Aayla is a character I find really interesting (and not only because she's super hot lol). She's a highly respected leader of her troops, one of the best Twi-lek Jedi around, and close friend and former Padawan to one of my favorite Jedi, Quinlan Vos. She's easily one of my favorite female Jedi in the Star Wars universe and I'm glad I got the chance to make her a RT. Hopefully this will highlight all of her skills and gain her some more recognition on the Vine.
This thread will be divided into the following categories:
- Accolades
- Speed
- Force Powers
- Endurance/Durability
- Lightsaber and Combat Skill
Accolades
Aayla is a cunning warrior:
With an athletic build, an exotic beauty, and blue skin, Aayla Secura stood out among the many faces of the Jedi ranks. A cunning warrior and Jedi Knight during the Clone Wars, Aayla fought alongside Clone Commander Bly on many exotic battlefields.
Source: http://www.starwars.com/databank/aayla-secura
Tholme considers Aayla an excellent Jedi:
"Let's not abandon hope, An'ya. We still live, and so does Aayla. And she has proven to be an excellent Jedi."
Source: Jedi: Aayla Secura
Aayla is considered a great Jedi Master:
Aayla Secura, a female Twi'lek who trained as a Jedi Padawan under the tutelage of Quinlan Vos and later became a great Jedi Master.
Source: The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (Credit to cs_zoltan)
She was an excellent strategist and tactician:
Here, Aayla proved that her skills extended beyond her own fighting prowess and into a talent for military leadership. Faced with the practicalities of commanding units of infantry, her innate Twi'lek cunning and personal ingenuity made her an excellent tactician and strategist.
Source: Fact File 102 (Credit to cs_zoltan)
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) Clone Commander Bly says Aayla is good and knows her stuff, referring to her military leadership:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #75) Tholme regards Aayla as a beacon of blue light and a great leader:
Speed/Agility
Aayla has remarkable agility:
Aayla creates afterglows of her lightsaber in combat on numerous occasions:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla deflects point blank blaster fire from Aurra Sing:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla manages to escape the radius of two explosions, the first being her speeder bike, the second a thermal detonator, from close range without any harm:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #49) She deflects another point blank shot:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) Aayla dodges numerous spikes/darts fired from close range:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) While fighting Quinlan Vos, Aayla moves so fast that an ARC Trooper only saw her and Vos as a blur:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #72) After defeating a Morgukai warrior, Aayla manages to hide his body as well as hers under the floor boards before Sora Bulq and others arrived:
Aayla generates a continuous afterglow of her lightsaber around her body and uses the terrain around her to help evade the strikes of a large creature (credit to @wollfmyth209) :
Force Powers
(Star Wars Republic Issue #44) Quinal Vos tells Aayla that she is more intuitive with the Force than he or Master Tholme are:
Telekinesis
Telekinesis is a common Force ability that affords the user the ability to alter and distort the environment and reality around them.
(Star Wars Republic Issue #22) A Padawan Aayla without her memory is able to Force push both Quinlan Vos and her Uncle off a balcony (Quinlan would be able to grab on to the ledge, however):
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla throws dirt and rocks in Aurra Sing's face:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla directly Force pushes Aurra Sing:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #44) She utilizes lightsaber throw:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) Aayla Force shoves a Noghri into a wall:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #75) Aayla knocks back a Morgukai warrior with a Force push:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #77) Aayla Force pushes a Morgukai warrior into energy beams:
Force Concealment/Camouflage
Force Concealment, or Camouflage, is a Force ability that allows a Force user to mask their presence in the Force, or an element of their Force presence, such as Force alignment.
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla knows how to conceal herself in the Force, and does so against a pack of Quarra, so much so that they were all within a few feet of Aayla and had absolutely no idea she was there:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #72) Aayla conceals herself from Sora Bulq:
Force Sense
Force Sense is a basic power allowing Force sensitives to sense their surroundings, feel and determine the thoughts or feelings of others, feel ripples in the Force signifying important events, the presence of the dark side, or even sense the future.
(Star Wars Republic Issue #34) Padawan Aayla senses that Quinlan Vos and Tholme pursue her:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #43) While searching through the Force for Tholme, Aayla found Quinlan Vos instead:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #45) Aayla senses that Quinlan Vos has been injured:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) She uses the Force to help locate Aurra Sing:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) She senses a deeper darkness in Quinlan Vos than she ever felt before:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) On a mission with Quinlan Vos to obtain an important piece of information, she sensed that it was always his intention to betray her at the end and take the information for himself:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #74) Aayla senses that Tholme is still alive:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #75) Aayla senses Tholme's apparent "death":
Force Heal
Force healing is a light-sided Force technique that can heal wounds and ease pains.
(Star Wars Republic Issue #45) Aayla possibly knows how to heal injuries/ease the pain from injuries with the Force, as it looks like here:
Beast Control
Beast Control, Beast Trick, or Animal Friendship, is an ability that allows Force users to control beasts and animals.
(Star Wars Republic Issue #34) Aayla possibly uses Beast Control to ride a flying animal, although she was being influenced here by Volfe Karkko:
Tutaminis
Tutaminis, or Absorption, or Negate/Absorb/Dissipate Energy, is a Force ability enabling one to absorb various forms of energy and channel it for personal use.
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) Aayla uses Tutaminis on blaster bolts, deflecting at least two of them with her left hand while blocking more with her lightsaber:
Mind Trick/Telepathy
Telepathy, or one of its sub abilities Mind Trick, is the power to sense, communicate and manipulate the thoughts of others.
(Star Wars Republic Issue #42) As a child and before any training in the Force, Aayla was able to call out to Quinlan Vos and help calm his mind so that he would be able to call upon his lightsaber in order to defeat a wampa:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #43) Aayla uses a mind trick on a thug:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla puts a man to sleep with little effort:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #49) Aayla is able to resist the hormones of a Falleen:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #77) With the help of Tholme, Aayla telepathically contacts Quinlan Vos and helps bring him back to the light and defeat his inner demons:
Endurance/Durability
(Star Wars Republic Issue #43/#44) Aayla uses the Force to help survive a ship crash:
(Star Wars Republic Issue #44) She uses the Force to help brace herself for a large fall, and thus receives no injuries:
Although she gets KO'd, Aayla survives a Death Watch soldiers' jetpack missile exploding near her:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) She takes an elbow to the jaw from Aurra Sing and is largely unaffected by it:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) She is mostly unharmed after being thrown around with TK by Quinlan Vos:
She survives being thrown a far distance by General Grievous (4:00 to 4:07):
Lightsaber and Combat Skill
Aayla is a master of armed and unarmed combat:
-- Credit to cs_zoltan
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #49) She proves this by quickly defeating two guards whilst unarmed:
She mastered the lightsaber style Ataru before her ascension to the rank of Jedi Knight:
Accepted into the Jedi Order, Aayla grows to become highly skilled with a lightsaber, mastering the Ataru style many years earlier than expected. After overcoming amazing challenges, Aayla's deeds convince the High Council to promote her to Jedi Knight.
Source: The Clone Wars Campaign
Aayla is knowledgeable in Jar'kai dueling as well:
Aayla is one of the most skilled Jedi during the Clone Wars:
A veteran of many battles, Aayla is one of the most skilled Jedi fighters.
Source: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
She was known for her great combat abilities, being among the last Jedi alive out of the 200 that infiltrated the Geonosis arena:
Aayla was known for the grace and power of her fighting. Her combat prowess meant she was one of the few Jedi left when Yoda and the clone troopers reached the arena at Geonosis.
Source: Fact File 102 (All above quotes credited to cs_zoltan)
Aayla was always chosen for emergency situations because of her skill:
Thanks to her proven combat abilities, Aalya became one of a few hundred Jedi employed in emergency situations.
[...]
Having proven herself a valiant and intelligent fighter, Aayla was one of a group of Jedi retained at the Jedi Temple for emergency missions.
Source: Fact File 102
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #33) A Padawan Aayla without her memory fights off and challenges Quinlan Vos:
Aayla also attempted to kill Quinlan. The pair engaged in a hard-fought battle, in which Quinlan was sorely tested.
Source: Fact File 98
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #36) When she was a Padawan to Quinlan Vos, they fought Skyboat Pirates and terbeasts on Ogden Minor:
Aayla uses the environment around her to help defeat a large creature:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #43) Aayla helps Quinlan Vos take down numerous enemies:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #45) A Padawan Aayla fights and maims a seasoned Morgukai warrior:
A Padawan Aayla holds her own against a Morgukai warrior. The fight would be interrupted when the warrior's father fired a shot at her and she deflected it into the others' wrist, allowing her to flee and continue her mission:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #68) She would then be able to contend with a more experienced Quinlan Vos for a short time before falling to his superior Force powers:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #72) She defeats a clone of Bok, a Morgukai warrior, rather easily despite him getting the drop on her:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #75) Aayla and Quinlan Vos fight through numerous Nikto clones who were trained by Anzati assassins:
Morgukai warriors were a secret Nikto warrior society with special weapons and training:
"Their mental disciplines make them resistant to mind manipulation. They also have weapons and armor with a cortosis alloy of some sort. Makes them resistant to lightsabers." -- Tholme
Source: Rite of Passage
It's also worth noting that the Morgukai have been renowned, highly skilled killers of Jedi and Sith alike since the the Old Republic era:
The red-skinned Kajain'sa'Nikto subspecies famously produced one of the most elite warrior traditions in the galaxy: the "Jedi-killing" cult of the Morgukai. These peerless duelists are among the only non-Force users to repeatedly defeat both Jedi and Sith in melee combat. Fortunately for their opponents, the Morgukai's numbers remain few, but their battle tactics are closely guarded secrets.
Source: Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia
(Credit to ILS for the above quote.)
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #73) These Morgukai clones were all bred from Bok and trained in Anzati stealth and assassination techniques:
(Star Wars: Republic Issue #76/77) Aayla is able to defeat Bok, a classically Morgukai warrior, even though he used his cortosis guantlets to short-out her lightsaber early in the duel. She had the upper hand while just using hand-to-hand and won by Force pushing him into energy beams:
(Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura) Aayla duels and defeats the deadly bounty hunter Aurra Sing, who's already a famed Jedi killer:
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