so if BB-8′s “a BB unit”, does that mean there’s a BB-1 through 7?
Does this mean there were scary stories on the flight deck pre- or post-mission with Poe and Black Squadron? Imagine Poe with a light-stick beneath his chin and a glint in his eye, kneeling to speak in a spooky voice to BB-8.
“Hey, BB-8. Why is BB-6 afraid of BB-7?”
An inquisitive whirr.
“’Cause BB-7 ate 9!”
“!!!!” BB-8 rolls back and forth in panic while Poe falls over laughing.
“It’s okay, buddy. I didn’t mean it literally! It’s just a joke!” (A joke??) “Yeah, a joke!” BB-8 gently zaps Poe in retribution and rolls away, the droid-equivalent of a walking off in a huff.
“Ow, hey! Come on, BB-8, it was supposed to be funny!”
BB-8 doesn’t speak to him for the rest of the day, so Poe goes on a mission around base asking any and everyone if they’ve seen any droids, and joins the squadron table at dinner looking exhausted but triumphant. BB-8 is with them.
“Hey, BB-8, look!” He holds up a round, shrieking droid with a grin. “It’s BB-7!”
BB-8 beeps in alarm and hides behind the table leg while Poe gently explains that BB-7 is not really scary at all, see?
BB cautiously rolls out to investigate for itself. Cue gentle droid booping.
They become bosom buddies and roll everywhere together, collect the whole gang and then BB rolls up to Poe pre-flight sometime a week later, like ten minutes before take off. “BB-8, buddy where were you? we gotta go!” “!!” “what is it?” BB-8 is insistent.“!” “You wanna show me something? ok buddy but make it quick, it’s almost time to leave.”
BB-8 whistles and BB-6 rolls over in a panic, whirring. BB-8 whirrs at it and it whirrs back and all three of them turn towards BB-7 rolling determinedly along. BB-6 Ducks behind BB-8 as BB-7 rolls to a stop a few feet before reaching them. A smaller beep draws Poe’s attention to his feet where BB-9 sits, rocking back and forth in contentment.
All three droids beep back the joke in binary.
Poe cries laughing and doesn’t stop until the General herself contacts him on comms to ask what him the hold up is.
Okay but consider: the droids.
The fact that they clearly, CLEARLY rehearsed this little show before showing off to Poe on the tarmac just before the flight
BB-8 is a very strict producer ok
lots of beeeeeeep!!! and whirrrr bleeep!!!s when the others got it wrong
“no it has to be THIS WAY” “this is how Poe told it!” “do it OVER.”
he definitely thinks han has Insufficient Fur, even that time han tried to grow a beard and it looked like something patchy and a little bit ginger died on his face.
because han does not have enough fur, chewie is convinced han is cold 80% of the time. he worries about it, which is why he keeps the falcon ten degrees warmer than is actually comfortable.
he hated “chewie” when han first started using it (he is named after bacca, one of the great heroes, it is an honor—) but once han started introducing him that way, he basically resigned himself to it.
he had his revenge years later, because ben couldn’t pronounce “chewie”—too many vowels for a youngling’s mouth—so he became “bacca”
this is one of the reasons ben is was his favorite
he was absolutely useless during the process of han pursuing leia—wookiee courtship mostly involves complicated ritual dancing and bellowing, so their interactions on hoth looked very romantic to chewbacca
(it had made him a little jealous, how expertly han seemed to navigate his way into an argument; chewbacca had struggled with that, when he was looking for a mate)
……also, while it’s really not any of his business, chewbacca always approved of leia. she might be a human female, but she snarled and snapped like a wookiee, and han needed more wookiees in his life.
“leia” “luke” and “ben” are all complicated names to transliterate into shyriiwook; chewbacca definitely refers to them as “small mate” “sand-brother” and “pup”
chewbacca thinks of han as a word that’s difficult to translate out of
shyriiwook; it plays off an ambiguity in the language that doesn’t survive in basic. but if pressed, he would have to say the closest translation is something like flight and something else like freedom, and also, the image of a bird in the sky.
what are you doing. who are you trying to impress. you’ve already got that lightsaber. wearing flashy black leather chanel boots. custom made cape. suit made to make you look like an evil, menacing shadow. do you really need that voice changer to make your voice deeper? no. everyone already knows you’re dramatic and terrifying as hell but here you come, standing on top of a god damn tie fighter instead of piloting it, looking extra as hell. probably flying it yourself through the force because who else is going to put up with your shit.
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