So on Discord the pals and me do like The Power of the Dark Crystal but it has so many plotholes, copy pastes from the movie, retcons and wasted potential we just can't take it fully canon but semi canon, and we rewrote it collectively keeping what we thought made sense and changing or developping what we judged to be necessary (More details about the fanon rewriting : https://ben-the-hyena.tumblr.com/po.....ark-crystal-i)
One of the major things that changed under our minds was making the Commander (who was basically Javert to these teens Kensho and Thurma being ruthless, bigotted and violent while also being sincerely faithful to Jen and Kira and THAT WAS FUCKING WASTED BY HAVING HIM BE A RACIST NAMELESS BIDIMENSIONAL BULLY WITH NO BACKSTORY WHO JUST DIES ALONE LIKE A PIECE OF CRAP AND WHOM "WISE JEN" DOESN'T THINK ABOUT SAVING) named Jara and be Jen and Kira's son who grew paranoid after havint listened to stories of Darkening and Skeksis all his life and thus has preventive extremist ways in order to overprotect the Crystal and his parents, and the reason why they are so absent is not out of dreamfasting fests (THAT WAS SO OUT OF CHARACTER, THEY WERE SO CARELESS ABOUT THEIR KINGDOM BECAUSE IN LUUUUURVE) but because even though they do not approve with his harsh ways of acting they wish he should practice as a ruler and realize his ways are not the right one. He particularly hates Kensho and Thurma not only for the shard disaster but alsl because his Seladon is showing and despite how he spent his life being a protector to his parents and how they ruined everything, they still are tender with them. Unfair !!! He also doesn't die because Jen saves him and goes back to the castle with him, but he lost a leg and got into a deep depression for having failed as a protector. But his mother, Aughra's philosophy and the Mystic chants helped soothe him and soften him up and starting reconsidering his ways about ruling for the Crystal. In the end, Jen and Kira don't get young again nor leave Thra (BECAUSE THAT MAKES NO SENSE THRA IS THEIR HOME THEY PROTECTED IT AND THEY FELT SAFER FAR FROM THE URSKEKS-) but abdict and become hermits, and Jara and Kensho have to share the throne one for being their son and the other for being a new symbol of hope now he was resurrected like Kira had been. Jara would HATE the situation and not trust these meddling kids, and we planned for the rewriting of Beneath the Dark Crystal (I didn't read it yet) to have him be the secondary antagonist to them wanting to work alone and being sure they are as bad as the villain, but he would have an arc of him finally accepting them and making peace with them ; even liking them but shh. Don't tell anyone
He is tall like a Drenchen. Decided to give him Vapran hair and Grottan ears to enhance the heritage theories if they are true, and again I love the idea of Hup being Ydra's husband. He was a good grandpa ready to lend over his spoon but lil Jara only wanted a sword

The Dark Crystal, the Commander, Kira, Jen, Fizzgig, Hup, Ydra, Kensho, Thurma and Turby © the Jim Henson Company
Rewriting of PotDC and idea the Commander is Jen and Kira's son named Jara © a bunch of us in the Circle of the Suns Discord
Drawing, idea, old Hup design, theories and other details (like Jara's ears, hair etc) © me