#clone pain

[wolveria]

Clone Wars Season 7: Ep 2:

Me seeing Anakin:

Me the rest of the episode:

[angelqueen04]

Fic title meme: Whistle Down the Night

For this ask game. Still taking requests.

After separating from Ahsoka in the aftermath of Order 66, Rex goes looking for a way to save his brothers from the hell of being nothing more than meat clankers. He comes across a scientist who is on the run from being conscripted into the Imperial bureaucracy, and saves the scientist from being run down because the whole process gives Rex flashbacks to what Fives went through.

It turns out the scientist, a Twi’lek named Doctor Faesta Snamis, has been experimenting with how sound waves influence technology and the Empire wants to utilize her research by turning it toward military applications. Since Faesta, whom Rex takes to calling “Doc”, refuses to see even more destruction wreaked upon the galaxy (and Ryloth in particular, given that it was devastated by the battles fought over it by the Republic and the Confederacy), she’s been running from not just the Empire, but others too who wish to use her work for destructive means. Rex thinks she’s too idealistic, but feels obliged to help her out (it sticks it to the Empire in some small way, practically the only way he’s managed since he and Ahsoka fled Mandalore). 

So lots of crazy shit happens and Faesta finds a way to use her research to neutralize the chips in the clones’ minds. They do this on a small scale at first, but then Rex starts getting ideas (boy does he get ideas). He, Faesta, and a crack team of clones who are really fucking pissed off at the Empire for turning them into flesh droids, at the Republic for making them slaves in the first place, and the Sith who have taken over, find a way to hack the Holonet and deliver the knockout punch that deactivates the chips and also manages to deliver a message to the various clone units on what’s happened - the Sith have taken over, etc. They are then encouraged to either get out, or, if they want to do something about it, start tearing the Empire down. A few end up taking the first option, completely traumatized and just can’t take it anymore, but the majority are pissed off enough to want to finish what they started.

Essentially, there is a massive military coup. Palpatine and Vader may be powerful, but even the strongest lions can be brought down by the coordinated attack of a hyena pack (or just insert an appropriate GFFA analogy here). Tarkin is found and shot, field execution style, along with a lot of other leading Imperial figures and leaders. 

There are some serious tensions in the aftermath, because the clones are very distrusting of politicians, even the ones with good reputations like Bail Organa and Mon Mothma. As far as many of the clones are concerned, they colluded in keeping the brothers as slaves in a desperate attempt to preserve the Republic, along with the Jedi. 

It’s Faesta who steps up and does her best to talk everyone down. She’s always believed in peace, hoped for better times once the war ended, but found herself in even worse straits as time passed. She may not have the deep understanding of being used as fodder like the clones do, but she knows oppression. She and Rex were the ones who found a way to free the clones from their chains. Now she asks them what they really want to do now that their chains are off and the primary culprits are themselves either dead or fettered in chains of their own? Continue the cycle and thus see more blood spilled, blood of their brothers, blood of innocents? 

Faesta freely admits that there are no real good answers to the shitty situation they’re in. She just asks that the clones, that everyone, look for answers that don’t involve doing their level best to kill one another. 

The story gets left a little open-ended, letting readers decide for themselves how things go. The clones have control at the end, but it’s control by the barrel of a blaster, and hardly sustainable, but they’re just so angry at everyone. Will Faesta’s words be enough to bring peace, when the words of so many others failed?

[eyeloch]

If you are caught helping to hide a Clone Trooper fleeing from the Grand Army of the Republic, would you be charged with aiding and abetting a criminal or for possession of stolen property?!

[wolveria]

sad headcanon time: only officers, ARC troopers and commandos are officially taught how to read by the kaminoans. the rest only pick up the slightest bits of aurebesh (aka only teach themselves how to spell their names, learn their CT number, etc.) when anakin and some other jedi (obi wan, plo, etc.) find out, they go ballistic and immediately arrange for all their troops to be taught the alphabet. and, headcanoning that slaves on tattooine also didn’t know how to read, this hits home for ani :(

[wolveria]

reading anon: more sad headcanons! while most jedi that do teach their clones to read delegate their commanders to do it. however, anakin takes it upon himself to teach almost every clone in the 501st, which absolutely baffles the jedi council. (cause to them, he’s got better things to do, right?) obi wan confronts him about it, curious, but comes away saddened cause anakin doesn’t want the clones to go through what he did, cause he knows what they’re experiencing, making this personal to him

It’s officially Sad Headcanon Sunday.

[wolveria]

modern au where the clones are jango’s sons (for the sake of humanity only the more well known ones), domino squad are quintuplets, nala se is their stepmother (and boba’s mom), jango unintentionally favours boba and doesn’t realize that his new wife doesn’t give two shits about her stepchildren, but she especially hates fives cause he’s a little rebel. shaak ti eventually adopts him & a couple other clones

It started off so cute and then you broke my heart but put it back together again

[wolveria]

Here is some clone pain just for you. What if Fives was never killed by Fox, and told the Jedi about the plot. But they don’t believe him ( like other people have said) . You know that virus they said they founded in him and Tup. Well what happened if the virus spread, and turned into a cancer in his mind? I’ll let you finish what will happens next.

?!?!?! Tumblr never showed me I had any asks!! When did you send this?! Omg I was just having Clone Wars feels recently too.

“I’ll let you finish” why would you say that. Why. I’m going to stick to my Fives Fix-It fic that is sitting unfinished in my hard drive. At least he lives and manages to escape from the Jedi Temple with the help of Rex and Ahsoka (people should really hire me for these things).

No brain cancer for clones! That’s the official stance of this blog.

[wolveria]

I was watching the Clone Wars earlier and I got to the Order 66 arc and I noticed that Fives seems so much more fragile than before?? Like, even at the beginning, he seemed a little more off than any other time we've seen him. It makes me wonder, if he hadn't been killed in the storage bay, how much longer would he have been able to keep fighting? Even if he survived to join the rebellion, how long would it take before the fighting destroyed him? My poor baby :'(

WOW AND HERE I HADN’T EXPERIENCED EXCRUCIATING CLONE PAIN IN A WHILE AND THOUGHT I WAS SAFE.

One is never safe from clone pain. Never.

(Is that why he totally overlooked when a droid was about to shoot him and Tup saved his life by shoving him down? Oh no now there’s liquid coming out of my face)