For Want of a Nail
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Tattoos by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
08 Nov 2022
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"Zel didn’t care about the war.
Didn’t care about clones. Didn’t care about Separatists. Didn’t care about anything Topside, except her second cousin when Zel remembered her.
Zel only cared if the needle of her tattoo gun could pierce the skin of her customer, and if she could pull off whatever design they’d asked for."In which a tattoo request from a clone commander changes the course of history.
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- Part 1 of For Want of a Nail
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Stay Still by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
12 Nov 2022
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Clones were men of action.
Always on the move, acting, reacting, adapting and overcoming in real time. Brilliant men, honorable men—
But never still.
Fives learns to stay still, and changes everything.
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- Part 2 of For Want of a Nail
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The Hair Tie by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
14 Nov 2022
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“So then he just kicks the droid, right in the vocabulator, and the thing’s sparking and wailing that it’s just had its neck joints oiled, and he just blasts its head right off, and then he says—”
Ping.
They stopped abruptly, as soft, fluffy curls cascaded from the tight bun, falling to rest gently on Tup’s shoulders. Dogma stared at Tup in shock.
“What just happened?” he demanded tightly.
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In which a hair tie breaks, and the unexpected happens.
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- Part 3 of For Want of a Nail
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Just Numbers on a Spreadsheet by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
17 Dec 2022
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“That stupid kriffer is blowing me off again,” Trillian huffed, dropping into his seat. Jaz looked over, her silvery white eyebrows raised.
“Which one?”
Trillian shot her a flat look. “Golden Boy. Ignores my requests for a meeting, then asks where I’m at with approving his requisition request. I can play this game all day, man. I will shut down resupply for his entire battalion if he keeps this up.”
“Careful,” Jaz jabbed a breadstick from her lunch in his general direction. “The Chancellor likes him. You won’t get away with that for long.”
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In which a Senate budget analyst does some digging and finds something unexpected.
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- Part 4 of For Want of a Nail
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Free Caf for Clone Troopers by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
30 Dec 2022
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Lani slid the mocha to Dormé, then picked up her own mug, a gift that Thorn had managed to procure despite their ‘non-pay’ status. It’s Hard Being This Brew-tiful. She smiled at it, allowing the warmth of his affection to overcome her disgust for Dormé’s shitty boyfriend.
Dormé chuckled faintly. “That would be a sight. By the way, did they ever catch the sleemo who left that pile of dead womp rats at your door?”
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In which a determined cafe owner's strong opinions on the treatment of sentients reaches all the right ears.
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- Part 5 of For Want of a Nail
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Di'kutla Shab by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
03 Feb 2023
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Jesse would be the first to admit he’d had some pretty low points in his short, miserable life.
Umbara, for starters.
Losing Fives.
Losing Kix.
That time Captain Rex got shot and Jesse had to take charge.
However, as he sat kneeling, like a pet, at the side of the throne in Sundari as Maul sprawled across it like he owned the karking place, Jesse felt confident this moment sat comfortably in the top three lowest points of his short, miserable life.
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In which Jesse is predictably hardheaded, with unexpected results.
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- Part 6 of For Want of a Nail
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Grace Note by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
10 Feb 2023
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Echoing through the open space, ricocheting off the nearby buildings and filling the air. Rys froze, listening. It was unlike anything he’d ever heard before. A haunting sound that rose and fell, sonorous then soft, swiftly rising and then a lull before the inevitable fall. Looping and swooping, gathering strength then falling back. It gripped his chest in a vice, and Rys found it hard to breathe. It seemed impossible that a sound could render him incapable of movement, and then—
The sound changed, again and again, rising higher and faster, and Rys could feel his pulse race in time and he feared the inevitable conclusion and then it just… fell. Limply. Like a wail.
Like a lament.
And Rys realized he was crying.
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In which Corrie Guard Rys discovers orchestral music, and is never quite the same again.
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- Part 7 of For Want of a Nail
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The Empty Boots by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
01 Oct 2023
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- Part 8 of For Want of a Nail
- Part 1 of Sprout Does Halloween
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Systems Upgrade by TenderLittleSprout
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
15 Nov 2023
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Chett really hates the MicroSith 360 upgrade. And old Chancellors who can't use technology.
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- Part 9 of For Want of a Nail