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A sort of continuation of that one Padawan braid Ezra comic I did ages ago.

It's Phee Genoa hours again.

I was rewatching the first scene in "Pabu" and have some thoughts, sparked Hunter's knife whizzing by Phee's head to kill the kouhun and her not even flinching. I always think about how she must have absolute nerves of steel to have literally no response to that happening. So anyway, I got to thinking, as one does, and had some other thoughts. Disjointed breakdown below.

tl;dr Phee is brilliant because she is brilliant.

Phee goes into this negotiation with Crowder with every single possibility covered and considered:

Phee is familiar enough with Crowder to know that he might try to sell her a knock-off.

She also knew to check the drink for poison (likely not exclusive to Crowder — probably pretty common in her line of work.).

Killing her with a kouhun didn't work, so they tried to take the artifact back ("you should've brought more muscle"), but she had back-up.

THAT didn't work, and it turned into a shootout.

"Not until I know it's not one of your two-bit knock-offs" and "I thought you worked alone" strengthens the argument that these two either know each other or know OF each other. I'm guessing the former. If it's the latter, Phee has a hell of a reputation for Crowder to clock that her working with someone is out of the ordinary.

Her nonchalance about the kouhun -- she likely knew he'd try something like that. She had some intel maybe, or he'd tried something similar in the past. The fact that the kouhun comes from a creepy crawly trapdoor installed under his seat means this is probably the place Crowder does his business most often. Again, Phee has past experience or has the intel to know that the little bug cubby is there at all and that he would use it.

Similarly, the placement of Hunter and Wrecker has to be intentional. If Phee knew Crowder would try something, Hunter is pretty strategically placed to see it happening and be able to do something (i.e. throw a knife), while also keeping an eye on Omega (likely his first priority) but not be totally obvious about it (until he throws said knife).

My point is that Phee is a pretty brilliant strategist to be a step ahead of not one, not two, but three different attempts on her and the Batch's life in the span of less than a minute and a half. She also repeatedly proves that she is an incredibly valuable source of intel. We see this from her introduction, where she talks to Cid about the intel she'd provided regarding the war chest, in addition to her being able to track down Fennec, plus getting the location of the Imperial labor camp to find Rampart. She is paying a lot for this intel, but she both knows where to get it and that it will be correct.

She's seen it all, she's dealt with it all. She can work alone, she can work with others. She can rebuild her droid 222 times. She can use her massive contact network to find just about anything or anyone. She carries a big-ass sword and a space flintlock and wears a cool leather jacket. She cuts her ship's engines and falls through the atmosphere and calls it a "stealth approach" and has three super soldiers hanging on for dear life (Crosshair is literally crumpled up on the floor at one point.). She'll flirt with a total stranger after insulting each of his siblings. She can outcrazy the Batch but also likes to go hang out on a beach planet and be Auntie Phee for a while and maintain an archive of cultural artifacts on said beach planet.

She's cool and I like her very much.

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Rise of the Parallel!

1- A Cut Short Party: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 2- The Krang Be Back: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 3- Seeing Red: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 4- Corrupted Logic: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 5- Colliding Worlds: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 6- The Boiling Point: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 7- Eye of the Storm: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 8- Lurking in the Shadows: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 9- Bad News: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 10- Retribution: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

11- Hell on Earth: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 12- The Crystal Shards: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 13- The Promise: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 14- End Game: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 15- Owari: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Please enjoy! :]

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Well. It's been exactly one year since I started this comic. Which is pretty impressive for my tiny attention span. This is the biggest of my stories and I'm so damn proud (and surprised) that I was able to finish it haha

Quick q&a because I know a lot of you would ask something like this:

Why didn't I add "x" to the comic? - Because I didn't want to.

Why did I add "x" to the comic? - Because I wanted to.

This story was improv from start to finish and that means I added and took away many things. I don't regret any of them haha

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Part 1 Masterpost

More profound when you consider that Doctors Without Borders rarely makes political statements.

In #UNSC mtg on Middle East, @MSF SG Christopher Lockyear says: "Israeli forces have attacked our convoys, detained our staff, bulldozed our vehicles, hospitals have been bombed and raided. And now for a second time, one of our staff shelters has been hit. This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence. Our colleagues in #Gaza are fearful that as I speak to you today, they will be punished tomorrow."

He adds: "The humanitarian response in Gaza today is an illusion. A convenient illusion that perpetuates a narrative that this war is being waged in line with international laws. Calls for humanitarian assistance have echoed across this chamber. Yet in Gaza we have less and less every day, less space, less medicine, less food, less water, less safety."

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