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Blood and Bonds

When an injured Rex is cornered by one of the Empire's deadliest new troopers, the last thing he expects is for his pursuer to turn out to be a familiar, beloved face - nor for the trooper to choose defection for his sake. With nowhere else to go but Rex's base, the two of them must come to terms with the changes that have been wrought upon Cody, the impact on their once-thriving relationship, and whether or not there's a future they can see themselves working together for.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types

Relationship: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex

Characters: CT-7567 | RexCC-2224 | Cody

Additional Tags: Major Character Injury, Purge Trooper CC-2224 | Cody (formerly), Tending Wounds, Infection, past relationship, Hurt CT-7567 | Rex, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Words: 5,020

Chapters: 1/7

It’s finally here! Chapter 1 of my full @codex-week fic is now on AO3 (and it’s still February, hooray!)

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Codex Week 2025 Masterlist

All 7 days of art for Codex Week! It had only taken me 3 years to complete them all, but I’m glad this happened, and big thanks to @codex-week for another fun year!

⭐️ Day 1: Tending Wounds

⭐️ Day 2: Alt 1 Coldest Night by Henry Prestes

⭐️ Day 3: Clone Rebellion

⭐️ Day 4: Amnesia | Missing Memories

⭐️ Day 5: Intimate Vulnerability

⭐️ Day 6: Nightmares | Insomnia

⭐️ Day 7: After the War

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Day 7: After the War

[ART] After the War by @rexsterss

[ART] [G] It's After the War... by @night-terrors-official

[G] The war is over, what next? (AO3) by @gun-roswell

[T] Already Crossed the Line (AO3) by @elthadriel

[T] As It Was (AO3) by @blirzy

[T] The Coldest Nights (AO3) by @eomereadig

[T] Different (AO3) by @zeldurz

Alt Prompts:

[ART] Colours of the sea (AO3) by @wolviecat

[ART] Forest Maze (AO3) by @aerjnn

[ART] Hold on just a little bit longer. (AO3) by @brokenphoenix99

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@codex-week 2025 art mini-masterpost!

I already did one of these for my fics [which you can find here on @sammys-magical-au] so u figured it couldn’t hurt to do one for my art pieces as well!

Codex Week 2025 art pieces!

Day 2: Married on Mandalore (moodboard)

Day 4: Lovers in War, Lovers no Matter Where (moodboard)

Day 7: It’s After the War (drawing w/ bonus short fic)

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@codex-week 2025 fics mini masterpost!

I wanted to make a masterpost for the fics that I wrote for this event, just so they’re easier to find/binge-read if y’all want to :3 all of these are reasonably short and come with necessary content warnings! Enjoy~

[Also - for days 2, 4 and 7, see this masterpost of my art pieces on @night-terrors-official!]

Codex Week 2025 fics!

Day 1: Heartbreak is One Thing, My Ego’s Another

Day 3: Dare

Day 5: Room for One More

Day 6: Just a Bad Dream

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@codex-week ALT Prompt - Forest Maze by Killian Eng

This is another scene from the fic islands by @cabezadeperro (yes, I was very inspired by this fic) where Rex and Anakin stand at the edge of a cliff looking down at the ruins of a city and the abandoned Jedi temple they can both feel reaching out to them. I loved what María wrote here:

The trees under their feet swell and drop in liquid waves, like the ocean and not at all.

Also on AO3

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Force Sensitive!Cody/Commander Rex of the 212th. Sith Artefact-hunting gone wrong.

For @codex-week Day 7 - After The War and Art Prompt of "FOREST MAZE" BY KILIAN ENG

Force Sensitive clones were trained by the Jedi and paired with their own Clone Commanders. After the war, Knight Cody and Commander Rex continue hunting down Sith Artefacts and fighting the darkness in the galaxy.

One way or another Cody would get Rex to safety.... the Sith Temple hidden in the heart of the Forest Maze hadn't wanted to let them leave...

Also on ao3 HERE for better quality - right click on long hold, select 'preview'.

Close-up and art Inspiration under the cut.

Tiny art Tag list: @loverboy-havocboy @chaicilatte @elismor

Many thanks to @codex-week for hosting this awesome event! I had so much fun!! Now to catch up on all the other incredible entries!! 🧡💙

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Codex Week 2025, Codex Week Day 7 - After The War, Post-Order 66 (Star Wars) Series: Part 3 of Can you show me where it hurts? Summary:

In this world, it’s just us

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What’s this? Me? Posting a SECOND fic for @codex-week? You people better make a wish, this is not normal

Decided to give it a try and actually finished my day 7 fic <3 (it may not be day 7 here anymore but it sure is in the few timezones behind mine)

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex, CT-5597 | Jesse, CT-6116 | Kix, Clone Force 99 | Bad Batch, Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: codex-week’s Codex Week 2025, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Order 66 Didn’t Happen (Star Wars), Hopeful future, Doubt, Final Day (D7), Codex - Freeform Series: Part 15 of Codex Week, Part 28 of Cody/Rex Summary: The war is over - now what?

Notes: Last day, last prompt! See ya next year!!!

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My new fic’s up! @codex-week

Title: Can I kiss you?

Summary: After a grueling ground and space battle Cody decides to shoot his shot with Rex. Happily, Rex has the exact same idea.

For Codex Week Day 5: Initimate Vulnerability

Tags: SFW, First Kiss, Fluff, Fade to Black, Making Out, Getting Together, Post-Battle, Thank the Force we’re alive

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63306958

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Codex Week 2025 - Day 7: After the War

This was a tricky one to choose a reasonably-sized, non-spoilery snippet for. Literally finished this chapter two days ago so it could be a while before it makes it onto AO3, but hey, who doesn’t love an extended @codex-week? ;D Thanks to everyone who has shown some love for these snippets so far, you’re all very kind! <3

“Need a drink?” Rex asks offhandedly at the end of his yawn, already planning for a quick shower in favour of rolling into bed sooner.

He feels Cody shake his head, a quiet “I’m good, thanks,” mumbled into his skin, and Rex makes a note to offer again in a day or two. They’ll have to do some more calculations on their new serum stock and the number of Purge Troopers they need to supply for. It helps marginally that Cody, Wolffe and Boost have willing donors in himself and Sinker, but they’ll need to be careful with how much everyone is giving instead of the serum - if any of the Purge clones are comfortable taking blood from a volunteer, or even if any of the fully-human clones are comfortable volunteering, too. The droids they’ve stolen might know how to formulate -

A nip to his ear stops his thoughts in their tracks. “Leave the overthinking to someone with the time on their hands to do so,” Cody tells him, and Rex chuckles.

“Weren’t Captains supposed to do the thinking for their Commanders?”

“I’m your Commander, am I?” He might not be warm, but his tone is, and Rex twists his neck around for a kiss.

“Always,” he responds, quietly pleased that Cody doesn’t fight that sentiment now like he did some months ago.

His approval must have traveled through the bond, because Cody smiles, small and secret, back at him, squeezing his hips as he says, “Go ahead and clean up. I’ll try and warm up a bit for you.”

Rex steals another quick kiss, because he can, and takes his shower as fast as he can get away with. The water is cold - one of the only downsides of the monastery, and nothing they do seems to fix the problem for any substantial length of time - and the bed is no warmer for Cody’s presence in it, though he tries to lessen the impact by getting under the covers for a bit first. Even as Rex buries himself underneath them too, though, he thinks to himself again that he’d rather have Cody in his bed and cool than not have him whatsoever.

Not when there are so many others he’ll never get a second chance with.

He shoves that line of thinking away and enjoys the moment, arranging himself between the wall and Cody, his back to Cody’s front, an arm over his waist, the bond practically vibrating with content. Rex almost thinks to ask if Cody really needs to go back to the rescued troopers tonight, but kills the thought before it fully forms - this is everything Cody has been working towards for month after month on information all but thrown to the void, and Rex will be the last person to keep him from those he’s yearned to help. They’ll have time after the dust has settled to indulge in selfish days together.

What ‘dust’, exactly?

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Codex Week Day 7: Already Crossed the Line

Summary: The rebellion has won, and Moff Cody Antilles waits for them to realise he won't be forced to spill imperial secrets. And then his doppelganger sits down across from him. Rating: T Tags: Post-Return of the Jedi, Imperial Cody, Rebel Rex, Amnesia, Interrogation, Ambiguous/Open Ending For @codex-week day 7: After the War

The cup of water they put in front of Cody six hours ago is still there. It was cold then, condensation clinging to the sides and pooling under the bottom, but now it’s clear and hopelessly lukewarm. Cody hasn’t touched it. He might need to eventually, but it had been placed down by a stout woman with a big smile and warm words that hadn’t reached her eyes. Cody can’t reward that sort of behaviour. 

He’ll drink from the taps the next time they take him to piss. 

The rebels think they can outlast him. It’s an optimistic assessment on their part, but one that he’ll enjoy while it lasts. 

Boredom is significantly preferable to torture. 

Neither will break him.

The chair he’s in is uncomfortable, in a way that hadn’t made itself known until he’d been in it for hours. They’re weeks into this now, and he and the chair, and the ache it leaves in his back, are old friends now. He shifts and moves the pain to his tail bone. There's a matching chair across from him, one he hopes his interrogators hate as much as he does. The desk between the two chairs is as uninspiring as they are, plain grey metal, no sharp corners. All three are welded to the floor. The only break to the smooth lines of the desk is a ring on Cody’s side, a chain looped through it, linking to cuffs on his hands. 

He’s tested all points, as subtly as he could manage; even twenty years younger and he’d have had a hard time making even a dent in any of it. 

All the walls are plain—letting him stew in his boredom—except for the door to his left and the large mirror opposite him that takes up most of the wall.

He lets the mirror stare at him, his own reflection poor mask for the room behind and the rebels watching him. They must have so many officers and politicians to sort through, struggling to know who is worth applying pressure on. Cody has been spoken to by dozens of people in the last two weeks, but no one since the woman this morning. 

They’re getting frustrated with him. 

Read the rest on Ao3

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There wasn’t a lot colors on Kamino - at least not those visible for anyone else but the Kaminoans. You had to be willing to risk a lot to see what was there, in the depths of the ocean.

Last Day of @codex-week, alt prompt UNTITLED BY JAMES FENNER

I hope you enjoyed it ❤️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63298396

Also last few days to become Clone art club member and get Tech postcard

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Codex Week 2025, Day 7: After the War @codex-week

It’s one of those days when they realise that retirement is very good, and that taking all the naps they want is fun to have as an option.

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It’s After the War…

For @codex-week day 7 - After the War 🤭

I’ve had this idea for a drawing bumping around in my head for a while, and I thought Codex week was the perfect opportunity to finally do it! It’s based on this screencap here (which I don’t know the origins of, so if anybody knows where this is from I’d definitely like to know!) 👇

And since I included a fic with another of my Codex drawings from a while ago, here’s a short fic for this one too 😁

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The Clone Wars were over. Had been for more than a year now. The Republic was slowly rebuilding itself, slowly coming to terms with the fact that all of it - all the terror, all the violence, all the death and destruction - all of it was finally, finally over.

Cody couldn’t lie - he’d been at the centre of it all when the war had finally come to a screeching, gruesome halt. It hadn’t been glorious, there hadn’t been any cheering or celebration, not like there was now at least. The war hadn’t even gone out with any sort of a bang either, more of a pitiful, agonizing wail of despair that slowly faded out as the rest of the galaxy realized what had happened.

There was one thing that had made it all worth it, and that was getting to see the face of the man he loved on the other side, the moment he had locked eyes with Rex in the sunny Naboo streets and they had instantly fallen into each other’s arms. Cody almost hadn’t been able to believe it, the war was over and they were both alive.

Even now, more than a year later, it was still a little hard to believe sometimes.

Cody wasn’t usually the type to get overwhelmed or nervous, but as he adjusted the collar of the pale apricot colored shirt that was part of his uniform, he found that his hands were uncharacteristically shaky.

Beside him, Lionel, who had their arm linked with Obi-Wan, immediately noticed.

“Hey. You okay, Cody?” They asked softly, lightly bumping his shoulder, and Cody cleared his throat as Obi-Wan also turned to look at him with a worried expression.

“Fine, Lionel,” he murmured with a half-forced smile, “I just feel a little… odd for doing this in public, is all.”

Lionel and Obi-Wan looked at each other and chuckled understandingly.

“You have nothing to worry about, Cody,” Obi-Wan said, “just be your usual charming self and everything will go perfectly fine.”

“You’re making it sound like I’m about to propose.” Cody snorted.

“Well, this is good practice for whenever you decide to do that.” Lionel put in, smirking.

Cody hoped the flare of anticipation and anxiety in his stomach at the prospect of ever asking Rex to marry him didn’t show on his face, but by the way Lionel winked at him, he assumed that unfortunately it had.

“If I can do it, so can you.” They added more quietly, leaning a little closer to Cody and giving him a firm, reassuring pat on the shoulder.

Cody smiled in response.

“Thanks, Nel.” He said, in an equally quiet voice.

“Um, Cody,” Obi-Wan cut in, clearly only pretending he hadn’t heard that part, “I believe someone is looking for you.”

Cody abruptly looked up and saw that Obi-Wan was right.

Across the crowded ballroom of Theed’s royal palace, Cody spotted the immediately recognizable blue and white uniforms of the 501st, with undershirts that were the pale color of the sky on the horizon.

It seemed that Anakin’s legion had just arrived at the palace based on how they were still grouped together, but Cody knew almost instinctively that Rex was among them, and wasn’t looking for anyone but him.

And, as if thinking of him had conjured him in front of Cody’s eyes, he spotted Rex at the edge of the crowd, scanning the mass of faces around him.

His eyes met Cody’s, and he immediately smiled. Cody smiled back, feeling his heart leap in his chest and his face turning just slightly warmer than before.

He shot a glance at Lionel and Obi-Wan, who both nodded, practically in sync - it really wasn’t a surprise that the two of them fit so well together as a couple.

“Go on, loverboy.” Lionel teased, giving him a nudge with their elbow.

Cody hesitated for half a second, then nodded back, setting off across the ballroom floor with his hands behind his back to conceal the surprise intended for Rex.

By the time he reached Rex’s side, Echo and Fives had appeared, and by the slightly annoyed (albeit also mildly amused) look on Rex’s face, Cody assumed the twins were up to their usual antics. Deep down, the pair of them were still the same shinies he and Rex had met at the beginning of the war, even after all this time.

“Cody.” Rex murmured, his smile widening as he saw Cody approaching.

“Rex.” Cody replied, a little more curtly than he’d intended to.

Rex just laughed, seemingly not minding (or perhaps just used to) Cody’s stoicism, and pressed a chaste kiss to the bridge of Cody’s nose.

Cody felt himself go just a little weak in the knees.

What the hell was wrong with him? He and Rex had been together for almost the entirety of the war, and yet he was still the one person that could make Cody immediately drop his usual nonchalont, standoffish demeanour.

“Hey, what’ve you got there, Cody?”

Fives’ teasing voice snapped Cody out of it.

“Mind your business.” Cody grumbled, half turning away as Fives tried to weave around him to see what he was hiding. Unfortunately, Echo went the other way and immediately managed to catch a glimpse.

“Ooh, flowers?” He practically taunted, “you got flowers? That’s unlike you, Commander.”

“Aww, are they for us?” Fives added with a wickedly teasing grin.

“Would you two fools shut up?” Cody growled, rolling his eyes.

Rex, meanwhile, had tilted his head to the side.

“Flowers?” He asked softly. He was still fairly oblivious to what was going on despite Echo and Fives’ nosiness, and that just made him all the more endearing in Cody’s eyes.

Cody laughed shyly.

“Yeah,” he murmured, “from Mandalore. You remember these, right? When you and I stayed there not long after the war ended, you said you’d never seen anything more beautiful.”

As he said it, Cody pulled the carefully and meticulously crafted bouquet that he, along with the help of Waxer, Boil, and Numa, had spent almost an hour on before the event from behind his back.

The arrangement was made solely of vormur flowers, but was far from boring, with a vibrant assortment of fuchsia, coquelicot, cerulean, apricot, pale magenta, fulvous, and light turquoise blooms, all complimented by rich viridian leaves and the quercitron colored paper they were wrapped in. Along with that, the flowers’ fragrance - a sweet and powerful aroma - only magnified its beauty that much more.

Rex’s eyes lit up when he saw it, but he still looked a little perplexed as he almost tentatively reached out to take the flowers from Cody, who had to bite the inside of his mouth to keep an affectionate chuckle at bay.

“For me?” Rex asked, even though he already had the bouquet in his arms.

Cody lost the battle against his laughter.

“Of course they’re for you.” He murmured, unable to keep the grin off his face.

Rex finally smiled too.

“Thank you, Codes.” He said softly, before grabbing Cody’s arm and pulling him in for a proper kiss, one that caught Cody completely by surprise and left him blushing more than he’d have liked to admit.

Echo and Fives were snickering, but for once Cody didn’t feel even the slightest inclination to snap at them for it.

The Clone Wars were over. Had been for more than a year now. And Cody and Rex had the rest of their lives to be happy, together.

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Day 6: Nightmares | Insomnia

[ART] Nightmares | Insomnia by @nooneherebutaghost

[ART] Nightmares | Insomnia by @rexsterss

[ART] "Sshhh, Rex'ika, I'm here" by @brokenphoenix99

[G] What Being Mended Feels Like (AO3) by @elthadriel

[G] Sleep, is overrated anyway? (AO3) by @gun-roswell

[T] Nightmares (AO3) by @eomereadig

[T] Just Fine (AO3) by @zeldurz

[Unrated] Just a Bad Dream by @sammys-magical-au

[Unrated] Nightmares | Insomnia by @dreamingangelwolf

Alt Prompts:

[ART] Forest maze (AO3) by @wolviecat

[ART] "...At some time, every creature which lives must do so...." by @omaano

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, CT-7567 | Rex Additional Tags: codex-week’s Codex Week 2025, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Insomnia, Nightmares, Fluff, Trooper Thursday Series: Part 27 of Cody/Rex, Part 14 of Codex Week, Part 18 of Trooper Thursday Summary: The nightmares never ending?