Hi! I love your Domino Twin headcanons! I was wondering if you have any post-Echo's "death" ones for some angst?
Ah, I have actually have an idea for a fic that addresses this a bit but that won't be out for a while, so absolutely! This is basically me just transferring it here from my Google doc lol. Also includes some bits that I had in my Ghost!Domino fic Nu Kyr'adyc
On Fives' end of the Situation
Directly after the Citadel, Fives wanders off into the ship, not talking. He isn't where anyone expects him to be, but Rex eventually finds him and comforts him
Torrent takes extra efforts to look out for him in the following weeks, Rex even somehow convincing Command to let him stay with them longer than initially planned and they just let him take the time he needed that wouldn't be given once Command finally forced him back into the field
Torrent tried to cuddle pile their way through his and their own grief, but when Fives woke up the next morning and Echo wasn't next to him, he broke down and broke all their and my hearts even more
Even through the Chip Arc, Fives finds himself turning to reference a past ARC mission or inside joke with Echo only for him to not be there
One thing I've noticed is Echo always stands to Fives right in the episodes. Following his 'death', Fives starts standing to people's right and subtly adjusts so they're always to his left instead
It takes a while for Fives to get used to having to explain everything he's thinking because Echo isn't there to make the same jumps/finish his sentences for him
Adds Echo to the little memorial for Domino :(
The datapad he ends up using afterward is actually Echo's that had been left in the ARC barracks during the mission because of the upgrades he had added to it
Either gets a tattoo or paints a part of the inside of his armor or both in memory of Echo
Echo's end of the Situation
When actually lucid enough to think properly when under Tambor's "care", he mainly hoped Fives got out alive rather than get mad for leaving him behind. They were ARCs, they understood sometimes the mission came before Rule Number One for them
Used memories of Fives and the 501st and Domino to help him get through the, uh, physical side of torture he was put through. Couldn't quite do that with the mental side, though :(
Knew right away that Fives was dead when Rex + the Bad Batch rescued him because there's no other reason he wouldn't have been there
Starts to find himself standing to the left of people instead of the right
Keeps interrupting his brothers when talking because he knows where they're going with it, especially with Tech when they're planning (reactions are various mixes of understanding why he's doing it and upset because they don't)
Ends up huffing to himself a lot when he thinks of a reference Fives would get but doesn't want to draw attention to himself and have to explain
Finds the Domino memorial between being rescued and joining the Bad Batch only to find someone else maybe Rex found it and added Fives and has to take himself off
Has! So many Issues! even without dealing with losing his twin so he tries to push it aside but it builds and bites him in the back every once in a while and he has to take a day or two to focus on it
Someone give him a hug, please, he needs it