So, I have officially finished my Commander Buir fic (still need to upload the last chapter, but the writing/editing is DONE) and I wanna write for this au more but I don't know which idea to start first. I love all of them.
SO! I am giving title and brief breakdown and then you can vote which one ya'll want more. (Most of these directly connect to my fic so context may be needed)
Buir vs Buir: The Wolffe, Plo, and Alpha convo when Plo wanted to adopt Wolffe (and the other 3 survivors of the malevolence disaster.
Talking It Out, Annoying Vod’ika Style: Rex and Cody’s convo after Rex overhears the Domino twins and Wooley talking.
Gai Bal Manda Part 2, Electric Boogaloo: Rex adopting Fives and Echo
You Got The Makings of Greatness In You: Cody’s convo with Wooley when he recommended the trooper for ARC training.
Oh No. It’s Ba’Buir.: Wooley, Five and Echo in ARC training together under Alpha-17.
Unfortunately, I Love Them.: Alpha-17 Adopting the CC batch
This Is Why Buir Doesn’t FUCKING Love You!: TBB meeting Rex for the first time (and Wooley) ((and the twins))
[un-titled]:Anakin finds out about Codywan - 2 ways to do this. Anakin accidentally calls Cody “Dad” cause he picked up on feelings through his and obi's bond and with how he views Obi-Wan as a father, it just kinda slipped (He and Wooley bond over this) and then Obi talks it out with him. OR Traumatize him by having him walk in on them, y’know, and then commiserate with Wooley who once did the same thing and shares his same pain but on Cody’s side of things. They bond.
Which fic idea calls to you like Satan whispering in your ear?
Buir vs Buir
Talkin gIt Out, Annoying Vod'ika Style
Gai Bal Manda Part 2, Electric Boogaloo
You Got The Makings of Greatness In You
Oh No. It's Ba'Buir.
Unfortunately, I Love Them.
This Is Why Buir Doesn't FUCKING Love You
untitle option 1
untitled option 2
WAIT I HAVE AN IDEA- (tell me your idea and maybe it will go on the list)
I don't know if anyone is going to see this, but I'm currently working on a Cody-Centric Fic which is probably going to be put in several parts. I have so many ideas.
If anyone is interested, it's going to be divided into three parts. One on Kamino, one on the War and one on the aftermath. It will not really be a fix-it and really clone centric.
The first part focuses on Cody's relationship with Jango, his batch mates (Fox, Wolffe, Bly, Ponds - heavy on the Fox) and later Rex. But you will notice that Cody is my favourite.
The second part includes Codywan. Sorry not sorry. It's going to be on the lighter side, with I hope lots of funny moments, but it still takes place during a war and Cody will deal with a lot of heartbreaking loss.
I'm not sure about the last part yet, but order 66 happens. It's probably going to be about imperial cody and how he learns to deal with the aftermath of what he's done and how he'll get out of the empire. I plan on including the way Darth Vader deals with clones as a sith and definietly a clone rebellion.
The point of this post is that it's still in the making process. I'm creating a time-line with events right now and have several mindmaps of relationship dynamics and how I'll portray them and just wanted to put the offer out to send me all ideas you've always wanted to see in a fanfic, but know you won't make it yourself. I'm open for shit posts and heavier ones. Your own ideas or some vague feelings. It doesn't matter.
This fic is already going to be written mainly for myself and is very self-indulgent and I thought, why not include everyone who never get's to writing their own fics.
When Cody comes to, he needs a moment to figure out where he is.
The sun is too strong. It’s warm, even through his armor’s environmental controls. The ground beneath him has give when he moves, but is stiff when he doesn’t.
Sand.
It’s sand.
Why the hell is he lying in sand?
Quick check, no odd pains. Stiff neck, normal. All armor and weaponry accounted for. Comms active and buzzing, but no signal.
Last memory, aboard the Negotiator. Planned destination, a swamp planet of no name, just a numerical designation. Negotiator in orbit, Generals went down to planet and entered a location of interest; Rex and Tano had remained in their transport for emergency extraction.
Swamp.
Not sand.
Why is it sand?
Cody turns until he spots what seems to be a town. He looks up again—binary suns—and has a guess as to which planet he’s on.
All roads lead to Tatooine, Skywalker had once joked, bitter and angry and refusing to explain.
I think the saying is that all roads lead to Corellia, Master, Tano had chirped up, still too small for her sabers and new to the war.
I know what I said, Skywalker had insisted, and still hadn’t explained.
(General Kenobi had gestured for Tano to end the line of questioning when she’d made to comment again.)
(Skywalker hadn’t noticed.)
Cody has no idea what’s going on, really, but the Republic has an accord with Jabba, and so Tatooine is as safe for a lone clone as it is for any other sapient. Safer, perhaps.
After all, slavers don’t damage what belongs to another, and the clones belong to the Republic.
He trudges, in as efficient a walk as the sand allows. This is not, as a matter of course, particularly efficient, because sand is terrible and it’s worse in armor, but he’s dealt with uglier terrain. He’s not going to overheat as easily as someone else might, at least, but he doesn’t have more than a flask of water on his person, and he dreads what happens when he runs out.
Tatooine doesn’t take Republic credits, even now.
It takes hours to get to the Mos. He isn’t sure which one it is, but he takes heart that people avoid him. It makes it easier to sidestep pickpockets and gather information on where he is and why he’s there.
He hears a few people refer to him as ‘Mando’ when he passes. It’s not… entirely incorrect. He’s a little on edge that they don’t recognize a clone uniform, but maybe it’s just a smaller city, and—
“Cody!”
A tiny, tiny body slams into his knees, and his hand twitches towards his blaster before his brain catches up.
He looks down.
That is a child.
This child knows his name.
Surprisingly, the child is looking up at him and appears to be ready to cry.
Cody picks up this child the way he’s seen Waxer and General Kenobi with small children, and holds it out at arms’ length for a moment.
“’m not a tooka,” the child grouses, and Cody sets it on his hip.
His brain catches up.
“I’m not sure who you are, or who you—” belong to, he almost says, with vague thoughts of crèchemasters and parents, except this is Tatooine, and such a turn of phrase would be unwelcome, “—are family to. Mind pointing me in the right direction?”
The child glares at him. “I’m—”
“Anakin!”
The voice isn’t shouting, but it’s whip-quick and snaps across the crowd in the way of a coldly disappointed drill sergeant… or perhaps a worried mother who can’t risk disturbing people.
Cody looks up in the direction, processes what he just heard, and then looks back down at the child that knew his name.
“Oh, kriff,” he says. “General?”
“Commandah,” tiny Skywalker greets, nodding gravely. It looks faintly ludicrous, with him being barely bigger than a freshly-decanted tubie. Cody just stares at him.
He looks up again, sees a woman mostly-successfully hiding her terror a few feet away, and thinks that this might need some careful handling.
“That your mom?” Cody asks, his mouth twisting so many times over whether or not to add ‘general’ or ‘sir’ when the man is a child—not that Skywalker’s outranked Cody since before he was knighted, technically—that he just peters out instead.
“Yeah,” Skywalker says, leaning a little away from Cody and towards the woman. “Mom! This ‘s Cody!”
The woman approaches warily. Cody steps forward and holds Skywalker out to her before he tries to think too hard about the way she moves and dresses and looks on this planet.
Skywalker hated Tatooine, always, even though it was his home. Now, Cody finally has confirmation on which theory was right. He’s not happy to know it. He never wanted to.
Part of him wonders what Skywalker would have done if some of the troopers had wanted to desert, rather than defecting like Slick. Maybe… maybe.
Just. Maybe.
“Thank you,” the woman murmurs as she takes her son. Cody finds himself at a loss about where to go from here.
Skywalker does not. “Mom, Cody’s gonna help.”
That fear again, quickly stifled. “Ani, honey, we don’t know him—”
“I do!”
Cody has no idea how to enter this conversation.
“He’s Mando,” Skywalker’s mother says, clearly wanting to get away from Cody as quickly as possible. “They’re not… they don’t deal with slaves, Ani. We can’t pay.”
“I have a plan,” Anakin insists.
“We have to get back to Gardulla’s,” the woman mutters, eyes slanted down and away. “I’m sorry, Mando, but I’ve already been at market for too long. My mistress will be looking for me.”
“Mom, we have time—”
“Ani, stop.”
Skywalker’s starting to get frustrated, tears welling up in his eyes. His mother isn’t faring much better.
Cody thinks, with this new clarity, about the worst-off refugees, and how Skywalker had always been the best with them, in some ways. The rumors had clashed, and many suspected that it was just civilians being more comfortable with Jedi than with clones, but more than one person had noticed that it was always the former slaves that Skywalker handled. It was always him that they trusted.
Cody steps forward and removes his helmet, because he doesn’t want to broadcast his words, and the vocoder wouldn’t keep it to just their little trio. As quietly as he can, he says, “I was assigned the designation CC-2224 at decanting. I did not choose a name for myself until prepubescence.”
There is a wealth of information in these two sentences, at least to the Skywalkers. Anakin already knows. His mother’s eyes widen, and she holds Anakin closer to her chest. She searches Cody’s face, his scar, the cut of his hair and the quality of his armor, and she sees… something. Something that calls her, like for like, slave to slave.
(The clones do not consider themselves slaves, for the most part.)
(They cannot afford to.)
(They did not even think to, but then there was Slick, and then there were entitled Senators, and then there were Skywalker’s bitter, bitter, bitter jokes.)
“I know ‘im, Mom,” Anakin insists, but hushed this time, too low for the audience of sidelong glances and peering boredom.
“Alright,” the woman says, and snatches a few looks around. “I wasn’t lying about Gardulla waiting on my return, but I should be free tonight. Do you know where the slave quarters are?”
“I got here an hour ago,” Cody admits. “So… no.”
“I c’n stay with him an’ show him how to get home,” Anakin offers.
“No,” his mother immediately says. It is not sharp, or harsh, but there is no flexibility in her tone. “You may think you know him, Ani, but I do not.”
I decided to make my Commander Buir au in Tomadachi Life and everyone is falling in love with Waxer.
Obi-Wan for a sec before he fell in love with Cody.
Padme.
Saw Gerrara.
Even brothers (I don't have them all set as siblings thats a lot of work) like Boil, Wooley, Fox and Echo!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
6th and final chapter for Commander Buir!!! Adoption has arrived.
This marks my first multi chapter fic complete! AND I have so many more ideas for stories that take place within this au world! (link to poll on what I write next)
You know how ppl say there is a 'calm before the storm'.
Recently heard my sibling refer to me as the calm before the storm and the only thing I could think of since then is that's a great way to characterize relationships.
Like codywan. Cody is the calm Commander you see in the midst of an chaotic battle. He knows what he does, he has done this thousands of times before. He is calm, his presence a anchor, the shielding rock for all his brothers. But he is also the calm before the storm. And obi wan is the storm. Because shortly after cody appears, there will be obi wan. And he will wreak chaos. He's a whirlwind of movements and lightsaber flashings. The storm that comes after the calm.
Just. Droids fighting for their lives just like their opponent clones and then they see that one clone appearing. You know, the calm one. The one who doesn't seem to be fighting for his life, but for all the others. The one who becomes the calm middle of all the fighting, the controlled leader. And they're like 'oh no' 'not that one', because they know if they can see that specific clone, the crazy redhead jedi is not far away. Because the commander is the calm eye in the middle of the chaotic storm of a battlefield. Of the jedi.
Just. Anakin doing something stupid and facing the commander afterwards. Who is so full of his shit, but still calmly speaks to him, reprimands him, until he actually feels sorry for whatever mayham ha just wrecked. The commander he knows everyone respects, he knows centers all clones of the 212th and most of the 501st. And then the calm is over when cody goes. And obi wan comes. And brings a storm of emotions upon him, making him feel like a padawan all over again. Before he gets lost in the storm obi wan always seems to carry with him. Not that he himself is any better.
Just, the calm before the storm.
Cody appearing first and then, always, Obi Wan afterwards.
I'm dropping this into your ask box because of the post you made about a Cody-centric fanfic? I love the concept so much!!! I have so many thoughts about Cody on Kamino, his feelings on Clone Culture and him beeing just such an amazing Commander, brother and mum. Cause he is mum coded. I probably wont fit them all into this rant so it's possible that I will randomly ask you again, because I remembered something or I had an idea, I hope you don't mind :).
So first of all, you said you wanted to deal with Cody and Jango wich I find realy cool. I realy would love to see maybe some interaction or at least Cody's thoughts on Boba as well. I think the clones might have mixed feelings about Boba since he is treated so differently but is he actually? I mean do they ever get jelous or annoyed by him? I don't think Cody would be but maybe some of his brothers. And what's ot like for Boba, with no real friends his age, because they all age mucg faster then him? Does he even know the clones? Mhmmm many thoughts here as you can maybe tell.
Also I don't know how you wan't to do the whole Jango and Cody relationship (feel free to ignore this haha), but I always imagined that, personality-wise Cody would not actually like him. With Jango beeing a bounty hunter who sells his Service to the highest bidder, beeing a lone fighter and also rather self-centric and a bit arrogant, I imagine he would not fit well with Cody's loyalty, his morals, his selflessness and his devotion to his brothers. However, I think Cody is fascinated by what Jango represents. He is an original. He has knowlege of the world outside of Kamino. He is allowed to have a personality. He is free. He is his own human beeing. These are all things, Cody wants so badly, for himself and for all his brothers. And, through Jango, he can get little glimpses at that, can phantom what it would mean or be like, can catch a glimmer of hope. Even though it could be argued that this aching and knowing you have to settle for a fraction of everything youncould be is worse than having never known about the possibilities at all. That's why I think his relationship with Jango is incredibly important, because it's not just about them as persons but also about the collision of their worlds and the clones' potential and what the Kaminoans made them.
I don't know how you want to approach clone culture, if you want it mandalorian or not, (I always imagine a heavy mandalorian influence, but altered to fit their restricted lifes and added with little things that come just from their very unusual everyday life on Kamino) but if you want Mandalorian Influence then I think Jango plays a very important role in that as well. And maybe that's also why Cody has very complicated feelings about him. I think Clone Culture is incredibly important to him, because it can make them feel like people and Jango brought them something to start with, to hold onto. Does he idiolize Jango? I don't think so. Not as a person. But he wouldn't be who he is without him (he wouldn't even exist wow) so... it's complicated.
I think my feelings about his batch are a topic for another time, but I NEED them adopting Baby Rex. That's very important to me. They are all protective older brothers.
On the Codywan topic: I like to imagine that Cody already catched a glimpse at him when Obi Wan visited Kamino in AotC. And... not to say that he had an instant crush, but I do think seeing someone from the outside world, maybe even the first other human that didn't bear his face, had a huge impact on him. I actually wrote a scene about that a while ago (someday I will get on with writing my own Codywan Fics haha), it's in german but if you want I can translate it and send it to you so you can see what I mean. I think his visit probably was a huge turning point in their time on Kamino. It meant the war was coming and they all anticipated it, but did they realy want it to come? It would get them off Kamino, but they would also most likely die sooner or later.
In terms of them realy meeting and falling in love I usually cant even decide what flavor I prefer. I usually love the shit out of every Codywan variety, if it's a Cody fresh from Kamino still ideolizing the Jedi and then beeing taken aback by how much they actually care and how unsuited for war they realy are. Or if he has had a few missions already and then beeing surprised that Obi Wan is actually quite capable and conpetent. Anyway I think Obi Wan earns Cody's respect by beeing competend and badass, then his trust by caring for his men and always listening to Cody in making his plans and decisions and then his love by beeing his caring, compessionate, selfless and loving self. Obi Wan is just so effortlessly treating them like persons, with him, Cody doesn't have to fight for that and it makes everything so much lighter. They share the burgen of leadership and trsponsibilty and it's a heavy burden but together it's just a little bit easier, just a little bit more durable. But hey, you know all this, I'm just rambling at this point.
Depending how early into the war you want them to meet, I also love some Cody and PadawanAnakin interaction. Just him and Rex getting into shenenigans as Commander and Captain of the 212th and Cody and Obi Wan standing by, facepalming. Older sybling solidarity is important part of their dynamic to me haha.
Oh god, I already wrote far to much, but just for the last part: I'd love for clone-rebellion-era Cody to meet either of Quinlan, Ventress and Hondo, if not all of them. Ventress' history with the clones (Wolffe) and Obi Wan would make for a very interesting dynamic and I can see him just beeing completely done with Hondo and Quinlan, just like he was in Clone Wars (their dynamic was already so fun to watch haha), only now, they also remind him of Obi Wan and he doesn't now if that makes it better or worse but it certainly makes it more personal. Especially with Quinlan it's probably hard, he has every reason not to trust Cody and to Cody it's probsbly hard to accept that Quinlan survived if he at this point still thinks that Obi Wan died. If not, maybe Quinlan can help him find Obi Wan and then we also have Quinlan and Obi Wan Reunion! Only if you even want a reunion of course haha.
OK anyway I'm sorry I rambled and I also apologize for the millions of spelling mistakes I probably made but... You asked! I will probably be back with more thoughts if you'll have me, haha. Keep me updated with how this fic is coming along, I'd hate to miss it :)!
Lots of fun and good writing!
I'm really hapoy you reached out and shared your ideas with me, that's why i put that post up after all ;)
I've already written part of the Kamino Arc by now, but I will try to include what you said, because it actually fits rather well with what I already have. In my story Jango takes an interest in Cody first and pays special attention to him. In the beginning Cody likes this and feels more mandalorian pride, but throughout the next years his admiration for Jango and what he stands for transforms into resentment because he matures and learns what it means for Jango to do what he had done and also, because the special treatment he gets separates him from his brother's. He realizes the unfairness of how his brothers are treated and how they seem to start to dislike Cody too. He transforms from Kote, who is Jango's protege, to Cody, who is the clone's certified big brother. He's a bit proud and selfish in the beginning, but I want to show how he changes and how he came to care about his brothers so much, even more than most other clones.
I'm not at the Rex part yet, but Cody will probably notice him and the batch will adopt him.
At the moment Cody and Boba have a really good relationship, due to Jango liking Cody. But when Cody eventually prioritizes his brothers over being Janho'g favourite and starts to get angry with him, Boba will probably feel abandoned by him. I feel like he would think Cody has chosen everything else over him and Jango probably won't let them spend time with each other anymore. So Boba once loved Cody and eventually resents him for leaving him alone once more. Boba grew up isolated from everyone else and Cody was one of the only ones Jango allowed to spend time with him, since the other clones don't like Boba for getting to be a child.
Cody focuses a lot of his time on the clones afterwards and neglects his relationship with Boba. I will come back to this later when Jango dies and the whole thing with Boba and Mace and the Bounty Hunters starts during the war.
I hope this fits with what you think about Cody's characterization.
Feel free to add anything you want to this. You can also ask questions, if you want to know how I'll handle certain relationships or events.
I'm not really planning the Codywan part until I'm finished with Kamino and know where this story has led me, but I will come back to your points then.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I hope you like mine hahha
I also plan on uploading a glimpse of the beginning sometime next week and I hope you'll give me feedback on that one. :)
PS. I'm actually German too, so if you want to you can send me yours. That's also why I'd be glad for everyone to point out spelling mistakes or something similar.
😔published lines or a section of a fic that was super sad, angsty, or difficult to write?
I keep wanting to answer with gags about the lines that took so much research that no reader would have cared if I just made shit up but no, I gotta give you a real answer.
...I feel like chapter eight's ending in Auntie Soka and Little Leia (and Rex) is the answer I always give, and that feels like cheating orz
Maybe the "Anakin confessing" bit of Commander Buir?
Anakin’s trembling, now. “She died in my arms.”
Well, shit.
Cody can’t keep more space now, not when Anakin needs both of them.
“I’m sorry to hear that,” Cody says, because this is careful territory, but one he’s been on. He’s comforted plenty of brothers after the deaths of batchmates, and he knows Anakin’s more volatile, but he can help here. He hopes. “She’s alive here and now, though.”
The shaking gets worse, and Cody looks helplessly at Shmi. Neither of them are sure what to do here.
“She’s—she’s gonna be mad,” Anakin says. “An’—an’ dis-a-pointed.”
“General Skywalker,” Cody says, hoping the title will maybe jolt Anakin out of whatever this is. “Your mother is alive. She is here and she is happy and healthy and she loves you. Whatever it is, I’m sure she’ll—”
“I killed ‘em.”
Cody stops.
Shmi picks up for him, which is good, because this is probably more her territory now anyway. “Killed who, Ani?”
“They took you. The Tuskens. An’ they tortured you. An’ I was too late to save you. An’ you died. An’ then I killed them. All of them.”
“Ani—”
“Even the kids.”
The shaking grows harder. Anakin’s crying. Cody doesn’t know if it’s guilt or fear of rejection or just his child body being too overwhelmed. He looks up to meet Shmi’s eyes again, and she looks as lost as he does.
