Lop

Lop, a female of a subspecies of the Lepi, was born on a planet other than Tao. Early in her life, she was transported to Tao to serve as a slave for the Galactic Empire. Lop became an orphan after losing her parents. Eventually, she acquired a droid companion named TD-4.

During the age of the Imperial Era, Lop and TD-4 made their escape from enslavement. At a market, she encountered Yasaburō, a human father, along with his young daughter Ochō. Yasaburō had lost sight in one of his eyes due to a scar. Noticing the young Lepi trying to steal fruit, the humans inquired about Lop's background and family. Hearing Lop's stomach rumble with hunger, Ochō insisted that Lop join their family, claiming she could tell Lop was a good person. Ochō excitedly took Lop to play on the beach, persuading her father to adopt her. Yasaburō pledged to provide Lop with food and care. TD-4 severed Lop's shock collar and then created a hologram of them smiling together on the beach.

Lop and Ochō developed a sisterly bond. Yasaburō embraced Lop as his own daughter, and she regarded him as her father.

Seven years after becoming a member of the Yasaburō clan, the Imperial base on Tao was attacked. An explosion shook the local town, and Lop awoke amidst the smoke and wreckage. As she regained consciousness, the Lepi put on her side glasses to observe the damage in infrared, before overhearing Ochō confronting Yasaburō about the incident. Ochō questioned their father's actions, lamenting the town's destruction. Hearing Ochō's words, Lop voiced her disbelief that her father was responsible for the explosion. She hurried to the scene of Yasaburō and Ochō's argument, surrounded by members of their clan.

Ochō expressed her outrage at her father's attack on the Imperial base, while Yasaburō defended his support for the insurgency against the Empire, citing their pollution and exploitation of the planet. Yasaburō clan members attempted to separate the arguing father and daughter, urging them to flee before the arrival of Imperial troops. Seeing Lop approach, a clan member pleaded with her to intervene. Lop begged her family to stop fighting, insisting there was no reason for them to clash. Yasaburō silenced Lop, stating that it was a matter for the head of the family. Ochō asserted her right to voice her opinion as the future head of the family. She denounced her father's anti-Imperial stance as "stubborn opposition to development" and incorrect. The father and daughter continued their argument as Lop stood by. Stormtroopers on speeder bikes approached, causing the crowd to scatter.

Lop rode in a landspeeder with Ochō, advising her sister to consider her Father's feelings towards the Empire and their homeworld. Ochō doubted that Yasaburō would understand her perspective, but Lop expressed her desire for their family to cease fighting because they were family. Despite being from off-world, Lop had grown to feel at home on Tao and could understand Yasaburō's animosity towards the Empire's degradation of their world's ecology. Ochō claimed to relate as well, expressing her love for Tao and her father, and claiming that was precisely why she must support the Empire: "for the sake of our future."

Lop and Ochō were halted at an Imperial roadblock on a bridge, where an Imperial officer stopped the sisters. The officer revealed that he had been expecting Ochō, prompting Lop to ask if her sister knew the officer. The officer confirmed their acquaintance, stating that Ochō was "sensible enough" to recognize the Empire's potential benefits. He stated that Ochō had pledged to quell the insurrection before it escalated, but had failed. Lop, distressed, questioned whether Ochō had indeed attempted to dissuade Yasaburō without even speaking to him first. Ochō confirmed this, stating that she could no longer "leave it up to" their father. The officer then warned that the Empire would have to intensify the pressure on the Yasaburō clan. The officer invited Ochō to join the Empire's "redevelopment initiative," suggesting they could together end the bloodshed. Ochō accepted, cutting her hair and leaving the long braid in Lop's hands.

Following Ochō's alliance with the Imperial troops, Lop, accompanied by TD-4, leaped off the bridge, sobbing and fleeing until she reached the marketplace where she had first encountered Ochō seven years prior. The Lepi rushed back to her mountain home at the Yasaburō household, discovering that almost all the clan employees had left. Upon arriving home, she inquired about the whereabouts of her clan, Yasaburō responded that almost all the employees had fled, but first asked for paid time off. Lop's father asked where Ochō was. In response, the Lepi handed Yasaburō Ochō's hair braid and solemnly told her father that Ochō had joined the Empire. The family boss was saddened and angered to learn this. Lop explained that the Empire asked Ochō to try to talk him out of what they called his "terrorist plans," and that if Ochō failed, they would crack down on the Yasaburō clan.

Lop confided in her father, expressing her desire to drive the Empire from Tao and rebuild their family. In response, her father led Lop to a candlelit chamber deep within their home. Yasaburō apologized for seeming to favor Ochō over Lop. Yasaburō then began teaching Lop their family's history and performing a ritual of inheritance, naming Lop as his heir.

Hundreds of years prior, a Jedi had arrived on Tao, settling there and eventually passing away. Before his death, the Jedi encountered an ancestor of the Yasaburō clan, entrusting him with his lightsaber and training him in lightsaber combat. Subsequently, the lightsaber became a treasured Yasaburō family heirloom, passed down through generations of the Yasaburō family. Each family leader taught their successor lightsaber combat and passed the blade on as inheritance, representing the bond between parent and child. Yasaburō entrusted the saber to Lop, declaring her his successor as clan leader. Lop was humbled but respectfully accepted the honor. Yasaburō told his daughter that this might be the end of their family, but he was glad she was a part of it. He told Lop to wait at home while he tried to retrieve Ochō and repatriate her to the family. Before he left, Lop told her dad that Ochō still loved him, which consoled him.

After waiting for a period of time, Lop heard an explosion at the Imperial base. Lop mounted a speeder and rushed to the base. Eventually, Lop jumped off a bridge to avoid stormtroopers. After the speeder was destroyed, she and TD glided to the base's interior via umbrella. Once inside, her presence distracted her dad, who got blinded by Ochō. Lop ran to Yasaburō's side, where he asked Lop to save her sister, and admitted his failure as Ochō's father. Ochō then angrily leapt to finish her father off, but was blocked by Lop wielding the heirloom lightsaber, surprising Ochō. Yasaburō explained to her that he passed it to his other daughter because of his belief that, when it comes to inheritance, there are more important things than blood. Angered even further, Ochō attacked Lop, who pleaded with her sister to return home. TD-14 projected the original hologram of their family taken just after Lop was adopted, but was cut down by Ochō. Saddened, but made more determined by the destruction of her droid, Lop awakened her force and vowed to bring her sister's real self back while clashing with her. Lop used the Force to summon one of her father's sai and destroyed Ochō's electric staff, before slashing at her sister, scarring Ocho's chest and knocking her off of the edge of the base. Ochō survived the blow and landed on an Imperial ship about to leave Tao. The sisters gave each other one last stare before the ship fled. Afterwards, Lop picked up TD-4's head which again projected the family hologram. As she watched the recording, she repeated the younger Ochō's hopes that one day they would be a proper family.

Lop possessed a great deal of empathy. When Ochō and Yasaburō found themselves in opposition during the rebellion on Tao, members of the Yasaburō clan sought her help to mediate between her adopted sister and father. Lop urged Ochō to consider Yasaburō's sentiments regarding the Empire and their homeworld, with the aim of resolving the conflict within their family. Despite her birth on another planet, Lop had grown to feel at home on Tao.

Even as a runaway slave, Lop demonstrated remarkable agility and nimbleness, capable of scaling buildings by leaping between walls and jumping from significant heights without sustaining injuries. Her skills enabled her to escape Imperial slavery and evade capture by Imperial forces.

Being Force-sensitive, Lop had the ability to use telekinesis. She demonstrated this when she summoned her father's dagger to her side during her battle with Ochō. She developed proficiency with a lightsaber, as evidenced by her use of the Yasaburō family heirloom lightsaber in her duel against Ochō.

Lop received the Yasaburō clan lightsaber from her father Yasaburō as her inheritance, following the Yasaburō clan's tradition of passing down the saber and lightsaber swordsmanship through generations. She also wore a set of side glasses that could display information or show her surroundings in the infrared spectrum, and she carried an umbrella that she could use to glide a short distance.

Lop was a character in "Lop & Ochō," a short film featured in the Star Wars: Visions series, written by Sayawaka and directed by Yuki Igarashi. The short, produced by Geno Studio, was released on Disney+ on September 22, 2021. Igarashi aimed to create a symbolic character who was also a non-human being. According to behind-the-scenes featurettes, the creators intended Lop to be based on a pre-existing rabbit alien species; they learned about Jaxxon and his species, the Lepi, from Coachelle Prime, which inspired the idea of making Lop a member of a short subspecies.