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Fives: You wanna know what I learned on the holonet today?
Fox: What?
Fives: Laughter is the best medicine for sadness.
Fox: And, I’m leaving.
Fives, blocking the doorway so Fox can’t get through: Why did the robber get into the shower?
Fox: I will make you stop talking permanently.
Fives: He wanted to make a clean getaway.
Fox:
Fives:
Fox, covering his face while laughing: That’s so stupid.
Fives, smiling: See? Works every time.
Current state of things: trying not to breakdown modeling a 3 story house
Did you know that red has more positive connotations than negative ones?
I feel like red would be Fox’s favorite color.
He hadn’t ment for it to become his favorite, but he did try to make himself at least like the color. He did it out of pure spite because he refuses to allow Palpabitch to ruin a color for him.
He looked up other things red could mean, and found that in many cultures it usually means passion, boldness, strength, independence, and courage just to name a few.
But most importantly, it means love.
So anytime he sees red, instead of thinking of the violence that seems to curse him and his guard whenever they wore their armor, he thinks about different times when they would form cuddle piles for the shinnies or for an emotionally or physically hurt trooper. How they always came to each other’s aid when another needed help, sometimes with a senator or with the various other tasks they had.
He thinks about every time Stone brought him a cup of caf in the morning because he had no time to pick one up, or every time Thire would stop in and tell him insane stories of things his troops had done that day for the sole purpose of making Fox laugh. Thinks about Thorn coming into his office to drag him to the commanders’ shared barracks to sleep, or of Dash exchanging some of his data pads for some rations and a cup of water.
He thinks of those and so many more, with his commanders and the many troops under his command there was always enough to think about, and it never fails to make him smile as grief rips at his heart.
But he moves through it, for their sakes, and chooses to remember the good times because those memories would be lost if he didn’t.
And slowly overtime, he starts to enjoy seeing the color when finding red items while strolling in a market, when Glitch gives him a red flower during a hike through a woody area, its petals shinning with water drops from the rain that morning, or by seeing a bird donned with beautiful red feathers all over soar into the open air above.
And eventually, it becomes one of his favorites.
Fox has very very bad sleeping habits.
He’ll sometimes go days without sleeping, one time he went a full week before fainting randomly in a hallway. It’s something he’s built up due to having back to back missions and assignments from senators and the Chancellor alike that gave him next to nothing in time for himself.
He would usually use that time to either grab a ration bar, and eat a few small bites of it, or drink a cup of water just to have five cups of caf immediately after.
So, basically he never slept unless one of the other commanders, most likely Thorn, and the medics forced him go to sleep, or when he faints randomly (it’s usually the last one).
Fives was very quick to pick up on this after Fox fainted one day, and also from the very noticeable eye bags under his eyes, and immediately makes it his personal mission to make this dimwit actually get enough sleep so he actually functions properly.
He has two ways of doing this:
1) Knocking him out
This was the method he used to use in the beginning (he absolutely does not use it now) because the last time he did he ended up with a broken arm and a black eye.
2) Trapping him on the bed
After some time, and with a desperate need to find a new way to get him his time loop partner to sleep so he stops fainting everywhere, he learned that if he were to cuddle with said commander, 9.9999/10 the commander would stay for not wanting to wake Fives up.
So, every time Fox is laying down, Fives goes over, lays flat on top of him so he can barely move his limbs, and puts his skill of fake sleeping he’s essentially mastered over the years to good use. (Especially since he does actually fall asleep pretty fast so it’s not like it’s obvious anyway.)
They both have a weak spot for Glitch, so naturally Fives abuses this against Fox also to get him to sleep as well. You wouldn’t want to  disturb the obviously very eepy child who went to you specifically because they trust and love you a lot, would you?
(It works really well)
And boom, now you have an actually somewhat functioning Fox that actually sleeps a few hours a day.
(Now just to work on his caf and eating problem.)
One of my headcanons is that both Fives and Fox are cuddly people.
So essentially I’ve put two very cuddly people in a time loop together. This is going to result in so many cuddle scenes you have no idea.
Fives: Hey, Fox!
Fox: …Hey?
Fives: Why did the caf file a police report?
Fox: I’m going to murder you.
Fives: …
Fox: …
Fives, with a shit eating grin: It got mugged.
Fox, trying not to laugh and absolutely failing: I fucking hate you oh my gods.
I feel like Fox has very good control over his emotions. If he doesn’t want you to know how he’s feeling, you’re not going to know. Everyone he knows has to watch him like a hawk to notice a slight twitch of a finger to know something’s wrong. So, yeah, very good self control.
Except for jokes, especially dad jokes. Crack a pun and he’s laughing on the floor until he can’t breathe.
All of his brothers and the entirety of the Coruscant Guard are completely aware of this and constantly try and get Fox to laugh, especially off duty, because they think he needs to laugh more.
And the thing is that he tries so hard not to. But literally no matter what he does, he always ends up breaking anyway.
His laugh is soft. He wheezes and the cackles he makes are high pitched. His laugh sounds somewhat similar to a foxes laugh, which totally didn’t inspire his name somewhat. (He used to laugh a lot as a cadet, he was honestly way happier as a kid in general.)
So yeah, when Fives finds out, it’s like he’s struck gold. He’s always had dad jokes on hand that he’s used countless times on the Resolute and always got mixed reactions depending on who he did it on, sometimes he even got Rex to laugh. So not to worry, he has an endless supply.
Every time he can, which is a lot, he lets one slip. He loves watching Fox struggle to hold it in before he inevitably crumbles. Loves hearing the ex commander actually happy for once.
Fox hates his life but what’s new lol. (He has his own methods of payback anyway that involves tickling that he’s found to be very convincing. Fives still hasn’t gotten the memo lmao.)
Imagine Fox being a ray of sunshine as a cadet. Him being the literal definition of innocence, the most that someone can be on Kamino. He never tries to think on the negatives too long because it makes him sad. He believes that if he’s there for everyone, is smart enough, or just good enough, then maybe he can make people hurt less inside. (Ending the war would be an added bonus since it causes most of the hurt to begin with.)
He loves caring for his batch mates and siblings, would die for any of them. Would search high and low if they ever got lost, calling their names until his throat was sore and he’s lost his voice. Would give himself up to the bullying instead, leaving his skin changing into multitudes of colors from bruises; his body so sore he can barely get up in the morning. Anything is worth it for them.
And while his batch is more on the loud side, he’s more quiet and keeps to himself. He’s disappeared into the white walls, the barracks, the mess, and the training rooms as his batch does what they usually do. They don’t talk or interact with him much, but whenever they’re hurting, he’s one of the first ones to comfort, holding them close and using his words to soothe.
He doesn’t like getting into physical fights; it’s his last option if the words coming out of his mouth do nothing. He’s more of a pacifist in that regard, a somewhat complete opposite of Wolffe who would fight anyone anytime for a single syllable uttered.
Words are the only thing he really has. He knows them like a good friend, someone who’s able to help him while his vode forget he’s there. Comfort, hurtful, or tactical, he’s used them in any situation he’s been thrown into.
Despite being the pacifist of his batch, he’s a good fighter, easily able to detect weakness and use it to any advantage he can. He’s not the strongest, but he’s the most strategic. He has and will put every single cadet he’s up against down, and will not hold back. Because if he doesn’t, if he fails, he’s weak. A defective clone that should’ve been decommissioned long ago for his hair.
He spends most of his time with other cadets due to being left out or by simply being left behind because they hadn’t bothered to look back to see if he was there; it’s how Fox was adopted into Cody’s batch. They constantly include him in things, asking for his opinion or just simply existing with him. It’s a different experience, being seen and actively acknowledged, being remembered. He ends up crying after a few weeks only to then be immediately embraced in a cuddle pile with him laying near Cody’s heart, Neyo at his back rubbing circles into his shoulder, Lock playing with his hair, and Bly laying on top of his legs so he’s unable to move, and it all just makes him cry harder.
He was integrated into the batch not long after, his own not even noticing he was gone.
Imagine all of this, and imagine him now. A seemingly cold and calculating commander of the Coruscant Guard. Troopers gossiping saying that a smile has never once graced his face. His walls so high and thick that they’re near impossible to infiltrate. He’s always busy and tired despite having one of the easiest positions of the entire clone army, and seen by many as weak for it.
His eyes are accompanied by deep eye bags that show of days where no rest was taken. And a white streak of hair that hangs boldly in the front of his face said to be from early signs of stress, even though it’s actually due to a genetic condition called poliosis. Despite these being the high gossips of the elusive commander, most of the clones spreading them, or just the clones of the GAR in general, never see these things for themselves due to the commander rarely taking his helmet off.
While the GAR sees him as more a thoughtless droid than a clone, emotionless and blindly taking orders, the Coruscant Guard sees him as something else.
They see him as a caring and selfless leader who cares deeply about those under his command, even if he tries to hide it behind his mask. They see someone who always tries to deescalate a situation, unless it puts a vod in danger. Someone who protects them from senators and natborns alike, who always has an ear open and an open shoulder to cry on.
They see someone strong, someone who doesn’t crack under any pressure and can get up every time he falls. They see someone who would die for them with zero hesitation, and they would do the same for him. (Which some do)
Fox is similar to his past. He’s not the naive or small kid that he once was. He looks at things realistically, even the negatives. He refuses to let his own emotions show, digging them deep within himself so not even his batch mates see. But, he still loves with all his heart, he still refuses to allow a vod to suffer in silence, and he still refuses to leave them to defend for themselves.
If something or someone comes after them, he will protect them until the last breath leave his body. It will be the last thing he does.
