History YMMV / ANewDawn

* UncannyValley: Thanks to how his cybernetics are presented, Count Vidian comes off as this in-universe (we have yet to get official artwork to go along with this). He doesn't even seem remotely human anymore. He only has his face left, he doesn't move his mouth when he talk and instead speaks through a vocabulator attached to his throat. The most human thing he seems to ever do is breathe. As the story describes him from Kanan's perspective, he looks like "a war droid playing a human at a masquerade party" instead of a typical cyborg.

* FoeYay: Kanan and Sloane have a bit of this. Kanan constantly tries to flirt with her, and while she never flirts back she does eventually start referring to him by name, much to the confusion of her subordinates. Hera even teases Kanan about it, asking if he's jealous when Sloane seems to be loyal to Vidian.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Denetrius Vidian]] is a bureaucrat and manager in charge of overseeing the Empire's factories. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt]] Vidian demonstrates his authority by working his subordinates to death and beating a union boss to death when he protests. Vidian shows a penchant for [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing his enemies]] and plans to mine one moon for all the materials it has, even though the excessive mining will destroy the moon and its planet, thus killing all the beings there; Vidian simply plans to blame a rival noble for the disaster. His worst moment comes when an entirely competent factory manager protests that Vidian's demands are impossible. He proceeds to throw her into a vat of acid and angrily tells her to "dissolve quickly" so he can get back to work before beating her husband to death when he attempts to arrest Vidian.

*** Adding to that, Okadiah jokingly tells Hera to marry Kanan. [[spoiler: In season 4, Kanan tells Hera that he wants a real life and future with her, to which she eventually reciprocates. However, they don't get to have their desired post-Empire life together due to his death. Although, as it would turn out, Hera become pregnant with Kanan's child prior to his death and [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy bears his son]].]]

** Kanan nearly makes a humorous quip about Hera "not being able to live without him." While she certainly always holds her own without Kanan, later ''Rebels'' episodes tap into her understated sorrow whenever Kanan has separate Jedi and Force-related missions that she cannot accompany him to (making her worry that she won't see him again) and his occasional distance from Rebellion matters. [[spoiler: It gets even worse after Kanan's death in Season 4, and Hera suffers from a HeroicBSOD and even briefly [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness loses the will to continue the rebellion]] from her grief in losing him.]]
*** Adding to that, Okadiah jokingly tells Hera to marry Kanan. [[spoiler: In season 4, Kanan tells Hera that he wants a real life and future with her, to which she eventually reciprocates. However, they don't get to have their desired post-Empire life together due to his death. Although, Hera [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy later bears his son]].]]

** Vidian has cybernetic eyes and Zaluna goes blind as well. As of "Twilight of the Apprentice" in ''Rebels'', [[spoiler:Kanan himself has to adjust to his blindness.]]

** Kanan nearly makes a humorous quip about Hera "not being able to live without him." While she certainly always holds her own without Kanan, later ''Rebels'' episodes tap into her understated sorrow whenever Kanan has certain separate Jedi and Force missions that she cannot accompany him to and his occasional distance from Rebellion matters. [[spoiler: It gets even worse after Kanan's death in Season 4, and Hera suffers from a HeroicBSOD.]]
*** Adding to that, Okadiah jokingly tells Hera to marry Kanan. [[spoiler: Ultimately, Kanan doesn't live to have the post-Empire life they desired, though Hera later bears his son.]]

* JerkassWoobie:
** While there's no excusing his actions throughout the story, Count Vidian may also be this if you take his backstory into account. [[spoiler: He's not only lost faith in [[NoOSHACompliance the effectiveness of safety inspectors]], he spent [[AndIMustScream two years in a hospital unable to do anything]] while [[BodyHorror he was eaten alive by a disease created from the various bio-hazards he was exposed to]], not only turning him into the barely human-like cyborg he is at the time of the story, but also making him develop an aversion to uselessness and inefficiency.]] After that, it's no wonder he's so unhinged.
** Kanan's a bitter, abrasive drunkard, but he's been on the run from the Empire for 8 years after having his entire world collapse on him so it's hard to blame him. It helps that he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold gets better]] throughout the story.

* JerkassWoobie: While there's no excusing his actions throughout the story, Count Vidian may also be this if you take his backstory into account. [[spoiler: He's not only lost faith in [[NoOSHACompliance the effectiveness of safety inspectors]], he spent [[AndIMustScream two years in a hospital unable to do anything]] while [[BodyHorror he was eaten alive by a disease created from the various bio-hazards he was exposed to]], not only turning him into the barely human-like cyborg he is at the time of the story, but also making him develop an aversion to uselessness and inefficiency.]] After that, it's no wonder he's so unhinged.

* ShoutOut: The first line of the book is the same as the last line in another Star Wars book by John Jackson Miller, ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'', but with one word changed.
** ''Kenobi'': "It's time for me to go home."
** ''A New Dawn'': "It's time for you to go home."