#Fox and Keeda 🥰🥰

[sleepingsun501]

Feel free to disregard if you don’t want to answer, but I was wondering what inspired “Sweet True Lies”? And what inspired your creation of Keeda? :)

Hi Nonnie!! Aww, thank you for such a sweet question 🥰🥰 ok, I’m gonna try to do this without any major spoilers…

I was originally inspired to write about how misunderstood Fox is because we never really get any character development from him beyond his few scenes in TCW. When we do see him, the audience is already biased against his position/role, even tho (from his perspective) he’s performing his role as a marshal commander very well. That’s when I realized he is the perfect canvas on which to portray some of the darker, grittier aspects of military life.

And as a marshal commander, I always felt there had to be so much more going on in his head, and in the military life he lives, than what we see onscreen. He’s in a very precarious position when it comes to following orders, but he also is a clone and was raised with that core value of protecting his brothers and wants to do his best to keep them out of harm’s way if he can. (There’s going to be a lot more to his backstory coming in future chapters that will explain why he is the way he is, too.)

I also believe Palpatine/Sidious had a lot to do with how hard his life was day-to-day, and I believe Fox would truly start to resent the upper classes because they treat him and his brothers like the dirt beneath their boots. However, that’s where Keeda comes in.

My creation of Keeda was simply from an idea I had of a wealthy businesswoman OC, but one who wants to help people and who is tired of being sought after for her wealth. She inherits her father’s business after his death, and she is usually seen as an opportunity or a prize by potential partners and social climbers. She also actively works with her mother’s medical charity, and when they partner with the GAR, she starts going on relief missions—something many of the clones have never seen a nat-born do.

When Fox sees this, he realizes that his perception of people in her position might not always be accurate, and it makes him reevaluate his own views. She’s not his “rescuer” by any means, but she does help provide new perspectives about himself and the galaxy he hadn’t considered before. He does the same for her by treating her as a person worth caring for without the ulterior motive of wanting access to her wealth or connections.

That’s just the base I have the story built on, but there’s a lot more detail that will go into this in future chapters that really flesh everything out. I hope you’ve enjoyed what you’ve read so far, and that you continue to enjoy it in the future!!

#thanks for the ask nonnie!! #sleepingsun501 answers