#hellfiresky asks

GOOD QUESTION! Let me include this as a contribution to @deltasquadweek - Dinner!

I think Boss is a Louisiana Rub guy, he goes for the classic. Not too spicy, not too salty, just the right amount of kick and crunch!

Fixer definitely loves Asian Spice! He likes that it’s sweet, and savoury, and kinda spicy. Just like Boss, as much as he loves spicy food - he also knows that what usually comes after eating twelve spicy wings (and free flow soda) is not fun during a week-long op.

Scorch has a sweet tooth, he LOVES his Hickory Smoked BBQ and Teriyaki! Dipped in honey mustard. Does it make sense? No! But that’s the beauty of it. He resorts to Garlic Parmesan when BBQ & Teriyaki aren’t available. Sometimes steals Boss’ platter but doesn’t want to get his own.

Hi! Thanks so much for reading my fic, I’m really glad you enjoyed it!

Female hair takes longer to grow and judging by Omega's hair growth she's been in Tantiss for at least half a year.

Yes, I approve of this theory! Also, thanks for the ask because I just recently added a female clone oc to one of my fics! (Her name is Xena, yes based on that old tv show lol).

It does seem like female clones have slower hair growth compared to their male counterparts. And, their hair texture appears to be straighter or at least less curly when grown out. Take Emerie Karr and adult Omega, both have relatively smooth, straight hair. (Compared to let’s say someone like Hunter, whose hair has a more waves, and damn I wish Tup would let down his hair for a bit).

I wonder if this is just a natural difference in how Kaminoans engineered them or if Omega, in particular, had a different upbringing that influenced her physical traits. Was she given a different diet? Different conditioning? Bcs aside from the hair, she also has a noticeably leaner frame compared to male clones (back when she was a cadet in S1. She lacks the same stockiness we typically see in standard clones. But then again my clone biology and Kamino knowledge is shit.)

As much as I love Emerie and adult Omega, I wish they showed more of Tem’s traits in them! Like the rest of TBB, I don’t like how they whitewashed Omega - with the skin, features, and also the hair.

Talking about female clones, I LOVE how Sister was portrayed in her latest illustration with more rounded face and athletic physique. It would be great to see that kind of trait carry over to Omega (and Emerie) as well! (Oh we can argue about Omega and Emerie’s physical trainings, I bet they almost have the same level of trainings especially since Omega grew up alongside the batch and literally became a rebel pilot. Girl can do 50 pull ups in less than 10 mins)

Hi @longstringofnumbersandletters! Thanks for the questions! I have so many OCs lol so let me answer each question with the main character(s) from my main fanfic series.

What is your character's trigger point? What makes them angry, sad or makes them go off?

Tavi from Written in Red (she’s a war correspondent/journalist in the Clone Wars era) - she’s usually composed, but she’s got a few triggers that will set her off:

People dismissing the human/sentient toll of the war with “it’s too complex for us to comprehend.

Politicians acting like clones are treated fairly when she’s literally seen otherwise. Institutional gaslighting basically.

Exploitation stories! When she sees a piece where the writer uses someone’s trauma as aesthetic, or editorialises over the contributor’s words, stripping them of agency. It triggers her more if the outlet calls it “moving” or “inspiring”.

How do they act around people they don't know? Are they shy around strangers or dismissive of them?

For this one, I’m going to answer for my clone OCs from the fic Red Tides! These guys are shinies floating around doing mundane tasks at the Republic Military Base - waiting for “real” assignments.

Blaze, the supposed leader of the squad, overcompensates his awkwardness using banter, he’d try to be the loudest at the table, but more often than not lands as “annoying shiny who doesn’t know when to shut up.”

Quake is usually the clown of the group. In such situations he is usually the most relaxed. But because they’re shinies straight off Kamino, his humour is actually his mask to cover the fact that Coruscant scare the shit out of him.

Ridge is the most polite one, in a way. He usually overthinks everything, and would end up spewing random facts, and ends up sounding like he’s in a job interview when meeting new people.

Steel is the quiet one. He just stands there 🧍🏾‍♂️and people assume he’s judging them whilst in reality he has no idea what to say. Silence is his survival (until someone brings up meatball soup, that’s his weakness).

What is your character's biggest fear? Most irrational?

Okay, this is for my main OC, Tal, from Seeing Red. She is a Mandalorian bounty hunter from Level 1313 - also in the Clone Wars era.

Her biggest fear is becoming irrelevant. That’s the rational one I guess. Losing her edge as a bounty hunter/warrior - aging out, injuries piling up, becoming useless as the galaxy moves on without her. For someone built around combat and exile, that terrifies her.

This is my brain just waking up from sleep ik I'm surprised too. I am sat ready for your essay 🧎‍♀️

Okay, first of all, thanks for asking that question! It’s such a good one because she is insufferable LOL. Sometimes, I find it hard to continue the story because she has a mind of her own and I have to readjust the plot and storyline to fit that.

That being said, I think one of the biggest things you can take from Tal is that she doesn’t really exist as a “lesson” character. She’s very messy, she fucks up most of the time, she doesn’t always know what she’s doing, and she doesn’t live for anyone’s redemption arc but her own. I guess, what you can learn/absorb from her is less about “be like Tal” and more about “sometimes it’s okay to survive however you need to.”

Tal is how I imagine what a lot of bounty hunters would actually be like in a galaxy where the job is as common as being an accountant - for her, it’s basically a 9-to-5. Is she good? Yes, excellent. Is she as good as Asajj Ventress? Deathstick? Fennec Shand? Aurra Sing? Nope. But excellent enough to get her a contract at an institution like the GAR. She doesn’t do it for the game anymore - she does it because it’s survival. Though, underneath all that bravado, she’s constantly wrestling with guilt, loneliness, and the feeling of never being enough. That contradiction is where she lives.

It shows up most in her politics too, she’s an anarchist (if you’ve ever read about Edge-9, she’s an active part of that group, though I haven’t really written it into the fic yet), and yet she ends up working as a contractor under the Grand Army of the Republic. It’s deliberately contradictory, because that’s who she is! Someone who is against policing and authority but still takes the paycheck, someone who despises the system but also refuses to walk away from the people trapped inside it simply because she sees them as victims too. (She also claims that she is a bad anarchist!).

OH, YOU THINK THIS SOUNDS WHUMPY? THINK AGAIN.

You thought it was just a haunted house. A stupid underworld legend, a vacant spot to spook your date, Wolffe. But the deeper you go, the less it feels like a house and more like a living thing. Maybe the walls have eyes? Maybe the carpet breathes? Maybe some creatures dwell in that empty house? Maybe you should’ve listened to the old lady you passed down the street not to disturb the house?

You thought this was going to be a fun date with the commander. You thought it’d be sexy. Now you’re just trying to survive.

Oooh thanks for the ask!

This feels like choosing a favourite child, but here we go:

My all time favourite is this risograph-style illustration of Fives. I’m actually still working on this in-universe zine, but been distracted by so many new things and brainrot lol.

The second one is probably this x reader smut (that many seem to like as well!). Had fun writing this one and imagining Wolffe with lower back pain.