may-time mingling (starstruck!)

[mucked]

Who: Starstruck crew + visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Aboard the Starstruck!
When: The merry merry month of May

[ there's been a tiny regime change and doubtless some debriefing after that masquerade! have at it, starstruckers. mingle away! ]

Comments

[nostraightlines]

The war. Were you alive for it?

[resnipstance]

Oh! Of course. ... I fought in it. [That sentence is horrifying enough on it's own when you consider her age-- she only looks around sixteen or seventeen, and certainly no older.] It started three years ago.

[By which math, she would've been thirteen or fourteen when it started.]

[nostraightlines]

[ ...yeah that's. That's really not okay. He's not one to talk about rough childhoods, though. Sometimes you have to grow up fast. ]

Did you know any of the clones? Personally, I mean.

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka's expression grows distant then.]

... Yes. I do. [It's quiet, but there's a subtle emphasis on her last word there. Do. Not did. The distinction is important to her. They're not all dead yet.]

My master was the general in charge of the 501st Battalion, which made me de-facto Commander by default. Though to be honest... the first year of the war was mostly me leaning on them for military and tactical advice.