Cadena

Cadena was the second Padawan of Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars. She came to the Jedi Temple at a young age, though when she arrived, she was still old enough to remember who her parents were. However, due to the fact she had been brutally mistreated in the time she was with her parents, Cadena didn't have too much trouble with loyalties tied to her birth family.

## Chronological and political information

### **Early Years**

Cadena was born on Coruscant to two human parents. Conditions in her family were never safe nor stable, thus making life at home extremely uncomfortable and dangerous for a child. Once Cadena's parents realized that their daughter had an unnatural gift of harnessing the Force, they used her to entertain people and play tricks. There were several occasions in which the girl would have to fight against older men and women to prove her abilities.

> "Before I was brought to the Temple, my parents exploited my gift. They didn't notify the Order or anything; they just used me for their own purposes. During that time, I wished I had never shown them what I could do." - Cadena, Safe and Sound. (Written by MusicKeeper)
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At long last, an unknown Jedi undercover managed to take Cadena away from her home and bring her to the Temple. There, she trained with a number of other Jedi younglings before being sent to Anakin Skywalker as a Padawan. At this time, she was fourteen years old.

### **Personal Life**

When she was still a youngling, Cadena made friends with a number of other Force-sensitive children, all of who would eventually grow to have masters of their own. One such friend was Kira Narro, who came to the Temple after Cadena. The two would later cross paths on a number of missions, and eventually go into hiding when Order 66 occurs.

Though their relationship did not start off well (due to the fact that it had only been a few months since Ahsoka Tano left the Order), Cadena eventually grew to admire and appreciate her master, often seeing him more as an older brother than just a mentor.

> "I...doubted in him if he cared for me or not. I thought that maybe he didn't really care that I was his Padawan...he was too distant for me to even acknowledge him, but I know why he was like that now." - Cadena, Begin Again. (Written by katierosefun.)
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At the age of fifteen, Cadena was kidnapped by pirates and sent to Florrum, where she worked side-by-side with a number of other captured children. Jim, one of the older boys working for the pirates, grew to become a friend of Cadena's. After being released from captivity by Hondo, Jim snuck aboard Cadena's ship, which later crashed on Felucia. There, the two worked together to signal General Skywalker where Cadena was located.

Afterwards, Jim was given the opportunity to join and train with the clone troopers - he accepted the offer, and was eventually placed under order of General Skywalker and Commander Cadena.

As Cadena and Jim grew older, the two started to see each other in secret. Not unlike her own master, Cadena broke the Code and gave birth to Jim's son shortly before Order 66 occurred. The only people who knew of this were Jim, Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Kira Narro.

### **Order 66**

> "You are no apprentice of mine." - Anakin Skywalker, All Too Well. (Written by katierosefun.)
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Even after hearing the news of the Jedi killings, Cadena returned to the Temple (she had been staying in Jim's apartment at the time) only to find that there were no survivors left. She cut off her own Padawan braid and left it for Aamani, the youngling who she had rescued back in her first year as a Padawan.

Jim and she searched for who they could, only to find themselves locked in combat with Anakin Skywalker, who, at this point, had turned to the Dark Side. Cadena lost, and was taken away to Onderon, where she would go into hiding.

### **Death**

Cadena did not survive on Onderon. Though there was no explicit description, it was implied that Cadena fell to depression and was not able to carry out the rest of her years. Shortly before her death, she named her child Anakin.

### **Legacy**

Cadena's son was also Force-sensitive, and eventually took up Cadena's light saber when he was old enough. He joined the rebel movement, and was even Knighted by the time the new Jedi Order arose.

### **Personality and Representation**

Cadena was known to be fiery, hot-tempered and a mischievous person through her Padawan years. She particularly enjoyed pulling pranks on her friends, playing games, and being in the center of attention. This, however, did not always work in Cadena's favor - she would get into a number of difficult situations because she wasn't paying enough attention to what was going around her/didn't think ahead/simply couldn't keep her thoughts to herself. The fact that her master wasn't always a good example didn't help matters, either.

> "Insert random fact here, yada yada yada, oh, look, we're done!" A fake grin burst onto Cadena's face, and she clapped together her hands once. "Now that that's out of the way, why don't you plug in the entry code so we can *get out of here*?" - Cadena to Kira when they were stuck in the stairwell, Snapshots. (Written by MusicKeeper.)
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However, as years went by, Cadena matured enough to be more empathetic towards the people around her. She learned to become more open towards people as well, not just show a side that she wanted people to see. This included revealing more vulnerable, frightened aspects of herself which weren't easily shown before.

Though there are no identifications of the human race in the Star Wars universe, it is important to acknowledge that Cadena would be, in fact, be represented as East Asian if she were to be described on Earthen terms.