#Oh and obviously this takes place after Fox and Rex reconciled

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Time to meet my OC Murmur, Cendre’s batchmate!

Once out of Kamino, Murmur integrates the 501st. He’s named that way for being a soft-spoken, very polite vod. (Obi-Wan meets him once during a joint mission with the 212th and is impressed by his manners, to the point where he asks Anakin “Are you really sure he’s one of yours?”) For a while, he also struggled getting heard by his siblings during training simulation for not shouting loud enough over the sound of blaster shots.

Cendre always acted as the ori’vod of their batch, convinced he had to be the strong one among his siblings because of how the Kaminoans pushed him to be a troop leader like Rex. Therefore, Murmur used to rely on him for help, and so he struggles a bit to find his place within his new battalion without his brother to guide him. Without Cendre, he falls back into his bad habit of often being too quiet.

He also can’t help but get sad whenever his captain’s around, because Rex inevitably reminds him of Cendre. Rex notices this behavior and ends up asking Murmur what’s wrong, fearing he’s done something that upset the shiny without realizing. To which Murmur apologizes, telling the captain that he’s just getting nostalgic because Rex looks so much like the batchmate he was separated from.

Rex becomes understandably confused, because, you know, vode all look the same, until Murmur clarifies: “You’re his template, sir. My ori’vod was created after you, and so he shares your hair color.”. As you might expect, the Kaminoans didn’t deem necessary to warn Rex they were using his DNA to make clones of him, so he goes through quite the internal crisis, which only gets worse when Anakin overhears their conversation and goes: “Holy Force Rex, does that mean you’re a father?” (This happens around the time Anakin learns about Padmé’s pregnancy, so yup, someone’s projecting. Also, Rex doesn’t remember his actual first meeting with Cendre, because he was too focused on covering up for Anakin at the time.)

The concept of biological fatherhood is something foreign to the vode, so Rex struggles to comprehend it, and Murmur feels a bit guilty for bringing up the topic since it seems to be making his captain uncomfortable. Still, Anakin is adamant that Rex should meet his “son” and well, there’s no stopping that man when he has his mind set on something, so off to the Coruscant Guard they go.

Once there, Fox refuses categorically to leave Cendre alone with them, because he’s spent too long helping him accept himself for them to wake up his old insecurities and ruin everything. Cendre quickly mimics the “tired retail worker having to deal with an annoying customer” attitude Fox adopts when dealing with Anakin, and the moment he sees this, Rex just chuckles, stops worrying about this whole “being a father thing” and tells his General to drop it, because “Sorry to disappoint you, sir, but that one definitely isn’t mine.” He does tease Fox about becoming such a buir, though.

Meanwhile, Murmur is just happy because he gets to visit his batchmate and see how cherished he is by the rest of the Guard. His new scars worry him a bit, but he can see how his ori’vod is acting happier than he ever has on Kamino. He’s especially reassured after meeting Detail, who also seizes the occasion to bribe Murmur so he’ll tell him all the embarrassing stories about Cendre’s cadet days.

#clone trooper murmur #clone trooper cendre #clone trooper detail #captain rex #anakin skywalker #commander fox #coruscant guards #clone oc #clone trooper oc #my ocs #clone wars #star wars the clone wars #Rex took one look at Cendre and immediately went 'Yup that's Fox's kid' #Oh and obviously this takes place after Fox and Rex reconciled