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.
Heh, all I can think of is walking into the great hall and you’re suddenly greeted by the sight of hundreds of identical students in different colored robes. I don’t know why that image is so amusing to me, but it really is for some reason!
Oh, I’m really bad at putting people into houses. Also, my interpretations of the characters are much different than other people’s and even canon by this point, but I’ll give it a try.
If we wanted to keep them all in the same house, they’d go to either Hufflepuff, for their loyalty towards each other, or Gryffindor. But if we’re okay with separating them…
Droidbait is Gryffindor, for sure. My Droidbait, at least. He may not be the most aggressive, but he’s extremely determined. He’s capable of overcoming his own fears in order to do what’s needed, which is definitely a special kind of bravery.
Cutup, I’d put in Ravenclaw. Echo, too, actually, even if that is kind of stereotypical to put him there. I’d say those two like to think things through carefully before they act. They’re always searching for out-of-the-box solutions, and each of them have strong but slightly different styles of wit.
Fives is hardest for me to decide, because he has qualities of all four. Originally, I was going to put him in Gryffindor, but I think Slytherin would suit him just as well. Fives can be pretty proud, and he’s ambitious as well–he wants to change the whole galaxy. I’m putting Hevy in Slytherin as well, but to clarify, that’s MY Hevy. Canon Hevy would likely be Gryffindor. That one I can’t explain very well without spoiling stuff, so you’ll have to take my word for it.
Ahh… I’m not very happy with those, but that’s what I’d do, I think. Can you imagine the chaos Domino squad would cause with wands? Things would explode, for sure. Fives would be in detention all the time. Of course, they all play Quidditch. Fives is a Slytherin chaser, Hevy’s a beater. Droidbait is Gryffindor’s seeker. Cutup is… a keeper, maybe? with Echo as a chaser. Heaven help whoever has to ref the Ravenclaw/Slytherin games, because Echo and Fives will go after each other hard (all in good fun, though). Every so often the five of them will sneak out of respective dorms at night and go sit on top of the astronomy tower to watch the stars, dreaming up stories of other galaxies and heroes and villains and casting little charms to make the stories come to life. Tiny smoke spaceships soar across the sky. They never get caught, because Echo can’t stand detention (just because he gets bored, really, he doesn’t care about his record that much) and pulls out all the stops to make sure they stay hidden the entire time.
Ooh, you’ve got my brain juices flowing! I like this more than I thought I would! That’s all I’ve got for now, but I might come back to this sometime!
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it’s my mom’s birthday today, and coincidentally it’s also Ian McDiarmid’s! I couldn’t resist recording something when I saw these comments on facebook
It’s like a glimpse into a strange but happy AU where Palpatine is the clones extremely weird Uncle.
Sibling rivalry is often a trite story of one sibling hating the other out of jealousy. On the surface, the Zuko and Azula may look that way. They have no problem blasting fire and lightning at each other and both of their parents had a favorite. But there’s so much more to it.
First of all, I would argue that in spite of many near-fatal encounters, they don’t necessarily hate each other. It’s far more complicated than that. How they view each other is closely tied to how they view themselves.
For most of Zuko’s life, Azula is the standard he’s held to. She’s ambitious, ruthless, and a prodigy. No matter what he does, he can’t earn their father’s approval like she can. And she rubs it in his face constantly. When Azula is cruel to Zuko, Ozai affirms that she’s not wrong to do so. Zuko rarely argues with her because he’s been conditioned to believe she’s right. Zuko has internalized the blame for how his father treats him rather than project it onto Azula, and accepts how she treats him as normal. He has plenty of bitter feeling toward her, but none quite as clear as hate.
Azula’s view of Zuko is even more convoluted. The first time we see Azula, she’s smiling because their father is about to burn him. The next time they meet, she berates him for being a failure of a son. It looks like she enjoys watching him suffer.
But when Zuko helps “kill” the Avatar in Ba Sing Se, we get to see them in a new context. In the rare moments that they aren’t pitted against each other by the ever looming presence of their father… they actually get along fine.
Every time Azula appeared happy to see Zuko suffering, it was at the hands of their father. It wasn’t just that Ozai hurt Zuko, it what that Ozai hurt Zuko and not her. Every time Ozai insulted or injured her brother, it cemented Azula’s position as the favorite child. And she had to stay the favorite child because she’s seen what would happen to her if she wasn’t. Deep down, she knows just how conditional her father’s positive regard is. When Ozai leaves her in the Fire Nation while invading the Earth Kingdom, the first words out of her mouth are “You can’t treat me like Zuko”. Being better than Zuko is part of her identity.
When Zuko defects from the Fire Nation and begins to succeed without meeting, or even trying to meet, the standards set by their father, it throws her priorities into doubt. In her mind, Zuko is supposed to fail. But she isn’t truly unnerved until she’s betrayed by Mai and Ty Li.
She is incapable of understanding why Mai would chose Zuko, and this drags to the surface her inability to understand why her mother preferred Zuko. She believed her mother loved Zuko and not her. Now Mai, her closest friend, loves Zuko and not her.
This conflicts with her entire view of the world. She sees the worth of a person as equal to their quantifiable skills and accomplishments. She has been admired, respected, and feared, but as far as Azula believes, no one has ever loved her. She was a prodigy who did everything right, while Zuko was the family screw up. Yet people loved him and not her.
For years, being better than Zuko was how Azula measured herself. Ozai said Zuko was lucky to be born. That he was worthless, weak, disrespectful, and both his children believed him. When Zuko left, he finally saw that Ozai was wrong about him. When Zuko returns during Sozin’s comet, Azula too is forced to see that her perception is wrong.
Zuko has become the embodiment of everything she lacks. She thought he was weak, but he’s not afraid enough to fight her fairly as an equal. She thought he was dishonorable, but really he was independent enough to break away from their father’s control. She thought he was worthless, but he’s found people who care about him in spite of his flaws.
Azula isn’t just trying to kill him, but everything he represents. And when she can’t, she breaks. Zuko is still standing. She has nothing left.
Word of God (Bryke) confirmed that at the end of the Agni Kai, Zuko felt pity rather than hate for his sister. This continues into the comics as he genuinely tries to help her. He knows that while she may not have been overtly abused like he was, she was raised in the same web of lies, agendas, and violence.
Their past left them both unable to trust people. Azula controlled everyone around her with fear. Zuko shut other people out and tried to do everything on his own. It isn’t until Zuko has left his old life behind that he slowly begins to let people in.
While Azula hangs onto the beliefs of Ozai and the Fire Nation, Zuko can see their situation from the outside. He sees two screwed up teenagers who spent their lives fighting their father’s war, manipulated into a conflict that isn’t their fault, forced to kill each other over choices made a century before they were born. It took Zuko years to figure out the hell that was his home life wasn’t his fault, but only a few minutes to see that it wasn’t Azula’s either.
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