Wolfdog

I felt... compelled

There’s the fact that Anakin told Fives about the time he blew up the ship as a 9 year old. And neither Jesse nor Hardcase knew about it so it seems to be something that Anakin told Fives specifically (or maybe him and Echo), so that means they definitely had some conversations alone outside the battle field.

Then there’s this very small scene in the Unknown. Anakin puts his hand on Fives’ shoulder. It’s a very short moment but it does make me weirdly emotional

And then there’s the “Jedi-issue scopes” joke. Now I’ve never been in any military setting but from what I’ve heard making a joke about your General’s dick is probably a bad idea unless you really want to do pushups or something. Sure Anakin wasn’t exactly excited but he also seems weirdly amused at the same time. Idk I’m having a hard time reading his expression there. But to me this shows that Fives is comfortable enough around Anakin and knows that he won’t get in trouble for making a stupid joke. I feel like the same would have been the case with any other trooper so it might just be a reflection of how Anakin treats his troops in general. We also see him joke around a bit with Echo in S7 for example. It honestly just looks like some banter between friends (even if it’s a bit one sided)

When Fives talks about the chips the the taxi driver he says the the chips make the clones “kill their best friends, their leaders” and since we know what order 66 is we know he’s talking about the Jedi. Anakin is his Jedi general so he views Anakin as his friend.

Now to the depressing part of the post. He genuinely seems to want to help Fives in orders. He offers to try to find him because he believes that Fives will trust him (wich he would have if it wasn’t for the drugs). And in the warehouse he makes it very clear that he just wants to help Fives. Wich probably would have worked if Fives wasn’t drugged (Honestly fuck Nala Se). And take a look at Anakin’s body language when they discuss what happened at the end of orders. He’s clearly mourning. Because even though he got mad at Fives he still cared. He is more in the background during Fives’ death but I believe that’s because he wants to give Rex and Fives time and doesn’t want to interrupt them because he understands how close they are. But when we do see his face he does look pretty sad. And I actually respect him a lot for that because the one person Fives needed in this moment was Rex, his brother. And Anakin understood that and respected that, wich imo shows how well he understands the clones and that he cares about them. And since Fives was an ARC trooper I can imagine that they just had more opportunities to spend time with Anakin so naturally they got a bit closer than other clones in the 501st might have (similar to Rex)

“Good luck, boys”

Maybe apple was rotten from the beginning

well damn alright, fruit cake

maybe i'm super late to this party lmao but ever since i read about this fan theory, it's really stuck with me. have y'all heard this one before or...???

so i've always believed that Anakin was intentionally called away from Umbara by Palpatine... but only because Palps was trying to get Rex and/or a good chunk of the 501st killed, to push Anakin closer to the dark side.

but what i never considered, until recently, is that Pong Krell was also intentionally chosen by Palpatine as the one to temporairly take over -- primarily as a "test" for Order 66, but also to test Krell himself.

could a large group of clones take down a single Jedi knight/master? how does Palps test that? how about taking the 501st legion away from Anakin "i care a lot about my men" Skywalker and placing them under the authority of Pong "i could not care less about these creatures" Krell in a major battle? who else, except probably the 104th, would be most likely to fight back against an anti-clone general?

simultaneously, it was a test of Krell himself, who openly admits in the end that he was trying to impress Dooku to become his apprentice -- something Palpatine very likely knew about.

in the end, as always, Palpatine comes out on top. either Krell succeeds, proves himself a worthy darkside apprentice, kills a lot of clones and sets off Anakin, OR Krell fails, as he did, and Palpatine loses nothing... and either way, Palps learns how ineffective or effective a group of clones can be against a skilled Jedi.

This might be a dumb ask but if Viggo married Hiccup, do you think Viggo would call Stoick dad just to annoy him?

Anyways bye 👋

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