Echo Is Tolerant Up To A Point But He's Not Above Throwing Hands. Like He & Hevy Got Into It In The Cadets

Echo is tolerant up to a point but he's not above throwing hands. Like he & Hevy got into it in the cadets episode & it seemed like that was a regular occurrence. He's the first to stand-up after Omega hits the reg with her lunch, even if he does complain, he's ready to get into it. In the brig, he literally just met Omega & he tells the Corrie "harm her & you're a dead man" ... like he's chill but he's not that chill, Crosshair would walk away with a black eye if he pushed too many buttons. Cause yeah, if the two got into it, Echo would win no diff & Crosshair knows this.

I genuinely think the first time Echo and Crosshair fought it was like the ship had been set on fire.

Their mission was shitty. It beat them into the ground and there was a lot of death in that battle and it had run them all ragged. Everyone was on edge. And Crosshair made some shitty comment that set Echo off. He was already pissed off and upset and overstimulated and Crosshair made the mistake of being a dick at the wrong time.

And Echo lashed out at him with such an intense dressing down that everyone just stared in silence as he did it. Crosshair didn’t help his case. He threw back just as many metaphorical punches and buckled down and made it worse because if someone’s going to call him out he’ll make sure it stings. It’s going to linger, hurt when it’s thought about.

By the time it was over they both sulked on opposite ends of the ship and avoided each other like the plague. As well as snapped at the rest of the batch when they tried to even ask simple questions or dare to sit nearby.

For the next three days it was like walking around two landmines. They refused to remain in the same room as each other, wouldn’t talk to each other or anyone else. It took locking them both in the cockpit and only agreeing to let them out if they talked about it before they finally broke down and had a conversation (stubborn as hell they are.)

They aren’t good at talking, especially about their feelings, so it took some more arguing before one of them got honest. It was probably Echo who, tired of fighting, finally admitted that sometimes Crosshair crosses (lol) a line and he doesn’t let it go. And it hurt (which he begrudgingly admits after some prodding.) to which Crosshair can admit that his pride gets in the way when someone confronts him and he may have dealt some low blows.

After an awkward silence they could maybe admit that fighting with each other sucked so bad but it felt kind of impossible to patch things up. This is the fight where Echo learned Cross will only patch things up when he’s ready (and he usually has to let it get pretty bad before he’ll admit any fault) and Crosshair learns that Echo can spit fire if he’s pissed and doesn’t back down from a fight.

Their fights aren’t always that bad. Although, like any people who live together 24/7, they get into spats every so often. Most of the time they’re easy to patch up. Some deflection, a distraction, a grumbled peace offering. Crosshair also learns that if he can get Echo to laugh then he’s basically forgiven for the smaller things. Crosshair will bring a small gift in apology within the week. It’s like clockwork. Echo has learned to expect it. And while he tries to pretend he won’t accept the apology gift because he’s still mad he does end up softening up when he finds stupid little trinkets in his pack.

Echo just brings Crosshair food when he wants to apologize about something. Usually tossed at him with some sort of grumbling over how ‘this looked gross thought you’d like it’ and it ends up being some sweet he knows Cross loves.

They may not get along 100% of the time but I like to think that the fighting ends up getting patched up in a way that is uniquely them.

So stoked for this! As an Echo girlie, kinda bummed he won't be in this, but we get TECH!! I missed him loads. Fingers crossed for lots of Batch Twins sass 🤞

oh my god he's so fucking cute i'm going to cry.

we have been STARVED of tech content for like a year and a half now. until they bring him back, this will do 😌💕

gorgeous boi 🥹💙

a fives portrait to go with this portrait

OMG wow... just wow 😍

Work in progress with my favourite hc of all time, vitiligo Echo!! 😦

I hope people like this, I had fun studying Tem’s features and painting out his splotches. If people want more, i’m happy for it to fuel my motivation to draw 💥

+ I might open requests for anything star wars related (for the time being) so I can expand my portfolio and get creative!!

Omg this is the cutest thing 🥹

You thought that was all, didn't you?

(side profiles just because)

(it's the eyes, the furrowing of the eyebrows)

(feral kids, they will bite)

(it's the same frown)

(same quirk of the mouth)

(same look of surprise)

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Comfy babes 🥰

Echo doesn't like the cold. so he always got a BIG sweater in hand.