As one of the most unique and beloved warriors of the Force from a galaxy far, far away, Ahsoka Tano has always been a highly unconventional Jedi, just like her former Master and mentor, Anakin Skywalker. And just like Anakin, Ahsoka was no stranger to romance. The Jedi Order demanded that all its members shall not know anger, hatred, nor love, as it couldlead to the Dark Side. Yet despite the Jedi oath of detachment, Ahsoka never swore off love herself.
Ahsoka actually experienced and gave in to all those emotions. Anger when the Jedi Council hunted her down and imprisoned her when she was framed for a crime she didn’t commit inThe Clone Wars, hatred when she tried killing Darth Vader to avenge Anakin inRebelsand love a couple of times in her life. Not just a deep bond with her Master Anakin, but a romantic love.
With the highly-anticipatedseries following the fan-favorite character going on right now, it’s always good to look back at Ahsoka’s long history throughout the franchise and the galaxy to see if it will be important inStar Wars: Ahsoka.So let’s review and look through the lore, canon and otherwise, to see if Ahsoka Tano ever had a love interest in her life.
Ahsoka’s First Flame Was An Enemy
The first flame in Ahsoka’s life came early inThe Clone Warsseries, while she was just a teenage Padawan learner under the guidance of Anakin in the middle of the years-long and galaxy-spanning Clone War. As a secret escort to Anakin’s secret wife, Padmé, who was on a secret mission of peace behind enemy lines (secrets are popular in Star Wars), Ahsoka met somebody she wasn’t expecting, Lux Bonteri.
The son of Padmé’s friend, who was a Separatist senator, Luxbecame attracted to Ahsokavery quickly, though the feeling wasn’t reciprocated. Lux, being a staunch Separatist himself, Ahsoka didn’t want to get close to the enemy who wanted to destroy the Republic she had devoted her whole life to protecting. Since she was a warrior and not a politician, Ahsoka and Lux had time to talk while Padmé and his mom did shadow politics.
Lux found out Ahsoka was a Jedi and didn’t have fond feelings about them. Like many beings in the galaxy, he saw the Jedi as killers, the self-proclaimed peacekeepers who became warriors and warlords for the Republic. Lux’s father was killed by Republic clone forces, soldiers of the Jedi. Ahsoka doesn’t have a defense for this.
Before she left, Luz had changed Ahsoka’s view on the whole war and her part in it, but that wasn’t the last time they met. The Separatist leader, Count Dooku, killed Lux’s mother for her part in the secret negations with the enemy, so Lux betrayed the Separatists, got in some trouble trying to get revenge on Dooku, and roped Ahsoka in it all. After a tangle with deadly Jedi-hating Mandalorians, Lux kissed Ahsoka (mostly to distract the Mandos), but that was Ahsoka’s first and only kiss. And while angry, she didn’t leave him in the mess he created.
The third and last time they met was when Lux was activelyfighting his former government, leading a small resistance on his homeworld world. Anakin and Ahsoka arrived to help, and they ran into each other. This was when she finally started having feelings for him. However, he had mostly moved on at that point and was more devoted to avenging his mother than romance with a Jedi. Ahsoka understood and moved on herself.
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We don’t know much about what happened to Lux after the Clone War. All we do know is from Christie Golden’s novelInferno Squad, where we learn Luz was still a rebel helping Saw Gerrera’s Partisans fight the Empire.
Lux Bonteri was important to Ahsoka’s character development, and we wouldlove to see him again, as he is a great and established addition to her current show.
There was another time, though, when Ahsoka felt those feelings again for another person,after the fall of the Republic and the Jedi, when she was staking out alone in the galaxy with an Empire that was trying to kill her, hiding on a planet where she met, Kaeden Larte, a farmer.
They met inTales of the Jedi, though no romantic feelings were obvious. However, they were in E. K. Johnston’s novelAhsoka, where Larte helped Ahsoka immensely, becoming close friends, helping each other out in a lonely galaxy.The former Jediwas actually inspired to help the locals beat back the Empire and keep their land because of Kaeden. And though they both admitted feelings for each other, Ahsoka left to join the Rebellion, leaving another love behind and denying herself like a true Jedi to help others.
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While it seems unlikely that Ahsoka will have any romantic involvement in her show, we would love to see something from her past. Lux Bonteri was a big part of her learning to let go of attachments. Kaeden Larte was a big part of her learning to trust again. After leaving the Jedi Order, she no longer needed to adhere to strict dogma, but we want to know if she ever wanted to return to her friend. It would be great to see Lux or Kaeden as a member of the New Republic and see a reunion after all these years.
