[ ☾: Favorite moment from your Muse’s canon, and why. - munday meme - accepting ]
The warrior is advising him to prepare to die.
Jacen smiles. It’s a sad smile: melancholy, resigned.
In a part of his mind far from the pain and the blood and the harsh blue-white glare, he can feel the dark satisfaction of the amphistaff polyps behind him as they swiftly, almost instantly digest the fallen warrior. He feels their glittering anticipation, and the shuddering release as they use the meal of warrior’s flesh to give themselves the strength to reproduce.
Amphistaff polyps breed asexually; the amphistaffs themselves become a polyp’s offspring, released from their nodules to squirm away in search of the proper ground to take root and begin their transformation into polyps themselves. Through his empathic connection, Jacen shows them the ground he recommends.
Trusting their friend, the amphistaffs take his advice.
He stretches forth his arms. The warriors can only stare in openmouthed awe as amphistaffs fall like leaves from the polyps at his back; as amphistaffs wriggle down the polyps’ knobby leathern trunks and slither through the grass.
Amphistaffs twine about Jacen’s ankles and climb his body like vines enveloping a forgotten jungle idol. They twist around his legs, his hips, his chest, coiling the length of his arms, shrouding his neck, curving up to embrace even his skull. The approaching squads of fully armed warriors slow uncertainly, not quite sure, now, how to attack.
Because the vonduun crab is not the only creature that can resist the cut of an amphistaff blade.
Jacen brings his hands together before him, and offers the warriors a solemn bow. When he parts his hands again, a mature amphistaff stretches between them, blade and spike, fully envenomed. As is every one of the seventeen amphistaffs that make up his armor.
Jacen says, “I’d like you all to meet some friends of mine.”
– New Jedi Order: Traitor by Matthew Woodring Stover
[ HANDS DAMN DOWN MY FAVORITE CANON JACEN SOLO MOMENT. I have so many feels re: this whole book. Especially this scene. I love when authors would look into his connection with creatures and he’s doing that and KICKING ASS as an added bonus.👏 ]