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Star Wars Legends Spotlight: The Birth of Jaina and Jacen Solo

In this last week of writer signups for the From a Legends Point of View fanfiction event, we’ll be celebrating Legends by highlighting some key events, characters, and moments from the Legends continuity.

Writers: Help us add to the story! Sign up through Sunday, June 2 to write for the From a Legends Point of View fanfiction event. Together, we’ll build a collection of Star Wars Legends fanfiction set during the time of the Original Trilogy. Use our Signup Form to pitch your story concepts (Signup Guidelines available here), and please encourage your favorite writers to participate!

Our latest Legends spotlight is the birth of Jaina and Jacen Solo, the twin children of Leia Organa and Han Solo, born in 9 ABY on Coruscant.

Why is this important?

The birth of Jaina and Jacen takes place at the beginning of Timothy Zahn’s novel The Last Command, the final book in the Thrawn trilogy, but even before birth Jaina and Jacen were central to the events of the trilogy, with evil Dark Jedi clone Joruus C’Boath and Grand Admiral Thrawn attempting to kidnap Leia while she was pregnant in order to gain control of the twins, and a kidnapping attempt not long after their birth that was thwarted by a still-morally-conflicted Mara Jade. Later on, they and their friends become the center of the Young Jedi Knights series and take on major roles in the Yuuzhan Vong conflict in the New Jedi Order series, particularly since the Vong have a thing about twins. While their ending is tragic (Jacen turning to the Dark Side was never going to end well), they remain important parts of connecting the Original Trilogy and even the Prequel Trilogy to the Legends continuity.

Jaina and Jacen’s birth also represents a type of hope for the galaxy — Leia learning to deal with her mixed feelings about the Skywalker genetic inheritance (as detailed in Tatooine Ghost), Han and Leia settling in to a happy domestic life together while still kicking ass for the galaxy, Luke eagerly awaiting his niece and nephew but also anticipating the next generation of Jedi he will help to lead and teach.

How does it happen?

The events leading up to the twins’ birth are fairly dramatic. Among other things, pregnant Leia goes to Kashyyyk with Chewbacca to hide out from Thrawn and ends up having to escape by hanging on to underside of a Wookiee while they climb through a series of trees; she’s begun to train with Luke and is able to stop her would-be Noghri kidnappers and then even gain them to her side, using her bloodline attachment to Vader, her smarts, and her diplomatic skills.

The birth itself is fairly humorous to people who have experienced childbirth — in the book, Leia is given a light box that she is supposed to focus on during labor to distract from the pain. In the comic version, we can see that Leia is flat on her back, which probably isn’t going to be super-helpful for delivering twins. Throughout the birth, Leia is reassuring her children in the Force, letting them know they are okay, as well as occasionally trading banter with Han.

(Also, the strange mid-birth thumbs-up from a medic who is almost fully covered and masked was too funny not to include.)

Once the twins are here, Leia and Han are both dealing with new parenthood and trying to thwart Thrawn’s plans at the same time, so we get a mix of sweet domestic scenes with battle scenes and Leia’s attempts at figuring out what’s going on with Delta Source, Thrawn, the cloning facility, and C’Boath.

[monarchetype]

my hottest Critical Role take is that Percy isn't actually any more morally gray than the rest of Vox Machina, it's just that his storylines and character conflicts take a much more direct look at the omnipresent violence in the setting and treat it the most seriously

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👻Contributor Spotlight👻

Today, we wanted to spotlight one of our page artists, @sandflakedraws. We find their style charming and brilliantly detailed.

We cannot wait to show you all what they've created for this zine!

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🍃 Guest Spotlight 🍃

Our next Guest Artist is none other than @mochiwei, who will be illustrating the zine cover!

[backstabber128]

Leaked Footage from s2 + Vi and Jinx having an obligatory photo booth bonding scene lmao

[novirp13]

SILVER THE HEDGEHOG HUMAN VERSION PART 2~

When I watched someone play Sonic Po6 and saw Silver's movesets, I suddenly realized, 'Wait. He can throw his power like an energy beam, right? Or a physic knife, whatever. And the color of his power is blue too. That is practically firebending!' And that's how these fanarts were born :'D

...tbh I just wanna draw more Gijinka Silver lol.

And I think I started to like the yellow-blue color scheme better than the other two colors `3` 

Here's another fanarts of Gijinka Silver: 1 | 3

BONUS:

Silver is too OP, man. It's unfortunate he doesn't have his own game :'(

[lennsart]

Hi

I published a new serie centered around Fable :D

If you want to see a Zelda replace her Link in the Linked Universe adventure, and if you like the idea that Fable and Legend are siblings, that Ravio and Link are planning a wedding, and that the queen of Hyrule, too, can get caught up in shenanigans, you might enjoy this fic !

(Was this ad good ? I hope it was)

I did add this to the collection of the challenge Sepfember, by @rebornofstars :D check it out if you want the LoZ girlies to have their time to shine !

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Meet 星空★lone (@hoshizoralone), one of our merch artists! Lone is creating some fabulous phone wallpapers as part of our digital merch package 🌸

[hisuizine]

🌟 Pre-orders open in 3 DAYS 🌟

Preorders are approaching very fast! Mark your calendars and don't miss this amazing time! 🗓️

[sovamurka]

feeling unwell about timebomb again, did you know that in the russian league of legends localisation ekko's 'I had a crush' was turned into 'I almost fell in love with you!', why do I feel like it makes their situation even more heartbreaking???

[from-a-legends-pov]

Star Wars Legends Spotlight: The Wedding of Luke and Mara

In this last week of writer signups for the From a Legends Point of View fanfiction event, we’ll be celebrating Legends by spotlighting some key events, characters, and moments from the Legends continuity.

Writers: Help us add to the story! Sign up to write for the From a Legends Point of View fanfiction event now through June 2. Together, we’ll build a collection of Star Wars Legends fanfiction set during the time of the Original Trilogy. Use our Signup Form to pitch your story concepts (Signup Guidelines available here) and please encourage your favorite writers to participate!

Our first spotlight is the wedding of the galaxy’s most eligible Jedi bachelor, Luke Skywalker, with former Emperor’s Hand and current Jedi Master Mara Jade in 19 ABY on Coruscant.

Why is this important?

Luke and Mara are in many ways the power couple of Star Wars Legends (along with Leia Organa and Han Solo). While Leia and Han were shown as a committed couple by the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker spent a fair amount of the Legends continuity in various ultimately doomed love affairs. Mara Jade, one of the most prominent characters to originate in Legends, was introduced in the Thrawn trilogy and clearly had some chemistry with Luke from the start, as well as going on her own journey from Emperor’s Hand to smuggler to Jedi knight to Jedi master before ending up with Luke.

How does it happen?

The engagement takes place toward the end of Timothy Zahn’s novel Vision of the Future, appropriately happening in the middle of a life-or-death situation. The room they are in is filling up with water, and Luke asks Mara to marry him. She says, “You mean, if we get out of this alive?” and he says, “I mean regardless.”

The wedding and the leadup take place in Star Wars: Union, a four-unit comic series written by X-Wing series writer Michael Stackpole. Most of the series deals with the more mundane events leading up to any wedding— choosing a dress, the bachelor / bachelorette parties, the wedding itself, and moments from the reception— but the happy couple being who they are, of course there is danger, intrigue, and shenanigans. There are actually two weddings: a Jedi wedding only attended by members of the Jedi Order early in the series, and a formal wedding that serves as a major event for the New Republic.

The Jedi portion of the wedding largely goes off without a hitch, but the New Republic ceremony is where the shenanigans come in.

We see Mara attempt to “say yes to the dress” only to be confronted with some of the worst fashion crimes imaginable, then find her dream designer out in the alley, having been originally prevented from preventing her designs by her evil boss.

Luke’s bachelor party at the Red Rancor (attended by Han Solo, Wedge Antilles, Chewbacca, Gavin Darklighter, Talon Karrde, Wes Janson, Derek “Hobbie” Klivian, Tycho Celchu, Kam Solusar, Corran Horn, Booster Terrik, and Lando Calrissian) ends in a bar fight instigated by a Moff who is trying to kill Luke / prevent the wedding.

Meanwhile, the women (Mara, Leia, Tionne Solusar, Winter Celchu, Mirax Terrik Horn, and Iella Wessiri Antilles) have a spa day and then kick some ass in a slingball game.

The day of the ceremony is a major New Republic event, with people like Mon Mothma in attendance and Admiral Ackbar presiding. A Moff is determined to interrupt the ceremony and violently prevent the festivities, but Chewie, the Jedi, and the Rogues take care of that while those with parts in the ceremony carry on. Meanwhile, Booster Terrik has been tasked with keeping the children quiet during the ceremony, including his grandson Valin Horn as well as Myri and Syal Antilles and Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin Solo.

Finally, we see the happy couple wed:

…And various other couples at the ceremony get nostalgic about their own weddings as they enjoy the reception.

[queer-ragnelle]

making a collection

[facesofevilzine]

Welcome one of our zine artists, @goopi-e! Here's a sneak peek at what they've created for Volume 8: Reverse Villains.

Oh my! What beauty is she!

Make sure to check out the zine to see the completed piece.

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🍃 Contributor Spotlight 🍃

@frankiesbugs is one of our page and merch artists for the zine!

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Video Game Artist Spotlight: Hiroshi Fuji

Hiroshi Fuji is an artist and character designer mostly known for his work on Namco games. He joined Namco after graduating from college and eventually moved to the game development group where did the character design for Legend of Valkyrie. He left Namco and became a freelance artist where he still occasionally works with Bandai Namco. He also designed the unique but obscure Namco mascot lady seemingly named "Namko".

In 2005, he would serialize a manga around the Valkyrie series titled "Valkyrie's Birth" and would be officially recognized by Namco.

His Twitter

Titles Worked On:

Sky Kid (1985) - Character Design

Star Luster (1985) - Cover Art

Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu - Cover Art, Character Design

Babel no Tō (1986) - Cover Art, Character Design

Family Tennis (1987) - Cover Art

Family Circuit (1988) - Cover Art, Character Design

Valkyrie no Densetsu (1989) - Character Illustrations

Hōrai Gakuen no Bōken! (1996) - Cover Art, Character Design

[oneshoulderangel]

A reminder in case anyone forgets during the two minutes we deign to acknowledge Sir Palomides, Lancelot is the best knight in the realm.

Oddly enough, since sir Lamorak is dead by this point, Palomides is (according to the story) the third best knight of the round table. (I feel like this is Gawain slander, but a win is a win for my boy.)