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Spoilers: For Episode 206, "Weapons Factory."
Note: I've noticed that, across universes, my Barriss tends to be a secret rebel at heart. How that's true is different in different universes, but it's always present somehow. It was interesting to see that trait reflected in her character in this episode.


Barriss Offee

She's been training for this her whole life.

This moment, this clash of cannons and breathtaking tumble of rock, is the ideal. It's the ultimate gift of self, the perfection of service that a Jedi is sworn to.

She looks at Ahsoka as the world plummets down around them, catches the note of fear behind the determination in the other padawan's eyes, and tells herself that she doesn't feel the same. There is no fear. There is no death. There is only the Force.

And she is ready for this. She's been ready for a long time. It's the mark of a Jedi, she knows, to make the sacrifice, to give her own life for the greater cause. To want anything different, anything more, would be rebellion.

She feels her master's acceptance on the other end of their bond, and even as Ahsoka fiddles with the com, she tells herself it doesn't matter. This is what she was trained for.

She thinks of all the lives she's saved by destroying the factory. She tries to concentrate on the acceptance she feels from her master. Ahsoka's hand grasps hers and they wait in the dark. (It would be rebellion…)

(She doesn't want to die.)