Anakin spoke highly of you.
have to do what's right, regardless of our personal feelings.
I bet your master found you difficult at times,
Anakin never got to finish my training.
I walked away from her just like I walked away from Sabine.
Ahsoka...Anakin.
I won't leave you.
Not this time.
Then you will die.
Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie
I got a lot of requests
to do in Ahsoka video for her back story during Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars.
This will mostly be through the lens of her
changing relationship with an and Skywalker,
and then with him after he became Darth Vader.
Because there are so many.
And again, Skywalker references in the trailers.
A lot of you also didn't watch all the Star Wars Rebels episodes
in the Clone Wars episode.
So I'll explain the important parts of that.
just in general, though, Hayden Christensen will be very important
as both Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader to the Ahsoka series.
So it's important to know their backstory together.
why their relationship is so fundamental to her character and what she's doing
during the Ahsoka episodes and how it informs her character.
if you're new to the channel, I'll be doing episode videos for Ahsoka
when it starts.
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I'll do some special giveaways during those.
I still got some cool Star Wars stuff sitting around that I want to give away to
if you did not watch the Clone Wars or the Star Wars Rebels episodes.
Ahsoka Tano was created
by George Lucas and Dave Filoni specifically for the Clone Wars.
George Lucas wanted to give and again, Skywalker Padawan
is someone for younger viewers to follow because and can they've grown older
like younger people watched and it can grow up through the prequels
now they wanted another younger character that people could rally around
he also wanted to give Alnwick and Skywalker a Padawan
to show his character development.
And even though he hadn't attained the rank of Jedi master yet
and typically the Council only let Jedi masters have apprentices.
There were exceptions in the past.
the in-universe reason why Yoda chose to give Aniket a Padawan
was to alleviate his fears and inability to let go of loved ones like his mother.
And you had to believe that by becoming a teacher to Ahsoka,
he would develop emotionally and understand that his excessive
bonding to those that he cared about was unnecessary.
Yoda also knew that ultimately Ahsoka would graduate to the rank of full Jedi Knight
and eventually leave him to go out on her own.
He hoped that the process would help Aniket mature.
the reason why it was Ahsoka Tano in particular that he chose for
this was because of her incredible skill as a Jedi younglings at the temple.
She was on an accelerated program and ready to become a Padawan
much sooner than normal.
Just like in a can. Skywalker had been.
also in the background, the Clone Wars had started
and they needed all the Jedi they could get in the field.
So Yoda wanted to push Ahsoka to the next stage in her training
as fast as possible, hoping that it would also help her mature a little.
Like he believed that both Ahsoka
and Aniket would help each other become better people and better Jedi.
the only other Jedi master that she'd been close to up to this point was Pokemon.
He was the one who found her on her home planet
and brought her into the Jedi Order as a child.
They covered the events of her early life during the newer Star
Wars Tales of the Jedi episodes before Platoon showed up,
she'd also had an encounter with a rogue former Jedi imposter
pretending to be from the order, trying to trick her into leaving
so that he could use her as his own personal weapon.
Ahsoka saw him coming from a mile away,
but developed trust issues because of that that plagued her until present day.
There very few people that she actually grows close to, including the characters
during Star Wars Rebels, which will see a live action
like the crew of the ghost people like Incan Skywalker.
She eventually became close to Obi-Wan Kenobi, but still very few people overall.
that's why you see Ahsoka in present day being such a loner
initially when they first met in Can, Skywalker didn't have anything to
do with her and just thought of her as an inconvenience, eventually
going full 180 on her, both of them growing very close.
Exactly what Yoda did not want to happen.
They both developed very close attachments to each other.
really hoping we get some snips references during the series
at some point she goes on to have all kinds
of adventures with Anaconda and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
They grow very close to each other.
And then eventually, when she was falsely accused by the Jedi Council and decided
to leave the order permanently and again, ultimately
felt like he failed her and never forgave himself.
she'd also grown close to Obi-Wan Kenobi, but they didn't have quite
the relationship that she and and can had.
So typically when you see memes
of the clone wars of those characters, it's usually Obi-Wan Kenobi
scolding Anna in Ahsoka for not listening to the Jedi Council's orders.
both she and Anakin as characters
just kind of did their own thing, regardless of orders given to them.
And she's still like that in present day.
the final episodes of The Clone Wars are amazing.
They were meant to crossover with Revenge of the Sith,
sort of tie up all those arcs and explain what happened to everyone.
Buddy during the events of Order 66, particularly Ahsoka's character,
how did she escape and how did she react to Annie
Skywalker turning to the dark side and eventually becoming Darth Vader?
During order 66, she was on her way back
after helping free Mandalore from Darth Maul in his shadow acolyte.
So she's actually friends with Bo-Katan Kryze They actually reference
that during Mandalorian season three, where she told Grogu,
who I've actually known some Jedi in the past, she was talking about it.
So Caetano.
the events of Antigone's turn to the dark side happened
while they were in hyperspace.
So the Emperor gives order.
66 all the clones get It starts going crazy, killing
every Jedi that they can find in a soldier doesn't know exactly what happened.
But she senses something
terrible happened to the force because of her connection to Anakin Skywalker.
So she just senses the trauma that he's going through Eventually,
she blamed herself for not being there for an occasion when he'd been suffering
all these force visions about the death of PADMÉ, Luke and Leia.
It was his fear
that ultimately led him to turn to the dark side and serve the Emperor,
hoping that he would teach him how to save them, which he did not.
the whole idea is that after she left the Jedi Order, she broke contact
with and again until she agreed to help free Mandalore.
so was during that time period
when they were apart that and it concerted to have those force visions inserted
to go a little bit nuts Ahsoka felt like had she not left him, had she been there,
she could have prevented everything that happened.
so she blames herself for everything that happened too.
And again, and even though she didn't fully learn
that he become Darth Vader at that point, the event just completely broke her.
the trauma of all of that is one of the reasons why she refused to
train Grogu in present day,
even though it seems like she's taken Sabine Wren as her Padawan finally.
What order 66 was going down.
Some of the clones like Rex, her friends, were able to resist their programing
or they'd remove their control chips, explaining
why they're clones during Star Wars rebels.
Later in the timeline, they're still friendly with Ahsoka evoked,
a lot of you been asking and there is a good chance that tomorrow
Morrison will show up in a cameo at some point as an older version of Rex
there was even a small joke about this during the Mandalorian season
two, where Boba Fett said that he couldn't enter the imperial base without a helmet
they'd recognize him
because he's just another clone and looks exactly like all the others.
Like, Wait a minute, why is there a clone here? Something's up.
Ahsoka survives order
66 as their ship crashes and leaves behind her remaining light saber
that Aniket had just given back to her in order to trick the Empire
into thinking that she died in the crash to There's a brief time jump.
And then Anakin, who's now fully become Darth Vader in the armor, finds the crash
site with a bunch of stormtroopers and her light saber.
So at the time, he thinks that she died in the crash
in Ahsoka only knew that something terrible had happened to him.
She doesn't know that.
He also survived Order 66 to become Darth Vader.
So she thinks that Anakin is dead there used to be a missing time gap
in her timeline.
For several years before the events of Star Wars rebels pick up.
But they actually just did an Ahsoka book and then Star Wars Tales
of the Jedi episodes which cover what she was doing.
she ends up going to ground hiding out in the outer rim,
kind of doing what you saw Obi-Wan Kenobi doing at the beginning of the Obi-Wan
series, not using their Jedi abilities, just trying to hide in the force.
so that the empire in the inquisitors couldn't find them.
Also, she knew about Darth Vader but didn't know that Aniket had become
Darth Vader.
She just heard about this Darth Vader figure going around killing all the Jedi.
she almost winds up getting caught by an inquisitor, defeats him.
Then Bail Organa finds her and convinces her
to join the rebellion and help them take down the empire.
this is still
before the events of Star Wars and or in before the events of Star Wars.
Rebels.
she takes the secret identity fulcrum and starts working with the rebellion
as a sort of point of communication between all the disparate rebel cells.
And she did that up through the events of Star Wars rebels in the events of Andor.
by the time Star Wars rebels picks up a few years before a new hope, she starts
openly meeting with the crew of the ghost, explaining her role as Fulcrum.
They start going on missions together,
even though she doesn't train Ezra Bridger in the force.
a lot of their missions take them to Jedi temples and sacred Jedi artifacts.
so she starts to get force visions of Anakin Skywalker.
Sensing that something happened to him, he might have survived it,
even though she doesn't get all the information, does it?
Put everything together.
She starts to get hints that Annacone might have become Darth Vader.
she starts to grow closer with the crew of the ghost,
which we're now seeing in live action
during the events of The Mandalorian and the Ahsoka's series.
she grows closer to Ezra Bridger and tells him about her own history
as he learns about Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, the other Jedi.
Eventually, he does wind up meeting an older version of Obi-Wan Kenobi, too,
but he doesn't reference
Ahsoka, and Ahsoka doesn't reference older Obi-Wan Kenobi on tattooing.
there's still a lot of questions about the continuity there.
Like did Obi-Wan Kenobi know that Ahsoka was still alive when he was on tattooing?
I think the idea is he was relatively secluded
from what gonna was doing with Ahsoka in the rebellion.
so he probably did not know about Ahsoka what she was doing during those years
on tattooing
during the events of Star Wars rebels, there was a huge Darth Maul Ezra Bridger
arc where Maul begins to try and slowly bend him to the dark side of the force.
Eventually the inquisitors track them down to a Sith temple.
Darth Vader learns of their presence from the inquisitors and arrives
to capture or kill them, while they're there.
Ahsoka meets Anakin as Darth Vader in the flesh.
For the first time since the events of Revenge of the Sith
or before the events of Revenge of the Sith.
That whole time, all those years, they hadn't ever actually been
in the same room together, in at least up to this point.
She hadn't confirmed that Darth Vader really was in against Skywalker.
Her friend had survived this is probably one of the best scenes
in all of Star Wars like her just coming to the realization of what happened.
Like all comes crashing down on her like a ton of bricks.
later, Ezra winds up saving her, using the world between worlds
and some Jedi time travel trickery,
explaining how she missed a few years in the timeline during Rebels.
But during the events
of the original trilogy, she stayed in the outer rim, relatively
continuing to act in a role as Fulcrum, helping the rebels as much as possible.
this is sort of the way that Dave Filoni explains why she wasn't around
during the original Star Wars movies or during the prequels either.
For a little while, they talked about this little girl
being Ahsoka, but the timeline isn't right.
Ahsoka's a little bit older when this scene is happening
in Attack of the Clones, so this could not be her.
You have to remember she wasn't created as a character.
Like they didn't come up with the idea
for Ahsoka till after Revenge of the Sith that come out in theaters.
but up to present day at least canonically.
During the events of the original trilogy.
She never met Luke or Leia, but once she heard about the hotshot pilot
who blew up the Death Star, who's calling himself Luke Skywalker,
she instantly realized who it was in the manikins children had survived.
as far as Dave Filoni has explained, up to present day.
She didn't actually meet Luke Skywalker in the flesh until after the events
of Return of the Jedi when he started to create his Jedi Academy on Austin.
So that's the planet that this is on
her scenes with Luke Skywalker during the book of Boba
Fett happened after her cameo seen during The Mandalorian Season two,
we might see Luke Skywalker cameo during the saga,
or they'll reference him in some way
because there are so many innocent Skywalker references in the trailer.
Now in present day.
During the new episode, she's finally taken on Sabine
Wren as a Padawan, but talks about how her trauma over
and can Skywalker caused her to leave as her master for a time
Then at some point during the series she runs into battle in school,
in the trailers, we see that, he says he knew Anakin when they were both Jedi.
Part of the order and told him about Ahsoka.
really easy prediction to make that they're
including all these anarchist references
to set up a Hayden Christensen cameo scene as force goes in again, Skywalker
maybe another flashback to young Ahsoka during the Clone Wars.
Maybe he'll also have a cameo seen as Darth Vader
in some kind of flashback to their rematch fight in the Sith Temple.
one of the reasons why an account is so important to the series is
to show how she's following the force in a completely different way
than the old Jedi Order in how she chooses to act as Jedi master to Sabine Wren.
really hoping that force goes.
And again, Skywalker shows up to give her a pep talk at some point
in what it means to be a teacher.
Now that things have come full circle for her to make a Darth Vader reference.
She was once the learner.
Now she is the master and she has to go through everything
that Anna-Kat went through with her when she was younger
Because the way they're playing their relationship,
being kind of tense is kind of the relationship between Ahsoka and Anakin.
And back in the Clone Wars, when she first became his Padawan
as far as I remember, force goes Anakin Skywalker has never actually appeared
to Ahsoka before or spoken to her after his death, so this would technically
be their first reunion since that since Temple fight during Star Wars Rebels.
she would have eventually learned about his redemption
and what he did trying to kill the emperor.
She believes that he succeeded too,
because remember, they don't know that the emperor survived.
So hopefully that just explains a little bit about her timeline
during the Clone Wars, Star Wars rebels in why her relationship with
and again Skywalker is so special to the new Ahsoka episodes.
if you want to watch Star Wars Rebels or The Clone Wars and you didn't before,
you don't need to watch every single episode.
I would just recommend, like the last season of rebels
in some of the final arc of Star Wars, the Clone Wars
there's also this whole long relationship that Ahsoka has with Grand Admiral Thrawn
going back to Star Wars rebels.
I'll talk more about that in a separate video.
Otherwise this would turn into like a four hour video
there's so much history between all the different characters.
That goes way back to the Clone Wars. It's super deep.
We'll talk about it during my Ahsoka episodes.
When that starts. Is that character show up?
there are a lot of characters that they did
not include in the Ahsoka trailer,
so they'll be some big surprises during the series.
generally expect all the big Star Wars rebels characters to appear
during the episodes at some point.
Let me know if you have any big questions
about the characters just in general or any video requests,
click here for My New Mandalorian Season four video and learn
what's going on with the live action caucuses.
And click here for that brand new Ahsoka trailer with a whole bunch of Easter eggs.
Thank you so much for watching. Everyone. Stay safe.
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