Kanan Jarrus

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## Personal information

### Personality:

Commanding, secretive, relaxed, strong, cautious, protective, intelligent, wise, fatherly, distant, blunt, direct, stern, serious, womanizing (formerly), cool, calm, cynical

### Child(ren):

Jacen Syndulla (son, with Hera)
Ezra Bridger (son figure)
Sabine Wren (daughter figure)

### Allies:

Hera Syndulla
Garazeb Orrelios
Ezra Bridger
Sabine Wren
C1-10P
Depa Billaba
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Yoda
Luminara Unduli
Cikatro Vizago
Lando Calrissian
Jho
Tseebo
Ahsoka Tano
Rex
Wolffe
Gregor
Leia Organa
Maketh Tua
Jun Sato
Kalani
Battle Droids
Cham Syndulla
Numa
Gobi Glie
Alexsandr Kallus
Fenn Rau
the Bendu
Bail Organa

### Enemies:

The Grand Inquisitor
Agent Alexsandr Kallus (formerly)
Darth Vader
Stormtroopers
Gall Trayvis
Wilhuff Tarkin
Maketh Tua (formerly)
Myles Grint
Cumberlayne Aresko
Azmorigan (formerly)
Fifth Brother
Seventh Sister
Eighth Brother
Darth Maul
Battle Droids (formerly)
Kalani (formerly)
Thrawn
Arihnda Pryce
Death Troopers
Rukh

### Powers and Abilities:

Power of The Force
Swordsman

### Apprentice(s):

Ezra Bridger (Jedi Padawan)
Sabine Wren (lightsaber combat)

### Possessions:

Lightsaber
Holocron

### **Affiliations**:

* Jedi Order
* Galactic Republic (Formerly)
	+ Republic Military (Formerly)
		- Grand Army of the Republic (Formerly)
* Alliance to Restore the Republic
	+ Alliance Military
		- Alliance Fleet
			* Phoenix Squadron
				+ *Ghost* Crew
	+ Massassi Group

### Fate:

Sacrifices himself to save Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren and Hera Syndulla

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## Quotes

You will learn what it feels to be a Jedi.

**Kanan Jarrus**was a Jedi Knight, leader of the Lothal rebels and the deuteragonist of *Star Wars Rebels*. He became a Jedi Master, mentor and father figure of Ezra Bridger, lover of Hera Syndulla and father of Jacen Syndulla.

Kanan is also the main protagonist of *Kanan: The Last Padawan* reflecting on his early days as a Padawan and one of the two main protagonists of the novel A New Dawn, revealing how he and Hera met each other. He was a cameo character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and *The Rise of Skywalker.*

## Biography

### Early life

Kanan Jarrus was born **Caleb Dume** on Coruscant in 33 BBY. From a young age, Caleb Dume has a strong connection with the Force. Upon learning this, the Jedi Order has taken Caleb to Coruscant to be raised as a Jedi, therefore never knowing his parents. With all the Younglings, young Caleb Dume was taught by Yoda, Grandmaster of the Jedi Order and was once classmates with Ahsoka Tano. When he earned the rank of Padawan, Caleb became the apprentice of Depa Billaba. Together, the two fought side by side in the Clone Wars with the Clone Troopers under their command. During one of their missions, Caleb and Depa were saved by a Mandalorian Fenn Rau; however, they never saw him.

Caleb and Depa were on the planet Kaller, when Palpatine issued Order 66, an order turning all the troopers against the best. Depa urged her Padawan to run while she held them off, promising to be right behind him. However, Caleb watched as his Master was gunned down by the men who once served her, much to Caleb’s horror and devastation. Taking his own lightsaber, Caleb survived Order 66 but with extreme guilt that his master died protecting him and the words "I'll be right behind you" forever haunted in his mind.

Having to keep his identity as a former Jedi Padawan a secret, Caleb discarded his Padawan braid and formed a partnership with Janus Kasmir before finally leaving and calling himself Kanan Jarrus. He had to hide his Force-sensitivity.

### Meeting Hera

Before the series, Kanan met Hera Syndulla, daughter of Clone Wars hero Cham Syndulla and her Droid C1-1OP (called Chopper). Soon, they were joined by the Lasat, Garazeb Orrelios and the Mandalorian girl, Sabine Wren and Lothalite boy, Ezra Bridger.

### Mentoring Ezra

Seeing Ezra as Force-sensitive, Kanan proudly told Ezra that his Jedi training starts tomorrow. However, due to Kanan’s Jedi teacher, Master Billaba died and he has not yet finished his Jedi training, he finds it to be difficult to teach Ezra. When Kanan got the news that the survived Jedi Master Luminara Unduli is alive, he immediately sets out with Ezra to rescue Luminara, believing she would be much better teacher. As soon as he and Ezra enter her cell, Kanan much to his and Ezra’s horror, finds Unduli’s corpse. Just then, they were attacked by The Grand Inquisitor, who informed them that Luminara died a long time ago and the Empire used her corpse to lure any last remaining Jedi out of hiding. Left with no choice, the Ghost crew left and Kanan decides to stay being Ezra’s teacher.

### Attack on Lothal

Kanan joins in the attack of Lothal and shows concern when Hera is captured. Kanan later picks up Mart and Chopper and assures them they’ll save Hera.

### Rescuing Hera and death

Kanan asks Ezra to lead the rescue mission of Hera. When Ezra suggests doing it together, Kanan declines, saying that due to his feelings for Hera, he could make a grave mistake, but he’ll stay at Ezra’s command.

During the time Ezra and the other rebels are done with gliders to impersonate birds from Lothal, Kanan shaves his beard and hair. Kanan then joins Ezra and SBine as they fly off into the night. While Ezra and Sabine hijack the ship, Kanan saves Hera and gave her back the Kalikori. Hera comments about Kanan’s bad haircut. Kanan and Hera fought Rukh and ended up at the top of Lothal Fuel Depot.

When they head for the top, Hera confesses her love for Kanan. Surprised, the Jedi Knight comes to the impression that it was the truth serum, but Hera replies that it’s all her words. Kanan and Hera then kiss passionately, just as Ezra and Sabine arrive to pick them up.

Arihnda Pryce and several Stormtroopers appear and when Governor Pryce orders them to fire the fuel tank, the fuel depot violently explodes. Kanan creates a Force Shield to prevent the fire from consuming them. When Hera attempts to run to him, he levitated, pushes Hera to the gunship and his eyesight fully restores and can only gaze in his friends’ eyes one last time. Releasing the fire from its containment, Kanan uses all of his remaining strength to Force Push gunship out of the radius meter and when that happened, he lost his life in the process after being consumed by the volcanic inferno. Then, Jarrus, after being incinerated, passes away and becomes one with the Force.

### Legacy

Kanan’s death, however, was not in vain at all, because his actions has destroyed Lothal Fuel Depot, making all Imperial ships to indefinite halt. Meanwhile, The Rebels mourn Kanan’s death. None of them were more devastated than Ezra and Hera, due to their extreme closeness to Kanan. Ezra and Hera eventually managed to overcame their grief and remembered Kanan’s legacy forever.

Nine months after Kanan’s passing and libertaion of Lothal, Hera, coming to peace with Kanan’s death, becomes a mother as she gave birth to her and Kanan’s son, Jacen Syndulla.

## Physical Appearance

As a child/preteen at the age of 14, Caleb Dume was slender young boy with teal blue eyes, thick brown eyebrows and brown hair, wearing a Jedi tail. He also wore green and yellow Jedi clothes in his early years.

As an adult at the age of 28-30, Caleb, now Kanan, becomes much taller, even taller than Hera Syndulla, Garazeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger. Due to his current age now, Kanan grows goatee and tail on his hair. Kanan now wears green suit, dark green pants and now wears metallic green armor that he wears around his neck and left arm.

After being blinded by Maul on Malachor, Kanan’s eyes lose their teal colors, and became pale, even light blue. During this time, he now grows beard. Despite his wounds however, he now wears a mask that he has gotten in Malachor. He has written two white eyes with crayon around his mask. After this, he stopped wearing green armor and now wears normal clothes.

Prior to his death during the rescue of Hera, Kanan shaves off his beard, tail and some portions of his hair, and now looks like more of a teenager in his late teens / early twenties. In his final moments, his eyesight fully returns, making his eyes teal blue once again, making his wish to see Hera once again come true. Realizing that he is beyond saving, Kanan, accepting his fate, died as he ends up getting consumed by the violent cataclysmic inferno.

## Personality

Before he became a Padawan, young Caleb Dume wanted to become the apprentice of Depa Billaba, despite his so-called friends putting doubt that she would ever chose him as a Padawan. Caleb was always curious and inquisitive towards Depa, who would sometimes tease him about. However, when order 66 was enacted, Caleb became hardened from the experience due to the loss of his Master, who sacrificed herself so Caleb could live. He would not understand about sacrificing to save those he cared about until his later adulthood. After his time as a pirate, Caleb became known as "Kanan Jarrus," a young man who cut himself off from the Force using the method "Force-stealth." He remained elusive and secretive and told no one of his Jedi heritage.

Before he met Hera, Kanan was both a drunk and a womanizer, flirting with a bunch of other women. However, when he fell in love with her, he changed into a better person, even saving her with the Force. After her misison on Gorse, he turned his back on his old ways and joined the Ghost crew. When Zeb and Sabine joined the group, Kanan revealed his identity as a Jedi to his teammates when he trusted them and became the father figure of the Ghost crew.

Upon first meeting Ezra Bridger, Kanan decided to take the boy under his wing as his apprentice. However, he still doubted his skills as a teacher until they encountered the Grand Inquisitor and realized he had to learn to be a master as much as Ezra had to learn to be a Jedi.

After being blinded by Maul on Malachor, Kanan distances himself from his friends, including Ezra as he spends his time meditating and doing nothing, but to verbally lament to himself for getting himself fooled like this by Sith.

## Possessions

### Bases of operations

* **Lothal:** Kanan and the rest of the *Ghost*crew would station at Lothal and where Kanan met Ezra.

## Relationships

**Hera Syndulla:**Hera was the first woman he developed romantic feelings for, as his past relationships were with him being a womanizer. Meeting Hera helped change Kanan and later join her crew. Though they kept their relationship strictly platonic, they harbored romantic feelings for each other and began a relationship that would result in their son Jacen being born. *(See Kanan and Hera's Relationship)*

**Ezra Bridger**: Kanan took in a young Lothalite Ezra Bridger in as his Padawan, but found it difficult to be a teacher. Kanan slowly slipped into the role, becoming a mentor and father figure to the teenager. As Ezra grew older, he and Kanan developed a respect and fierce protectiveness towards each other. However, Kanan was disturbed that his apprentice has been dabbling with the Sith Holocron, despite Ezra’s protests that he’s been using it for the greater good. When Kanan confiscates the Holocron, he was deeply shocked and hurt when Ezra harshly yelled that he doesn’t need him nor the Holocron, greatly upset on what the Sith Holocron has done to Ezra. However, Ezra and Kanan mended their relationship and grew closer together once more. After Kanan sacrificed himself when he saved Ezra’s life from the explosion of Fuel Depot, Ezra was very devastated, since he lost his teacher, father figure and mentor. However, Ezra realized that he had to let go and made peace with Kanan’s death. *(Kanan and Ezra's Relationship)*

Garazeb Orrelios: Kanan and Garazeb had a positive relationship as both of them treat each other with respect. Their respect for each other is found out when Zeb became indebted to Kanan, after the Jedi Knight saved his life from being killed by the Empire, who have wiped out his species. When Kanan was killed by the explosion of Fuel Depot, Zeb was devastated and grief-stricken, wanting to settle scores with the Empire. *(Kanan and Zeb's Relationship)*