Look at this fine gentleman cat! Very cute. Very distinguished.
But it was a fool's errand. He already knew who she was. And he cared so little about her, her fears, and what she thought of his crimes, that he cast her aside like she was nothing. Why fans can't love Reva as a villain, and feel for her as a victim, I'll never understand...
She wanted Vader to know that she could kill him. She wanted him to know the Dark Side had made her strong. She wanted Vader to trust him, just as she and the Jedi trusted Anakin before he betrayed them.
Her quest to kill Vader was not based in a sense of justice -- as some believe she did this to avenge her Jedi youngling friends -- it was based on her desire to prove to Vader that she was not that scared little child anymore.
She could never make peace with it. She could never move beyond it. In this moment, she was made to feel helpless and weak. And she hated that feeling more than anything.
"I sense much fear in you." The tragedy of Reva is that she was always caught in this moment of her childhood, her near-death experience at the hands of Anakin / Darth Vader....
