Can we just take a moment to appreciate how SWEET it is that canonically, in-universe, clone trooper dolls are a thing? All throughout the Republic, enough kids wanted a little clone trooper friend of their own, to hug and play with and have to protect them from nightmares, toy manufacturers actually took note. Think about that.
Imagine being a clone trooper and you somehow get non restricted holonet access and see that they make dolls of you and your brothers. Like I’m sure it’s sweet for the kids but could unlock a lot of terrible reactions from the clones especially with bad timing (ie having just fought a battle and hauled around trooper corpses that also have ragdoll physics). It would be a topic of debate for sure. One trooper wants one to sleep with, another thinks they’re cute, another wants to burn all of them into ash because they represent their disposability as clones, another thinks the whole thing is funny, etc.
Ooh ooh a regiment is ordered to come in after a bombing of a supposedly Separatist city to clean up any leftovers/find [evil bunker of evilness], and one clone sees a charred clone trooper doll in some debris. Not a battle droid, but a clone trooper. Maybe a marionette type deal, lovingly carved, the local wood grain showing through burned white paint.
Maybe this settlement wasn’t confederate, at least not completely? Does this clone raise his voice? Tell his superior? Look for survivors?
And what does he do with the doll? Does he return it, leave it sitting against a wall watching over what was once its city? Does he wipe ash off its tiny painted visor? Or does he pocket it? Does he keep it as a reminder of the value the galaxy does see in him?
Does he wonder what the doll’s name was? Does he give it a name or a CT number? Maybe that of a fallen brother, or one who was reassigned to a legion across the galaxy.
