#gregor is a good candidate because hes a commando and there's no way he wouldn't pull a home alone scenario vs the 212th

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Force Shenanigans™ strike again and turn various clones of the GAR and Coruscant Guard into cadets with no prior memory of being adults.

The Jedi are bewildered because somehow all commanding officers were spared of this, but at least a handful of men from every battalion has been turned into children... Children who, because they've been turned back into a stage of their lives where they haven't fully developed their senses of self and confidence just yet, act completely different from their adult versions.

Only their closest brothers now know how to handle them (provided they themselves haven't been transformed as well) and it quickly becomes a bit of a mess.

On that note, picture the following:

Cadet Waxer who's super shy and a little afraid of meeting new people. He clings to Boil, not because he recognizes his closest brother, but because the other is an older clone and he's learned to trust his ori'vode when in difficult situations.

Waxer who's got zero confidence in himself but who trusts his older vode without hesitation because that's the very first lesson a clone learns. To trust in their brothers. And maybe the vod with the funny moustache just feels safe, even if he's a grumpy-pants.

Cadets Boost and Sinker who are a little afraid of spaceships and who immediately freak out when they realize they're in a big ship in the middle of the vast expanses of space. They give Wolffe nothing but trouble because they are running and he cannot catch both of these little hellions.

Boost and Sinker who, upon realizing they're giving a Commander™ the runaround, decide to make it their mission to make his life a living hell. At least they've stopped fretting about space but lord if Wolffe wouldn't have preferred they hadn't...

Cadets Echo and Dogma who are both autistic and who are on opposite ends of the Uh-Oh Spectrum for the 501st, because they're all so used to both of them being mature young adults with a good handle of their emotions and who have stable routines they adere to on a daily basis.

Echo who's incredibly withdrawn and who doesn't engage verbally on his own, and who instead just repeats words spoken to him because it both soothes and grounds him now that he's somewhere he doesn't recognize. Echo who's super sensitive to food textures and who immediately refuses to eat most foods they have at hand because the texture is WRONG. Echo who sees Fives's goatee and tries to cut it off with child scissors because it's against regulations.

Dogma who acts up and screams because all these new surroundings are unfamiliar and overstimulating him. Everything is just wrong and terrible and he doesn't know or trust any of these older clones. He screams absolute bloody murder when Tup tries to touch him and only stops when Kix picks him up because medics are Safe™. Anyone else gets anything that's not nailed to the floor thrown at them because Dogma does not know them. Also he bit Rex at some point.

Cadet Hound who's scared shitless of animals and comes to in the Corrie Kennels. Cadet Hound who is staring up at the drooly fanged mouth of Grizzer who's been waiting patiently and worriedly by his side since he suddenly collapsed and shrunk.

Hound who screams his head off and tries to run away from Grizzer, only to be followed by the confused Massiff that basically chases him around all the way over to the Senate building, and that practically climbs all over a very shocked Fox who had just gotten comms over other Guard vode being turned into children unexpectedly.

Just... Clones getting turned back into clueless cadets that still need to do a lot of growing and learning before they fully become the people they are.

And also the brothers left as their normal selves to deal with their transformed vode'ika, getting a clear picture that some of their vode were vastly different when they were cute little cadets.

#star wars #the clone wars #clone trooper waxer #clone trooper boost #clone trooper sinker #arc trooper echo #clone trooper dogma #sargeant hound #writing prompt #age transformation #age regression #deciding what other clones to de-age but a lot of them feel like they were Just Like That™ since day 1 so no real change besides smol #jesse maybe? hardcase? i feel like hardcase would be good with kids so maybe not hardcase... #gregor is a good candidate because hes a commando and there's no way he wouldn't pull a home alone scenario vs the 212th #decisions decisions...