#Retired Rex

[magicandmundane]

Rex: Hey boys, I could really use your help with—

Hunter, napping on the beach: Retired.

Rex: Seriously—

Crosshair, sipping a margarita: Retired.

Rex: Would you just consider—

Wrecker, playing volleyball with the baby regs: Retired.

Echo: *glares*

Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair: Retired.

Rex: Omega?

Omega, shrugging: Sure, I’m always down to kick some Imperial ass.

Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair: *grumbling, putting their armor back on*

#they’re such suckers for her lmao #if there’s a clone rebellion show i need this to be the plot of one of the episodes #rex they’re RETIRED lol #the bad batch #tbb season 3 #tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #tbb incorrect quotes #tbb memes #clone force 99 #captain rex #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #tbb echo #tbb omega

[moriaarts]

Omega and Echo reunion at the rebel base c:

Saw ppl freaking out that Echo isn’t with the bad batch at the end but i offer you this: Echo is a workaholic and was absolutely the only reason Hunter let Omega go off on her own to rebel.

Echo: Thought I told you to stop growing, tooka.

Omega: As soon as you stop gettin’ old, ruug’jag (old man)

#omega #echo #tbb spoilers #the bad batch #imh he is training the rebel alliance and trying so hard not to be biased to his bby sis #and they are covering for her and saying that he is her dad #his coping mechanism is ill sleep when im dead #and i hc that hes forced to retire on pabu bc he physically cannot fight anymore and rex said im retired ur move! #also can we talk about how in bb echo has old been out of cryo for like a year to 2 years #let this man get a tan and give him back his hair i can see that hairline AND i saw that stubble in clone wars come at me!!!

[starcurtain]

Outing myself as the dead-opposite of a Genshin rarepair lover to say that my favorite brand of Zhongli/Childe is definitely:

Grandpa's Mid-Life Crisis Retirement Checklist:

✅️ Flawless human disguise (no one suspects a n y t h i n g)

✅️ Part-time side hustle

✅️ Self-planned funeral (the flowers were fire 👌)

✅️ Friends know I'm not actually dead

✅️ Liyue flourishing

✅️✅️✅️ Russian mail order husband

#genshin impact #genshin impact shitpost #zhongli #childe #tartaglia #zhongchi #tartali #listen I don't understand how the fandom couldn't settle on #chili #as the ship name #PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY #(but I'm right though). #Other adepti's retirement plans: #meditation #inventing #cloud gazing #contemplation of nature's virtues #Rex Lapis' retirement plan: #Cause the biggest fucking commotion #throw myself the sickest retirement party #find the one (1) boy in Liyue Cloud Retainer would NOT approve of #whirlwind romance with a sexy young abyss-corrupted enemy of the state #Neuvillette voice: He blew up our courtroom??? #Zhongli voice: *happy sigh* That rascal. #OKAY BUT BEING SERIOUS #What I actually mean is that I love Zhongli/Childe fics and art #that recognize that Zhongli had lost his sense of purpose #and begun to question whether his existence was even needed anymore #and Childe is so full of the will to live no matter what #to keep growing and improving just for the wild joy and sake of existence itself

[archivistofnerddom]

The Batch + Life In Retirement On Pabu

Slightly AU: Tech lives, though he’s got a prosthetic leg as a result of his fall.

Hunter’s fashion sense swiftly nose-dives into that of every dad at an amusement park. Don’t ask why that happened so quickly. It just did. He’s rocking cargo shorts, corny shirts, and comfy shoes like they’re going out of style. (Crosshair gave him a tactical fanny pack as a joke. Hunter wears it all the time with all due seriousness.) It takes years for the rest of the Batch to get him to branch out from that.

Tech alternates between his space jeans and sweatpants, depending on his mood. The sweatpants were necessary when he first got his prosthetic leg during his post-Eriadu recovery process. He too starts wearing ironic shirts, but somehow makes them more fashionable than Hunter.

Crosshair has the widest selection of island-appropriate hats and sunglasses anyone has ever seen. No one knows how he gets so many, and he’s certainly not going to tell on himself. Omega is the reason why he has so many floral-print shirts though.

Wrecker discovers overalls and pretty much lives in them. No less than half of his overalls have the legs cut off at the knees. This is more practical than fashionable though. He’s just so big that he has a hard time finding pants that fit him at the waist and have a long enough pant leg.

Omega finally gets to decide on her preferred style now that they’re permanently in one place. She still wears a lot of hand-me-downs from her brothers though. Omega spends a lot of time helping out around the island, so she needs clothes that no one minds her getting dirty or ruined when she’s working on a project.

Echo has an extensive collection of sarongs he stores on Pabu that he only busts out when he’s visiting. Rex knows not to ask Echo to do anything if he sees him wearing one. (Visiting the family on Pabu is the only time Echo gets a break or a chance to relax and destress.)

Batcher gets a pretty collar and a massively cushy bed. Someone starts bringing her sweaters to wear when she gets cold. (Crosshair is the leading suspect. Hunter won’t confess to anything.)

Wrecker has an extremely extensive cookbook and recipe collection. He picks up cooking as a hobby post-retirement, and he is really good at it. Given the diversity of people and species on Pabu, Wrecker spends a lot of time learning different recipes from across the galaxy.

Crosshair and Wrecker go fishing together pretty regularly. They don’t say a lot during those times, but that’s okay. Crosshair enjoys spotting where the best fishing areas are. Wrecker just sits back and lets his baby brother take the lead on this. (He brings snacks and a cooler of drinks to keep them fed and hydrated when they decide to make a day of it.)

Tech upgrades the Archeum to improve how things are stored and protected. Omega helps out. They spend a lot of time adding details about the specific items housed therein, including any historical details, cultural relevance, and any notes about how best to handle the items. They’re working with Phee on an oral history component to the Archeum as well, so that the stories about the items in the Archeum and the residents of Pabu are preserved.

Crosshair makes hammocks and strings them up around the island in random places. He says it’s so that he can take a nap wherever and whenever. Really, it’s just his contribution to life on Pabu. (Plus, making hammocks were good physical therapy when he got his new prosthetic hand.)

Omega instituted regular family game night. (Echo is expected to be there as his work with Rex allows.) Depending on their moods, Batch family game night is either extremely chill or extremely cutthroat. There is no in-between.

Wrecker is the first one to “move out” of the shared family house. It’s only because he built an upgraded kitchen with a huge family room attached. The shared family home couldn’t accommodate those upgrades. His house is two houses down and is still where everyone eats dinner almost every night.

Tech moved out second. He moved in with Phee. It was a combination of their evolving romantic relationship and him wanting to be closer to the island repair shop that he runs in his spare time. (Tech became the island’s mechanic once he recovered from the injuries he sustained on Eriadu.)

Hunter develops a massive green thumb. The family shared house (which eventually is just him, Omega, and Crosshair full-time) is overflowing with plant life. He built and maintains a greenhouse for Wrecker to grow speciality plants for his cooking.

Echo usually crashes with Wrecker when he comes to visit. Wrecker renovated part of his house to be prosthetic leg friendly and got a really comfy recliner for Echo. Crosshair put in a hammock for Echo in the backyard.

Crosshair, Hunter, and Omega go on early morning runs together. It’s their bonding time.

Tech upgraded the whole family’s prosthetic limbs many times over the years. Hunter made a point of keeping the older models as a reminder of how far they’ve come since they retired.

Batcher is the most spoiled dog on the island. She adores the attention and winds up becoming the unofficial therapy dog for every new resident and refugee who finds their way to Pabu.

#random bad batch headcanons that popped into my head #post series headcanons #just the batch living life in retirement on Pabu #also - tech lives #bad batch headcanons #headcanons #the bad batch #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #tbb omega #tbb hunter #tbb echo #tbb batcher #captain rex #phee genoa #tech x phee #star wars

[redbean-nom]

love that hunter's like "we've all fought enough battles for one lifetime."

and then there's rex stuck fighting all the way to the battle of endor. poor guy

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb spoilers #tbb hunter #tbb rex #captain rex #he even tried to retire! #and then was forcefully un-retired by the sudden arrival of the empire #rex and ahsoka have been fighting the same war for like 30 years straight #at this rate thrawn will show up and 90 year old rex will still end up fighting him #we've circled all the way back to the original obi wan vs vader Senior Citizens Duel #it's just going to be elderly rex and wolffe hobbling around shooting at thrawn's 60 year old stormtroopers #they really need to get some new Protagonists #sorry boba you and omega are the youngest so you have to fight palpatine part 2

[kopykunoichi]

Guys, relax!

This hug...

Is not this hug...

He said it wouldn't be forever. They'll be reunited this season.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb echo #tbb omega #captain rex #he'll go back and stay with tbb #maybe they'll form their own little rebel cell #they'll get targets from fulcrum but only Echo will know that it's actually Ahsoka #because now that they're together Rex will tell Echo who actually helped him get his chip out #Rex Wolffe and Gregor will retire and the Batch will do their own thing for a while WITH Echo because I refuse to watch him die... again

[retirement-home-rumble]

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 1

Side A

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Miss Marple Propaganda:

Zhongli Propaganda:

#retirement home rumble #tournament poll #round 1 #agatha christie #miss marple #genshin impact #zhongli #rex lapis

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

I don’t care how they do it or how convoluted the plot gets but I need Dave and Jon to find some way to have one of the old veteran new republic era clone troopers meet Grogu and say, “Is that a Baby Yoda?”

#this is a missed opportunity #somebody pick up captain Rex from the retirement home so he can meet grogu #general yoda I didn’t know you were game like that #grogu djarin #grogu #din djarin #clone troopers #dave filoni #jon favreau

[riyo-soka]

8 episodes left to find out what happened that made Rex go from the leader of a growing clone uprising to wandering a backwater planet in the ruins of a republic-era tank with only Wolffe and Gregor for company

#the bad batch #captain rex #my money is on something to do with either Cody Howzer or the batch themselves #maybe all of the above at once #either way I know better than to hope it’s bc he accomplished his goals and retired peacefully #tbb is making me sad about Rex again. in other news: the sky is blue

[saltysalmonella]

I love that Zhongli is just a guy now.

#genshin impact #zhongli #rex lapis #mora #paimon #saltyart #zhongli said i want to get retired and i shall be a funeral director #and then he did that and promptly becomes the most uncle ever

[missriyochuchi]

What if “the cavalry” in the final episode isn’t the Bad Batch themselves but everyone they helped since the first season? The Syndullas, Gungi and the Wookiees, Phee and the folks from Pabu, maybe even Saw Gerrera - victims of the Empire fighting for the clones that fought for them 🥹 It’s possible, right? RIGHT!? 😭

Fr tho it’s actually a perfect opportunity to start a rebellion. All those disparate groups brought together for a common goal. And maybe it fails, but the point is that now they know there are others like them out there, that there’s still hope. And in the end, isn’t that what Star Wars is about?

It’s also a perfect fuck you to Palpatine. For all his planning, he sowed the seeds for his own undoing lol Like Gerrera and his rebels, the Republic trained the clones and then they went on to haunt the Empire IT RHYMES 🤭

#unlike most y’all i still have hope for a not-tragic ending lol #obvs there’s gonna be some tragedy but i don’t think the clones are gonna be wiped out #they’re just gonna retire to wild space away from any and all military service 😁 #rex gregor and wolffe were just on an extended fishing trip on seelos lol #the bad batch #star wars #starwars.txt

[hypostatic-oath]

4.2 has officially destroyed my brain in terms of lore. Farewell, everyone, I shall join my fellow mad scholars in Aaru Village, because WHAT ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH.

If you picture someone wearing a tinfoil hat screaming incoherently while wildly gesturing and waving their arms about, you can get a pretty accurate depiction of my mental state.

Featuring: me rambling in the tags. Careful for spoilers if you choose to read them - I don't go into detail but still.

#also i discovered that I am in fact a furina kinnie #i knew already but i didn't know to which extent #also what is UP with morax. has anyone checked on morax. we should probably do that #like please spin back sir you need to talk about the dragons #he wasn't mentioned in the quest at all i just thought abt him #because in the mond quest we see venti returning the power of the anemo god to dvalin #and then in liyue zhongli straight up retired but... did he still retain his authority? #like we know he gave the gnosis away but DID HE KEEP THE GEO SOVEREIGNS POWER #zhongli stop being shady challenge #for someone who loves talking abt rex lapis he tells us surprisingly little about rex lapis #i adore him but he is sus #also CAN WE GET ARCHON VOICELINES ABOUT THE DRAGONS. PLEASE. IM BEGGING HERE. #VENTI PLS TALK ABOUT DVALIN. ZHONGLI PLS TALK ABT AZHDAHA #EI EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ELECTRO SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE #if i ask nahida to talk abt apep she'd talk 100% #nahida is the goat when it comes to intel #also THE GNOSIS LORE??? DAMN #I'm losing track of who the Descenders are. so the fourth is us #the third has had their living privileges revoked #i forgot who the first and the second were but i think they were tied to celestia? #ALSO WHERE TF IS THE TWIN #AND WHAT IS THE BATTLEPASS someone explain the battlepass to me please WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE #also WHAT IS UP WITH CONSTELLATIONS #AND WHAT IS NEUVILLETTE'S FIRST NAME #why do i feel like neuvillette is perfectly set up for a ''what is obama's last name'' situation like #''what is neuvillette's last name'' ITS NEUVILLETTE #i need to write smth about that #also SKIRK??? #she did not look like i pictured her but i'll get used to it I want to see more of her #idk if i like her yet but i want to fight her

[ballads-of-breeze]

“I know what you are 🐦”

“Right back at you 🐉”

#liveblogging #genshin spoilers #xianyun story quest spoilers #I love whenever the adepti see zhongli. he faked his death to retire and here he is again #like it was very difficult for all of them bc he was their leader and friend #but if you compare like. xiao and ganyu who are a couple thousand years younger than the rest #and only ever saw him as the fearsome and unshakeable general and king #with cloud retainer and the rest who have Most Certainly Seen Him Shitfaced Drunk And Up To Dumb Shenanigans #(not saying xiao and ganyu never saw any but they’ve got the complete respect filter on) #after the initial grief for his ‘death’ and outrage that he tricked them wore off I’m pretty sure the others were like #yeah that’s a classic rex lapis move. #I’ve seen a few fics actually where he’s faked his death multiple times for his incognito personas. he just did it as a god this time

[padawansuggest]

Anakin: *64 years old, having a bit of a senile moment, comming Obi-Wan at 3am three halls down from his master’s apartment* Master!

Obi-Wan: *80, somehow less senile than Anakin, fairly white haired tho, sleepily* What’s wrong, Ani?

Anakin: There is a monster in my closet!

Obi-Wan: …weren’t you babysitting your grandkids today?

Anakin: …oh yeah! Jaina, get out of the closet!

Jaina: No! I’m not ready yet!

Anakin: She says she’s not ready yet.

Obi-Wan: Well, don’t pressure her, we all come out at our own paces.

Anakin: Okay! Jaina, be less noisy! Your grandma and ba’buir are trying to sleep!

Padme and Rex trying to sleep on either side of him: *start hitting him with pillows to shut him up*

#star wars #incorrect star wars quotes #anakin skywalker #captain rex #obi wan kenobi #rexanidala #padme naberrie #padme amidala #all three are married thanks #jaina solo #post clone wars #they all live in the temple they don’t retire to Naboo okay those fics annoy me #Ani is a Jedi and Rex belongs in the order too so Padme went to live there after the kids were born #the temple provides a more closed environment for the twins so they’re not constantly photographed too #idk why Ani should move in with her it makes way more sense for her to move into the temple

[sylvctica]

as food for thought, even tho it's the asscrack of night: sylvie never had closure on losing their entire identity as a god; they died as a god and woke up with that identity completely stripped away

their people were dispersed, their history was lost, Foras died in the mondstadt forest 1000 years ago in a war that claimed the lives of many friends, and the person who was left standing was not Foras anymore. they had their 'freedom' of responsibilities and burdens, but at what cost?

they never had a chance to properly mourn that their identity died that day they awoke. they feared mourning because that, to them, means confirming that 'foras' is truly gone and forgotten ... because although they do not acknowledge that part of themselves all too often, they still carried it within them -- its one of their utmost deep-rooted fears to be fully forgotten, so it's an emotional conflict within themselves to go through with a 'funeral' being held for the self of the past

#[ their death rlly stripped their core self away in a bad way ] #[ because their entire life for the most part was 'foras the god of trees' ] #[ and now they were just Nothing and No One anymore ] #[ until they formed the identity of Sylvie ] #[ a foil vs ZL who willingly retired and left his identity of rex lapis behind ] #[ they had no choice in theirs ] #SYLVIE // TRIVIA.

[redbean-nom]

honestly echo is probably going to die heroically in the next two episodes. he's not with rex, gregor, and wolffe in rebels, he's not with the greater rebellion, and Echo Base exists.

what i'm more curious about is when cody gets his own heroic sacrifice. he's not with rex and he's not with obi wan, so unless he also fell in a sarlacc or got carbonited, he's definitely dead.

anyways, the last episode's title is The Cavalry Has Arrived. and who could be a more fitting "cavalry" than Cody?

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb finale #tbb predictions #commander cody #redbean talks #imagine they're all trapped and the commandos are closing in #the batch is injured/down #rex is stunned or cuffed or something #then someone from above snipes cx2/scorch/whoevers in command #and cody drops down to save everyone #cue emotional mid battle reunion between rex and cody #and honestly the whole batch and cody given that he seems to have a tendency towards adopting younger mutant clones lol #the base starts blowing up in the background and more stormtroopers/chipped clones run in as reinforcements #cody stays to hold them off while everyone else runs #and echo runs back to stay with cody #framed parallel to his death in the citadel #but this time they're both sacrificing themselves not for the mission but for their brothers #(mostly for rex) #and then by the time of rebels rex sees it as cody & echo sacrificed themselves so that he could continue saving brothers #but now he only has wolffe and gregor. the clone rebellion failed; he failed; their deaths were for nothing #so he doesn't want to return to the rebellion #because he's afraid he'll fail again #given that rex supplied the list of bases (now apparently left over from his time as rebellion leader) no way echo base is a coincidence #wolffe probably formally retired given that he's still on speaking terms with imp leadership in rebels #(also v funny that wolffe's imp buddies skype call him somewhat regularly in rebels #while being completely unaware of rex hanging out in the back)