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I see this and raise you my SWEU nerd Reyna theory (her powers are basically battle meditation from KOTOR)

Thalia: “Have any of you seen Star Wars?”

Artemis: “uh...no?”

*later on Olympus*

Artemis: “Hephaestus I’m gonna need about thirty two lightsabers!”

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genuinely perplexed that there are no wondergirl-centric pjo crossover longfics.

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I can't believe that this post is the one that blew up, haha. I thought SWEU was more niche than this, lol.

When I have the opportunity to write, I will try to flesh this out.

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?)].

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So did anyone else read about Reyna's powers and think: "How do you even think of testing for that???"

And then I remembered that Bastila Shan exists.

My new headcanon is that bby!Reyna was a huge Star Wars fangirl. I can picture her trying alllllllll the obscure superpowers and then actually using "Battle Meditation," lol.

(Also, there's some kind of minor control over weapons. Summoning swords like lightsabers would be super epic, lol)

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Love this idea, but would like to throw out there that in the books (old EU), they hyphenated--I don't know the story behind it, but like to think Han tried to take her last name, and she wanted to share/take his, so they compromised.

(all the *ahem* ridiculously hot and (objectively) better kids that came out of their union in the books had the surname Organa-Solo)

((although in general, they're referred to as having the name Solo in the fandom))

Honestly I agree with the theory that Kyle’s birth name is Ben Organa and that Han took Leia’s last name but I disagree that it’s just because Alderaan is matriarchal, like, A. you’d better believe Han would’ve taken Leia’s last name no matter how patriarchal her culture was, and 2. Solo is the name of a notorious criminal with all sorts of bounties on his head, but Organa is a name associated with royalty, meaning Han could show up in sweatpants at any restaurant in the republic and get a table for Han and Chewie Organa without a reservation

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Mirta is one of the many, many characters who deserve a live action adaptation, but I have no idea if she's closer or further away from getting one.

(although she did get to be in that one really well-done fanfilm)

A clothing concept for young Mirta Gev, Boba Fett’s granddaughter, from the EU Legacy of the Force book series

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Update: I found it; it should be the first thing that pops up when you search "children's crusade" on ao3.

So I'm looking for a specific fic. I think it was on AO3, and the premise was that the Avengers are at a press conference and a tiny child asks the Winter Soldier what it felt like to betray Captain America. It turned out that it was baby Kate Bishop, and she was asking because baby Cassie is in a coma and Kate thought it was her fault. But anyway, I read it several years ago, and I'd like to find it again, if anyone knows it.

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Okay, confession time: I absolutely fucking hate that BOTW!Link's hero outfit is blue.

Part of it is that the green getup is classic and pretty integral to the character's image, but the other part is the in-universe religion. Link's patron goddess is FARORE, so why are we putting him in Nayru's colors??? The golden goddesses are the most consistently present religion throughout the games!

(they're acknowledged in all of them except BOTW/TOTK, which appears to have gone through a revival of worship for Hylia, and the downfall timeline (OG games), where the characters are Catholic [yes, angsty tumblr user, you read that correctly, please don't come at me, I believe in freedom of religion, and if fictional characters want to believe in God, let them]).

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batman!Vader is something I never knew I needed

(also, I know James Earl Jones voiced Vader, but someone else did all the walking around in the suit and I don't know who to add to tags)

My favourite Star Wars set photos (part 2)

Majestic Carrie Fisher in buckets

Is he….is he Batman?

This is super cute. Also, the height difference

Part 1

Part 3

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As I never viewed R2 as a Skywalker, I consider myself feeling completely justified in not really viewing Rey as one either.

(unless she's Jaina in the AU, lol)

((at this point, I think Jacen's lost his right to the name too; re: what happened to Mara))

(((the characters in-universe are much nicer than me, Tahiri's my favorite and I wouldn't have welcomed her back like HanLeia and the Order did)))

Might get cancelled for this one

Rey is a Skywalker. Star Wars is, at its core, about found family. Rey is part of the Skywalker found family, and if you ignore that, then technically speaking, you shouldn't view R2 as a Skywalker either

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Where are they living, because no matter how amazing Link may be, if he's on a different continent, he can't drive to FREAKING Iceland!?!?!

(unless this is a Sci-Fi modern AU and there are flying cars)

in a modern AU Link would be Zelda's only friend with a driver's license and their chat history would look like this

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Decided to get started on my own fancomic, lol.

I’m always so impressed when I see other people’s work and so I wanted to try to channel that dedication.

also on comicfury

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Please, tell me more

I haven’t read Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy in ages but I used to have and still have a very clear shot by shot film opening of it set to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Procession of the Nobles” in my head from when I was about 15 years old.

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-Chronicles of Prydain; it gets a bit darker as the series goes on, but I'm 99.9% sure it has no swearing--they end up talking about Annuvin a bunch, but (a) it's not actually hell, and (b) all the place names are in pseudo/actual Welsh, so he probably won't know if it pops up anyway, lol

-Another series by Lloyd Alexander is the Westmark Trilogy; I read it at around 14? Really good, but it has more mature themes than Prydain. There's probably swearing in at least book 2 (The Kestrel is quite possibly the most blatantly gory YA book that I've ever read--I pulled an all-nighter so I wouldn't dream about it, haha) but book 1 (Westmark) will probably be okay? Although thinking about it, the series opens with "Theo was, by occupation, a devil. A printer's devil..." as in an apprentice to the trade. It put my little sister off the series until I told her I'd read it out loud and substitute "devil" with "apprentice" (she's so cute, I love her)

-if he likes Star Wars, I 100% suggest the OG Thrawn Trilogy (the one from the 90s; I haven't read the new one yet), and maybe Young Jedi Knights (pretty sure it's YA? if he's more willing to jump into grimdark, New Jedi Order is AMAZING)

-I totally forgot Earthsea!!!! So good! Ursula Le Guin was an amazing writer. It's probably targeting late YA/mid- to late teens, now that I'm thinking about it. I remember having a really obsessive phase in 7th grade or so? and the creepier stuff went over my head. You might want to read them first to decide if he'd like them--there's some stuff that looking back was actually really dark? But it's so well written, and the things that were bad were very obviously painted as Things Not to Do, so it gets a place on the list

-Redwall is really good, actually--if he changes his mind he should go for it

Trusted mutuals and friends, I put a question to you: my youngest brother (thirteen years old) is desperately looking for some books to read—do y’all have any recs? A few criteria: a few of his favorite series recently have been Keeper of the Lost Cities, The Unwanteds, and The Green Ember. He’s also pretty sensitive to swearing, but not so much to violence.

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HK47!

(has anyone else seen that fancomic where he calls Malak "Meatbag" and Revan decides to have him call all the squishy humans that?)

You know what poll time

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Kinda shocked that there's no SS princess diaries inspired AU.

Like, random girl turns out to be a princess and random girl turns out to be a goddess have the same vibes, guys!

(zelink, obviously; I read somewhere that Hylia is Nayru's daughter, so she can be the dead royal parent)

((Link is the bestie (with the huge crush) who somehow misses the whole princess idea in the first place and assumes she's been kidnapped by the Men in Black))

(not sure about Fi; she deserves a huge role though)

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I would read this. If someone wants to write the fic...

AU where Ozai did actually kill Zuko that night and it ends up being Azula who joins the Gaang because she was a jerk but she did love her brother, and her brother had his life stolen from him at like 10 for no reason other than his murderer wanted to sit on the throne and couldn't lie and make other arrangements for his child. And she knows it was Ozai too, because she overheard the conversation between him and Azulon like in canon. Ursa just happened to not be able to hear her telling Zuko about it.

Sometimes, she swears she can hear his soul crying out in confusion and fear.