#i'm very invested in the idea of codywan bc cody *has* to be a far better commander than any jedi and he has to know it

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

i hope sometime my brain comes up with some fanfiction to write about commander cody bc he is DEEPLY interesting to me but i dont have any particular mechanism by which to explore this

#like he has approximately 0 screentime and yet. #commander cody #codywan #his small part in the rots novelization really grabbed me especially. cool calm competent but also the kind of relaxed friendliness #where he gets the same cato nemoidia running joke with obi-wan that anakin has. because they're extremely close! probably best friends!! #and he can (bc this is pre-chip era) turn on a dime from that camaraderie to shooting obi-wan out of the sky #with perfect regard and respect for how dangerous obi-wan is and how good at surviving #because cody is a person. but at the same time: he's the perfect soldier. #and his investment in being a soldier is total. being a person is incidental #cody the perfect soldier is paired with obi-wan the perfect jedi. and this is a match that only ends one way #i'm very invested in the idea of codywan bc cody *has* to be a far better commander than any jedi and he has to know it #him and obi-wan being very close on a personal level but cody also resenting him very deeply #because every day obi-wan gets people killed that cody could have kept alive. and it's almost worse that obi-wan is a decent general #rather than an actively bad one #he's just not good *enough*. #and the army has to be led by jedi. has to. cody would never have the chance to do better no way no how. but he could. #and at the same time he respects obi-wan. they're good friends. #but cody's a soldier and when the orders come down he'll do what needs to be done. #ok im putting this in the main tags bc this tag essay is technically a genuine character analysis post #sw #like obviously this changes a bit in the Post-Chip Era but it really informs how i think abt cody and his relationship w obi-wan #fandom tends to portray cody as like. kind of adoring obi-wan and being super loyal to him personally - which is fine! but #i just really enjoy complicated relationships. sprinkle some resentment in there. some betrayal. some spice