#ct ember

12. What’s something that makes them laugh every single time?

Cam makes a weird scrunchy face when he tastes something and he doesn't like it. Ember loves that so much, it gets a laugh out of him every time.

Ember does not like the sharks at the aquarium, which is rather unfortunate because those are his daughter's favourite. When she was a toddler and wanted him to hold her up to the ceiling of the shark tunnel, he did... but his 😐 face made Cam yowl.

Legacy is a simple man. He sees Legend obtaining a minor pain or injury in some stupid way and he's laughing for the rest of the day. Or when anyone is trying to shoo the space-rabbits out of the garden, he's siding with the rabbits and he finds it deeply amusing.

Legend keeps an eye out for when movies use nerf guns as props and he loves it, it just tickles him. He has a document somewhere full of notes about which guns are used in which movies.

17. What do they notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at them?

Cam usually only looks in the mirror because he's checking to see if he has something on his face, so he tends to just focus on that, and then pop off to do something else. Other people tend to notice whatever sunglasses he's wearing, because he likes those bright cheap plastic novelty kind. Hearts, stars, flamingos, martini glasses. If it's kitschy, he'll wear it.

Ember tends to notice his facial scars or something on his glasses. Which are the two things that other people tend to notice first, too. His scars fade a lot over the years but Star Wars doesn't seem to have a lot of people with glasses in it.

Legacy thinks he's got pretty eyes and boy is he right. People familiar with clones tend to notice that he's a natural blond, otherwise, it might be the scar across his chin (which is certainly what Legend notices first, for a while, poor guy).

Legend tends to check a mirror to see what his hair is doing, as he's just a touch vain about it. Since he likes to accessorise, people tend to notice whatever flashy thing he's got in his hair. Glitter, barette, flower crown, beads, maybe a bow if the younglings convince him.

and because I did the wrong ask game at first LOL-

12. Do you have a playlist for the character? What songs do you associate with them and why?

I do have a playlist for Ember! idk if that link will work, but it's there. And the love songs double for Cam, cause those guys are adorable. I do have one song in mind for both my Jedi clone boys, they're pretty new so no playlist for them.

17. Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way?

Meeting Cam was what turned Ember's life around for the better and brought a lot of light into his life! So Cam is often wearing bright colours and fun accessories. He also has a turtle tattoo because him and Ember watched the turtles when they first met, and their first date was guarding a turtle nest on a tourist beach.

Ember himself had a fire motif - he was named as a bright spark clinging to life, full of warmth and optimism. Later on, he's a fire dancer! His armour was painted light green and cyan in the war, and the latter is connected to the ocean and the marine biologist that he later loves.

So some basic background for the Aces - they were a squad of five clones who were put into stasis partway through the war and not defrosted for another thirty years or so. Ember was the squad's medic. After being released from stasis, he started trying to find his place in the world, and figuring out what he was, if he was no longer part of the GAR.

He's also, poor lad, completely deaf. His squad went through a lot to keep his deafness a secret, but post-war, they didn't have to worry about him being decommissioned. Yay for that! His brother Fury is a tech genius and is able to customise a pair of speech-to-text glasses for him. They're not perfect, but they make it much easier for him to figure out what people are saying.

One of his brothers is a massive nerd about marine life. Tatooine is part of a system with more than one planet. Its neighbouring one was never glassed, and is instead a lush ocean world. Ember and the family take a vacation there to visit a highly renowned aquarium. He has a great time!

Until his idiot brother taps on the glass in the shark tunnel, and one of the sharks abruptly turns and swims toward them.

Ember jumps back from the glass, startled by the bigass shark that now apparently intends to eat them. Unfortunately this means that he accidentally bodyslams some dude walking by and minding his own business.

Ember, being a kind soul, is absolutely mortified that this poor stranger's lunch is now all over the floor. So he insists on buying him another lunch to make up for it! They sit by the sea turtle tank to eat together, and that's when Cam becomes an unskippable cutscene. See, Cam has a lot of opinions on marine life, and two of the things held most dear to his heart are sea turtles and coral.

It's a couple hours later when Cam realises he's been infodumping at this poor man who probably wants to get away from him at all costs. He's immediately apologetic. Ember, on the other hand, is absolutely smitten with this man and wants to know even more.

(His squad is vaguely under the impression that he's been kidnapped by someone, until they find him safe and sound, and the very personification of 😍. They decide to leave him be.)

Cam takes Ember to see some behind-the-scenes things, like the coral that they grow right there at the aquarium. Ember is fascinated and Cam is quickly on his way to being 😍 also. It's really not often that someone wants to hear about the ppt salinity of coral-growing tanks.

Ember is also delighted to have a guided tour of the touch tank for the stingrays. He's enchanted with how soft they feel and how they always stick together in big groups, like clones used to.

At the end of their date, Cam buys Ember a sea turtle plushie. He also maybe writes his name and number on the inside of the tag, just in case.

Ember texts the number as soon as he sees it.

All things considered, their romance moves pretty fast, but honestly, nobody expected anything else from them. They were smitten with each other from day one!

Cam gets a tattoo of a sea turtle, with a love heart in the middle of its shell. He is very serious about how he loves Ember enough to get a scientifically inaccurate sea turtle tattoo, because sea turtles never have heart shapes in nature. This turns into him infodumping about the makeup of their shells, and Ember is very happy to hear it.

Ember himself has a tattoo of two stingrays swimming together! Because just like the rays are never on their own, he and Cam will never be alone, because they'll always have each other.

(His squad thinks he's extremely gross and sappy. They all ship it, though.)

Cam is the one who brings up having a kid. With all the sci-fi shit going on in Star Wars, it's possible for them to have a baby that's made of their combined genetic material. Ember had no idea that it was a possibility, and he's just as delighted by the idea.

They get to visit the baby-growing facility and Ember is always talking to her. Telling her how much he loves her, and how excited he is to meet her, and calling her the most glorious gift he could ever have. Cam likes the sound of kote, and asks what it means. And that's how she gets her name!

Kote, of course, goes to the aquarium all the time. She's a fan of all the schooling fish, but from the moment she first sees them, she's obsessed with the sharks. (Ember is not impressed. Anything for his beloved princess, but sharks. Does it have to be sharks?)

"This is so stupid," Ember mutters for what's probably the eighth time that day.

And for the eighth time, Cam patiently says,

"It's not stupid."

Finding ways to adjust had been hard. Put in cryo, waking up thirty years later, everyone they knew long gone... And an uncountable number of strange new germs and viruses to wage war on their immune systems. He's been lucky until now.

Naturally, he only got sick when he flew to stay with his boyfriend for the first time. He hadn't even seen anyone coughing. It's so... dumb.

"I didn't mean to get sick," he adds, because he's pretty sure he hasn't said that yet.

Cam laughs and gives him a raised-eyebrow look that's almost exactly like his mother's.

"I don't think anyone means to get sick. Except maybe your sister, I think she might play around with that kind of thing just to see what happens."

"We had to get her her own microwave because she kept blowing things up in the food one and Blue was getting stressed again."

Cam snort-laughs in the undignified way that always makes Ember fall in love with him all over again, shoulders shaking as he ducks his head.

"I love your family," he says, voice warm as ever, and Ember loves that he always sounds like he means it. "And I will love you even more if you have this wonderful breakfast. Mama made it as soon as she heard you were sick."

"Oh," Ember says softly, "that's so nice."

She'd adopted him into the family as soon as she saw him. It had taken him a little bit to adjust to having a mother, but there had never been any question that he liked her. She was amazing.

Cam takes the lid off a small container, and Ember can't smell a thing through his stuffed-up nose, but the curl of steam looks tantalising.

"Here," Cam says. He picks up Ember's favourite spoon - it's a thing that happens when you get older, apparently, strong opinions on silverware - and dips it into the soup. "I don't want you spilling it."

Yeah, he'd dropped the water bottle earlier that morning, his hands all shaky in a way they'd never been before, and they were lucky that that could just air-dry. So he lets Cam feed him. And maybe it's really nice to have someone taking care of him.

"You're amazing," he says when the soup is finished, "and your mom is amazing. And I'm really going to make it up to you when I feel better."

Cam gives him that sun-bright smile that he has so often, and leans in to kiss Ember's forehead.

"We'll have a great time, even if you're sick. Because I am going to use this as a chance to show you that turtle documentary."