Latara

"The Jindas are the greatest, but I'd rather be an Ewok. I don't need fame and applause!"

- Latara

Latara was Princess Kneesaa's very best friend, and the two spent the majority of their time together. She was the sister of Nippet and Wiley. When Latara had nothing to do, she played music from her flute.

Latara sometime acted as a princess. Later, she wanted to join the Jinda Tribe so badly that she left Bright Tree Village and went with them. She later learned a valuable lesson; it wasn't always good to want fame when she had friends that liked her. She also learned never to sneak off because the entire village was worried about her.

Wokling minder
When the Bright Tree Fête came about, Latara was charged with minding a Woklings, much to her discontent. Coincidentally, Warrick and Teebo had suffered the same fate, and had been forced to view the entertainment stylings of the Tumble bunny trainer. Upon seeing the show, Latara backed away in horror, bumping into her cohorts. She supported Warrick in his vocal and extended attack on the Tumble bunny trainer's show, though this was met with dissaproval from Princess Kneesaa. Warrick found alternate entertainment for the group in Horville's Hut of Horrors. Latara, against better judgement, escorted her wokling into the attraction, but soon regretted it. The wokling was thrown into a state of shock, but Warrick found a solution in which the four of them would avoid retribution from their parents: They would host a slumber party for the woklings.

Despite constant servings of sunberry pie, the Woklings lust for tumble bunnies was not slaked. Eventually, Teebo utilised his elite shaman skills and created a Dream eater, and the woklings slept a restful night without mishap. Her duties fulfilled, Latara attended Warrick's own rendition of the Tumble bunny trainer's show, though it held no interest for her, and set her to sleep.

Prisoner of Elbo
Whilst fishing one day, Kneesaa lost her anklet in the Endor Sea. Her mishap summoned King Elbo a mighty monarch of an Unknown fangly crab species, who decided to help her. He offered her two golden, jewel-encrusted anklets, but Kneesaa declined, claiming that they were not her anklets. When Elbo recovered her real anklet, she accepted without inquiring about the other two, which touched Elbo. He gave her all three anklets in appreciation of her selflessness.

When Latara heard Kneesaa's story, her eyes spun at the idea of a jewel encrusted golden flute, to replace the wooden one Teebo and Warrick had made for her. Her demands and aspirations, however, appaled Warrick and Kneesaa, and deeply offended Teebo. Disgruntled, Latara set out for the sea all on her lonesome. When she reached the sea, she "dropped" her flute into the water, summonning Elbo. When Elbo presented her with a golden, shining flute, Latara at first gawked, then accepted the flute, but quickly doubled back on her admission, believing that the elaborate instrument might not be hers. Elbo produced a second flute, as decorative as the first, which caused Latara to lose all sembalance of control. Driven insane by the beauty of the instruments, Latara lusted after both, speeling out repetitve demands to Elbo. Needless to say, the great King was incensed, and began groping and grasping Latara. Just as her friends, Warrick, Teebo and Kneesaa came to check up on her, the King threw the aspiring entertainer into his rectal cavity, effectively using his waste facilities as a prison, and dragged the helpless Latara to the depths of the Endor Sea.

In Elbo's Castle, Latara was placed in a cage comprised of a diligent squid, who would stand still, using his tentacles as bars. Eventually, Teebo and company came to her aid, engaging in a short scuffle with the squid, and freeing her of his dedicated watch, but they were foiled in their escape by the coincidental placement of a booby-trap by Elbo. Kneesaa offered the three anklets in exchange for their freedom, and whilst Elbo did not let them go, he was once again touched by the Princess' kindness. He devised a test for Latara, in which she would venture through a cave filled with all manners of treasure, and bring back the item of the highest value back to Elbo. At first, she was besotted with all the items, truly believing that they were all as valuable as one another. She stumbled across her old, wooden flute, and at first dismissed it, before recalling the hurt looks on Warrick and Kneesaa before, and the devastated look of love lost on Teebo's face. She realised that the friendship was the most valuable gift of all, and returned to Elbo. Satisfied, the fangly King freed his captives, and in turn, Latara planted a kiss on Teebo. The young shaman errant wandered off in a daze.

Imperial incursion
Using her veto power, Kneesaa commissioned Latara, Warrick and Teebo to accompany her on an expedition to feed a nest of baby gubas. The foursome climed a towering tree to reach the gubas, but the chicks were not as responsive as the Princess had hoped. The knocked the group out of the tree, sending them plumetting to the base. Though none of them were injured, the Princess was detered from helping the gubas in the future.

Behind the scenes

 * In Star Wars: Ewoks, Latara was voiced by Taborah Johnson in the first season and Sue Murphy in the second. In the first season Latara's hat was brown with a blonde braid and she had darker fur. In the second season, she had a white and blue hat with a brown braid, and her fur was lighter.

Appearances

 * Marvel Ewoks 2: Rites of Power
 * Wicket Finds a Way: An Ewok Adventure
 * Star Wars: Ewoks
 * "The Cries of the Trees"
 * "The Haunted Village"
 * "The Crystal Cloak"
 * "The Wish Plant"
 * "Princess Latara"
 * "The Season Scepter"
 * "Horville's Hut of Horrors"
 * "The Tragic Flute"