Julara Wolfheart

"Girls like Julara need a sign, so they can believe in their own strength"

- Plo Koon about his student Julara Wolfheart

Julara Wolfheart was a Jedi Knight born on Bothawui. She came from the Bothan Wolves, a people largely regarded as a stain on the planet's fate, thus the wolves were made to live in alienages. After a plague broke out in the alienage, where she lived with her brother Kaden, her cousin Shia and her mother Yusa and the ruling Senator of the time, attempted to cover it up, a team of Jedi, including Jedi Master Ima-Gun Di, who were on the planet due to a diplomatic mission, investiagted the matter. This was where Di first found the young Julara. With her help, they managed to uncover the deeds of the ruling senator, resulting in the man being sent to prison and the Jedi figuring out Jularas connection to the force, thus taking her with her. While she was originally deemed to old to start her training, Di was persistant about it, deeming the girl a valuable asset to the order in the coming future.

Even though her personality seemed rather modest, tempered and polite at first, she had a wild side to her, which fully came to blossom after making friends with Celine Sandfox during their gathering. While they were both praised for their talents with the lightsaber, being deemed talents that the Jedi Order had not seen, since the days of Satele Shan, they were also often scolded for things recklessness and mouthing off to those above them. Some masters even proclaimed that they were wasting their talents, but both of them were eventually growing into padawanhood.

Julara was accepted by Plo Koon as his apprentice at age twelve. They completed many missions together and grew into a team equaled by few others. Jularas core traits, her humor, her gentleness, her rare bouts of diplomacy and her overall sweeter and more open nature, proved to be a salvation in many ways, when the Clone Wars broke out and her master was tasked with the leadership and responsibility for the 104th. It proved to be an indicator for change for the better, as she gave her master the confidence to lead them in the first place, uncovered many of the dark secrets of the training regiment on Kamino and overall always had an open ear for the problems of the men of the 104th, which was mostly refered to as "The Wolfpack", and everyone, who needed help. But the war did not come without its marks for her, one of the most prominent being the Seige of Atollon. Some time in the middle of the war, the Wolfpack, along with its Jedi leaders, was called upon to lay seige to the Seperatist world Atollon, but had to witness her master being called away to Coruscant and being temporarily replaced by Pong Krell, who led them in a very cruel manner. Julara tried to direct his ire towards herself, but with having to rely on allies to sneak wounded off-world, regularily taking beating from her superior, watching morale drain bit by bit and some other reasons, her desperation became prominent, but it did not stop her from stepping up, when she watched one of the newer troopers almost be raped by her fellow Jedi. Filled with shame about that, she tried to bring the matter before the Jedi Council, but the master was let off scot-free and by some masters Julara was proclaimed a liar. She still lost her braid after this occasion, thus beginning knighthood.

The Alienage
"They say my mother will be gone soon. The sooner, the better."

- Julara to Master Di about her dying mother Julara Wolfheart was born in an alienage on Bothawui. The young girl did not understand why she and her were considered a stain upon Bothawui's surface and the treatment of the Bothan people saddened her, but quickly learned how to survive in the alienage, having often unconciously used the force to get herself and later also her brother Kaden out of tough situations. Her mother Yusa raised them all by herself, since her father was a Republic fleet officer and lost his life during the battle of Malastare, while she was still young. Beatings from guards for small things, like stealing food, were frequent in her case, as she was a born Alpha, whose spirit had to be broken in the eyes of the Bothan people. When the plague in her alienage broke out, it seemed, like they would get their wish, as her mother caught it and soon had to be transferred to a makeshift hospice. Desprate she ventured into the better parts of Bothawui and thus ended up running into Ima-Gun Di's Jedi Team, which was there on a diplomatic mission. After tearfully explaining the situation to the Jedi, they agreed to come along and were shocked by the extent of the secrets Bothawui had kept from both the Galactic Republic and the Order. The eight-year old girl assisted the team in gathering proof and thus revealed her connection to the force to them. After the Senator was discharged and put in prision. Ima-Gun Di offered her a place within the Jedi's ranks. Julara was reluctant at first, but after reassurance from her brother and cousin, she accepted.

Youngling
"Don't listen to them Anakin. They go down on me too...and trust me, you've nerver known what...being...annoyed means, until you have been scolded twelve times about how dangerous you are. By a four-year-old in a robe."

- Julara to Anakin Skywalker on fellow initiates and padawans who bully them both Julara started out as quite a lonely girl when she first started out at the Temple, often being seen singing to the sky, when she had nothing better to do. Her compassionate nature was seen quickly though, as she tried to comfort a recently knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi, about his masters death. She was praised for her talents, but some masters tended to stay a little guarded around her, as they agreed with the belief of some Council members that Julara was too old to be trained.

Her wild and playful side started to come out more, after she befriended Celine Sandfox during their gathering. They ended up best friends and basically did everything together. Lived through the good and bad times, played together, worked together, laughed together and cried together. They quickly became notorious for pranking the entire temple.

She also encountered Anakin Skywalker and while she did not excatly befriend him, until she became a padawan herself, they grew to understand each other, as they were both not far apart in age and came to the Temple at a later age.

The Clan Tournament
"There is more to it than that Youngling Treek. It is true that you triumphed over the girl, but you did it in a brash way, unbecoming of a Jedi and those who ever wish to call themselves that. The girl on the other end showed compassion and no Jedi should be without it. It was you, who threw it back in her face. My decision has been made. I want the girl as my new padawan."

- Plo Koon to Youngling Treek, about Jularas performance during the tournament. At the age of twelve Julara felt prepared to try and proof her worth in the tournament of the Youngling Clans. Many masters in search of a new apprentice were invited, including the Council member Plo Koon. Many masters made their pick, while others turned away those present, without even making a choice. The confidence she had expressed to Celine, about being chosen as someone's apprentice, began to dwindle as the masters made their picks and she was turned away by some even. In the end only the stoic looking Council member Plo Koon remained and she had to fight a Gand named Treek for the place as his apprentice. While she was at first unfazed by the several attempts of the Gand to shake her confidence, he ambushed her, after she had defeated him at first and tried to help him up. He attacked her eagerly and with only the ambition to claim his place at the top. The wolf girl tried to defend herself desprately, until Plo Koon himself came in and broke up the fight, scolding the Gand boy for his ambition and taking in Julara as his new apprentice.

The first thing Julara wanted to do, after officially being made Koons apprentice was to inform her best friend about the news. Bemusedly the Kel Dor permitted it and was certain that there were interesting times ahead of them, as he watched her go.