Something Old, Something New
Rules: Share something old - a snippet of a favorite fic you wrote, that you are proud of; AND/OR share something new - give us a sneak peek of something new you are working on.
Thanks @independent-variables for tagging me!
Hmm... It's always so hard picking out my favorite writing passages (especially when limiting myself to stuff that's been publically released). But I'm proud enough of this passage from Chapter 1 of Gloria that I used some of it in the fic summary.
Context: At around 5.5 chrono yrs old (11 bio), CC-2224 has been given a name --Kote / Glory -- by his trainer 17, but dislikes it. While in a stasis tank waiting out a viral outbreak, he resolves to change his name, rebelling against 17's assertion that any trooper would want to be named Glory.
The name wasn’t working. It just felt wrong, being named glory. He was one day going to fight and die for the Republic, not because it was glorious, but because it was right. Because he was made to do it. He wasn’t in this to be remembered as a hero. He was a clone. They would be the ones dying en masse so the real people of the Republic wouldn't suffer. Why did glory matter? It wasn’t like he’d be remembered by any of the nat-borns he was going to fight on the behalf of.
He needed a different name. Screw 17 and his gift, 24 didn’t have to keep a gift just because it was nice. Some other trooper, someone more valiant, could use his name. In the meantime, he just had to find another.
Now for a sneak peak at an upcoming time travel AU one-shot WIP, Cin Vhetin. I've been quiet about this one but I'm really excited for it.
Injured no-name shiny CT-1231 is sent back in time to 67 BBY, Concord Dawn, to the Fett homestead. He is rescued by Hana and Laari Fett (Jango's parents) and integrated into their family. However, the question "Where did you come from" isn't one answered lightly, as 31's whole existence is predicated on the death of most of the Fett family and the actions of a son whose projected birthday is in seven months. Sorry Hana :(
Once they were inside, Laari locked the doors and turned on only lanterns. He warily looked out towards the horizon, from where this stranger had come from. He didn’t want to suspect Death Watch, but you could never be too sure…
Hana went to find a bed mat and linens, leaving Laari alone with this warrior who’d appeared out of nowhere.
“What is this place, Ori’vod?” he asked.
He immediately grew confused and looked at Laari incredulously. “Yours?”
“Yes, mine,” Laari said, “I’m Laari Fett, Journeyman Protector of Concord Dawn.”
His expression morphed into complete shock, and then his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell unconscious. Laari cursed under his breath and set to work trying to revive the poor sod.
At that exact moment, Hana walked back in carrying a spare bed mat and her finest blankets. "We’re lucky all this commotion hasn’t woken Arl--” she looked at the scene before her, “What did you do?”
“Poor thing. Let’s get that armor off, it doesn’t look comfortable.”
They turned on a light as they worked, and it let them see this stranger better. He was wearing white plastoid armor, shiny and new aside from two blast wounds, one on his thigh and the other on his abdomen. Under it, he wore a thin skintight black kute with no pockets. The armor itself looked pseudo-Mandalorian, unlike any faction’s, and it was odd for a warrior this young to be wearing Cin Vhetin, starting life over when it’d barely just begun. Stranger was the warrior’s face. He looked like a local, hell, he looked kind of like Laari’s brother. But they’d never seen him before, and he didn’t know Mando’a. And he was awfully young to be fighting all alone. Barely twenty, by his face.
They removed all the armor except the ones covering where he’d been shot. Both of them could do first aid, but a doctor would be better able to assess the wounds without possibly causing further harm. It was new armor. Not chipped or scuffed. And to Laari’s surprise, it didn’t have paint, it was made white. He knew of no Mandalorian faction that did anything of the sort.
Hmm who to tag... @noperopesaredope in case you wanna participate!
