Manifesting The Bad Batch Season 3 Trailer With This Redraw Of Crosshair And Omega

soooo.... I was supposed to post more about my ocs. instead I went and got a wolverine obsession, but I've only watched the movies (so far!!). so here's a little something based on wolverine origins and that one star wars song.

i love sibling relationships especially when it's something like this. like, the way logan and victor had only each other for over a century (1845 to 1970s-ish) and logan seemed to be the rational one/moral compass for the most part (thinking about the scene in the plane with wade and how he left because he didn't wanna be involved in the killing of innocent people). and the pain that must've caused him to leave the only constant he's had since he was like, 13 years old or something.

and then the very Sibling way that victor joined that final battle against wade/project XI because "only I'm allowed to kill you."

omega: don’t tell them about this

crosshair: you want me to LIE to our brothers?

omega: is that a problem?

crosshair: no, absolutely not

as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.

Reject society

*reading discourse-y posts again* I do think there's often a rejection of any mundane considerations in the jedi, which I sort of get, since they're fantasy space wizards with swords, so any mundanity can feel incongruous, but for me that's part of the charm.

Take for example a discussion about why Anakin didn't visit/follow up on Shmi during his apprenticeship. If I proposed that maybe he could not afford it, that's deeply mundane. The idea that the temple is just really really far away and they didn't have a private ship they could borrow on their off time, and there's not actually a galactic internet he can facetime shmi, a poor farmer, on, that's very mundane for a fantasy space wizard with a sword.

But they're monks. They don't have a salary. They don't have personal wealth. They have some collective resources, and they're granted some resources by various parties. Anakin is eventually able to go to Tatooine when Padme offers to take him there. Maybe he faced censure for the unauthorized trip offscreen, but not enough to affect the plot in any way. Similarly, when Obi Wan goes on a personal mission to help Satine, he borrows Anakin's fixer-upper ship, and he isn't shown to get into trouble for taking a little vacation either (so maybe it's not just that it's super duper strictly forbidden.)

So then like. Yeah, there is a cultural reason for parents not being in contact with children sent to the temple. For sure. There's plenty of spiritual/cultural things going on, that get bound up in this. If it's part of your religion that you're part of greater whole and that some people aren't fundamentally more important than others based on things like blood, there's not going to be a prioritized resource allocation for visiting family members on the other side of the galaxy. Shmi deserves help as an enslaved person, but not more than any other enslaved person. Then maybe you have Quinlan running some op on tatooine, and maybe he could give Anakin some peace of mind, except if that would compromise opsec in any way, in which case that's not his priority. That's a cultural reasoning.

But also maybe sometimes the reason Anakin didn't go sooner is because he didn't have a sugarmama yet and maybe the reason Qui Gon didn't free Shmi is that his mind tricks didn't work on Watto. Maybe the fantasy space wizards with swords have normal-people problems too.

Happy Easter!

Crosshair: Hunter, why are you on the table?

Hunter: it's my ship! I can stand where I please!

Crosshair: *deep sigh* where's the spider?

Hunter: ...it's in the corner. please kill it-

do you think the birth families of the jedi mourned when they heard the news about order 66. do you think they worried and that they weeped when the clone wars began and they heard that their children were going off to fight in it. do you think they looked at their calendars and kept track of how old their children had become every birthday. do you think they knew that their child was only 10 when they were murdered during order 66. do you think any jedi went out to find their birth parents after losing the only family they really knew. do you think any families sheltered other escaping jedi, knowing what likely happened to their own. do you think the families cried. do you think they mourned. do you think, even though they hadn't seen their children in years... they still weeped?

Bit of something I noticed when I watched the "Outpost" way back...

Mayday has the exact same character as Clone Wars Hunter.

Someone who's irritable, someone who is snarky towards command, lightly mocking, seems to operate better in the midst of battle or once the "Worst has come to pass", and someone who's used to surviving against bad conditions.

( And of course, someone who cares for his brothers, and tends to adopt the odd-ones-out no matter how they got there )

And he can match Crosshair snark to snark, which TCWs Hunter did too.

Hell if it turns out he likes the Thrill of Extreme Sports (Looking at you Hunter, and skysurfing without a parachute on that flying Lizard), he might as well be Hunter.

... At least, Clone Wars Hunter.

Something that should be pointed out about the differences between TBB Hunter and TCWs Hunter.

Remember Echo's situation? He was turned into a weapon. That weapon was used against Thousands of Troops, possibly more than that. Thousands died, more so than anything under Crosshair's record. While its clear he wasn't in his right mind, or really any mind at all, he was forgiven about it.

Yes, there was some doubts and mistrust, yes, Hunter was distressed as hell about it all--more vocally than anyone else, really.

( TCWs Hunter seems to make it a point to be distressed about everything except when he's on his own or only with his team. )

--But it was Hunter who offered Echo a spot on the team (with of course Team backing). Hunter who saw an odd brother out, and kept him.

And Mayday did that for Crosshair. ( For a little while, at least. )

... Could you say that TBB Hunter would do the same? Did do the same?

TBB Hunter seems to be the kind of character who does an awful lot of running away.

Where Mayday went back for bodies, and TCWs Hunter faced danger head on.