#crossbald

[storminormins]

M'boy

[rainydaydream-gal18]

Y'ALL

My toddler niece is taking an interest in The Bad Batch, so we were watching a few videos, and this conversation literally just happened:

Me: and there's Crosshair.

Niece, confused: but he doesn't have any hair

Me: *trying not to laugh* Crosshair doesn't have any hair?

Niece: yah

I just about died. And yeah, it was a rough shot of our boi.

[clone-trooper-cheese]

Idk if I'll color but WIP of Crosshair in a maid dress.

@cloned-eyes it's not done but you told me to tag :>

@superiorsniper heheheh

[marymunchkiin]

BITCH THIS GOT ME LAUGHING LIKE A FUCKING SEAL FOR 2 MINUTES STRAIGHT AND AS I TYPE THIS- 😂😂😂🤣🤣

Crosshair

Crossbald

[marvel-starwarsfangirl]

since Crosshair is starting his healing journey, it would be really cool if his hair started growing back (you know, as a symbol of his growth).

(or it all got permanently fried off by the ion engine but whatever. I think it would be a missed opportunity if it didn't grow back)

[countessofbiscuit]

You're a Hunter x Rafa shipper?? THAT'S SO RARE THESE DAYS (I found ur old posts lol)

hahaha, I was and probably still am, though I've not yet seen the latest TBB episode where, apparently, Hunter x Fennec makes an interesting argument :p

[tbbs-best-hair]

Good morning Sergeant Himbo

Good afternoon, Crossbald

[crosshairs-wife]

Crossbald

This is not funny. This is so rude to my husband who had to shave his head when the Empire wouldn't give him access to his beloved shampoo and conditioner.

How dare you.

[heyclickadee]

Some more thoughts about “Aftermath” because I haven’t had a chance to watch “Cut and Run” yet:

1. Wrecker is having so much fun in the first half of the Battle Simulation scene. Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, and Tech are treating it pretty casually. They’ve done it a million times, they know they can pull the simulation off, it’ll all be fine, nothing special. Wrecker, though? He’s kind of in his element. This is an absolute blast for him, and that honestly kind of makes sense. I don’t think any clones had much of a chance to have fun on Kamino—I mean, I can’t see the Kaminoans organizing field days or an intramural football league for the little cadets, unless it had to do with training—and the cadets of Clone Force 99 were probably even a little more pressure to train and prove themselves worth keeping around (in the eyes of the Kaminoans). Battle Simulations were probably the closest thing to sports or games the cadets had, once they got good at them, anyway. It’s like extreme capture the flag—they still have to perform extremely well, but at least they can let some energy out without worrying about getting shot at for real. Wrecker’s been in so many real life combat situations that that’s probably how this whole thing is reading to him. He’s not rushing in wildly because he’s stupid, he’s doing it because he’s confident and because he assumes, and has every reason to assume, that he’s not in any real danger. The way Wrecker says, “New toys!” When the newer droids pop up? This is Wrecker’s playground, right up until the moment he gets shot for real.

2. I honestly love how you can’t see Hunter’s face when he sees the new battle droids pop up in the simulation scene, but that you can still absolutely read an, “Oh shit oh shit ohshitohshiiiiiiit,” expression into his helmet.

3. So…not really important, but as much as I hope Crosshair grows some hair back, I hope that it’s not…like this. I understand that there are limitations to making hair out of geometry instead of doing hair sims and I get that they’re still going for a slightly more naturalistic version of the “figures carved from wood” idea that The Clone Wars had going on, and I get that it’s basically supposed to be a close cropped crew cut, but. But. It looks like lego hair. If Crosshair’s not going to be Crossbald anymore, he ought to have some cooler hair. He deserves it at this point.

4. I LOVE how angry Wrecker is that the Kaminoans used live rounds on them in the training sim. He’s furious and he should be. And I also love that Tech backs him up when Crosshair starts on his little, “Whatever, it’s not like you’ve never been shot before, all hail our glorious empire, my new favorite thing suddenly in the last twenty-four hours for some reason,” shtick. And I also kind of love that the last thing Wreckers points out is that they’re not droids—it’s wrong to use them as target practice because they’re still people, and that it doesn’t seem to click with Crosshair because of whatever the chip is doing to his brain at this point.

5. I could be wrong but the kids and the old lady we see in the Onderon sequence don’t actually show up again in “Replacements,” but some of the other civilians do. I was hoping grandma and those kids got away with Saw before Crosshair and the Elite Squad show up later, and I think they actually do.

6. Speaking of Saw, it sure is nice of him to drop in and introduce one of the central motifs of the series: Adapt and survive, or die with the past. And, interestingly enough, though the whole batch has been trying to do the former in one way or another, we’ve had two series finales so far where it looks like one of the five men Saw’s talking to here make a choice that sure makes it look like they’re doing the later. Crosshair made a choice to stay with the Empire, to remain a soldier and the only thing he’s ever been at the end of season one, but doing so also meant staying on Kamino with no supplies, no food, no water, no way off. I think Crosshair knew there was a very good chance he’d never make it off Kamino if he chose to stay behind, and he chose to stay anyway, putting himself at a pretty high risk of dying on the only home he every knew with the remains of Tipoca City smoldering in his line of sight. And then in season two you’ve got Tech, choosing to sacrifice himself as a soldier, as he would have done any any of the missions they’d been on before, and doing something which, from his point of view, is also likely to get him killed.

Except that, of course, neither of their choices are as clean cut as that. Crosshair’s choice didn’t stick—he didn’t die on Kamino, and he didn’t stick with the empire in the end. He’s very much on the “adapt and survive” trajectory, even though I think there’s a chance he’d rather he didn’t for a little while when we see him again. And in keeping with what seems to be the theme of my blog at this point, I don’t expect Tech’s “die with the past” choice is going to stick either, and that the next time we see him he’s going to be in his own version of that “adapt and survive” trajectory.

7. So, Saw Gerrera is a mess and he can sometimes act without thinking about who his actions are going to hurt or what impact they’re going to have, but he is, at least, incredibly clear-eyed about what they Empire is, even at this early stage when a lot of people who are simply exhausted by the clone wars are not. Also, good for him for (I assume) protecting those refugees and getting at least some of them to safety.

8. Okay, so, Wrecker and Crosshair bet on whether or not Echo was going to make it out of the infirmary alive, and I get that they were joking and that they’d be devastated if Echo were to actually die, but also—how hard did Echo get hit? How hard was that guy swinging that tray?

9. Echo’s immediate reaction to Tarkin is, “Oh, not this asshole,” and you know what? That is the proper response. Tarkin is tremendously evil and frighteningly good at his job. There’s a reason why Vader is basically just his attack dog in A New Hope.

10. Echo’s extremely disturbed what-the-hell reaction to hearing the words “Galactic Empire?” Also the proper response.

11. “I don’t like being hooked up to their machines either.” WHAT did Nala Se and the Kaminoans DO to this kid get her AWAY from Hemlock NOW (heck, what’d they do to Emerie? Is Omega named “Omega” because she was the last of that specific production of clones? Why did they make her? I neeeed answers why is season three so far awaaaaaaayyyyyy)

13. Every moment Echo is on screen is gold and I want more of him in season three.

14. So…I know that Wrecker’s chip really goes off in episode seven, and almost goes off in episode six, but I’m actually not sure the initial activation wasn’t at the same time as Crosshair’s. Now, if it was, it’s operating at a really low level; let’s say that Crosshair’s chip is initially operating at a six, and that Wrecker’s chip, if it activated, is initially at about a 0.5. It wouldn’t be enough to make him do anything, but would maybe do just enough to make certain things slide where the empire is concerned. Hunter, Tech, and Echo all express some serious moral objections to the Empire and the genocide of the jedi, besides one line from Tech where he seems to get twisted up defending the fact that they’re still technically soldiers of the Empire to Saw, while Crosshair and Wrecker don’t. Crosshair doesn’t really express any kind of moral opinion of his own, but says over and over again that killing the Jedi were their orders and they should just follow orders (why are you guys not following orders what do you mean it’s weird I’m following orders it’s not weird you’re weird). Wrecker…doesn’t say anything about it at all, except that the new armory is cool and that maybe the empire won’t be such a bad thing after all. He has objections, but it’s always to personal stuff and not to the empire specifically.

And that’s…weird. Not because I think Wrecker’s really that concerned with the politics of the galaxy and a regime change, but because Wrecker’s generally a pretty decent guy, really gentle with kids, and he was pretty buddy-buddy with a Jedi kid a few hours/days ago, and the mass slaughter of that kid’s people doesn’t seem to be registering at all. So…maybe his chip was on, on a really, really low level, in a way that made it hard for him to latch onto the enormity of how bad it was. Maybe. I could go either way on this.

15. The version of Omega’s theme that plays as she watches the Marauder fly away to Onderon is one of my favorite music cues in this episode.

[theworstbatch]

unironically tho cross does look better to me as crossbald instead of crosshair. at least in this animation style

[32rotations]

idc i know its like THE lowest hanging fruit slapstick humour but ""crossbald"" is my favourite joke here and it will never fail to make me laugh

[clone-trooper-cheese]

Crosshair Rizzing his way out of Mt Tatniss:

[skellymom]

Teach is so perfect!❤️

Crossbald 😂

My favorite show… What's it called again? That's right, "Bat Batch".

[arachnidaszypalo]

Cross(no)hair

I just... don't know how to draw him

[oohyesplease]

I miss him. Please come back, regrow half your hair, and join your brothers again 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

[neon-junkie]

i hate crossbald so much. give him his lego hair back, or let him borrow hunters wig. idc, just give that bald bitch some hair