[SPOILER WARNING!!! FOR EPIC THE MUSICAL: THE ITHACA SAGA]
'Would you fall in love with me again?
If you knew all I've done
The things I can't undo
I am not the man you knew
I know that you've been waiting...waiting...'
Screaming and throwing up cause clip studio was doing something funky so unfortunately I don't wanna risk messing with this more and losing everything so...here it is! 💖🤲💖🤲💖
Rex and Brea's relationship and story are so, so deeply ingrained in my soul 😭 I can't believe it's almost been three years since I started shipping with him and I still love him just as much as when I first fell!! Its such a blessing and an honor to have these kinds of feelings, and to be able to express them creatively like this! As soon as I heard this song I knew I had to try and make an animatic for them and I can't believe how fun it was to work on!
I really hope you guys enjoy! And thanks for all the support I've gotten over the years 🥺🥺🥺
All is fair in love and war but I can't fight with you anymore
This will be the death of me'
I've been wanting to talk more about Crosshair and Brea's relationship for a WHILE now, but I never really found the 'right' time (in my silly brain) I guess you can say they...know each other very well! As you can imagine it's filled with drama, romantic tension, and lots and lots of angst! 0u0 a little more info + textless illustrations under the cut ♡♡♡
Sooooo, I tend to think of this as sort of an AU! If I'm being SUPER duper canon-compliant with my self ship lore it's not really the focus, but if I play around with timeline a little bit I can come up with this. Brea is a newly knighted Jedi, having just passed the trials, and despite holding rank in the Clone Wars she's not a general because she has no battalion. HOWEVER, there is a band of misfits that have been sort of running around doing their own thing, going where needed, sort of the way she does. The idea is what if for a short time she was the BAD BATCH'S Jedi?
In this scenario, the boys are a bit reluctant to take orders from her because they don't believe they NEED a Jedi. They're not really about rules and protocol and mandates...but they soon find out that neither is Brea! She's perfect for them, she matches their energy and allows them to make decisions the way they want. They all become very close...except for Crosshair, who still doesn't trust her. He only trusts his brothers, everyone else is an outsider.
I'll probably talk about it more later, but she does something or other that proves her care for them as individuals and one thing leads to another, Crosshair and Brea are something of an item. Not a couple per se, but FAMILIAR if you know what I mean. However, it's because of Crosshair's emotional constipation that it doesn't really go further than that, and it's ALSO because of his emotional constipation that things start to change between them! And when you bring Brea's new Padawan Kepler into the mix, things go very sour very quickly.
To make a long story short, Crosshair burns his bridge with Brea long before he joins the empire and he didn't even know it. By the time he does, she's moved on and is in love with a certain other clone! All of that is more stuff to talk about another time though ^ 0 ^ if you've read all this thank you so much and ilysm! 🫶🫶🫶
