#and cody. just in general

[beskarfrog]

I've been having a codywan au running around my brain the last few days and I thought I'd share.

Let's imagine that Palpatine calculates his plan a bit differently and starts the Clone Wars about ten years earlier, just after the Naboo invasion. You end up with a young grieving Obi-Wan attempting to run a battalion and raise a precocious child at the same time.

Enter the 212th's competent, attractive Commander who is the only thing making Obi-Wan's life easier at the moment. Cody is a bit horrified at having a nine year old on their battle ship, but he does his best to help Obi-Wan create some structure and safety in Anakin's life. All of the clones enjoy having the little rascal around and are happy to watch Anakin while Cody and Obi-Wan do their evening paperwork. (If those paperwork sessions eventually become more like paperwork dates, well, no one's the wiser.) Anakin gets some sense of what healthy non-attached relationships look like through Cody and Obi-Wan's fumbling romance, so he doesn't end up eloping later in life. He's also relatively isolated from Palpatine's influence due to being stuck with Obi-Wan on the frontlines.

I'm sure that Anakin gets in several arguments with Obi-Wan and Cody about how useful he could be on the battlefield during the war if they just let him participate. I really enjoy the idea of Anakin yelling "You can't tell me what to do! You're not my dad! I've never had a dad!" at Cody.

Cody scratches the back of his neck and awkwardly says, "I don't have a dad either. Or a mom." And Anakin feels so bad that the clones didn't have a mom that he starts listening to Cody and Obi-Wan more often.

[jedi-starbird]

Obi-Wan: oh? who's this?

Cody, who's been carting around an orange cat he found sleeping in Obi-Wan’s discarded robe all day, and assumed that his general had been transformed due to standard Force Bullshit™️: ...no one. apparently.

[starwarjotta]

kissy codywan (I'm a bit late but this is absolutely for @dontbelasagnax's codywan kissing agenda)

[slapyou-intheface-blog]

*After meeting for the first time*

Obi Wan: My only talent is being stress.

Cody: Don’t you mean stressed?

Obi Wan: No.

Cody: …I think I want a new general.

[amandamadeathing]

Good placement, Tumblr. These two posts by @thesmegalodon and @rochenn were on top of each other.

[cinerins]

2003 Clone Wars is so-so, but I have to admit, it's fun and it has a ton of little scenarios I really appreciate as a former Star Wars kid

Such as the ARC trooper segments, Mace Windu tearing up an entire droid army, and not to mention Jedi wearing full armor for certain battles!! Love that they kept their capes/cloaks to distinguish them, it's all so dramatic

Speaking of—Based on what I remember of later instances, I actually prefer this one's depiction of Ventress and Grievous

Grievous comes closer to a creepy crawly version of Vader, but it honestly works really well for the setup. He actually feels dangerous and somewhat unpredictable, giving multiple Jedi a real struggle despite his lack of any Force talent

For Ventress, I enjoyed the way she acted more ambitious, arrogant and immature—like a mirror to Anakin's character. In that way, I thought she actually would've made a fun counterpart to him, if they had kept that direction in the later show

Also her design?? Shout out to this dramatic little cloak, it's so endearing

There's more I could talk about, but honestly my thoughts just keep coming back to the best Cody moment in the entire franchise. Should've let him use his jetpack more what a goober

[omgahgase]

i love the idea of cody and obi-wan needing to go undercover for some mission that they do not trust anakin, rex, and ahsoka for. they somehow end up with a ridiculous backstory of being a married couple from a farming planet who'll spy on a separatist command base and rex—rex just can't fully wrap his head around it.

"so you and general kenobi are meant to be a lovers?"

"yes."

"and you're supposed to," rex waves his hand in a flimsy, confused motion, "play the part?"

"yes, vod. we've already done the debriefing. weren't you paying attention?"

"not in the slightest. what if the general wants to hold hands?"

"i'm prepared to make that sacrifice."

"what if he wants to kiss?"

"i'm prepared to make that sacrifice."

"what if he—"

"brother, you don't want to know how far i'll go for this mission. it's for the greater good. everyone is counting on obi-wan and i."

rex is quiet for a moment longer than necessary and it all clicks in that split second and a half it takes him to realize—because this is cody and rex knows him better than he knows the back of his own hand—that maybe cody won't be 'playing the part' of being in love with the general.

because cody has been in love with him since he stopped being "general kenobi" and became just "obi-wan".

[bl00dn0t3-x3]

hey siri, how do i become a cute and attractive prince that everyone loves and adores and never wants to go away?

hey siri, how do i become an angel that people flock to like pigeons?

hey siri, how do i become a magical boy that nobody could ever mistake to be a girl?

hey siri, how do i become a cute and pretty little doll that's beloved and cherished?

[backpackingspace]

Vadar: who can still feel obi wan even if he can't find the bastard: he's alive and we're going to tare the galaxy apart till we find him and crush him like the bug he is am I understand

Cody: general kenobi is dead I killed him myself

Vadar: who can feel that his old master is alive

Vadar: who knows exactly how unkillable obi wan is.

Vadar: who knows for a fact Cody shot once, missed , and declared him dead.

Cody: who is perfectly aware of all of this: I shot him myself. He's dead. I never fail a mission objective

[deserthusbands]

cody, gently kissing obi-wan's cheek: your beard tickles.

obi-wan: ah.. should i shave it off then? a new look, at least for a little while certainly wouldn't hurt

cody: absolutely not.

obiwan:

cody:

cody: i like the tickle.

[bird29184]

Cody:*sleeping*

Lord Sidious:*suddenly appeared with a wicked smile*I'll make your favorite thing disappear!!!>:D

Cody:*suddenly woke up*

Cody:*touch the body behind him*General Kenobi was there

Cody:*go out to the hallway*Captain Rex was there

Cody:*dialed a holo call*Commander Fox was there

Cody:*breath a sigh of relief*

General Kenobi in 3D style:hello there!=D

Cody:

Cody:wait

[ghostofpatrickshand]

that part in n.m.e. when cody says "posting it 10 times a day"

[nakaremfarlei]

Was just thinking about the amount of animals Obi-Wan interacts with compared to literally everyone else and in the Clone Wars episode where Kamino gets attacked he literally gets saved twice by the same ray-like animal and just...

The growth from judging Qui-Gon for the 'pathetic lifeforms' he picks up to whatever he has going on during the Clone Wars era. He must have gotten that from Qui-Gon though, right?

And because it's my brain and it's rotting with all the star wars stuff I am consuming I was thinking of Obi-Wan saving all these creatures and the 212th having to deal with that. Surely they made one of the rooms pet proof in case one of them needs a new home. There also have to be clones who love that because of course Obi-Wan can't really take care of rescues on top of all his duties.

After the first few times this happens Cody learns to order animal food and other necessities. And if the Republic doesn't fulfill these requests or asks too many questions he'll just have to make sure to organize them on planet during the campaigns.

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Everyone writes Cody as “I do not care for *looks at smudged handwriting* Anfin and Aska”

WRONG

I believe that he truly does care for them and the rest of the 151st. He just doesn’t show it outright because it’s against regulations and bc he’s scared of getting attached bc he could die or they could die at any moment

“But he shows his affection for Obi-Wan-“

… it’s OBI-WAN FUCKING KENOBI of course he would.

That redhead-mullet-beard combo motherfucker had sith, mandolarians, other Jedi, and many many many many others in love with him at all times.

He was the Hozier, Pedro Pascal, Henry Cavill, Oscar Isaac, Micheal B Jordan, Simu Liu, etc etc for space people

Not a fair comparison

[sven-a-la-mode]

*trying really hard not to cry* its just that all the love anakin put into the universe is what saved it all in the end. Like he made terrible choices but the people who he loved saved the galaxy in his name anyways

[atopvisenyashill]

Worst things GOT did casting wise:

- making Dany too beautiful (+ styling her in a way that she never has a hair out of place, always wears BLUE - which makes her look peaceful and soft and angelic, not making her burn her hair off etc). I just think of that one official art piece that's in the illustrated AGOT book where dany is bald, with the dragons and sparks and frames around her and its so striking instead of the "beautiful angelic blonde women stand empowered with her tits out" scene we got

- casting Iain Glen as Jorah and not like. a random Lannister (like. Come on. He is a burly and ugly man... why are you casting one of the most beautiful men to play him.... this is how we ended up with dany/jorah shippers)

-making Joffrey too unattractive (this is not meant to disparage JG who is a great actor and seems like a really cool dude and i'm not saying he's ugly but I think from his very first scene Joffrey looks very punchable and it would have been so much smarter to make the audience .. relate to Sansa's infatuation with his golden looks. In my head (and in all the official art) Joffrey looks like a male version of cersei/a younger version of Jaime.)

- making Dany, Jon, Robb, Marg, Brienne etc 10+ years older than Sansa and the younger starklings .... It's not "the main characters and arya (who is so cool and can kill people) + the little children" it's ONE AGE group of equally important characters

Like I know people are upset at Ned/Jon etc being too attractive, WHICH I GET, but I feel like those were very vibe based casting decisions and i'm ultimately fine with that (I also think it's easier for the audience to root for someone if they're attractive so like. I guess they had to do it) but these other things resulated in people's perception of the characters being so wildly different from what they're supposed to be. The real reason people get so angry whenever someone says they wish tamzin had stayed is because they don't like the idea of daenerys not being this ethereal beauty (TM is beautiful but not in a conventional way) that they can fully root for without issue.

1. NO YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT ABOUT THEM REFUSING TO LET DANY LOOK UGLY. it’s not to say tamzin isn’t clearly beautiful, but i think she’s beautiful in the same way gwendoline christie is, which is that she’s very striking and she has a strong presence but she’s not exactly what people picture when they say “typical hot lady” (which is Crazy these are all able bodied white women, like the definition of “beauty” is soooooo fuckijg narrow that tamzin merchant is ~atypically beautiful) vs emilia definitely is, and YES like everything from not burning her hair off to emilia being,,,,,fuller in figure than dany as a fourteen year old would be is just very clear that they saw dany different than the way she is On The Page. i mean i know people whack george for saying that she’s like a sexy funny lady or whatever but george never lets go of the fact that she’s incredibly young whereas d&d completely miss that part of her character.

i will say i Get the criticism of tamzin perhaps not picking up on the conlangs easily because one thing you can say for emilia is that she had a decent head for the conlangs, she’s even still partially fluent in dothraki lmaooo. but all the other stuff they said about why they recast dany it’s like. hmmmmmmmmmm.

2. absolutely right about iain especially because he’s similar to idk paddy in that he’s got CHARISMA but unlike viserys, they didn’t intent to portray him as a deeply flawed, antagonistic character they went in portraying him as like an objectively Good Guy dedicated to dany. he’s just so much less creepy and pushy in the show and has several scenes where he shows some moral backbone - that “yet here you stand” “yet here i stand” scene is sooooooo good for example, the fact that he actually apologizes for spying on dany, giving him the greyscale story & not having him fuck a valyrian looking woman in a brothel 💀, etc etc - and you also just lose some of the creepiness here because emilia is clearly a grown if young woman and ian is handsome, so it’s like. welll of Course you want to root for them to be together! and never mind that this is a Massive departure from their book characterizations!! again, they have this idea of jorah in their head that doesn’t match up with what’s on the page even a little.

3. i do get your point re: joffrey and i think this is my problem with aidan as littlefucker too - they’re too obviously villains and it makes ned and sansa look stupid. like, in the books we have that moment where robb almost decks joffrey which does seem to signal something bad but the crown prince being full of himself doesn’t mean he’s going to threaten his betrothed’s sister with a sword then get his ass handed to him by a toddler. in the show we get QUITE a number of scenes where joffrey is shown to be a brat AND as you say, just like aidan, jack has a Certain Look, he looks like a shitty jock who has allegations against him ajsjdj like irl when jack smiles he’s so adorable!! but in the show they REALLY play up his ability to channel a greasy aura ya know aksjd. when the point of asoiaf is often that villains don’t LOOK like villains, but some of our Main Villains clearly resemble typical villains in the show.

4. “it’s ONE age group of characters” NO YOU ARE SO RIGHT. like, there’s several years difference from robert to ned to cat to the twins to tyrion but they’re all the same generation of characters. there’s that exact same age difference from brienne to robb, dany, jon to sansa, arya, bran, with theon kind of similar to characters like jorah, who are old enough to remember The Before Times but aren’t quite in either generation. but because they wanted dany, brienne, jon, robb, and margaery to be more of a Typical archetype rather than an exploration of that archetype, they aged everyone up and essentially invented another generation between the “adult” characters and the “kid” characters. not to be super nerdy here but one of my favorite worked shoots in wrestling is one cody rhodes did where he was ranting about the way young wrestlers get put through the grinder and he has this amazing line where he sums it up as “old men talking, young men dying” and it’s not to say there aren’t a lot of old dudes Also dying lmao but you really see this where young leaders are often unprepared for their responsibilities and used as puppets by older men and you just MISS THAT when that whole generation is so grown!

it’s like they looked at those themes of war being terrible and all consuming and brutal no matter how justified you feel you are and went “wow war is brutal 😍” LIKE PLEASE????