Accompaniment to this. (Feat. Rex’s helmet interior.)

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“Pride of the Rebublic, soldier of the Jedi Order”

...at least they're having fun? find out what they're jamming to bonuses:

ooooh wow that is so cool! and the playlist also hits good, hehe. i can picture them all having a good time there, singing, dancing and enjoying themselves! 🤭

Stars Beyond Number - Chapter 17

Rating: T (rating varies by chapter; mature content will be tagged; regardless of rating, minors DNI)

Pairings: Echo x Riyo Chuchi; Gregor x OFC Cerra Kilian

Wordcount: 3k

Warnings and tags: angst; Cerra being an awkward bean; suspense; action, canon-typical violence.

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Summary: The strike team departs for Balmorra; Riyo goes to space IKEA.

A/N: This story shares continuity with Martyrs and Kings and "Do It Again," but all three fics can be read as stand-alones.

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fives: remember that time you dared me to lick the weapons rack?

echo: no, i said: "fives, don't lick the weapons rack." and you said: "don't tell me what to do echo." and then you licked the weapons rack.

It's the first and last time @loyal-soldier-5555 did that.

... look.

Do I tell everyone about the time you licked something you probably shouldn't have?

*clears throat*

Hondo Ohnaka has never been a mere comic relief character, and of all the bad takes, what he has been reduced to in Rebels and in the public mind has to be the worst offender.

This is Hondo’s introduction. It’s unsettling. It’s off-putting. It’s intimidating, almost.

In the midst of brawling, stupid pirates, Hondo is immovable, steady, and calmly playing with a mask presumably plundered from Dooku’s ship (which has to be relevant symbolically - Hondo’s true self is hidden away under layers and layers of dramatic antics, and even physical goggles obscuring his eyes, the window to the soul, and very thick skin making his expressions harder to read. Everything he says or does is a performance for the benefit of whoever he’s talking to, in the sole goal of making a profit). From moment one, he’s set apart as different - as someone not driven by his emotions, and very self-assured. Someone not to be messed with.

Dooku’s height generally makes him the intimidating one in any interaction, but Hondo’s refusal to be impressed - and the way his goons immediately flock around him when he starts talking to Dooku - sets the audience on edge. 

Who is this guy - who just refused to answer Dooku’s question, who just asked Dooku who he was - and how powerful is he, to be so at ease? Dooku has mopped the floor with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, why is some weird scavenger presented as any sort of threat?

Hondo goes on to immediately reveals his two foremost characteristics: his shrewdness, and his greed. (His third most significant trait being his gigantic balls.) Hondo immediately fishes for information while circling Dooku like a shark, and that information of course has to do with profit. (“Your solar sailor is very beautiful. It’s a pretty rare ship, very expensive. …What are you doing all the way out here?”) He tries to confirm what he suspects while never directly voicing his own intentions but dropping hints => shrewdness. His mind immediately goes to money => greed. He asserts his dominance by letting his monkey lizard climb on Dooku => gigantic balls. If we’ve seen the whole episode already, then we know Hondo is aware of Dooku is (since he later confidently identifies him as the leader of the Separatists even without Dooku saying who he is), which means he’s deliberately toying with him, which is all the more troubling when you realize it works. Dooku has to play along because he doesn’t know how much of a threat this new variable might be, and Hondo gets to keep the upper hand because of it. 

Then, the show further establishes that Hondo is not just ‘some guy.’ 

See this? His men - the undisciplined, brawling scrapers - put themselves at attention without a single word or gesture from Hondo. From his clothes to his hat (=crown) in a sea of mostly bare-headed men and women in simple tunics, everything about him screams ‘pirate king’ or ‘crime lord.’ Hondo throws the mask away, showing that he’s not interested in trifles. He’s here for some serious business.

Which is why he immediately puts on the act and goes into that goofier side we expect of him when we’re familiar with the character. They need to ‘settle his fee.’ Just a ‘little something to cover his expanses.’ Dooku is ‘so obviously wealthy’ (again fishing for confirmation, baiting Dooku). He makes himself look far less threatening - on purpose. By putting his (very real) greed on show, he reassures Dooku about his motives, making Dooku blind to just how far that greed actually goes. Dooku thinks it’ll just be a matter of throwing some money at a foolish, petty crook before crushing him - because by pretending to show his hand prematurely, Hondo is hiding the sheer magnitude of his plans for profit. 

He shows how clever he is again by greeting Dooku with an actual army (with people on the ground and in the fortress - that way, Dooku is completely surrounded and would be taken out by one of the snipers on the walls before he could kill the ground troops). 

He shows how dangerous he is because he managed to pickpocket a freaking Sith Lord. And he didn’t just steal from him - he stole Dooku’s actual lightsabers. Seriously - how?! How did he even manage that?!? Did the lizard steal them or something?

He shows his gigantic balls by again circling Dooku while chatting about his plans, and by being thoroughly unimpressed with Dooku’s attempt to strike fear into his heart. 

He shows how intelligent he is by immediately refusing to let Dooku contact his own side and choosing instead to sell him to the Republic. When he says “you don’t survive in the Outer Rim by being stupid,” we’re meant to take him seriously. 

Finally, he shows that he is entirely motivated by profit. Greed is his most easily exploitable weakness, because while it doesn’t make him stupid, it makes him extremely bold - a good way to get himself burned when playing with Sith fire like he is. Ultimately, Hondo’s plan fails because he captures Anakin and Obi-Wan instead of just honoring his deal with the Republic, hoping to triple his profit - it’s his greed that does him in, not his antics, not his performed goofiness, not his excesses (food, alcohol and women being the biggest offenders) and not his presumed stupidity. 

That’s our introduction to Hondo Ohnaka. 

He goes on to survive - and best - Maul and Savage, he gets traitors to beg for their lives, he makes ‘friends’ with Obi-Wan and profits from most of their encounters, he dated Aurra Sing and was friends with Jango, he tortures Obi-Wan and Anakin for fun, he’s ready to kill children over kyber crystals, he almost sells Ahsoka to an unknown bidder, he kills circus members who bore him, he wants to cut out the tongues of people who betrayed him, he rackets farmers (and again, it’s his greed that does him in, because he could have accepted Obi-Wan’s offer and walked away without issues, but he wants more money), he suffers no consequences for trying to rob a Jedi ship, and almost anyone he’s ever crossed paths with makes the mistake of underestimating him because of the act he puts on.

Hondo is smart, ruthless, cunning, powerful, in control of himself and of his men, and hopelessly in love with money. He can talk his way out of pretty much anything, can talk his victims and enemies into pretty much anything, and ultimately survives time and time again, because he was never a bumbling dumbass.

This is the kind of analysis and critical thought that I could read all DAY. Like the ancient Greeks sitting around discussing philosophy all day. It’s just exquisite.