#zekk

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Jaina Solo: I am not my mother; I am not my father, but a third, worse thing Zekk: Their daughter

[stpeachery]

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

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[ninjonnyuszi]

Here we go @my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates

They would be dangerous together 😆

[lizartgurl]

"Get back!" Jaina screamed, a wild look in her eyes. Her lightsaber swung in an arc of violet light, driving back the bounty hunters. She stepped over Zekk to shield him, her blade humming a warning.

"No one touches him!"

Inspired by this art of Percabeth at the Battle of Manhattan by kaiayame on instagram

Version without words

[vorbarrsultana]

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."

[magnetarbeam]

Jacen Solo: What does Jagged Fel do when he's out of ammo?

Zekk: He uses the stick up his ass as a backup weapon. Come on, we've known that one since Ithor.

[tahiriveilasolo]

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?

[jessika7979]

You know I used to HATE the love Triangle between JagxJainaxZekk and don’t get me wrong, I still do.

However, it’s actually not that bad if you ended it right after Fury.

Jag and Jaina are clearly falling back in love for that entire book and completely accepting it in Revelation while they are apart. Then suddenly in Invincible there is all this stuff with Zekk again and Jag is back to being stand offish even when he finds Jaina after she kills Jacen.

This is the problem with having 3 different writers because going back and forth is what makes it so ridiculous and stupid.

By the time Invincible starts, Jaina and Jag are completely back to accepting their love for eachother and Zekk is well aware of that to the point he is perusing other love interests and even considers Jag a good friend?

It’s these inconsistencies that make the books annoying not the actual plot points themselves.

[yjk-imagines]

Jacen Solo: why me!? That bounty hunter's the size of a wardrobe!

Zekk: But you're a Skywalker, Jacen. One of you managed to control the galaxy for a couple of decades so, you know, we thought you might have something up your sleeves.

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Luke Skywalker: How did none of you hear what I just said?

Zekk: I’ve been zoned out for the last two and a half hours.

Jacen Solo: I got distracted about halfway through.

Kyp Durron: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

[readsalot1]

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?)].

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

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.

[lizartgurl]

Happy Halloween, have some niche blorbos dressed up.

[rai-knightshade-art]

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

@taylortober

Drawtober (Taylor's Version) Day 9: Ivy

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[magnetarbeam]

You know, for all the very good reasons to shit on Denning, I do think some credit is due for how much his writing manages to make me laugh, even though it's usually when he's trying to be completely serious.

Here's a top five list:

5: Fey'lya pulling up file holos to convince the Senate that he's having an Important Discussion With The Generals.

4: A Hapan household servant insulting Jaina and Zekk's flying, based on alleged simulator experience with N-1s and vulture droids.

3: Aurra Sing, of all people, getting her ass kicked by Jacen's five-year-old daughter.

2: Wynn and Gavin and Bwua'tu being in the room when Luke learns Abeloth's origin story. No amount of pay would be enough for this.

1: Lando and Booster using a celebrity sabacc tournament as collectively willing hostages.

(Honorable mention: Daala telling Jag "a Sith is just a Jedi who's gone off his meds.")