ok n for character asks: commander fox or thorn or rly any of the coruscant gaurds bros. u pick
omg omg fun fact about me - I LOVE THE CORUSCANT GUARD, i’ll go with fox bc if i debate this too long i’ll just write a character list for every known guard and we’ll be here all day.
fox!
favorite thing about them: oof this is probably fucked up of me, but their internal struggles. i have a hc about fox that he is the direct opposite of jango (and by extension, the direct opposite of cody, who struggles with how similar to jango he is, but that’s a different character list). whereas jango is able to compartmentalize, fox can’t - he struggled as a cadet with feeling things too much, being confused about his extreme loyalty to the republic conflicting with his extreme loyalty to his brothers, and as a result just pushes all of his emotions down in order to get through training. i just think deep down he’s actually full of heart, and is afraid to let that show. i just know he’s the best big brother when he can be.
least favorite thing about them: do i even have to say it? i maintain that close proximity to palpatine meant that fox was often heavily manipulated against his brothers, but still - killing fives was his worst moment.
favorite line: “I can’t say I blame you, Commander Tano. But all the same, you’re under arrest.” - said to ahsoka after she seemingly killed the temple bomber. obviously this line is extremely painful, but it does so much to show his character in such a short amount of time. it’s clear he hated the bomber and wanted vengeance, probably even respected ahsoka’s choices (i imagine, briefly, this moment was the most respect fox ever had for a jedi). but he still must do his duty, always.
brOTP: ooh him and his other coruscant commanders!!! and hound ofc. and also his batchmates, who i hc to be cody, wolffe, bly, and ponds. of all of these characters, i like to think he’s closest to thorn and wolffe, with stone and ponds a close second. cody is the big brother he goes to for advice though.
OTP: i don’t super have one? i don’t really ship him with anyone. i do have an indulgent clone dad jango au where i sometimes think it’d be fun to have him in an enemies-to-lovers romance with a jedi temple guardian, but otherwise i mostly ship him with happiness lmfao.
nOTP: this goes without saying but anything that puts a clone with another clone is a major no-go for me. yikes.
random headcanon: fox and boba would get along spectacularly, and in fact fox tries to look out for boba while he’s in the coruscant detention center, despite his extremely complicated feelings about boba being responsible for ponds’s death.
unpopular opinion: i know this is highly contested, so i guess the fact that i don’t really blame him for fives’s death even if i think it was a low moment. i don’t think palpatine necessarily used the force to make fox kill fives or anything, but i don’t think he had to - the clones were the property of the republic. fox’s choices were essentially follow orders and protect the men under his command from retribution, or spare fives and be either arrested or executed, therefore unable to protect his brothers. we see rex face a similar choice with pong krell’s bad orders.
song i associate with them: oof, that would be “we all die young” by the decemberists. i associate this with all the clones, but ESPECIALLY fox and the coruscant guard. there’s a siren motif at some point that just feels very much like this could be playing the coruscant detention center as some serious shit goes down - it hits hard.
favorite picture of them: was there ever any doubt which one i’d choose?
king of “bitch i AM the manager”