#yeaugh

8. What part of your f/o's story felt like it was missing something that your s/i was able to fill?

Oooo um... I think, at least until recently, Saku's story was missing a lot of opportunities to treat him like the adult he is??? Both the story and the fandom tend to baby him, despite him. Again. Being an adult. Lucille and Sakuya's relationship rests more on the two of them just being able to talk about things and be vulnerable in a way that is rarely shown in canon. Again, that's changed recently(by recently I mean since around 2022-2023-ish, but I've been in the fandom since 2021, and the fans and writers do still baby him at times to this day, the writers less so than the fans now, thankfully), and I appreciate it, but I like to think that the scenes offscreen with lusaku helped<3

12. What's an important event in your f/o's canon that would help others understand them better?

First one that came to mind was this!

This happens really early on, like in the first act, where Mankai is struggling to come back and put on their first play. They choose to revive their Romeo and Juliet production, with their new scriptwriter rearranging it to become Romeo and Julius. Sakuya takes the lead role of Romeo, but ends overwhelmed by the amount of work it takes. Izumi/the player, as the director of the play, offer to cut the sword fighting scene at the climax because it's clearly taking a lot out of him, and Masumi, Julius' actor, offers to take over as Romeo instead, but Sakuya yells and tells him no. Izumi decides to simplify the sword fight scene, and the troupe agrees. (iirc they end up going through with the original plan)

This is the first time we see Saku actually get angry, and I think it's really refreshing and much-needed. And also the whole like. This little man will overwork himself for ANYTHING. He will not calm down. What's his problem(affectionate)

There's another scene a lot later on that I'd also cite, but I don't wanna go through the trouble of finding the exact translation but for those who know: it's the phone call scene from act 12.

16. FREE REIGN - Infodump about your f/o's lore, your selfship lore, or literally anything related!!

I mean, it makes sense in-universe. Not even getting into that the last(?) major major conflict the Republic had to deal with was against Sith and that would definitely leave a mark on their approach to warfare, I’d imagine, the Republic around the time of the prequels and a bit before that period probably wouldn’t really see the need for international (you know what I mean) laws mandating conduct in warfare. War up until the Clone Wars was sort of treated as...well, very “what happens in your house stays in your house” and you could be as awful as you wanted to each other on your own planet provided it didn’t go spilling out on the street to bother the neighbors.

Inter-planetary conflict just didn’t happen in the form of traditional (”traditional”) warfare (when it did happen, it seems like it was almost all economic volleys, targeted mercenary jobs, and the occasional angry insurgent group that made its way off-planet), and the Jedi were really the only ones who cared to go wandering around and sticking their noses in to single-planet problems. There’s no way in hell the Senate was going to regulate warfare. “Why is your mess my problem,” was probably their thinking.

(Palpatine did his job way too well.)

Which means we roll into the Clone Wars with zero Republic-wide systems in place to mitigate the damage what-so-fucking-ever. The Separatists sure as hell aren’t going to open “let’s not be total fucking animals about this” talks that might lead to a universe-equivalent of at least the Geneva Conventions, after all. They have droids. They don’t care. The ones who would have to open those talks would be the Republic, which they maybe might have if they’d had to draft their own citizens into the shiny new GAR beyond some officers and a bit of the supporting staff, but.

I don’t even think I need to continue that. We all know not a single person in the Senate is required to give a single flying fuck about the clone troopers, which of course means they don’t, and they’ve already been conditioned to think of civilian casualties as someone else’s problem, which means The Clone Wars is a literal fucking free-for-all. 

You literally can’t commit a war crime because the laws defining a war crime don’t exist.