#aces squad

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me: why does blue have anxiety why is he always stressed out

blue's squad: one is licking a battery, one is squaring up to fight some sort of predator to see what happens, one is about to stab a civilian for breathing too loudly, one is packing explosives into the engines of illegal whaling boats

me: oh right the rest of them are all insane

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Fandom OC Ask Meme!!

How does Cassandra feel about your Kestrel?

Do the Aces Squad and (literally any canon character) ever cross paths?

Which canon character does Nightflash respect a lot? (it has to be an adult, i'm not letting fey get off so easy as to say Mirage or something)

What is Jude's redemption moment? (if one is even needed)

this got long, so, under the readmore with you!

Cassandra, being... Cassandra, had immediate opinions on the new turtle. They went something like A NEW FOE HAS ARRIVED! BY ASSOCIATING WITH THE HAMATOS YOU HAVE MARKED YOURSELF FOR DOOM! THIS IS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ME TO PROVE MY WORTH TO THE FOOT CLAN! FOOT CLAAAAN!!!

Which was about the time Kestrel was rudely introduced to the family nemesis and promptly tried to roundhouse kick her head off. Who just jumps a turtle walking around the city and minding its own business??? She bites it and honestly it respects her for that.

It's actually really pleased to have a sparring partner who won't hold back. They WWE all across the city for a few years and enjoy it! (None of the other turtles do. Their opinions are none of Kestrel's concern. If Raph can have Frankenfoot, it argues, then it can have Cassandra.)

After she becomes an ally of sorts after the Krang invasion, they're still up to their same old brawling. It's delighted that nothing actually changes between them. And honestly, it's also a little relieved that she's no longer trying to kill any of the other turtles.

In their original setting, the Aces run into several canons, yeah! Hm this might require some explanation. So this takes place after the events of The Book of Boba Fett, in an AU where his Tusken family didn't get murdered and Garsa Fwip's place didn't get blown up.

Boba gets wind of clones in stasis who are about to get sold at auction. Not liking the idea of his dad's genes just getting sold to whoever, Boba loots the warehouse and brings them back home. He also realises with some dismay that if he's gonna stick to his 'trying to be a good guy' thing, he can't leave them as a bunch of ice cubes in the garage.

Racer and Fennec are best friends and that is absolutely a threat. Their outings often end with them at Garsa's in the evenings, where Racer is flirting with half the staff. Fury is friends with Din, a husband to Paz, a father to Ragnar, and family by marriage to the Armorer and Boba's Tusken clan.

I don't think there's any other canon characters they have any notable relationships with. Although there is a separate AU where Racer's pirate girlfriend finds Kix and he finds a home with the Aces and manages to heal while settling into their lives.

Nightflash really respects Arcee! Fey admires her ability to stay cool in combat and thinks she's really rocking that pink look. Arcee is aware of this and I can best describe her reaction as 'trying not to encourage fey, but appreciating the praise'.

Jude's redemption moment is when she finds a SecUnit who shut down after being heavily injured. She has the opportunity to wipe its entire system, force it back to factory reset, and upload her dead bestie's OS. She could get the very thing she wants, and all she'd have to do is erase someone who isn't even cognisant enough to know what happens to it.

She gets halfway through the process but can't bring herself to finish it. Instead she uploads her govmod-breaker code and gets it to a pod where it can heal and recharge. She doesn't know what happens to it after that, but it's going to come looking for her, eventually...

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For the Aces Squad: What's their favourite critter (if they have one?) For the Valkyries: Do they believe in any superstitions?

ooh hi!

For the Aces - Racer's favourite are her siblings (affectionate, usually). She also thinks furbies should count, partially because they are an animal to her, and partially because she likes making people wonder what goes on in her head.

Fury is ambivalent about everything but banthas, he pays equal attention to his two Tusken spouses and their banthas LOL you can find him in the bantha barn at any hour of the day or night.

Blue was never an 'animal guy' but then he married a devoted ferret dad and decided those little guys were the coolest actually.

Ember was a fan of stingrays from the first time he saw them, and then his first date with his future husband was guarding a sea turtle nest (there are many benefis to being a marine biologist) so he loves those too because his husband loves them.

Whisper has always been a frog stan first and a human being second. Or third or fourth. Xe also likes massiffs quite a bit and has four including xeim service dog!

As for the Valkyries... idk 🤔 I checked out some common sailing superstitions and some of those apply! Re-naming a boat is bad luck and they've named all their boats the same thing. Saying good luck on a boat is actually bad luck, and so is saying goodbye (you are to say GO KICK HIS ASS BABY instead, perfectly acceptable). Cats are good omens! Keep some kitties on board!

Also googling old superstitions and seeing 'no girls allowed' made me laugh. No I don't think they would believe in that one. I think just about all of them do believe in ghosts, but then again ghosts are canon in Star Wars, so I don't think that would be considered to be a supersition, in-universe.

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Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

tagged by @insertmeaningfulusername <3

"You exist to torment me," Blue says flatly. Racer gasps and splays a hand over her chest. "Now that's just untrue! I also exist to hotrod speeders, have sex with girls, and borrow your comb." "We talked about that!" "You talked. And you should know by now that I never listen to you."

open tags on this one!

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SO ACES SQUAD! I saw on the picrew post that Blue talks to the flower bushes and I need to know what he talks about with them. And do they have names????

Fury is a cook??? Tell me more???? 👀👀 Does he have a favorite thing to make??? What was the first dish he ever made and how did it turn out??

Racer! As a fellow Oldest Sibling/Sister I gotta ask- what’s her favorite way to annoy each of her kih’vode? Because I love annoying the little shits as revenge for all they’ve put me through

Whisper- I am just. So intrigued by xeim. Would xe like a chew toy to bite on?? They’re very soothing and I have a few xe can borrow :3

I am in love with Ember to be honest. He seems like such a sweet baby. I would like to wrap him up in a blanket burrito and give him many cookies to nom on

Yesss my first squad, they'll always be famous to me <3

Blue mostly talks about problems because then nobody talks back to him. The man just needs to vent at something, once in a while. But he also tells them that they're nice plants with pretty flowers, because he heard that saying things like that helps them grow better. He also talks to them about his boyfriend a lot. The family has some very strongly held Opinions about Blue's taste in men. (Well, taste in man. Singular. He married the first dude who showed interest in him and they're strangely cute about it.) The plants do not have names but he's particularly fond of the blueberry bush that his man gifted him.

Fury is a cook! And a baker! He loooves everything with strawberries, it's the polycule's favourite fruit so he gets really good at every dessert he can find. He also likes a lot of spiced food and gets very good at a jalapeno, cheddar, and bacon sourdough. He will eat any kind of sandwich on that bread. But his favourite favourite is grilled cheese with grape jelly. He made it in the GAR after good missions and now it's a traditional celebratory food for the squad. That was his first attempt at his own recipe, so to speak, and it became everyone's go-to comfort food.

Racer is very good at annoying people. Blue is easily annoyed by her because she's chaotic and loves explosions and keeps sneaking bombs onto their ship/into their house. Fury cannot be annoyed by her 99% of the time, they are far too alike, but sometimes she tries to bother him into doing chaos with her while he's hyperfixated on something else and he gets snappy with her. Ember hates how she just goes through his closet and steals all his cute shirts, but he can always steal them back. Whisper has bitten her so many times for just picking xei up in a hug and spinning xei around like a dreidel, or just being too loud in xeim general vicinity, and she has yet to learn any better.

Yeah xe loves chew toys! I hc that xe does have a chew necklace that xe gnaws on while xe's staked out somewhere cause it gives xei something to do. Xe also likes rubik's cubes and has the kind that has those different tactile bumps that match the colours.

Ember is such a sweetheart. He does love blanket burritos, especially with his husband. But the best place to chill is in the bay window blanket nest with their baby girl cuddled to his chest. They live on the next planet over from Tatooine and everyone visits each other all the time. He's also a ballet dancer, fire dancer, and a woodworker! The whole family's got little carved animals hanging around. They're good luck charms <3 And he carves their tiny darling Kote's crib, too!

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obviously in a modern AU, Racer would be a monster truck driver and Ember would be a marine biologist, but I have no idea what kind of jobs the rest of them have

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if there's one thing about me, i love a picrew- anyway these are my first clone OCs, aces squad! racer (she/her), fury, blue, ember, and whisper (xe/xei) <3

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soft Aces bit, I guess

“You know you don’t have to lie about not being able to sleep, right?” Fury asks, hanging the magnifying glasses on a hook above his desk. “You can just tell me.”

“I know.” I just worry that you won’t rely on me if you know how weak I am. That I’ll be failing as your brother. You always protect us – I need to protect you too.

“Hm…”

A thinking look like that is never good on Fury. It’s far from his usual curiosity of scientific discovery, and more ‘how can I most effectively make trouble in this situation’.

“What?” Blue can’t help asking.

He doesn’t get an answer, just Fury picking up his datapad and handing it to him. Blue takes it, confused, and then gives an undignified squawk as Fury scoops him up and carries him off.

“You could warn me before you do that!”

“I could.”

Fury settles down in the blanket-filled nook that he usually doesn’t let people anywhere near. Blue’s back is against Fury’s chest, a blanket pulled around them both, and the warmth and quiet is strangely relaxing. Blue holds the datapad as Fury starts working, watching his hands move and the way the code on the screen changes, and tries to let it soothe him.

Hours later, when his head tilts to the side and his fingers loosen around the edges of the datapad, Fury’s still there to protect him from whatever nightmares might try to return. Blue’s not sure what to call it, but he thinks it might be peace.