Random fanfic writer, part-time gamer when I have the time and poster of even more random stuff. Will not tolerate verbal abuse or hate language. Safe place for all groups. You can find my stories at: https://archiveofourown.org/users/SirLoozElite/pseuds/SirLoozElite Or at: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/9490843/SirLoozElite
The more I watch Rebels, the more I begin to appreciate that the liberation of Lothal was a miracle of nothing less than Biblical proportions.
How many people were involved? Ten, fifteen maximum? One of the first of a new generation of Jedi, a Lasat survivor, an Imperial turned Rebel, a Mandalorian and her girlfriend, a pilot and her sicko astromech, a pirate, that kid whose name i forgor, an Ugnaught, and three clone veterans? There's NO way they should have succeeded in completely purging the planet of Imperial presence, but they DID.
They trapped every Imp in the dome by virtue of deception, launched THE Grand Admiral Thrawn into oblivion by making friends with mystical space whales, blasted every Imperial into ashes, and freed Lothal in the span of a few hours with only thirteen people and about two dozen star whales. And because this was only a year or so before the Battle of Yavin, the Empire didnt have the strength to try and take back the planet. This was a feat comparable in my mind to the Maccabean revolt, and now because of Ezras sacrifice and the Ghost crews efforts, Ezras homeworld was freed. The citizens of Lothals capital watched the flight of glowing purrgil and a rain of fire falling from the sky, and they were ALIVE and free.
And they didn't even use the help of the Rebel Alliance, they didn't do it for the Rebellion! They did it for LOTHAL, and if it weren't for Ezras love for his land he may NEVER have had the guts to do it, to refuse Palpatines temptation, to tell Thrawn to stick it, to yeet himself into the unknown cosmos, or to give up everything for his land God damn it God fucking damn it I feel sick
Nice to see that Theron is still filling in his role as the 'awkward third wheel who likes to interrupt' during the Lana romance. Poor guy can't catch a break! XD
For those who've never seen his nod at being chosen.
Having feelings about Garrus during a successful Suicide Mission
It's. Fairly obvious throughout the game that the massacre of Archangel's team has taken a wrecking ball to Garrus's self-confidence. He sees himself as a failure - failed C-Sec detective, failed vigilante - and blames himself for their deaths. Nalah Butler tells Shepard outright that Garrus took every shot fired at his team as a personal failure to keep them safe. He's been holding himself to impossible ideals, as turians are wont to do, and he's fallen short, and it's shaken him badly.
However. He is, honestly, the obvious choice for leader of the second fire team on the Suicide Mission. We know Miranda can run a science project, but we've never seen her lead anything in the field, let alone anything so high stakes. Garrus is the only one on the team with a proven track record of active duty, under-fire leadership skills - obviously, Miranda would have a Cerberus file which Shep would've read, as would Jacob, but their field achievements are never relevant or really mentioned in-game, whereas Archangel is mentioned in background chatter on planets halfway across the galaxy. But he doesn't volunteer, when Jack and Miranda are kicking off. If Jack is killed, he's the one who tells Miranda that half the team doesn't even trust her, but he still doesn't nominate himself as an alternative. He stays quiet and keeps his head down, and if you give him command, he just gives you a tight nod. Because he doesn't believe in his own leadership abilities anymore. He knows he got his last team killed.
By the time you meet back up with him, he hasn't lost anyone, and he's getting back into the swing of it. You've been able to hear things going well for him over the comms, and he's been checking in regularly too. And if you have him take command again, it's framed as him actually volunteering this time, and strategizing with you - "I'll take a team and do ABC..."
Shep's trust, her faith in him, the fact that she believes he is still fit to lead, gives him his confidence back. I have feelings.
The only way to make it better would be to add a way to permanently block certain tags for your own profile, instead of having to manually re-add the tags you DON'T want to see each time. I don't want to mute an author if they post something with a tag I don't like, but it's the only easy way to keep that story from showing up in my dash that doesn't involve wasting lots of time, even if it's 1 story out of 10 that they've written that I don't want to read. It's unfair on them.
The excluded tags filter on Ao3 is such a fucking lifesaver. I love it so much.