#reliable intel.

// One of the top intelligence agents in the galaxy.

// From Ordo’s narration in True Colors. Ordo overhears this secret when he walks into Etain and Kal arguing at the end of Triple Zero. Specifically, he hears: “Your own sons disowned you for putting your clone soldiers before them.” Shortly after, he confirms: “Is it true what Etain said? Did your sons disown you because you stayed on Kamino with us?” “It’s true, Ord’ika.”

tell us your favorite quotes from your character. give us an idea of who they are by five things they’ve said. then tag your friends.

“Do we exploit people like Jusik and Etain and Besany, or do we give them something they need? These people who gravitate to us—they so want a community, a family, and that’s the one thing we have in abundance. But I don’t know where to draw the line. I just feel bad for them.” --True Colors

“But I don’t feel much when I kill, because it’s just something that needs doing, and I don’t kill for fun. I don’t even think all life deserves respect. All I care about is me and mine. If that means killing some more, I won’t lose any sleep.” --True Colors

“This is all about having a choice. That’s what matters, isn’t it? But even now, we’re still under a Kaminoan’s control because she’s got information she won’t give us. Well, I’d rather live fifty years on my own terms than a hundred on hers. And now she’ll know it. The information she’s withholding is worthless. I’ve taken her power away for good.” “But I just wanted to give you a full life. You deserve that.” “But we’re men, Kal’buir, and I know you’ve given up everything for us, but you can’t keep making decisions for us like we’re kids.” --True Colors

“I would so like a simple life for us all, however hard the work.” “We shall have it. Make no mistake, we shall have it.” --Order 66

“I’d better report in to Zey and give him the illusion that he commands me.” --Order 66

I’m pretty sure I actually forgot about a really good quote I love. lmao, it’s so much easier to think of things in his narration or things that he’s thought to himself, rather than things he’s actually said

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Am I jealous? Am I worried because he’s our father, our buir, and we don’t want any interlopers? It wasn’t a very Mando thought. Ordo suppressed it. It was another guilty moment that made him wonder what he really was.

“I can’t work out if Ordo’s jealous or scared, but he’s very upset.” “He’s got nothing to worry about. That boy’s my heart, and he knows it.”

“Even adults feel disoriented when a new sibling shows up—not just children.” “Ordo, jealous? Never. Six brothers, and not one of them ever showed any signs of jealousy.” “I think it’s his compulsion to protect you.” “I’m not much of a father if I can’t make my kids feel secure, am I?”

“Look, it’s nothing personal,” Ordo said. Yes, it was. It definitely was. Like all his Null brothers, he found it hard to be neutral about anybody. Everyone had to be assessed—a potential threat to be neutralized if necessary, or someone you would lay down your life for. [...] The part of Ordo that was common sense and reason told the wary animal within him that it was okay. When he let his intellect run the show, and it stopped his instincts from getting the better of him, he always felt guilty for what he’d said or felt. But instincts were there for a reason.

And they flinched at every bolt of lightning. “Are you scared?” asked Skirata. [Of the six Nulls] “Yes, Kal,” said Ordo. “Is that wrong?” “No, son. Not at all.” It was as good a time to teach them as any. No lesson would ever be wasted on them. “Being afraid is okay. It’s your body’s way of getting you ready to defend yourself, and all you have to do is use it and not let it use you. Do you understand that?” “No,” Ordo said.

Ordo’s stricken little face looked up into his. “Kal…” “You scared, son?” “Yes.” “Come on, then.” [Ordo climbs into Kal’s lap, and Kal comforts him. Ordo says that the lightning is “just like the bombs going off.”] He hugged Ordo to him and felt the boy’s heart pounding in terror.

“Aren’t you afraid?” [re: Ordo being actually in trouble with Zey this time] “Not since Kamino.” If Jusik understood that, it didn’t show.

[re: Mird] Ordo, like all the Nulls, had perfect recall; he sometimes wished he hadn’t. But at least it gave him clarity, and he knew the source of all his fears and anxieties.

He appeared perfectly calm in the pilot’s seat, but the eddies and deep dark pools in the Force around him spoke of a man who was not at ease with himself or the world. Great peaks of fear and pain and helpless trust and desolation and…

He drew on the memory of sharp, cold fear and focused hatred that he had learned on Kamino before a total stranger had stepped in front of him and saved his life.

[Kal’s narration] “Kal’buir, I’m sorry I got this wrong,” Ordo said. Somewhere, no matter how much reassurance Skirata gave him, he still seemed to fear that not being good enough meant a death sentence.

“Aren’t you ever afraid?” [asked Besany] “When the shooting starts, frequently.”

[Fixer and Boss storm a truck of explosives to kill a driver, who is presumably going to detonate them.] White lights flared and hissed: hand blasters. Ordo had a split second of thinking This is it, it’s going to blow, we’re dead, it’s over—and then silence fell again.

What’s fear anyway? A mechanism to save you from danger and destruction. All droids were programmed to avoid unnecessary risk to themselves, and only the level of necessity varied according to model. If that wasn’t fear, Ordo didn’t know what was.

“So you’re scared of him [Kal], too.” [said Etain] “No. I’m scared of not being worthy of him.”

[Ordo and Etain approach Aay’han, on which is Ko Sai.] Ordo approached it as if he was walking into a fight, leaving a wake of anger, unhappiness, and more fear than she’d ever detected in him before.

[After Ordo destroys Ko Sai’s datachips, a bluff orchestrated by Mereel.] Ordo turned around, looking like a scared little boy again for the first time in ages. There was nothing Skirata couldn’t forgive him. “I’ve hurt you, Kal’buir, and I can’t undo that. But I’ll make it up to you, I swear.”