting him go, to learn from his sacrifice. Sabine and Zeb's immediate instinct to go blow shit up and make the Empire pay, but staying each other's hand when things get too violent, because Kanan taught them that how they fight is just as important as why. And all of them are able to come together after they've processed his death in their own ways, to hold each other in their grief and continue working as a team in his memory.
What do you mean these aren’t canon? This definitely happened
Chronicles of Batch Mom Echo
AKA four examples of Echo being the batch’s last straw tying them to reality <3
Sources and a side note ⬇️
This post was suggested by someone on my Instagram (you can follow me there if you want; there's a bit of content overlap, but I do try to upload different stuff there when I can)
I know most of us are normal but I just would like to remind SOME of the fanbase that if CX-2 isn't Tech or Cody (or whoever else) then do NOT harass the crew. That's shit behaviour. You have to accept that theories are just that until proven correct or incorrect, and you can not treat fan theories like canon, or things that "should have been" canon. If you become so angry at being wrong that you feel the need to harass the crew, then you have only yourself to blame for allowing the theory to obscure and your enjoyment of the show and it's ending. That is how they wanted to tell the story. It is not their job to give us what we want. That's what fanfics and fix-it fics are for.
I also want CX-2 to be Tech. I have made my own posts about the similarities between the two. But that's all they are: theories. If CX-2 never appears again or is confirmed to be Some Rando™ then we're just gonna have to deal with it. We can not change that. You can not change that. But you HAVE TO RESPECT Jennifer, Brad, Dave, and all the other members of the crew. Be. Normal.
I’m using this space here as my personal venting arena so please feel free to ignore. Since watching season 2 the bad batch I jumped straight onto the Tech is alive train straight away since we didn’t see a body and then all the theories started coming out and I was feeling quite positive about our boy returning to his family.
With only 4 episodes left of the bad batch this hope is slowly decreasing. When Kanan died even though I’d seen the scene before, having seen it before watching the actual rebels show, the comparisons when baby Grogu did his thing. I was so upset for hours inconsolable because I was mourning him. With Tech’s scene in plan 99 I didn’t have that, even though once again I knew the scene was coming. I now realise I have surpressed my mourning in the hopes that he’d return and now that it’s looking less and less likely I can feel my body and mind slowly starting the mourning process.
A small sliver of hope exists that we may see him again but I feel it decrease as each episode passes and we get closer to the finale. And it may also be my pregnancy hormones boosting overload 😂 I miss him.
I’m really hoping that Wrecker, Hunter and Echo aren’t going to give Crosshair shit for losing Omega. I hope that they realise that he lost her the exact same way they did at the end of season 2. Omega sacrificing herself to save her brothers/Pabu. Hopefully this brings them all together, that was a couple of dark episodes there.