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Whump: The Musical Day 3: Jesus Christ Superstar (betrayed)

Fandom: The Bad Batch

Summary: Crosshair turns Cody in when he suspects he is going to desert.

Cody loved Crosshair, but right now he hated him. Right now he hated him more than he hated himself, which was a lot. When during their last conversation he may have implied he was done with the empire, he didn't expect Crosshair to turn him in for suspected desertion.

But as he grabbed him armor and his blaster to leave, there was a knock at the door. It was more of an accident than anything. The door opened. A few men came in, Crosshair one of them.

"What are you doing here Crosshair? It's 0200. What's going on?"

"I could ask you the same question."

Cody put down his helmet. He looked at Crosshair, betrayed. "Oh."

"Arrest him."

Reaching for his gun, Cody kicked one of the men away. Then he stunned the other. Picking his helmet back up, he pushed past Crosshair who shot at him with live rounds. He knew his brother doesn't miss without a reason but Cody didn't want to stay long enough to figure out what that reason was.

Turning the corner, the commander tripped over his feet and hit the wall. Pushing himself off the wall, he kept running down the hall. There was no way he was going to get taken by the empire. He knew what happened and while there was a chance he would deserve a fate as cruel as the other captives, he also knew he didn't want it.

It was hard to believe that Crosshair had turned him in. They had been so close during the war. He was the only one he told about his private life other than Obi-wan and Rex. At least the deeper parts of his private life. The parts that no one but them needed to know.

Crosshair was the last one alive. The death of Nova, Wyler, and the governor of Desix were Cody's last straw. He needed to know why the clones killed the Jedi, why they followed every order like droids.

Running down the hall, Cody tried to ignore every thought he was having. At the time, he didn't have the time to be angry with Crosshair or himself. Right now, he needed to focus on getting out of the building and off world. From there, the man didn't know. It was a start.

There were troopers at the door. Cody stunned them and slammed the doors open. He avoided hurting the men that laid on the ground. Crosshair turned the corner and ran after him. Outside, Cody realized that the sniper had caught up to him.

The Battle Memorial was always lit up. At least for now. With the way the empire treated the clones, it would have surprised Cody if when the lights started to die, the empire wouldn't replace them. As he ran past it, a bullet met the back of the man's left knee. He fell to the ground and turned to face Crosshair.

"I'll give you a chance to fix this, commander."

"Do you really think you're doing a good thing?"

"I'm following orders."

"But we are more than just orders. We are living people. Yet we keep acting like we don't know right from wrong! I'm done following orders when I know they are wrong."

Crosshair was silent, like he didn't know what to say. Either way, he was going to see this though.

"Out of everyone, I thought you would understand. I guess I was wrong."

Other troopers came to assist Crosshair. "Grab him and take him to a cell."

"It's not too late to change your mind Cross. Do what's right. See through your orders, before it gets you killed."

Without saying a word, Crosshair stunned Cody. He felt betrayed. After his batch had already left him, the only reg he liked had to go and try to desert. The men took Cody to a cell.

Even if Cody had become a traitor, Crosshair still watched him closely. But one day he disappeared. He was quietly transferred somewhere. When the sniper tried to learn more, there was no information to be found. Hopefully he was okay.

The craziest thing about CX2 was how invested I became thinking that he was somebody. I thought he was Tech. I believed so hard that he would be significant because every clone is significant. They all have nicknames, unique modifications, language habits, etc.

But no clone is significant to the Empire.

CX2 had lots of quality screen time and was somehow likable. When he was killed in the finale like nobody, I was so let down! But, it made me realize how brilliant the writing was… Not only was I in denial about Tech and was actively carried through the stages of grieving, but I realized CX2 was the ultimate foil to Crosshair.

I think CX2 represents who Crosshair would have become if he stayed in the Empire, which was a nobody. He would have died insignificantly and nobody in the Empire would have mourned him, just as nobody mourned CX2.

Defective by nature, Crosshair was too unique to be a “nobody.”

Getting better with watercolor

SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH

KANANNNNN- I MEAN CALEBBBBBB

Wow! This scene is so cool to see after only hearing about it in Rebels

Kanan’s cameo was completely unexpected🥲

BAD BATCH SPOILERS!!

CROSSHAIR SHOT WRECKER

im not ok

How could Dave hurt us like this ON STAR WARS DAY??

Parallel in The Bad Batch 1x03

Crosshair in The Clone Wars: “If your plans are so good, why did Commander Cody have to call us in?”

ES-01 in The Bad Batch: “If [clones] are so efficient, how come the Empire’s scouting soldiers like us?”

And then Crosshair gets pissed, like yes, you were this big of a dick too😭

So I think tomorrow’s episode of The Bad Batch will finally have a Rex appearance.

Between Wrecker’s chip starting to activate and the Martez sisters having Ahsoka’s droid, I think Rex is going to have to be the one to fix this mess.

Almost all of the other footage in the trailers has been released except Rex and some shots of Crosshair’s new enlisted squad.

Last we saw, the Martez sisters were speaking to a cloaked figure via R7-A7, Ahsoka’s astromech droid. How would the Martez sisters have R7 if the last time he was seen was with Rex and Ahsoka when they were burying the dead clones following the crash in the TCW season 7 finale? They must know that Ahsoka is alive because they have her droid. Either she gave R7 to them herself or she sent Rex, who the sisters wouldn’t have trusted without learning what happened to Ahsoka first.

That is why I believe the cloaked figure is Rex. He might be interested in rogue clones because he is one himself and he wants to save as many brothers as he can (like Wolffe and Gregor). Rafa mentioned that she knows where to find TBB so she could tell him where they are.

Possible spoilers for 1x07; JUST A PREDICTION!

I believe in the next episode, Rex will show up to Cid’s place, find TBB, tell them about the chips and how his was removed, and urge them to remove theirs. He takes them back to the crash site where the medical equipment is, assuming it wasn’t destroyed in the crash. Tech’s chip scanner is used to remove TBB’s chips, but OH NO! Crosshair’s squad managed to track them down. This leads to the fire fight we haven’t yet seen from the trailers (where Omega kills a clone??? Wow, ok Dave). While TBB is trying to fend them off, Crosshair ends up getting blasted by the destroyer’s thrusters (from the trailer) leaving him injured…or dead.

This is just my theory but based on the trailers, patterns of how Disney releases material, and how crazy the members of the Star Wars production team have made the rest of the season seem. I could be wrong, but if I’m right, I’m not the one that ruined it because I’m guessing👍

Remembered this frame from the official The Bad Batch trailer and I have some thoughts

The Bad Batch is set to have 16 episodes for this season. The 8th episode is released this coming Friday. The trailer’s contents seem to be only from the first 8 episodes or so because we’ve already seen most of the footage.

The footage we haven’t seen to my best knowledge:

Crosshair making a big villain entrance with his new squad and plenty of clone backup

Crosshair and his new squad fighting against TBB (trooper with flamethrower; TBB readying their blasters; Omega shooting a clone with her bow; etc.)

Crosshair getting blown away by the thruster of a ship

Hunter with a bandaged torso

Some shots of (Onderon? Pantora?) where Tech drives an AT-TE (?)

If my theory is correct, we’ll see these events on Friday. Another trailer will probably come out for the second half of the season soon.

But, my concern is about Hunter’s bandaged torso. A run-in with Crosshair and Hunter gets hurt in probably the same episode? I bet Crosshair is gonna shoot him😭

Is it just me, or does Hunter look shirtless?😳

Omega better sneaky sneak herself into Crosshair’s medical room and remove his chip (assuming she goes back to being Nala Se’s medical assistant)😩

Crosshair doesn’t miss… 

But CT-9904 does…

Crosshair is still there and he’s fighting against the inhibitor chip. 

He knows what he’s doing is wrong and that’s why he actively misses shots. 

It’s why he shot Wrecker in the same area as the droid did in S1:E1.

It’s also why he fired a warning shot misses Tech in S1:E8.

He’s still looking out for his brothers.

Haven't seen episode 8 yet, don't spoil it

i would pay to see chopper attacking crosshair

AYO WHATS WITH THE DEATH STAR BEHIND HIM???

13 episode don't let me down 🕯️

The Bad Batch 1x13 spoilers⚠️

(concerning that Roland guy)

The nerve

The absolute nerve of them

Not only was this episode actually useless but they couldn’t even give us a cameo. Not only was there no cameo but they teased one and gave us this knockoff Vizago

Like???

Vizago or Hondo or literally any other crime boss turned soft guy would have made me less angry than this Roland guy.

So what? TBB cares about Cid? Omega is able to convince Hunter to help people because he has a thick skull and hasn’t realized that Omega helping people is trying to make him realize they need to rescue Crosshair? Even that is reaching. There’s not even any character development…

What was the purpose of this episode?? There’s only 3 episodes left of this season (and other seasons haven’t been confirmed) and they spiked the rising action and suspense down drastically for what?? Honestly, the last couple episodes should all be rising to the climax of the story (rescuing Crosshair/ sacrificial deaths/ fighting the empire or killing Rampart/ etc.), not slowing down like this.

For example, in the Mandalorian season 2, the last 3 episodes of the 8 episode season were spent in continuous rising action with little to no filler moments leading up to Grogu being handed over to Luke Skywalker. Thats almost half the season, 3/8 episodes. In episode 2x06, Grogu reaches out to find a Jedi on the seeing stone, Din gets in a scuffle with Boba and Fennec over the armor that was carried around since 2x01, Grogu gets kidnapped, the dark troopers are introduced as serious threats, the Razorcrest is blown to bits, and Din formed an alliance with Boba and Fennec. In 2x07, Din breaks Mayfield out of prison because he’s desperate, goes undercover to find Grogu, Din has to wear storm trooper armor and show his face for the first time in his life which broke his creed, Mayfield compromises the mission (while building his character development), and Din directly threatened Moff Gideon. All of these highlights are suspenseful and action-packed meant to build up to the season finale, which I’m not going to go into detail about because obviously it’s the climax of the story and there isn’t a filler moment to spare.

My point is that there should be more focus on the conflict of the story and the antagonists at this point in the series since we’ve seen very little of Imperial Clone Troopers (other than Crosshair), Crosshair’s character development and struggle, Tarkin’s role in the Empire’s early stages, who Rampart even is, the Emperor (you know…the one that created the Empire….and the guy that should be ordering Tarkin and Rampart around???), and the early Rebellion. Saw Gererra was in 1x01 for a minute and we never saw him again? Cham is starting a rebellion on behalf of Ryloth, which we’ll probably never see? Rex wants to fight against the Empire with Trace and Rafa, who we instantly forgot about because the story was focused on Wrecker’s chip, but we probably won’t see that anyway?

I thought the whole point of this show was to bridge the gap between the fall of the Republic and the Rise of the Empire and how it impacted the Clone Army, so why aren’t we seeing a focus on the Empire or the Rebellion‘s beginnings? Why aren’t we seeing more episodes focused on Imperial clones (like Howzer and his squad defecting)? Why aren’t TBB helping at least someone within the Rebel Alliance to show its beginnings? I get that the show is about TBB, but I feel like there are ways to better incorporate these ideas and portray them with a stronger impact on the audience.

I was pretty disappointed with this episode…

I just think he’s neat

So, I made this at around 3 am last night and it plagued my brain for while.

I currently have a special spot for Crosshair in TBB and I want nothing but the best for him, I swear.

But at the same time, it’s fun to hurt your faves LMAO!!

The bud @icedcoffee101 even made a fic for it!! Go ahead and show her some love!

WHILE I CONTINUE TO CREATE PAIN

The Bad Batch 1x14 major spoilers!!!

AHHHHHHHHH

There was so much this episode between Gregor, the storm troopers, and Hunger getting captured😭

anywayssss, this is me formally begging Dave Filoni to do the classic imperial deserter rescues enemy trope with Crosshair and Hunter

Said trope^

No, because why doesn’t Crosshair have backup?? Exactly—

Can we just,.,.accept that both Crosshair and Hunter had their reasons for doing what they did?? And honestly neither of them really did anything wrong??

Hunter left Crosshair because he tried to kill them. He didn’t understand anything about the chip, he really thought Crosshair had just lost his mind. And as soon as he learned about it and how to fix it, we immediately jumped to episode 8 where Crosshair tried to incinerate them with a jet engine. He tried to communicate that the chip was affecting him, and Crosshair didn’t care. Hunter couldn’t even get himself or Omega out of that situation unharmed. He had no way to snag Crosshair from his squadron of stormtroopers out for murder. After Bracca, Hunter was focused on getting Omega back because she’s just a kid; she isn’t with the empire, she hasn’t been chasing them down and almost killing them. From Hunter’s POV, the possibility of getting Crosshair to come with them willingly or even at all is looking bleak and even though he knows it’s not Crosshair’s fault, he’s been so overwhelmed with trying to keep the people relying on him safe and right now he doesn’t think Crosshair is relying on him. And honestly, how were they even supposed to know where Crosshair was half the time? He wasn’t on Kamino 24/7 and the Batch isn’t exactly swimming in imperial informants. But that aside, of course he was thinking about Crosshair; Hunter is loyal to a fault and you can just see the emotional pain that flashes across his face whenever Crosshair is mentioned because that’s his little brother and he couldn’t save him and he feels like he failed. Hunter never was and I don’t think ever can be indifferent when it comes to the people he loves. Whether you like it or not, Hunter was trying his best to keep everyone safe and stop running suicide missions because the galaxy was changing and he was trying to change too. He did nothing wrong.

Now Crosshair.

To all of you calling him a Nazi and saying that the animators and writers intentionally lightened his skin just to make a racist show of dominance, stop it. He was referring to their genetic enhancements being superior. That’s it. He’s always hated regs because let’s be fair the regs were never exactly good to him either (AFTERMATH). Now let’s just take a look at how the chip works shall we!! We know from Rex and Wrecker that clones know what they’re doing while under control of the chip and they’re powerless to stop themselves. So we know in Aftermath that the chip was strengthened to an insane degree, and Crosshair could still see himself taking head shots on his brothers and trying to murder them and he couldn’t stop no matter how badly he wanted to. He was powerless. And then the Batch left; at this point he probably understands that his brothers had to go. They’d regroup. They’d know this wasn’t his fault and they’d come back.

Months pass. Crosshair doesn’t know about the solemn looks the Batch exchange when he’s mentioned. Crosshair doesn’t know that they can barely get food for themselves. Crosshair doesn’t know that Wrecker has flat out said he misses him. Crosshair doesn’t know how Tech said “it doesn’t appear he’ll be needing it” with a twinge of sadness in his voice while giving Omega his comm. Crosshair doesn’t know how much Hunter hates himself for leaving and that Hunter was always planning on going back to him someday because someday he’d have the perfect plan and he could save everyone this time. How could Crosshair know?

More time passes. Crosshair probably still has his chip on but he’s still in there, watching himself become more and more important to the Empire. No rescue attempts. Not one. How awful does he have to feel?? They went to get Echo out of Skako with no backup and they didn’t even know Echo and they can’t go back for him? And here’s the Empire, giving him power and some semblance of control. Things are changing fast and now he has nobody but himself to adjust with, and besides, he’s always had an egotistical side so maybe being a commander and putting the regs in their place isn’t so bad to him after all. He’s alone. He adapts or he dies, that’s the job and that’s all he has now.

Onto Bracca!! If Crosshair is telling the truth about getting his chip out, I firmly believe it had to have been after the events of Reunion. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise; “if I wanted you dead, you would be” sweetheart giving the order to have them incinerated and starting to walk away really seems like you wanted them dead and then going from ordering Omega to be executed to telling Hunter that if he cares about her he should let her go and be safe away from them??? You can’t tell me that Bracca!Crosshair wouldn’t have dragged Omega back into the training room and killed her right there just to keep them from choosing her over him. So let’s just assume for now that Crosshair wasn’t lied to and his chip is out (I’m still holding onto a scrap of hope to the contrary because A. there’s no scar B. HE’S STILL HOLDING HIS HEAD and C. my boy isn’t making any SENSE he just killed off a bunch of Imperial stormtroopers to convince the Batch to join his Empire that he cares so much about??) it had to have happened after Bracca I said what I said idc. If the chip is out, I’m sure his head is still an absolute foggy mess because lord only knows what cranking those chips up to full strength several times will do to you, but suddenly he’s realizing that he’s still angry with them. He’s still hurt. He’s still very much alone. Maybe they never cared about him at all.

And don’t get me started on any “if he did any of this willingly he is irredeemable” garbage. How many times did Kallus almost kill the Ghost crew?? I’m sorry, was it not Kallus who ordered the Lasat genocide?? Don’t take this the wrong way, I adore Kallus and his redemption arc was one of the most beautiful things about Rebels but the point is if he can do all of those horrible things for the Empire for years and is still allowed a redemption stemming from realizing everything he thought he was fighting for was a fiction, THEN SO IS CROSSHAIR. With that side note out of the way let’s think about how alone and betrayed Crosshair feels by the Batch and let’s realize that after they left Ryloth, after they left him again, what does he want?? He wants them. He doesn’t want to kill them, he doesn’t want them imprisoned and he doesn’t want to make them pay. He wants to fight side by side with them again, he wants his brothers back. And even though he’s so beyond hope that they still care about him, heck he literally said “don’t make the same mistake twice; don’t make me your enemy” he thinks they were enemies and he still cares about them so freaking much that he went through an entire elaborate scheme to get the whole Batch on Kamino and set up the stormtroopers’ deaths to prove his loyalty that they could have if they just gave him some of their loyalty too. “Loyalty means everything to the clones” is starting to get a really bitter taste innit??

The point of this longwinded rant my friends is to beg y’all to stop being so black and white about these two. They’re both human, they both have made mistakes and have regrets, they’re both trying their best to survive in a galaxy flipped upside down. Things played out how they had to and they’re both victims of the real villain of Star Wars, who has always been Palpatine. The fact that there is so much to unpack with these two characters shows how flipping amazing the writers are!! They’re so layered and complex it’s literally like they’re real!! So please. Stop hating on them so freaking loudly. They’re my boys and they both deserve a warm hug and a nap after the season they’ve had

I actually liked the last episode of season 1 of the bad batch while the angst between the brothers broke my heart i still was able to see both sides everyone had a right to be hurt but it doesn’t mean that they don’t love each other any less, no one was right and no one wasn’t wrong, it is all a complex situation all round nobody is perfect we all make mistakes but it doesn’t mean that your a bad person.

 i want crosshair to be back with his brothers as much as any one but i don’t think that is in the cards right now. omega saying to crosshair that he is still her/their brother no matter what that he can come back if he ever decides to i was glad to he had a chance to hear that, and he still has a place with them if he ever choses to. palpatine already took the clones individualities and their home away from them as much as i would love for him to stay with his brothers it has to be BY HIS. CHOICE  NOT BECUASE HE WAS FORCED TO.

 it would not surprise me if the empire used military propaganda to lie to people and  make them believe in their cause we have to people in the past believe in what the empire was doing and then seeing what they are actually like and eventually deciding to defect to the rebellion once they realised what the empire was really about and how they treated their own people.

An example of this is kallus from star wars rebels when he was on that moon with zeb orellios he took his chances with the empire instead of joining zeb and waited for the empire to pick him up.

 but then we  found out in a commentary i believe that he wasn’t even picked up by the empire themselves but an ordinary transport and when he eventually got back to the empire no one even noticed that he was gone which showed us that the empire didn’t want to waste their resources finding just one man which just goes to show that the empire doesn’t care about their own people.

the shot that we saw of kallus back in his quarters reminded me of the last shot we got of crosshair in the finale.

i firmly believe that there was a reason for this parallel because we all know that dave feloni loves his parallels of things we have seen in the past and that crosshair will eventually get a redemption arc in the future i just hate that we have to wait a year to find out what happens next and i for one am looking forward to what that entails.