I sort of hate how KT stripped Scout’s character and history down to the bare bones so she could give Kal an Etain 2.0 so he could absolve himself of his shitty, abusive behavior without having to do any actual growth whatsoever.
#repcomm 501st#clonecumber rereads repcomm#like#i'm just spitballing here#if you REALLY have to go there with the etain parallels why not have omega sent after scout and have darman come face to face with her?#('omega' okay whatever I mean ~squad 40~)#parallels to etain hunted and young and scared and furious on the riverbank all those years ago#when they first met#someone who could easily have been etain's daughter by appearances#(his daughter)#watch his varying traumas collide and darman go down like a house of cards#a house of very very unstable cards#niner sprinting after dar who just suddenly tossed this bitey padawan over his shoulder and BOOKED it:#FOR FUCK'S SAKE DAR#ennen and bry: ???? what the FUCK just happened????#or hell DELTA (or whatever they're called now)#scorch: hey boss you think you would have shot etain if she'd still been with us on kashyyyk?#boss: *incomprehensible mumbling*#*five seconds later his datapad pings*#*you've been assigned MINI-ETAIN LOL*#boss: scORCH#(just joking I feel like nu!delta wouldn't have the same hang-ups about scout the way every other character seems to)#(because she's NOT etain)#(and anyway even if they DID they have fixer)#(warning: uhhhh...scout murder)#(boss and scorch: *in crisis* fixer: *whistling and cleaning his vibroblade* well that was barely a workout but who's up for lunch?)#repcomm