You know what quote from rebels makes me sob every time?
“It was an honour to serve with you, Rex. It was an honour to fight with you for something that /we chose/ to believe in.”
~Captain Gregor
The clones, from their very creation, were made to be expendable. Given numbers instead of names, raised to be stripped of their humanity, nothing but soldiers that would die for the republic without a second thought. And as we see in the final shot of the clone wars, that was the fate of most of them. Most clones lived and died as pons, their helmets buried in the snow representing their forgotten sacrifice. They were never given a choice, in anything.
But Gregor, and Rex, and Wolffe do. They have a choice to keep fighting. And they take it, not because of any blind loyalty to a now nonexistent republic. They choose to keep fighting because they believe in the rebellion and what it stands for. And that’s the beauty of it, they *choose*, for the first time. Because in spite of the fact that from birth, the Kaminoens tried to erase their individuality and what makes them human. They grow to become the most human of characters, with their own personalities, thoughts, and beliefs, that for the first time, they freely get to express.
