Because having a canonical Revan was something that was imposed by the higher-ups at Lucas Arts while letting players choose who Revan is was a choice made by developers.Madner Kami wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:52 amWhy though? You just pointed out yourself, that a character as imagined by the creator should remain as envisioned by the creator. Geralt is straight white male, because his creator made him straight white male. Mara Jade is straight redhead, because she was created as a straight redhead. Now where does that allow to criticize the choice of the creator(s) of Revan to make "it" a straight him who was canonically in love with Bastilla? Why do you as a player get a choice in that matter, but not the former?
I'm guessing you're actually aiming at internal consistency, so that a character who is X in one medium, isn't Y in the other and I agree, but that kinda flies past your criticism and doesn't concern it even tangentially.
In RPG's players are part of the creative staff and, as a result, are the ones who decide the final version of the story. That's one the reasons ME3's Ending is still so hated by many fans, because it was a choice forced upon us because BioWare wanted the game to end a certain way and just tossed all our choices aside to make that ending happen.
I said this elsewhere but the only things that will happen in every version of KOTOR, regardless of player choices are as follows.
Against the Jedi Counsels warnings Revan and his fellow Jedi Malak fought a war against the Mandalorians but then fell to the Dark Side only to lose their memory and then helped in the fight against the Sith. This is the only thing that will be true of the story regardless of player choices but everything else is up to player choice and given that KOTOR is one of the oldest stories in the Star Wars timeline so it can be left open to interpretation.
All that matters is that Revan fought against the Sith and defeated Malak, everything else is not as well known in universe thus making all versions canon which includes Revan's gender identity.