Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Memes

training for the ballet, clones?

i hope u appreciate the title reference

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WELL it seems i accidentally put actual thought into a TCW ballet AU
- do not think about any of the clones in tights and a t-shirt DO NOT
- ballet prodigy Anakin Skywalker who didn't start until his teens and then became one of the company's youngest principal dancers ever
- older, more experienced dancer Obi-Wan who took Anakin under his wing and seems very very refined but was trained by known maverick Qui-Gon so they all think it's an act
- Padme would rock all those elaborate costumes, she and Anakin do insanely gorgeous pas de deux (their secret relationship remained secret for approximately three hours after its inception)
- Yoda as the tiny grizzled ballet master with bizarre syntax, probably foreign, nobody actually knows where he's from they just know he doesn't really need that cane
- Ahsoka's the newest apprentice with the company, dances like a firecracker, will kick you in the face (with pointe shoes on) if you suggest she's too young to be there
- a significant minority of the corps is a group of guys who are all related in some way or another, they all started training at like age two and pretty much everyone in their extended family is a dancer
- Fives and Echo have a technician vs. performer thing going on - Echo's the more technically proficient of the two but Fives is a lot more fun to watch
- Echo gets hit by a car or something and basically destroys both his legs and everyone's like "well that's the end of your career", he goes "excuse u" and undergoes a shit ton of physical therapy and gradually builds back up to his previous level
- is this entire post just an excuse for me to talk about dancer!Rex? who practises constantly and has never known any other life and maybe kind of takes himself a bit too seriously sometimes (much to Cody's consternation)? yeah, probably
- WOLFFE
- Tup already has the perfect ballerina bun. you need a bobby pin, he's got you covered. probably also King of Stage Fright before performances but once he gets started he totally forgets about it
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#ONE MORE REBLOG #CLONE APPRECIATION DAY #APPRECIATE THEM IN TIGHTS
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i have several Opinions on this

i love it. ballet au? sign me up. if anyone knows if it's been written please tell me (if not i am about to start researching ballet)

also why do i often have the intense urge to teach myself how to ballet dance???? like naturally i'm fairly flexible, i usually get quite high scores on flexibility in phys ed  compared to other people, and if i put in the work i'd be able to build up the muscle necessary (when i was 7 - 10 i did judo and got like... abs. faint, but still. so sometimes i wanna get back to that level of fitness)

okay anyway BACK TO THE POINT let me expand to this au:
the separatists are like a rival ballet company
they always go to head to head in competitions and the results are always very close
palpatine is the main sponsor of the republic ballet company, but secretly he's directing a LOT of funding towards the separatist one, whilst working on a plot to get Anakin to switch companies
different planets could be different theatres they perform in (Naboo Theatre, Geonosis Theatre etc.)
the bad batch are like. elite dancers or something. obviously. (and they've adopted Omega)

can't believe this is one of the chapters with the most writing in.... i love AUs.

- ari