My Contribution To TBB Fandom After THIS Finale...

On Umbara

Rex: I think we're missing something

Fives: Teamwork?

Jesse: Cohesion?

Kix, in full medic mode: HALF OF OUR FUCKING BATTALION?!

but HE STARTED IT!!

...this is PEAK sibling behaviour I am DYING

(and Omega's eyeroll? PERFECTION, NO NOTES)

Din: Says some insane cult-y things Bo-Katan: 👀 This might be the Way? 👀

Credit to randomz616 on Tiktok

WHY WAS I NOT TOLD THIS EXISTED??

I....I really need a minute to process my emotions from that finale, but wow. Selfishly, I hate every minute once they got on the rail cars because of course I want everyone happy and safe and bopping around the galaxy to Space Hits Radio and all 6 of them are taking on the Empire.

But objectively, just as a viewer, wow. Like holy shit, wow. Those two episodes were an amazing finale for an ongoing series. That was Star Wars. The emotional highs and devastating lows I felt through a cartoon are going to stay with me for a long time. I just....I'm really struggling to put into words the impact this all just had on me, but after this season, and especially after this finale, The Bad Batch is one of my top 3 Star Wars medias.

Pls enjoy some miscellaneous high-contrast icons that I am tired of seeing in my drafts folder.

literally sick, we didn’t deserve obi wan

THE BAD BATCH FINALE MEME DUMP PART 2

Tech being horrified by hunter and crosshairs temps is the most accurate thing I’ve ever read

TBB shower headcanons bc that's what my brain is on today

Crosshair has ice cold showers - and will flick/spray frigid water at people who come too close

Hunter has scalding hot showers, takes forever if he's not interrupted

Hunter & Crosshair can't shower after each other bc the temperature of the room irritates them

Echo can't have showers bc they hurt his skin so he uses a ladel and bucket with lukewarm water - sometimes he spends over an hour just meticulously cleaning his cybernetics bc they unnerve him and he's trying to get himself more used to them

Tech has showers at a scientifically perfect temperature, this took him ages to figure out and he's horrified by Hunter and Crosshair's unreasonable temps

Wrecker prefers baths but when he can't have them he has really quick and efficient showers bc he doesn't like them (or he joins echo with the bucket method, often washes Echo's back for him)

The whole batch have washed Hunter's hair at least once, usually when he's overstimulated and finds it hard to move. This often falls to Wrecker bc he's the most gentle and thorough with it - but he tends to use too much shampoo bc he squeezes the bottle too hard

Omega also prefers baths, first trying them after the batch leaves kamino. She bathes late in the day bc she's not on military time like the guys

Thinking about how in The Outpost, the avalanche is a literal, external event that represents Crosshair’s internal struggle, and his world crumbling around him. Then in The Return, the ice wyrm is a literal creature, but it also represents the animosity between Hunter and Crosshair. The wyrm is literally under the surface, and it races towards Hunter and Crosshair as their argument escalates. Then, inside the bunker, Hunter says they have to get the wyrm outside the perimeter “before it tears this place apart”. If Hunter and Crosshair don’t reconcile, it will tear their squad apart from the inside just as surely as the worm will destroy the bunker from the inside.