Mirage: [doing something NOT normal] Is that normal?
Boomerang: [stares at him silently] ...no... it's not.
P.S. you don't have to do it.👌💛🧡❤️
Oh my goodness! Boomerang may be the funny one with his humor and pranks, but Mirage is definitely the weird one! And he has an impressionable little brother too, so it’s double the weirdness!
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To say Boomerang was use to Mirage was an understatement.
He could tell when Mirage entered a room by the smell of his hair gel and the sound of his footsteps. He could guess where the ARC was at any given moment and rarely be wrong. He could practically read Mirage’s mind with one look of the fancy haired trooper’s face.
Still, there were some things his brother did that stumped even Boomerang. Some little quirks that left the medic scratching his head over how he missed this odd trait.
“Does…” Squirrel paused, “does Mirage always sniff his food before he puts it in his mouth?”
Boomerang paused chewing, looking to his brother happily eating with his head in the clouds.
Every time the the fork went up, he took a quick sniff, then put it in his mouth satisfied.
Boomerang stared, watching him like an animal in a zoo.
“You never noticed?” Cosmos asked, “he’s done it for as long as I’ve known him.”
Now all the pilots were watching, looking perplexed and maybe regretting letting the Boomerang, Mirage, and Shadow join the pilots’ table for dinner that night.
Mirage paused chewing, noticing his audience. He quickly swallowed, looking nervous and even a little bit embarrassed by all their eyes on him.
“What?” He asked.
“You sniff your food.” Radar stated.
“Correction,” Baby interjected, “you sniff every bite before it goes into your mouth.”
“Yeah?” Mirage turned to Boomerang, “is that normal?”
Boomerang shook his head, “no… it’s not.”
“But…” Mirage looked at them all, “poison?”
“It’s our mess hall grub,” Baby stated, “it’s the same as always.”
Mirage shrugged, “guess I’ll let you know if it’s expired or smells off.”
“Weirdo,” Baby grunted, and they resumed eating and chatting.
Tracks nudged Boomerang, lifting a finger up from his glass to point to the end of the table.
Dabbler—as usual—was doodling in a sketchbook, while chatting Shadow’s ear off about color theory. Shadow listened, bringing his fork up, taking a quick sniff, and then eating the bite.
Boomerang sighed, “that’s why he’s called his Shadow.”
Synopsis: part of my high school AU for my Star Wars OCs, where everyone is still alive and no one dies. Juliette’s parents learn their teenage daughter is hanging out some new friends versus the old ones they met/remember from elementary and middle school. With both parents going away for a business trip during a very important weekend, it’s time they meet Juliette’s new friend group… of 20+ teenage boys.
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“Bye, mom! Bye, buir!” Juliette called as she ran down the stairs, “I’m off to school!”
“Ad‘ika,” her father called from the kitchen, “I made you breakfast! I’ll drive you to school!”
Her mother snickered over her tea, “my dear, calm down. Our little girl is growing up.”
Juliette followed her nose to the kitchen, “I smell chocolate.”
“Chocolate chip pancakes,” he pointed his spatula to the mountain of them. “They’re still your favorite, aren’t they?”
Juliette dropped her book bag and sat down, “I guess I could eat one.”
Her smiled, doing a little happy dance of victory as he flipped the next batch.
“So, my dear daughter,” her mother set down her tea cup, “how come we haven’t seen any of your friends around lately?”
Juliette put two pancakes on her plate, “well, things are complicated. Micara, Faye, and Nala have cheerleading all the time, Anneliese does tutoring after school, Rani has all these clubs…”
She left out the part where she saw all their Snapchat and Instagram stories showing them all at the mall, movies, bowling, and everywhere else. They cut her from the group, more specifically Micara cut her out.
Her father frowned, “do you think they’ll be busy this weekend?”
Juliette sat down with her plate, “no offense, I don’t really feel like celebrating with them. I’d rather just do something with you guys!”
They were quiet, and looked worriedly to each other.
She knew that look, and it made her heart sink.
“You two have a business trip,” Juliette put down her fork. “I’ll be alone for my sixteenth birthday…”
“We can cancel!” Her father picked up his cell, “push the trip back, perhaps?”
“We can’t.” Her mother said lowly, “this opportunity is too important.”
“So is our daughter,” her father said quietly.
“Jaller, we both have to be there,” her mother said, “maybe, we bring her?”
“She’ll be stuck in a stuffy hotel,” her father shook his head, “that’s not a happy birthday.”
Juliette sighed, as her phone began dinging.
Her parents continued their back and forth as she picked up her phone, finding the group chat exploding.
Cosmos: Starlight! Where are you?!!
Boomerang: are you sick? what are you symptoms?
Mirage: sun poisoning?
Keks: what the heck is sun poisoning?
Cooper: Means she got too much sun.
Keks: is that really a thing?
Shadow: *added a link*
Shadow: just googled it for you! it’s a thing!
Mirage: SHADOW!!!!
Boomerang: SUP SHADOW!!!!
Cooper: who added Shadow?
Hardwire: I did :)
Coyote: cool!
Dabbler: isnt fury and tracks in this too?
Track: ;p
Fury: Juliette still hasn’t answered the question…
Cosmos: EVERYONE SHUT UP!
Cosmos: STARLIGHT??!!? WHER RU?!?!!
Juliette giggled reading over their texts, especially since her other two main group chats were beginning to chat too.
“Something funny, ad’ika?” Her father asked.
Juliette grinned, “just some friends…”
Her mother narrowed her eyes, “what kind of friends?”
Juliette lifted her gaze, feeling a blush warm her face, “they’re just friends.”
“Are they boys?” Her mother pressed.
“Maybe,” she texted the chat.
“You’re too young to be dating!” Her father held his chest, “you’re still my little girl!”
“Jaller,” her mother sighed, “remember last year?”
“Oh yeah,” her father muttered, “Fang who went to private school. Well, no more boyfriends till your thirty.”
Juliette chewed on her cheek, “um… how do I tell you this? Uh… I have a boyfriend?”
Her father dropped the spatula, “Almyra, cancel the trip.”
“Jaller, my love, calm down,” her mother turned her attention to Juliette, “we need to meet him. Along with this other male friends of yours.”
Juliette groaned, then typed in the chat, “wait. All of them? Or just the ones in this chat?”
“All of them.” Almyra stated.
“How many are there?” Jaller nervously asked.
Juliette sucked in her teeth, “you might need to order ten or fifteen pizzas.”
Juliette: Calm yourselves, gentlemen
Juliette: I am safe at home eating pancakes
Keks: what kind? xD
Cooper: is food the only thing on your mind?
Keks: it’s a very important question!
Cosmos: Thank the stars! You’re okay!
Coyote: unrelated, what did you guys get for question 37 in the math homework?
Mirage: oh osik! we had homework?
Cooper: DUH!
Hardwire: when do we not?
Shadow: I got x=4.5
Tracks: *liked Shadow’s message*
Coyote: THANK YOU!!!!
Boomerang: same
Boomerang: you can copy my hw before in study hall pretty boy
Mirage: thanks doc!
Juliette: Chocolate chip!!!!!
Juliette: I’ll bring you some Keks!
Keks: YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cooper: -__-
Tracks: *liked Cooper’s message*
Fury: *liked Cooper’s message*
Hardwire: *liked Cooper’s message*
Cosmos: *liked Cooper’s message*
Boomerang: *liked Cooper’s message*
Mirage: *liked Cooper’s message*
Shadow: *liked Cooper’s message*
Keks: *liked Cooper’s message*
Cooper: STOP LIKING MY NESSAGE!!!!
Keks: it’s spelt message :)
Cosmos: Children behave.
Tracks: *liked Cosmos’s message*
Boomerang: lol
Mirage: lol
Shadow: lol
Cooper: I hate it here.
Keks: :’(
Juliette: So…
Cosmos: Talk to me, Starlight :D
Fury: yes?
Hardwire: yes Juliette?!
Keks: JULIETTE?!?!
Mirage: hello?!?!
Dabbler: the suspense is killing us!
Juliette: Sorry! xD
Juliette: My parents want you all to come over for a pizza party thing. So they can meet my friends…?
Hardwire: okay!
Boomerang: can do!
Cosmos: Oh joy…
Fury: I’ll come, but your mom scares me
Mirage: omg! same!
Mirage: *liked Fury’s message*
Tracks: *liked Juliette’s message*
Keks: you had me at pizza!
Keks: please still bring the pancakes to school though
Keks: i’m hungry :(
Cooper: I literally watched you gulf down two bowls of cereal!
So… I recently rediscovered @saradika’s clone trooper picrew the other day, and because I used this droid factory one this morning… I wanted to make my ARCs 💜💜
Tunnel squad is not a real squad. They’re five ARFs who always hang out together and decided they needed a squad name
Tunnel squad actually have (un)official roles in their squad; Digger’s the leader, Calico’s the pilot/driver, Zombie’s the weapon specialist, Mutt’s the medic, and Hound’s the technician
Mick is the last from his training squad, and their names were Dizz, Walt, Mouse, and CT-1313 (squad name Magic)
While Juliette considers Cosmos her best-best friend, Hardwire, Fury, and Dabbler are best friends as well
While Shadow copies Mirage’s hair styles and idolizes him, he copies Juliette’s fighting style
Before putting Nala with him, Mirage was suppose to die during Order 66
Boomerang has a knack for accidentally crashing moments, especially bonding moments
Cooper hates surprises, they make him feel uneasy
Keks’s accent he does has many stories behind it, the truth of why he really does it is because it was their trainer’s accent and when he wasn’t around he’d do impressions of him. The accent annoyed the Kaminoans, therefore he had to do it more to get under their skin
If Juliette quit after Fang died, Cosmos and Dabbler would’ve faked their death and gone with her; they would have been a bounty hunting squad and pick up stray clones
