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WIP animation — Young!Clones: Life after the war, on Alderaan

The idea is that, post RepGA-AU, part of the epilogue includes the remaining maturing clones in their new chance for a different future, most often being raised by the older vod’e in one new sort of home or another.

FOX NO

DAVID! :D You're back and reading my favorite book!!!!! Great to see you! What a fun question! I think Dooku absolutely 100% did consider taking it and likely would have, which is why he has such a huge emotional crash out to Anakin and Obi-Wan showing up. I think it also well explains how he behaves afterward, him basically closing his eyes and covering his ears and walking straight into Sidious's obvious murderous endgame like:

Because his reaction to Obi-Wan and Anakin showing up isn't "ah, expected trap is revealed by my established foes - just as I suspected." He is genuinely very, very upset. The motherfucker let himself at least picture Yoda's offer, if not feel very real relief and hope about accepting it. His crashout is on the level of a person who is embarrassed, because he let himself really believe the offer for a moment, and then feels all the more stupid and ashamed and enraged by the "realization" that it was a fake out and he was the one fool enough to believe it could be possible. So therefore, we get him crying profusely sweating from uh, *checks the text* the eyes, the sloppy-ass lightsaber work, throwing an old lady out a window, throwing HIMSELF out a window, and eventually dropping a bomb on his own location. It's... not an amazing moment for our guy, who otherwise deals with Obi-Wan and Anakin popping up on screen elsewhere rather handily. But there's something very different about his emotional state in that encounter.

Yoda also thinks he had Dooku convinced, or almost convinced:

Vader does go back in time

He doesn’t swear loyalty to Padme, Obi-Wan or Ahsoka

He swears absolute loyalty to Captain Rex

You are one of the Cuy'val Dar. Your job is training small clones of an old friend to be very dangerous adults. You do not like this job, but it pays well and keeps you quietly squirreled away from That One Crimelord You Pissed Off.

The Grim Reaper just blew a hole in the wall and swore loyalty to a nameless toddler.

The Kaminoan that tried to approach has been cut in half by a red lightsaber.

The entire room is full of crying children.

Fett just showed up and is being threatened by the Black Hole of a Sentient Being in the middle of the room to stay the fuck away.

The blaster shot from Dred Priest accomplished jackshit, and was in fact bounced back to kill the man.

Isabet just lost her head, literally, trying to get revenge on the absolute motherfucker in the middle of the room.

The kids are still crying, including the nameless toddler that this asshole declared his new lord and master.

Jango decides to use the shortcut “Phone a Friend”! It’s questionably effective. The “friend” is Dooku.

Dooku sees the half-assed photo of Vader threatening someone with a red saber and goes “this is obviously one of Sidious’s ploys to fuck with me and/or a competing apprentice” and decides to handle it personally. He does not call Sidious about this, because that would be losing.

Dooku gets to Kamino. Vader is intensely incomprehensible. They have a big fancy battle.

Dooku dies.

Vader is just carrying around Rex on one uncomfortably metal-clad hip this entire time. The main reason Jango’s still alive, really, is that he has babycare advice, and tells Vader things like “You should probably put some padding in that sling, your armor is hurting him” and then Vader just. Does that.

Single Dad Jango is only not dead because he has Single Dad Advice.

The Kaminoans contact the Jedi Temple about The Situation That Is Vader, who won’t fucking leave, because apparently Rex will only be happy if he stays with his brothers, and so that means Vader must stay as well.

The Jedi show up, utterly confused about many things, but generally in agreement that this is an absolutely terrible situation and probably requires a council master to handle because, like… Sith. And an army. And Fett. And Mandalorians.

There’s a lot going on, is the point, and none of it should be handled by a knight.

The Jedi in question are Mace and Plo.

Vader has a grudge against Mace but he pretends he doesn’t because that would be so passe and beneath him.

Vader does not have a grudge against Plo. He’s actually quite neutral on Plo, for Ahsoka reasons, and mostly just tells Plo to go handle children.

Plo would love to play with the kids, but Plo is here to help Mace fight a fucking Sith Lord.

The Sith Lord is not impressed. He is actually quite busy, standing dramatically in front a window and holding tiny Rex, informing him in grand phrases and sweeping gestures that the universe will be his for the taking.

(Rex is busy chewing on a toddler toy.)

Jango is ready to just throw in the towel. He signed up for a lot, but This Bullshit wasn’t it.