#clone life

[tlmtwelve]

@212thappreciation Day 6 Prompt: Clone Life

Wooley never misses a hair appointment - gotta keep everything ✨ trim ✨

[themoldman63]

feels good to be free of the mold farms

[thebisexualmandalorian]

"General Skywalker says this is his favorite drink."

[karlyanalora]

Something about clone life and food

Clones eat everything they are served. They do not believe in leftovers. Meals on Kamino were very final. You ate then and there, and you ate all of it because there would be no snacks. You ate even if you weren't hungry because you knew you would be hungry later and then it would be to late. I think of it like structured scarcity. They know their next meal is coming and when, so their isn't food insecurity in that sense. But they know that seconds and eating their food later aren't an option.

The idea you can ask for seconds is a foreign but delightful one. Inevitably someone will watch a clone scarf down a really delicious meal and ask if they want more. It's a revolutionary moment.

However, asking for more is still shaky ground. You can do that off Kamino, but only when there are plenty of rations and other foodstuffs to go around. A clone has to gage whether or not this is the case, because asking for more and being turned down because of dwindling supplies (it doesn't have to be even dwindling by that much, more like just the amount Kamino would have provided for a mission of that length) is not fun. It makes everyone within earshot feel like they're running out. Not great for moral, so it's often better not to confirm there isn't enough for seconds.

Saving food for later, especially perishable food, is a new thing of peacetime. The freedom to eat when you want and as much as you want is great. Of course, there are several clones who stuff themselves silly before learning better. But for most of them it's nice knowing they don't have to stack their plates high because they can eat more later, that they don't have to eat everything they serve themselves and can save it for later.

However, clones never do become comfortable enough to throw away still edible food.

[ineffablelabpartners]

A few observations:

DT being able to pose as a clone (and WH being able to fool them later), means you don’t have to be part of the Hivemind to infiltrate them. So whatever the Hivemind is the clones probably can’t hear each other’s thoughts all the time.

“Half the crowd out there is chipped” - remember the chipped people are able to present as normal and are not straight-up zombies.

DT knowing what happened on the VG means the clones actually talk to each other rather than just Hiveminding. Which we see them doing, I just like to note that they’re still people who know how to do basic people things (much like real cult members.)

I know DT calls Catra “Kitten”, but referring to her as “[Prime’s] little kitten” is...eesh. Maybe they picked up on the Prime creep factor?

If you want a Wrong Trouble plot bunny, imagine they first met while DT was with the clones and some shenanigans led to WH needing to be re-programmed.

[incorrectswtcwquotes]

Anakin: it’s a package from the Temple

Rex: what is it?

Anakin: it’s heavy, must be their disappointment in me

[asterose]

In-universe reason for why Hordak doesn’t just have people executed

Plot needs, inconsistent lore, and Y-7 rating aside, it hit me that being thrown away to a hopelessly inescapable island of misery makes sense as being a Fate Worse Than Death as far as Hordak’s moral compass goes, clogged with green jello as it is.

Perhaps execution would even be against Hordak’s place in the Religion of Prime. Only The Godhead gets to decide when to directly take life.

[joribel]

Yes