#rex5

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Hi! Can I ask for Fives/Rex + 7?

hi blitzy!

the song was king and lionheart, by of monsters and men. established relationship, g. takes place during the war.

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The door clicks. Rex wakes up with a start and blinks at the dark, shifting under his thin blanket. Jars’s berth is empty, the bed still made. Rex sits up and rubs at his eyes, clearing his throat. The door opens, revealing a thin slash of light. Fives steps inside the room, quick and noiseless, and then lets the door close at his back. Rex exhales, feeling his heartbeat start to slow down. He swallows, mouth dry, and watches Fives while he starts taking off his armour. 

He smells of cleanser, the harsh kind they use in the hangars’ decontamination showers. Rex scowls and says nothing, fingers playing nervously with a loose thread, the plasticky feel of the thread cutting into the flesh of his palm. 

There’s a small private fresher tucked to the right. Fives says nothing: he places his boots under the rest of his armour in Jars’s rack and disappears inside the fresher, closing the door behind himself. Rex crosses his legs and waits for him, stomach in a knot.

It’s too soon.

Fives leaves the fresher. Harsh white light hits Rex’s eyes, and he curses, looking away—he feels more than hears Fives muttered apology, his hand hitting the door sensor.

“Didn’t mean to wake you up,” Fives mutters, his voice hoarse. He shifts his weight, still standing in front of the closed fresher door. 

The cabin is very small. Rex reaches out with his right hand and hooks his fingers in the waistband of his blacks. When he tugs, Fives sighs and closes the distance between them, stopping when his knees bump against the bed.

“You’re back early,” Rex says, trying and failing to sound nonchalant. Fives sighs again. He kneels on the bed. The emergency lumas on the walls shine at his back, hiding the expression on his face, silhouetting his shoulders and his overgrown curls in pale blue light. 

When Rex shifts backwards, lying back down, Fives follows him under the blanket with a grunt. They shift and settle until Rex’s lying on his side, back to the wall and Fives tucked against his chest, his head under his chin.

Seconds tick by. Rex grips the back of Fives’s neck, closes his eyes, and waits.

“Fourteen’s dead,” Fives says after a beat, voice muffled against Rex’s chest, lips moving against the scar there. He’s keeping himself very still.

Rex says nothing: he doesn't know what to say. He tangles his legs with Fives’s and holds on, quietly breathing out his grief and his impotence until sleep takes him again, Fives shivering in his arms.

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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Fives/Rex, Cody & Rex, Echo & Fives Additional Tags: @cloneshipweek2k21 | No-Order 66, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Established Relationship, Fives Deserves Better, and he's alive, Happy Ending Series: Part 4 of stolen moments Summary: The war has ended. And Rex really is happy. Overwhelmed with relief and happy… He just can’t stop wishing Fives was here with him to celebrate.

I realized I forgot to post links to the rest of my rex5 stuff here before so I guess now is the time I’m finally coming out as the problematic star war tumblr user 🤣 Anyway, have some rareship cloneshipping from me and please enjoy if that’s your thing! 💙 All parts of this series can be read as stand-alones but of course I encourage y'all to check out everything 👉👈

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Rex5 and Dogma/Rex for the ask game?

Rex5

Ship It

What made you ship it?

Just watching the show, frankly. It’s clear that there’s a deep bond between them, whether it’s romantic or platonic. There’s admiration, trust, but then there’s also tragedy. It’s so good.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The fact that, at least to me, with Fives being an ARC, he and Rex feel more on the same level than any other ship with Rex and someone else from the 501st.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Not really, because my biggest problem is how people treat Fives in general, but I don’t recall having seen any of that when it comes to Rex5 content.

Dogma/Rex

Don’t Ship It

Why don’t you ship it?

I know this comes as a surprise seeing that I even have a storyline for them in the Assorted Clonecest Fics, but still I’m more on a neutral ground towards them. There are other ships for them that I prefer. Also I’ve always thought of Dogma feeling admiration towards Rex and even having a bit of a crush, but after Umbara I think he’d have many other things to think about for that.

What would have made you like it?

Having them interact after Umbara, admitting that Dogma is alive, helps, and that’s why my favorite kind of content for them is the one where Dogma has been transferred in the Coruscant Guard. What matters most in this ship for making it work for me is that Dogma undergoes some much needed character development.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

It’s a ship with a great potential and it can be a good way to develop Dogma as a character. Apart from the strictly shippy content, it’s also good because, by making them remember or reflect upon Umbara, it also brings some very interesting points that would be fun to explore.

Send me a ship and I’ll answer three questions based on if I ship it or not.

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@whatntheblazes

Rex/Fives fucks me up so good. And you *know* I’m a slut for Fives/Echo. 

Okay, here we go. 

Rex/Fives

1. Who is the most affectionate?

You would think that it’s Fives since he’s not afraid to be open about who he is and who he loves, and public displays of affection don’t offend him in the slightest, but really, it’s Rex. His affection is much more subtle, though. It’s in the way that he touches the small of Fives’s back in passing, the slight kiss of their gauntlets during a briefing, the way Rex hangs back just for two seconds to kiss him on the cheek as a silent plea of ‘please stay safe.’ 

14. Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant?

Rex has an excellent memory, but that isn’t why he’s able to recall that Fives orders the same thing everywhere they go, or at least some variant of it. Fives is a sucker for good meat strips and something sweet and dessert-y to wash it down, and Rex can and has successfully ordered for him without him being present. Again, it’s not that he has an excellent memory that he remembers, but the fact that, at least in that aspect, Fives is completely predictable. 

33. Who says ‘I love you’ first?

It isn’t easy for either of them to say it, especially because this is war, and attachment is...well, should be left unspoken, even if they have been ‘together’ for a long while. Admitting that they’ve fallen that deep when tomorrow could be their last day is hard.  But Fives eventually blurts it out, unprompted, in the middle of the night, when he’s lying in Rex’s bed and waiting for him to finish his data entries for the day. He just watches the concentration in his brows, the way his lips part when something doesn’t make sense in the numbers, the soft glow of the stars making him look just a half shade more pale than the rest of their brothers. 

And it just falls from his lips before he can catch it. “I love you.” 

Rex stops, and for a second Fives thinks this might be the end of...whatever this is between them. But then Rex smiles warmly, puts the data pad down, and crosses the room to kiss him.

“I love you, too.” 

41. Who makes the other laugh the most?

Fives is funny. At least Rex thinks so. His individuality sets him apart from so many of the other clones, and Fives is never afraid to speak his mind. Sure, he should probably reprimand him for making fun of the way General Skywalker pouts when General Kenobi tells him ‘no’ but what they don’t know what kill them. 

Fives/Echo

7. Nicknames?

Y’all. If you think for one second that Fives doesn’t smoothly wrap his arms around Echo’s waist and call him ‘babydoll’ you are very mistaken. Echo pretends that he hates it, at least at first, but in reality he loves it and it makes his heart flutter. And good luck getting the giddy grin off either of their faces. 

10. Who worries most?

They both do their fair share of worrying, especially because they’re the only two left of the Domino squad. Also, they’re stupidly in love with each other so of course they worry. 

But seriously, it’s Fives. Not that he doesn’t think that Echo isn’t a good soldier. He’s amazing, but Fives can’t help it. 

15. Who is embarrassed to take their clothes off in front of the other?

Echo, at first, because even though they have such a similar, nearly identical physique, somehow Fives just looks better than him. He feels like he can’t compare. I could go on and on about this had things in season 6 gone differently because whooo boy that’s a lot of feels to unpack but Filoni hates us. 

19. Who kisses hardest?

At first, I wanted to say Fives, because it’s Fives. But really, it’s Echo. Echo loves taking Fives’s breath away (which really isn’t that hard), and loves having the power to make him melt under his lips, especially after a long day full of tension and battles. He takes pride in being able to bring his lover a sense of calm just by kissing him. 

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Rexani5 - enemies to lovers.

My friend, easy as pie and this got way longer than I thought it would.

To set the stage, let’s say Anakin wasn’t allowed to become a Jedi or left at age 12. 

He is, of course, followed by Obi-Wan because I live for that banter and BrOtp

Anakin returns to Tatooine and at the age of let’s say 16, leads and wins a slave rebellion (and becomes the leader of Free Tatooine at 17 much to his dismay and Obi-Wan’s amusement)

Since Tatooine is out in the Outer Rim, the Core and Senate really do not care one smidgen. They have the beginnings of the Separatist Crisis making waves. What does one little planet matter?

It very much matters after over two years later when it comes to light that Free Tatooine has a very strong sense of community and will not stand for Slavery. Anywhere.

Slavers have gone missing. Planets that make profits from slavery have found themselves with their leader mysteriously murdered.  Even the criminal network have rumours of bounty hunters winding up dead on the Hutts’ doorstep after being sent after Skywalker and those around him

(Anakin is a little insulted his bounty is only half a million credits.) 

A great many planets have entered into an agreement with Free Tatooine to wipe out corruption and slavery. 

Orn Free Taa, in a moment of consciousness, announces Ryloth’s alignment with Tatooine. (Greedy, corrupt bastard he may be, but he does love his people who have been the target for slavers for generations.) 

This results in a very tense three-way stand-off between The Republic, The Separatist Alliance and The Freedom Coalition.

The Separatists did try to get The Coalition on side but swiftly told where to stick it.

The Clone Wars do not break out primarily because neither the Separatists nor the Republic can afford to fight a three-way war.

They are also very aware that the Freedom Coalition can, thanks to an alliance with various pirates, private security firms and support that would have been on one side or the other but have chosen the Coalition. 

Even the neutrals are smaller.

Sidious is fuming.

It nearly breaks out when both the droid and clone armies are found but Speaker Shmi Skywalker sends a message to both sides that promises swift retribution if either side engages. 

The Separatist have known connections to the Hutts and various slaving organisations.

The Republic has the Clones. Enough said there.

This doesn’t mean that either side won’t take pot-shots at each other for a year or so.

So we come to the part where our trio meet.

Captain Rex of the 501st is sent with a squad to scout on Tatooine and bring any information about the leader to the Republic. His team comprises of ARC Troopers Fives and Echo, Kix, Jesse, Hardcase and Dogma.

Everyone was a little surprised at Dogma’s inclusion but the guy proved to be very sneaky and Echo’s influence has loosened him up a bit.

Fives and Rex have been hovering on the edge of something for a while now but Rex doesn’t want to start anything while he’s still Fives’ superior officer. 

Fives thinks that’s a load of Sith spit but is willing to wait.

Scouting team lands on Tatooine no problem.

Okay, slight problem. They disturb a Krayt dragon.

Fortunately, they are saved by the arrival of a blond male native who uses various calls to scare off the dragon and rescue the group.

The charming smirk and casual demeanour means Fives falls a little bit in love at first sight.

Echo is starting to believe his batchmate just has a thing for blondes who look good shooting things.

The stranger asks for their names and can clearly see they are all clones but he doesn’t comment on it. Just nudges them back to their ship and suggests they leave all while smiling charmingly and genuinely asking about themselves.

They’re just packing up and preparing to report a mission failure when Fives gets the guts to ask the stranger for his name.

“I’m Anakin Skywalker. Have a safe trip home, fellas.”

Anakin Skywalker, leader of Free Tatooine and of the Freedom Coalition, Chainbreaker, Slaver Killer, probably the most dangerous man in the Galaxy, and the man they were sent to spy on. And he’s just letting them go?

Rex is very confused.

Fives is too busy staring at Skywalker’s ass as he leaves and the cute bewildered look on his captain’s face.

Echo comes to the conclusion Fives definitely has a thing for authoritive blondes who look good shooting things.

The second time they meet is on a battlefield. 

The Freedom Coalition refuses to fight the clone army so they usually just take out the Admirals or Generals.

The clones are a little infuriated about this.

Some, however, take advantage and surrender. Slick of the 212th was one such clone who turned himself over to gain his freedom.

Anakin winds up facing Captain Rex in an attempt to kidnap Admiral Yularen.

Anakin really doesn’t want to hurt a fellow ‘slave’.

Rex just wants to take this guy in.

It ends with Anakin getting grazed by blaster fire and Rex with a small concussion. 

Anakin finds himself very intrigued by the clone captain and by the ARC Trooper who brazenly cussed him out when he arrived with back-up.

“You know most people just talk to the ones they are crushing on. Not stalk them.”“Shut it Obi-Wan. We can’t all just flirt our way in and out of fights with Commander Cody.”

So it goes like that for a while. Anakin shows up, Fives and Rex face off against him. There’s banter involved. Anakin makes the mistake of saying something vaguely flirtatious to them once and then disappears for a month. Fives proceeds to use that line every time they see Anakin thereafter. Rex pulls them both back on track. Sometimes the clones win the fight, others Anakin wins. 

Remember, Anakin, Rex and Fives all believe they are fighting for the right cause. Rex does try to make the case for pro-Republic but can’t answer when Anakin asks him if the Republic is as good as he thinks it is.

There is one time that an explosion goes off and Anakin almost sacrifices himself to hold back the blast. Neither Fives or Rex take the chance to take Anakin into custody. Instead, Anakin finds himself in a coalition medbay with a note asking him not to do anything so stupid ever again.

Eventually, the Separatists make a bid and declare open war. Grievous and Dooku are sent after Anakin and Obi-Wan in an attempt to throw the Freedom Coalition into disarray. 

What they didn’t expect was the Delegation of 2000 had managed to cut a deal with the Coalition, present it to the Senate, got it passed and was able to create a treaty between the two states. 

Clone Rights are still hotly debated but under the treaty, no clone can be decommissioned for any reason and any clone has the right to a fair trial. Small victories but necessary ones.

Grievous and Dooku’s forces are met with not only The Freedom Coalition’s fleet but also the 501st and 212th.

Anakin is very relieved to see both Rex and Fives come charging to his rescue. 

He is also swooning a bit because it’s almost like a scene straight out of Love Under Adleraanian Skies.

Fives watches as Anakin decapitate three droids and Rex shoot off the head of a forth and decides Yes, these are the men I want to spend the rest of my life with.

Rex comes to a similar conclusion as Anakin gently force-heals a blaster burn on his bicep after the fight while Fives hovers worriedly behind him.

Dooku and Grievous die in the Final battle. 

During clean up, several transmissions are found to Dooku from a Sith Lord. The transmissions are tracked back to Coruscant. To the Chancellor’s Office to be precise. 

The Freedom Coalition has been trying to track down exactly who has been leaking intel, arranging numerous kidnapping attempts and secretly attacking their forces for a good couple of years. 

Dooku’s intel also shows that while he arranged most of that, it was under orders.

So basically

(I hope you like this. I spent 10 minutes making it and 15 giggling over it.)

Anakin, Obi-Wan, a few Jedi Masters, three Senators and a squad of clones confront Palpatine over the evidence.

The result is several explosions, a dead senator, two dead Jedi, a dead Sith Lord and a Republic Senate thrown into chaos.

Sidious tries to activate Order 66 but fails since the Freedom Coalition does a full check up on any defecting clones and found the chip ages ago. They developed a virus that made them null with plans to remove them asap.

The Freedom Coalition graciously takes over providing aid to the war-torn worlds with a warning to the Senate they will only return to the Republic if certain conditions are met. The Senate agrees.

One of which are complete rights for all clones.

In this world, Anakin loses his arm to Sidious after pushing Fives out of the way of a strike. That allows Rex to shoot him in the head and then for Anakin to shove a lightsaber through his heart. Fives shoots him as well “just in case sir.”

When Anakin wakes up with his new arm, it’s not Fives but Rex who presses a relieved kiss to his lips. Fives does follow up almost as soon as Rex pulls away.

Anakin is a bit too dazed to think properly and as such promises not to do that again. 

At least not without them.

They spend the rest of Anakin’s stay in medical actually talking about where they want this to go and their feelings. 

Since Anakin isn’t emotionally repressed and is allowed to make attachments, it goes a lot better than it would have otherwise.

Rex gave into Fives’ not-quite-pestering after the Final Battle and both started plotting how to bring Anakin into it.

Either way, Echo and Plo Koon’s padawan, Ahsoka Tano, make a lot of money when the relationship is revealed.

Rex, Fives and Anakin all get married in a lovely ceremony on Tatooine with Shmi, Obi-Wan and the 501st in attendance. 

Hondo shows up with a bottle of vintage wine as a gift and to take photos to flog on the black market. 

Obi-Wan gets busted in Commander Cody’s bed with said Commander the next morning. 

Hardcase discovers the joys of fireworks and makes several friends Rex rather wishes he hadn’t.

Fives discovers Anakin’s butt really is as firm as it looks and that Rex will go red if both he and Ani whisper naughty things into the captain’s ears.

AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Bonus Round: Alternative Ideas Include -

Sith! Anakin, who prefers not to kill the clones out of some sense of kinship, is fighting against the Republic and comes across Captain Rex and ARC Trooper Fives. Instead of killing each other, each are intrigued by the other. It ends up with Sidious exposed and Darth Vader gaining two loyal bodyguards/lovers.

Fives is a superhero in a world that dislikes them, Anakin is a supervillain (though more Megamind, Less Joker) and Rex is a cop who wants arrest both.

Pride and Prejudice au with Anakin as Elizabeth, Rex as Darcy and Fives as a weird blend in the middle.

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[rinegadetales]

Would you be willing to share all of your headcannons for Rex/Fives from the list you reblogged? If not, perhaps your headcannons for five questions you find most interesting?

Oof. That is much more time than I have unfortunately, but I will definitely pick 5 random questions to answer for them!

Rex/Fives

5. Who drives and who rides shotgun?

Rex always drives, much to Fives’s protest, but he can’t complain when they sneak out for a night and take a speeder on a long stretch of land. It’s just the two of them and the stars then, accompanied with adrenaline and the wind on his face. Yeah, he definitely doesn’t mind clinging to Rex and burying his nose in the back of his neck. 

10. Who worries most?

Rex is always worried about Fives because he sees so much of himself in him, brash, cocky, fierce...but also because Fives has a bleeding heart and he’s terrified one of these days someone is going to take advantage of that, and Rex is going to have to kill someone. 

But seriously, Rex always frets over him after a battle, even if Fives insists that he’s fine. 

19. Who kisses hardest?

Ooh. Tie. They’re both extremely passionate when it comes to their kisses, and both have a demanding streak in them. Fives can say though, that his favorite kisses are the ones immediately after a battle and Rex is still riding the high of a victory, and he just cups his face and kisses the life out of him in front of everyone because they made it back together. 

25. Who asks the weird questions at random in the middle of the night?

Oh, Fives, 100%. It’s usually when he can’t sleep or he’s nervous about an upcoming mission. Rex doesn’t usually humor him, but there are some nights when Rex will stay up and talk them out with him because he could honestly listen to Fives weird rationale all day.

31. Who gets scared during horror films?

R E X. He does not do spooky, and has on more than one occasion screamed like a little girl and hopped into Fives’s lap. Not that Fives is complaining, because he definitely didn’t put on a horror film for this *exact* reason.