After all that, one big question still lingers. Why is Jacen a human child with green hair? Is that supposed to indicate that he got some kind of green gene from Hera, but it only turned his hair that color? More questions spiral out from the first until we wind up pondering why no human or Twi’lek of any gender looks like Jacen. Well, there is an answer … sort of.
In an interview with CinemaBlend with the “Star Wars: Rebels” showrunners, Dave Filoni revealed why Jacen’s visual design looks the way it does but he doesn’t fully explain the hair situation. Filoni wanted Jacen to resemble both of his parents equally. If you look at the eyebrows of Jacen’s original “Rebels” design you will see they are identical to the ones Kanan had. Speaking to “Rebels” art director Kilian Plunkett, Filoni suggested to him to picture what their kid would look like. “I think he was suggesting that he was perhaps a little green-shaded,” Filoni said of Plunkett’s original idea, “I said that’s fine as long as he doesn’t look like he’s sick flying in the ship.”
So according to Filoni, Jacen is also supposed to have green-tinged skin as well, though this doesn’t come through much in “Ahsoka.” Perhaps, like with the ears, this is another aspect of the character Disney has decided to walk back or tone down.
