So I always have this headcanon that after Boba works with Aurra Sing, he does a lot to help the clone cadets on Kamino.
He has a lot of guilt for aiding her in killing a lot of the clones. For a while he tried to rationalize it, the whole “I’m not like you!”, and further distancing himself from them was just a façade to hide how he actually felt. Telling himself that the clones weren’t Jango, and that he was better than them made him feel better for a while. Yet later, as he spent some time in prison, he had some time to think.
The clone guards weren’t exactly mean to him, but they were distant and he obviously knew why. They knew he was Boba Fett—the one who wasn’t like them, though he looked like them. The one who killed their brothers like it was nothing. When he looked into their eyes , he didn’t see Jango or even clones. He saw men who were rightfully hurt by him, men who had nothing but each other and he had so ruthlessly aided in killing their brothers.
Boba also had to accept that Jango was awful to the clones. He could never hate his father, but he understands why some of the clones might. When Jango was playing with Boba, reading to him and being a good father to him, he was mistreating clones, training them near to death and treating them like they were objects. He heard some of the clones speaking ill about Jango countless times when he was in prison and now, he knows their hatred is justified.
When Boba breaks out of prison, and after his failed mission with Ventress—he looks back toward Kamino. It’s easy for him to sneak on all over again, even if he is a bit older and he starts to mingle with the cadets. Convincing them to want to desert is pretty easy. The little ones automatically latch on to his idea of a new life and big adventure—so Boba gives that to them. He takes five little cadets to start with and almost immediately latches on to them. It’s now when being a renown bounty hunter helps because he has some money to care for them. And when Boba bonds with these little cadets, he really does and it hurts. It hurts to know that Jango saw countless cadets and thought nothing of them whereas Boba wanted to take them all with him.
When he isn’t taking care of his baby cadets, he is doing what he can to help other clones desert. He feels that it’s something he has to do, even if it isn’t really his “problem” (though he’d argue that). And in all honesty, he enjoys what he does.
So I always have this headcanon that after Boba works with Aurra Sing, he does a lot to help the clone cadets on Kamino.
He has a lot of guilt for aiding her in killing a lot of the clones. For a while he tried to rationalize it, the whole “I’m not like you!”, and further distancing himself from them was just a façade to hide how he actually felt. Telling himself that the clones weren’t Jango, and that he was better than them made him feel better for a while. Yet later, as he spent some time in prison, he had some time to think.
The clone guards weren’t exactly mean to him, but they were distant and he obviously knew why. They knew he was Boba Fett—the one who wasn’t like them, though he looked like them. The one who killed their brothers like it was nothing. When he looked into their eyes , he didn’t see Jango or even clones. He saw men who were rightfully hurt by him, men who had nothing but each other and he had so ruthlessly aided in killing their brothers.
Boba also had to accept that Jango was awful to the clones. He could never hate his father, but he understands why some of the clones might. When Jango was playing with Boba, reading to him and being a good father to him, he was mistreating clones, training them near to death and treating them like they were objects. He heard some of the clones speaking ill about Jango countless times when he was in prison and now, he knows their hatred is justified.
When Boba breaks out of prison, and after his failed mission with Ventress—he looks back toward Kamino. It’s easy for him to sneak on all over again, even if he is a bit older and he starts to mingle with the cadets. Convincing them to want to desert is pretty easy. The little ones automatically latch on to his idea of a new life and big adventure—so Boba gives that to them. He takes five little cadets to start with and almost immediately latches on to them. It’s now when being a renown bounty hunter helps because he has some money to care for them. And when Boba bonds with these little cadets, he really does and it hurts. It hurts to know that Jango saw countless cadets and thought nothing of them whereas Boba wanted to take them all with him.
When he isn’t taking care of his baby cadets, he is doing what he can to help other clones desert. He feels that it’s something he has to do, even if it isn’t really his “problem” (though he’d argue that). And in all honesty, he enjoys what he does.
I wouldn’t mind watching a show about just clones.
● Clones during battles
● Clones during leave
● Young clones learning to fight
● Young clones learning about other planets
● Young clones forming bonds with their brothers and other squad members
● Clone cadets learning to fly and maneuver ships and tanks and other things
● Clone cadets learning to be medics
Just clones. All I want is a show about clones
Someone brought this back and id like to add more things to it
● Clones training to be ARC troopers (specifically Jesse bc u know from the sw celebration showing he was definitely ARC at that point)
● That one series of episodes that would’ve happened w/ Rex and R2-D2 and the fighting a bunch of pilots and Rex trying to show he knows his stuff and that he’s cooler (he’s cooler we all know)
● An episode with a bunch of clone trooper pilots hanging out
● Weird sibling rivalry between other squads or different age groups of clones, or dif types of clones like medics, pilots, combat engineers, etc
● Commandos. How they’re trained, and what they’re like on the battlefield.
● Different squads of commandos hanging out or something.
okay okay, i have even more to add to this post bc obviously i cant torture myself enough
• clones getting nicknamed/how they got named • clones trying food and drink other than their ration cubes • idk how they choose how they decorate their armor??? like give me a clone sitting down and painting his armor pLEASE • also tattoos and their hair cuts???, pls give me this • apparently a certain hairstyle is used to honor fallen brethren? the one Gree has that’s red and looks like some weird double mohawk? like how do you decide yeah thats the hairstyle we’re using • clone culture. little quirks clones have, or how different each squad is from other squads • speaking of culture, clone cadets and clones on the battlefield learning about different cultures and languages
more bc ive fallen into the clone pit of despair once again
baby clones, like wee toddler ones learning stuff. show me how the kaminoans brought them up. what were they told and how were these babies handled.
“bad” batches of clones
clone medics. or just give me kix being done with everyones shenanigans
a hardcase-centric ep and all his shenanigans
more domino squad stories
cody/rex/wolffe/bly/etc flashback to when they were cadets
clones and their language and slang and how it varies throughout the GAR
More things that have occurred to me:
• clone command training (clones training to be in command like captain/commander)
• coruscant guard shenanigans//a day in the life of a coruscant guard
• clone medics discussing things that “shouldn’t be a thing but clearly are a thing” like “battle-stress” (ptsd), discussing mental health amongst each other and finding ways to help their brothers
• clones giving each other affection/comforting each other/developing signs of affection specific to clones (i.e. bumping helmets together, bumping arm guards)
• clones talking about armor design, drawing/writing/being creative
• talking about life outside the GAR, about life when the war is over. Talking about dreams and hopes and aspirations
• how clones dealt with/faced discrimination (based on the Umbara arc, you know some people thought they were inferior)
• addressing the fact that the clone army was essentially a slave army for the republic
Are we looking at the same clones here, pal? Because, these boys are the PRIME example of a sexy man. Tall, thick, beautiful skin, dark wavy hair, naturally pouty lips, and those big brown ol’ puppy dog eyes!
Like LOOK AT HIM?! THICK NECK?! CUTE NOSE THAT I CANT DECIDE IF I WANNA KISS IT OR BOOP IT????? CHIZZLED JAW??? Well defineD CHIN! DID I MENTION THICK NECK??!?!
PUPPY DOG EYES!!!
BEAUTIFUL PUPPY EYES!! THICK HAIR YOU CAN GRAB!! PLAY WITH??? RUN YOUR HANDS THROUGH IT WHILE YA SMASH HIS FACE INTO YA TITS???? A PUPPY!!
SE!!! SHE GETS IT!!! LOOK AT THAT CUTE FACE!!!!! HIS JAW LINE!!!! THICK NECK!!!
THICK ARM?! THICK NECK!!! He’s gonna protect!!! HE PROTECT!!!
But yeah, I dont get it. I think they are so attractive.
Ok, so I know I’m probably not the first one to theorize this, and there’s probably some canon nuggets tucked away in some source book I’ve never even heard of that would either back me up or tear my idea apart because this is Star Wars and it’s just like that, but I’ve gotten very little sleep thanks to a particularly bad bout of TMJ pain so here we go. Some headcanon about the Clones:
So attachment disorders are a thing yes? And I would assume that if the Kaminoans know enough about humans to use magic science genetically make them more loyal or some shit, then they know enough about humans to know that we learn a lot of our trust from being cared for as babies and that institutionally raised kiddos are one of the big risk groups for attachment disorders. Now the last thing you want in your hyperloyal genetically modified super soldiers is a kerfuckled sense of trust, so they would have needed to make sure that baby clones got a chance to feel attached to their caregivers.
At first they probably hired some folks. I mean maybe they did it themselves, but given that they were the sort of immoral fuckos who were willing to make genetically modified super soldiers and train kids from a super young age to do nothing else but fight and die for others? Cuddling babies probably not on their to do list.
But I think as soon as there was a batch of clones even close enough to being responsible enough for the task they would have had the clones start working to raise each other. I mean, we do know that the Kaminoans were super keen on installing a sense of group loyalty, and what better way to say you are responsible for other clones than to have them be quite literally responsible for the physical care of their baby brethren. Also it would teach said baby brethren to see other clones as a source of comfort and safety, so win/win. (It would also get any employees who started to care maybe a bit too much about the babies that were getting turned into soldiers at an alarmingly young age out of the picture before the worst of it really got going).
I suspect that nursery duty would quickly become a favorite task. Certainly better than other chores on the rota like cleaning the freshers. Ok so both involved cleaning poop, but at least the babies don’t know any better. So offering to switch duties with someone becomes a bargaining tool. Need a big favor? Offer to swap your nursery shift with whatever they have to do during that time.
So it would follow that most clones are surprisingly (to outsiders) good with babies. They have plenty experience with rubbing oragel on teething gums, changing diapers, and soothing a cranky overstimulated baby to sleep. Inevitably some war orphan comes under the care of the GAR for a brief period of time and the Jedi in charge is stunned to see a squad turn themselves into ten remarkably efficient nurse maids. Before they even have a chance to wonder where this skill set came from, the clones have found clean diapers, a bottle of formula, and someone’s turned some scrap cloth into a sling so they can easily carry the baby with them.
This would also feed into the idea that I know I’ve seen from a few other people and which a like myself of clones having an idioglossia or clone specific language. Having access to younger brothers during their language development would help older clones pass on their language and help it make the jump from being a more transient twinspeak sort of thing to a more codified language that they all share.
I used this to explain to my Mom how I manage to scribble out troopers so fast (I often hide hand-drawn notes in her purse and lunch bag) and I thought some here in the Tumblr-verse might like to see it too?
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