"What More Could I Lose?" - Matsukaze Tenma

andy + one eye

So awesome. Thank you for blessing us with these!!!

Some enki doodles and old wips that… i will finish one day i swear…

What if time.

Hashirama’s mokuton appears as he goes through puberty. Nobody ever saw anything like this, and he has to learn to control it on his own. Tobirama is beside him every step of the way, observing, experimenting, making questions - but it’s not enough. The mokuton is too wild, to dangerous, they need a sure way to harness it.

Tobirama goes through the records in the Senju library and finds mentions of venerable hermits who mastered nature in order to become Sages: it sounds similar enough to mokuton for the two brothers to beg Butsuma to let them leave for a few months to find a Sage to train them.

In Water Country, they find Yue the Cat Hermit, a kunoichi who achieved Sage mode thanks to her cat summons.

It takes a long time to persuade her, but eventually she agrees to teach them. Neither is compatible with a summon contract, so they’re going to learn to access natural chakra the hard way. Tobirama, thanks to his chakra sensing abilities, manages to reach Sage mode first - but he’s quickly overloaded. Once he can feel nature chakra, he can’t just unfeel it: it overwhelms him, steals his mind from his body.

It messes him up, because it makes him too open: for him, Sage mode is utterly useless, because it makes him too vulnerable to fight. Thus, while Hashirama trains to master Sage mode to harness the mokuton, Tobirama learns to close himself to nature chakra - but he never managed to fully cut himself off, so he’s kind of in Sage mode all the time. The marks on his face? They’re his latent Sage mode. When he slips and reaches out to natura chakra, he gains many more marks on his face and neck.

(On top of that, when he’s overwhelmed by natura chakra, he can’t stand Hashirama’s presence. His brother shines like a sun to his senses, and it’s just too much for Tobirama.)

Bonus scene: the moment where Tobirama managed to feel nature chakra and was overloaded:

[warm warm strong bright come to me come come bright soft great great light bright light it calls calls to Tobirama, calls calls and Tobirama can’t resist it’s so great and bright and warm and he wants it wants it he feels so small small small, it would be end of all strife if only he allowed the light to take him carry him away away become one it calls calls-] A snap like the world cracking and Tobirama is gasping, finds himself on his back, staring out at the blue sky and he’s deaf deaf blind blind where has the light gone is he dead he must be dead why can’t he feel the warmth anymore where is it- The Cat Hermit kneels above Tobirama. A part of him recognizes the paper slip she’s pressing on his heart as a chakra suppressor. “Go away,” she growls and Tobirama doesn’t understand, where could he go? No no he wants to find the warmth again- “What’s wrong with him?” Hashirama wails, and Tobirama sees his brother stepping closer, but the Cat Hermit lashes out at him. “Away! You’re hurting him!” Hurt fear worry flash on Hashirama’s face. “What?” “Go away, or you’ll kill him!” the Cat Hermit snarls - and Hashirama recoils as if stricken. With a choked sound, he turns tail, disappearing in the forest. Tobirama groans, raising one hand weakly. “The light-! Bring it back!” The Cat Hermit smiles a sad smile. “No.”

punks

So Rex spends his time trying to stop his General from undertaking reckless plans without consulting General Kenobi.

And Cody is constantly trying to make his General look after himself without resorting to calling the healers or General Skywalker.

Meanwhile Wolffe has to stop his General from adopting all the things andPonds spends a lot of time trying to convince General Windu to let THEM do the protecting.

And we’ve just decided that whichever poor Clone Commander was assigned to Kit Fisto faces a constant battle to stop him fighting naked.

So what other bad habits do the Jedi have that the clones need to deal with? Does Vos constantly go AWOL? Why foibles does Aayla have that drive Bly nuts? What about Luminara?

ok as amazing as Twilight of Apprentice was how funny would it have been if Ahsoka was just beyond done with Anakin’s bullshit™ and just screamed “FUCK OFF SKYGUY” everytime she saw Vader

“The man you knew as Anakin Skywalker is de-”

“Cut the shit, Anakin, I know it’s you. You just flew in standing on top of your TIE fighter and there’s only one fucker in the galaxy who’s that extra”

Freemor/Alpha-17 fluff whit alpha loving his jedi

The weight against his side is sun-warm, there are gentle breaths against his collarbone, and Alpha has his blaster resting on his knee, ready to shoot the first idiot who thinks about making a smart comment and waking his Jedi.

And if that doesn’t work, the fact that he’s spinning his favorite knife between his fingers should probably get the message across nicely.

Rex, who was never one of Alpha's trainees, apparently nevertheless has more brains than most, given the way he’s keeping his head down and very determinedly not looking anywhere even close to Alpha, even when Feemor shifts and stirs. Alpha doesn’t bother moving from the chair he claimed, even though it’s probably supposed to belong to the planet’s king; the old bastard can eat bantha shit for all Alpha cares, because it’s a huge, pretentious thing, and just about the only chair in existence that he’s ever found that’s big enough for both him and Feemor to share. And it’s nice, having Feemor curled against his side, legs hooked over one of Alpha's knees, fast asleep like at Alpha's side is the safest place to be in the universe.

Entirely pleased with himself, Alpha curls his arm a little more tightly over Feemor's shoulder, resettling him against his chest, and Feemor hums, drowsy and exhausted and content. It makes Alpha press a lingering kiss to his bright hair, then smooth a thumb over the edge of a sapphire-blue tattoo he can just see through a rip in the shoulder of Feemor's robes. He idly rolls the knife over the top of his hand, rests his cheek against the top of Feemor's head—

With a clatter of entirely unacceptable noise, the door slides open, and Alpha's least favorite trainee ever says loudly, “—get karked, Wolffe, we’re not staging a ground operation just to soothe your ego—”

Rex's head jerks up, horror flashing over his face as he signs abort abort abort with increasing desperation. Alpha knew he liked the little brat for a reason.

“It’s not about my ego, it’s about routing the damn Seps—” Alpha's other least favorite trainee says just as loudly—

Alpha's knife buries itself in the edge of the holotable, two precise centimeters from Cody's hand.

“Voices. Down.” Alpha bites out as Cody and Wolffe both freeze, their gazes snapping right to him. Mildly murderous, Alpha scowls at the pair of them, stroking Feemor's shoulder with soothing passes of his knuckles, and dares either brat to test him.

Much more quietly, Cody clears his throat, sidestepping carefully as he eyes the blaster resting on Alpha's knee. “Sorry, sir,” he says, barely audible, and Wolffe swallows, nods, and keeps his damned mouth shut, just the way it should be.

With a grunt of satisfaction, Alpha sinks back into the chair, and when Feemor stirs he immediately turns to resettling him. “Easy,” he says. “Just go back to sleep, you're going to get your idiot self killed one of these days if you keep not sleeping.”

Feemor huffs, but sinks back down, one of his hands skimming Alpha's chest in a clumsy brush that trickles his gratitude and love through Alpha's mind. “Be nice,” he mutters, but his breathing is already evening out again, and Alpha snorts softly, kissing his forehead. It’s only partially because Cody and Wolffe are both staring at him like they’ve never seen a bastard in love before.

“Never,” he says, and catches Feemor's hand in his own.

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the way that they have been through so much together and know each other so well that even though Ahsoka has been gone for MONTHS and MONTHS they can STILL fight side by side like separate parts of a single warrior. They compliment each other so perfectly and THAT my friends is THAT on being platonic soulmates

Okay, so I find Riyo Chuchi to be a really interesting character, and this scene from the episode “Trespass” in season one is a fascinating look into her as a person and it’s a fascinating look into the Republic’s political climate at the beginning of the war. This entire episode is a chilling (ha) reminder of how little power the Jedi have, and this interaction is a brilliant one to include.

Because while Riyo isn’t one of the main protagonists, she’s still meant to be a sympathetic character, a character we like and a character we want to succeed. We know that she’s friends with Ahsoka, and we know that she’s at least friendly with Padme. Hell, right after this scene she has a kickass speech and saves the day! Riyo is pretty undeniably portrayed as a good guy to the viewer.

But Riyo still does a pretty huge fandom no-no, for lack of a better way to put it.

Because in this episode, Senator Riyo Chuchi asks the Jedi to negotiate on her planet’s behalf, and when the Council member present says that they can’t, Senator Chuchi changes her tone, and orders them to.

Now, thankfully, Riyo Chuchi is also a logical character, so when Obi-Wan tells her why he said no, she doesn’t fight him on it any further. But it still is fascinating to think about, because… the Jedi serve the Senate. Because even a Senator who’s friends with the “good guys” has no with issue using that fact to her advantage. Because the look that Obi-Wan and Anakin send each other implies that this has absolutely happened before.

It’s just… interesting to think about.

(But also, seriously, the implications throughout this entire episode are kind of horrifying??? Like, within the first two minutes of this episode, we see the Chairman, uh, remind Obi-Wan and Anakin that the Jedi serve the Senate, aka Senator Chuchi in this case, and Riyo then confirms that, leading to Obi-Wan standing down. And that’s pretty much the tone of the entire of the episode! It’s wack.)

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