#captain garazeb orrelios

[suburbanstarwars]

Started making a mii for Kallus and ended up with this terrifying Zeb mii, also.

The purple eyebrows are supposed to be his ears. It’s so scary but I feel like it looks like him! Kallus always looking like Prince Charming from Shrek with his rebel hair.

[cartoondoodlesandsuch]

A thing I just noticed (that I will not shut up about now)

So we all know the Ghost Crew were redesigned for season 3, but I’ve never looked closely at Zeb.

S1/S2: He’s wearing armour that, besides the slight paint job that was probably done by Sabine, holds no personalisation. It’s generic. It means nothing to him. He’s just a soldier. Now some of y’all might remember the baby hunting episode, where Zeb describes himself as ‘Garazeb Orrelios, honoured soldier, feared rebel... baby hunter.’ But follows it up with. ‘At least I’m good at one of those.’

He doesn’t think of himself as an honoured soldier, or a feared rebel. He doesn’t think of himself as anything. His armour means nothing and as far as he’s concerned, he does too.

But that slowly begins to change...

S3/S4: He learns that there’s more Lasat, he’s not the only one, and they remember him as a hero, not a coward. They rebellion welcome him, he gains friends, new people that don’t remember the tragedy that scarred him, he begins to change.

Then there’s Kallus, who’s always seen him as a bad guy, and yet, the man trusts him on instinct. He knows about Lasan. He was there. He saw Zeb’s failure and remembers it clearly, yet, he trusts him.

All these events combined, along with having Yavin VI as a home base, Zeb’s opinion of himself begins to change. Slowly, he becomes proud of his heritage again, of Lasan and Lira San.

He loses his armour, and wears his culture. He realises that everyone has their own traumas, that’s just the nature of being at war, and it doesn’t make him a bad person. He realises that the Ghost Crew love and need him. They never lost faith in him, they never felt betrayed and they never saw him as a failure. They see him as family.

Losing Kanan seals this.

The kids feel lost without their SpaceDad, so they turn to him for comfort. They see him as a big brother. They need him.

Eventually, despite the war and fear and trauma, Zeb forgives himself. He comes full circle.

He was never supposed to be a soldier, that wasn’t his job, he was supposed to be a protector.

And that’s exactly what he is.

[eyeloch]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This Zeb fic (which I’ve beta-read) is now complete and published (and has been for a few days, though I’ve been without internet).  I’d highly recommend checking it out, since I feel everyone involved in the creation of this story gave it their A game, and we’ve all improved as we’ve gone.

[kimbachan]

[kimbachan]

Winning smile.