774: A Jedi’s Destiny – Chapter Eight and Chapter Nine Part 1

Title: A Jedi’s Destiny
Author: Victor Tarsus
Media: Movies
Topic: Lion King / Star Wars
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure
URL:  A Jedi’s Destiny
Critiqued by TacoMagic

Welcome back, patrons!  This week we finally hit chapter 8 and 9, the last chapters before the halfway mark of A Jedi’s Destiny.  Since we’re going to be halfway through, next week I’m going to take a short break from the fic to tackle a few one-shots.  After experiencing hardcore fic burn-out on Raptor and I, I’m making it a policy to break mid-way on any fic that takes more than 10 posts to cover.

Anyway, last time we had a nonsensical time-skip forward of 5 years.  Followed by another time-skip into the future… whenever that happens to be.  Honestly, I’ve got nothing.  This fic is just occurring in random pockets of causality at this point.  Anyway, this future skip happened because an anthropomorphic lion hit a Greek thing with a sword.  That time-skip also bestowed lots of weapons on all the lions, which were suddenly anthropomorphized.  Probably.  Nothing has ever been explicitly described, so I have to make inferences as best I can.

You can just feel the laziness oozing off this story, can’t you?

Otherwise, Buster, the ever valiant leader, tries to abandon the mission to save Vitani as soon as he sees what he thinks are humans.  Luckily, Simba is there to step in and point out that first, Buster should be doing a better job leading, and second, he wasn’t looking at humans, but rather anthropomorphic lions.  These lions have formed a shanty town and plastered Simba’s picture all over the place, I guess because they eventually realized that he should be the one in charge.  Honestly, I have no idea what’s going on.  It’s like somebody tore the middle out of this thing, wrote a few lines to skip the gap, and is just expecting everyone to go with it.  Even fics that start in media res give you more to go on.

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