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Yep!

Says it all I think

Idea from @leeleebee , I just got to draw it! 💙

I love this style!!

2 boba and a dandelion puff

*Ahsoka worried about arguing with Rex*

Fives: Ahsoka, relax. Go get a beer. Ahsoka: I don't want any beer. Fives: Who said it was for you? Ahsoka: Mmm...

I hope you understand the reference... XD

Post-war babes. More info on my AO3.

Reminder: I don’t interact on Tumblr, so if you want me to see anything, please comment on AO3, where I'm also not as far behind on posting things.

Ahsoka: Who's my brave and good captain? Rex: You have to stop doing that, the boys won't respect me! Ahsoka: So you're not? Rex:... Rex: Noooo!! I am! :'c Anakin: And that's how one of the best falls...

Anakin is definitely a little disappointed in our good captain XD

I don't know why this reminded me of you two @cyarikacyare @tealmisthams XD

"just write the story you want to read!" they said. well, guess what, now i have 14 unfinished drafts because apparently, i want to read 14 different stories at once.

me when the plot won't plot like it should

In a reality where Anakin didn't join the dark side…

Luke and Leia: *Arguing* Anakin: What happens now? Luke: We're arguing about who your favorite is. Leia: Yes, obviously it's me. Luke: I don't think so… *They argue again* Anakin: Children, children, I don't have favorites. I love you all equally. Luke and Leia: Aww! Anakin: If I had a favorite, everyone would know it would be Ahsoka. Luke and Leia: D: Ahsoka: :D

I couldn't help but do it XD

My children holding hands, it's so beautiful

nothing gives me a greater dopamine hit than staring at my blorbos holding hands for four hours

Oh...

Yep! He's definitely a good boy :3

Ooowww!! I love this result so much! They look so good! The best brothers!!

Sketch cut outs from my last WIP; my favorite Commander besties; Rex and Cody! I always drift torwards the 90s/00s manga look and it’s been a challange to turn these two into proper bishonens without loosing too much of their original looks.

Ahsoka: This is a nice place... Rex: Yeah. Ahsoka: The food was very tasty... Rex: Yeah. Ahsoka: This is a date isn't it? Rex: Noooo... Rex: Yes.

I'm sure this would happen to these two fools... XD

They are exactly this, I love people who are able to say what I can't fit into words

A Case for Rexsoka

I’ve been around the block when it comes to ships. I’ve seen people obsess over them, and I too have been driven mad by obsession. I was a hardcore original avatar fan and I was OBSESSED with shipping Toph and Sokka together. Any time they so much as made an interaction I over analyzed it and picked it apart looking for clues that somehow would prove that my hunches were correct. It was because I related with both characters, and I loved their chemistry. I wanted them to have a romantic relationship because it would feel like some sort of personal validation.

I’m an adult now and nothing has changed. But it has been a while since I’ve desperately shipped two characters together that are not obviously romantically involved with one another, or who could be romantic behind the scenes or beyond the story shown.

Until Rex and Ahsoka.

And I’ve seen people be adamantly against it. 

“No no no it’s just a brother/sister relationship.” 

“No it’s gross she is a child”.

And of course being disagreed with on the internet can drive a person crazy, and instead of individually arguing with dozens of people online, I’m making this post once and for all to explain why I think Rex and Ahsoka have romantic feelings for each other. Especially Rex.

The argument I’ve seen, that their deep passion, commitment, love, admiration, and respect for one another (which are all so obvious you’d have to be…silly to not see it) are felt in a platonic fashion. Which, for the first 6 seasons and 8 episodes, I would totally agree.

But then Ahsoka comes back. And let’s face it. She is a woman. Age wise, she’s around 17, but everything from the maturity of her Lekku (which weirdly don’t get all that longer, especially compared to other Tagrutan women) to her poise and confidence, to her prowess as a warrior, a user of the force, and her ability to command soldiers as well as control her emotions points to her being an adult woman. She’s no Snips anymore; she’s no child. She’s grown up. And how her peers react to her illustrates how they now view her as an adult.

First there is Obi-wan. Obi-wan has always been a mentor to her, a sort of second Master. Obi-wan never hesitated to guide and Ahsoka or offer his council. He is proud of her when she succeeds, and will admonish her when she makes mistakes. When she returns and he sees her as a woman, he changes the way he treats her. He acknowledges her maturity by addressing her as an equal. He doesn’t admonish her. Instead he discusses with her, challenging her ideas and letting her offer an argument for them instead of putting them down and telling her how she should think or act. He also comes to her in his time of need, trusting her to help him with Anakin.

Then there is Anakin. We all know of Anisoka shippers, and they are perfectly able to ship and enjoy said ship, but we can all acknowledge that it is a crack pairing with no basis in the canon. Anakin portrays the perfect kind of brotherly love. He is excited to see Ahsoka, and is stunned by her unexpected reappearance. Things are harder for Anakin because he is used to their fun banter and sibling-like companionship. He’s constantly shut down with her business like manner and he struggles with coming to terms with the fact that she isn’t a little kid sister anymore. She is an adult with a mission and a plan. When he looks at her, he is endearing. He loves her. Admires her. And he can’t wait to pick up where they left off. There’s joy and adoration in his face. He is proud of her and what she has become, but he also feels alienated and even hurt because of how her adulthood has changed their dynamic.

Then there is Rex. When he first sees her, he wants nothing more than to reassure her that she still belongs. The clones had accepted her into their family. As far as they were concerned, she was one of them. When he looks at her for the first time, he’s beaming with the same adoration as he had had for her before, but also with a solemn awe at what she has become and what she has grown into. He welcomes her back into his life without hesitation.

But then there is a moment things shift so drastically that I paused the show and re-watched it half a dozen times. We all know it and love it. This face he gives Ahsoka. The Look.

What we see here is something we have never, EVER seen in Rex for 7 whole seasons. And it is my opinion that this is the first time Rex has been able to feel and express that he is attracted to Ahsoka. In other words, Rex has a sexual awakening.

Up until this point, Rex has been a sexless character. Nothing he does is flirtatious, sexy, or at all suggestive that he has those feelings inside him at all. Every sexual being has a moment where they are first animalistically drawn to another being. Characters who have already had this moment are easy to pick out. Obi wan. Anakin. Ventress. These characters have already experienced their sexual awakening. Ahsoka has too. Lux was her first object of attraction.

But Rex has never had this moment. Until this reaction.

I know some of you might be thinking “but Ahsoka gives a very similar look to Anakin, does that mean she is sexually attracted to HIM?” It’s a very good point. Ahsoka and Anakin share some cheeky playful looks during “Old Friends Not Forgotten”. We see many characters give similar looks to other characters, but does this mean it means the same thing as when Rex does it? The short answer is no.

When animators design a character, they establish the “range of emotion” for that character. You can easily see this when you look back at how many times you see Rex break from his stoic, captain’s face. He rarely laughs, smiles, or emotes in any way. This is why when we see him emote it is exciting to us as an audience. A character like Ahsoka or Anakin commonly show a wide variety of expressions. Ahsoka is much more likely to give a cheeky look than Rex is. So “the look” for Rex, means a lot more when he is doing than it does when another character does it, say Fives or even Obi-Wan.

Which means the writers are trying to tell us something about this moment. 

This moment has changed Rex’s and Ahsoka’s relationship. 

Now does this mean that they are going to go bang each other immediately? Does this mean the second they are alone after “Victory and Death” they start an intense, sexual relationship? Of course not. That’s not what this ship is about at this time. But the reason many of us ship it is because suddenly they don’t feel like brother and sister anymore. It isn’t entirely platonic. And the show does a good job to further emphasize this as they come closer and closer both emotionally, and physically during the finale.

Blocking is a huge factor in visual storytelling. During the finale, Rex and Ahsoka are blocked in a way that makes them as close as physically possible on the screen. This communicates to the audience that they are closer now than they have ever been. As Jedi and Clone Trooper. As friends, and as companions, their bond forged in the fires of war, struggling to find meaning in life as soldiers.

In contrast, look how Ahsoka and Anakin are blocked in their scenes. There is nearly always a gap between them, illustrating that they are distanced from each other emotionally. Rex is even visually inserted into the gap between them in several instances. Anakin and Ahsoka are growing apart, but she and Rex are growing closer.

We get to experience Rex and Ahsoka engaging in actions and conversations that we had rarely seen before. From casual banter, to moments of intense intimacy, to emotional peaks, Rex and Ahsoka interact more in these four episodes than in the previous six seasons. Part of this is because their maturity gap has closed. Ahsoka is finally Rex’s equal in experience and maturity. It is also in part because it is a unique dynamic. No Obi-wan. No Anakin. Rex and Ahsoka are equal leaders of the 332nd. There’s also the fact that they are put into life threatening situations and have no one else but each other.

But there is that “look” that is given at the beginning of all this that suggests something else, that as their bond undoubtedly becomes strong as beskar, there is an element of it that takes their relationship from the platonic to the romantic.

I feel every detail, moment, and piece of dialogue in the finale tells the story of this bond. 

Many instances of their strong emotional bond have been spread throughout the internet, with most ready to acknowledge that they have a connection unlike any other, one that may even be described as a “force” connection. These last four episodes are so exciting because we see two friends reunited, but then we get to watch as their relationship transforms.

Even disregarding their implied attraction to each other physically, they dive into each other and hold on tight. Ahsoka shares deep personal worries with Rex, and Rex and her are shown opening up to each other in ways they have never opened up before.

We were all floored and dumbfounded at scenes such as these that show these characters at their most vulnerable. But they decide to be vulnerable together. Is it because they are all that is left of their 501st family? It part, this is definitely true. But by being this vulnerable they transform their relationship into something very different from what they had before. It will never be the same again, and it will be near impossible to back out of the emotional intimacy that these two have participated in. Once you have formed that kind of an attachment with someone, there is no going back, and as is seen in rebels, these two maintain that strong connection even after years of being apart.

This goes beyond their sexual desires or needs. They’ve forged a bond that cannot be broken. They have shared minds, shared pain and agony that only the other can understand. They’ve been isolated from the world, and all they have left is each other.

And at the end of the series, when we have Rex and Ahsoka broken, their world flip upside down and everything they ever valued or cared about lies in ruins before them, the idea that they still have each other is that beautiful seed of hope Star Wars is so good at preserving. Those of us who believe that their relationship could be romantic want good things for Rex and Ahsoka. We want them to have that love and share it with each other. Maybe only for a few moments, but having known it would be better than both of them living and dying without having that experience. 

When we see the two in Rebels, for me it confirms that these two love each other deeply. But their lives can never be lived in a normal fashion. They cannot even be together as partners in life. The Empire has stolen this from them. The tragedy of this ship is that it can never be the way we want it to be. Rex will age and die long before Ahsoka is even halfway through her own life. They cannot live with one another. They cannot wake each morning with each other, at least not at the point we see them in rebels. 

But they continue to love each other. Even over distance, even knowing that mortality will claim them with only a fraction of the memories that they deserve with one another. 

So please, the next time you see some art or a fic, or a post like this, think of what I had to say. Rexsoka is about two adults, their lives destroyed at the hands of Sidious, but in defiance they still forge a bond that he could never break or take from them. And that to me is beautiful and something to celebrate.

Side note: I spent a ton of time making gifs but they never would work and so I had to use screenshots instead :(

EDIT: At the request of the OG poster of a few gifs, I have replaced them have also made some grammatical changes. 

Incorrect quote star wars version, part #2:

Anakin: I'm forgetting something. Ahsoka: Morals? values? principles? Anakin: No, no, it's something important. Ahsoka: Mmm…

April showers brings a REAL Rexsoka prompt! 🌷🌼

Quick reminders:

Any type of content is welcomed. This includes fanfic, fanart, video edits, gifs, photo manips, crafts, etc. If Rexsoka inspires you to make it, we’d love to see it!

Submissions are always open. Submissions for a specific prompt are open as soon as that prompt is posted and never close. We’ll accept content for any prompts even after that month has ended. The more Rexsoka content, the better!

No underage Rexsoka, unless it’s platonic. This means no content where Rex is an adult and he is sexually attracted to Ahsoka when she is a minor. Unless their ages are adjusted, no explicit romantic content before season 7. Pre-relationship fluff and Ahsoka having a baby crush are acceptable.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT LANTER!!!!

Incorrect quotes Star Wars version, part #1

Ahsoka: What's your favorite thing about me? Rex: Probably your smile. Ahsoka: Seriously? Rex: Okay fine, I love how you can kill a man in only two seconds. Ahsoka:... Ahsoka: Aawww!!!

Wanted to try and capture the colours I see outside my window at dusk in winter. so here, have Ahsoka and Rex who definitely didn’t get separated after Order 66 scoping out possible rebel base locations together.

I redrew this five... six times? 🙃

ghosts of void

I love these two fools, united by a single functioning neuron... no one knows how they manage to survive their missions, but they do!

The reference image I took struck me as funny!

As promised from this post and a corresponding art for this post and my fanfic on Ao3 (Subtle).

Probably before they parted ways... I mean if they did part ways before Rex reunited with TBB...

Ugh the cropping is bad and the shading texture and all that ughhhh but here's the lil art that I had mentioned before.

(edit: posted ASoH fic to my Ao3 here)

Thank you for your attention, keep scrolling.

A scene that lives absolutely rent free in my mind:

That was all. Thank you for listening.

Star wars, the clone wars, the 501st legion

I meant to finish this for my 100 followers reach but I got lazy and ended up reaching over 150 followers by the time I decided to get it done with (which I know might not be that much for certain fellow Tumblrs who’ve been here for a while, but hey, this is my moment, gosh, I’m still pronoucing Tumblr Tumbl-R instead of Tumbl-ER). I just want to say a big thank you to all of you, I’m really enjoying this fandom, it’s been a while since I’ve been part of a living fandom (my home fandom is dead now).

(Btw, I don’t care for Rexsoka, if you wanna consider this piece of fanart so, then go ahead, I don’t mind (im pretty neutral), and if you’re a Rexsoka-hater, please keep your bullshit to yourself and let other users enjoy what they enjoy without making them feel like total assholes. and look, if yah don’t wanna consider it so, just don’t. u decide what it is. no one’s getting hurt. thank you very much)

This is beautiful!!

A happy ending by libpaint

Aaahhh!! Silence everyone!! My novel has begun!

Rule Five

Presenting the first chapter of my entry for Fivesoka Creation Day, hosted by (me) @everythingfivesoka !

It’s based on the “benefits” prompt.

Rating: M

Warnings: mild sexual content, PTSD

Summary: Ahsoka was never someone who had one-night stands and she never planned to be. Then she met Fives. Between the loneliness from her recent breakup, Anakin’s insistence that she avoid him, and the undeniable fact of how hot he was—if a bit cocky—she was tempted to rethink her principles.

Read it HERE on AO3.

If you read, please leave a comment and let me know what you think! 💙

Dividers by @ahsokathegray

If anyone wants to be tagged in future chapters of this fic (there will be about 6 total), let me know!

Well, this is more or less the outline of the idea for my oc, I had to draw it because otherwise I won't get the idea right later... I still don't have a clear color palette and its story is still being written! But what do I know? That it will be family, a certain Togruta that is lost hehehe...

Ains!! I love you!

no way she's alive ?? yea those mental health breaks because social media makes people suck are wild huh