commanderscody:
can we olease stop associating all of cody’s character with obi-wan? cody is his own individual, has his own personality separate from obi-wan, and his world most definitely does not revolve around the jedi. i want to see more fics where it’s just cody, that there is a narrative focused on him and his struggles and his thoughts, separate from his jedi general. unfortunately i see this in a lot of codywan fics, where cody is just there to support obi-wan, and it’s like there is no worth to his character other than this ship. let’s start appreciating cody for HIS character and personality and not just attached to a character that only cares about him superficially (even that is a stretch).
ok Cody headcanons, sans obi-wan!
-Since he was one of the original command clones trained by Alpha-17, he personally identifies with Mandalorian culture a lot more than future generations of clones.
-Originally, his name was Kote, which is Mandalorian for “glory”, but his first non-clone CO couldn’t pronounce it right, but kept trying, but the best he could get was “Cody”. Cody liked it and thought it was hilarious so it stuck.
-Sometimes his closest brothers still call him Kote, though.
-Rex is Cody’s closest brother (in a shippy way or not, I headcanon both/either). They met in training on Kamino, and Rex is a few months younger than Cody (which is a much bigger gap to the clones than it is to us), and Cody’s always felt a little protective over him. He’s very proud of Rex’s leadership achievements.
-Wolffe is another close friend of Cody’s. When they get together and hang out, it inevitably turns into a massive bitchfest where they complain about everything from their generals to the caf.
-Cody, as the Marshall Commander of the third systems army, technically outranks Anakin. Cody is waiting for the perfect moment to let Anakin know this.
-Cody is lowkey the mom-friend of his battalion. He goes out of his way to get extra things for them like better rations, extra time off, or stuff for the rec room. One time, he acquired a whole bunch of crayons from a bombed-out school and dumped them in the rec room for troopers to mess around with. He subsequently received hundreds of drawings from his troops (some of them very inappropriate). He tapes each one to the door of his quarters.
-Cody got a reputation for having eyes in the back of his head. Every trooper knows that you can’t get away with anything when Cody’s around.
-One time, Rex got ahold of Cody’s helmet and glued googly eyes on the back. Cody noticed but pretended he didn’t, because he gets a kick out of suddenly whipping around on shinies trying not to laugh at the eyes and going “something funny, trooper?” and watching them struggle to contain their laughter
-Cody is fairly straight laced, but is willing to bend the rules when it’s what’s best for his men. He’s not one to play pranks much, but sometimes Rex drags him into shenanigans. (I headcanon Rex as worse than Fives, btw, but he mostly pretends to be an adult because Someone Around here Has to Be).
-Early on in the war, Rex persuaded Cody to switch places with him and see how long it took their respective generals to notice.
-It took them almost a week, and this was with Rex and Cody doing increasingly exaggerated impressions of each other.
-Cody swears like a space sailor, unless he’s in front of superiors. When Obi-Wan is there, he’s like “alright, move out!” When he’s not, Cody’s like “Ok, mothers and fuckers of the jury, get your fucking asses moving”
-But he doesn’t tolerate swearing in his troops, especially not shinies. One time Rex saw him chewing out a couple of new guys for swearing, and got on Cody’s case for it, saying that Cody was physically incapable of not swearing. Cody insisted that he totally was able to not fucking swear, and the end result was a bet where Cody had to abstain from swearing for an entire month.
-Which is why, on Rishi, when Rex (as far as Cody knows) shoots a brother right in the face, Cody goes “rex what the HECK are you doing”
-Cody likes to read, mostly history and stuff like anthropology and sociology. He’s fascinated by other cultures and people. If he survives the war, he thinks he’d like to teach kids, or else do something that lets him travel the galaxy.
-Cody hates army coffee, it’s terrible and tastes like sewage, but he drinks it anyways because it’s funny to see the natural-borns grimace when he just chugs a mug of it.
-Cody is very aware of his position as a command clone, and the power differential it puts between him and most of his brothers. He doesn’t really have any close friends outside of the other command clones (and Rex of course).
-He downloaded some material illicitly, and is trying to learn the twi’lek language on his own. He chose twi’lek because it was the language he could find the most available free material online for.