god, bodhi rook really is what star wars is all about contained in a single character. it’s about hope. it’s about doing what’s right even when it isn’t easy, even when it’s the hardest and scariest thing you’ve ever done. it’s about how it’s never too late to be a better version of yourself and that sometimes all you need is someone to believe you can be good.
Jenny Nicholson’s new star wars cruiser video and her experience reminds me of when i went to star wars land with my boyfriend. Im the one who actually cares about star wars and loves it, he was literally just tagging along to spend time with me and we’d have a good time riding rides while i geeked out. Characters all went right to him to interact with his phone, and a stormtrooper literally told me to go away because he wanted to do soundboard lines to my bf’s camera.
I was really sad at the end of the day, like i felt like a bad person and like i did something wrong for wanting to interact with the land as someone who loves star wars. My bf had a great time tho. Good for him.
you know what though…Vader had no implicit reason to dislike the remaining clones in the galaxy, unlike a lot of the rest of the empire. in his mind, they were still his men. they helped him rid the galaxy of the Jedi (in his twisted mind he was ok with it being against their will as long as it served his, which is 😬) but imagine…
When Vader goes back for the 501st after the events of order 66 and revenge of the sith, Rex is absolutely no where to be found. He never returns from his mission on Mandalore. Neither does ahsoka.
We see at the end of the clone wars that Vader must’ve conducted some kind of search for them. That’s why he turns up on the moon where their ship crashed. In Ahsoka’s case, we should probably assume he was trying to hunt her down like the rest of the Jedi.
But in Rex’s case….Vader has no reason to suspect he would’ve “turned against him.” And now imagine him showing up on that moon and seeing the bodies of Torrent company buried in the snow, their helmets serving as grave markers for someone to mourn the loss of their individual lives. And Rex’s helmet just isn’t there.
Vader has to assume that Rex is the one who lived to bury his brothers.
And Vader very well might have spent the next hmm idk 30 years or so of his remaining life searching for maybe the only person that, in his mind, never betrayed him and was never his enemy (as far as he knew.)
And after hopelessly spending all that time looking for his clone captain he settles for continuously hiring Boba Fett because he is the closest Vader could ever come to hearing his last remaining friend’s voice again.
They’re taking a break before sparring for the hundredth time 😔
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The gAYS ever. Needed to draw them out again because wolfwren brainrot is going strong (also if y'all have any fanfic recs pls dm them my way, sis is desperate))