character ask meme- fives, cody, or rex?
iāll do rex !! iāll maybe do fives and cody later !
as a kid i loved rex (i still do of course) i thought he had a v interesting personality and in all honesty i found him more interesting than the main cast??? i was a dork & i had the biggest crush on him lmao
i still love rex & i find him to be a really complex character, but heās been bastardized by the writers to suit their need of glorifying the jedi & excusing them of any implications of slavery and war crimes because of the whole conception of a clone army controlled by them. i feel like the writers wanted us, the viewers, to think this is a very individualized and unique character (of course he is), but in the end just using him to portray the jedi in a positive light.
i know this point has been rehashed before but i think it needs to be said a lot so people actually get it through their heads. sadly this happens so often in real life too (a person of color being forcefully convinced or even brainwashed to think that their oppressors have been good to them, that nothing has been done wrong), so i think it is important to understand how rex has been used poorly and how much it would benefit his character as well as the rest of his brothers to be written by people of color (a great point raised by maylovelies / arctrooper-ross ). i particularly am passionate about this topic because this has happened too much in my fatherās culture, and it being shown in media like this only encourages the behavior.
so many favorite moments that i donāt even know where to start lol. definitely meeting cut and his family, those were such nice scenes with him. the whole umbara arc was great, i feel like we see some good character development & the complexity of his emotions ,,, i just really enjoyed it
the only reason he didnāt desert was because of his loyalty to his brothers & nothing else. he knows that without him, many of his brothers would be lost, and he did not want any of them to die in a senseless war. he has no personal loyalty to anakin, ahsoka, or any of the other jedi, especially as he sees many of them brushing off the deaths of his brothers like nothingā¦ he really comes to resent them. rex is a very conflicted individual, so i donāt see himĀ ābetrayingā them per se, i totally think he would be in support of some sort of rebellion against the jedi order. (thoā¦. i would have loved to see how a windu-rex relationship would work out, bc i feel like windu would actually be one of the very few jedi that rex actually respects).
his relationship with cody !! i have a lot of headcanons on them (i donāt care about canon thank you very much), like them being batch brothers, and being very close despite their vastly different personalities and strategies. i plan on writing a few fics on the relationship between cody and rex as well as another brother very close to them sunbeam (my oc).
from the first time i saw him, i had an oc to pair with him and that was a long time ago,,, but iāve developed that relationship and i really like where itās going. i honestly love all the relationships that people have developed for rex !! he really deserves to have a partner that truly loves and appreciates him and care for him because he is just so tired,,,,
once his daughter is born he absolutely loves doing her hair and playing with it. his partner loved him playing with her hair and he naturally thinks this is a good way of expressing his affection (he wasnāt raised with much affection you know), and so he really enjoys doing her hair for her. he doesnāt care if itās too complicated, it just makes him happy and even more so that he can make his daughter happy himself.
