[Boba's eyes flicker to Branch's face in surprise. It doesn't look like the troll is lying, so he looks away again.
Lucky is an old nickname. He can't remember who said it or why, but he does remember the feeling of joy and pride when one of the ARCs called him "lucky", because that's how the clones get names. A name is the thing their brothers know them by.
Jango hadn't felt the same. Boba wasn't allowed around the Alphas for a long time after that. The next time he saw them, they had gone from lanky teenagers to grown men who didn't want some kid following them around.]
I don't know.
[He's beginning to realize that the name Boba Fett doesn't mean the same thing here as it did where he came from. He doesn't have to hide to protect himself like that. But he's already spent so long lying, what happens when someone doesn't take the change as well as Branch seems to be?]
Everyone already thinks that I'm Lucky, and adults don't like lying.
[At least, they don't like it when they're lied to. They like lying to other people a lot.]
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Lucky is an old nickname. He can't remember who said it or why, but he does remember the feeling of joy and pride when one of the ARCs called him "lucky", because that's how the clones get names. A name is the thing their brothers know them by.
Jango hadn't felt the same. Boba wasn't allowed around the Alphas for a long time after that. The next time he saw them, they had gone from lanky teenagers to grown men who didn't want some kid following them around.]
I don't know.
[He's beginning to realize that the name Boba Fett doesn't mean the same thing here as it did where he came from. He doesn't have to hide to protect himself like that. But he's already spent so long lying, what happens when someone doesn't take the change as well as Branch seems to be?]
Everyone already thinks that I'm Lucky, and adults don't like lying.
[At least, they don't like it when they're lied to. They like lying to other people a lot.]