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Designs for adult versions of the clone cadets in bad batch as Rebellion leaders

The first weird thing I noticed was that they kept specifying that tbb are "defective CTs", whereas iirc most other clones leave out the "ct" part. additionally, "special training" must have been a reasonably expected occurrence for them, since it was used as the Hemlock-jungle-lab excuse. they're also, oddly enough, the only three survivors from a base full of both cadets and adult clones. and finally, all three of them have noticeably different face shapes.

so my guess for their origins is that they're the results of the kaminoans trying to replicate tbb's mutations in a commando template, making them all specialized CC command cadets. From what we've seen of them, they don't seem to have quite as prominent abilities as say, wrecker or hunter, but are definitely above average to have survived that long.

Anyways the mini-backstory for them here is that they end up joining the rebellion around 5 years later (assuming that they're 6/12 and 8/16 in tbb s3, they would be 11/22 and 13/26 here) as the lead squad for the clone rebel cell after rex, wolffe, and gregor retire (and echo and cody are presumably dead).

Bonus: I originally had Deke's hair as dyed blond, but then he started looking too much like Rex (esp with the jaig eyes and partial arc armor) so I changed it back

edit: sorry i forgot to tag spoilers at first! it has since been fixed

#tbb s3 #tbb deke #tbb stak #tbb mox #clone cadets #tbb clone cadets #sarlacc squad #dragging these back up for the finale

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design for Adult Omega

#tbb s3 #omega #tbb omega #self rb #old art rb #currently working on a design for late/post-empire omega

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my cody theory for tbb s3

the legendary "boba fett" is actually like twenty different clones (including the real Boba). anyone at risk of being recognized (usually officers/arcs) can go into bounty hunting as "boba fett". it soon becomes the clone equivalent of like john doe. they share a bounty guild account (bc it uses biometric id and they're close enough to register as the same person).

"boba fett" soon develops a reputation for getting missions done 1) incredibly well and 2) incredibly fast. the fast part is because there are at least eight people all doing different bounties at any given time. the well part is because "boba fett" is an informal collective of escaped clones of particular distinction in battle.

by the time the real Boba is an adult, the "boba fett" clones have built up his bounty hunter credit score so much that he can pretty much take whatever job he wants for max rates.

#old art rb #self rb #tbb s3 #commander cody

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tbb finale predictions/thoughts

sadly i do not have a drawing for bad batch eve (but will probably do something afterwards depending on who dies and how)

anyways i hope echo gets to personally free the prisoners and shoot hemlock in the face as a reversal of skako minor

(thoughts on possible deaths below)

I hope echo gets to confront hemlock before he dies - it's implied that echo's situation inspired a lot of the experimental empire projects (like the one with tseebo) and it would be so fitting to force hemlock to face what he's actually doing - he seems to keep himself very distanced from the actual subjects of his experiments (refusing to acknowledge the "specimens" of the vault, "overseeing" the lab work but leaving the prisoner-interacting mostly to emerie/nala se). also this would work really well with how weirdly corpsey echo still looks - although he does look healthier than when he was first rescued, the effects of the techno union's torture & experimentation are clearly evident just by looking at him (scomp hand and head outlets being the most obvious).

and then for echo to die after leading omega/jedi kids/the prisoners to freedom would be such a cool parallel to his citadel death! he's dying for a greater cause (clone rebellion vs gar) but this time it's the one he chose himself. this also ties into his whole arc in s1 (or s2? idk) about him wanting to do more than the scope the batch was operating at, and how that led to him separating from the batch.

and the shadow clones!! tantiss is literally corrupting clones into working against their brothers, same as echo's whole situation in the techno union. so for him to confront hemlock about the prisoners would be so powerful! and then he gets to die saving the not-fully-corrupted clones, like he's paying forward his own survival and rescue and granting that same relief to so many other clones.

it would also be really fitting for his name and the rest of domino - the last Domino falls while setting in motion a grander plan for the future with the liberation of the prisoners and the destruction of tantiss, and the echoes of his legacy would be felt for decades. and if he blows the base up himself - Hevy made the first conscious sacrifice of Domino, and Echo might make the last.

I think the rest of the batch would be more fitting for a sadder death - something contrasting hope/hopelessness themes nirnaeth-style. maybe they all die in an explosion, and as they see it heading their way (like in rogue one) they know their time is up - they were created as CF99 to serve a very specific function in the gar, and now that that structure's gone they've spent 3 episodes drifting. tipoca city was destroyed. they almost settled on ord mantell, but then cid sold them out. then they tried to settle on pabu, but the empire showed up and burned the place down. the Marauder, the first and last of their homes, was destroyed. it's clear they have no place in the imperial-era galaxy, and i'm guessing they'll come to realize this pretty soon.

but! there's still hope. not for them, but the destruction of tantiss (even if it means their deaths) would herald a slightly brighter future. rex and the proto-rebellion are still alive. they've served their place well, and galaxy will go on without them. omega will take their training (crosshair's sniper lesson, echo's marksmanship training when she first got the bow, wrecker teaching her explosives, tech's driving lessons, hunter's role model figure) and the emotional development she's gotten with each of them and use it to serve her own role in the new galaxy, presumably as a fighter in the fledgling rebellion. there's no hope for them now, but there's hope for the future.

#star wars #redbean talks #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #predictions #bad batch eve #tbb echo #cf99 #hoping echo gets a good death #i watch on fridays/saturdays because Life but i will be cheering for them in my head wednesday night #anyways. silm people. #imagine if the batch gets nirnaethed. #the combo of hopeless present/hopeful future makes such a great tragedy #echo v hemlock in the style of fingolfin's duel at angband!!! #AAAAAAA

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a handful of adult omega sketches

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb omega #omega #adult omega #also a bonus numa #redbean art #the one on the left started out as me trying to figure out how her crossbow/energy bow combo works

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design for Adult Omega

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb omega #omega #redbean art #her crossbow can also convert to a nightsister style plasma bow #the shaft part splits into two limbs that clip to the circle bits at the front of the crossbow #and then the ring in the middle pulls back like the zygerrian bow #her helmet is a very custom mix between hunter and echos helmets #i also have Thoughts about post-empire adult omega designs

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quick survey

edit: realized I forgot to add a "depends/combo" option so just go with the closest option and put it in the tags/replies

#redbean talks #poll #polls

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cody's gaggle of adoptees

#star wars #my art #redbean art #tbb #the bad batch #tcw #clone wars #commander cody #captain rex #echo #fives #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #arc trooper echo #arc trooper fives #cf99 #<- thatll be my assorted hobbits tag for them #lol crosshairs the only non-dead one whose expression didnt change #i realized why s3 rex looks so weird #it's not just the pauldron hes missing but the whole chest thing with the arc ammo pouch #im assuming he stopped wearing it bc arc pauldron + poncho = really obvious silhouette #but now he just looks like a shiny lol #without the pauldron hes actually one of the most default-looking clones #like. the blondness aside he has no identifying unique haircut or visible scars or tattoos #i think he has a smaller scar on his chin but its not really obvious enough to be an identifying feature #like wolffe or cody's scars are

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cody's gaggle of adoptees

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tcw #clone wars #commander cody #captain rex #echo #fives #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #cody found the seven most chaotic clones in the gar and adopted them all

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HOW DID THEY GET THE AT-TE TO SEELOS

those things need specialized gunships to deploy. and those gunships don't have hyperdrive and need a venator to go anywhere.

the at-te also has a landing platform, so it was probably built before rex's y-wing vanished.

which means that at one point those three had an entire venator, at least one at-te carrier gunship, the tank itself, at least one y-wing, and probably whatever ship wolffe arrived in.

#star wars #rebels #sw rebels #lost commanders #rex's at-te #redbean talks #we also know from tbb that wolffe stayed w the empire for a while #and led a lot of large-scale missions #hes also probably a marshal commander givne that he commanded plo's entire fleet and still seems to outrank the other imp commanders #so. did wolffe defect and bring an entire fleet with him?? #but given that the empire just casually calls him in rebels he probably retired #did he take a fully equipped fleet as retirement benefits? where did it go

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ECHO HAS EARS???

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb spoilers #tbb echo #redbean talks #i. did not realize the head thing was removable #wait it seems important though. is he going to like. get electrocuted by the brain implant stuff #also that hand is very helpful for disguise purposes but #it also doesn't seem so helpful motion wise #when he was walking through the hallway it was kind of just resting on the side of the blaster? #so he probably can't use it as a normal hand #hm i guess that's why he never bothered getting a new hand earlier #less convenient to have to take it off all the time to do stuff #and not super helpful for hand related tasks

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doing blog maintenance rn and since it seems like this is just becoming my star wars dump blog (both art and random thoughts) i started tagging stuff #redbean art or #redbean talks

#not art #housekeeping #my stuff

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from the way cody was talking to crosshair last season it seems like he was trying to plant the seeds for a clone rebellion in the empire? imagine cody escaping and bringing a handful of other less-chipped clones with him and starting his own branch of the clone rebellion

#tbb #star wars #not art #redbean talks #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb cody #commander cody #clone rebellion #he runs into rex like 'wait what.????' #poor guy thought rex was dead :(

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haven't been able to watch the new bad batch episode yet but it would be really funny if they get to tantiss and run into cody. he's not a prisoner, he's just breaking someone else out for entirely different reasons.

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb cody #redbean talks #commander cody #usually i watch on saturdays #but i have friday off this week so i might get to watch it earlier! #or maybe cody is there to murder hemlock #who knows #not me #cody is really fascinating bc he is a whole Main Character on his own #but the show is not about him #so he does not get to be a main character :( #he's getting up to all sorts of adventures in the background #but he just doesn't get screentime

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love that nobody can function without echo in the empire era. the batch keeps losing the ship, barely manage to finish their missions, and entirely forgo strategy. and then on the other hand, rex pre-echo-joining-the-rebellion was living in an abandoned garage with one singular tiny ship. then shortly after echo joins they have a whole base with like twenty troopers and real doors and actual food and a ship actually designed for long distance travel.

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb echo #tbb rex #captain rex #redbean talks #i feel like gregor has also been instrumental in the clone rebels learning life skills #from the sound of it he had to teach everyone to cook and feed themselves #(what was rex eating before?? bar food and rations apparently) #and then even in rebels gregor seems to be the one doing the food management and housekeeping stuff #he probably had to show rex and wolffe how to do taxes and pay rent #he's the only one with any actual experience at living outside the gar #(and even then he was pretty bad at it on abafar? but that can be excused because amnesia and brain injury)

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Corrie guard mood board

#coruscant guard #i thought the first one was carcharoth before i saw the aurebesh lol #very striking use of color #other peoples art

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I mean, yeah. But that's by Star Wars logic, where Plot Armor exists and there aren't seventeen variations of characters and said characters' deaths.

star wars by silm logic

for the silm-sw dual citizens:

I was wondering what would happen if star wars (particularly tbb bc that's the currently-releasing bit of star wars) adhered to silm logic:

Hunter is the local leader of a hidden city (Pabu)

Omega is the heir

Rex is the overall leader of a warring people (clone rebellion)

Hemlock is the local leader of a branch of the Forces of Evil

Palpatine is the overall Enemy

so therefore

Rex and Echo gather an army of escaped clones. They rescue Cody or Wolffe from the Empire. Song and fire are greatly involved.

Themes of rising hope are invoked as they make a stand against the Empire. The clone rebellion grows further.

They are initially victorious and manage to rescue the clone prisoners from Tantiss with few casualties. Hemlock is ousted and flees to the heart of the Empire (but his operation will return in time)

Echo goes to check on the Batch on Pabu and ask them to ally with him and Rex in the upcoming battle.

They march on Coruscant. Things suddenly go disastrously wrong. Cody is killed in battle. Rex faces Palpatine in single combat.

Rex dies tragically.

Eagles.

Echo tells Hunter about the battle. They are delayed on their way and attempt to ride to the rescue. The Batch arrives just after the deaths. Echo is sad.

Pabu is betrayed while the Batch is on Coruscant.

Pabu is invaded by the Empire. Hemlock subjugates the people into his weird clone experimentation program.

Dragons.

The Batch returns to destroyed/invaded Pabu and is unable to intervene.

While attempting to protect their city most of the Batch dies.

Echo is very sad.

Hunter is captured and killed in front of Omega.

Omega escapes and swears an Oath mourns the Batch.

Echo is broken by grief for the ghosts of his past and vanishes.

Omega later becomes a Rebellion leader, carrying the memories of the failed clone rebellion and the haven of Pabu with her.

Echo fades/dies on some random planet as the forgotten remnant of the GAR/Clone rebellion.

#star wars #tbb #silm #crossover #redbean talks #on plot armor #or the lack thereof #anyways the silm doesnt really have plot armor #instead you get a Plot Target #and if you're very lucky and hide for a long time you might be able to escape the Plot Target #but otherwise? dead dead dead #by silm logic rex is the most likely to die #gregor doesn't make a ton of appearances but he's background-important so silm logic gregor gets to die in a random kinslaying #so that translates to #he gets half a sentence of being killed when the clone base is destroyed?