#cs blue

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For the Aces - Racer's favourite are her siblings (affectionate, usually). She also thinks furbies should count, partially because they are an animal to her, and partially because she likes making people wonder what goes on in her head.

Fury is ambivalent about everything but banthas, he pays equal attention to his two Tusken spouses and their banthas LOL you can find him in the bantha barn at any hour of the day or night.

Blue was never an 'animal guy' but then he married a devoted ferret dad and decided those little guys were the coolest actually.

Ember was a fan of stingrays from the first time he saw them, and then his first date with his future husband was guarding a sea turtle nest (there are many benefis to being a marine biologist) so he loves those too because his husband loves them.

Whisper has always been a frog stan first and a human being second. Or third or fourth. Xe also likes massiffs quite a bit and has four including xeim service dog!

As for the Valkyries... idk 🤔 I checked out some common sailing superstitions and some of those apply! Re-naming a boat is bad luck and they've named all their boats the same thing. Saying good luck on a boat is actually bad luck, and so is saying goodbye (you are to say GO KICK HIS ASS BABY instead, perfectly acceptable). Cats are good omens! Keep some kitties on board!

Blue isn't the slightest bit surprised when Whisper takes one look at a pond full of frogs and walks straight into the water. That's the sort of behaviour that he's come to expect of xei since they moved here. Well, since they were cadets, really. He'd lost count of the number of times that xe snuck out of the barracks to feed crumbs to the sea mice that swarmed around the Kaminoan docks.

Got in trouble for it a few times, too. Racer or Fury would take the blame when they went with xei, but Whisper hadn't always allowed them to. The Kaminoans weren't here to scold them, though, so... xe could do whatever xe wanted.

And to nobody's surprise, xe wanted to catch frogs.

"Do you have any idea what you're going to do with those if you get one?" Blue asks.

Xe stops a moment, water rippling around xeim legs, and frowns at him like xe's having some kind of realisation.

"Told Fury to bring me a big plastic box with a lid."

And as long as he listened, there won't be anything to worry about... but he's not always great at listening. Or at not getting distracted. Blue loves all of his batchmates - knows they all love each other, too - but he's also aware of their flaws. Fury's tend to involve details. Doesn't matter what kind.

"Hah," Whisper mutters, and he realises xe actually managed to catch a frog in xeim hands.

Huh.

Not that he'd really doubted xei, because xe was fast and agile, but so were frogs. He was never able to catch any of the creatures that got loose on their ship. Always been small ones, fortunately. Xe has sense. Something he can't say for other clones, like Racer.

"Hold this one," xe instructs him.

"No thank you."

"Hold the karking frog, Blue."

He groans to himself and edges toward the water, frowning the moment it starts seeping through his shoes. The things he does for his squad...

The frog is needlessly large, in his opinion. He needs both hands to take it from Whisper and hold it so it won't escape. Or at least he hopes that's what he's doing.

By the time Fury shows up with the box, Whisper's managed to catch two more. And through some feat that Blue still can't figure out, the second frog was caught with only one hand.

"You take too long," xe informs Fury as he opens the lid of the box. The frogs are gently placed inside, and the lid placed back on top, once Blue deposits his frog as well.

"That's not my fault," he says, rolling his eyes. "Racer wanted to microwave the box to see what happened and I had to find her another one to play with."

"Mm," xe mutters, giving him a disapproving look before turning back to the pond.

Blue has no idea why he hangs around after that. It's not like supervision has ever worked on these people. They do what they want, and he has little affect on their bullshit, when they're not on the battlefield. He's curious about the end goal with the frogs, though.

"Aren't these the poisonous ones?" Fury asks, leaning over the box more so he can get a better look at them.

"Yes. Which is different from venomous, which is what you're thinking of." Xe doesn't even look at him as xe says it, too busy scuffing xeim hands down the front of xeim shirt before getting back in the water.

"You don't know that."

Whisper doesn't seem inclined to dignify that with a response.

Instead xe dives under the surface, and Blue can only gape briefly at xei. Or rather, the water where xe disappeared. Who does that? Well, at least xe's entertaining xeiself. A bored Whisper is restless like a caged animal. Which is in blessed contrast to the dangerously chaotic duo of Racer and Fury, but still, not exactly ideal.

By the time Whisper tires xeiself out, xe's caught upwards of twenty frogs, but xe only keeps four of them in the box. The others are allowed to stampede back toward the water. Blue wisely stays out of their way.

"Do you have... plans for those?" he can't help asking, because he sees mud and water and plants going in the box alongside them, and he can't help but wonder if they're intended to be kept long-term.

"Yes," Whisper says, and shuts the lid.

"Would you like to share your plans?"

"No."

And with that, xe's off, carrying one side of the box as Fury carries the other. Blue can only sigh, and get up to follow them, holding his still-damp socks and shoes in one hand. They really don't listen to him at all. Well, at least Whisper will keep them out of his bed.

Fury is a cook??? Tell me more???? 👀👀 Does he have a favorite thing to make??? What was the first dish he ever made and how did it turn out??

Racer! As a fellow Oldest Sibling/Sister I gotta ask- what’s her favorite way to annoy each of her kih’vode? Because I love annoying the little shits as revenge for all they’ve put me through

Whisper- I am just. So intrigued by xeim. Would xe like a chew toy to bite on?? They’re very soothing and I have a few xe can borrow :3

I am in love with Ember to be honest. He seems like such a sweet baby. I would like to wrap him up in a blanket burrito and give him many cookies to nom on

Yesss my first squad, they'll always be famous to me <3

Blue mostly talks about problems because then nobody talks back to him. The man just needs to vent at something, once in a while. But he also tells them that they're nice plants with pretty flowers, because he heard that saying things like that helps them grow better. He also talks to them about his boyfriend a lot. The family has some very strongly held Opinions about Blue's taste in men. (Well, taste in man. Singular. He married the first dude who showed interest in him and they're strangely cute about it.) The plants do not have names but he's particularly fond of the blueberry bush that his man gifted him.

Fury is a cook! And a baker! He loooves everything with strawberries, it's the polycule's favourite fruit so he gets really good at every dessert he can find. He also likes a lot of spiced food and gets very good at a jalapeno, cheddar, and bacon sourdough. He will eat any kind of sandwich on that bread. But his favourite favourite is grilled cheese with grape jelly. He made it in the GAR after good missions and now it's a traditional celebratory food for the squad. That was his first attempt at his own recipe, so to speak, and it became everyone's go-to comfort food.

Racer is very good at annoying people. Blue is easily annoyed by her because she's chaotic and loves explosions and keeps sneaking bombs onto their ship/into their house. Fury cannot be annoyed by her 99% of the time, they are far too alike, but sometimes she tries to bother him into doing chaos with her while he's hyperfixated on something else and he gets snappy with her. Ember hates how she just goes through his closet and steals all his cute shirts, but he can always steal them back. Whisper has bitten her so many times for just picking xei up in a hug and spinning xei around like a dreidel, or just being too loud in xeim general vicinity, and she has yet to learn any better.

Yeah xe loves chew toys! I hc that xe does have a chew necklace that xe gnaws on while xe's staked out somewhere cause it gives xei something to do. Xe also likes rubik's cubes and has the kind that has those different tactile bumps that match the colours.