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Look, I love "Echo as a closely-knit member of the Bad Batch" as much as the next person (I sure write it enough) but I think the opposite also has its merits: Echo as "That Super Cool Commando Who Stayed With Us For A While And Who Now Helps Us Out Sometimes."

Crosshair only makes fun of him because the cyborg commando who lived with them after they dragged him out of a secret lab can both out-shoot him with a DC-17 AND hack into computers with his mind, and He's Way Too Cool.

Echo and the Batch don't care about each other any less, but Echo being more of a Cool Cousin than a Brother is great to me because it puts everything in early TBB into another light. Echo just gets a front-row seat to everyone's petty fights and family drama without feeling the need to step into it unless there's blood.

@the-bi-space-ace I know we usually write the whole Batch being super tight-knit, but this occurred to me, and I thought it was a funny alternate way to think about Echo's dynamic with the Batch.

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Unfortunately, yes.

#the little remnant of orange paint on Hunter's nose 🥺 #the bad batch #tbb #sergeant hunter #tbb hunter

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^^ DBB said that he thought Crosshair would be the type of kid to sit at the back of class eating glue.

If anyone knows which interview this is please @ me lol

baby Crosshair hours ✨

#tbb #the bad batch #star wars #crosshair

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Ok I found this pic on pintrest:

WHY IS HE HOLDING THE MUG LIKE THAT 😭😭

#this doesnt surprise me in the slightest #this is the guy who lives off pot noodles and protein shakes #clone trooper tech #tbb tech #tech

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Not me just now realising that Hunter did the fucking Phee fall in e14

Proud brother-in-law

#they had to kill off tech to showcase the other's skills just a little #but damn hunter's flying is coming on this season #tbb spoilers

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Tech be like:

This old group photo no longer exists, if it was with Hunter's kit on the Marauder.

They will need to take a new one.

#the bad batch #tbb spoilers #tech #clone trooper tech

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Emerie: we must free the children

Echo: childREN? as in plural???

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Rampart is not having a good time

#hunter: not yet #cross: not AT ALL

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SLAYY

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I'd like to think that Ahsoka and Anakin would occasionally train with their troopers. Probably not, but the thought is nice 😔

Aslo: I kind of like the idea of some clones (hardcase in this case) being a bit more chubby :3

Bonus of headcanon body tattoos for Jesse, Hardcase and Kix 😊

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Gandalf’s fall from the first movie? Fly you fools?

I know everything thinks this is a Tech reference…but I think it could be a Hunter reference. I think he’s going to crash the ship in the next episode but survive. Or maybe an Echo reference with him being stuck on the other ship.

#turns out it was a dead weight reference #tbb spoilers

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We really do need to bring back the word "trolling" and warning ppl not to feed the trolls

#WOW THIS #influencers are trolls #i've never heard something so true

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The Duality of Echo

Either endearing Dork, or Smooooth as fine silk!

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The last thing I expected from S3 was Rampart thirst and I'm not exactly angry.

Stay nuts guys this is HIGHLY entertaining

UM HELLO?? ARE WE GOING TO STOP HIM???

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

#the bad batch #tbb s3 spoilers #edmon rampart

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This is my official favourite moment of the series. The little toe tapping, the way his adhd chills out when he's on his phone. Marry me.

not Wrecker chilling on his iphone

#tbb wrecker #the bad batch #tbb

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✨ Twinning! ✨

Inspired by a post on X about Crosshair and Rampart getting some matching shirts- 👀

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I like to imagine that in the future, people remember the clones. After Palpatine falls for good on Exegol, imagine an explosion of freedom and knowledge in those days after the final defeat: imagine archaeologists and scholars plumbing the depths of Imperial and First Order records, trying to figure out what had happened so it could never happen again. And through it all they find the clones’ story woven into everything, until a new field emerges of Clone Studies, a loose alliance of military history buffs and research biologists and anthropologists and ethicists.

They catalogue the Kaminoans’ research; they review the clone memorials on Coruscant, on Zeffo, monuments as large as a massive wall or as small as a quiet statue, from people throughout the galaxy who were grateful for what they did. They study the great tragedy and betrayal of the chip, finally understanding the scope of Palpatine’s plans and bringing them out into the open, sharing the truth that the clones never chose to betray the Jedi Order and Republic they had served faithfully. They study old war vids and oral histories from people of long-lived species or whose grandparents remembered the clones; they build, memory by memory, a sense of the culture, the camaraderie, the brotherhood, the loyalty. They collect vids of battle songs and in-jokes and an interior language shared among them, springing up over the years.

They find and list their names, self-chosen or given by their brothers: Rex, Fives, Howzer, Echo, Tup, Gregor, Wolffe, Cody, Boil, Waxer, Cut. They study the clones whose differences defined them and knit them into a family whose ties could not be broken, Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, Omega. They study the discarded who nevertheless still had value - 99, Emerie, the clones who were culled in infancy for being wrong. There are specialists who devote their entire branch of study to the only male unaltered clone and his infamous exploits throughout the galaxy, so alike his father’s. They study the years of the clone rebellion, a fight that paved the way for the next wave of fighters and the next after them.

The clones are gone. That is undisputed. Their kind came for a little while, and then vanished, burning brightly; their tale was a tragedy, but one unique in all its seeming sameness. There are conferences and holovids and books. There are debates and research firing up young scholars about a time only their great-grandparents can remember.

In the future, after all the clones are gone, there are still stories.