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The Bad Batch HCs - Playing Monopoly

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Tech

an absolute fuckin nightmare

this man has known how he was going to win before the game even started

Tech is ruthless with the properties he takes

The game is over within 30 minutes

Hunter

the only time he takes no prisoners

Tech has the data advantage, but Hunter is a skilled tactician and he'll do what he can to counter Tech

he's almost as ruthless

Omega has never seen this side of him

He has hotels on his properties in 5 minutes, purposely boxing everyone in

Omega takes note to never get in a real estate battle with him

Echo

Normally he'd be the ruthless strategist, used to going up against Rex

but when he sees Tech and Hunter's intensity, he goes into protector mode

trying what he can to give Omega a chance

he's trying to snag easy properties and make easy trades with her

but it's no use

he's bankrupt within 10 mins thanks to his bad trades with Omega and Tech having the entire boardwalk

Omega

the poor smol bean

she innocently suggested the activity to pass the time while in hyperspace

it was her first time playing and she just liked all the colors on the board

next thing she knew, Hunter was asking her for $500 for landing on his space

she's never seen his eyes so cold

latched onto Echo's attempts to help her

she was out soon after Echo, choosing to leave Hunter and Tech to their real estate blood bath

Wrecker

knew exactly how this was going to go having played with the batch before Echo joined

he remembered them making a deal to never play again but no one could resist Omega's pleading

he sat back and watched the war play out between Hunter and Tech

he finds his brothers' antics more entertaining then the game itself

the third one out, chuckling at Hunter's attempt to bargain with Tech

he leans back with his hands behind his head watching the drama unfold

Crosshair

he was the first one out

observed Tech's energy when he sat down and knew there was no chance

Hunter has the senses, but Crosshair was the observer

he saw Hunter just as ready for blood and knew better than to get involved

he cashed out on his first turn, popped a toothpick in, and smirked as the two got more and more riled up

he only told them to cut it once when he saw Omega becoming visibly upset

when she was out, he made a spot next to him offering snide commentary as the game continued

Omega had to quickly stifle her giggles when Hunter and Tech gave them both a quick glare

Let´s talk a minute about Depression.

Let´s talk about how, sometimes, you’re just so absolutelly down the dark hole with no light, and you can’t put “the mask” anymore but you’re still trying... How it’s maybe affecting your sleeping pattern and you get to sleep at 2 am in the morning and you have to get up at 5 am to go to class/ work/ etc. Or the way you’re making everyone around you worried about you and you want to stop but you don’t know how... Let´s talk about how you have supporting family members or friends that are there for you but you’re ready to let go.. The way you may be crying every time someone comes near you and tries to help you How difficult is to ask for help...

Let’s talk about all that

Day 16 of waiting for Techs return

Thoughts and predictions of “The Bad Batch”!

This are just a few things that have been on my mind since the last three episodes, so it’s a long post.

If you haven’t seen them, keep scrolling!

This will go in no particular order:

Dr. Emerie Karr

This one was not so much of a shock to me, there was something about her and the way she spoke that inmediatly had my attention. The way she was introduced was a bit creepy but seeing it from Cross’ pov, she seemed to look like Tech, not to mention all the foreshadowing of all of them in the episode “The Outpost”.

In the episode “Tipping point”, she’s always calling Cross by his name rather than his number which, from my pov, is a way to get closer to him, make him feel more at ease giving the circumstances but, why would an imperial scientist do this? The answer is, she feels related to him somehow, then she stops the torture, gives him some sort of shot to bring him back and she unbuckles the wrist restrain, only for Cross to wake up short after and, this is where it gets interesting because, she warns him that there is no way out and it sounds to me like she has tried to do that before.

This for me means that she doesn’t want to be with the empire, because she knows what Hemlock is doing with the clones and feels uncomfortable seeing it and doing it herself, which brings me to me next point...

Echo’s contact

That’s right, i do believe that the one that keeps feeding them the info is Dr, Emerie Karr, as I mentioned before, i think she has tried to escape herself to no avail, so, to alleviate her guilt from torturing her “brothers” she’s giving the necessary intel to the people who has being helping the clones without being to obvious about it to avoid getting caught and keep helping.

I do admit this is a bit far fetch, but i think ✨it’s obvious✨

Tech’s “death”

Now here comes the heartbreaking part of this post. Though I’m in the grieving and the denial wagon, I want to see this from both sides, so bare with me on this.

Tech being alive: There are a few things that says that this might be true; one of those things being that the rest of the batch fell from a little lower than he did and they survived, they were injured as hell but alive. Another thing is, of course, no body = not dead. And the last thing is, you got it right, Tech’s googles; this is a classic move for the villian to make and it usually always works.

I feel like Hemlock knew that that attack was made by Clone Force 99 so i think he gave the order to search for clues and they found Tech’s body, at that exact moment, Cid commed the empire and tell them that the batch was at Ord Mantell, the person that answer the “call” told to Hemlock, so he grabbed his googles and made his way to Ord Mantell to poke at the wound of their fallen brother in hopes to make them turn Omega in.

Tech being dead: I hate this possibility but, I do believe this might actually be real. Things in a war don’t always end up in a happy ending.

Tech made a choice and a sacrifice. Giving him development, a love interest, making him bond more with Omega, etc, feels incomplete because that’s life. We don’t always get to say a proper goodbye to the people we care about nor do we have a lot of time to make this decision, it’s a now kindda thing. And this might even be the final straw to make them fight the empire for good this time, besides from getting Omega back that is.

Omega

I think I know were this one is going.  I saw the signs but never really paid attention to them before because ✨denial✨ but I can’t ignore them anymore.

I now believe that Omega is actually Force-sensitive. If Emerie is already a female clone, why would the empire need Omega? Yes, I know that they need Nala Se to help them and that’s why they wanted Omega but, what if there’s something else going on?

We know Palpatine is into his cloning phase, if we add to this that Omega has heightened awareness, knows how to meditate and the importance she has for the empire, then the only thing i can make of this is: Omega is force-sensitive.

The next steps

This is were the fun begins!

So, obviously they are not going back to Ord Mantell because they have nothing left there, they got AZI back and Cid finally betray them, so that’s not longer an option.

The most logical place where they should go is to Coruscant, back to Rafa’s and Trace’s garage. This because they need a place to investigate and get more fuel, not to mention that they could use all the help they can get, so i want to belive that Rex, Gregor and Howzer will help them at getting Omega and Crosshair back. 

Not to mention that i hope to see a very feral Hunter and Wrecker, i do expect to see an aggressive Hunter due to the pain of loosing Omega and Tech and the same thing goes with Wrecker.

The reunion

Now, i’m not saying that I don’t want a reunion because I obviously want that, BUT, i feel like Filoni won’t give us this unless it’s the actual final of the show OR they give us 2 more seasons; s3 will be them getting all 6 of them back together (with Tech being alive because i said so) and a final s4 with Cross trying to win their trust back.

I’m in the middle of a class right now and all I want to do is go out, cry like there’s no tomorrow (because there might not be a “tomorrow” for me) and go home to cry some more...