The fic itself is a bit much for me, but the basic premise of “Mini Clones” is a straight shot directly up my alley, because shrinking is actually my favorite fandom trope second only to de-aging :Dc
The armor is still pretty half-assed, but at least it’s half an ass better than nothing but phase I shinies. Edit: Aaaaand I put Fives in Echo’s armor. Smooth.
One thing that makes me laugh about this scene every. single. time. is that when Obi-Wan sends a message to Anakin here, he bothers to identify himself as OBI-WAN KENOBI, full name.
Really, Kenobi: how many pompous British OBI-WANS is Anakin likely to be getting messages with orders in them from?! Would he really not recognize OBI-WAN’S voice? When he might even be able to SEE HIM?! Maybe Anakin really is that slow to catch on in their holo-Skype calls, though.
Obi-Wan: Hi, Anakin, it’s Obi-Wan.
Anakin: [deeply confused] …who?!
Obi-Wan: You know: Obi-Wan Kenobi? From the Jedi Temple? I’m your Master? We live together? I have that wolfman hair? We see each other every single day?
Anakin: Ohh. THAT Obi-Wan.
the first time it happened, anakin was hung-over and exceptionally slow on uptake. then they both just keep doing it to fuck with each other
i was originally just going to queue this post as-is BUT WAIT NO I had a better idea:
star wars takes place in space, and space is infinite, and so while Anakin Skywalker may be the only Anakin at the Jedi temple, there are at least three other Obi-Wan’s. There was a newscaster near Stewjon who had that name when Obi-Wan was born. It’s in the top thousand most popular names for that region of space (which, when you consider how many trillions of people live there, means it’s still a very popular name.)
That’s not what bothers Kenobi, though. What bothers Obi-Wan is the droid.
OB-1 KENOOBEE, however, is a Jedi Temple droid. And you would notbelieve the number of times Obi-Wan has been woken up by someone trying to summon that piece of shit droid.
First thing he did on the Council was decommission the damn droid. It didn’t stop the calls.
(Mostly because Anakin kept fixing the damn thing.)
I also hereby accept this as canon, too.
I hope that the calls to the droid are like, not even calls from actual people. Instead, it’s some electronic transmission in robospeak that comes in and when he picks up the phone at 3am, kinda drunk, his hair askew, it’s like, BEEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTT SUPER LOUDLY, and then he’s like WHAT THE FUCK OH FFS IT’S ANOTHER CALL FOR THAT FUCKING DROID AGAIN and then he steps on something sharp on the floor and is hopping around on one foot while swearing, and then Anakin comes in the room and is like, “…everything OK, Master? It’s 3am you know, you should really get some sleep,” and Anakin’s got this smirk on his face because he KNOWS it’s a call for that droid he fixed again and Obi-Wan is like “JUST GO TO BED DAMN IT GOD WHY IS MY LIFE LIKE THIS WHY COULDN’T I HAVE BEEN THE ONE THAT GOT MAULED IN EPISODE 1.”
in writing fic about commander cody u should remember to write about how borderline frighteningly competent the man has to be in order to get as far as he does like he’s
one of the original commander-class/trained by a-17
received arc training
ends up having a rank exclusive to him
‘of the hundred commanders put through a-17′s exclusive training program a handful were picked by alpha-17 and assigned to squad seven, an elite group of cross-trained commandos made up of the grand army’s best snipers, demolition experts, and marines’. cody was given command of squad seven along with odd ball
considering how often obi-wan is off doing some sort of fuck shit with anakin/ahsoka, effectively led a third of the gar for a good portion of the war
one of the maybe three troopers who survived the citadel
the man fucking punched general grievous in the face what an absolute fucking icon
whatever the hell happened with creating the bad batch
customized his own armor – chose not to wear pauldrons/kama/etc, but added a fucking knife and a jetpack
good enough shot to literally shoot a gun out of someone else’s hand, good enough at hand-to-hand to kick his way through the front lines
Rex is, at heart, a total little shit. He was one of those kids as a cadet, always messing with people and getting in trouble and sassing the trainers. When he was promoted in the field, he kind of had to shut all that down, especially since he was under Anakin, and SOMEONE had to be the adult around here. Especially at the beginning, he tried to be all Protocol and No Nonsense, but he’ll always be a little shit, deep down, and after he got comfortable with Anakin, the real Rex started to come back out. But now when he pulls pranks, they’re much more subtle, and never traced back to him. Or they look like something totally legit, with coincidental hilarious consequences. He learned how to mock and sass with a straight face, 100% compliant to protocol. When Fives finally figured out that the stick up Rex’s ass was actually Rex’s cover for being even worse than Fives, his respect for Rex skyrocketed. And he figured out how to rope Rex into his shenanigans without Rex having to break his Captain Face. Rex doesn’t hold Fives back, Rex EGGS HIM ON. Most of Torrent is aware that there are two Captain Rex’s: Captain Rex who’ll kick your ass for backtalking him like that and straighten your pauldron, trooper, and Captain Rex, who, if you see him “talking strategy” with ARC trooper Fives, you get the hell away from them both for as long as you can.
Yeah, that’s
pretty much it. From I understand, the
force has two aspects – Living and Unifying – the cosmic Force is a part of the Unifying
force.
“All that surrounds us is the foundation of
life, the birthplace of what your science calls midi-chlorians, the foundation
of what connects the Living Force and the Cosmic Force.” TCW [06×12]
“Forgive me. I had to be certain. According
to Jedi Offee, the enhanced connection with the Force is potentially so
powerful that, were it to fall into the wrong hands, the results could be
cataclysmic. She felt that it opened a channel to what she referred to as
the Cosmic Force. I assume you know what she was referring to.” Jax
nodded, lost in thought. Most philosophers and students of the Force, including
many members of the erstwhile Council, believed that the Force was above
intellectual concepts of good and evil, and that the terms light side and dark
side constituted nothing more than a merism. Nevertheless, many also felt a
case could be made for viewing the Force, as it was generally understood and
utilized, as a subset of a grander and all-pervasive unifying principle. It
was this “living Force” that was the aspect most Jedi—and most Sith as
well—were familiar with. If one’s connection with it was strong enough, one
could accomplish what seemed to most folk to be miracles: telekinesis, healing
abilities, supernal strength, speed and stamina, even a certain amount of
precognition. But, according to the Old Teachings, this was only one
aspect of a greater whole, much as one planar surface represented only a
fraction of a hypergem’s multidimensional wonders, known variously as the
unifying, cosmic, or greater Force. One connected with the greater Force
only through a lifetime of meditation and sacrifice, but the reward of doing so
was, it was said, a unification with all of space and time, an ability to
manipulate matter and energy on the most elemental levels … even, it was said
by some, the ability to throw off the shackles of the flesh in favor of an
immortal body of energy. [Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows by Michael
Reaves]
It seems the Cosmic force has become just another name for Unifying
Force.The cosmic Force was mentioned for the first time in one comic 1977
(before the movie came out) and then only in 2009 in Michael Reaves books. He
is the only EU writer who used that concept until TCW’s season 6 but by then
Disney owned SW and the topic was no longer explored in the EU. Pre-Disney manuals
only mention the Living Force and the Unifying Force. On the other hand, Disney’s
canon only uses the term “Cosmic Force”. Since Disney scrapped the entire EU
but not TCW, they picked the term that was actually mentioned in “their” canon.that explains some of the mess, i guess.
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