No but EVERY TIME I go back to the umbara arc Appo is just. There. You're quiet and unassuming and your usual commanding officers kind of ignore you and you're probably OK with that given the chaos they drag the captain into. And then you have a new temporary general who visibly hates your people but keeps you at his side, safe and out of the fighting even when you prompt him to send you and your people down as reinforcements, and this general calls everyone by number EXCEPT you. He knows your name. He uses it frequently, as an example to other clones, and you can see the anger stewing on their faces but what can you do? You're a clone. You follow orders. And at least when it's all over and you turn on the general as a unit, you don't have to be there for the execution. Maybe nobody trusts you but you hope it's because they're back to not thinking about you. Umbara is over and you go back to obscurity and you can't tell who still thinks about it, about the role you played, about how the silent backup who never has to go out in front is still who you are but this time nobody is playing favorites about it.
And then you're promoted at the end of the war, as your captain goes off to lead his own unit, and you're probably thrilled. You probably think "maybe i can earn this, make it up to the clones who I hurt before. I'll do this right."
And then your orders come down, and your first major act as a leader is to massacre children, and before you felt like you had no choice but now - now you don't even have the option of wondering if you have a choice, because these orders are telling you this is what you wanted all along.
H-hey now.
