Happy May The Fourth Have A 4 Minutes Animatic About Crosshair And Omega Bounding Over Sniping Stuff.

*disappointed dad sigh*

Fic rec of the day is the ongoing Stranded by The_Absent_Minded_One on Ao3

(Go read it it's a roller coaster who hurts in all the right places...I wanted to draw every scene I had to restrain myself ^^;)

Getting tipsy on the roof of your bosses starship WILL become oversharing time.

This is Ulvi and Flinch, my Star Wars OCs. Part of the Vesper Research Vessel crew. Ulvi is of indeterminate species and recently broke herself out of a labor camp on a remote planet before being rescued by the science crew. She has no idea what she is or where she came from. Flinch is a clone who never made it farther than being a Shiny stationed on guard duty, or so he says. He was assigned to the science crew as part of an employment outreach program on Coruscant.

I’ve been working on a short(ish) story about this crew! Will post it here eventually :)

Have... Have they ever called you Toothpick?

Leaves

Sorry!

Hey Crossy! I asked the rest of your brothers so I’d figure I’d save the grumpiest for last, What’s the most annoying thing each of your brothers do or have done to you?

Would be hard to compete with calling me "Crossy"

EEEEEEE! IT'S SO ADORABLE I LOVE IT! 🥰

Bad Batch Band Au thoughts ✨

Cause I discussed this with my fam last week and the gears were turning

Wrecker is the drummer. He goes hard on the drum set but tries his best not to bust them. He does frequently break his drumsticks. The crowd loves it. Every fan wishes their concert would feature a drum stick break.

Wrecker has the most energy out of them all. Remember in TCW when he was cheering and hollering cause he got so excited and everyone just looked at him like 😐 yeah that happens (usually early on in the show) but his energy is still very welcome.

Hunter def plays guitar but he is probably the singer… (even tho I HC that they all can’t sing worth a penny)

If we are taking TCW Hunter into account he is def making a show. Throwing winks, making eye contact, pointing, smirking. Really good at engaging with the whole crowd.

Every few concerts he’ll raise his shirt up to wipe the sweat off his face. Crowd goes nuts. Crosshair is off to side rolling his eyes 😑

He doesn’t feed the audience excessively tho. His main focus is the concert. He’ll do one or two things that has people swooning but any other crowd interaction is him getting them pumped up. When omega enters the picture he doesn’t show off as much. He’s more srs.

Crosshair is pretty much good with any instrument but my money is on him being a bassist and the occasional pianist.

Despite being quiet, aloof and the most private of the group… he’s incredibly popular… and he HATES it

Seeing wrecker break his sticks and getting a Hunter wink is one thing… it’s on a whole higher level to even GET a guitar pick from crosshair.

He rarely ever tosses them into the audience but when he does people are crawling all over each other to get one

The guys tease him about fans being lovesick over him all the time

Cross: “ugh more frivolous fan mail. Don’t see why I get all the mail when Hunter already puts on a show”

Tech: “Your silence and aloofness gives you an air of mystery. A mystery fans can’t help but want to solve “

Echo: “Doesn’t help he gets so engrossed while playing.

Hunter: “Well the fans will be disappointed to know he’s already in love… in love with that bass”

Wrecker: “yeah when’s the wedding crosshair!!!”

Crosshair: **storms off**

Things don’t get any better for him when the puppy and kitten interview happens and they’re all swarming him.

Echo is the other bassist + other instruments. Is also quite popular with the crowd.

Is very confused why he’s called the “mom”

It’s because he’s usually on stage helping set up everything with the backstage crew. He knows everyone’s preferences and makes sure everything is where it needs to be.

He probably comes out and does some sort of casual wave before getting to work 🤣

Also throughout the concert he’ll go around on stage and lowkey check on everyone

Makes sure the venue passes out water bottles to fans.

Competes a bit with crosshair on stage. It’s all good fun he usually loses tho 🤣

Towards the end of the concert or during a break echo always takes time to do a bit of advocacy (hozier does this for like 5-10 min it’s fantastic) he’ll do it in interviews as well.

The band member of the people 😭 💗

Tech probably uses a variety of instruments. He isn’t always on stage cause the heat gets to him a bit. But he’s also on tech duty and (like echo) is nit picking all the electronics.

Fans might catch a glimpse of him personally doing sound checks.

He’s pretty experimentive. He’s not afraid to try new instruments and tries to incorporate them into their songs.

Makes sure to put some flare in their concert set designs. There are usually surprises at each or every other concert. Something new about the set.

Then phee and him get into a relationship. Oh boy!!! It’s fantastic. She really adds a spunk to their music. She still tours by herself but once she’s with tech she appears frequently on their albums.

Just wait till the duet comes out with tech and phee. Fans goes NUTS!!!!!

If she’s ever on stage she def comes around to him sometimes and flirts.

He once stumbled the piano keys when she drew her hand across his back

Cross and wreck still tease him about it.

Crosshair had tech support replay it on the screen at another concert

If it weren’t for Hunter tech would not have played that night

The icing on top of the cake is bringing out omega. When she’s young (s1) she would just come out and dance but when she got a bit older (s3) she’ll come out for a song or two and play an instrument. (Which just started off as just her and Hunter and then evolved once she learned other instruments.)

Actually going to elaborate on that more:

So when she’s young she’s just dancing. She’ll go over to everyone and do a little dance with them. Cross and echo join her little dance. Sometimes she’ll hang on the back of wrecker while he drums. Also hangs by the drums cause she likes the view point. She sit by tech if he plays piano or dance around him. When this all started she sort of was Velcroed to Hunter.

Now… when she got older she learned to play the guitar first. Her appearances were then just solo songs with Hunter. Very adorable. Then she started learning the other instruments and that’s when she comes out for a couple songs. Really incorporating her into the band.

Remember when I said the fans loved crosshair for his mystery and then loved him even more after the kittens and puppies… well it got so much worse when omega started playing with the whole band. Cause she started learning from him first.

That’s it for now sorry for the drop off I just need to get this out of my drafts haha 😂

Kix in THE CLONE WARS ▸ S2 // S7

This is amazing!

I just want him to hold me dearly

Best Dad!

What I love the most about Hunter as a character is he’s such a subversive example of his archetype.

Literally any other aloof, broody male character would’ve had a more rocky relationship with Omega, where he kept being unintentionally harsh to her or making her upset and then they’d argue about it but Hunter has never been like that.

He yelled at her once, Cut told him not to and then he never ever did it again. And he was only ever mad because he was worried. He has been in her corner since day one and when he received criticism, he actually took it on board and learned from it. There was no dragging out the angst of his character just to add tension to their relationship. He and Omega have always been on equal footing. He protects her when it’s needed but other than that, he treats her like a person which is more than can be said for a lot of parent characters. He clearly adores her but he also values what she has to contribute and respects her as a human being.

How do you feel about people shortening your name to "Cross"?

I don't mind so much when my squad uses it. In some of our missions, every second mattered. However, I still prefer 'Crosshair.'