my favorite part in attack of the clones is when obi-wan just fucks off to play space nancy drew on Clone Rain Planet with the alarming giraffe-necked aliens and swans in like “HELLO IT’S ME, the jedi who definitely… … was here before and probably, uh, spoke to you, and stuff” and theyre like “ah you are here for the order” and hes like “beg pardon” and theyre like “the order of millions of identical human men?” and hes like “RIGHT YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM HERE FOR THE ORDER OF MILLIONS OF IDENTICAL HUMAN MEN”
and then later when he SNEAKS INTO A CORNER TO FUCKING… facetime yoda… like “ok so we have these millions of identical human men who were apparently suspiciously ordered for us by someone???” and yodas fucking response is just “when countless sapient lemons life gives you…….. send those lemons into intergalactic battle you must”
One aspect of Codywan I find so interesting is that, at least in the beginning, Cody and Obi-Wan are likely fighting the war from objectively two different perspectives. Their interests do align, but their end goal is not always the same. Cody’s goal is to win the war, and Obi-Wan is a Jedi, even though the Jedi are commanded by the senate, their main goal is still to help people. I think this would likely present several interesting conflicts, especially early in the war. There’s probably several instances where the different perspectives would clash. Like, Cody can do the math and make a decision that destroying a space port is their most effective way to complete their objective, but Obi-Wan knows that the people of the planet here just watched a Jedi cruiser appear in their atmosphere and he knows that whatever they do next will reflect on these people’s opinion of the Jedi forever. Cody most likely has to teach Obi-Wan that he himself is a resource. If Obi-Wan expends all his energy to help everyone in a small skirmish, then he ends up risking losing even more people during a larger more dangerous part of the battle. Ultimately, they both would have to learn and teach each other a different form of sacrifice. Obi-Wan has to learn how to sacrifice others in order to complete their objectives, and Cody has to learn that sometimes the objective is the sacrifice, in order to save innocent people caught up in the war. I thinks it’s just interesting the ways Codywan probably fundamentally change each other throughout the war
@bookwyrmofthenorth Yes, you hit it exactly on the head. They both likely are still the same deep down, probably sometimes desperately clinging to that aspect of themselves, because sometimes it has to feel like all they are is what they know. And it’s important because both of them probably need the other to stay the same deep down. They have to rely on the other being on the opposite side of the scale so they can balance out, so they don’t both end up slipping to one side, so they can remember both what’s important and how to achieve it. The amount of balance these two find in each other is probably sometimes the only thing that keeps them going.
Day 4 of @codywanweek with the prompt 'Light and Dark'.
This is the last thing I've prepared for this week, so I'd like to thank @codywanweek here for organising this amazing event! There's so much amazing art and fic to enjoy right now, it's so much fun.
He doesn’t swear loyalty to Padme, Obi-Wan or Ahsoka
He swears absolute loyalty to Captain Rex
You are one of the Cuy'val Dar. Your job is training small clones of an old friend to be very dangerous adults. You do not like this job, but it pays well and keeps you quietly squirreled away from That One Crimelord You Pissed Off.
The Grim Reaper just blew a hole in the wall and swore loyalty to a nameless toddler.
The Kaminoan that tried to approach has been cut in half by a red lightsaber.
The entire room is full of crying children.
Fett just showed up and is being threatened by the Black Hole of a Sentient Being in the middle of the room to stay the fuck away.
The blaster shot from Dred Priest accomplished jackshit, and was in fact bounced back to kill the man.
Isabet just lost her head, literally, trying to get revenge on the absolute motherfucker in the middle of the room.
The kids are still crying, including the nameless toddler that this asshole declared his new lord and master.
are you going to kick him out? no, no you aren’t, but you do need to show him how to hold the kid before he drops him and decides it’s your fault and you lose your head to
#Vader swears his allegiance to a toddler and then doesn’t know what to do when said toddler can’t actually give him instructions#he’s a whole mess and Jango can’t even get rid of him#honestly he wishes it were a jedi at this point (via @adreamfromnevermore)
Jango decides to use the shortcut “Phone a Friend”! It’s questionably effective. The “friend” is Dooku.
Dooku sees the half-assed photo of Vader threatening someone with a red saber and goes “this is obviously one of Sidious’s ploys to fuck with me and/or a competing apprentice” and decides to handle it personally. He does not call Sidious about this, because that would be losing.
Dooku gets to Kamino. Vader is intensely incomprehensible. They have a big fancy battle.
Dooku dies.
Vader is just carrying around Rex on one uncomfortably metal-clad hip this entire time. The main reason Jango’s still alive, really, is that he has babycare advice, and tells Vader things like “You should probably put some padding in that sling, your armor is hurting him” and then Vader just. Does that.
Single Dad Jango is only not dead because he has Single Dad Advice.
The Kaminoans contact the Jedi Temple about The Situation That Is Vader, who won’t fucking leave, because apparently Rex will only be happy if he stays with his brothers, and so that means Vader must stay as well.
The Jedi show up, utterly confused about many things, but generally in agreement that this is an absolutely terrible situation and probably requires a council master to handle because, like… Sith. And an army. And Fett. And Mandalorians.
There’s a lot going on, is the point, and none of it should be handled by a knight.
The Jedi in question are Mace and Plo.
Vader has a grudge against Mace but he pretends he doesn’t because that would be so passe and beneath him.
Vader does not have a grudge against Plo. He’s actually quite neutral on Plo, for Ahsoka reasons, and mostly just tells Plo to go handle children.
Plo would love to play with the kids, but Plo is here to help Mace fight a fucking Sith Lord.
The Sith Lord is not impressed. He is actually quite busy, standing dramatically in front a window and holding tiny Rex, informing him in grand phrases and sweeping gestures that the universe will be his for the taking.
(Rex is busy chewing on a toddler toy.)
Jango is ready to just throw in the towel. He signed up for a lot, but This Bullshit wasn’t it.
Sidious still hasn’t received word from Literally Anyone about this.
#ani ANI #youre scaring the CHILDREN #the visuals of vader carrying baby rex on one hip while saying things like
#‘my master there is a vastness in this galaxy that will be under your command’
#‘know that i will do all it takes that it falls into your grasp’
#and rex is just gnawing on a star shaped teething toy
#jango watching this tall black lunatic carying his son: CONCERNED NOISES (via @chocmarss)
Posting this because of the prev post, but I've had this headcanon in a while.
Imagine Cody during the Solitary Clone ep; he's ordered his general (a man he trusted, a man he loved; he painted his armour grey in mourning, his has tears on his bucket) shot down. He lost his battalion, his men. He's leading children into battle, brothers that have barely left Kamino, that have never earned their paint and probably never will. He is a good soldier, he follows orders, but what he does... General Kenobi would have never ordered him to do that. There is blood on his hands, the blood of innocents and no pragmatism, not practicality, no war tactics can explain it. The Jedi were slaughtered in their Temple, even the younglings. And his brothers did it. Under his orders. He is sent to cull rebellions and kill dissidents, or are they just terrified civilians?
And then the mission with Crosshair. He tries, as much as he can, to be kind where he can. The droids feel good to crush. And to negotiate for peace- He feels the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi by his shoulder, his voice in his ear. And then she's ordered dead, Crosshair follows orders, and Cody can do nothing but look as she drops dead.
He stands in front of the memorial for his lost brothers, knowing the brothers he lost on the mission won't be added, because the Empire wouldn't spare a credit on it, and he thinks- what makes us different from droids. We make our own choices and we live with them too (unbeknownst to him, deep in his brain, a chip is eroding, the codes breaking down).
Cody deserts. He drifts. He bombs imperial posts and he tries to snap brothers out of it, but mostly, he drifts. He doesn't join the budding Rebellion, has no reason to (he doesn't know Rex survived; he learned about the helmets of the 332nd, but he knows if someone had survived that wreck, it would be a Jedi; and he doesn't want to see Ahsoka, can't bear to look her in the eye and tell her he killed her grandmaster. He thinks she might kill him; he thinks she'd be right).
Ten years. He's had to live with his choices for ten years; he still doesn't know why he did it. He would have thought himself better than this, he'd always thought himself better than this. He doesn't know why he turned his back on Obi-Wan Kenobi, why he corrupted everything he'd ever stood for. He wonders what kind of man that makes him, to follow orders blindly; it's worse, he thinks, than if he were a droid. A droid can only ever do what its told. Despite what the natborns think, he (all of them) has never been a droid. He knows better. He should have- Regrets choke him. But he lives with them. Because he refuses to be cowardly and not face his own actions. Obi-Wan Kenobi deserves better. He always did; all the Jedi did.
Ten years. And then he sees a Wanted poster for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan Kenobi, alive. After ten years. After Cody betrayed him and shot him down.
He spends close to a year searching every nook and cranny, uncovering every stone (if he slinks back into Coruscant and breaks into a certain Senator's penthouse to riffle through his things, then no camera can prove it).
He ends up on Tatooine. It is dry and dusty and hot. Ben Kenobi is the name of a hermit wizard living in the Wastes. Cody wants to strangle him.
He goes through the Wastes, finds the Hut. Obi-Wan Kenobi walks out. His hair is whiter than it was, his skin darkened and reddened by the sun. He looks older, sadder, but he still stands strong. His 'saber is unlit in his hand.
Cody stays. He doesn't have an explanation for what he's done (he never has and he never will; he doesn't know about the chip. Obi-Wan doesn't know about the chip). He's had to live with it, and now, Obi-Wan has to as well.
He knows Cody betrayed him, shot him. He knows Cody spent the last eleven years regretting it. He looks into worn eyes, greying hair, new scars and wrinkles, and although Cody shot him in the back, he opens his home to him.
Cody never forgives himself.
Obi-Wan learns, slowly, to trust Cody again. It is painful to live with the man who betrayed you. It is beautiful to live with the man you've loved for longer than you've known him. Some days, Cody's hands shake; some days, Obi-Wan can't even look him in the eye. Some days, they spend the day in bed, clothed or naked, cold in the night, hot in the day, and they are simply grateful to the Force that, despite it all, they get to have this.
(Cody will die, eventually, his fast-aging catching up to him, and Obi-Wan will shed tears he shouldn't waste. Neither of them will ever learn about the chip; rather, they learned to live with it, learned to live together, to forgive and love despite it all. Obi-Wan will die on the Death Star, facing his former apprentice, saving his Luke and Leia, his hope. And despite the fact that he always thought he was meant for infinite sadness, Obi-Wan Kenobi did manage to carve out some happiness for himself. It wasn't perfect; it ended, as all things do, in tears and death. But for a while, it was beautiful. It was cold cups of tea and caf in the morning; broad, tanned, scarred hand brushing his hair away, arranging his robes and fixing the vaporator; dark hair turning grey; dark eyes shining with kindness and love and stoicism; a smile, rare and all the more beautiful for it, shining brighter than the suns. It was Cody, despite betrayal, Cody with betrayal, who, unlike everyone else, came back to him after he left. It was Cody, whom he'd joined in the first.)
can we talk about Marvel official website has updated Loki’s bio that confirms the “Loki was under the influence of the mind stone” fan theory?
Not a Loki apologist here, he did what he did, but a lot of stuff, his version of how he fell from the Bifrost, that speech in Germany, especially the “sudden clarity” scene with Thor makes a lot more sense.
Does this even matter? Does ANYONE but fans of Loki give a shit?
Loki does something while under the influence of the scepter: Thor sells his brother out to his new buddies immediately and Loki becomes a war criminal, goes home to be disowned by his father and imprisoned for life.
Erik Selvig and Clint Barton do bad shit while under the influence of the scepter: omg guys…it’s okay…you didn’t know what you were doing.
And the thing is, the words used to describe what happened to Loki (“influenced” by the stone) and the words used to describe what he’s done to Barton&Selvig (scepter allowed him to “influence” others) are the same here.
So, judging by this text, he was in the exactly same position they were.
so if aayla's dating bly, whose brother fox is dating aayla's dad/brother quinlan, who is best friends with obi-wan who is dating cody whose brother wolffe was adopted by one of obi-wan's uncle figures plo koon who is about the same age as windu who is besties with ponds and ponds is the oldest brother of rex, who is also besties with obi-wan's little siblings anakin and ahsoka then who's flying this plane
I write a lot of Star Wars content and in this post you will find all the resources I use and great little things I've found that might help you! Enjoy and show the authors some love! May the Force be with you!
Star Wars Writing Resources provided by @nimata-beroya and this post has SO MUCH to offer if you are writing in the Star Wars universe! There are galaxy maps, calendars, holidays, date converters, media chronology (movie/game/tv show order), hyperspace travel times, several name generators, reference guides to the Jedi Order, infomration on the Clones and Mandalorians, lore, health and medicine and technology, food and drinks, languages, etc! There's a lot here!
Disabilities Exist in Star Wars by @calltomuster this is a good look into the disabilities and the culture around them in the Star Wars universe. A very helpful read with some additional sources listed!
Comprehensive Lexacon Guide for First Time SW Fic Readers by @lightasthesun Wow. What a mouthful! I cannot tell you guys how much I use this one. It's not a clock, it's a chronometer. It's not coffee, it's caf. It's not a bathroom, it's a refresher. Like I said, super helpful.
List of Battles thanks to @monako-jinn-storiesfor linking this because I never would have thought to. It links to Wookipedia but still a great piece of information.
9 Incredible Crosssections Reveal the Architecture of Star Wars by @musewrangler A great visual guide if you're looking to play with the architecture in Star Wars.
A Resource Page for all Your Clone Related Needs by @karttaylir-darasuum Everything you need to write about Clones including their weapons, cannon, terminology, stock photos, things to avoid etc.
That's all I've got for now, but if you find anything for me to add feel free to tag me and lets continue this writing resource for Star Wars Fans!
Weee this ship pretty much gripped me instantly I had to draw something T v T I also just have to draw itsy bitsy little freckles on them both too many fics mentioning said freckles for me not to include them T o T
I like to think that it takes the Command BatchTM a long time to realise how young Alpha 17 was when he was given them to train.
When they were kids and even as adults Seventeen is always this immovable pillar in their lives. Yeah he was a hardass who wouldn’t know his own emotions if they punched him in the face but he protected, cared for and taught them everything they need in order to survive and is the closest thing to a parent they have (except for Wolffe - he’s infinitely smug about this) He’s the reason they were the most successful batch on Kamino and later the most notable commanders of the war.
Then after the war and the improvement of clone rights, this documentary comes out exploring the years on Kamino before the Battle of Geonosis. It’s basically a horror show and includes footage taken by the Kaminoans to monitor and record their army building process (footage that would later be used in court to convict them of sentient rights violations and various other charges).
In the show there’s this one photo of Seventeen and his kids that’s basically that photo of the mom helping her kids beat their game as they crowd around her. The difference being that it’s a bunch of 6 year olds (developmentally) crowded around a 15 year old as he does his own coursework.
Alpha’s still in his red and blue uniform and has pimples and baby fat clinging to his face and he just looks so, so young.
Afterwards the batch phone him up and its like-
Command Batch: Damn we didn’t realise you were a teen mom… 😕
Alpha 17: …
Alpha 17: I didn’t realise i was a teen mom
It takes some more time for him to understand that this did indeed affect him as a person.
I like to think that while dropping Fox off at his ex corrie guard support group in the community centre he accidentally finds himself in a young parent support group and huh these experiences of giving up your childhood (or never having one) while trying to give your kids the best of everything and feeling far too grown up and responsible and afraid really kinda resonates with him.
He gets invited back to this group because, despite not being a teenager or actively parenting anymore, he has a lot of experience in child rearing (even if the avoiding the wrath of evil scientists doesn’t really apply anymore) and for some reason all of their kids adore him even if he scowls at them constantly.
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