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No Man Left Behind / Something Worth Dying For

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Request from @razzbberry - Palette #1 - Alpha-17, Cody - Death of the Cynic in Me

Notes and close-ups beneath the cut!

Notes: I think Seventeen would, both subconsciously and consciously, keep his cynicism as long as possible. It’s how he thinks the world works, but it’s also a survival tool. It’d be a very, very slow death.

It’s put to the test with Cody — not because Cody is special among his fellow clones, but because he’s one of the first that bothers to fight Seventeen on his own terms. The argument is always the same. Cody wants to talk about what he hopes to be, someday, after he is a soldier. Seventeen thinks he’s stupid to think that’s possible, or that he’d be capable. Cody knows it, and he, might not be. Seventeen thinks it’s even more stupid, in that case; what a waste of energy.

It develops. When they’re older, and in the thick of war, one day Cody risks his life for the chance to save a brother that was going to die anyway. Seventeen yells at him for fifteen minutes once he’s conscious about luck and stupidity and the trouble it’s causing Seventeen and the false hope it’s engendering in others. Cody says he can disagree all he likes, but he doesn’t give a fig, respectfully. Seventeen thinks Cody can go try to get blown up again, if he thinks so.

There’s no point fighting for a better tomorrow; they’re bought and paid for to fight for something else, FOR someone else. Seventeen is prepared for being fodder, as a result. He’s prepared for unfairness and the bleak life that they’re living. Instead he watches as Cody defeats odds time and time again, somehow managing to balance being an exceptional military leader with a secondary war to live for something more, running himself ragged and — inexplicably — gaining ground. Each of those little victories are a little death for Seventeen’s cynicism; a chipping away. A little seed of Cody’s brand of hope takes root, awkward and begrudging, fond and tentative.

Then Order 66 happens. Cody’s efforts for a better life are in vain, and Cody himself-

Cody may never know that Seventeen was right abut just how helpless they were. Now he only knows that Seventeen is a traitor, apparently, because Seventeen — for once in his life — was the lucky one and his chip malfunctioned.

And Seventeen could say ‘I told you so’. He could rest, vindicated and resigned, in the fact that every dream Cody built up and everything he thought was worth dying for is pointless, now — as he always suspected it would be.

But it isn’t fair, even by Seventeen’s standards.

“What are you doing,” Rex will rasp, caught in a strange role reversal as Seventeen paints an armor set with Cody’s golden colors. “He’s not coming back, Seventeen. He can’t. It’s pointless to keep going after him, you need to stop.”

“No,” Seventeen will answer, unbothered, “I don’t think I will.”

“We can’t — we can’t keep hoping,” Rex says, because he means he will probably have a breakdown if he imagines there is even a pitiful possibility he could save his brothers and then have to turn away from that scrappy chance for the greater good and Rebellion, and all that. “We’ve got to move on.”

“Go on.” Seventeen will invite sincerely, one brow raised because he knows Rex better than that.

“Do you want him to shoot you?” Rex will finally yell, all knotted up at the thought of losing Seventeen too, even though it’s funny because Seventeen was never kind to Rex.

“He can try,” Seventeen will say, touching up the last of the paint. He will stand, wiping his fingers, and pick up his pack. “See you when we get back, then.”

Alt version:

#THANKS FOR TAG ON THIS STUNNING GORGEOUS PIECE NY DEAR PATCH #ALPHA 17. AND CODY. ITS THEM.#IM DYING FR #i love them so much i cant be okay when they are near😭😭😭#no head many thoughts #ILL READ THE FIC TOO THANKS FOR REC

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#ivvmell&cordelia coded #CRYING LITERALLY #CORDELIA WHAT REPUTATION WE MADE IN THIS FANDOM #BUT THANKS FOR TAG I LOVE THIS DRAWING SO MUCH #the tems features and colors are SO GOOD #wrinkles and lights OHHH FUCK...#dying suffering this is really beautiful

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i wanna to draw once cheburashka with yoda's bumer vibe

#im on my painkillers again and theres a shitpost again e'he

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there is no way we have so few content with caocasus barris

#i still love this piece a lot idk #i wanna to poke its to everyone face

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the star wars fans' urge to make every mandalorian mand'alor while the character has no clue or aspirations to be the one. for what. or giving em the black saber. sexy but nothing else

#man ur work is incredible #but my eng level is bullshit so i read it VERY VERY SLOWLY #but hey!!! look at this!!! its even have A TABLE!!!#in love with people who has a very strong and reall rambles about life in sw

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I was looking through some old google doc files, and came across this government structure I had created of the Mandalore post-Empire, for an AU I was working on at the time.

Basically Din in this AU had given the darksaber back to Luke when he went to give the gift to Grogu in TBOBF, because he had discovered that it originally was protected by the Jedi and that Vizla had stolen it from the Temple, basically saying “My Ancestor gave it to the Jedi, and now I’m here to do the same”.

I mean, this was actually a really small part of the AU, but it was fun to create, so if anyone is curious here it is:

There are two Governors on the planet

They are chosen with an election, and are voted by only the citizen of age.

Their tenure lasts ten years.

But if the Assembly does not like one or both of them, with a unanimous vote they can take away their position of power.

The Assembly is formed by eighteen elements, and with the Governors they are twenty

Their tenure lasts twenty years.

A lot of the members are from the historical families of Mandalore, or at least the few that survived, but there are also members elected from less famous other clans

To be part of the Assembly you must be at least 25 years old and maximum 60. Obviously the non-human species that have different life spans will have different rules, with their years who can equate to the human ones.

The Council is made up of six elders with tenure for life.

To be part of it you need to be at least 60 years old.

The members are chosen by the Assembly through a vote.

Often they are former members of the Assembly, who cannot be re-elected there, and so they are given this position.

There are cases in which some were elected even if they never held political tenure, but they are rare.

The Council doesn’t actually have political power, they are there just to give advice to the Governors and the Assembly.

They can suggest reforms or make proposals, but their vote on them is not valid, only the Assembly can decide.

It’s more of an honorary position than anything else.

Then there are the Mandalorian citizens.

To be considered of age, and have the right to vote, you have to complete the Verd’goten and/or follow the Resol’nare.

All of it depends on when the citizen became a Mandalorian, if they were a child or already an adult.

It’s their role to vote for the members of the Assembly and for the Governors, but not for the Council.

They can also make requests in front of the Assembly.

#👀👀👀yeah thats exactly how ive imagined mandalor system of government #except i didnt think about governors but its looks very good if we remember about differences between concord and mandalor #anyway very cool i like these

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also creators really fucked up a bit when they did mandalor a country with republic+monarch system instead of republic+parlament. like, theres SO MUCH content could be with clans that arent vizsla. like, fr, is mandalor just the main vizsla branch and like others branch like wrens??? give me some differences between clans and fights bc of new bills in some kind of "white house"

the star wars fans' urge to make every mandalorian mand'alor while the character has no clue or aspirations to be the one. for what. or giving em the black saber. sexy but nothing else

#i didnt read the obi1s books about his youth but i wont be surprised if kryze are one of vizsla

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the star wars fans' urge to make every mandalorian mand'alor while the character has no clue or aspirations to be the one. for what. or giving em the black saber. sexy but nothing else

#mand'alor cody aus i hate you especially sorry not sorry #and din mand'alor au #i dont wanna my depressed men to be the kings of some shit they doesnt belong #cody is the king of his beds of potatoes THATS ALL

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i love being a star wars fan. yes, i spend all my free time thinking about star wars. no, i don't know anything that happens there. yes, i have very extensive knowledge on coruscant lower-level fauna. no, i don't understand the timeline but objectively it's not even my fault. of course i've read through traviss' mado'a language guide and dictionary. does anyone understand hyperlanes. don't ask me about their military ranking system or i will jump out of the window

#ranking system be like: palps-> senate -> jedies -> tf anakin -> idk rex??? -> marshall commanders cody and fox -> clones????#i hate ranking system I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY ANAKIN HAS SO MANY RIGHTS BEHIND CODY AND OBI WAN #ima dying

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