Cal Kestis is not the last Jedi, but he is the last ginger (probably)

polygon.com:

I must begin this post by stating that I, Maddy Myers, have red hair. It is a dye job on my natural golden-blond, which some people have referred to as “strawberry blonde” depending on the stages of natural bleach job I get from the sun in the summertime.

You can look at my Instagram and make up your mind as to how angry you want to be with me about the fact that I personally think it’s funny to replace the word “Jedi” with the word “ginger” in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

Many fans have decried Cal Kestis as a “<a href=«https://twitter.com/search?q=cal%20kestis%20boring&src=» https:>boring

” character, but I don’t agree. He’s soft-spoken but playful, not as quippy as Nathan Drake perhaps — but bless him for it, because that shit can get irritating. And he’s got something that few other (maybe zero??) Star Wars leading men have ever had. I am speaking, of course, about his hair.

In video games, it’s very common for female protagonists to have red hair, often an unrealistically vibrant shade of crimson. That includes the default female version of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect trilogy, as well as Joanna Dark from Perfect Dark, or — more recently — Aloy in the Horizon games. Of those famous examples, Aloy is the only one whose red hair appears to be natural, plus she’s got freckles.

It’s also more common in the world of Star Wars to see lady redheads rather than dudes — Mon Mothma and Aurra Sing, for example. Of the male cast members, there’s Domhnall Gleeson as Hux, but of course, Hux is no hero.

Similarly, in video games, male redheads — let alone freckled gingers — rarely get to be heroes. There’s Reno from Final Fantasy 7, a side character and a bit of a bad boy. Secondary protagonist Atreus in God of WarRagnarök