#But the Council artificially strengthened it for the purpose of intel gathering as seen w/ the Star Maps

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The face behind the mask

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?

Does she recognize herself behind the mask?