History Fanfic / OnTheEdgeOfTheDevilsBackbone

** Played completely straight with her former piloting instructor, Captain Haiduk.

** "She was so eager to prove that she was the equal, even the better, of anyone else here that she was ready to do anything it took to serve her Empire. Anything –" – [[spoiler:Agent Beneke]]

* AllInTheManual: Bedlamsbard's [[bedlamsbard.tumblr.com Tumblr]] is full of writing updates/snippets, worldbuilding for Ryloth and Twi'lek culture, commentary, and meta.

* EvilFormerFriend: Barriss Offee is Ahsoka's.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Ironically, Barriss. Even her FaceHeelTurn and the Crucible can't break those habits out of her.

* PromotedToParent: Doriah Syndulla protected his younger cousin Xiaan when they were enslaved together, and even after their escape remains her primary caregiver. [[Their relationship ended up becoming more of a romantic one.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Aleema Syndulla, Hera's aunt, who is killed shielding her from a grenade during the raid on Zardossa Stix. While it was offscreen, Lika Syndulla's death was implied to be this. [[And then Agent Beneke's brains are blown out by a blaster bolt.]]

* ShowSomeLeg: [[spoiler:Ojeda]] distracts two stormtrooper this way so Ahsoka and Doriah can knock them out in order to get into the ISB Headquarters.

* DistractedByTheSexy: [[spoiler:Ojeda]] distracts two guards this way so Ahsoka and Doriah can knock them out in order to get into the ISB Headquarters.

* {{Codenames}}: Ahsoka is Fulcrum, and she has several contacts who she also refers to by codenames. Barriss is "Cannon" (as in loose cannon) and she has another one on Naboo called "Siren", [[spoiler:also known as the Flower of Ryloth.]]

** The slaves at the Lake House on Naboo, a brothel frequented by officers from the nearby regional ISB Headquarters. [[spoiler: Khiry Chuchi]] is an exception only because she's not old enough yet.

* ArrangedMarriage: Secchun Fenn tries to arrange one between Xiaan Syndulla and her son. It doesn't go over well.

* {{Codenames}}: Ahsoka is Fulcrum, and she has several contacts who she also refers to by codenames. Barriss is "Cannon" (as in loose cannon) and she has another one on Naboo called "Siren".

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: The Pau'an Inquisitor]] was no match for Ahsoka Tano.
* CyanidePill: [[spoiler: The Pau'an Inquisitor takes one of these to prevent Ahsoka from extracting information out of him after she defeats him.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Lake House on Naboo, which is a [[SexSlave sexual slavery]] operation, considers the sixteen-year old Blue Opal of Pantora to be too young to do anything but serve drinks yet.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Aleema Syndulla, Hera's aunt, who is killed shielding her from a grenade during the raid on Zardossa Stix. While it was offscreen, Lika Syndulla's death was implied to be this.

** "Still looking for Jedi, Togruta?" – [[spoiler: the Pau'an Inquisitor]]

* {{Flashback}}: There are several throughout the story showing what the Empire did to Hera and Kanan.

* FriendlyEnemy: Barriss and Ahsoka, although only by the loosest interpretation of the word "friendly". They occasionally meet up to attack each other without seriously intending to kill the other and manage to be barely civil while exchanging information over drinks.

* HotBlooded: Alecto. She gets ''furious'' at Cham for not stunning Hera and taking her with them regardless of her wishes, and later throws a chair across the room after watching some of the ISB's tapes of Hera.

* LuredIntoATrap: Just like in canon, the Empire lures a former Padawan by using the actually-dead Luminara Unduli as bait. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for the Pau'un Inquisitor, Ahsoka Tano was much more than he could deal with.]]

* MirrorUniverse: Only for the Ghost crew, who work for the Empire. Everyone else is on the same side that they are in canon.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Ironically, Barriss. Even her FaceHeelTurn and the Crucible can't break those habits out of her, it seems

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Members of the Inquisition give up their names and are officially only known as the Inquisitor. This being rather confusing when there's more than one around, they have a variety of nicknames. Due to being written prior to the reveal of the number motif within the show, the Pau'an Inquisitor is "the Hunter", the Seventh Sister is "Patience", Kanan is "the Jedi" or "the Stray", while Barriss is simply "the Inquisitor" because she was the first one.

* OriginalCharacter: All of the Syndulla family members other than Hera and Cham, most prominently Hera's mother Alecto.

* PragmaticVillainy: Agent Beneke tries, in his own twisted way, to combat the empire's racist policies because he believes non-humans can be valuable members of the empire.

* PromotedToParent: Doriah Syndulla protected his younger cousin Xiaan when they were enslaved together, and even after their escape remains her primary caregiver.

** From what is implied so far, seems that Beneke will be this to Kallus when the latter debuts. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], by the time Kallus debuts, Beneke gets killed.]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The whole reason [[spoiler:Ojeda Syndulla]] was at the Lake House was to set up one to test Hera's loyalty. She never visited the Lake House (despite numerous offers) thus passed by not taking it.

** From what is implied so far, seems that Beneke will be this to Kallus when the latter debuts. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], by the time Kallus debuts, Beneke gets killed.]]]]

'''On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone''' is a StarWarsRebels fic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]], who also did the FanFic/Ouroboros series.

'''On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone''' is a StarWarsRebels fic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]], who also did the [[FanFic/Ouroboros Ouroboros series]].

'''On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone''' is a StarWarsRebels fic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]], who also did the [[Fanfic/Ouroboros Ourosboros series]].

'''On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone''' is a StarWarsRebels fic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/bedlamsbard/pseuds/bedlamsbard Bedlamsbard]].

** From what is implied so far, seems that Beneke will be this to Kallus when the latter debuts.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Hera's handler, ISB Agent Roberto Beneke, who she beleives has her best interests at heart but is actually extremely emotionally manipulative of her.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Agent Beneke, Hera's handler, participated in Project Nemesis because he genuinely believes that partaking in this [[PragmaticVillainy will make the empire stronger]]. His goal is to install mass re-education systems on non-human species, indoctrinating them into the empire.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Lake House on Naboo, which is a [[SexSlave sexual slavery]] operation, considers the fifteen-year old Blue Opal of Pantora to be too young to do anything but serve drinks yet.

* FantasticRacism: As a non-human in Imperial service, Hera Syndulla is subjected to a lot of this.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Ryloth is one to Ancient Rome.

* KilledMidSentence: Aleema Syndulla.

* PragmaticVillainy: Agent Beneke dislikes and, in his own twisted way, tries to combat the empire's racist policies because he believes non-humans can be valuable members of the empire and that one of the Republics strengths was the fact that it included non-human species.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Lake House on Naboo, which is a [[SexSlave sexual slavery]] operation, considers the fifteen-year old Blue Opal of Pantora to be too young to do anything but serve drinks yet.
** Barriss and Agent Beneke are mutually disgusted by each other.
* EvilFormerFriend: Barriss Offee is Ahsoka's.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Agent Beneke, Hera's handler, participated in Project Nemesis because he genuinely believes that partaking in this will make the empire stronger. His goal is to install mass re-education systems on non-human species, indoctrinating them into the empire.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Agent Beneke, Hera's handler, participated in Project Nemesis because he genuinely believes that partaking in this will make the empire stronger, and sees the program as a way to combat racism. His goal is to install mass re-education systems on non-human species, indoctrinating them into the empire.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Agent Beneke, Hera's handler, participated in Project Nemesis because he genuinely believes that partaking in this will make the empire stronger, and sees the program as a way to combat racism. His goal is to install mass re-education systems on non-human species, in order to indoctrinate non-humans into the empire and make them into loyal soldiers.

* AllInTheManual: Bedlamsbard's [[www.bedlamsbard.tumblr.com Tumblr]] is full of writing updates/snippets, worldbuilding for Ryloth and Twi'lek culture, commentary, and meta.

* AllInTheManual: Bedlamsbard's [[bedlamsbard.tumblr.com Tumblr]] is full of writing updates/snippets, worldbuilding for Ryloth and Twi'lek culture, commentary, and meta.