Monday DE

[bjornwilde]

 I’m back home! Thank you so much for covering for me last week, inlovewithwords .

I know it’s Memorial Day, here in the states at least, and I don’t want to ignore that so we get a few questions today. 

Is there anyone who’s faced combat that your pup honors and misses?

And the topic I can’t seem to let go, your pup has come back from a long time away. How were things for those left behind? Or conversely, your pup was the one left behind. How were things for them? We’re there any practical matters that were a challenge? How did they act without their usual friends/family about?

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[student_of_impossibility]

Who has faced combat that Tavi honors and misses? His father. His grandfather. His aunt Alia, who wasn't a fighter but died in a battle of an arrow, kind of counts. Foss, his chief medical officer for about three years. He doesn't miss Aquitainus Attis but he definitely regrets not having a chance to try to heal what was broken. High Lord Cereus Macius. Aric, one of the holders from Calderon, and the many unnamed holders in Calderon who were killed in the war. Rook, who was kind of a traitor ish but also a friend. All of the many, many unnamed-by-canon people in the First and Free Aleran Legions and Crown Legion, and Canim and Marat, that he interacted with and knew and were killed in either the Kalaran rebellion, the Canim invasion, or the Vord War. And he sometimes feels as if everyone who died in the Vord War is basically his fault.

As for the second set of questions: [Insert books five and six of Codex Alera.] Uuuuuh. Things sucked for everyone in Alera while Tavi was gone. But then they would have sucked if he'd stayed, too, and probably doomed them long-term. Anyway, the Vord finally attacked Alera while Tavi was off seeing Canea (and defeating Vord there). So, er, practical challenge of APOCALYPSE. On both the Canean and Aleran fronts, actually. Biggest things that happened were that the woman who basically caused everything to go wrong defected to the Vord and gave them furycrafting, Tavi's aunt and uncle rescued some folks and killed one of the series lesser villains, Tavi's mom forged an alliance (and nearly died), and that Tavi's grandfather had to destroy the capital, the family's pet gestalt artificial goddess, and himself in the process of trying to kill the Vord Queen (who survived). As for Tavi, he still had a lot of his regular support folks around him, but the big thing was that without Sextus in the background as "fallback plan of authority and power if everything goes wrong," Tavi was for the first time very aware that no one was going to pull him out of the fire anymore if he screwed up. It was a good practice run for book six.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford was apparently in the army or something, but that comes from a few contradictory pieces of canon that I decided to ignore.

On the second question, Wilford is still occasionally bitter about not getting the help starting out in life that his brother did. He never really cared about his brother, and still doesn't, but the fact that their folks just up and left without telling him was proof to him that they were all worthless people.

[death_gone_mad]

Canon doesn't say whether Amascut misses or honors anyone. But then again, she is (or was) a goddess of the afterlife. Missing dead people would be odd.

Anyhow, she has a ton of issues springing from being abandoned by her brother on a planet on the other side of the universe. Said planet was occupied by a severely developmentally disabled elder goddess and her nightmares manifested into reality, but was otherwise lifeless (and in fact hostile to life) due to the other elder goddesses draining the planet of life force. Canon doesn't talk at all how Amascut made her way back home, or how her family mourned her, but while she was gone, the long running war that drove her brother and herself into the wider universe to seek aid had finally ground to a halt/cold war. Her family was probably only then getting the time to properly mourn her and honor her sacrifice toward the war effort when she returned.

That probably greatly increased her cult following as a Goddess of Rebirth, now that I think of it. But it was likely the wrong type of welcome, since her family and the people of the Kharid had already accepted that she was dead and that she had died while bringing the Stern Judges to the planet to fight off the demonic hordes from the North. I very much doubt her brother told the truth about her opposition to bringing back the Stern Judges/Mahjarrat and how she was really lost.

The world had moved on, thought she died a hero's death, and didn't even know why she had "died". And if they knew, they would have pointed out that she was wrong about the Mahjarrat and that they had saved the Kharid from being overrun by the Zarosian Empire to the north, likely, so I think she kept quiet.

It later turned out that Amascut was right about the Mahjarrat, tragically.

[bjornwilde]

CW Ahsoka: To the first question, she regrets/honors the clones she's directly responsible for killing in that poorly thought out attack above Ryloth. She also misses other clones of the 501st who've died. I can't think of anyone else since she's somewhere in season one, but eventually she'll regret the death of Steela Gerrera.

I think when she's away, not a whole lot changes. She neither reigns in or encourages ANakin's recklessness to that big of a degree. I mean, I know they challenge and push each other, but Anakin would do what he does regardless. I think the Clones would be most affected, being more serious and focused, since their little sis ain't there to brighten their day,

Rebels Ahsoka: Oh man, she mourns and honors so much. The Clones, especially Rex, though she hopes he's still out there. The Jedi, especially Anakin and Obi-wan. Padme, though Ahsoka assumes she didn't die in combat. (I assume her death wasn't spun to some disgrace since she was given a state funeral.) The republic. Girl lost a lot.

As to being missed...well, I don't think she thinks she leaves that many ripples behind. It does seem like she does though, if her novel is anything to go by.

Um...let's see...Empire comes in, people worry about her, her friend gets arrested, the planet gets strip farmed.

Sabine: I'm not sure about any deaths she mourns, tbh. I know of one that will hit her very hard, but that's a spoiler for season 04.

I'm honestly not sure how the Ghost crew would be without her. We do see some of it in season three for a bit, but they've got the Empire and the Rebellion to get them busy.

As for season one, I imagine Ezra would mope around, Chopper would complain about being the only one doing repairs, and Zeb would miss his lil' sis as well. Missions might be a bit tougher since they don't have their boom, but would get done regardless.

I think if Hera and Kanan had to leave and the three kids were left alone, there'd be some amusing shenanigans. Maybe a food store mission going sour or something. I'm imaging something like Home Alone mashed up with the Aladdin song, "One Jump Ahead".

[angry_friendship_wolf]

A lot of Yamato and co's allies die in the course of or immediately prior to the final arc of 01, and a few more die in 02 and Tri. Most of them come back, but some, like Wizarmon and Yukio Oikawa, don't. Yamato makes fairly regular trips to both Oikawa's grave and the site where Wizarmon died to pay his respect. There's going to be a few more graves added to that trip by the time Tri is done with.

Yam's also in the habit of extending that habit to some of his enemies: Jureimon, who he had enough of an odd bond with to consider a friend who happened to be on the other side, is one main one, and while he doesn't exactly miss him, he does have some regard for the guy's memory.

As far as coming back from a long time away: I can imagine the Chosen would drift apart a lot if he was gone, and it'd be a struggle to get them back together. His father would probably bury himself in his work a lot more.

There's an argument to be made that, at least from the perspective of Hiroaki Ishida and Natsuko Takaishi, him being away for a long time would've been better than what they got in 01, which is that a few hours for them ended up being almost a year for both their sons, who then both came back with pretty severe PTSD.