Still on my Legends brain rot, with no chance of recovery ♡

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Jagged Fel: I used to think that melancholy was a vegetable. Zekk: That’s incredible. We should hang out more.

star wars legends ➝ young jedi knights

"Come on, what do you call the person who brings the rancor its dinner?" "I don't know," Tenel Ka said. Jaina would have bet a hundred credits that the girl wouldn't even venture a guess. "The appetizer!" Jacen chuckled. Jaina groaned, but Tenel Ka's face remained serious. "I will need you to explain why that's funny... but I see the lecture is about to start. Tell me some other time."

I would like there to be a fic where the "three solobrats" and early love interests (YJK, JJK era, so A/T, J/TK, J/Z) end up time-travelling to the prequel era (probably shortly after Geonosis), and the Organa-Solo kids are excited to meet their not-evil-yet granddad.

This goes off the rails when Tahiri freaks out as soon as Anakin 1.0 enters because that is the monster of folklore who slaughtered a whole tribe of Tuskens, down to the youngest baby.

Because you can't convince me that in this AU a) Anakin doesn't go down as some sort of ghost/horror story in Tusken culture, and b) curious baby force-sensitive Tahiri didn't wander off at some point and end up seeing the echo of the slaughter.

The prequel-era council obviously freaks out about 1. the time travel, 2. some of the time travelers are Anakin 1.0's descendants, 3. Anakin 1.0 apparently committed genocide (note: the fandom doesn't view this with the right amount of horror, even in light of his second genocide--the Jedi), and decides to temporarily suspend his duties until they can perform an investigation of sorts into his decision-making capabilities.

Anakin 1.0 is initially thrilled because OMG GRANDKIDS and one of them is named after him (wahoo!!), but quickly becomes pissy because the friend of his mini-me (EW, she was raised by Tusken Raiders [careful Ani1, your racism is showing] even though she's human) gets him in trouble with the council.

Anakin 2.0 now has even more issues/worries about his namesake, and turning out like him [note: this was a big plot point in his early appearances].

Jaina & Jacen are kinda worried about this because now their granddad was bad from an earlier point??? and they don't know what to do with that. (Jacen is jumping from joy because a bunch of animals that went extinct during the Empire's rule are still alive; Jaina finds out there were apparently seven lightsaber forms before Knightfall, and decides to crash all the basic training classes. This is hilarious because she's older than the enrolled students for the more basic forms like Shii-cho.)

Tenel Ka and Zekk are along for the ride:

("Wait, she's the heir to the Hapes Consortium?" "yes" "and they're letting her be a Jedi too?" "yep" "politically is that allowed?!?" "I mean her mom's from Dathomir?" **jedi padawan noises of imploded worldview**)

("so Zekk what about you" "oh, I'm a Coruscanti street rat :)" "ah ok, so the order found you easily!" "I guess your version would, but the Jedi got massacred, so I didn't start training until I was a teenager :)" **choking noises** "oh yeah, Emperor Palpatine was a total hardass, I'm so glad my friend's parents got rid of him, I'd probably be dead or totally evil if he was still in power" --at this point the padawan(s?) they're chatting to [maybe Barriss; she seems politically aware enough to worry about the heir of a major political power also being a Jedi--she's probably also read about Xanatos] decides to bring them to the council)

It goes something like "Didn't they mention, Darth Vader & the clones slaughtered pretty much the entire Order. Some of the younger padawans escaped (their masters died for them (and oh, doesn't that hit hard)) and ran until dark siders who served the Emperor hunted them down (this can be vaguely compliant with some Rebels content; assume the Rebellion-era is more fusion with new canon, except Thrawn doesn't engage as much with the Lothal cell, and thus is around for the Thrawn trilogy on to proceed (thus inquisitors exist and so too do the Hands--maybe Mara is Palpy's spy in the inquisorius's ranks; Starkiller can be Vader's; Death Star plan theft follows TFU more than R1) it hits hard that some of their own (their children, their future) work to destroy the vestiges of what they were).

Then they find out that Darth Vader, the Sith Apprentice--the emperor's attack dog, his right hand--is Anakin (1.0), the boy they took in, the one they protected, the one some viewed as their savior, the boy winning battle after battle, the one shining bright, the Hero With No Fear, the boy whose fear of losing everything, everyone he cares about is slowly tearing him to shreds, the foolish, foolish boy who will doom the galaxy to save one person and fail at that, the buy who burned and burned, scorching those around him until he was alone, and still burning, until he burned himself to save another foolish boy, the younger burning like a candle, steadily, warmly, rather than like the sun, and Anakin (they can't bring themselves to hate him, even knowing what he will do--they see the sweet child who loved his mother, who wanted to free all the slaves in the galaxy), seeing the warm, kind candlelight of the other boy, the brave, foolish child, his child, his son, and knowing he will burn him, sees the vacuum of space (the cold, cold man who made him burn everyone, who made him lose everyone, until only the vacuum was left behind, the only one he could not burn away), sure to take the air around the lone, kind candle, and the sun (Anakin) burns itself (himself) out, becomes a supernova to push the vacuum (empty, cold, always hungry) away from the candle (the son), and saves the brave, foolish boy who came to help him, but he feared burning most of all (the burning sun of Tatooine burns himself out, after burning with hatred for the better part of two decades, for another desert child, one who burns with warmth, like a hearthfire, and asks for the girl who burns (with the passion of justice, with compassion, the girl who is like him but not for instead of burning the world for those she loves, she who would burn herself out, the girl who would burn her enemies (those who seek the harm the world) for any who deserve kindness, who burns internally, but is willing to burn others as well) to forgive him, and she does, eventually, she names her steady hearthfire of a son after him, and hopes against hope that he (her son, one of her three suns) will have a happy ending, that he will not burn himself out like his grandfather, his namesake [Anakin, her son, he burns too: for his siblings (they will burn as well, his brother like his grandfather--maybe he should have been Anakin instead--and his sister, burning, the one to put out her twin's light, twin suns of Tatooine, one snuffed out the other), his friends (they break apart, the group splintering, fragmented after the war is won; even before), his love (she breaks, in a way not even being shaped by the black holes, put under pressure in the hope of her becoming one, can do; for a while she fades away to almost nothing, invisible, until the brother, seeing the broken, invisible girl takes her, and tries to make the broken puppet of a girl dance for him; it works for a time, building more cracks in her skin until she shatters, and the people who loved him, Anakin the second, the bright boy who burned himself away too soon, see the girl again, no longer invisible, and try to help her [pray they are not too late to put her (shattered, porcelain, crushed spirit, a shell of her former bright self) together again]), for the galaxy; but at this part of the story we don't know his fate, to burn and burn until there is nothing left, until the force takes him away, to burn so hot, so bright, so light, that his enemies (true voids in the force--black holes--not like the cold, hungry vacuum that desired, took the sun of his grandfather) burned away as well; he burns away, but as a hero. This does not stop his mother from her agony; it is all his father can do to hold himself together to stop her shattering like the girl everyone forgot, the invisible girl who loved his son, who would (and does) do anything for the memory of a boy who left the galaxy too soon].

This is the story they tell: of the angry sun who burns everyone (especially even those who offer him kindness), the boy-candle, the girl who burns with the heat of a thousand suns but never harms those undeserving of that fury, the scoundrel with the hard exterior who inside is kind, the brave wookie warrior who lives [and dies, though they will not know it for a time] to protect them, the saviors of the galaxy;

and others as well: the girl who was almost snuffed out by the vacuum, who burned as a quiet ember, whose flame was reawakened by the boy-candle; the boy who parallels her, who was trained by the angry sun to burn like him but refused, who burned out over and over again trying to prove himself, and, in the end, burned out to save the galaxy, who sent the message to the rebels that worked to end the war [the message, that, too late for some, still saved billions, perhaps trillions of lives, had it not been sent (how many worlds could have shared Alderaan's fate?)].

Crack FotJ AU where when Jaina and Jag's relationship gets revealed to the public, they don't find out that Zekk's in on it too, so the three of them decide that they want to screw with the press by having Jaina and Jag both appear to be cheating on each other with Zekk before they go public about the entire truth.

Two books later, a miscellaneous onlooker from Klatooine releases five minutes of holocam footage of Ben and Vestara's regular interactions and the holonet goes nuts. Ben and Vestara are the last people to find out that they're dating.

Randomly found this old drawing of mine that I never got to finish.

Left to right...Jaina, Zekk, Jacen, and Tenel Ka in the back

Young Jedi Knights in... inaction. I guess.

Jacen Solo: If a bridge has collapsed, how do you get to the other side of the muddy river?

Raynar Thul: We can’t. This is just terrible.

Jaina Solo: That’s why we should always stay inside the cockpit of an X-Wing.

Tenel Ka: I disagree. Relying on physical skills to get across the river is a better option.

Lowbacca: Arrraaagh. MTD: Master Lowbacca says that he agrees with Tenel Ka. But I think you’re never gonna make it. We’re doomed.

Zekk: I thought we are all Jedi. Why isn’t any of you thinking about using the Force?

Holding a knife to your hot enemy's throat but the knife is an unlit lightsaber and your enemy is your childhood best friend who somehow got hot.

...your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand...

@taylortober

Drawtober (Taylor's Version) Day 9: Ivy

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Jaina Solo: What's the status up here? Zekk: Fucked up. About to die. Jag is a nerd. The usual. 

Zekk, standing outside the Jedi Temple and trying to keep the Jedi Knights from entering: Alexa, play "Blow" by Ke$ha

I’ve been trying to sort folders full of old random stuff (images, photos, graphics, stories -- all kinds of crap) and I came across some Really Old SWEU-related stuff I made. Here’s what each thing is and some notes about them.

INSERT PHILOSOPHICAL SHIT HERE -- 2008

Some friends and I made playlists that were musicals for EU characters and I did one for Jacen and it was just called HEY. This was one of the images for the main post I made about it. There was one for each song.

I wonder if I can find the other ones because I remember in one of them Jacen had a mullet.

This shit was ridiculous and I really miss all the people I did this ridiculous stuff with. ;D

THE SARLACC -- really early... near prequels?

My sister and I were like LET’S PUT CHARACTERS IN THE SARLACC.

I can’t remember what the site was gonna be but we had a ball in MS Paint.

LOOK AFTER YOUR BROTHER -- a Death Troopers fanmix -- 2009

This was an unfinished front & back cover for the mix I never finished.

THAT BOOK WAS A TRIP AND I EFFING LOVED IT.

god kale and trig were so good and precious

VARIOUS NEW JEDI ORDER FANARTS LOLOL -- mid-2000′s????

The Jedi Strike Team because of course.

A totally accurate depiction of a voxyn.

Shimrra and Onimi. :)

Okay yeah I want to play with polls

Voices of the Force: Incorrect Quotes 7

Vestara: To everyone who has treated me poorly; I am sexier than you.

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Jaina: Having two partners is both amazing and complicated. But all our problems are solved with communication.

Jag: It’s my turn to cuddle Jaina.

Zekk: FIVE MORE MINUTES DAMMIT!

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Ahsoka: Something tells me Ben's going to be a bit more unhinged today...

Ben holding a lit match and a bag of cheetos: Leave me be, dad isn't home to stop me, I'm going feral.

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Ben: Don't break someone's heart, they only have one.

Vestara: Break one of their bones instead, they have 206 of them.

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Ahsoka: I feel like Zekk is looking down on me.

Jaina: That’s because he's on the counter and you’re short.

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Ahsoka: When I met you I thought you were a real bitch.

Fala: What changed your mind?

Ahsoka: Oh, I still think you’re a bitch, I’ve just grown to like that about you.

[A couple years earlier]

Ahsoka: I think we should kiss.

Fala: And I think you should die but we don’t always get what we want.

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Ahsoka: My level of gay has reached “sighing deeply whenever anything extremely heterosexual happens near me”.

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Ahsoka: The Force has let me live another day and I'm going to make it everyone's problem.

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Jaina: What did you guys get in your yearbook?

Vestara: 'Prettiest Smile'

Ben: 'Nicest Personality'

Ahsoka: 'Most likely to start a bar fight'

Fala: 'Least likely to start a bar fight, but most likely to win one'

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Jaina: I like your new pants!

Jag: Thanks, they were 50% off!

Jaina: I’d like them better if they were 100% off. *winks*

Jag: The store can’t just give away clothes for free.

Jaina: Thats’s… not what I meant.

Jag: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Jaina.

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Jaina: You three, explain right now!

Ben: It was Ahsoka.

Vestara: It was Ahsoka.

Fala: It was Ahsoka.

Ahsoka:

Ahsoka: …fuck.

Reading through Young Jedi Knights and there isn't one neurotypical person in sight