Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): Well Known Character Bracket Match 10
Ahsoka Tano vs Varko Grey
Voting ended onJul 26, 2023
Ahsoka Tano | Identity: bisexual | Media: Established in Ahsoka
While there is strong romantic subtext between Ahsoka and Barris Offee, that isn’t the reason for her inclusion in this list. Rather, it is because that in the novel Ahsoka, E K Johnson got as close as she was allowed to- both by the constraints of the Story Group (since movie characters couldn’t yet be quietly established as queer in a book) and what made sense for the story- to establish that Ahsoka reciprocated the feelings that Kaeden Larte had for her.
Unfortunately, the Ahsoka novel has practically been erased by the Tales of the Jedi episode “Resolve”, where the basic outline that the novel was based on is told again, except without Kaeden. However, a recent reference book has established that these are two separate events that are coincidentally very similar. Ahsoka’s queerness barely crossed the line we set for counting as canon rather than subtext.
Varko Grey | Identity: mlm | Media: Star Wars Squadrons
Varko Grey is one of the NPC squadmates for the Imperial story campaign in Star Wars Squadrons. He is the leader of the elite Titan Squadron, which was part of Rae Sloane’s imperial remnant. He was married to a man named Emory who worked for the Empire in Kuat. In the story campaign, he is involved in a series of missions under the command of Terisa Kerill, to counter the tactical assistance provided by imperial defector and Kerill’s former commander Lindon Javis. These missions brought them into opposition with the New Republic Vanguard Squadron and allowed them to set back, although not destroy, Project Starhawk.
After this campaign, Titan Squadron was sent to the Unknown Regions on an unknown mission. Grey is the first gay/bi character in a new EU video game.
