motherofallclones:

arctrooperfivesbutt:

@Everybody saying that Fox deserved to die:

FIGHT ME!

(And that includes Vader for killing him!)

Hella iffy about Fox. I almost forgive him for killing Fives because 1. Palpatine ordered him to shoot to kill and 2. After he killed Fives he took off his helmet and looked remorseful

And although the way he treated Ahsoka was problematic, I felt bad for him when Vader killed him. He was literally terrified

First of all forgive me if this looks messy because I’m writing this through my phone and I’ve only slept three hours and can’t think correctly.

I think Fox’ path of action was completely justified. He did what he thought was right and if we see things from his POV, as the Commander of the Coruscant Guard, then all the things he did were the best solution he could have thought of.

1.-“In spite of his efforts, Fox was forced to allow the bounty hunters to leave with Ziro in order to save Bane’s hostages”

This wasn’t very much his fault, there was nothing he could have done, but the fact that he let Ziro and the Bounty Hunters escape, was probably considered a failure in his career.

2.- “In 21 BBY, a group of modified demolition droids were sent to disrupt the Confederate–Republic peace initiative on Coruscant. At the time Fox was tasked with protecting the central power distribution grid on Level 5000. The droids deceived him with a security clearance code, which Fox deemed authentic. As a result, the droids completed their mission by destroying power grid, causing a city-wide blackout on Coruscant. Infuriated by the Confederacy’s terrorist attack on the galactic capital, the Senate rejected the peace initiative.”

Fox was fooled by these droids and it let to terrible consequences. Many people died, the Peace Initiative was turned down; it was a direct attack to Coruscant (aka The heart of the Republic) and this could have been avoided if Fox had pay more attention to those “stupid droids”. So now there are two hits to his military record.

3.- “Following the terrorist attack on the Jedi Temple of Coruscant, Letta Turmond was imprisoned in the Republic Center for Military Operations due to her participation in the attack (…). Although the clone initially praised Tano for bringing Turmond to justice, he was compelled to arrest her after Turmond was strangled to death by way of the Force. Unknown to Fox,Turmond was murdered by the fallen Jedi Barriss Offee (..). Offee further tainted her incarcerated comrade’s reputation by killing three clone officers with her lightsaber, leading Fox to believe that Tano was the culprit”. “Later, he unhesitatingly ordered his guards to kill Tano, whom he believed responsible for the deaths of several clones during her escape, but grudgingly complied with Anakin Skywalker’s orders to capture the Padawan alive”.

Now let’s put ourselves on Fox’ place and see everything that has been happening there. He HAD TO arrest Ahsoka for being a suspect in Letta’s death, it was his responsibility. After that Anakin comes angrily at him, almost threatening, demanding to free Ahsoka and Fox tell him that he can’t do anything because those are Tarkin’s orders. Then Ahsoka escapes, he comes back to that command center and sees out so is his responsibility to take he back. He chases her and finds the bodies of those clones, cut by a lightsaber. We know it wasn’t Ahsoka because we were following her in that scene, but Fox doesn’t see it, the only thing he sees are the bodies of those clones with recently made lightsaber marks, the most logical thing (from his pov) is that it was Ahsoka who killed those clones. He gave the order to “shoot to kill” but he changed as Anakin had requested (And let’s remember that Fox didn’t had to obey Anakin’s orders, but he still did). And the end Ahsoka ended up escaping, and there we have another hit against Fox, for letting a prisoner escape under his supervision.

4.- “Fives fled from the Grand Republic Medical Facility where he had attempted to assassinate Chancellor Palpatine after learning of his involvement in a conspiracy to destroy the Jedi Order (…). Fox and a contingent of clone shock troopers confronted Fives, demanding that he stand down. In his panic and desperation, the ARC trooper raised a blaster pistol at the approaching guards, but Fox opened fire, killing Fives with a shot through his heart” (…) “After Fives’ failed attempt to kill Chancellor Palpatine, Fox executed the rogue ARC trooper, but not before giving him a chance to surrender.”

Fox’ highest responsibility was to protect the Chancellor. He doesn’t know the things we know and the things Fives knows. The only thing he knows is that Fives has attempt to kill Palpatine and now he’s escaped. When Fox finds Fives he spends a good couple of seconds behind those boxes, he could have shot Fives from there, but he didn’t. When he attacked, he asked Fives to surrender and when he saw that Fives was about to grab the weapon, his response was to tell him “don’t do it”, and he didn’t shoot until Fives had the weapon in his hand and was pointing it at him and his men. He shoot Fives because it was Fives’ life (who everybody believed was crazy and a traitor) against his life and his men’s life. Fox did what he had to do. We don’t see him standing with the other clones in that circle around Fives at the end, and I think it was because he felt too guilty to even come closer.

And gee, I wonder who was the one who put Fives (who was drugged btw) in that panic and desperate state by not believing any word he said and scaring him to the point he didn’t think and grabbed the blasters (yes, it was Anakin)

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