Aemira

Aemira was a small womp rat that a young Firmus Piett befriended on Tattooine. 
He found her as a baby in their yard with a broken leg. The rat could have growled or bit in self defense, instead she looked up at Firmus and whimpered. He got between her and Kaida.
"Mom, she's hurt. Please. . . ."
The womp rat let Firmus splint, bandage and cast her leg, the only signs of pain were flinches and whimpers, but no attacks. She nuzzled his hands and curled up against him.
Qui-Gon put a hand close to the little rat and waited patiently. "It's okay, smell my scent. You're safe here, little one."
After the rat's leg healed, Firmus and Qui-Gon took her in the family speeder out to the desert and opened the door. The rat didn't move from Firmus' lap, snuggling close to the young boy. Firmus gently rubbed her ears.
"Welcome to the family, Aemira."
He never saw the rat as a pest where most others would, he even made a small fabric collar for her.
Aemira never hurt Firmus or his family, she saw them as her pack.
The only time they ever heard or saw Aemira growl, she was standing protectively in front of a sick Kaida. Qui-Gon got on his knees and held a hand out to her. Beside him, his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, did the same. 
"It's okay, Aemira. You know me, girl."
"It's safe, Aemira. I'm not here to hurt, I'm here to help."
"It's okay, they're here to help Mom." Firmus reached and scratched the rat's head gently.
Aemira reached and gently took both Jedi's hands in her teeth, one at a time, so gentle that she didn't even break the skin. Then she licked them. 
She and Firmus had the same relationship Malcolm Veers and Athaeon had.
Aemira was killed while trying to defend Firmus and Kaida from Corellian slavers. 
Many years later, an elder Firmus returned to the Jinn homestead with Captain Margo Holland, Vrix and Namillus Jakin. They recovered Aemira's skeleton, Firmus gently removed her tusks, lovingly wrapped the womp rat's bones in a blanket and told her he loved her, then Holland set the bundle on a pyre. Jakin set it on fire
Firmus kept Aemira's tusks with him as a memorial and finally had them buried on Dathomir in the place where he proposed to Avaria Piett.
Womp rats evolved in the harsh desert climate of Tatooine, where they gathered in packs to attack locals. Tusken Raiders used womp rat tusks to decorate their clothing, and native dewbacks were known to eat the critters.
During the Clone Wars, when Anakin Skywalker was having trouble getting information out of Dr. Nuvo Vindi, Obi-Wan Kenobi told him to have patience, as there was "more than one way to skin a womp rat."
While living on Tatooine, Luke Skywalker used his T-16 skyhopper to bulls-eye womp rats, blasting them with the vehicle's pneumatic projectile gun in the desert world's Jawa Heights region. Luke had the most hits on the monstrous pests of any of his group of friends on a skyhopper run through Beggar's Canyon. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, when Col Takbright protested that the two-meter target on the Death Star was impossible to hit even for a computer, Skywalker countered that he used to "bulls-eye" womp rats that were not much bigger than two meters. 
Category:Females
Category:Jinn family (LadyVader)
Category:Womp rats (LadyVader)
Category:Deceased