Ok let's be real a second. Someone made a comment that I saw that said something along the lines of 'Fanfic isn't that deep it's not Social Commentary, it's just writing' and they couldn't be FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
First the definition of Social Commentary
Every song you listen to, every book you read, every art you like is social commentary. When you headcanon a character as POC or Queer, when you base a fic of something that happened to you, the second you begin to write your fanfic you're now producing Social Commentary.
Fandom and Fanfic isn't in a void, it interacts with the world. Anne Rice the writer of Vampire Chronicles (+others) sent Cease & Desist orders to popular fanfic writers. You know how writers put 'I do not own [original work], it belongs to [author].'? That's because of her! How many books now are ex-FanFic! How many fics are written to spite the writers? How many fandoms have raised money for a cause? How many people write to feel seen?
While fanfic IS a fun way to express yourself, whether you see it that way or not, that's not the ONLY thing it's is. it's an act of defiance, it can change how people see the world, it's can actually change the world! Fanfic IS political, it IS social commentary, IS that deep and don't forget that.
I've seen someone here on Tumblr suggest "Fox kills Palpatine because he made a shiny cry" and I love it (Fox offing Palpa-bitch just makes you feel warm inside).
But like the menace it is, my brain supplied an angst factor.
Picture it:
Palpatine handwriting an order of decommissioning and making the shiny carry it. Really playing it up just by handwriting it alone. Ordering this fresh off Kamino shiny who wasn't even supposed to be there today to "deliver it to a Commander". Nothing but a power move making the shiny carry out the order or be pursued for deserting if he flees. This poor shiny trudging through the day. Avoiding encounters with commanders for as long as he can. Until bumping into Commander Fox. And now has no choice but to hand over the order.
Fox learned how this shiny was forced to hand-deliver his own death order. Carrying it around and hoping to prolong the inevitable. Probably in tears under his helmet or trying to keep them down while in the presence of a CO. He's definitely younger than Fox was when the war started and he should still be in training but instead he has the order to be decommissioned. Whether or not the paper actually is a signed order of decommissioning or just Palpatine's request for coffee only being used as a power move to prove this trooper's life could be written away is irrelevant.
Fox is going to be serving up Palpatine extra-crispy regardless.
He could have just used the shiny circulation system to send the shiny elsewhere and as long as Palpatine receives a notice that the shiny has been shipped out he'll accept it. They've done it before and it works and saved multiple lives. But no shiny has carried around their own death warrant after a week on Coruscant for a man's sick kicks. Fox is tired, he's upset, and frankly, he's murderous.
He'll claim he misunderstood the "order". Or just use the evidence of contact between Palpatine, Dooku, and Grievous, as well as the red lightsabers in the desk as a cover story. That makes a better defense.