Spitfire before he became grey, poor baby. All he can do is hold his favourite vod as he the medic fails to mend the mistake caused by the explosives specialist.
Made these two before coming up with the final piece above.
My favourite, Spitfire!! Positing this now before I start suffering tomorrow. I don't know how to make references, but I tried 😭
Under the cut is my long yap session about his details.
RC-5820/Spitfire details:
Background
His original squad was killed by friendly fire, as the squad's explosives expert — Haywire, set a bomb off too early, causing two members to die and Spitfire to lose his right arm. The death of those two squadmates made Haywire and Spitfire join a different squad that also lacked in numbers, but that squad died in Geonosis, leaving Haywire and Spitfire to end up in their current squad — Adder Squad.
Spitfire got his blaster scars from the times he got shot during trianing (poor guy took the shots for his comrades). He got his laceration scars from fights with Haywire, with their trauma Haywire has turned unfeeling, whereas Spitfire has turned to feel too much, thus causing them to clash a lot despite knowing each other more and spending more time together than anyone else.
Personality
Negative but will try to be optimistic for other people, angsty, snarky, resourceful, gentle heart with lethal thorns.
As his name suggests, Spitfire has a fiery and confrontational personality, which only became more unapproachable as he aged and experienced more of the sorrowful fate of clones. He has little patience for bullshit and sugarcoating, sees reality as cruel and apathetic, but will say what people want to hear if they are close to death or really need comfort.
He stands up for his comrades no matter the cost, will question risky orders, put their needs before his own; Spitfire even has gone as far as filing reports against his General in hopes of earning some leniency.
He resents the galaxy for putting him and his comrades into an unfair world where justice is biased and rights aren't equal simply because clones are viewed as lesser. The prejudice towards clones has made him despise non-clones.
Being a medic in a battalion under the control of a ruthless General is no easy task, comrades die left and right no matter how skillful Spitfire's capabilities are, leaving him with a slight inferiority complex.
Secretly can't handle his comrades dying even though he knows it will happen.
As a commando, compadre with squadmates is essential, yet Spitfire can't have any of that, because those he were closest to were torn away from him, and his snarky personality makes it difficult to make new connections, not to mention his fear of losing those important to him. He has some attachment issues.
Armour
As a medic, Spitfire needs his hands free to heal allies, and does less fighting than his comrades, so he uses a DC-17 repeater hand blaster, thus he has a holster for it on his right thigh. He also has extra pouches to hold medical supplies. (I only drew one, but incorporate hammer space.)
I chose the colours — red, white, grey, and black because they are the colours of the battalion he's in, the 403rd, aka Sacred Dragons — General Krell's Battalion; with those colours I also incorporated Mandalorian colour meanings into his design because because clone commandos are closely tied to Mandalorian culture.
According to Mandalorian culture colours — scarlet stands for defiance, maroon stands for power, grey stands for mourning, black stands for power, erin stands for a yearn for peace, gold stands for revenge, white stands for change. I have used these colours in his design.
From the back he is scarlet to hide his front which is grey, because unless you know him -know that he's putting up barriers due to the fact he's mourning and afraid of getting attached just to lose the person- you'll think he's simply being difficult. He has four dots on his left chest, they are his sergeant's dots, but they -plus the stripe in the middle- have the colour of erin that stands for his desire for peace. He has some gold and black because he wants revenge and justice for all his fallen comrades and the mistreatment towards clones. Has maroon because as a medical sergeant he has power, he also wants power to help his comrades. His left shoulder bell is default white because he loses it a lot due to the fact he has to remove the medic symbol if he wishes to be an active part of combat -which he often has to do- in consequence of Krell's tactics being cruel.
Tattoos
His tattoos also incorporate the Mandalorian colour meanings as mentioned above.
The rose means — love, passion, memory, grief, and duality.
The skull means — death, mortality, rebellion, and by a stretch it can also mean understanding of anatomy.
The initials on his left wrist are "S" and "B" in Mando'a, they are the initials of the first two squadmates he lost; further tying grief into his design.
All these are felt and are part of Spitfire's character.
There are four roses to represent the four squadmates he lost, two skulls to represent the two squads he lost.
Additional
I was going to add tally marks to his armour that represent all the lost lives, but that means his entire armour would be covered in tally marks and I would die each time I draw his armour.
He was supposed to have wing tattoos on his waist or back to symbolise his yearn for freedom, I wanted to use skeletal wings as a nod towards his advanced anatomical knowledge, and to tie it with the skulls, but the wings just didn't look right so I removed them.
Lowkey a germaphobe, wants everything to be as clean as possible. He doesn't care if the room is a mess, as long as it's clean.
Spitfire was going to get a double mohawk to honour his lost comrades, but when he was shaving his head he got forcefully stopped by Haywire who thought it looked unseemly, so Spitfire's head is only half shaved.
His armour has a backpack to go with it, but I forgot to draw it 🫢
Doesn't like being touched, but is also touch starved.
Was best pals with Initial S, leaving a void in Spitfire's heart ever since Initial S died.
Has dark circles under his eyes, paler skin tone, and a lower fat percentage because he's overworked, stressed, barely sleeps, and has harmful addictions.
He is smarter than the average clone, but because of his bad lifestyle, it doesn't appear that way.
He has a nicotine and morphine addiction. His nicotine addiction started young when he was learning his medic stuff, there's a lot of information and studying, nicotine became his stress relief. Initial S managed to get ahold of death sticks for Spitfire. His morphine addiction started after he joined Adder Squad, he had no friends anymore, experienced the horrors of war, and needed something stronger than nicotine to dull the anguish.
Although it's stated he lost his arm in an explosion, the amputation was actually self-inflicted. His arm got stuck under the debris of an explosion so he had to cut it off.
I was drawing my other OC, Ashana, with the intention of using clean line art, but that takes too much for me to achieve, so I drew Spitfire as a break or award for my efforts.
