Hi Feather, π
I've seen your post about sending an ask about anyone from the families belonging to your lovely and brilliant AU and I've got couple of questions about the Corrie twins, Thorn and Thire. π
1. What are their favourite down time activities, now that they don't have to worry about being soldiers in a war?
2. What is their favourite food?
3. What are their personalities like?
4. Who is the older and who is the younger twin?
5. Do they form a cuddle pile to comfort each other when they have nightmares?
6. Are they also tube-twins like Fives and Echo?
7. If they argue over something (because all siblings fight sometimes) what will they do to settle the conflict or if they hurt each other's feelings in the process?
8. About their pet tookas Grapejuice and Sunburst (love their names btw): did Thorn and Thire adopt them? As a fellow cat (and Tooka) lover I was delighted to know they have pet tookas. βΊοΈ
9. Are Grapejuice and Sunburst also siblings?
And the last question unrelated to the Corries: 10. Are there any other clone twins in your AU besides Fives & Echo and Thorn & Thire? I absolutely adore the concept of clone twins. π₯°
So, these are all the question I have come up with. Also, there is so much to know about the other families that I will most likely send an ask again about them as well. It is just so all very interesting. π Have I mentioned that I love your AU very much ? Clones deserve the peace, comfort and families they got to build. β€οΈ
Thank you and have a nice morning/day/evening or night.
Sincerely,
Luna
Hi Luna! π Oh my goodness, what a delightful bunch of questions! π
1. Thorn and Thire are a little different in that Thorn is quite energetic and athletic, while Thire is a relaxed couch-potato (as you can tell by their very different post-war physiques)--so as far as what they tend to do separately, Thorn is a bit of an acrobat, and loves running, twirling, and tumbling around at the gym, while Thire enjoys watching a lot of holovision shows in their living room. What they like to do together meanwhile, is to go visit a lot of different restaurants (Coruscant has so many, they like to try to discover a new one at least once a week!), and cuddle and read together in the evenings (one will hold the datapad, and the other will nod when it's time to hit the next-page button). π
2. Thire is partial to nerfburgers of all sorts (he's always finding new specialty ones to try, with different sauces and toppings), and Thorn likes all sorts of fruit syrups--whether he's eating a leafy salad or an ice-cream sundae, he just likes fruit-flavored drizzles on everything! He even flavors his water with them.
3. They are both really friendly, approachable, optimistic sweethearts, even by clone standards in my fic-verse. Thorn is a bit more impetuous, while Thire is more level-headed (and tends to be the "big brother" and voice of caution of the whole Corrie team), but they are both rays of sunshine, and excellent to talk to when you've had a hard day. β€οΈ (They helped to "ground" the rather grumpy Fox a lot during the war, as his second-in-command duo, aiding him both in duties and emotionally.)
4. I hadn't actually thought of that before, but my gut is saying Thire is the older twin! I guess because I see him as the "leader" of the duo, sort of the "more responsible big brother" type, like I said. (Same goes for Fives--I would imagine he's the older twin for him and Echo meanwhile.)
5. Of COURSE they do! Nearly ALL clones do that for their brothers in my 'verse. Whether they're sad and scared because of a nightmare, or just feeling happy, clones LOVE to cuddle almost as a rule, and Thorn and Thire are actually among the very cuddliest even by those standards! π₯° Thire has a big, soft tummy (post-war) that he loves to let Thorn and their other family members use as a pillow (and he'll definitely pull Thorn in close and rock him back to sleep, after a bad dream β€οΈ). Thorn and Thire give each other platonic kisses (on the cheeks, noses, etc.) a lot too--Thorn is a big kisser in my mind, for some reason.
6. Yes, but with a twist! Fives and Echo are "identical tube-twins," while Thorn and Thire are "fraternal tube-twins." I know some people like to imagine the rare blond clones are "bleach blonds," but I always like to imagine they're actually natural blonds, just born that way, in my AU. What with Temuera Morrison having a blonde sister in real life, I think that means Jango could be the carrier of a recessive blond gene, so once in a great long while (about one in every 100 clone births), a clone will manifest that, despite looking like his brothers in every other way. Rex is obviously the most famous one, and I went with the common fanon of Thorn being another. What this means for how he and Thire (who obviously is a more "normal" black-haired clone) were born, is that they must have come from different cells of Jango's. So in short, while I imagine Echo and Fives were born from the same cell, which then split within the tube, Thorn and Thire started as two separate cells, that a distracted Kaminoan accidentally put into the same tube.
7. Whichever one feels he must apologize first probably starts poking the other one gingerly on the shoulder, after an hour or so, and says he's sorry, and they just hug it out. If they really are having trouble finding a resolution (this would only happen rarely), I actually imagine Fox would be the first brother to get involved (one of them would either go to him, or he'd just step in when he noticed on his own). Even though he's prone to being grumpy, he's authoritative and knows them both very well, and would probably offer a firm-and-no-nonsense-but-loving perspective to help them get over it.
8. Heehee, I'm glad you like the kitty names (and kitties in general)! π€ Well, Saltshaker (Fox's tooka) was an adult stray who started hanging around the station midway through the war, and the Corries started feeding him, and Fox bonded with him and decided to take him home after the war. Sunburn also came from the streets, but as a tiny kitten--Thorn found him behind a dumpster towards the end of the war, and hid him in his helmet and fed him milk with an eyedropper, and wouldn't let anyone take him from him! Grapejuice, a female, was the last addition to the family; a few months after the war ended, Thire was starting to get jealous that Sunburn was "Thorn's tooka" specifically, so they went to a tooka cafe, and Thire came home with Grapejuice, who is a lazy and mellow sweetheart just like him. π
9. No (see the origins above), at least biologically--but I'm sure Thorn and Thire do refer to them as "brother and sister" now, since they're adopted into the same family!
10. I hadn't actually thought of some specific named ones yet, but "tube-twins" (of both the "identical" and the "fraternal" varieties) definitely do happen enough that there are probably thousands more of them, spread throughout the galaxy (in my AU, and I daresay it would be logical even in canon)! I do have at least a few more clones who are (in my mind) "inseparable duos," on my big family list--Stak and Razor, Tup and Dogma, Bop and Widget (what I named the two clones checking on the sentry droid in "Cloak of Darkness"), Matchstick and Broadsideβ¦ I don't think ALL of them would be twins, but maybe some are? You know what, you convinced me--let's say Stak and Razor are twins in my world now too! π
11. This didn't come up in any of your questions, but I felt like I should add a final note about Thire here, just so you and everyone else reading this get the proper image/visuals for "my version" of him--in Gently Twinkling Stars (my fanwork AU), Thire has a permanent limp due to his injury in "Ambush," and continues to use a crutch (a new one, obviously, though he still saved the "gun-crutch" to mount on the wall for sentimental value, because Yoda's kindness touched him so). I was a little worried at first, that people might take this the wrong way--I'm not meaning to send some sort of ableist message that all crutch-users are automatically going to be chubby couch-potatoes like Thire! Those two aspects of his personality just occurred independently in my mind, as I was making up headcanons about him--and I liked who he was starting to become in my imagination, and didn't want to change either aspect. (Qui-Gon Jinn, who also lives in my AU, got one leg completely lopped off by Darth Maul, and is therefore also a crutch-user; and he still has roughly the same physique he had in The Phantom Menace, and remains fairly active around the Jedi Temple. So, he's an opposite example to Thire.)
In some ways, all these little headcanons I've started to make about Thire have suggested a rather sweet story, to me--he had to take things easy after his injury, consigned to office-work for Fox, but he didn't take that as a crushing failure, like some other clones might have--he was happy with his lot, and embraced it, and found fulfilment in just being a patient ear and a comforting shoulder for his brothers. (Which isn't to say he can't still pick up a blaster and deliver another "SUCK LASER, CLANKER!!" if provoked by an enemy droid, of course! Like any trooper, Thire will always protect himself and his family!)
I guess that's why Thire has become one of my favorites lately--all of these little post-"Ambush" things are just aspects I made up, of course, I know they're not canon, but they make me identify with him a lot, now. I don't have a leg injury and don't use a crutch myself, but I do have chronic fatigue and chronic pain, and have to rest around the house a lot (and am also overweight myself). But I'm not angry about it, I'm happy enjoying the little things like TV shows and food and music, and I also love to cuddle, and see spreading comfort to others as the best thing I can do with my life. So, (my AU version of) Thire is like me in all those regards. I really do need to get a proper fic written soon, about him and his beloved twin Thorn, since I love him so much (as you can tell)!! Just have to wait for that proper "inspiration nugget" to strike!β¦
Anyways, thank you so much again! It warms my heart so much that you enjoy my happy-endings-for-everyone clone AU so much, Luna! You are a dear, and made my week by asking all this! π€ Absolutely, send any other questions you like my way any time you want, and you have a lovely week! π
(Here's the list of clone family groups in my Gently Twinkling Stars AU, for anyone else reading this who would like to send in questions too! Please keep them coming, everyone! π)
