Now that Omega is part of the Rebel Alliance I had the most beautiful idea pop into my head:
I’m just imagining her hanging out with her squad post-mission. It was a major success so everyone is in high spirits. In the middle of their debrief/celebration she gets a comm. “Ah, it’s my little brother,” she says, “I have to take this.”
Everyone is very understanding—family is important and they haven’t had much time or really even the security to check-in in recent weeks. She pulls up the holo. Instead of the teenager or young adult they were expecting when she said “little brother”, it’s a fifty-something, one-handed, very clearly ex-soldier with the voice of a chain smoker whose first words are “Finally, you answer your kriffing comm”.
The others watch in awe as the two of them banter back and forth. After 8 separate assurances that she’s doing well, she’ll call him back later so she can talk to Hunter and Wrecker, and that she’ll be safe, he finally hangs up and she’s left with the rest of the squad just staring at her. One of them asks confusedly “Who was that?”
“I told you, it’s my younger brother.” Omega has to explain the dynamics of cloning after that.
A sad lil Crosshair animatic to go on the end of episode 3.11! I really enjoy character acting so I had a lot of fun with this. It was a devastating moment and I wanted to imagine the emotional reaction to it.