#f!revan

thinking abt post-kotor revan's journey and discovering what her forgotten past has become

"May I have the honor of taking your life?"

A drawing bug bit, and I drew a Lady Revan in the Thorn Princess's dress.

Does anyone else have specific little headcanons about Revan's personal aesthetics and personality. The discrepancy between what she was and what she is now. After the Jedi Council lock away her memories, what else do they do to try making her different? Moldable? The way they want her to be?

They change her name, obviously. Do they cut her hair? Dye it, make it the opposite of how it was before? Are they afraid?

Are they desperate to keep her from any hint of her true identity? Uncertain if their repression is enough? Maybe they knew it was only a temporary thing, that locking away a person's memories will only work for so long. Perhaps all of this is only delaying the inevitable.

Bastila is present for all of this. As much as her opinions are easily swayed by the Council, some part of her rebels against their efforts. Subconsciously, she knows they're not all that different, her and Revan. She never had the confidence or experience to rely on her own conscience; but Revan learned how to do so. Even though Revan fell, Bastila never learned to despise and dismiss her former heroics. Not like other Jedi did.

Don't change her, she thinks in secret. Let her be herself, not the puppet you want her to be.

She doesn't shave her head, but trims her hair shorter. Changes her wardrobe, but slips in something old of hers, something from before the fall. Something the Council tried to burn. The others would see it as weakness, but Bastila sees it as a mercy. For who she was, not who she became.

When Revan wakes on Taris, what will she see when she looks in the mirror? What the Council painted, or what Bastila tried to preserve?

Carth: Well... I do believe there is something seriously wrong with you!

I used to care too much about canon too, but then I came to sw tumblr and realised it doesn’t matter.

Yes, this is about the gender of Revan and the Exile from KOTOR. The games where you can CHOOSE the gender of both characters. Who kriffing cares if Revan is “canonically” male and Exile “canonically” female. Don’t listen to “canon” literature and things announced *after* the game. The swtor canon only matters in swtor.