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    Zolph Vaelor 

Zolph Vaelor

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Species: Human-Chiss Hybrid

Homeworld: Coruscant

The lead protagonist of Paranormalities. Shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong war, he lost both of his parents in a "pirate" attack as he was about to be accepted into Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Five years later, he then comes face to face with the same group responsible for his orphaning: the Valkoran Empire. Meanwhile, the Valkoran and another group villainous group known as the Forceless Collective have taken a special interest in Zolph.

  • Anguished Declaration of Love: He doesn't confess his true feelings for Dynn Manthis until her death.
  • An Arm and a Leg: He gets his right arm cut off by Maesterus on Kratzar.
    • In the Dark Side cave on Dagobah, he hallucinates having his prosthetic arm torn off (with the nerves connecting it being torn) by a psychotic Dynn Manthis.
  • Anti-Hero: He tries to live up to the Jedi's reputation, but the actions of the Valkoran Empire and Forceless Collective have soured him to the point where he can't always live up to it.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: He seems to have become one late in Episode II. After he's defeated Stythanyx, the latter asks him why the choose to continue living. Zolph answers that he doesn't think there's a universal meaning to life and decides to create his own meaning. A nice contrast compared to the hell he went through in the wake of Dynn's death.
  • Artificial Limbs: After losing his right arm on Kratzar, Zolph requests a very specific prosthetic arm that not only has a strength enhancer, but also doesn't get shut down by EMPs. However, it takes about six months for it be properly tested, attached, and settled.
  • Badass Longcoat: He likes to wear a dark grey jacket out int the field most of the time.
  • Badass Transplant: Said arm also has enhanced strength, as well as the ability to Megaton Punch.
  • Beware the Superman: This trope is part of the reason why Zolph tries not to abuse his Force Channeling forms. The Silver Seraph is incredibly powerful, but he can only take on that form if he's in control of his emotions. If he's not in control and under stress (and giving into emotions that fuel the Dark Side), he turns into the Black Berserker instead, which is similarly powerful, but much more ruthless and less restrained. Zolph fears what would happen if he got drunk with power and fell to the Dark Side himself (and he's already skirted it a few times).
  • But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Pulls a heroic variant of this on Forceless Archfiend Cinydra, whose sister he killed three months prior to encountering him. Justified to the fact that not only has he killed a lot of Archfiends, he didn't hear the names of all of them - Orotice being one of them - sometimes because they never talk or are never name-called to Zolph. He doesn't remember her until Cinydra brings up the planet they fought on.
  • Butt-Monkey: The galaxy (initially) only seems to remember him for freighter-flying that has become a Memetic Mutation in-universe. He also runs into at least one weird thing every mission he's on. He is a bit of an Iron Butt Monkey too, as he's had several injuries over the course of the story, such as being nailed to a wall by Maesterus twice, getting eaten, shot with tranquilizers, shot in the legs, getting his right arm cut off, getting blown up by (and surviving) an anti-vehicle missile, thrown through windows, etc.
  • Captain Crash: The galaxy does not want to let him fly any YT-series freighter because of an incident where he lost the main body of one due to its asymmetrically-placed cockpit. Of course, he's not that bad when flying other stuff.
  • Celibate Hero: Deconstructed. He had romantic feelings Dynn Manthis, but was too shy to open up about them until she was on death's door. After Dynn's death, he becomes averse to forming romantic relationships with other characters both because he wasn't able to completely move on from Dynn's death (and haunted by hallucinations of her) and didn't want to endanger anyone else by making them someone his enemies can use against him. He also develops similar feelings for Hiriss Moraana, but refuses to act on them for the mentioned reasons, plus claims of Dynn's resurrection complicating things further.
  • Character Development: He starts off incredibly resentful towards Maesterus, but he gets less angry about it in his later encounters, eventually to the point of putting that resentment aside once he realizes that vengeance is not all that great, that there are worse creatures in the galaxy than him and that Maesterus wasn't completely at fault for his parents' deaths.
  • Chewing the Scenery: Not usually, but he's prone to outbursts if something unexpected happens or works against him.
  • Child Soldier: He was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, at which point he was still a teenager. This was because the Jedi were suffering many casualties during the invasion.
  • The Chosen One: Subverted and deconstructed. As far as he and the rest of the galaxy are concerned, he's just any other Jedi with varying levels of respect. Emperor Valkor only off-handedly mentions a prophet telling him about Zolph and is only concerned about the Vaelor bloodline on the grounds of the threat it poses to his Forceless Collective through their possession immunity and Zolph's ability to feed on Forceless to fuel his Force powers to demigod-like levels. Additionally, the Vaelors aren't even the first Forceless-immune beings Valkor has tried to kill over the millenia. Suffice to say, Zolph wouldn't even know about this prophecy had Valkor not made a big deal out of it or know about his abilities had the Collective not tried to threaten the galaxy. And all this obsession does for Zolph is give him a lot of trouble and grief.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Deconstructed early in Episode II. He's only playing hero so often as an excuse to avoid bringing up his mental health issues and stay away from the Force Sensitives who can sense his emotions.
  • Cool Starship: He gets a modified X-Wing (and a psychotic R9-unit) in Episode II. He later names it the Manthis in honor of his (seemingly) late lover.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He's also willing to use blasters and grenades in a fight.
  • Cursed with Awesome: He's immune to Forceless possession and is capable of weaponizing any Black Matter that gets into his body. The downside is that he is at the top of the Collective's to-kill list because of it and weaponizing it has the potential to turn him insane if not properly controlled.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: Aside from his parents dying as a result of a Valkoran attack causing him to initially resent Maesterus, the possession and death of Dynn Manthis not only causes him a severe amount of trauma, but it also encourages him to prevent any more Forceless possessions, kill those who are possessed, get the Valkoran to understand their mistakes, and defeat the Forceless Collective once and for all.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: While Zolph's Black Berserker looks like a Forceless-possessed creature and fueled by his negative emotions (what fuels the Dark Side), his goals and motivations are still the same. He is just very aggressive in how he goes about it.
  • Dating Catwoman: Between him and Dynn Manthis after she sides with the Valkoran. However, this is subverted with the revelation that she was actually a The Mole working for the Alliance.
  • Deadpan Snarker: With all the strange stuff he has to deal with, he's become pretty universe-weary. Even his otherwise stoic Silver Seraph form retains some of his snark.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Killing Forceless Archfiends(or preventing their summoning) is one of his jobs.
  • Death Seeker: His early encounters with the apparition of Dynn Manthis are a result of him being subconsciously suicidal, to the point that the hallucinations could actually kill him. Thankfully for him, he has had people who care about him bale him out of these hallucinations before they could kill him. After the Fafniros mission, he broke away from this mentality.
  • Easily Forgiven: While Zolph partially blames himself for Dynn's death (since he provided the killing blow and paved the way for the Forceless Arm to be grafted onto her in the first place), Dynn herself as well as her cousin, Hiriss Moraana, forgive him for it, stating he did what he had to do, and that she would have preferred to die than remain a helpless meat-puppet. Sadly, that doesn't make him feel much better about it.
  • Eye Scream: Subverted. In the cave on Dagobah, he has a hallucination about him getting his eyelids cut open by a psychotic transformed Dynn Manthis so he's forced to look at her.
  • Good Is Not Soft: He cut Va'Za the Hutt's stomach open with his lightsaber after he sensed he ate his slave girl, resulting in him dying from his injuries, and he was willing to let Belluzub just die in the destruction of the Death Star Forge. He was also almost willing to let Facadma be slowly killed by the living Force ripping her apart from the inside, but ultimately decides to just kill her quickly. In his Black Berserker form, he is even more brutal.
  • Heroic BSoD: He's had quite a few of these:
    • Has one during Episode I — Chapter 6, when he and Grein are forced to kill a Forceless-possessed mother and her child during the invasion of Sleheyron. Prior to this, the other possession victims they were killing were mere gangsters.
    • Has another one after he is forced to kill a Forceless-possessed Dynn Manthis, and goes on a rather disturbing killing spree against the Valkoran forces on Krantisi. Once Grein lectures him on how meaningless his massacre was, he starts crying not just because of what he did, but because of how much hell the Forceless Collective made his life. Grein eventually calms him down by letting him see Dynn one last time before she actually dies.
    • Happens again early on in Episode II on Dagobah. According to his peers, Zolph had been accepting missions non-stop ever since the Battle of Krantisi to avoid questioning. Once he heads into a certain cave on the planet, he encounters an apparition of Dynn. His initial reaction is to deny the illusion, but that only provokes it into transforming into her Forceless-mutated form and violently immobilizing him, and not only is he terrified, he starts crying once it starts asking why it killed her. It may have all been an illusion, but it was real enough for him to have almost killed him. And it goes to a whole new level in "The Damaged". The hallucinations get less severe once he's gotten past his subconscious suicidal thoughts in "Resolve", but he now has some fears that the Forceless Collective could win and everyone else he knows could end up like Dynn.
    • In Chapter 13 of Episode II, he's forced to witness the total annihilation of Christophsis on the planet's surface.
  • Hour of Power: The transformations he takes on from Force-channeling only lasts until the Forceless symbiote he has absorbed dissipates.
  • Idiot Ball: Despite being cunning at times, he occasionally has his lapses in judgment. Lampshaded by Machinus in Episode II.
    Machinus: Sef. Your descendant's being an idiot again.
  • If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Subverts this with Belluzub after the latter pushed one of his Berserk Buttons. Zolph catches onto his plan to make him fall to the Dark Side and refuses to strike him down in cold blood while angry. However, he knows sparing his life would be counterproductive to why he came to the Death Star Forge in the first place; instead, he just locks him in a conveniently-placed force cage and leaves him to die in the impending destruction. Of course, he gets out later and is forced to fight him again anyway.
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He blames himself for Dynn's possession and subsequent death by his hands. This makes him all the more determined to keep anyone else from being possessed or Mercy Kill them if they are.
  • Improbable Age: He had already become a Jedi Knight by the age of 18. According to Chapter 5 of Episode III, this is because he and several other teenage apprentices were fast-tracked into Knighthood because of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion taking its toll on the Jedi Order. This shows through his relative immaturity and impulsiveness during Episode I. However, he also notes that he's still got some training to catch up on because of back-to-back conflicts.
  • It Gets Easier:
    • The first time he killed an innocent Forceless possession host, he was shell-shocked. A few more traumatic incidents later, including with Dynn Manthis, he's shown to be less hesitant to kill Forceless hosts.
    • This is defied by the Jedi Order as a whole once the Forceless War comes around. Zolph and many Jedi find themselves being forced to kill Forceless possession hosts a lot more often, but they routinely go through therapeutic counseling after every battle to make sure they don't become too desensitized to killing possession victims, but still be willing to do so if necessary.
  • Laser Blade: He carries an aqua-colored lightsaber. He can form them from nothing in Force-channeling transformations.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Descendant and ancestor, more accurately. Maesterus lampshades this when he notices Zolph's second lightsaber hilt, and this is before The Reveal.
  • Mage Marksman: He also uses a blaster in conjunction with his lightsaber and Force powers.
  • Megaton Punch: He gains the ability to do this once he gets his new arm.
  • The Musketeer: In addition to his lightsaber, he's known to use a blaster and explosives.
  • My Greatest Failure: He sees his inability to prevent Dynn's possession and her death as this.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • He accidentally set the Conqueror on a collision course with Acropolis Station when he dismembered Admiral Gravlek. Both of them lampshade it, but it gets undone before any serious damage could be caused. Implied to happened plenty of times during the Vong War.
    • If he had known what would happen to her after, he never would have cut Dynn's arm off on Tatooine. Or later, he would have cut the Forceless arm off her as soon as he saw it on Polus.
    • Subverted when Zolph mass-Mercy Kills the Ancient Abyss and the many slowly-digesting beings inside its stomach. This causes a new Forceless symbiote to be born, which then immediately possesses Hiriss. After a brief moment of worrying that he might have to kill Hiriss, it turns out that the symbiote, Elscorsef, resonated with her, turning her into the first Jedi Forceless Herald and Elscorsef goes on to become the first heroic Forceless symbiote seen.
  • One-Winged Angel: As his Forceless immunity has developed in his bloodline with every generation, his body can now convert Forceless symbiotes into Force energy, and use said energy to temporarily transform himself. However, the transformation has some downsides. While the Black Berserker form is powerful, it isn't as powerful as it gets and is prone to aggression. The Silver Seraph, while requiring more emotional restraint and determination, brings Zolph to new heights.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: After learning to become the Silver Seraph, he still retains his rather crass behavior and habit of trash-talking his enemies in contrast to that form's angelic image.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Goes on one against the Valkoran forces on Krantisi after being forced to kill a Forceless-possessed Dynn Manthis for making a mess of his life by killing both his parents and turning Dynn into a monster (when, in reality, only specific individuals in the organization were involved in both of those). Grein eventually snaps him out of it.
  • Scars Are Forever: He gets some toothmarks in his neck from Dynn's Forceless Arm biting into it. And he gets another on his neck from Mortaqa's ligthscythe after the annihilation of Christophsis.
  • Screaming at Squick: His reaction to learning about Grein's job (and the clients she had to work for) while she was living on Sleheyron. He does it again when he combines it with the knowledge of Grein being his distant ancestor.
  • Shoot the Dog: For him, killing some of the more innocent Forceless possession victims. Justified in that there's nothing else that can be done for them. Notable people he's had to shoot so far include Dynn Manthis and Mandoculus.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!:
    • In "Resolve", he gives a simple "Kriff you" to another hallucination of Forceless Dynn Manthis and cuts her down when she shows him the possibility that the Forceless Collective could succeed in conquering the galaxy.
    • In "Missing", a Forceless Py'ko'ra tries to break Zolph and turn his allies against him by pointing out some hypocrisies in his cause, how he's killed innocent people when they were possessed, and trying to accuse him of Van Helsing Hate Crimes towards Forceless as a species when he's just defending the galaxy against a conquering force. Zolph turns it against him by pointing out how that doesn't give the Collective the moral high ground.
    Zolph: You’re right. It is not the Jedi way to seek to kill, and I am guilty of that on a few occasions. And I have avoided falling to the Dark Side by realizing that. But you forgot a crucial tidbit. The Jedi Code is not as shallow as no attachments, no killing, no giving into the Dark Side, etcetera. Our first and foremost principle is to be the guardians of peace and justice, not meet some damn quotas and guidelines. Those possessed people I killed, I killed because I believed I was saving them from a fate worse than death, and I did not know how else to save them at the time. But once I discovered the limits of my abilities, I killed in defense of myself and others. Because if I let them kill me, there will be fewer people like me to protect the galaxy, even if I hate what I do to make it happen. I might not be the best guy, but I’m definitely not the bad guy.
    Py'ko'ra: So, you’re making it all about you now? Very humble.
    Zolph: Try to spin it all you want, but I doubt any rational-minded being would see us as the villains in this situation. Calling out our hypocrisy does not give you the moral high ground when you have done way worse than us. We’re not fighting you because of some mandate on the balance of the Force; we’re fighting you because your Emperor is a tyrant that’s murdered and enslaved trillions.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Deconstructed. Zolph initially has romantic feelings only for Dynn Manthis. However, when Dynn dies near the end of Episode I, he has trouble moving on from her despite her telling him to do so in her last words (though this is partially due to feeling some guilt for her death). He does develop similar feelings for Hiriss Moraana, but doesn't act on them because he feels this is complicated by the fact that she is similar to Dynn (in fact, they are cousins), and it starts to feel even more awkward for him when he learns that Dynn may be Back from the Dead. As a result, he chooses to be a Celibate Hero.
  • Stepford Smiler:
    • He becomes one during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. He eventually snaps out of it.
    • Taken even further in Episode II. He's been taking missions non-stop during the Time Skip just to distract himself from his painful memories of being forced to kill Dynn Manthis. This bites him in the ass when he goes into the cave on Dagobah.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: When his Berserk Button has been pushed really hard, his brown eyes turn to this, indicating that he's slipping dangerously close to The Dark Side. His eyes change back to their default color once he realizes what he's doing.
  • Trauma Conga Line: The amount of suffering he goes through from his early-to-late teens is staggering. First, he loses both of his parents in a Valkoran pirate attack. Once the Valkoran War begins, his longtime friend Dynn Manthis goes MIA and learns one month later that she made a Face–Heel Turn. More than six months later, Dynn gets possessed by a Forceless symbiote and Zolph is forced to kill her, leaving him traumatized for another six months, and almost getting killed by Force-based hallucinations of her due to his self-loathing. Then at the Battle of Christophsis, Emperor Valkor physically tortures him by squeezing on his heart - hospitalizing him for one month - and leaves Zolph helpless to witness him ordering Mortaqa to kill everyone on the planet except for him and the Valkoran forces.
  • Uneven Hybrid: Since Grein is his distant ancestor, he's part Chiss. However, the Chiss genes have thinned out over time, resulting in him passing for a pure human.
  • Weirdness Magnet: Even by Star Wars standards, he's not dealing with anything remotely normal. In the five years between the prologue and first chapter of Episode I, he's had to deal with masochistic, dogmatic aliens with organic technology. After that, he runs into an undying soldier, a Force sensitive (and villainous possible Light-Sider) man that can shoot spikes out of his palms (and grows wings later), an eccentric mercenary in touch with the fourth wall, and an army of Eldritch Abominations among other things.
  • What the Hell, Hero?:
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: If he's feeling any strong emotions or doubts (especially those that fuel the Dark Side) when he's Force-channeling, that emotion will dominate his psyche while transformed, turning him into a psychotic Knight Templar obsessed with killing all Forceless or anyone who has wronged him. However, the more times he uses it, the more control he gains, and learns to willingly use it to cleanse Forceless-possession victims of Black Matter, and by the time he fights a One-Winged Angel Valkor on Ockla Prime, he's more confident in his control of it and kills Valkor's avatar. At the Battle of Blenjeel, it's shown that he still cannot use this power so casually, as he can still turn into the Black Berserker if he Force-channels while scared or angry (or as he worries, while going on a power-trip).
  • You Killed My Father: His initial attitude towards Maesterus. He eventually gets over it once he realizes it's not entirely Maesterus's fault, that revenge is overrated, and there are worse beings than him. As such, this attitude shifts to Valkor instead.

    Luke Skywalker 

Luke Skywalker

Species: Human

Homeworld: Tatooine

Hero of the Galactic Civil War (and the original Star Wars trilogy), he is now the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, now stationed on Ossus after the loss of the Massassi Temple on Yavin IV.

    Grein 

Ze'grein'aradi (Grein)

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Species: Chiss (purple-eyed)

Homeworld: Sleheyron (born on Csilla)

A Force-sensitive purple-eyed Chiss that Zolph meets on Sleheyron, she knows a lot about the Forceless Collective. She acts as Zolph's second mentor and Mission Control at some points.

  • Defector from Decadence: She used to work with the Valkoran Empire until her sister was possessed by the Collective.
  • The Gadfly: Surprisingly for her, she acts like this when it comes to Zolph's flying accident.
  • Healing Factor: She can use her Force Liquefaction to reform body parts or cleanse herself of diseases. Of course, she has to reassimilate the lost body parts or some more water since it's part of her body mass.
  • Impossibly Cool Weapon: Lightsabers are already this, but hers has a laser cross-guard.
  • It Gets Easier: Given that she's had experience with Forceless possession already, she's learned to cope with killing possession hosts long before the events of the story. It's gotten to the point where she's come to accept that she must kill her own sister to spare her further suffering.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
    • Aside from her Sink or Swim Mentor status, she's more focused on escaping from Sleheyron with Zolph when the Forceless Collective invades the planet than helping evacuate the population, but only because she knows they can't save everyone. However, she did warn everyone at the Flying Lamp Cantina to evacuate ahead of time when the Collective's scouts showed up there to kill Zolph, and she and Zolph save as many people as they can while fleeing.
    • She also warns Zolph of the dangers of emotional attachments. When Zolph goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after being forced to fatally wound Dynn Manthis, she promises Dynn to bring him back to his senses and lets him see her one last time before she dies.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Her experiences with the Forceless Collective and her time with the Valkoran Empire have made her see the worst the universe has to offer, but she refuses to succumb to the worst.
  • Last of His Kind: She and Emilin are among the only known purple-eyed Chiss left in the galaxy since the red-eyed Chiss wiped the rest of them out in a race purge.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: She was married to Seferin Vaelor (AKA Maesterus), so that makes her Zolph's distant grandmother.
  • Making a Splash: She can liquefy herself or individual parts of her body through a never-before-seen Force power. Turns out this power originated from a galaxy Valkor conquered.
  • Mama Bear: After she's revealed to be Zolph's distant grandmother, her protective behavior towards him is easily interpreted as this.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: Like most Chiss, her eyes have no pupils. What makes her particularly distinct is that her eyes are purple instead of red.
  • Not So Stoic: When she starts to display actual emotions, you know something's up. When Masochus tried to taunt her over the fate of her sister and claiming that she's given up hope of salvation, she snapped and attempted to boil him alive.
  • Older Than They Look: She looks like she's in her mid-20's. She's actually 41. Justified in that Force Sensitives don't age as fast and Chiss as a species tend to be in good shape. Lampshaded by Zolph and Dynn. And that's not counting her actual chronological age.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Usually played for laughs when she makes a Ship Tease on Zolph and Dynn. Otherwise, if she breaks from her usual stoicism, you know something is wrong.
  • Scarf of Asskicking: Her character art usually shows her with a green scarf.
  • Shipper on Deck: In Episode I - Chapter 8, she, of all people, does this to Zolph and Dynn once she learns of their previous history.
  • Shoot the Dog: Killing some of the more innocent Forceless possession victims. Justified in that there isn't really anything else she can do for them and Zolph doesn't learn to use his Force-channeling powers to save others from possession until near the end of Episode II (and using that power itself is risky enough for him).
  • Shout-Out: Even through cross-guarded lightsabers existed before Paranormalities and The Force Awakens, her saber is specifically inspired by Henry Cooldown's.
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: She usually lets Zolph handle stuff on his own, as she doesn't want him to be too dependent on her, especially when it comes to Archfiends. She will step in if Zolph really does need help.
  • Stealth Mentor: She deliberately let Hydrojus puppeteer her to test Zolph's resolve for taking down possessed allies. He managed to Take a Third Option though.
  • Training from Hell: She didn't learn her Force liquefaction willingly. Valkor forced her to learn it and in doing so, she was stuck as an immobile water puddle for two weeks before she learned how to reform herself. This is also why she's unwilling to teach Zolph the same ability.
  • Trauma Conga Line: She's experienced several lifetimes' worth of pain. First, she was subject to racial persecution within her own species and her father was executed because of said persecution, forcing her family and the rest of the purple-eyed Chiss to flee the Ascendancy. After that, she was exiled from the Jedi Order for falling in love with another Jedi, learned that the new Emperor she was serving under intended to conquer the galaxy and possess everyone in it, her sister was possessed by an Archfiend, and she's forced to flee from the Valkoran Empire while pregnant, not seeing her husband again for thousands of years. During the four-thousand years before the story, she's haunted by being unable to save her sister and has to endure knowing that she will outlive her son and her grandchildren just because she wants to ensure the Forceless Collective's defeat. By the time of the Valkoran War, she's become very cynical, seeing no perceivable hope for Forceless-possession victims besides death. When the Forceless Collective invades Sleheyron, she knows she and Zolph won't be able to save everyone on the planet. When her sister is finally brought out as a weapon of mass destruction (that kill her with little effort if she got close), she's only able to put Emilin out of her misery through a proxy, and when she's finally close to having a heartfelt reunion with her husband, he is killed right in front of her.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: After escaping from Sleheyron, Zolph calls her out for giving her knowledge about Terraris's location to Girdretto, who then gave it to Va'Za the Hutt, just so she could find a candidate for taking out the Forceless Collective. In the process, this led to an increased crime rate on Tatooine for time, even by the world's usual standards.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Two of her major regrets about trying to prolong her life were not getting to see her other descendants grow up and outliving her generation.
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Subverted. She normally wouldn't, but if the child is a Forceless possession host, there isn't really anything else she can do for them.

    R9-C 4 

R9-C4 (Arnine-Seefor)

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Model: R9-Series Astromech Droid

Manufacturer: Industrial Automata

Zolph Vaelor's personal astromech droid for his modified X-Wing introduced in Episode II. She's unusually sadistic for an astromech droid.

  • Action Girl: Usually Zolph's co-pilot for his X-Wing, but she can still do a lot of damage with or without him. She can even be dangerous without a starfighter to control.
  • Affably Evil: She's very cheerful and fun-loving, but her ideas of fun also includes killing people in creatively sadistic ways.
  • Ax-Crazy: Out of Zolph's allies, she's one of the most unhinged.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: Being a droid that was commissioned by Girdretto (and being finished after his death), she is only a year old by the time Episode II roles around.
  • Badass Adorable: If you can get past the psychopathy.
  • Beat Still, My Heart: Her character art shows her holding a torn-out human heart.
  • Blood Knight: She has more in common with an assassin droid than an astromech.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She seems to have this attitude in regards to Zolph's interactions with Hiriss.
  • Cute and Psycho: She's an astromech droid, which tend to be Cute Machines. She also takes glee in murdering Valkoran troopers in horrible but hilarious ways.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She is completely horrified when she witnesses everyone on Christophsis - save for Zolph, Grein and the Valkoran forces - die to the point that she refuses to bring a trophy like she normally would.
  • Evil Laugh: She's capable of making a high-pitched one out of his beeps.
  • The Gadfly: Tends to tease Zolph for his Idiot Hero moments. She also teases both him and Hiriss Moraana when they are cramped inside the fighter, pretending that she's going to activate the ejection seat on her own whim.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath:
    • Somehow, she can make ripping someone's spine out and bludgeoning them with it funny.
    • She also pretended she was going to eject both Zolph and Hiriss (when the latter was sitting in the former's lap) out of the fighter mid-flight.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Outside of combat situations, when she's involved in conversations with people she hasn't met before, she tends to label them with derogatory descriptions of their appearance that could be considered racist, such as "Green-skinned lady" for Hiriss Moraana (a human-Mirialan hybrid), "Shriveled Masked General" for General Ven Choi (a Kel Dor), and "Hulking, blind-folded, half-naked man" for Juganak (a ripped, dark-skinned Miraluka).
  • Killer Rabbit: You don't expect astro-droids to be that dangerous or sadistic.
  • Kill It with Fire: She's armed with a flamethrower. Zolph didn't know about it until the Battle of Mt. Yoda.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Despite her Blood Knight tendencies, even she knows that she's no match for a freakishly strong Force user. Naturally, she decides to just let Zolph handle Juganak himself.
  • Mook Horror Show: She's known for orchestrating these from time to time. Even Separatist Commando Droids will beg for mercy when attacked by her. Played for laughs.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Outside the astromech socket, she's capable of tearing a man's spine out (somehow without killing them) and beating him to death with it.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: A heroic variant. She just wants to have fun, but some of her ideas of fun include blowing things up, lighting people on fire and tearing their spinal cords out. This is also subverted in that while she is literally one year old, droids are generally expected to behave like adults as soon as they come off the assembly line.
  • Robo Speak: Droid Speak + Faux Mathematical Equations = R9-C4's speech pattern.
  • Robot Buddy: She's not the type you would expect a Jedi to be having around.
  • Robotic Psychopath: She was originally built as a criminal sabotage droid for Girdretto, and she has developed a psychotic personality comparable to assassin droids. Zolph bought her after Girdretto kicked the bucket.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Revealed early in Chapter 2 of Episode II. However, it took Zolph three months to figure this out.
  • Silicon Snarker: Through all those translated beeps, she's a very snippy droid.
  • Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Astromech droids like her were designed to be astrological navigators, maintenance units, and computer interface units, yet Seefor is for some reason equipped with a flamethrower, is strong enough to puncture through battle armor (unless Valkoran trooper armor is about as effective as Stormtrooper armor), and can massacre a squad of trained soldiers. This is justified by her originally being modified for a crime lord.
  • Token Evil Teammate: However, she won't kill anyone that's on her side.
  • Tsundere: She's very snarky towards Zolph and everyone else in general, but loyal nonetheless.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Invoked, even though droids are technically sexless. Her color scheme consists of black and blue, but she has feminine programming. Most would assume she has masculine programming at first glance. She also kept quiet about this for three months to mess with Zolph.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With both Zolph and Hiriss due to her psychotic nature.

    Hiriss Moraana 

Hiriss Moraana

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Species: Human-Mirialan hybrid

Homeworld: Coruscant

A red-haired half-human half-Mirialan Jedi that has been at the Academy on Ossus longer than Zolph. She is Dynn Manthis's cousin.

  • Ace Pilot: Averted, as unlike her cousin, she's not as much of a skilled fighter pilot and piloting skills are mostly limited to transportation. She trains up on her skills before the Battle of Ockla Prime, and it pays off.
  • Action Fashionista: Episode III slightly retools her into one, giving her a variety of different outfits and hairstyles, which is explicitly stated to be a hobby of hers. And she's just as capable a Jedi as ever. However, she will drop whatever look she planned mid-maintenance if called in an emergency and default to her classic outfit.
  • Action Girl: Along with Grein, she sees a lot of action with Zolph.
  • Badass Adorable: She's a Jedi that frequently deals with the same types of threats that Zolph and Grein deal with, but is usually more cheerful than them. This is further played up in Episode III, where she is made an Action Fashionista and becomes the first Jedi Forceless Herald.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Played with in Chapter 4 of Episode III. During her fight with Cordycia inside the Ancient Abyss, aside from already getting mud on her dress beforehand and getting grimy from being inside a giant Sarlacc, she gets some Clothing Damage, mild stomach acid burns and some cuts on her face, and gets a bit of her hair melted off. However, she and Zolph ultimately come out of the Sarlacc a lot better off than Boba Fett did, as Zolph uses the Silver Seraph's miraculous healing abilities to undo any skin damage. Despite being an Action Fashionista, Hiriss expects this trope to constantly be averted and accepts it as part of her role as a Jedi, and the end of that chapter has her commenting that she and Zolph need to take showers.
  • Big Eater: After resonating with Elscorsef, she has to consume larger amounts of food due to sharing a stomach with Elsie during symbiosis. Zolph compares her to Grein (who comes from a species with a naturally high metabolism) when he notices that she's eating more than before.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: Has a bit of this with Zolph when they encounter Fafniros, all the more amusing considering she's bearing witness to what Zolph's job usually entails for the first time.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Invoked. After resonating with Elscorsef, she decides to keep a pair of fangs she gained from Elsie mutating her even when she's not in symbiosis precisely because she thought they were cute. Although, she notes that she has to be mindful about not accidentally biting her lip.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Shows signs of this during the Battle of Kashyyyk.
  • Double Weapon: She is armed with a double-bladed lightsaber, much like her cousin Dynn was.
  • Facial Markings: She has a few Mirialan tattoos, but not as many as they usually do due to very little connections with their culture. She's stated to have gained a few more in Episode III, and artwork shows that she some of these markings on her shoulders and hands too.
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: A literal one since she's half-Mirialan.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Human, half-Mirialan specifically, but since Mirialans look just like humans aside from pigmentation, she's initially assumed by Zolph to be a pure Mirialan.
  • Improbable Age: Like Zolph, she was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight at a fairly young age around the end of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. This is because she was fast-tracked in response to the Order's increasing casualties.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She gets incredibly excited when she learns that Leia Organa is on Blenjeel.
  • Mama Bear: Threatening Elscorsef is a good way to get on her bad side.
  • Mercy Kill: Does this to Shiera Hond after she was horribly mutated by Gestroma.
  • My Greatest Failure: According to "Lab Rat", she laments preventing the soldiers under her command from being captured by Gestroma during the Battle of Metalorn, which hits even harder when she learns what Gestroma did to them afterward. "Deranged" also reveals she laments not being able to save Dynn and learning too late what happened to her.
  • Never Bareheaded: Of all the designs that have been shown for her and when Episode III showed her with different hairstyles, Hiriss is rarely seen without her gray headband with a gold buckle. When she isn't wearing that headband (usually due to her current hairstyle being incompatible or awkward with it), she's usually wearing another accessory, such as a metallic headpiece for an easier version of the "Leia buns", a leather face-framing headband, or hair curlers during maintenance.
  • Non-Human Non-Binary: It is revealed in Episode III that she is an intersex woman. Downplayed in that aside from being a Half-Human Hybrid, Mirialans are a species that are often depicted with binary genders.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: An early Running Gag with her is that she has a habit of eavesdropping on Zolph's conversations she usually isn't involved in. During the Battle of Onderon, she jumps in Zolph's lap while he's sitting in his one-man fighter and they're escaping from a doomed battleship.
  • Only Sane Woman: Compared to Zolph, Grein and Seefor, Hiriss is the most well-adjusted of the main hero team in Episode II. She still has her own regrets such as her soldiers getting kidnapped and experimented on by Gestroma and laments being unable to prevent Dynn's death, but she isn't haunted by her failures to the same extremes as Zolph and Grein. She's also the only one who hasn't tried to kill someone in a murderous rage (or for fun in Seefor's case).
  • Power Stereotype Flip: After she becomes Elscorsef's Herald. In contrast to her now having a Lovecraftian Superpower (and sprouting random body parts), she remains an Action Fashionista.
  • Replacement Goldfish: She calls Zolph out on mentally substituting her for her cousin, Dynn, and tells him to stop.
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: These traits serve as an early hint that she's Dynn Manthis's cousin despite being a different species (or half a different species).
  • Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: According to Escorsef's profile, Forceless origin symbiotes base their genders on their Herald's after resonating with them, solidly confirming that Hiriss is a woman despite being born intersex.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Dynn Manthis before joining the Valkoran. Invoked as she's actually Dynn's cousin. This is also deconstructed as she chastises Zolph when he's mentally using her to fill the void that Dynn left after she died, and she tells him to stop substituting her. This allows her to become her own character distinct from Dynn, especially when it's revealed that Dynn is Back from the Dead.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: Aside from being half-Mirialan, Zolph initially mistakes her for Dynn Manthis (partially due to PTSD). Turns out they are cousins.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Downplayed. Hiriss is usually an Action Fashionista, but Zolph and Neur think she's still fairly attractive even when she isn't trying to look her best or during beauty maintenance.

    Elscorsef (Major Spoilers) 

Elscorsef

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Species: Forceless Symbiote

Homeworld: Felucia

In the aftermath of Zolph killing the Ancient Abyss on Felucia, a Forceless symbiote was born as a result of many of the Sarlacc's victims dying simultaneously. This symbiote then chose Hiriss Moraana as her Herald.

  • Adorable Abomination: She has the same unusual traits and unsettling origins as all other Forceless, but she is not only designed to be less scary than the Forceless from Valkor's Collective (or other antagonistic collectives such as Gestroma's and Lord Azath's), she acts like a puppy.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Hiriss also calls her "Elsie" for short.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: She is born during the events of Episode III, making her the youngest character among the major characters, being even younger than R9-C4 and having an even more childlike personality (whereas Seefor is childlike in a different way).
  • Benevolent Abomination: Again, she is a Forceless symbiote and has all of their unsettling traits and origins, but she is firmly on the heroes' side.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality:
    • Through Elscorsef, it is revealed that, when they aren't seeking to dominate others, Forceless are driven to possess other living creatures because they are attracted to those beings' Force-connection, as Forceless feel incomplete without that connection. As Elscorsef had only just been born when she resonated with Hiriss, she did not understand how invasive this is to other living beings until after she read Hiriss's mind.
    • Due to essentially being an infant, Elsie has a habit of trying to eat creatures smaller than her just because they're meat during the first few days of her life, including creatures that are sapient. When she tries to snack on a Tinrat on Aut Matok, she spits it out not just because Hiriss scolded her, but because she found the Tinrat inedible.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Whereas Valkor's (and Lord Azath's) Forceless have red eyes, Elscorsef's eyes are blue. Supplementary material reveals that a Forceless's eye color is based on their Herald's Force alignment, with red eyes being indicative of a Dark Side alignment, and blue apparently indicative of the Light Side.
  • Cute Little Fangs: In contrast to the Collective Forceless usually having Scary Teeth, Elsie is usually drawn with small fangs when drawn with a mouth.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: She is a dark, slime creature similar to Valkor's Forceless and has a wide variety of Lovecraftian Superpowers, but unlike them, is not willfully malicious.
  • Head Pet: The first few scenes of Episode III: Chapter 5 shows her riding in Hiriss's hair while it's in curlers (as in she's riding inside the curlers). Hiriss doesn't mind, as not only is Elsie incredibly light, she also understands that Elsie is only a few days old and it would make sense for her to be drawn to small, brightly-colored objects.
  • No Biological Sex: Forceless symbiotes don't have sexes, but their genders will often match their Herald's upon resonation. In Elscorsef's case, she is referred to with feminine pronouns.
  • Really Was Born Yesterday: She is born during Episode III, and as such, she's incredibly inquisitive, and doesn't quite understand what's wrong with possessing other beings until she chooses Hiriss as her Herald barely a minute after birth.
  • Shapeshifter Baggage: This is a given for Forceless symbiotes in general, but Hiriss notes that Elsie is a lot lighter than she looks, and she'd have to be if she can crawl into Hiriss's bloodstream without weighing her down.
  • Significant Anagram: "Elscorsef" is an anagram of "Forceless".
  • Super-Empowering: As Hiriss's symbiote, she is able to give Hiriss some Lovecraftian Superpowers when inhabiting her body, such as temporarily sprouting a pair of wings, to combining with Hiriss' pre-existing Force abilities.
  • Token Heroic Orc: Thanks to having a Jedi as her Herald, she is the first Forceless symbiote seen to be unambiguously heroic from the start.

Galactic Alliance Military

    Ven Choi 

General Ven Choi

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Species: Kel Dor

Homeworld: Dorin

An Alliance general and former Jedi apprentice who has worked with Zolph Vaelor in a few campaigns involving the Forceless Archfiends.

  • Badass Normal: Subverted. He is a Jedi from the old Order, but he barely got any training done (and didn't get to build a lightsaber) when the Jedi Purge started. His powers are merely limited to sensing and military planning. He can still put up a fight though and has athletic capabilities on par with a Jedi.
  • Better to Die than Be Killed: He takes a Cyanide Pill before Valkor can eat him. Understandable considering that those eaten by Valkor or Forceless in general don't become one with the Force.
  • Cool Mask: Typical of the Kel Dor species, as his breathes a helium-nitrogen mix. Valkor uses this against him when he tears it off.
  • The Empath: He can tell when his allies are emotionally troubled. Notable when Zolph figures out that Dynn is on Polus and when his men are traumatized by their encounter with Hydrojus.
  • Expy: Basically an under-trained Plo Koon.
  • A Father to His Men: After the death of Hydrojus, he orders (even if they're desperate to end the Archfiends once and for all) the rest of his men that came with Zolph and Grein take a one-month leave after some of them were shaken up witnessing the gruesome death of one of their comrades by the Archfiend making his insides cave in on him. He does not want his troops scared out of their wits. He also takes Valkor on one on one when he starts torturing Zolph, even though this is the last thing he ever does.
  • Four-Star Badass: Not only is he a decorated tactician, he was able to briefly go toe-to-toe with Valkor.
  • Mage Marksman: Downplayed with more emphasis on blaster use. He's a former Jedi trainee, but he was barely trained when Order 66 hit. As such, the Force powers he does display are rudimentary by Jedi standards, such as enhanced senses, reflexes, and precognition.
  • Mission Control: He serves as an out-in-the-field example to Zolph when Luke's not around.
  • The Musketeer: He wields both a blaster pistol and a vibrosword.
  • No Biochemical Barriers: Averted and exploited against him. Kel Dor breathe a helium-nitrogen mix and oxygen is toxic to them, forcing him to rely on a breathing mask. Valkor takes advantage of this by simply ripping his mask off.
  • Old Soldier: He was once a veteran of the Galactic Civil War and now a strategist.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: The well-being of those serving under him are just as important to him as his objectives.
  • Sacrificial Lion: His death serves to enforce that Emperor Valkor is done playing around with Zolph.

    Cephal 

Admiral Cephal

Species: Mon Calamari

Homeworld: Mon Cala

An Alliance fleet admiral who has frequently aided in Zolph in both the Valkoran and Forceless Wars.

  • Expy: Being a heroic Mon Calamari fleet admiral, he's one of Admiral Ackbar (especially since in the Legends timeline in which Paranormalities takes place, Ackbar has since died).
  • A Father to His Men: During the space battle over Blenjeel, he requests Zolph destroy the Forceless-possessed torpedo frigates not only to eliminate a strategic threat, but to spare his men the horror of being turned against their allies.
  • Fish People: He's a Mon Calamari, so it comes with the territory.
  • Four-Star Badass: He's participated in many battles throughout the Valkoran War, and even survived the arrival of the Forceless Collective at the end of the war.
  • Mission Control: He occasionally serves this role to Zolph in naval battles.

    Birik G'Jan 

General Birik G'Jan

Species: Bith

Homeworld: Dantooine

An Alliance General and former communications officer who previously served alongside General Choi as a Colonel throughout the Valkoran War.

  • Mission Control: He sometimes advises Zolph when General Choi isn't available for ground campaigns, and sometimes advises alongside him. After Choi's death, he fills up his role completely, even advising Besh Squad.
  • Rank Up: He was promoted from Colonel to General after the Battle of Ockla Prime.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: His reaction to learning that Zolph has given Seefor full control of his fighter in space over Taris is "We're all going to die." Zolph has to assure him she's going to more harm to the Valkoran than to the Alliance.
  • Stereotype Flip: Bith are mostly known for being musicians or scientists. G'Jan is a military officer who doesn't see himself as a talented musician, but he does have an appreciation for music.

    Menbar Mun 

Menbar Mun

Species: Sullustan

Homeworld: Sullust

A Sullustan operative that Zolph was assigned to protect from bounty hunters due to having information on him. He is eventually captured and loses that information.

  • He Knows Too Much: Maesterus's pretense for sending bounty hunters after him. In reality, he captured Menbar to use as bait to lure Zolph into a trap.
  • Human Popsicle: Or Sullustan in this case. Gahmah Raan froze him in carbonite on Muunilinst to be transported to Kratzar.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Gets his memories of his intel on the Valkoran wiped clean by Doctor Thilid after being interrogated.
  • Live-Action Escort Mission: He becomes the subject of one for Zolph on Muunilinst. Zolph lampshades the common pet peeves with the video game version of this trope when he instructs Mun to not do anything stupid. He avoids the problems with this trope by staying out of Zolph's way in combat.
  • Properly Paranoid: He knew he would be hunted down as soon as he got the intel he needed, and requested protection.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Defied. He's not only a military scout and has some degree of combat training, he knows not to get in Zolph's way when he's fighting the other bounty hunters.

    Besh Squad 

Captain Xadisall Varessi, Quoll "Patcher" Jomas, Banir "Bad Kitty" Keeti, Boltz Welmok, and Tsai "Spectre" Ventia

Species: Mirialan, Nautolan, Cathar, Gand, Kyuzo

Homeworlds: Mirial, Glee Anselm, Cathar, Gand, Phatrong

A racially diverse elite squad of Alliance commandos serving under General Ven Choi. They aided Zolph in the infiltration of the Valkoran warship, Doomsayer before assisting in later missions. Members include Xadisall Varessi, Bad Kitty, Boltz, Patcher, and Spectre.

  • Badass Bookworm: Both Patcher and Boltz, the latter especially due to his status as a Gand Findsman. Boltz was even able to kill a Valkoran Exo-trooper by sneakily rigging his suit to explode.
  • Badass Normal: All of them except for Boltz, who as a Gand Findsman is mildly Force-sensitive. Xad was notably able to kill a Valkoran Force acolyte single-handed.
  • The Big Guy: Bad Kitty. He is the squad's heavy weapons specialist and is rather large.
  • Blood Knight: Bad Kitty is known to get caught in the thrill of battle.
  • Cat Folk: Bad Kitty is a Cathar.
  • Cold Sniper: Spectre is the squad's quiet and aloof stealth specialist and markswoman.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: As a Gand Findsman, Boltz is able to see the future a few seconds in advance. This is also one of the few ways to combat the Forceless Collective's Crustythe assassins, who are notoriously undetectable even through the Force.
  • Combat Medic: Patcher is the squad's medic, but he's no slouch in combat either. This is also deconstructed, as his character bio states that him being forced to kill people when he's been trained to help them as turned him into a Stepford Smiler.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Xad, Bad Kitty and Spectre are among the sharper-tongued members of the squad.
  • Disney Death: Played for Laughs in Boltz's case in that Zolph is the only one that thinks Boltz needs medical attention since he lost his respirator mask (anything that isn't ammonia is hazardous to Gand lungs). Boltz is actually a lungless Gand and does not need to breathe in the first place.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Bad Kitty does not like to be called by his real name, Banir Keeti.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: He's more brash than stupid, but Bad Kitty is correct in his assessment during the Aut Matok mission that everyone has to keep their prejudices in check now that one of their new allies is an infant Forceless Symbiote and not mistake her for an enemy symbiote.
  • Electronic Eye: Spectre has a cybernetic eye replacing her left one, which she lost to a Thud Bug during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.
  • The Engineer: Boltz is the squad's technician.
  • Facial Markings: Xadisall has these, since he is a Mirialan.
  • Fish People: Patcher is a Nautolan.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: Bad Kitty is a rather deceptive name for a hulking lion man with a trigger-happy demeanor.
  • Friend or Foe?: Early in Episode II, one of Boltz's turrets targets and shoots down a Valkoran Speeder Zolph is driving. They apologize to him for the accident, with Boltz claiming that he's still programming it to recognize exposed riders. And all played for laughs.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Boltz. He even built a machine that can shoot down portable missiles.
  • The Ghost: According to her brief profile on the TFN forums' OC index thread, a lot of people can go years without knowing that Spectre has always been part of the squad due to her operating behind scenes and her general lack of presence.
  • Healing Shiv: One of Patcher's tools are grenades that release bacta, also known as "bacta bombs", which he uses if he needs to heal his squad in a pinch.
  • Improvised Weapon: Boltz uses his own respirator mask as a makeshift ammonia bomb after it gets damaged.
  • In a Single Bound: As a Kyuzo, Spectre specializes at this, which allowed her to get back to Rwookrorro quickly to report an impending Valkoran attack. Complementing her squad role, this allows her to jump to any ideal sniping position.
  • Insectoid Alien: Boltz is a Gand.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bad Kitty is rather crass and combative while Spectre is rather cold (and the two butt heads with each other sometimes). However, they both of the galaxy's best interest at heart, and the former also has a soft spot kids, even if the kid in question is a newborn Forceless symbiote.
  • Large Ham: Bad Kitty can be this when he gets into intense combat situations.
  • Little "No": Spectre gives one when she learns about General Choi's death.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: While most of the squad wears teal armor with a few slight variations, Xadisall notably wears a vest over his armor and Spectre not only wears her traditional Kyuzo war helmet as part of her uniform, she also paints her armor with camouflagic colors to complement her role as a sniper and stealth specialist.
  • Not So Above It All: Xadisall isn't afraid to voice his personal opinions on corrupt politicians from his own government and finding amusement from their misfortune in private.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Inverted with Xadisall, as he is the only one without an actual codename (the others sometimes just call him Xad or Captain). Bad Kitty does not like being called by his real name, and due to the cultural process of how Gands get their names, Boltz's codename is also his real name.
  • Only Sane Man: As the leader of the squad, Xadisall is easily the least quirky and most level-headed of them. The rest of the squad includes a Blood Knight, an eccentric engineer, a Stepford Smiler medic, and an aloof sniper.
  • The Quiet One: Spectre is the more soft-spoken member of the squad.
  • Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: With the exception of Xadisall, they're a very quirky bunch to say the least. They include a boisterous Cathar, a perpetually optimistic Nautolan medic, an eccentric Gand engineer, and an aloof Kyuzo sniper.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Invoked with Spectre in "Resolve". She's always been part of the squad; Zolph just hadn't seen her until then.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Bad Kitty swears this on the Valkoran after the death of General Choi and the annihilation of Christophsis.
  • The Smart Guy: Boltz and Patcher are the technicians of the team, with Boltz specializing in technology and Patcher in medical science.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Spectre is the only female member of the squad.
  • Third-Person Person: Boltz, as part of Gand culture dictating that they have to earn their names and the right to use personal pronouns. In fact, he has taken his nickname as his given name. He does not speak at all during the Doomsayer infiltration to make the infiltration to go as smoothly as possible. His bio states that when he's undercover,
  • Weaponized Headgear: Spectre uses the same type of war helmets normally used by Kyuzo.
  • A Wizard Did It: Boltz isn't particularly fond of pulling the Force card to explain something unusual (even when it really is the explanation). However, he willingly accepts it when he sees the results of the Christophsis massacre.
  • Worst Aid: Discussed regarding Patcher's "bacta bombs", which are essentially grenades that release an explosion of bacta. Many think these are highly ineffective at healing since they aren't applied to wounds in question, since they seem to be an attempt to apply video game healing logic to reality (which is a reference to some of the healing abilities in Star Wars: The Old Republic). However, they have kept the squad alive in a pinch until Patcher could apply proper medical treatment.

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