Rascal

Rascal was a tooka who lived at the Jedi temple on the Outer Rim planet Dalna during the High Republic Era. In 230 BBY, Rascal and the temple's other tookas were at the temple's entrance when Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her apprentice, Jedi Padawan Imri Cantaros, arrived on a mission. Cantaros was excited to see the cats and cradled Rascal. When they relocated inside, Jedi Knight Yacek Sparkburn arrived carrying a bag of moon fish, prompting Rascal and the other tookas to swarm him.
==Biography==
Rascal was a tooka cat who lived at the Jedi Order temple on the Outer RimThe High Republic: Path of Deceit planet Dalna during the High Republic Era. In 230 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: Mission to Disaster to 230 BBY. when Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her apprentice, Jedi Padawan Imri Cantaros, arrived at the temple to investigate kidnappings carried out by the Nihil pirates, Rascal and the temple's other tookas were present at the temple's entrance. Cantaros was excited to see the cats.
Jedi Master Nyla Quinn—the lead Jedi of the templeStar Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia—then arrived at the entrance to greet the Jedi and told Rwoh to enter the temple. As she did, she gestured over to Cantaros, who was cradling Rascal and cooing to the tooka, and warned Rwoh that the tooka may begin to nibble on his Padawan braid. After the Jedi made their way inside the temple, Jedi Knight Yacek Sparkburn appeared carrying bags of items and the tookas all flocked to him, wailing piteously. The situation caused Sparkburn to laugh, and he stated that the cats must have smelled the moon fish he had brought with him.
==Personality and traits==
According to Nyla Quinn, while the Dalna temple's tookas looked "cute and cuddly," they were also mischievous, which she noted to Vernestra Rwoh when Imri Cantaros was cradling Rascal.
==Skills and abilities==
The tookas of the Dalna Jedi temple, including Rascal, were good at keeping pests out of the temple according to Yacek Sparkburn.
==Behind the scenes==
Rascal appeared in the 2022 junior novel The High Republic: Mission to Disaster, written by Justina Ireland and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Mission to Disaster 
==Notes and references==
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Category:Tookas