#commander iris

avey tiras (her full first name is avila, though she hates it and only master jedi really call her that) is a zeltron padawan (aged 19-22 over the course of the clone wars). her nineteenth birthday was spent on a bed in the halls of healing, days after the battle of geonosis that left her first master dead and her severely wounded (and with only one liver- no heightened alcohol tolerance for her). essentially as soon as she recovered, she was reassigned under master sareen kaa of the 218th, which was largely focused on covert missions, espionage, and infiltration. her natural ability as a zeltron to pick up on thoughts and emotions have led to her becoming extremely skilled with using the force to delve into others’ minds, with the caveat that she also forms extremely close bonds and is unable to let go of feelings like the jedi code encourages.

commander iris is a trans clone trooper, and potentially one of the best engineers the gar has ever seen; while machines and computers are her true passion, her skill as a tactician and combatant and her unwavering drive to look after her little brothers led her to be promoted above being just a member of a combat engineer battalion (though she does still oversee their work, of course). she’s deeply passionate, driven, and responsible, but deals with paralyzing imposter syndrome. at first her relationship with avey was mostly just bonding over being girls the same age, which is something iris never really got the chance to experience before as a clone, but working together constantly as co-commanders, supporting each other through all of the pain and death neither of them signed up for, eventually pushed them to become closer.