Omg This Is The Cutest Thing

Omg this is the cutest thing 🥹

You thought that was all, didn't you?

(side profiles just because)

(it's the eyes, the furrowing of the eyebrows)

(feral kids, they will bite)

(it's the same frown)

(same quirk of the mouth)

(same look of surprise)

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So stoked for this! As an Echo girlie, kinda bummed he won't be in this, but we get TECH!! I missed him loads. Fingers crossed for lots of Batch Twins sass 🤞

oh my god he's so fucking cute i'm going to cry.

we have been STARVED of tech content for like a year and a half now. until they bring him back, this will do 😌💕

OMG wow... just wow 😍

Work in progress with my favourite hc of all time, vitiligo Echo!! 😦

I hope people like this, I had fun studying Tem’s features and painting out his splotches. If people want more, i’m happy for it to fuel my motivation to draw 💥

+ I might open requests for anything star wars related (for the time being) so I can expand my portfolio and get creative!!

that little nonchalant flick of the wrist is everything 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

Their 1st mission together. They needed to open a door to infiltrate some place. Tech takes out his pad & cable but Echo's already plugged in. Tech, miffed that he's usually the one overriding protocols, watches over Echo's shoulder & walks him through every single step to Echo's great annoyance.

Tech: Now, make sure you've input the correct protocols otherwise—

Echo: I know how to override a simple door control

Tech: well you certainly needed my help relaying the signal on Anaxes...

Echo: that was different, this is just a kriffing door

Hunter: just get it open!

What do you think was the first little spat that Tech and Echo had, I have my theories but I’m curious 👀

About Sev & Delta squad, Traviss couldn't use them much in the Imperial Commando book because a second game was in development at the time.

Game developers said they were planning for Sev to join the Rebellion & have a reformed Delta squad meet up with him as Imperial Commandos but that game got canceled when the merge happened.

For reasons still unknown, Bad Batch writers added Scorch as a straw antagonist, then killed him for no reason. This effectively also killed off most possibilities that Delta squad as a whole will be seen again in canon, though other individual members Boss, Fixer & Sev could be seen in other media.

Personally, after what they did with Scorch in new canon, I don't want them touching Deltas with a ten ft. pole.

I was talking with one of my best friends about Star Wars characters being brought back and the possibility that Tech might return in a future work, and realized that even though TBB has ended, Star Wars has a really high track record of bringing back characters in other works, set after their supposed "death." Basically, no one ever comes back in the same movie/show/work they "died" in:

Maul: "died" in The Phantom Menace, brought back in The Clone Wars.

Gregor: "died" in The Clone Wars, brought back quite some time later in Rebels (and The Bad Batch, which comes first chronologically)

Echo: "died" in The Clone Wars, brought back SEVERAL YEARS LATER in the seventh season (I'm counting this as a separate show because it was not continuous - the show was revived)

Boba Fett: "died" in Return of the Jedi, brought back in The Mandalorian. DECADES LATER.

Asajj Ventress: "died" (died? like actually?) in Dark Disciple, brought back in The Bad Batch

Palpatine: somehow Palpatine returned

I feel like I'm missing some, but you get the point. The only ones I can think of who have died and come back in the same series are Ahsoka in Rebels and Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian.

There are also a couple characters whose fates have been left purposely open in order to have the possibility of bringing them back. Sev from Republic Commando is one who comes to mind. He is left behind in a war zone on a mission, and while Karen Traviss (author of the RepComm books) wanted to continue his story in a novel, Star Wars told her no because they wanted to keep plans open for Sev at a later time. We haven't gotten any additional Sev content yet, but his fate still isn't sealed.

Another is Mace Windu. I know George Lucas was like "he is dead for sure" but fans really want him back and so does Samuel L Jackson. I can see George changing his mind. Windu is a badass and beloved by fans. Another character who "fell," no body no death, and people are pretty adamant about getting him back because they liked him so much.

What I am trying to say is that Tech is a fan-favorite character whose story felt unfinished to many viewers. I'd say most of us were waiting every episode of season 3 for him to return, and the writers know that. Jennifer Corbett is on twitter and is very aware that "Tech Lives" is a huge thing in the Bad Batch fandom.

There are more animated works planned, as well: we know that Omega will likely appear again as an adult. There's like a 95% chance that a clone rebellion series is in the works, considering that they set it up in The Bad Batch. And Nika Futterman has hinted that Ventress will be appearing in future works. Tech could (and SHOULD) be brought back in any of these!

So yeah.... TECH LIVES