how does eden feel after seeing kavar again in kotor 2? when he sentences her to be ripped from the force again?
Conflicted, to say the least, and I think it’s almost ironic that she’s accompanied by Mandalore when she meets with him. It’s interesting to me because Kavar supposedly fought in the early skirmishes, before the Mandalorian Wars were even a war, when they were just thought to be raids or what have you. Kavar was who the Mandalorians expected on the battlefield, but they got Revan - and the Exile - instead.
I headcanoned that Kavar was Eden’s favorite Master, and given that her Force abilities were a bit complicated at best (what with her oft contested Force bonds and all), she chose to focus on lightsaber training instead, which happened to be an area of Kavar’s expertise. Because he fought in the early parts of the war, I think Eden believed that a part of him would have wanted her to go, that doing so would have impressed him. She did it partially for that, but also because it was clear she was not going to get become a Knight any time soon, while Revan seemed more than interested in training her and having her join the war effort. I imagined that Kavar had a choice to either take on a student (Eden) or take a seat on the Council, and perhaps because of the influence of other conservative Jedi (e.g. Atris perhaps), Kavar chose the Council over training her (I’m assuming that being on the Council doesn’t allow for personal training? but that’s just me guessing. I had just assumed that from the prequels where Yoda and the others are more into teaching classes and giving lectures than having individual students). This sets Eden’s path in stone, and she sees that following Revan holds more promise for her. When Kavar exiles her after the war, she thinks him a hypocrite, especially given how he felt about the war before taking a seat on the Council. When he sees her again, and with the people she had gone off to fight, I think he’s taken aback, but I also think it impresses Mandalore/Canderous. He’d fought both of them on the field before, and to see their interaction is… interesting.
When Kavar and the others decide that Eden is too dangerous, that the wound is too much, I think that as much as it hurts Eden is proud of herself for having chosen to train under Revan over Kavar, a man she spent much of her youth trying to impress and garner the favor of. She realizes that her time wasn’t wasted in leaving, that she stands by her decision more than ever before (tenfold from when she faced the Council the first time), and that the image/idea she had of him when she was younger was a false one, so the loss of his friendship/affection doesn’t mean as much… if that makes any sense? Like… it’s still painful, but she can let go and accept it for what it is.
