History Literature / YoungJediKnights

%%* AssInAmbassador: Yfra.
* AuthorAppeal: Lusa, the perpetually topless centaur girl.
** As in Lusa from The Crystal Star, of all origins. Unless there are two Force-Sensitive Centaurs named Lusa...

*** Another oddly recurring theme is that of people being messily devoured by one thing or another, including wolf-men, carnivorous seaweed and ''giant flowers''.

* ActionGirl: Jaina and Tenel Ka are the main examples, fighting and facing danger from day one.

%%* FiveManBand: Jacen, Jaina, M-TD, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca.

* AssInAmbassador: Yfra.

* CoolOldGuy: TIE Fighter veteran Qorl.
* CoolTeacher: Kyp.
** Also Qorl and Brakiss for the YJK's "Imperial" opposite numbers.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Zekk.

* EvilMentor: Brakiss.

* FaceHeelTurn: Zekk, at least twice.

* FieryRedhead: Tenel Ka. Also Ta'a Chume.
* FiveManBand: Jacen, Jaina, M-TD, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca.

* LadyOfWar: Tenel Ka.

* RebelliousPrincess: Tenel Ka.

* StacysMom: Kyp. Taken UpToEleven in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder''.

* TroubledButCute: Zekk.

%%* AssInAmbassador: Yfra.

%%* CoolOldGuy: TIE Fighter veteran Qorl.
%%* CoolTeacher: Kyp.
%%** Also Qorl and Brakiss for the YJK's "Imperial" opposite numbers.
%%* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Zekk.

%%* EvilMentor: Brakiss.

%%* FaceHeelTurn: Zekk, at least twice.

%%* FieryRedhead: Tenel Ka. Also Ta'a Chume.
%%* FiveManBand: Jacen, Jaina, M-TD, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca.

%%* LadyOfWar: Tenel Ka.

%%* TroubledButCute: Zekk.

* DeterminedHomesteader / DoomedHometown: Deconstructed in the first case, oddball example in the second. Everything built on the surface of Zekk's homeworld, Ennth, is destroyed in a regular, seven-year cycle by the planet's moon's elliptical orbit bringing it into the planet's atmosphere and touching off seismic cataclysms that last for an entire year, after which the inhabitants return from their space station refuges and rebuild everything from scratch. Anyone else would've moved to another planet a long time ago, and after helping the latest round of evacuations, Zekk even tells them they really ought to go somewhere else.

* AssInAmbassador: Yfra.

* CoolOldGuy: TIE Fighter veteran Qorl.
* CoolTeacher: Kyp.
** Also Qorl and Brakiss for the YJK's "Imperial" opposite numbers.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Zekk.

* EvilMentor: Brakiss.

* FaceHeelTurn: Zekk, at least twice.

* FieryRedhead: Tenel Ka. Also Ta'a Chume.
* FiveManBand: Jacen, Jaina, M-TD, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca.

* LadyOfWar: Tenel Ka.

* OlderAndWiser: Luke.

* TroubledButCute: Zekk.

* SixthRanger: Zekk. He's even drawn to look like [[PowerRangers Jason David Frank]] in the cover artwork.

** Also Qorl being the crashed TIE Fighter pilot that Luke fought on the Yavin moon in the Marvel comics' ''Day After the Death Star'', and the "Boba Fett" who appears in ''Shards of Alderaan'' being his daughter Ailyn Vel, impersonating him while believing he was dead.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: In ''Lightsabers'', WrenchWench Jaina Solo decides to take handcrafting her lightsaber one step further, and chemically grows her own core crystal in a reactor chamber. She's briefly horrified when the resulting blade is Sith red, not apparently having known that this is how the Sith make their crystals, too (since a synthetic crystal has a small but non-zero chance of cutting off an opposing lightsaber blade).[[note]]This was eventually {{retcon}}ed by ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': in current canon the Sith MindRape their kyber crystals (a particular type of Force-sensitive crystal rather than just any decent gemstone), because otherwise [[SentientPhlebotinum they're constantly pestered by them to turn to the light]].[[/note]]

* GoodColorsEvilColors: In ''Lightsabers'', WrenchWench Jaina Solo decides to take handcrafting her lightsaber one step further, and chemically grows her own core crystal in a reactor chamber. She's briefly horrified when the resulting blade is Sith red, not apparently having known that this is how the Sith make their crystals, too (since a synthetic crystal has a small but non-zero chance of cutting off an opposing lightsaber blade).[[note]]This was eventually {{retcon}}ed by ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.[[/note]]

* RetCon:

* ManInWhite: Brakiss, who dresses in white and silver rather than the [[RedAndBlackandEvilAllOver red and black]] that most other darksiders favor.

* AntiHumanAlliance: The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny Diversity Alliance]].

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Czethros.

** Where's Mara? On a mission with Mirax.

** ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'', written after the pertinent parts of this series, established that the Empire had signed a peace treaty with the New Republic four years prior to this series. The official explanation is that the Second Imperium, the antagonists of the Shadow Academy arc, was a RenegadeSplinterFaction that refused to accept the peace. To be fair to Zahn, this series actually implies that too, since Brakiss is explicitly not drawing on traditional Imperial supply sources, and has to build his own ships and lightsabers.

* ThePlague: Oh yes. There's a whole arc of books about two factions trying desperately to find the research depot where the villains from the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' hid their extra bioweapons.

** BrokenAesop / AesopAmnesia: "Lighstabers" contains an JustForFun/{{egregious}} example. In the story Tenel Ka [[spoiler: loses her arm in a lightsaber training accident]] as a result of being too proud of her own abilities and not putting enough care into constructing her lightsaber. Afterwards, she feels ashamed that she let her pride cloud her judgement. Good lesson. However, what does she do afterwards, not only in the same book but only several hours later? [[spoiler: Refuses to wear a synthetic arm replacement]]. Why? Because she's too proud and has confidence in her abilities.
*** Though it's also that she is keeping the visible reminder of the cost of her pride and hubris as a way of keeping herself humble.

A ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends'' science fiction book series by Creator/KevinJAnderson and Rebecca Moestra.

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Everyone, including Brakiss, thinks [[spoiler: the fake Emperor Palpatine is really another clone of the Emperor, as per ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire. Actually, it's a group of otherwise unremarkable old Imperial fanatics faking it]].

* LightIsNotGood: Unlike most Dark Side villains, Brakiss is fair, handsome, calm and polite, and wears mainly white and silver, and poses as a reasonable and well-intentioned teacher. He is really little (if any) less evil than Tamith Kai, who is [[ObviouslyEvil more obvious]] about it.

* ActionSurvivor: Em Teedee, who is basically a young adult version of C-3PO, and is horrified by all the perils and adventures yet makes it through them.