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So There's This Guy
by @catbuir and @elsaanna007, with art by @mock-arts and @anstarwar
Rating: E, 18+
Tags: cloneship, cloneshipping, Echo/Fives, friends to lovers, nsfw, mutual pining, first kiss, first time, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm delay/denial, smut, explicit sexual content, hand jobs, sexual tension, resolved sexual tension, clone trooper culture, clone troopers deserve better
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The war is over!
Jesse, Kix, Echo and Fives live together in an apartment on Coruscant.Ā
Echo finds himself in a new romance with a beautiful woman named Hehna. After finding himself lacking in experience, Fives offers to help him out with advice and practice.
Unfortunately for Fives, this awakens some feelings he thought were buried deep and he doesnāt know what to do about them. He decides to put them aside and be happy that Echo has found someone.
Fivesā advice does help Echo become more confident with his new girlfriend, but something is holding him back. His thoughts keep returning to his best friend and heās not the only one who notices.
Will Fives keep his role as the best friend, or will Echo realize that his attraction to Hehna pales in comparison to his feelings for Fives?
I'm so very excited to share this sneak peak on behalf of me and my awesome fantastic lovely teammates @catbuir @elsaanna007 and @mock-arts! We've had a blast working on this and can't wait for everyone to see it.
For now here's a little sneak peek, with the full story to be posted in April!
@cloneshippingbigbang
Title: So There's This Guy
Authors: @catbuir (Ao3) and @elsaanna007 (Ao3)
Artists: @mock-arts (Ao3) and @anstarwar (Ao3)
Rating: E, 18+
Word Count: 75,000+
Pairings: Echo x Fives
Tags: cloneship, cloneshipping, Echo/Fives, friends to lovers, nsfw, mutual pining, first kiss, first time, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm delay/denial, smut, explicit sexual content, hand jobs, sexual tension, resolved sexual tension, clone trooper culture, clone troopers deserve better
Summary:
The war is over!
Jesse, Kix, Echo and Fives live together in an apartment on Coruscant.Ā
Echo finds himself in a new romance with a beautiful woman named Hehna. After finding himself lacking in experience, Fives offers to help him out with advice and practice.
Unfortunately for Fives, this awakens some feelings he thought were buried deep and he doesnāt know what to do about them. He decides to put them aside and be happy that Echo has found someone.
Fivesā advice does help Echo become more confident with his new girlfriend, but something is holding him back. His thoughts keep returning to his best friend and heās not the only one who notices.
Will Fives keep his role as the best friend, or will Echo realize that his attraction to Hehna pales in comparison to his feelings for Fives?
Snippet below the cut:
Fives watched his best friendās eyes, his stomach twisting in on itself at the way they lingered on his lips as he slotted his face in closer and closer. He closed his eyes - when he was sure that there would be no more sudden movements - and nearly sighed in relief when he felt the slight brush of Echoās lips against his.
His fingers tightened of their own accord, digging into the muscle just above Echoās hips, wanting so badly to pull him in closer and deepen the kiss, but his mind thankfully resisted, insisting again that the purpose of this kiss was just a simple tutorial.
āTouch me,ā Fives murmured against the soft but barely moving lips against his own.
Echoās mouth froze even as he shifted on his feet. Fives could tell he was hesitating. He could practically feel Echo overthinking everything, so he tipped his head slightly and pulled Echoās lower lip between his and sucked gently. He felt a hot puff of air escape Echoās nose seconds before tentative fingers traced his cheek.
The touch felt painfully reverent and it sent shivers through his system, desires for things he shouldnāt be wanting beginning to take shape in his chest. He hummed encouragingly and pulled back just enough to separate their lips so he could focus.Ā
Heād intended to offer a compliment for Echoās swift mastery of that first technique. He had planned on going over some suggestions on what to try next and maybe stressing the importance of taking things slow and enjoying it. Heād expected questions. Heād predicted some degree of self doubt or second guessing.
The one thing he hadnāt anticipated was Echo chasing his lips, the smooth and almost sure way he cocked his head to the side and sealed their mouths together once more. This time, he mimicked Fivesā kiss so perfectly that he couldnāt help but part his lips and swipe his tongue tentatively across Echoās bottom lip. That move must have spurred Echo into motion, though, because almost immediately he felt Echoās tongue slip between his lips quickly. Too quickly.
Fives squeezed Echoās hips, reluctantly breaking the kiss before Echo could attempt to take things any further. He felt the body tense beneath his fingers and he lifted one hand quickly to cover Echoās where it still rested on his cheek. He guided Echoās palm to slide sensually over his skin, curling his fingers carefully between those of his best friend and leading him down, past the stubble of his jaw and the scratchy cut of his goatee until it landed on the side of his neck.
āEasyā¦ okay?ā He opened his eyes just far enough to see Echo nod in understanding. āNow, deepen the kiss. Gently.ā
Echo swallowed, his throat bobbing as his tongue darted out to wet his lips and Fives almost moaned at the sight.
āLead the kiss, but let yourself react to my touch as well,ā he whispered.
Echoās eyes slipped shut as he leaned in and brushed their lips together with an ease that definitely hadnāt been there before. There was a new sense of confidence rippling through Echo this time and Fives felt a surge of pride that he seemed to have already mastered this part of the lesson at least. Not that it really surprised him. This was Echo after all. Heād always been a fast learner.
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Summary: Commanders Fox and Thorn are trying to survive the war together on Coruscant. Can they survive Palpatineās machinations?
Snippet:
Stoneās voice was groggy and confused on the other end of the comm. "Fox? What's going on?"
"I overslept, somehow. Iām sure I set the alarms properly - some bastard must have turned them off," Fox explained in a rush. āWhy didn't you comm me earlier? You know that Brink is going to be on your ass for pulling a third double in a row, even if I am grateful that you apparently decided to cover my shift without checking in with me. But I'm not injured, so you didn't need to do that.ā He transferred the call to his bucket comm as he finished dressing in his armor, pausing for just a moment to snatch a breath and one of the emergency ration bars stashed in his bunk-side drawer.
"What? No, I'm not still on shift,ā Stone answered, and he sounded increasingly bewildered. āThorn took report a couple of hours ago. It's fine, Fox. Don't you - "Ā
Fox cursed under his breath, tensing up further. He'd been unsure about whether or not the unnamed thing between himself and Thorn should continue - despite the warm-soft-fuzzy feelings, he didn't want to overstep, and here Thorn was covering for one of his missteps. "Force karking damn it. I still wish that one of you had woken me up! I'll be at headquarters in five. Hopefully he hasn't had to cover too many of the meetings I'm supposed to be in for security reasons today."
"FOX! You don't have any meetings scheduled today. You're also not scheduled for patrol!" Stone half-yelled. "Fox, don't you remember?"
Fox paused for a moment, trying to figure out what Stone was referring to. There was something niggling at the back of his mind, but in his not-panic over being so horribly late to his shift he couldn't quite remember what it was that he should be remembering. "Remember what? That I'm horribly, horribly late? And that if any of the nat-borns we deal with - outside of the Jetiise - realize this slip up, it's back to Kamino for recalibration if I'm lucky?"
"Force's sake, Fox! You have the day off. Your request for leave went through," Stone cut in, talking over more of Fox's babbling with fond exasperation. "None of us woke you up because you're on leave.ā
Fox blinked in surprise, and the memories slowly filtered back in at Stoneās words. Thatās right; he hadĀ five days off, all in a row. His request, submitted months ago, had finally been approved a couple of days previously, despite the Supreme Chancellor originally rejecting it.Ā
Fox had Bulwark to thank for that; the Chief Medical Officer had petitioned the Jedi Council directly, citing that battlefield commanders regularly got leave after campaigns, but the four commanders of the Coruscant Guard had never been granted leave because they were permanently stationed on Coruscant. Apparently heād also had some choice words about CorSec all but abandoning their duties to the Guard - none of which the vode were even trained for, much less had the resources to take on.Ā
While Fox had been concerned to hear that one of his vode had criticized CorSec so blatantly to the Jedi, he had to admit that Bulwark got results. Each of the commanders would get a few days of leave off over the following months.
Fox, who knew well that the kindly old grandfather persona that the chancellor projected in public was a flimsi-thin mask hiding quite a bit of petty vindictiveness, was surprised that the Jedi had been able to strongarm him into agreeing to even that much, and he dreaded how Chancellor Palpatine would punish the Guard for it later. It was clear that the chancellor had grown very used to having an enormous amount of power and the privilege that came with it. Then again, maybe even he had finally admitted that the Guard was of no use to anyone if they burned out.
ā...Right,ā Fox replied belatedly. āI forgot. Sorry to have bothered you.ā He winced. āI woke you up, didnāt I?ā
Written by: Trillium_Orchid
Art by: IonFusion [me]
Summary: A series of one shots, short stories and snippets off the cutting room floor of the other clone shipping big bang fics. Some are NSFW, some are Gen, angst, fluff, sex, love, death, life, and all sorts of other osik.
Rating: Explicit
Tags: Reconditioning, Reconditioned Dogma, Tup/Dogma, Domesticity, Brain Surgery, Order 66, Suicidal Thoughts, De-aging, Force Nonsense, Bad Batch Cuddle Pile, Crossdressing,Tooka Kittens, Songfic,Ā Waxer/Boil, Wrecker/Echo, Clone Trooper Reconditioning, Clone Trooper Discrimination, Clone Troopers Deserve Better, Sheev Palpatine is His Own Warning, Cloneshipping 2022, Cloneshipping, Clonecest, NSFW, Male Lactation, Hanahaki Disease, Angst, Illness, Star Wars au, angst, hurt/comfort, pinning, Tup, Dogma, Fives, Echo, Hardcase, Jesse, Kix, Rex, Flower Meanings, poly 501st boys, Tup Suffers, Sorry, Clone Troopers Deserve Better, Tup Lives AU, Dogma Lives AU, Fives Lives AU, flower language usage very minimal though, Wooley, Comet, drinking, mentions of alcohol, dancing, club scene, mentions of jealousy, Boss, Jiang, Null Arc Trooper Jiang, Wooley/Tup/Comet, Hardcase/Dogma, Fives/Echo, Fives/Tup, Jesse/Kix, mentions of Cody/Rex/Baccara, mentions of Delta Squad, #CSBB22 #CloneShipping Big Bang 2022 #cloneshippingbigbang #CSBB
Snippets:
Tup had been so thrilled to have been given a gift of fruit- a form of space cherries from the locals- after the 501st had helped the planet fight off the Seppies and clankers. He had helped one of the local farms with clean up of the battle- and they had given him a basketful of cherries.
They are a warm orange pink colors with stems being a purple-blue color. He had gone to Kix and had them tested for edibility for near-humans and vod'e alike. He had been told that they were safe to eat, and Kix had only taken a small handful of cherries in recompense for the use of his time and equipment.
Tup is smiling and has an almost bounce in his step as he heads to one of the rec rooms and takes a seat at in one of the comfy couches and settles in. He has a bowlful of cherries- and a data pad with a good book to read.
Tup pops the cherry in his mouth- stem and all as he chews on the cherry and happily reads the book- it's a fictional work, with romance, fighting, and all sorts of other things in it. He's quite enjoying the book.
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Kix and Dogma had agreed to get their karking chips out of their head- and Tup was scanned, he did not have his chip, that had been removed, thank the ka'ra and the force. It did not take long for them to recover from the minor brain surgery.
The three of them meet with the rest of the bad batch, and the former members of the 501st have a tearfully happy reunion with Echo who holds them all with a gentle sort of desperation. Having a fully trained medic helped with certain missions that went up osik shape.
Also- with Tup and Dogma at the helm of the Ship, Tech could go on missions with the rest of them more as they rotate who is flying and guarding the ship verses who is on mission. They are more able to have Omega stay with the ship, as they have more than one other vod'e and crewmate on the ship.
Which is in general, a much safer location for Omega to be, she is still trained, and by a wider variety of vod'e. Kix, she shadows in the medbay, learning more medical skills, and he calls her, "my excellent medic cadet assistant."
They had their arguments of course, but on the whole they tended to get along better than be too argumentative. They are dodging the collective efforts of The Marshall Commander Cody and Crosshair- and their group of likely a blend of Storm Troopers and vod'e.
Rex was trying to coordinate with some of the local rebel cells - if they can manage capture Crosshair or Cody, he is not laboring under a false delusion that they could capture both of them, that was likely not going to happen.
Iām super excited to share the squad 21ā²s sneak peak for theĀ @cloneshippingbigbang event! The author of this fic is the awesome @airlockfailureā and Iām the artist for this fic!Ā
Auribus Teneo Lupum
translation: holding a wolf by the ears; meaning trying to avoid an unknown situation by remaining in your current unhealthy situation; an unwillingness to change/adapt/grow/heal for fear of the unknown
The author: @airlockfailureā
The artist: @reaalikaasuā
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: over 30,000 (incomplete)
Pairings:Ā Denal/Axe, Angel (OC)/Koho
Major Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Tags:Ā blood and injury, hurt/comfort, angst, medically YMMV, militarily YMMV, cognitive dissonance, discussions of brainwashing and behavioral conditioning, permanent injury, permanent disability, clone troopers deserve better, clone trooper culture, clone shipping, clone trooper relationships, nat-born vs. clone trooper dynamics, healing and recovery, medical prosthetics, cybernetics, food insecurity, medical emergencies, erol and meerla are spice runners/producers but thereās no illicit use of spice, building a community, self esteem issues, PTSD, grief and mourning, murder, treason, hiding from the Republic, clone trooper decommissioning, clone trooper reconditioning, unsafe sex, anal sex, oral sex, sexual inexperience, nonbinary characters, early relationship Zero/Meerla, falling in love, touch starved, size difference, survivorās guilt, getting together, Kaminoans being assholes, alternate universe- canon divergence, order 66 didnāt happen, original clone trooper characters, original characters, pov original character, other tags to be added
Summary:Ā Angel, Alpha-ARC trooper and Commander aboard the HCTFF2 medical station, makes a desperate escape into hyperspace after a surprise Separatist attack.Ā Confronted with protecting Kaminoan secrets or saving his fellow troopers, Angel chooses the lives of the men in his care.Ā Denal, one of his patients, witnesses an act of treason and is torn between doing what his training says is right versus what his heart tells him.
Snippet:
āYou run a tight ship, Commander,ā Kel Torra remarks.
Angel is unsure if she means to pay him a compliment or if sheās admonishing him for overbearance.
āBut your expenses are nearly twice that of other medical stations,ā she continues.
āHCTFF2 receives the majority of wounded troopers, sir,ā Angel states.
Kel Torra blinks at him.Ā Heās never been a good judge of Kaminoan body language.Ā Costing the Republic credits without justification isnāt something he appreciates being accused of.Ā He looks up at her, wondering if she has more to say or if sheās looking for him to explain himself.Ā Itās simple, really.
āThis medical station does not decommission enough troopers compared to the numbers being redeployed to the front,ā Kel Torra eventually tells him.
Itās simple.
āThese men are still alive, sir,ā Angel states as flatly, and as calmly as he can.
She blinks and her already thin lips thin further.Ā āTheseā¦ clonesā¦ are alive against set protocols.ā
Tags: Trauma, Healing from Trauma, PTSD, Post-Order 66 (Star Wars), Order 66 (Star Wars), suicide ideation, Minor Character Death, Suicide, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Happy Ending, (or as happy as post order 66 can get), building a life together, Life on Seelos, Gregor Lives, Polyamory, Threesome - M/M/M, Smut, Anal Sex, thigh fucking, blowjob
Summary:
They were all three of them broken and shattered, what remained of them less than whole, but those ragged edges fitted perfectly together, the sharpest corners of them smoothed down by each other, and now they were only ever whole when they were together.
After Order 66 Rex felt it was his duty to try and save as many as he could, to try and find those whose chips might have malfunctioned or never even activated. He finds two whose minds are still their own, Gregor and Wolffe, but many of the others they saved who did execute the order admit they would rather be dead than saved, unable to live with the memories.
Only three of them with the will to live, still, to try and pick up the pieces of who they were and form them into who they can be, together, away from all the hurt and grief that was meant to have been their destiny. What lies ahead will be a long road full of healing and learning the softer side of life, of maybe even learning to love.
