Another day, another Crosshair doodle 🖤

It's all we've got. And it's my choice.

This one goes out to all the Echo fans because dude is KILLING IT!

Crosshair: “I’ve changed.”

Rampart: “Sure, you have.”

This is what has been haunting me for the past 12 hours… Because I think, to a certain degree, Rampart is right…

Was anyone else completely thrown off by Rampart's "Sure, you have" remark?? Like, he seemed too confident in that… But now that I think about it…

Because like wasn't Crosshair like "I don't want to be breaking in or out [of Tantiss]. Omega didn't leave me behind last time. I owe her."

Is he only doing this because of a favor???

This is like a callback to Season 1 when he saved her after she saved him... But again he only did it because he owe her one.

I may be thinking about this in a really dark manner. But it sort of lines up...

AND THEN...in Episode 12, it’s revealed Crosshair purposely withheld information on the selfish account he didn't want to go back...

I think Rampart is right to a certain degree that Crosshair is loyal to himself...

I've been mulling this over for 12 hours now and I think Rampart is just straight up wrong. Crosshair's loyalty has always been to his brothers (and now Omega). The only time that wavered was when he thought they'd turned their backs on him. He had nothing left to be loyal to then so he just followed the Empire blindly. That's the only version of Crosshair that Rampart knows but Crosshair was a shell of himself. He's not now.

Crosshair speaks in terms of debt and favors owed because he doesn't really have the emotional skills and language to say that he actually cares. It's feels easier/safer for him to say he "owes" Omega than it does to say he's terrified for her safety and loves her enough to put his other fears aside.

He's not selfless, by any stretch. It is a very selfish motivation. He wasn't willing to go back to Tantiss to rescue the other clones because he doesn't particularly care about them like Omega - who is extremely selfless in her desire to rescue the others - does. But he is willing to go now that someone he cares about is on the line.

It's selfish and it's self-sacrificing. I think that's the core of who Crosshair is. He would burn the galaxy and himself for what he cares about - and what he cares about is his family. They matter more to him than anything, including himself. His love is for them.

But Rampart doesn't understand that anyone could feel that way. Rampart is only loyal to himself. His love is only for himself. He can't fathom that other people aren't just in it for themselves like he is.

I think that line is setting up Rampart to realize that he's been wrong this whole time. He's about to see how much someone else - Crosshair, specifically - can care about others. I think we're about to see him have an identity crisis of his own and maybe a change of heart.

*checks notes* 100%

Crosshair’s loyalty has always been and always will be, to his brothers and Omega

Crosshair is intensely loyal but that loyalty has always been narrow. He’s been loyal to his brothers and to the concept of being a good soldier, but he had no interest in helping to free the other clones on Tantiss — yeah, that *is* selfish, but it tracks with how he’s always been. He’s always been separate from regs except for Echo, Cody and Mayday. But when he does show that loyalty, it’s blinding. He’ll do anything for Omega, and not because he “owes” her a one-off favor; that’s just the only way he feels safe enough to put it.

When there was no clear reason (to him) to go back to Tantiss, he did withhold the information. The terror of going back there wasn’t worth it for regs, many of whom are still potentially loyal to the Empire. But when they lost Omega? It was the first thing out of his mouth, even though it made his hand worse than ever. Nothing but love and loyalty could have made him give that up.

Origin / Recruitment / Ostagar / Nature Of The Beast / Rest of Travel /Landsmeet

If I get the chance to escape, I wouldn't think twice about leaving you behind

— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

There really are not words strong enough to describe the absolute lack of any logical foundation, or consideration for any person or any issue inherent in the idea of not voting because you “hate Joe Biden” or because you’ve suddenly become a one issue voter and haven’t bothered to develop a real understanding of the one issue that is allegedly animating you. 

This is a binary choice, one of these two candidates is going to win, one of them isn’t perfection, the other is a completely corrupt asshole who wants me to die, and since this is the queer trans disabled monsterfucker website, if you are reading this, he almost certainly wants you to die too.

Act like it.

"You're a clone. How can you be part of this?"

The utter disappointment and disgust in Echo's voice when he said that to Emerie was enough to shame anyone into doing the right thing.

I'm not even there and I'm feeling ashamed.

We need to talk about Echo (and by talk I mean screm). S3 E13 + 14 Spoilers!

This one goes out to all the Echo fans because dude is KILLING IT!

Sounds Like Him

Read on Ao3 here!

Angstpril 2024 | Day 24 | Prompt 24: Ghost of You

Wrecker groggily wakes to the sound of sure fingers typing. “Go to sleep, Tech,” he grumbles, turning over in the pull down bunk to face the wall. 

The typing stops abruptly. “Sorry. Didn’t mean to wake you.” Crosshair’s voice. Not Tech’s. Never Tech’s. 

Tech is dead. 

Mentally, I'm still on Pabu, meditating with Crosshair, Omega, and Batcher

Me too

But also I raise you: Crosshair meditating one more time before the end (please please please I need this so much)

Do you think that while Crosshair was trying to bring Mayday back to base, that he wished he had Wrecker’s strength? If only he was as strong as Wrecker, he’d be able to get back faster, able to carry Mayday instead of forcing him to walk, able to withstand the cold. Do you think he thought of how many times Wrecker had saved him, how Crosshair could always rely on him when he needed that strength?

Do you think he wished he could be that for Mayday?

Thanks for the tears 🥹

*cackling*

*but also, crying*