Talk:Adjustment Protocol/@comment-2001:EE0:4001:B5A7:E82F:CAFE:7654:F03-20190731065637/@comment-27794543-20190731075621

Neither, their minds were never wiped. The reason Russell refers to them as Kaylee and Daniel is deceive the people of Sanctum: If Russell introduce two new Primes, people may wonder if anyone can become a Prime. If they introduce John and Emori as two of the old Primes, no one will think anything of it. Russell wants his people to believe that Primes are divine; if anyone can becomes Primes, that wrecks the belief.

As for what happened, there two possibilities:
 * They became Nightbloods and had empty Mind Drives installed. If they die, their minds will now be backed up to the Mind Drives and can be moved to new body. They are essentially Primes now. To deceive the people, they are pretending to be two old Primes.
 * They aren't Nightbloods and don't have Mind Drives. They were just pretending to be Primes.

They decided to stay on Sanctum at the end (i.e. 'chickened out' from leaving), but they may be Primes already.