Eldest Daughter Shit

"Hey, the universe is the one with the problem. It's just the Solos' job to fix it."

Jedi. Fighter pilot. Twinless twin. Mechanic. Spent her childhood running around a jungle and getting kidnapped a lot (like, a lot) and then was immediately thrown into fighting a literal war. Generational trauma. TRAUMA trauma. A couple of dead brothers. Suicide ideation. A lot of flight hours logged. Corellian blood. Mandalorian training. Jedi training. And, if you ask me, homosexual tendencies.

The oldest of the Solo twins, and the oldest of the three Solo siblings, Jaina is the Sword of the Jedi, the Avatar of Yun-Harla, a pilot, a leader, a survivor, and a tragedy. It's hard to explain why she's held my attention for so many years. One day you're a kid in the library, pulling a random paperback off the shelf and thinking, wait... Han and Leia have a daughter?! The next thing you know, years have passed and you're relating maybe a little too much to her belief that she has to push everyone away because she doesn't expect to be around much longer.

She's fury and hope. She's grief, anger, impossible expectations, and the determination to keep going anyway. She's complicated, messy, inspiring, and heartbreaking. She's my favorite character ever.

"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of surviving... and getting to the end of the war and discovering that I'm all alone. That everyone I knew and cared for is gone."

The inspiration behind this shrine is my very fond memories of being little when the internet was new and spending hours on sitesthat looked like this one. Just, like, looking at tha save photos of Jaina over and over, reading fic, etc. and I was so entertained by that and wished I knew how to build my own fansite. Twenty years late but here it is. Thank you for taking a look!