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This is not meta this is just giggles.

My absolute favorite scene in 501st is the one where the Nulls go to retrieve Niner and Darman only to have them both behave like cats who wanted the door open:

Jaing knows what’s up. He’s not wrong. They really are the two most dramatic members of Omega squad. Darman of the “I’m going to kick my sergeant out of the crashing aircraft against orders” school of thought and Niner, Mr. “We’ll believe Darman’s dead when HELL FREEZES OVER” and “I’m gonna FIGHT A NULL over ETHICS in the MIDDLE OF A MISSION I don’t GIVE a FUCK”.

This is going to be a five act tragecomedy if it kills them, basically. They know no other way.

Now a missing scene with Atin and Fi over on Mandalore making eye contact for the first time as they realize who exactly got left behind on Coruscant in the care of who:

and I’m just saying, if they’d let Atin or Fi come, Niner and Darman would have been tranqed into the ground five paces from HQ with enough drugs to down a Rancor each and woken up a week later on Mandalore. No muss, no fuss.

Ordo: We’ll only go if Niner calls for assistance.

Fi, holding a box of tranqs between his teeth as he loads one of Skirata’s verps: Uh-huh.

Darman and Niner have been Ordo’s official little brothers for like five minutes and they’ve already got him ready to throttle them on sight *wipes away a tear*

They’re doing great. I’m so proud of them. 

But the absolute best part to follow, because I love how the Nulls’ immediate, instinctive reaction to this shit is just to line up to dogpile Niner. Best and brightest over here and this is what they come up with. I am imagining now that this is just how they deal with each other when one of them requires an intervention. Just. Flatten the transgressor. Sit your heavy ass on the brother until he stops being a dumbass. Works a charm every time, I’m sure.

It’s beautiful.

But please, Ordo, imagine that you succeeded. You then would have been stuck in the same contained space as Niner and Niner’s lungs all the whole way back to Mandalore.

Please also imagine the Alphas laughing themselves sick at the Nulls suddenly confronted with a bunch of a commandos who emphatically refuse to behave rationally, sit still for five minutes, or do what they’re fucking told. Turn your back on them for a second and they’ve scattered themselves across Coruscant and are refusing orders because they’re having feelings about things, eh? Know better than you do, eh? Hm. hM. HEY, GUYS, DOESN’T THAT SOUND FAMILIAR. WOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT KINDA DOES. JUST GOTTA WONDER WHERE WE’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE-

Maze, looking Ordo dead in the eyes: Wow. Sounds just horrible. I feel just- so sorry for you. I can’t IMAGINE what that’s like--

(and it really is always niner lol please imagine Atin in the distance as soon as he hears taking a deep, deep breath, breaking out his thumb tacks, and adding another line to the “Niner is secretly a chaos gremlin” conspiracy board he’s been packing since Qiilura. He could have told you, Ordo. He could have warned you.)