This is an odd thought that I had. Canonically the Jedi are able to tell the clones apart easily with the Force. Let’s take it a step further. Because of the extra senses given by the Force, the Clones really don’t even look the same to the Jedi. (Sort of like that online test that goes around about how many color shades you can see, where some people can see four shades easily but others see one block of color.) They never quite forget that their troops are clones but whenever someone talks about them looking the same, or like Jango Fett, all the Jedi just laugh awkwardly or are really confused (There is some “are they talking about the helmets? I mean the men paint the helmets, but maybe the visor looks the same?”).
I just want wholesome shenanigans where various nat borns interact with the Jedi and the clones. With lots of side eye while the Jedi try fruitlessly to figure out why “they keep saying that Cody looks like Jango Fett, what?” or “How are they confusing Fives with Echo?”
Anakin goes to describe Rex in very specific detail except how he does leaves everyone (except the Jedi) confused because that’s not what Rex looks like
Obi-Wan: makes sense
Palpatine: I have no clue who you’re talking about
This reminds me of a Terry Prachet scene with a werewolf character trying to describe people in scents but human language lacks the vocabulary to translate the concepts. Anakin saying stuff like “Rex is so prilltz” , and “Echo is very schnorf when he’s just come on duty” and those are terms for how their personality feels or how their aura glistens in a jedi’s perception.
So first, ^ this exactly. Also all of the reblogs are amazing. Consider The Jedi trying to translate what they feel in the Force into Basic, like they have words in Dai Bendu for all of it but trying to describe something in Dai Bendu to a Force null is such a headache. So they say things like “He feels like the smell of precisely 1/25th of a rotten apple mixed with the color that goes with the taste of transparasteel” and all the Force Users in the room go “Oh, that asshole” while the poor LEO is trying to figure out how to input that into his database. The Coruscant Guard finally had to redesign their database for shit like that, then have Quinlan Vos come through hand help them fill it out and each and every one of them is violently angry when their ability to catch killers shot up 200%. Incidentally, and by complete accident, they found out that if a Jedi tells them someone has “the color that goes with the taste of transparasteel” in their description, the person has probably deceived someone in the past 48 hrs and no one can tell them why.
Second this opens up some many opportunities for hilarity with Jedi that go under cover. Like there has to be extra classes and all the Jedi that go undercover has to retake like every 4 months because they start to think that all they have to do is put in colored contacts, or forget the need for disguises entirely in favor of trying to change their Force signature and maybe their voice.
Third, Think about how funny it would be even the Sith did this. Like they don’t even realize it but Palpatine, Dooku, Ventress, Maul they can all tell the clones apart and do it without trying. Without realizing they are doing it. Consider Palpatine being in a meeting with the Jedi and several members of the Senate and not paying attention and greeting each clone by their number, and this is what starts making the Senator suspicious of him.
Like he is doing everything right, fooling everyone and he is not paying attention and so asks if “CC-1010” is feeling under the weather (it was the only way he would allow himself to gloat and feel the fond memories of torturing the Clone the day before), except there were the same number of guards as always and they had been trying to pass off Thorn as Fox (they knew that the Jedi wouldn’t say anything) to give him a break. This is the point that everything unravels, because ‘how can the Force Null Chancellor tell the Clones apart, that’s a Jedi thing”
I KEEP LOSING THIS SO I’M REBLOGGING AGAIN
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