Lightsabers are powered by special kyber crystals, which have a connection to the Force and also form one with the person who wields them. This can affect their color. While the colors you see most with the Jedi lightsabers are green and blue, several other user-specific color variations also exist. The “Star Wars: Force and Destiny” roleplaying game actually has two different source books that feature seeker crystals that produce a pink lightsaber blade, but unfortunately, this doesn’t help much since the game’s official canon status remains unclear.
The color of a specific kyber crystal can also be altered with special procedures. The reason Sith sabers tend to be red is a process called bleeding, which corrupts the crystal and attunes it to the user’s dark side alignment. A counter-method called purification can be used to clean and “reboot” a crystal, which may result in a white lightsaber blade. Basic color mixing suggests that a partially successful bleeding or purification process might lead to a pink blade … but then again, speculating on this too much would only further muddy the waters around the subject.
Regardless of what you make of Osha’s apparent pink lightsaber effect in “The Acolyte” Season 1, Episode 6, the legend of the pink lightsaber clearly lives in people’s minds. As such, there’s always a chance that the color will acquire canon status before long. Luke’s arc in the Skywalker Saga era of “Star Wars” means that Mara Jade and her not-quite-pink lightsaber are unlikely to debut in the live-action franchise anytime soon, so who knows? Since “The Acolyte” already has many more lightsaber colors than your average “Star Wars” project, maybe the first fully canon pink-lightsaber-wielding character will indeed rise from the series.
