what was the reason https://twitter.com/biyias/status/1314138599231758337

this is just compounded by the fact that on kamino the clones were probably taught that they weren’t to have any romantic relationships or even love anyone

after all, they were only clones. they’re replaceable. that’s what they’ve been taught their entire lives. why would someone bother with one of them when there’s millions in the galaxy?

besides, falling in love just isn’t something a clone does. they’re meant for war and death, made to touch blasters and bombs and never a lover.

so they don’t even let themselves hope. why would cody waste his time thinking about possibilities that will never come to be? he’s never going to marry or fall in love or anything. why waste time thinking about that when he could be planning, strategizing?

and then he sees obi-wan. and cody can’t help but fall in love with this caring, stupidly charming general. obi-wan is good, respectful, talented, and he likes talking to cody. he treats him like a person. like someone, not just a body to be used as canon fodder

and obi-wan looks at him in a way cody can only describe as loving. and he lets himself forget what the kaminoans told him. he lets himself believe that he’s good enough, special enough to be loved by someone as wonderful as a jedi.

but there’s a moment in the war where both anakin and cody are in the path of a missile, obi-wan between them. another clone takes the blow before it gets near them, but cody doesn’t miss the way obi-wan moved towards anakin instead of towards cody

and he wants to say he’s surprised, but deep down it just confirms everything he always knew. he’s a clone. he’s not meant to be loved. but he doesn’t miss the way general secura looks at bly or the familial laughter coming from general plo and the wolfpack.

and cody wishes he could have that familiarity with someone. that he wouldn’t be second best. and when he sees how the other clones are loved and appreciated, he comes to believe that the defect, the inability to love and be loved, is isolated only to him

perfect cody, stoic commander of the 212th, the best clone in the GAR, is a mistake. defective. wrong.

when order 66 comes, he doesn’t feel anything different. he’s always been a tool in someone else’s war. he never had a choice. why would this be any different? here, with the control chip in charge, he can let it do the killing

in the end, cody dies thinking he’s defective. he’s a machine. it’s made him the best clone in the galaxy but it’s made him the worst human possible. and he accepts it. he’ll never be loved. not in the way he wants to be. so he settles for being known. it’s the most he’ll get.

the end