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I’m extending Honesty Hour

I’m going to be cleaning, so reponses will be intermittent, but throw some stuff at my children, pls.

Anons are fine and all of my muses are participating.

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Callista Ming: Inside, we are all Jedi, and we all know a spell called love.

Mara Jade: I also know a spell called knife.

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Talon Karrde: I’m sorry to tell you this but you have a heart, and capacity to feel.

Mara Jade: You take that back.

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rbeljedi‌:

“Crying is his way of sharing things with us,” He pointed out, smiling, “I promise, eventually he’ll learn words and then he can tell you what’s wrong.  He probably won’t, but he can and that’ll be a whole new set of struggles.”  Ben was Luke’s first child; but he’d seen Han and Leia’s children grow up.  He had an idea– no matter how vague– about the stages of parenting complains. 

“He will.  Or, when he’s eighteen, he can just sleep through the whole day and stay up all night like a nocturnal creature and we’ll call it a day.” 

“You’re right, of course,” she agreed. “I’m sure he’ll have quite the vocabulary in no time. We’ll be begging for the days when his only communication skill was screaming like a much-more-adorable lizard monkey.”

As if on cue, a noise sounded from Ben’s nursery. She sighed. “I’l get him. He can hang with us out here for a bit.”

He had already stopped screeching by the time she reappeared in the lounge, and the sat back down on the sofa. “Do you want to hold him for a bit? I had him most of the morning, so I can share.”

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rbeljedi‌:

“I’m sure he had a reason,” Luke pointed out with a chuckle,  “He’s just choosing not to share it with his parents.”  Choosing was likely the wrong choice of words.  Ben couldn’t talk yet; crying was the only form of communication he had, and he did his best with it; even if it kept his parents awake.

“You’re wrong there– I think it makes the most sense when the baby isn’t sleeping at night.”  Everyone knew babies had strange, constantly changing sleep schedules; the theory was that it was better to adapt your life to theirs– at least when they were this young.

“Well, whatever his reason is, he can feel free to either share it with us or try to sleep more often,” Mara offered with a sigh. They both knew that they wouldn’t trade Ben for anything, but this particular phase of his development was not Mara’s favorite. 

“And that might make sense, but I think that I assumed he would at least sometimes sleep at night,” she offered. “Still, he’s pretty cute, right?”

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rbeljedi‌:

“My presence,” He observed with a joking, faux-lofty intonation and a raised eyebrow.  “You make it sound like I’m not around very often.”  He worried about that kind of thing– he didn’t want to be that person, that partner or that father.  He was joking; but it was a joke that was easy because it was near the surface. 

“No, I’m fine,” He added with a soft smile, moving his arm to drape it over her shoulders.  “Though maybe you should try to nap.  I’ve heard that we’re supposed to sleep when the baby sleeps.” That seemed easy for people to say who weren’t currently staying up at all hours of the night with an infant.

“Not at all,” she assured him, shaking her head gently. “There’s no such thing as having your around enough, is all.”

That much was true. She closed her eyes, but didn’t go to sleep. “I had a little bit of a nap earlier. It turns out that a night of screaming your head off for no kriffing reason wears out our delightful son as much as it does us.”

She nodded. “I’ve heard that, too. Of course, I feel like that advice makes so much more sense when you think the baby is going to sleep at night. Doesn’t it?”

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“Alright.” He said, making room for her to get comfortable so they could settle in for a time.   It wasn’t often that she made these kinds of demands, which led him to believe that there was something else that prompted it, other than simple love and affection.  “Is everything alright?”

“Mmhm,” she nodded, her voice somewhat muffled against his shoulder. She moved her face to the side so that she could speak. “Just didn’t sleep well last night.”

Neither of them had. Ben was going through a fussy phase. “And now, our favorite little insomniac is finally sleeping, so I thought I’d take advantage of your presence to spend some time with my husband.”

She looked up at him from where she was comfortably snuggled against his side. "Unless you just want to nap.”

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It’s always nice to meet new people and make new enemies. 

Mara Jade Skywalker

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rogueintheclouds‌:

Rhys laughed at the thought of some of the people she knew cringing their way through Ryloth’s serpentine underground warrens. “Well, Bespin was a lot brighter than Ryloth, that’s for sure, but a lot of the city was even more cramped than those caverns so we did all right.” She wrinkled her nose and added, “Better views on Bespin, though. You can’t beat a sunset on a gas giant.”

She shrugged off Mara’s sympathy about the Vens – not because she didn’t appreciate it, but because it wasn’t necessary. “Nawara’s clan wasn’t too impressed with his choosing a career in Imperial Law to begin with,” she explained lightly. “They liked when he got a slot in Rogue Squadron of course, because they saw that as being something that brought honor to the whole gang, but by then he’d already gotten out of the habit of caring about their opinions. I don’t think they ever had a big falling-out – if they did, he’s never mentioned it anyway – but if they were ever close, that ended years before I came along.”

Rhysati had been sad about that initially, but it hadn’t taken her long to realize that both she and Nawara were better off without those hide-bound snooty old traditionalists poking their lekku in their life. Her family had never been able to wrap their heads around her choices, either – although in their case, at least they’d always remained fond if exasperated – and her marrying Nawara had caused them to shake their heads no harder than had her flitting off across the galaxy or joining the New Republic military…although she could have done without the unsurprised sympathy during their brief falling-out.

She wondered how that was going for Mara. “What about you?” Rhys asked, shifting so she could lean back against the wall as they talked. “Personally, I’d rather have a hundred angry Twi’lek elders scowling at me than one angry Alderaanian princess…” She said it like a joke, but Rhys meant every word of it. “But you seem to get on well with Luke’s family?” That was how it looked to an outsider, anyway. “I hope?”

Mara nodded with understanding. She knew that Twi’lek culture was very honor-driven. Anyone who had ever even spoken to a Twi’lek in passing could surmise that. She just hadn’t really thought about how it might effect a non-Twi’lek in a relationship. 

“They’re awfully traditionalist about somethings aren’t they? Twi’leks, I mean,” Mara said, resting her chin on her hand. “I can’t imagine that’s always been such smooth sailing or the two of you, but I’m glad to know that you’re making it work.” 

She snorted at Rhysati’s assessment of Leia. “I’m not disagreeing with that. I like Leia. I like to think she likes me. Honestly, it’s nice to have... I’ve never really had girlfriends, y’know? I have friends, but Leia’s become sort of like a confidante, and that’s nice.” 

She shrugged. “And Han? Well... we love Han, right?” she asked with a grin.

Squadron Wives

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Mara Jade: Don’t worry, you’ve got everything you need to defeat them.

Jaina Solo: The power to believe in myself?

Mara Jade: No, a lightsaber.

Mara Jade: Stab them.

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CORRAN HORN AND MARA JADE DISCUSSING THEY WAYS THEY WOULD MURDER KYP DURRON IS THE FUNNIEST THING IVE EVER READ

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rogueintheclouds‌:

“I hear that,” Rhysati agreed vehemently. “I was never going to be one of those boring women who just married one person and settled down with them for the rest of forever.” She wrinkled her nose and sighed. “Then Nawara had to come along being all dashing and sincere and delicious, and ruin all my childhood dreams. The cad.” She smirked.

There was a special smirk for Corran, though. Rhys had had years to perfect it, and it came out with a snicker as Mara pleaded for mercy. “You’re going to take a Corellian’s word?” she teased. “About another Corellian? Mara, I thought you were supposed to be clever.” Not that Rhys, too, didn’t know far more about Corran than she’d ever wanted to – but a lot of that came from Ooryl, too. Which was somehow worse than Mirax, in a way…

It was Mara’s comment about naming prices that had her positively cackling, though, the sound drawing a few curious glances their way. "Now who’s tempting whom?” she chortled. “Anyway, I don’t see what you’re complaining about. You only have to have one ceremony. I’d barely finished enjoying our nice, simple, straightforward little kiss-and-promise scene on the bridge of Wedge’s new flagship before I had to fly-off to Ryloth for a proper wedding with the families.” She mock-shuddered. “Both of them.”

She raised an eyebrow at Mara. “The only good thing was that my parents had spent enough many years on Bespin to not be claustrophobic in the underground warrens. Not great compensation for the fact that absolutely no one in the Ven Clan was happy that their silver-tongued golden-boy was marrying an ugly human, I have to say.” The smirk came back as she added slyly, “So it’s just as well that Nawara didn’t actually much like any of his relatives to begin with, eh?”

Mara felt a little bit silly. She had actually forgotten about the whole... in-laws thing. She was never going to have any and neither was Luke, so the whole concept had slipped her mind entirely. 

Luke had family, yes, but Han and Leia hardly felt like in-laws at this point. 

“Oh, geez. I’m sure that was lovely,” Mara winced, “I’ve only been on Ryloth on a handful of occasions, but I can imagine that would have gone badly for anyone who isn’t a fan of small, underground places.”

She nodded sympathetically. She’d heard that this sort of problem was often prevalent in families with mixed-species couples. Aesthetic for one wasn’t always aesthetic for all. And, Twi’leks were fiercely protective of their culture on a good day. 

“So they aren’t any better now? His family, I mean?” Mara asked, resting her chin on her hand. “That’s a shame. I mean, even if you were ugly, which you are obviously not, Nawara is obviously completely insane about you. One would hope they could rise above that a little bit...”

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Talon Karrde and Mara Jade by the lovely @ymirr-art-blog!

Ymirr has posted a couple of SWEU portrait roundups over the last couple of years and I have had their tumblr commission page bookmarked for AGES. I like to get art and fic for my birthday, so I caved in and commissioned these precious babes from Ymirr in January. 

Happy birthday to MEEEE~

Thank you, Ymirr!

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Luke: here's my father's lightsaber i want you to have it

Mara: your father and i barely got along on a good day

Luke: well you don't have to use it

Mara: no, i'm going to use it forever, back off

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“I’m leading children and I’m getting them killed.” (rogueintheclouds)

“Yeah, I gotcha,” Mara nodded knowingly. She could certainly understand how the weight of command could feel heavy in wartime when the ages of the people involved were so young. 

“But, for the record, I don’t think that you’re getting them killed, Rhysati. I have never heard anyone say that you’re a poor leader, and I don’t think you are, either.”

She sighed heavily. “It’s war, Rhysati. War kills people. No matter what decision you make, we’re probably going to lose people. And, given the way the Vong seem to never get tired of existing, we’re going to lose lots more. But, I truly believe that you’ll make sure that we lose as few as possible.” 

She rested her hand on Rhysati’s shoulder. 

“And given that one of those people we are talking about is my niece, please believe me when I say that I’m not saying that lightly.”

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Mara Jade, on the phone: Smash his kneecaps and he’ll talk, okay? I’m at a parent-teacher conference!

Mara Jade, after hanging up: Anyways, you said Ben is enjoying finger-painting? That’s great!