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sesamenom's non-silmarillion stuff. enjoyer of clones (canon and soft wars), jedi (some legends included), mandalorians, and nightsisters. there will be a variety lol. | reblogs welcome, do not repost my art or use it in ai.
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reading the hk 47 wookiepedia legends article and apparently he led an army of hks in a post-empire-era war on mustafar??

#star wars#reblogs#hk 47#hk-47#kotor#old republic#legends stuff#redbean talks#also his original body (well. minus the various parts revan and associates replaced over the years) survived 4000 yrs#until vader killed his body the first time. but then he rebuilt his body and made a factory of hk77s#new canon also has whatever ajax sigma was doing with his droid church#droid priest ajax and sith assassin hk47 would certainly be an. interesting encounter#i wonder what meatbag-equivalent insult hk would come up w#kalani was also around at the time with his b1s#so if you smush all the canons together there were at least three separate droid wars/droid rebellions happening at once#actually yeah im adding that to the admirals au. just for fun#kalani now has to deal with both ajax and hk#they're all going for droid independence but in Very Different approaches#ajax: long religious speech abt the nature of self aware droids#kalani: detailed tactical analysis of the given situation#hk: ha ha die meatbags#there sure are a lot of ancient droids though#ajax is high republic era#hk is old republic era so about 4000yrs#huyang is apparently 25000yrs and may be the oldest droid in the known galaxy#especially impressive if hes in the same body that whole time#(vs hk who keeps getting rebuilt bc an assassin droid sustains a great deal more damage than a lightsaber engineer droid)#idk how old highsinger is but hes been around since at least the pre-prequels era in the jango comic. probably pretty old?#since he speaks that weird language#headcanon that hes from the high republic and refused to learn new languages since then. like yodas speech patterns
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tomcriuse

im sure theres a legitimate canon reason that anakin didnt get executed during order 66 but im obsessed with the idea of palpatine sending out like a mass email to the clones just being like “ps anakin is on our side btw”

pov: you’re the clone trooper that accidentally killed anakin and you have the break the news to palpatine

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maulusque

what if Fox’s chip just straight up didn’t work and when the order went out he saw all his buddies murdering jedi and figured he might as well go along with it and immediately went for anakin because Fox does Not Like general skywalker

so fox just straight up murders Darth Vader and all his brothers are like “dude what the fuck” and Fox is like “were we not killing jedi? I’m sorry i thought it was Kill All the Jedi Day”

I’m sorry but the mental image of fox getting the order and immediately sprinting out of the senate building, comming Appo for Anakin’s current location, stealing a speeder and just zooming as fast as he can and arriving just in time to cut anakin off from the jedi temple and shoot him dead before he kills everyone there is just hilarious

Palpatine: ah yes all jedi in the Coruscant temple will be eliminated by my apprentice. I’m perfectly safe.
Appo, comming palpatine: holy kriff sir, Fox just shot Skywalker dead. Emptied a whole blaster mag on him. He’s still smoldering on the ground, so very kriffing dead. *muffled voice in the background* yeAH WE WERE MEANT TO KILL THE JEDI BUT THIS ONE WAS ON OUR SIDE, COMMANDER, WHAT THE HELL!
Fox: *distant screaming* the order was “kill all jedi”! I killed a jedi! You’re kriffing welcome!

*heated argument in the comm lines while palpatine sweats, glancing at the security footage that shows all jedi from the temple converging to the senate building ready to beat him like a piñata*

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redbean-nom

iirc fox's canon fate was that he shot vaderkin and got force choked to death, so this au is like. three seconds away from canon

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mearchy

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

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In Which Fox Arrests His Boss

(Context: while reading Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge by @theinternationalacestation today, I got to thinking about the specific Fascist Extreme Military Police Laws mentioned in the fic. That fic is, however, much more tragic and dark than what I'm slapping onto tumblr today, as well as significantly more polished.)

So, we all love a fic where Fox gets to ruin Palpatine's plans. Let's hop in:

  1. Fox can, theoretically, arrest anyone on vague late-Republic fascist law premises.
  2. Being arrested, theoretically, strips the Chancellor of his power as head of the army, if only temporarily.
  3. The chips could respond more directly to his position (Supreme Commander of the GAR) rather than his specific voice.

Suggestion (that has no doubt been played out by other authors before):

Fox arrests Palpatine for vague fascist military police reasons. Ostensibly, it's about taxes. Palpatine attempts to use a chip order. It doesn't work. Any clone that has been informed of his arrest is no longer susceptible to his control. He can't comm out to those who haven't heard unless he mindtricks the guards into letting him out. He sees them pulling out the Force Cuffs and digs out his sabers because fuck this, actually.

At some point Senators, Anakin, various people: You can't just arrest the Chancellor! Fox: I'm the commander of the Coruscant Guard. I can arrest anyone.

Fox, after Palpatine is out of the way, orders a search and seizure of his office and WOW is all this sketchy, huh guys?

"You can't do that without a warrant--" "Wartime regulations, you voted them in three weeks ago. I absolutely can."

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So I've seen the natural blond/bottle blond debate abt Captain Rex coming up again and I figured I'd give you my thoughts. First off, I am firmly team natural blond and here's why:

  1. Rex honestly doesn't strike me as the type of dude who would spent that much time on his hair every week or so. Just seems like a Shave It Down Just Enough So It's Still Technically Hair kinda dude. No I will not elaborate on this, either you feel me or you don't
  2. I think it makes for a richer character, tbh. The blond hair means that he is "genetically defective". Not only could that mean there are more, less detectable genetic differences (like more defiance, aggression, and creativity. all of which more than necessary to be Skywalker's Second), but it would also mean that growing up on Kamino, he likely had a harder time. He would've had to prove his worth to the Kaminoans more than others because they are perfectionists. Blond clone? Not that bad, but not quite what we want. Blond clone who can't pass the test first try? Unacceptable, that's already two black marks. Get rid of him.
  3. I LIVE for the "Others called him King to bully him, because his blond hair looks like a crown, but he made it his own and owns it like THE KING HE IS AND ALL THE SHINIES ADORE HIM NOW"-headcanon
  4. I also LIVE for the "The Kaminoans ran out of Jango DNA so they took DNA from the highest performing clones, including Rex so every little blond clone we see is kinda Rex's son in a way"-headcanon
  5. I also go absolutely FERAL at the "Rex is a natural blond and therefore has to dye his eyebrows dark"-headcanon. That's the good sht, let's be real
  6. I know my first statement made a different point, but I am genuinely intrigued abt if there is more to the shaven hair than we think. Every blond clone we've seen (save for Crys, though we all know he's the bottle blond of the army (deregatory)) has shaven down hair. Maybe the Kaminoans gave them different regs? Because in the Cadet Episode every single cadet (save for Boba but yanno) had the regulation haircut. There was one clone (REX'S SON) who had blond hair, but it was completely shaved, just like Rex's. Makes me wonder if the Kaminoans forced them too. Definitely would also make sense for Rex. He kept the regulation haircut, because his hair isn't as important to him as being a good CO.

And those are all my thoughts (for now). Feel free to add!

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r-2-peepoo

Here’s what makes me the most upset about Cody’s experience with his chip basically revealing that the clones truly think they chose to kill their Jedi and that their free will wasn’t taken away:

I could make a whole separate post about the implications it has for Cody, Bly and Wolffe for example, but what makes me the most upset is Anakin’s role in it all.

It was bad enough that he thoughtlessly uses the 501st to slaughter the Jedi at the temple, proving that their sentiency was less important to him than his own selfish choices.

But now we know that all those men spent their last moments alive believing they were freely choosing to kill the Jedi. It must’ve been so confusing for them because their realities were just rewritten by those stupid chips and Anakin didn’t even think about how it could affect them. It probably didn’t even occur to him.

Cody’s look when Crosshair calls the Jedi traitors is everything because it gives us a glimpse into what the clones who didn’t know about the chips feel about what happened.

I personally think this is one of the cruelest things Anakin does in the entire franchise and we never talk about it. To be complicit in denying a group of people who trust you their humanity and their free will just to fulfil what you want is unmistakably evil. Using them to kill a different group of people who trust you makes it so much worse. There were two betrayals taking place simultaneously.

Those poor men will have spent their final moments (because I’m assuming not many made it out) not only being used as tools by the man who insisted he cared for them, but also feeling the responsibility of it being their choice too when it absolutely was not.

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