man you know what would be a really interesting story to write
there’s a force sensitive cadet in like – one of the earliest batches, like the alphas or command class or something. ( maybe it’s cody! maybe it’s a baby cody or ponds! ) and when i say cadet, i mean they’re like – 2, equiv 4, or so.
jango Hates the jedi. but he’s not stupid enough to not guess what decommission means, or why it’s being applied contemplatively as a solution to this four-year-old who’s just a little bit different in the wrong sort of way – and a part of him is also just curious.
dooku has his schemes, but jango hates him as well. ( he’s a practical man, and his hatred is much the same. he doesn’t hide it from dooku. they both remember galidraan. but he acts as if he’s moved past it. there is always the future for revenge. )
so a three-or-four year old equivalent age baby clone gets, like so many do, dropped off at the door to the jedi temple.
( there’s a bit of a murmur caused by it, if only for the fact that the man who brought the child was in full mando armor. the two groups have some history, to say the least, and the man is gone as soon as he came. )
and this is – eight years or so before the clone army will be discovered. so there’s just a young mando boy, brought into the creche and treated like all the other children, because they have no reason, really, to suspect he’s anything but. ( later, while doing check-ups on him, they discover that his growth is accelerated, but it’s just assumed he’s some-part nonhuman or something. )
they grow up in the jedi temple, and would in all likelihood be a padawan when everything is set into motion.
and then the clone army is discovered, and some old part of him remembers, remembers kamino and remembers thousands of brothers and remembers jango, even. he goes with yoda, when it comes time to pick his brothers up.
the question of are these men people no longer exists, because it is asked, once, briefly, and the – he’s not a cadet any more, if he had stayed, he would be one of them, the soldiers in armor on the field – levels burning gold eyes at the asker.
they are my brothers, he says, and that is the end of it.
I was going to add a whole bunch of clone troopers and make it super epic, but then my energy tanked. I picked a hard angle and all the geometry of the armor… Goodness. I probably just need to be more patient. Perhaps I will revisit this soon and turn it into what I see in my head.
Inktober day 15 and 16 aka Boil and Waxer~
I really love their bickering and that they’re still close and watch each other’s back. Their episode with Numa is so sweet <33333
On the other hand… don’t talk to me about Umbara… T_T
You can find my other The Clone Wars Inktober drawings here:
This quote, from Hamilton, stuck in my head thinking of the Clones and all of their allies, friends, and near family that they ended up executing during Order 66. I have also been thinking of Cody and Obi-Wan lately, and this is the brain child of those thoughts. i just have a lot of feeling about clones and Jedi. The guilt, oh the guilt.
wrennette 