History Characters / OnTheEdgeOfTheDevilsBackbone

* PragmaticAdaptation: Coincidentally, she's also in the Free Ryloth Movement in canon.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Canon material released post-Season 1 have since revealed that Hera was always on Ryloth until she, of course, left. Here, she and her family live offworld on the fic-original planet of Zardossa Stix while Cham and Free Ryloth fight back at home.

** [[TheUnreveal The show never verifies why Mustafar is feared by Jedi, only implications of torture there]]. [[WildMassGuessing Some assumed that it was where Inquisitors were made]], but supporting material seems to suggest it's solely interrogation torture. Here, that idea gets taken and we get the Crucible.

* AdaptationalBadass / PragmaticAdaptation: At the time this AU was conceptualized, the Free Ryloth Movement and Ryloth in general had yet to appear in ''Rebels''. In the show, Ryloth is mostly treated as another planet backdrop and just being another rebel cell, while [=Backbone!Ryloth=] has much more going on, including having a political system of its own, the Curia, based off of the Roman Curia ([[WriteWhatYouKnow as the author is well educated on Roman history]]), as well as a pretty heavy focus on the Syndulla clan's familial ties.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Her design is based on Creator/IndiraVarma. The author also liked to see that the turquoise-skinned Twi'lek accompanying Cham in "Supply Lines" was Alecto.

[[folder:Seku Syndulla]]
!!Seku Syndulla
Cham's younger sister, mother of Xiaan and Nury. Before the rise of the Empire, she used to deal with family business outside of Ryloth. She was also a freedom fighter during the Liberation of Ryloth. She was captured in the raid on Zardossa Stix and held as a political prisoner. She and Alecto conspired to escape together, but Seku was shot and killed in the attempt.

* KilledOffscreen

[[folder:Aleema Syndulla]]
!!Aleema Syndulla
Hera's aunt as Cham's younger sister, and mother of Ojeda, Koyi, and Ilar. Before the rise of the Empire, she ran the family estates, and was either trapped in Lessu or in the family estates in the countryside during the Liberation of Ryloth.

* HeroicSacrifice: Jumps on her niece Hera to shield her from a grenade at the cost of her own life.
* JumpingOnAGrenade: Actually, she jumps on Hera rather than the grenade (though considering that Star Wars has stronger weapons than real life, it's probably better to shield yourself than to actually [[TooDumbToLive jump on a high tech grenade]].)

[[folder:Clotho Syndulla]]
!!Clotho Syndulla
Alecto and Dione's older sister, mother of Doriah and Lika. She fought alongside her sisters during the Liberation of Ryloth.

* TheGhost: Is only mentioned during the opening flashback as being on Ryloth and dies before the present day.
* KilledOffscreen: Dies offscreen sometime after Doriah and Xiaan reunite with the fleet.
* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotho Clotho]] was one of the Three Fates, specifically the one that made major decisions in one's life, such as when and who was born, as well as who gets saved and who dies. What this means for the future is uncertain.

[[folder:Doriah Syndulla]]
!!Doriah Syndulla
One of Hera's maternal cousins, brother to Lika, son to Clotho.

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Is furious at Cham for not telling the rest of the family that Hera is an ISB agent.]]
* MadeASlave: He and Xiaan were sold to a wealthy Imperial Baron, and escaped several years later.

* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: While a slave, he was regularly sexually abused by his owner.]]
* SelfHarm: Has scarring on his forehead and arm from doing this shortly after escaping slavery.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Looks so much like his cousin Hera that they could easily pass for siblings.

[[folder:Xiaan Syndulla]]
!!Xiaan Syndulla
The daughter of Seku (and thus Cham's niece), and Nury's younger sister.

* BrokenBird: She was extremely traumatized by her time as an Imperial slave.
* HeroicBSOD: Anyone making any kind of romantic advance towards her causes her to completely shut down.
* MadeASlave: She and Doriah were sold to a wealthy Imperial Baron, and escaped several years later.
* OriginalCharacter
* ShoutOut: Xiaan is also the name of a Twi'lek from ''Legends'' series ''ComicBook/{{Republic}}'' named Xiaan Amersu, who was a Jedi Knight.
* TeenGenius: Is a math prodigy.

[[folder:Nury Syndulla]]
!!Nury Syndulla
Xiaan's older brother and the son of Seku (and thus Cham's nephew). He appears briefly in the prologue, but has no lines and has no further appearances. WordOfGod is that he got sold into Jabba's court.

* AllThereInTheManual: Would have been nine during the prologue and is nineteen by the events of the story. He became a slave that eventually got sold into Jabba's ownership on Tatooine. He's something like a pod-racer or a pit-fighter now, but still a slave.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is addressed on Bedlambard's tumblr.

[[folder:Lika Syndulla]]
!!Lika Syndulla
One of Hera's maternal cousins, sibling to Doriah, child of Clotho.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Dies after the prologue.

[[folder:Sinthya Syndulla]]
!!Sinthya Syndulla
Distant Syndulla cousin, captain of the ''Mercy Kill''.

* OriginalCharacter
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A corruption of the name, Cynthia.

[[folder:Mishaan Secura]]
!!Mishaan Secura
Captain of the ''Forlorn Hope''. From the Secura clan.

[[folder:Numa Bril]]
!!Numa Bril

* PragmaticAdaptation: Coincidentally, she's also in the Free Ryloth Movement in canon.

[[folder:Teah Far]]
!!Teah Far
Pilot of the ''Mercy Kill'', wife of Sinthya.

* SatelliteCharacter
* TokenMinority: A Pantoran in the almost entirely Twi'lek Free Ryloth fleet.

[[folder:Secchun Fenn]]
!!Secchun Fenn
A [[FantasticCasteSystem class-conscious]], traditionalist, vicious politician determined to survive against all odds. She's been embarrassed in an extremely public engagement, ascend to the head of her clan due to most if not all of her clan getting wiped out (she's about the seventh child of a second/third wife), had to deal with Cham's idealism in the Curia and the problems that arose after, and lost most of her family, political position, reputation, and everything she owns. Out of options, she joined the Free Ryloth fleet.

* TheNamesTheSame: Shares her surname/clan name with Fenn Rau. Interestingly enough, Hera knows of the Mandalorian Protectors.
* OriginalCharacter
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Really doesn't like how idealistic Cham's ideas are. [[JerkassHasAPoint After all, they ''did'' end up causing major repercussions against Ryloth.]]
* TheRival: To Cham. Joining the Free Ryloth Movement was a last resort and she ''hates'' that, but it's all she has left.

!!Past characters

[[folder:Dione Syndulla]]
!!Dione Syndulla
The youngest of her sisters, Clotho and Alecto Syndulla. She would participate in the Liberation of Ryloth alongside her sisters, but was killed in action.

* PosthumousCharacter: According to WordOfGod, she died during the Liberation of Ryloth.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Her design is based on Creator/IndiraVarma.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: A high-ranking curiate and a RebelLeader. It actually gets him in trouble a couple times when the two conflict.

* OriginalCharacter / PragmaticAdaptation: Because we know next to nothing about her in canon, leaving tons of things for creative freedom. All we know about her canon personality is that she was idealistic (or at least a dreamer) like Hera. Here, [[HotBlooded well...]]

Cham's younger sister, mother of Xiaan and Nury. She was captured in the raid on Zardossa Stix and held as a political prisoner. She and Alecto conspired to escape together, but Seku was shot and killed in the attempt.

Hera's aunt, Cham's younger sister and mother of Ojeda, Koyi, and Ilar.

Alecto and Dione's older sister, mother of Doriah and Lika.

Xiaan's older brother. He appears briefly in the prologue, but has no lines and has no further appearances. WordOfGod is that he got sold into Jabba's court.

!Imperial Security Bureau
[[folder:Hera Syndulla]]
!!Agent Hera Syndulla, ISB-327
-->''"I am an Imperial officer. I sacrificed too much to be anything else."''

Hera was taken prisoner in the raid on Zardossa Stix and identified as a candidate for the Nemesis program, which has the goal of turning the children of non-human enemies of the Empire into model Imperial officers. She ended up as one of its greatest successes, and was allowed to form her own unorthodox team for hunting rebels.

* BreakThemByTalking: Beneke feeds her propaganda and other things to turn her against her family, like telling her that [[spoiler:Alecto was supposedly in one of the nearby cells to her after they were recently abducted from Zardossa Stix and managed to escape, but even knowing that Hera was right there, she left without her (which was not what happened).]]
* DeadpanSnarker: A little more rougher than canon, but mostly the same.
-->'''Minister Tua:''' *[[MomentKiller calls on one of the]] [[InterruptedIntimacy many mornings after]] [[CoitusEnsues Kanan and Hera get laid]]* Inquisitor? This is Minister Tua. I'm afraid that we have, ah, slight situation -
-->'''Hera:''' *aside* If she's having a [[BringMeMyBrownPants 'slight]] [[YouNeedToGetLaid situation']] in her bedroom, I'm going to shoot her myself.
-->'''Kanan:''' Be nice, Hera. [[NoodleIncident That only happened once.]]
-->'''Hera:''' This is me being nice. And once was once too many.
* MagneticHero: As in canon, but it's even more pronounced here: she's able to convince Sabine and Zeb, who both hate the Empire, to work for the Empire as part of her team.
* NotBrainwashed: Genuinely believes in the Imperial cause.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Canon material released post-Season 1 have since revealed that Hera was always on Ryloth until she, of course, left. Here, she and her family live offworld on the fic-original planet of Zardossa Stix while Cham and Free Ryloth fight back at home.
* UndyingLoyalty: Her defining trait, just like in canon. The fic plays with this characteristic that allows her to be TheHeart for the Rebellion in canon and sees how it would affect her if she placed it in TheEmpire insetad (the Empire that should be ''questioned'', the Empire of advantageous opportunists), and the story goes from there.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She complies to orders to take Kanan to meet Darth Vader. Kanan is given a choice to either [[JoinOrDie join the Inquisition or die]], and he chooses the former for Hera's sake.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: What she's trying to be seen as by the Empire.

[[folder:Roberto Beneke]]
!!Agent Roberto Beneke
-->''"Think about it. You'll see that it's true, once you stop letting your feelings override your better judgment."''

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Regardless of the trouble his death might cause, it's nothing if not satisfactory]].
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: His design was based on Creator/SeanAstin.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts very kindly to Hera, while emotionally manipulating her.
* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Spends his entire interrogation by Cham and Alecto trying to goad one of them into killing him in anger before they can take the time to extract information from him properly. He succeeds when Cham snaps and shoots him in the head.]]
* KickTheDog: While [[spoiler:Barriss]] wasn't exactly an innocent, it's hard not to feel sympathetic for her when Beneke [[spoiler:snidely asks her if she's going to visit Luminara Unduli's cell, for no other reason than to hurt her.]]
* OriginalCharacter
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Smugly suggests to [[spoiler:Alecto that the reason Hera got into a relationship with Kanan is because "Twi'lek females have certain needs". At the time, he was trying to goad her into killing him.]]

[[folder:Kallus]]
!!Agent Kallus, ISB-021

* BadBoss: Recruits the Ghost crew for the attack on Free Ryloth [[spoiler:solely to use Hera as a hostage.]]
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't seem to think very highly of Hera and her team, although it isn't [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits only]] because of this trope.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Bedlambard's comments on this version of Kallus in the eve of "The Honorable Ones" suggest canon divergence.
* SmugSnake: Has no problem telling Zeb that he was the one that commanded Lasan's massacre.

!Imperial Inquisition
[[folder:In General]]

* AcademyOfEvil: The Crucible
* BossRush: Basically what happens when [[spoiler:the crew go off to the Crucible to rescue Kanan. The crew barely manages to escape.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: Much of the Inquisition in canon is unknown, so this was bound to happen.
** There are at least 66 members, with only four known Inquisitors in canon. Designation numbers are also based on the order of joining, starting with the Barriss, who is INQ-001, whereas canon is vague as to how it is listed.
** [[TheUnreveal The show never verifies why Mustafar is feared by Jedi, only implications of torture there]]. [[WildMassGuessing Some assumed that it was where Inquisitors were made]], but supporting material seems to suggest it's solely interrogation torture. Here, that idea gets taken and we get the Crucible.
** Canon seems to imply that Inquisitors [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget don't remember]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy their past]]. Here, Kanan and Barriss remember their pasts fully well ([[IHatePastMe not that seem to like it]]), but their [[FaceHeelTurn opinions on the galactic conflict have changed]] thanks to years of indoctrination.
** Ringed lightsabers don't seem to be the standard model.
** [[spoiler:In the event of being held captive, an Inquisitor is to take [[CyanidePill cyanide]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to prevent interrogation.]]]]
* ReforgedIntoAMinion
* SlaveBrand: All of the Inquisitors, have the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of their neck. Notably, it's the exact same marking applied to every Imperial slave. Special attention is given to Barriss about this.
* TokenMinority: Subverted by Barriss and Patience, who are both Mirialan; and Kanan and the Fisher, who are both Human. Everyone else is fair game.
* TrainingFromHell: The Crucible is located on Mustafar, and that's as close as you can get to Hell's pop culture appearance, never mind all the merciless training, indoctrination, and [[TraumaticHaircut hair]][[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cuts]] you get if you're going to be a servant of the Empire.

[[folder:Kanan Jarrus]]
!!Kanan Jarrus, INQ-066, "the Jedi", "the Stray", "the Hound"
-->''"You're lucky that I wasn't ordered to deal with you personally."''

Once a Jedi Padawan named Caleb Dume, he changed his name to Kanan Jarrus after the rise of the Empire and stayed off their radar until he got involved with Hera Syndulla, unaware that she was an ISB agent. Unaware he was a Jedi, Hera unwittingly led him to a meeting with Darth Vader. Given a choice between dying and becoming an Inquisitor, Kanan chose the latter for Hera's sake.

* AccentRelapse: Switches between Outer Rim drawl and [[AliensOfLondon Core Worlds]].
* ConvenientColorChange: [[spoiler:His kyber crystal turned from red to blue after Ezra joins up.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Just like canon.
-->'''Hera''': I just got off the comm with Naboo, and [ISB Headquarters] said - what are you wearing?
-->'''Kanan''': ''*wearing civilian clothes[[note]]canon appearance[[/note]]*'' Really? That's what the ISB said? I thought we'd moved past this five years ago.
* [[spoiler:DefectorFromDecadence: With Chapter 18, he's now a target of the Inquisition's Hunt, now that he's escaped from his punishment at the Crucible. And since the crew was involved, they're targets now too.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: Subverted. He has two outfits; civilian (canon) and his Inquisition uniform.
* MaliciousMisnaming: His official title is "the Hound", but [[TheMentor the Hunter]] was the only one that called him that. The other Inquisitors call him "the Jedi" so that he can NeverLiveItDown, or "the Stray", for his outcast status for also being former Jedi that joined the Inquisition much later.
* MeaningfulName:
** His code is INQ-066, a reference to [[ThePurge Order 66]].
** "The Stray" and "the Hound" refer to how the Inquisitors are in a sense, Vader's hunting dogs.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Part of why he's screwing over the other Inquisitors during the Escape from the Crucible.]]
* TraumaticHaircut: His hair was shaved when he arrived at the Crucible. Since it was years ago, it obviously grew back.

[[folder:Barriss Offee]]
!!Barriss Offee, INQ-001, "the First Inquisitor"
-->''"What the Empire takes, it holds. Forever."''

Another Jedi turned Inquisitor, Barriss fell to the Dark Side in the Clone Wars, attacked the Jedi Temple in a desperate attempt to stop the war that ended with her framing her best friend Ahsoka Tano before being forced to confess and then imprisoned. Barriss was still in Republic custody at the time of Order 66, and thus made the perfect original candidate for what became the Imperial Inquisition.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[AvertedTrope Thoroughly averted.]] Even though she's easily the Inquisitor most skilled with the Force and lightsaber combat, she's ranked no more highly than any of the others.
* BerserkButton: Any mention of Luminara Unduli inevitably causes her an internal FreakOut. [[spoiler:Brutally exploited by Agent Beneke as a parting shot in one of Hera's flashback scenes, which completely shuts Barriss down.]]
** Ahsoka accusing her of trying to kill her with the [[spoiler:sabotaged kyber crystal.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Her life has been an unending series of these ever since the Clone Wars.
* DualWielding: Unlike the other Inquisitors, Barriss uses a pair of lightsabers instead of the standard ringed double-bladed type. It's actually the same pair she stole from Asajj Ventress back in her StartOfDarkness during the Clone Wars.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Disgusted by Agent Beneke and seriously creeped out by the way the Hunter treated Kanan.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Ahsoka.
* ExtremeDoormat: She's more or less unwilling to refuse any order that the Empire gives her, no matter how awful it is. She also has shades of this towards ''Ahsoka'' in that, despite all of Barriss' verbal and physical hostility towards her, she's willingly giving up classified information to her without getting much of anything in return. [[spoiler:Shows signs of starting to grow back out of this when she tries to get Ahsoka to destroy the kyber crystal shipment.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Ahsoka. They're both Jedi who realized the corruption of the Jedi Order and the Republic it served, but Ahsoka rejected the Dark Side and is one of the Empire's greatest opponents while Barriss fell to the Dark Side and was twisted into the Empire's servant. She's also one to Kanan, as they're both former Jedi serving the Empire but Kanan did it out of love for Hera while Barriss did it out of a genuine desire to make a difference. They were also broken in opposite ways: Barriss was systematically stripped of her identity as a Jedi to the point where she refers to Kanan as the only Jedi in the Inquisition, while Kanan was constantly confronted with his identity as a Jedi because he had spent the last decade running away from it.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Ironically enough. Even her FaceHeelTurn and the Crucible can't break those habits out of her.
* NothingIsScarier: Unlike with Kanan, the specifics of what the Empire did to Barriss to turn her into this are left unstated in the story.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "The First Inquisitor", shortened to either "First" or "the Inquisitor". The only one who ever uses her real name anymore is Ahsoka.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:She's so disturbed by the giant kyber crystal shipment that for the first time ever she directly sabotages her mission by giving the convoy route to Ahsoka and asking her to destroy it.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: Canon WordOfGod post-Season 1 is that Barriss is not an Inquisitor, contrary to the popular theory that was followed here.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: The Empire had all the time it needed to turn her from a fallen Jedi into their willing slave.
* SanitySlippage: Big time. Years of psychological torture will do that to you.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:She promises Ahsoka that if she ever wants her dead, she'll kill her herself with her lightsabers.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: She is ''very'' caustic towards Ahsoka.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Spiced bara nuts, back when she was a Jedi. Ahsoka orders her a bowl in a fit of pity.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She still thinks she's doing things that have to be done for the greater good, although the fact that she's been willingly giving information to Ahsoka for years indicates that deep down she knows it's all a lie and refuses to admit it to herself.
* WeWillMeetAgain: A villainous example to [[spoiler:Kanan when he escapes the Crucible with the Ghost crew, because now they are targets of the Inquisition, as well as the Empire, due to committing treason]]. They'll all be coming now.

[[folder:Pau'an Inquisitor]]
!!"The Hunter"
-->''"Peace? That's certainly one word for it."''

A Pau'an Inquisitor that becomes TheMentor to Kanan once he joins the ranks of the Inquisition. Earlier on in the story, he leads an operation to capture Fulcrum at the Spire on Stygeon Prime using bait that Jedi Master Luminara Unduli was imprisoned there. Losing to her in combat, he commits suicide via [[CyanidePill cyanide]] to prevent being taken into rebel custody and questioned. He makes posthumous appearances through flashbacks and is mentioned throughout the story.

* AnArmAndALeg: Loses his hands to Ahsoka in their confrontation on Stygeon Prime.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Commits suicide by [[CyanidePill cyanide]] after being defeated by Ahsoka, to avoid interrogation.
* CyanidePill: How he dies.
* MeaningfulName: The Inquisition gets described often as Vader's hunting dogs. They're Jedi hunters.
* TheMentor: A little bit to Kanan. Though it's more of using him as a puppet than actually caring for him.
* PosthumousCharacter: We still get to see him in Kanan's flashbacks, though.
* PragmaticAdaptation: May or may not have been [[spoiler:a former Jedi Temple Guard]]. Also, his canon position as head of the Inquisitors is taken here by Barriss, due to not being revealed as the Grand Inquisitor until post-Season 1 interviews. Considering the Inquisition does not seem to use memory wiping (although this method is not out of the question yet), if his past as a [[spoiler:former Jedi]] would mean that he is [[spoiler:more experienced and thus more qualified to be Grand Inquisitor, as Barriss was only recently-knighted by the time she fell, but we will have to wait and see]].
* TheRival: Somewhat with Patience regarding who takes care of Kanan.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: In Kanan during his Inquisitor training. He's also the only one that refers to him by his official name, "the Hound".

[[folder:Mirialan Inquisitor]]
!!"Patience"
-->''"''This ''is going to be'' fun''."''

An Inquisitor, who, like the First, is a Mirialan. She takes some interest in Kanan when he joins the ranks of the Inquisition, finding herself in a rivalry with the Hunter for authority over him.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The Seventh Sister in canon.
* MeaningfulName: To fit with the hunting name motif, hunters must be cunning and patient if they want to catch their prey.
* TheRival: Somewhat with the Hunter regarding who takes care of Kanan.
* TheVamp: Seems attracted to Kanan. It gets implied that if it the Hunter wasn't so 'protective' of him, she would've made him around something like her SexSlave.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: In Kanan, though unlike the Hunter, who is at least a little more vague about it, Patience definitely doesn't see him as an equal.

[[folder:Fifth's species Inquisitor]]
!!"The Hangman"

A male Inquisitor of an unknown species.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Like canon, he gets relegated to being Patience's lackey.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The Fifth Brother in canon.

[[folder:Terrelian Jango Jumper Inquisitor]]
!!"Amity"

A male Terrelian Jango Jumper Inquisitor.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The Eighth Brother in canon.

[[folder:Nautolan Inquisitor]]
!!"The Whip"
-->''"You'll keep a sober tongue in your head when speaking about His Imperial Majesty."''

A Nautolan male Inquisitor, in charge of the Crucible and Inquisitor training.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Kanan cuts his head off.]]
* MeaningfulName: He ''whips'' the other Inquisitors into shape. There's also the idea of masters whipping servants (both sapient and animal) to make them do their bidding and to punish them.
* OriginalCharacter
* PragmaticAdaptation: [[spoiler: He takes the Pau'an Inquisitor's place as the one Kanan duels to escape Mustafar, with the lines echoing that fight. Unlike canon, however, Kanan does not spare him.]]

[[folder:Theelin Inquisitor]]
!!"Verity"

A female Theelin Inquisitor.

* {{Expy}}: Of Eighth/Amity, sort of. She was spawned from theories by the author about the identity of the Eighth Brother before the season 2 finale aired.
* MauveShirt: There's not much about her yet.
* OriginalCharacter

[[folder:Woman Inquisitor]]
!!"The Fisher"

A female Human Inquisitor.

* OriginalCharacter

[[folder:Trandoshan Inquisitor]]
!!"The Leviathan"

A male Trandoshan Inquisitor.

* OriginalCharacter

[[folder:Pantoran Inquisitor]]
!!"The Seamstress"

A female Pantoran Inquisitor.

[[folder:Togrutan Inquisitor]]
!!"The Wraith"

A female Togrutan Inquisitor.

* AllThereInTheManual: Her name, "the Wraith", is revealed in [[WordOfGod an ask on Bedlamsbard's tumblr.]]

[[folder:Other Inquisitors]]
!!"The Witch", "the Poisoner", "the Songmaker"

* MauveShirt: What we know about them is next to nil. For now, they're there to pad the Inquisition to show how many of them exactly there are.

!Lake House
[[folder:The Flower of Ryloth]]
!![[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]]
A Twi'lek sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. She would be six in the beginning of the Clone Wars, [[spoiler:making her a year younger than Hera and Doriah]].

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]
* CoolBigSis: Functions as one for Opal.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Appears in the opening flashback as Ojeda Syndulla, which isn't revealed as Flower's real identity until much later in the story.]]
* LipstickLesbian: In a relationship with Star/Zaidi.

* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Star's Red.
* SexSlave: Like everyone at the Lake House.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: She is forced to leave behind her girlfriend Zaidi/Star when rescued by her family.]]
* ThatManIsDead: How she thinks of her previous identity, [[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]], in contrast to Star's insistence on using their real names.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Is an informant for Sabé Ledoyen and Ahsoka Tano.]]

[[folder:The Red Star of Zeltros]]
!!Zaidi Farseer
A Zeltron sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. In a relationship with Flower.

* CoolBigSis: Functions as one for Opal.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Red-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Zeltron.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Flower's Blue.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.

[[folder:The Blue Opal of Pantora]]
!![[spoiler:Khiry Chuchi]]
The newest arrival at the Lake House. Was abducted and enslaved in order to punish her mother, [[spoiler:Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora,]] for being too outspoken against Imperial policies.

* BreakTheCutie: And how. She's a gentle, sheltered [[spoiler:Senator's]] daughter who has been forced into slavery.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Pantoran.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Khiry means 'benevolent' in Arabic, fitting her personality.]]
* SexSlave: Subverted. She's considered too young to actually be one yet, but the Lake House fully intends to turn her into one and is already training her for it.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.
* SpoiledSweet: Implied to have been this before the Empire abducted her.

!Other Rebels
[[folder:Fulcrum]]
!!Ahsoka Tano

* BigGood
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fic expects that you have finished Season 1, so yes, you should already know that Fulcrum is Ahsoka.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The canon Season 1 finale implied that most, if not all [[RebelLeader rebel cell leaders]] were unaware of Fulcrum's name and made most of their communication through holocalls. Here, Ahsoka personally meets with Cham and Alecto once Hera is revealed to be an ISB agent.
** The Empire also already knows that she's still running around doing errands for the Rebellion, whereas their suspicions are only confirmed early on in Season 2 and she never shows up in person to them until halfway through the Season. [[spoiler:No word on her current relationship with Vader yet.]]
* RebelLeader: As per canon.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Barriss.

[[folder:Rainbow Lady]]
!![[spoiler:Sabé Ledoyen]]
The Naboo Resistance leader, who works under Fulcrum and is who Siren reports to.

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:Sabé was one of Padme's handmaidens back in ''The Phantom Menace''. Specifically, she was the decoy that switched places with her. Her background was definitely one of the factors that influenced her to become the leader of Naboo's rebel cell.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: [[spoiler:Because we don't know what happened to Sabé in canon, she's a rebel cell leader here.]]
* RebelLeader: Of the Naboo Resistance.

!The Ghost crew
[[folder:In General]]
An unorthodox ISB task force team, put together by Agent Hera Syndulla, to hunt down rebels. Recently, they've been stationed to the Outer Rim backwater planet of Lothal.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse / JoinOrDie: Why the crew minus Hera (and sort of Ezra) became Imperials in the first place.
* [[spoiler:DefectorFromDecadence: Now that they've broken Kanan out of the Crucible, a complete violation of their orders, Barriss makes it clear to them before they flee that the Inquisition will be coming for him, and we can assume this means the Empire will be coming after them too. However, this does not mean they've had a HeelFaceTurn, as they're only doing it because they are TrueCompanions and [[RealityEnsues they don't have much reason to quickly join the Rebellion yet, considering their issues]].]]
* MirrorUniverse: So far, they're the only people that have a change of sides in the story. The only one that seems to genuinely support the Empire is Hera, with everyone else begrudgingly doing so because the alternative is getting executed or [[AFateWorseThanDeath worse]]. Plus, like in canon, it's better to be [[TrueCompanions together]] than alone. Their dynamic and personalities are just a tiny bit more abrasive than in canon, considering [[ManipulativeBastard the people]] [[WhatAnIdiot around them]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast their rougher pasts]], but they're otherwise the same characters we know, just in a different situation.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A Twi'lek ISB Agent, an ex-Jedi-turned-Inquisitor, an old C1 astromech droid, a Mandalorian academy cadet washout, a former Lasat Honor Guardsman, and a Force-sensitive streetrat.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Hera. The only reason they are with the Empire at all is because of her. [[spoiler:When Hera wants to rescue Kanan, an act of high treason, they don't hesitate to join her]].

[[folder:Ezra Bridger]]
A teenage street urchin from Lothal.

* TheCynic: He wryly notes at one point that he doesn't expect to see his next birthday.
* TheEmpath: Taken UpToEleven in one incident. See MySkullRunnethOver.
* MoralityChain: To the crew, maybe. He's the only one with an unaltered past, and he's pretty much only joining the crew because he has nowhere else to go. So far, he's had a rather positive effect on the others.
* MySkullRunnethOver: He accidentally senses ''every living being'' on Lothal at one point, and it's completely overwhelming.

[[folder:Sabine Wren]]
A washed out cadet from the Imperial Academy on Mandalore. After some convincing by Hera, she joined her rebel-hunting team.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Due to her backstory being planned before "Blood Sisters" and "The Protector of Concord Dawn", she has a very different one from canon.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: An Academy cadet washout that ended up getting recruited in an unorthodox ISB team. A highly possible alternative is being executed by firing squad on Mandalore.

[[folder:Garazeb Orrelios]]
A former Honor Guardsman of Lasan. After the planet falls to Imperial massacre, he gets convinced by Hera to join her rebel-hunting team.

* BerserkButton: Like in canon, he is none too pleased to find out that he's coincidentally under the command of the man who apparently ordered the massacre of Lasan.

[[folder:Chopper]]

* ShoutOut: Xiaan is also the name of a Twi'lek from ''Legends'' series ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic Republic]]'' named Xiaan Amersu, who was a Jedi Knight.

* Expy: Of Eighth/Amity, sort of. She was spawned from theories by the author about the identity of the Eighth Brother before the season 2 finale aired.

* Expy: Of Eighth/Amity, sort of. She was spawned from theories by the author about the identity of the Eighth Brother before the season 2 finale aired.

[[folder:Other Inquisitors]]
!!"The Witch", "the Poisoner", "the Songmaker"

* MauveShirt: What we know about them is next to nil. For now, they're there to pad the Inquisition to show how many of them exactly there are.

!Lake House
[[folder:The Flower of Ryloth]]
!![[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]]
A Twi'lek sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. She would be six in the beginning of the Clone Wars, [[spoiler:making her a year younger than Hera and Doriah]].

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]
* CoolBigSis: Functions as one for Opal.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Appears in the opening flashback as Ojeda Syndulla, which isn't revealed as Flower's real identity until much later in the story.]]
* LipstickLesbian: In a relationship with Star/Zaidi.

* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Star's Red.
* SexSlave: Like everyone at the Lake House.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: She is forced to leave behind her girlfriend Zaidi/Star when rescued by her family.]]
* ThatManIsDead: How she thinks of her previous identity, [[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]], in contrast to Star's insistence on using their real names.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Is an informant for Sabé Ledoyen and Ahsoka Tano.]]

[[folder:The Red Star of Zeltros]]
!!Zaidi Farseer
A Zeltron sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. In a relationship with Flower.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Red-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Zeltron.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Flower's Blue.

[[folder:The Blue Opal of Pantora]]
!![[spoiler:Khiry Chuchi]]
The newest arrival at the Lake House. Was abducted and enslaved in order to punish her mother, [[spoiler:Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora,]] for being too outspoken against Imperial policies.

* BreakTheCutie: And how. She's a gentle, sheltered [[spoiler:Senator's]] daughter who has been forced into slavery.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Pantoran.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Khiry means 'benevolent' in Arabic, fitting her personality.]]
* SexSlave: Subverted. She's considered too young to actually be one yet, but the Lake House fully intends to turn her into one and is already training her for it.

* SpoiledSweet: Implied to have been this before the Empire abducted her.

!Other Rebels
[[folder:Fulcrum]]
!!Ahsoka Tano

!!The Fisher

!!The Leviathan

!!The Seamstress

[[folder:The Witch, the Poisoner, the Songmaker]]
!!Other Inquisitors

* MauveShirt: We don't know their species or genders yet. For now, they're there to pad the Inquisition for the story.

* MaliciousMisnaming: His official title is "the Hound", but the Hunter was the only one that called him that. The other Inquisitors call him "the Jedi" so that he can NeverLiveItDown, or "the Stray", for his outcast status for also being former Jedi that joined the Inquisition much later.

* TheMentor: A little bit to Kanan.

* VillainTakesAnInterest: In Kanan, though unlike the Hunter, Patience definitely doesn't see him as an equal.

[[folder:Nautolan Inquisitor]]
!!"The Whip"
-->''"You'll keep a sober tongue in your head when speaking about His Imperial Majesty."''

The Inquisitor in charge of the Crucible and Inquisitor training.

* MeaningfulName: He ''whips'' the other Inquisitors into shape. There's also the idea of whipping dogs when chasing something.
* OriginalCharacter

!Lake House
[[folder:The Flower of Ryloth]]
!![[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]]
A Twi'lek sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. She would be six in the beginning of the Clone Wars, [[spoiler:making her a year younger than Hera and Doriah]].

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]
* CoolBigSis: Functions as one for Opal.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Appears in the opening flashback as Ojeda Syndulla, which isn't revealed as Flower's real identity until much later in the story.]]
* LipstickLesbian: In a relationship with Star/Zaidi.
* OriginalCharacter
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Star's Red.
* SexSlave: Like everyone at the Lake House.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: She is forced to leave behind her girlfriend Zaidi/Star when rescued by her family.]]
* ThatManIsDead: How she thinks of her previous identity, [[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]], in contrast to Star's insistence on using their real names.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Is an informant for Sabé Ledoyen and Ahsoka Tano.]]

[[folder:The Red Star of Zeltros]]
!!Zaidi Farseer
A Zeltron sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo. In a relationship with Flower.

* CoolBigSis: Functions as one for Opal.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Red-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Zeltron.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Flower's Blue.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.

[[folder:The Blue Opal of Pantora]]
!![[spoiler:Khiry Chuchi]]
The newest arrival at the Lake House. Was abducted and enslaved in order to punish her mother, [[spoiler:Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora,]] for being too outspoken against Imperial policies.

* BreakTheCutie: And how. She's a gentle, sheltered [[spoiler:Senator's]] daughter who has been forced into slavery.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's a Pantoran.

* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Khiry means 'benevolent' in Arabic, fitting her personality.]]
* SexSlave: Subverted. She's considered too young to actually be one yet, but the Lake House fully intends to turn her into one and is already training her for it.
* SlaveBrand: Has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck, marking her as Imperial property.
* SpoiledSweet: Implied to have been this before the Empire abducted her.

!Other Rebels
[[folder:Fulcrum]]
!!Ahsoka Tano

* BigGood
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fic expects that you have finished Season 1, so yes, you should already know that Fulcrum is Ahsoka.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The canon Season 1 finale implied that most, if not all [[RebelLeader rebel cell leaders]] were unaware of Fulcrum's name and made most of their communication through holocalls. Here, Ahsoka personally meets with Cham and Alecto once Hera is revealed to be an ISB agent.
** The Empire also already knows that she's still running around doing errands for the Rebellion, whereas their suspicions are only confirmed early on in Season 2 and she never shows up in person to them until halfway through the Season. [[spoiler:No word on her current relationship with Vader yet.]]
* RebelLeader: As per canon.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Barriss.

[[folder:Rainbow Lady]]
!![[spoiler:Sabé Ledoyen]]
The Naboo Resistance leader, who works under Fulcrum and is who Siren reports to.

* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:Sabé was one of Padme's handmaidens back in ''The Phantom Menace''. Specifically, she was the decoy that switched places with her. Her background was definitely one of the factors that influenced her to become the leader of Naboo's rebel cell.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: [[spoiler:Because we don't know what happened to Sabé in canon, she's a rebel cell leader here.]]
* RebelLeader: Of the Naboo Resistance.

!The Ghost crew
[[folder:In General]]
An unorthodox ISB task force team, put together by Agent Hera Syndulla, to hunt down rebels. Recently, they've been stationed to the Outer Rim backwater planet of Lothal.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse / JoinOrDie: Why the crew minus Hera (and sort of Ezra) became Imperials in the first place.
* MirrorUniverse: So far, they're the only people that have a change of sides in the story. The only one that seems to genuinely support the Empire is Hera, with everyone else begrudgingly doing so because the alternative is getting executed or [[AFateWorseThanDeath worse]]. Plus, like in canon, it's better to be [[TrueCompanions together]] than alone. Their dynamic and personalities are just a tiny bit more abrasive than in canon, considering [[ManipulativeBastard the people]] [[WhatAnIdiot around them]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast their rougher pasts]], but they're otherwise the same characters we know, just in a different situation.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A Twi'lek ISB Agent, an ex-Jedi-turned-Inquisitor, an old C1 astromech droid, a Mandalorian academy cadet washout, a former Lasat Honor Guardsman, and a Force-sensitive streetrat.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Hera. The only reason they are with the Empire at all is because of her. [[spoiler:When Hera wants to rescue Kanan, an act of high treason, they don't hesitate to join her]].

[[folder:Ezra Bridger]]
A teenage street urchin from Lothal.

* TheCynic: He wryly notes at one point that he doesn't expect to see his next birthday.
* TheEmpath: Taken UpToEleven in one incident. See MySkullRunnethOver.
* MoralityChain: To the crew, maybe. He's the only one with an unaltered past, and he's pretty much only joining the crew because he has nowhere else to go. So far, he's had a rather positive effect on the others.
* MySkullRunnethOver: He accidentally senses ''every living being'' on Lothal at one point, and it's completely overwhelming.

[[folder:Sabine Wren]]
A washed out cadet from the Imperial Academy on Mandalore. After some convincing by Hera, she joined her rebel-hunting team.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Due to her backstory being planned before "Blood Sisters" and "The Protector of Concord Dawn", she has a very different one from canon.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: An Academy cadet washout that ended up getting recruited in an unorthodox ISB team. A highly possible alternative is being executed by firing squad on Mandalore.

[[folder:Garazeb Orrelios]]
A former Honor Guardsman of Lasan. After the planet falls to Imperial massacre, he gets convinced by Hera to join her rebel-hunting team.

* BerserkButton: Like in canon, he is none too pleased to find out that he's coincidentally under the command of the man who apparently ordered the massacre of Lasan.

[[folder:Chopper]]

** [[spoiler:In the event of being held captive, an Inquisitor is to take [[CyanidePill cyanide]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to prevent interrogation.]]

* AcademyOfEvil: The Crucible.
* TrainingFromHell

* SlaveBrand: Like all of the Inquisitors, she has the Imperial cog tattooed on the back of her neck. Notably, it's the exact same marking applied to every Imperial slave.

* PragmaticAdaptation: May or may not have been [[spoiler:a former Jedi Temple Guard]]. Also, his canon position as head of the Inquisitors is taken here by Barriss, due to not being revealed as the Grand Inquisitor until post-Season 1 interviews.

Mother of Hera and wife to Cham. Comes from a minor branch of the Syndulla family, the second of three daughters. She was captured in the raid on Zardossa Stix and held as a political prisoner. She conspired with her sister-in-law Seku to escape, and succeeded in making her way back to the fleet.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Her sisters and her daughter are named after [[Myth/ClassiCMythology Greek mythological figures.]]

* MeaningfulName: In Myth/ClassicMythology, Alecto is one of the Furies, as well as meaning 'the implacable anger'.

Mother of Hera and wife to Cham. Comes from a minor branch of the Syndulla family. She was captured in the raid on Zardossa Stix and held as a political prisoner. She conspired with her sister-in-law Seku to escape, and succeeded in making her way back to the fleet.

* HotBlooded: Punched a curiate woman in the face at a public affair, and her reaction to seeing her daughter as an ISB agent is to throw a chair across the room.

Alecto's older sister, mother of Doriah and Lika.

!!Kanan Jarrus, INQ-066, "the Jedi", "the Stray"

* MirrorUniverse: So far, they're the only people that have a change of sides in the story. The only one that seems to genuinely support the Empire is Hera, with everyone else begrudgingly doing so because the alternative is getting executed or [[AFateWorseThanDeath worse]]. Plus, like in canon, it's better to be [[TrueCompanions together]] than alone. Their dynamic and personalities are just a tiny bit more abrasive than in canon, but they're otherwise the same characters we know, just in a different situation.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A Twi'lek ISB Agent, an ex-Jedi-turned-Inquisitor, an old C1 astromech droid, a Mandalorian academy cadet washout, a Lasat, and a Force-sensitive streetrat.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Due to her backstory being planned before "Blood Sisters" and "The Protector of Concord Dawn", she has a different one from canon, although to what extent of divergence has yet to be seen.

* TheNamesTheSame: Shares his surname/clan name with Fenn Rau. Interestingly enough, Hera knows of the Mandalorian Protectors, though it doesn't seem she knows about Rau.

* TheRival: To Cham.

A Twi'lek sex slave at the Lake House on Naboo.

* ThatManIsDead: How she thinks of her previous identity [[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]], in contrast to Star's insistence on using their real names.

-->'''Minister Tua''' ''*calls on one of the many mornings after [[CoitusEnsues Kanan and Hera get fruity]]*'': Inquisitor? This is Minister Tua. I'm afraid that we have, ah, slight situation -
-->'''Hera''' ''*aside*'': If she's having a 'slight situation' in her bedroom, I'm going to shoot her myself.
-->'''Kanan''': Be nice, Hera. [[NoodleIncident That only happened once.]]
-->'''Hera''': This is me being nice. And once was once too many.

-->'''Minister Tua''' *calls on one of the many mornings after [[CoitusEnsues Kanan and Hera get fruity]]*: Inquisitor? This is Minister Tua. I'm afraid that we have, ah, slight situation[[note]]Tseebo[[/note]] -
-->'''Hera''' *aside*: If she's having a 'slight situation' in her bedroom, I'm going to shoot her myself.

-->'''Kanan''': *wearing civilian clothes[[note]]canon appearance[[/note]]*: Really? That's what the ISB said? I thought we'd moved past this five years ago.