Bioware thought of Revan as a lady, which is awesome, but got pressured to make canon Revan a dude, which is crap
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
So they compensate by saying Exile was a lady, but then decide to retcon KotOR 2 as much as possible, making her a crap redundant character
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Seriously "Revan is an angsty dude; Exile is Revan's spirit advisor girlfriend" is straight up the worst possible outcome for both chars
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It even gets the point of the characters wrong - Revan has duality and the Exile doesn't? The Exile is his anchor of goodness/purity?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Fuck no. The Exile was the one who committed the greatest act of genocidal betrayal in the entire war, that's why she was exiled
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I can actually see a compelling retcon abt the Exile having learned to accept her internal duality and Revan never being able to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
That they're defined by Revan being the one to displace guilt onto "That was the other me" and Exile accepting she's a single person
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
But that's completely not what they do in the text
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Man I want to do a fanfic about that now - the truth the Exile learns is that you can be capable of great evil or good based on circumstance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
That it's not about the essence of who you are, that defining yourself as inherently good or evil is impossible and meaningless
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And Revan's Torment is not being able to accept that, his constant flipping over whether the Sith or the Jedi is the "real" him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
But Planescape: Torment basically wrote this whole plot already so
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Replying to @arthur_affect
FWIW my Revan is basically Finn and I have no head canon for Exile but it feels like the male version was more.... Thought out
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