canon update

[hadrielmods]

If you would like to update your character to a more recent installment of canon, here's where you'll find the details on that! In short, your character will disappear from Hadriel briefly, then arrive again along with the next new batch of characters (in the intro log after the next app round). Essentially, when the door surges and brings more people through, it'll bring through an updated version of your character. They'll retain all their memories of what has happened to them in-game, as well as whatever happened while they were gone in canon. They can come in with whatever was on them at the time, and any changes in appearance will be reflected as well.

If you'd like to canon update, please copy/paste and fill out this form:

<b>PLAYER NAME:</b> <b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <b>USERNAME:</b> <b>NEW CANON POINT:</b> <b>CHANGES:</b> [In this section, please write a brief description of how your character has changed - whether physically, personality-wise, or simply in what they've learned at home.]

Comments

[hadrielmods]

Your canon point is unfortunately too recent to be updated to. Just like our apps, we require canon points to have been released at least one month before the closing date of the current app round. (This is in order to give a slight buffer of spoiler space to other players and mods.) Since episode 66 was only released a few days ago, we cannot approve your canon update.

[evocation]

PLAYER NAME: Jenny
CHARACTER NAME: Kyna Midha
USERNAME: warded
NEW CANON POINT: Post D&D campaign!
CHANGES:

This is basically going to be similar to Harlan and Tucker’s updates, so I’m sorry for the redundancy!

- Right before Kyna arrived in Hadriel, Team A saved a bunch of kids from some horrible necromancy rituals. In May, Panna tells them that they’re going to drop the kids off in at a secret gnome enclave which is hidden by magic from the rest of the world. This doesn’t sit well with them, because Panna never gives them a good reason for the kids to be hidden and essentially dumped off, but Panna holds her ground and Team A reluctantly goes along with it. At this point Kyna is pretty sick of Panna for being so vague and for showing a stunning lack of empathy, and she’s fed up with Kairos for never giving them the full picture on any job they take, and for underpaying the hell out of their “star team”.

- A few jobs later, Harlan’s ex James pulls some crap and Panna kills him. Harlan isn’t too pleased with this and breaks up with Panna, then leaves Kairos. He pitches the idea of starting their own guild to Kyna and Tucker, and considering Kyna’s feelings about Kairos, it doesn’t take much convincing for her to follow.

- Harlan is also (understandably) pretty stuck on the kids, so they head back to the gnome village and take them back to NYC, where Harlan uses enchantment magic to make sure they’re put into good homes. This is super illegal, but yolo. Kyna keeps in touch with all the kids, but she gets especially attached to the orc, Hadrian.

- Their new guild gets underway and while it’s a little touch and go at first, since they’re relying mostly on old contacts while trying to build a reputation, by March, they’ve got enough work coming in that they hire some employees! Awesome. Hadrian also comes on when he reaches the orc age of majority which is horrifically young because orcs have the lifespan of a goldfish.

- Kyna’s official new role is similar in some ways to Panna’s—she gives the run down on jobs and make sure the teams they contract actually finish them, and she also scouts out the locations that are given to them by clients to make sure, hypothetically, there isn’t a surprise vampire who might almost murder the entire party (thanks Kairos). She actually takes on some RESPONSIBILITY (gasp), and starts to vary her magic and the spells she learns beyond just blasting things with lightning until they die. She doesn’t really deal with clients because let’s be honest, she’s a PR disaster.

- July is when they’re ported back to Hadriel! She accidentally brings her brother’s dog because apparently everyone wants this ooc and I have to give the people what they want.

AND FOR SPECIFICS:

- Kyna is now level 15 and has some new spells, which are here.

- In addition to her brother's dog, she'll also be bringing back a ring that can be "charged" with spells. Essentially, she can cast a spell on the ring and anyone else who wears it can then use that spell, but only once.

- She's gotten better at communicating with people, which is a process that started off strong in Hadriel and then just improved when it became her job, but she still gets dicey with deep emotional conversations.

I was thinking of having her leave on the 7th and then come back with the intro log, if that's okay!

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[nowherewolf]

PLAYER NAME: Leu
CHARACTER NAME: James Tucker
USERNAME: nowherewolf
NEW CANON POINT: post-campaign (so +1 year and a bit)
CHANGES: Quick n Dirty timeline of events:

- Basically Tucker and his team started to take more issue with the way their bosses were handling things. Tucker specifically had already had some problems with being lied to about the risk involved, or going into dangerous missions with little information, and with no satisfactory justification afterward. The way their organization shunted some rescued kids off to nowhere didn't sit great with him either. Long story short (as I'm sure it's already in Harlan's update), after Harlan broke up with Panna (who was also their direct boss), things finally sort of came to a head, and Harlan convinced both Tucker and Kyna to leave their guild with him. (To be fair, it wasn't hard.)

- They decided to set up their own business doing adventuring work. Under the name Counterspell, they formed a mini-guild and used their contacts with previous clients to get jobs. Tucker specifically used his contacts through his other job, the smuggling business, which he subsequently left once Counterspell started to become more of a thing. He tried to leave amicably, though, because burning bridges is not his style.

- Also they got that kid situation sorted, thanks Harlan.

- So for most of the year following their new guild's founding, Tucker has been Busy, just the way he likes it. He is primarily in charge of client relations, because he is good at sweet-talking people into giving him money to do things. He has his own office now and everything. He usually doesn't go out on jobs unless it's to train new hires or do the secret shopper/audit thing, or if the team they're sending out lacks necessary skills in his area(s) of expertise.

- This is his first legit, non-shady, non-illegal job and he's not entirely sure how to feel about that. It's also quite a committment, requiring him to stay where he is, which doesn't freak him out as much as he thought it would (mostly because the income is currently steady). Basically he's getting a bit better on his fear of being tied down to something, and has seen the new guild through its shakier phase into its recent, more stable form, and without quitting once.

- He's also gotten better on his whole "do not show actual emotions to people" thing, but only for people he's close to. This actually has happened in Hadriel a bit, too, so he won't be coming back with a complete 180 or anything.

- OKAY BUT ANYWAY he's getting sucked back into Hadriel in July, (of the year after he got sucked in the first time,) meaning a little over a year of time has passed. He's 27 now, and also, for the meta side, he's level 15. This doesn't change much in terms of rp; his only new abilities are that he is now proficient in gun, he is a little harder to use enchantment/mind control magic on, and he can improvise the use of magic items, even if they were made for other people. I'm sure that last one will come in handy very often.

- He's not coming back with any pets or special new items, the only change is that he will be holding a cup of Starbucks and a sandwich.

- If possible I'd like him to vanish on the 7th and reappear on the 10th!

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[weedbgon]

PLAYER NAME: dani
CHARACTER NAME: merle highchurch
USERNAME: weedbgon
NEW CANON POINT: the end of episode 68! zooming up into the Hunger on a speedy magic spaceship.
CHANGES: There's really not a lot to say as far as changes to Merle go. He'll be a little on the rough side, physically, because they've been running into an awful lot of fights, and his personality is more or less exactly the same as it was already. There are two points that definitely merit mentioning, though!

1. At this new canonpoint, Merle has been reconnected with his deity, Pan, and found out what the deal with that whole trainwreck was (ie, the Hunger descending onto this world cut off the plane that all the deities chill in, rendering them all effectively useless in helping their followers out). He has his holy magic back, along with all the requisite limited spell slots. This doesn't present too much of a change to his personality, at least in terms of how he outwardly presents himself: Merle's always run kind of on the easygoing side in that regard. Internally he's definitely feeling relieved and more secure. It's always nice to find out that your god didn't abandon you.

2. Merle will now have the knowledge of how the gang plans to try to defeat the Hunger once and for all! Technically he was handed explicit knowledge of how to definitely defeat the Hunger on a silver platter, by his long-time frenemy, the guy that started the Hunger, but uh. Shock and surprise, Merle didn't actually... tell anybody about it at all. He straight-up never even mentioned that that happened and everybody else just happened to think of it themselves. Five of them are flying up into a big cloud of living darkness to try to cut the Hunger off from all the bonds its katamari damacy'd over more than a century of growing and spreading. As one does, I guess. That'll be where he comes back into Hadriel from!

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[invariances]

PLAYER NAME: Elizabeth
CHARACTER NAME: Rey
USERNAME: invariances
NEW CANON POINT: post The Last Jedi
CHANGES: In her canon, Rey will have gone through some radical changes in perspective from her last timepoint.

- She has now met the reclusive Jedi Luke Skywalker in person, on Ahch-to, and while he had conceded to train her a little bit while she was on the island, it was only after relentless pursuing and persuasion on her part. He didn't have any intention of returning to help the Resistance, insisting he was only one person against the entire First Order.
- Not only that, but in the process of her developing Force bond with Kylo Ren, she discovered the truth - that Luke had a moment of weakness while training Ben Solo, and entertained the thought of killing him. Ben awoke from sleep to see his master standing over his bed, lightsaber raised, and reacted in fury, destroying Luke's temple and killing the other students who didn't come with him.
- Rey was momentarily convinced by finding this out that it meant Ben Solo would return to the Light side, because when she and Kylo Ren touched hands through their Force bond, she saw a vision of him standing beside her. She left Luke on the island (after an angry confrontation where she brandished his own saber at him), and had Chewbacca deliver her to Snoke's flagship.
- Things fall apart fairly quickly, following this. While Kylo/Ben (whom she refers to now only as "Ben", convinced he's going to join her) takes her to Snoke's throne room, he confesses to her that he had the same vision she did, when they touched hands - that they will stand together, and he took it to mean she would join him by his side in the First Order.
- Snoke invades Rey's mind to get Luke's location. Kylo Ren is already on edge and infuriated with his master for assuming credit for the Force bond that links himself and Rey, having believed it was the Force itself that had done it, and when Snoke tortures her and commands him to kill her, Kylo kills his master instead. Rey is emboldened by his turning and together they face down Snoke's contingent of Praetorian guards, working in unison as two halves of a whole during the fight.
- Unfortunately, Ben refuses to return to the Resistance afterward, telling Rey that they should 'let everything die' and start new, build a new order with her by his side. Rey wants to save her friends and takes this to mean he hasn't changed, that he has no intention of returning to the right side, and instead fights him in a struggle for power over his grandfather's lightsaber. It splits in half, and when Kylo Ren wakes up, Rey is gone.
- She defends her friends who have escaped to Crait, finding a way for them to escape while the First Order (under their new Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren) stays in pursuit and while Luke Skywalker distracts them. At the end as she's loading the straggling Resistance into the Falcon, she shares a last lingering moment through the Force bond with Kylo Ren, who looks anything but murderous toward her. If anything he looks lost and hurt and betrayed, and sad. She closes the Falcon's door on him and the ship escapes.
- Later, she's shown having a moment of half-hearted weakness, wondering to Leia how the Resistance could survive with only a handful of people; at the same time eyeing Finn and his new interest Rose, and watching the way he tends to her with a wistfulness. It's hard to say whether she still thinks Ben Solo is redeemable after he pursues the Resistance on Crait and fights with an astral projection of his uncle, but knowing Rey and how hard she holds onto hope, there's a good chance that she still might.

Actually, given the event on the 16th, I've changed my mind - I'd like for Rey to disappear now (the 13th) and reappear after the 17th/18th with her canon update, in time to get involved in the plot before the end of the month if that's alright?

[hellosirs]

PLAYER NAME: Molly
CHARACTER NAME: Angus McDonald
USERNAME: hellosirs
NEW CANON POINT: The very end of episode 67

CHANGES: Episodes 60-66 are a big flashback that details the main cast's erased backstory (they've been fighting/running from The Hunger for a century, they forgot this because Lucretia fed the records of their journey to Fisher the memory-erasing Voidfish, etc etc). Only a minute passes between Angus's current canon point and the start of episode 67, and when the action picks back up, everything is a mess. The Hunger is on their doorstep, everyone's mad at Lucretia, and Davenport, who'd basically been turned into a monosyllabic pokemon by the memory-erasure, wants the IPRE gang to find their old spaceship and leave the planet behind so they can start a new cycle. Angus is understandably Not Happy About This, but luckily, the gang mostly wants to stay and fight.

- The Hunger's forces crash through the ceiling, and the gang starts fighting them in earnest. Angus gets injured during the fight (literally backhanded across the room into a pile of furniture by a giant, flaming hand) and breaks his wand; when he picks up Taako's umbra staff to defend himself, a giant, ridiculously powerful Fireball bursts out of it instead of whatever he'd intended to cast. This is what makes Taako realize that Lup is still inside the umbrella, and when he snaps the thing over his knee, Lup explodes out of it in her lich form and takes down all the enemies in the room. It's awesome.

- Lucretia disappears after the dust settles, Angus and Davenport head off to look for her.

- At the very end of the episode, Fisher is reunited with the baby voidfish that Lucretia had been hiding, and together, they project the information from the records that Lucretia had erased across the universe. Now everyone in the world knows about the Stolen Century, and the story of the seven doofuses who have been fighting The Hunger.

TLDR, Angus will be coming back pretty banged up and minus a wand, but he'll have a much better idea of what's going on back home. He'll know what the deal with The Hunger is, he'll finally understand why Taako is so mad at Lucretia, he'll be amazed by how awesome Lup is all over again, and most importantly, he'll suddenly know a hundred years worth of his de-facto family's backstory.

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[pocketspa]

PLAYER NAME: Alex
CHARACTER NAME: Taako
USERNAME: pocketspa
NEW CANON POINT: Mid episode 69; post defeat of the Hunger, before the epilogue
CHANGES: It's less than a day since his previous canonpoint, but boy does a lot happen. I'll bullet it to make life easy:

- Taako confronts Lucretia in her office, believing Lup to be dead and threatening her life; the Hunger attacks and interrupts them, and Taako realizes Lup is within the Umbra Staff, breaking it open and freeing her.
- He goes with Lup and Barry down to the ground and, through the help of a compact mirror turned communicator, makes contact with a man from another world. In doing so, he is taught how to make a taco (I'm entirely serious right now and I kind of hate it), and in bursting the threads of fate allows him to transmute a large circle of glass into a portal to the Astral Plane, releasing Kravitz from his prison and having a big emotional gay moment.
- Travels with Lup and Barry back to the Moonbase to try to find the Starblaster, a ship that will let them escape the plane; Lucretia appears again, and Taako figures out that instead of closing off the plane or running, they could use the spell Lucretia's preparing to close off the Hunger.
- GETS ON THAT SHIP, FLIES INTO THE FUCKIN' STORM
- Gets into a fight with the Big Bad on the ship; eats total shit. Is then revived through the power of the ship's Bond Engine, and calls on friends to help them defeat the Hunger. Taako deals the final blow by using the spell Whirlwind to literally blow the agent of the Hunger off the ship.
- When they arrive, Magnus, Merle, and Taako protect and defend Lucretia until she can finish casting her spell; once she does, the entire world goes white.
- The boys wake up outside the universe, and meet it's creator- a being they dub 'Jeffandrew'- telling them they did, in fact, absolutely save the world and it was very rad.
- They're transported back to the ground, where the Hunger has disappeared entirely- and the fight is finally, finally over. Taako will come back to Hadriel after going to bed that night.

Essentially, through the whole fight, the key thing here is Taako will now have knowledge from his canon that his sister is alive, that the world will be saved, and that he has a hand in doing so. He'll also be able to let go of a lot of his previous resentments due to worry that he'd be going back to a world where he's essentially doomed to die. Otherwise, not much changes!

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[proselytise]

PLAYER NAME: Ezra
CHARACTER NAME: Charles Eyler
USERNAME: proselytise

NEW CANON POINT: End of the second game (though his original canon point is in the third game, the first half of the third game [which is the current canon point] is sort of a prologue and takes place before the first and second games in canon), before the Trial takes place.

CHANGES:
☆ About 2.5 games worth of canon have happened. A basic summary:
★ Backstory tl;dr: Charles' sister Scarlett never existed, was sort of a tulpa, made his life miserable. After his death, a universe (the House) was born and sort of reflects his views on reality, with his cool OC Charlotte as the "protagonist." Scarlett exists here but as more of the kind of sister he wished he'd had, but he's still kind of terrified of her and avoids her.

★ In one story/timeline, Scarlett, manipulated by Charlotte, ends up putting herself into one of the stories in the role of Charlotte, but is more or less brainwashed and forgets who she was, eventually doing something that was supposed to cost her her life.

★ HOWEVER, this ended up creating her own cognitive universe/afterlife kind of place within Charles', which is both kind of cool and really complicated to think about.

★ Noting that "Scarlett" is now a lot weaker/softer now, Charles enters her world with full intentions of getting revenge on her for everything that happened while he was alive. Instead, her world sucks and he has a terrible time and she's actually super nice to him, so that idea gets scrapped pretty much immediately.

★ Charles spent some time trying to remind Scarlett/Charlotte of who she really was, even sharing with her his stories that she used to criticize-- but nothing really helped, and she was pretty much gone for good.

★ After an attempt at freeing both of them from Scarlett's world that ended with her refusing to die with him, and telling him she wanted him to live (which, in a kind of messed up way, was the nicest thing his sister ever told him), he didn't get another chance to see her until the Trial (basically an event that decided which student most deserved to die), the new canon point.


☆ In short, this means that Charles is a bit more stable, emotionally-- more at ease regarding his sister, who he's forgiven for everything that happened in the past, and the people that he'd lost while alive. He still lacks some self-confidence/self-esteem, but he's more ready to make choices (even difficult ones) and ask for help when he needs it. And less apathetic about dying.


☆ Because he has to use a spare body to do anything outside of his home, he would be in a vessel at this canon point (said vessel is pretty much an empty shell and unappable in his own right, in case that's something that might be seen as a potential issue).

[hadrielmods]

Apologies for the wait! Your canon update has been approved.

[drabsolutelynot]

PLAYER NAME: Bee
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Lee Rosen
USERNAME: DrAbsolutelyNot
NEW CANON POINT: Season 1, Ep. 10: Unusual Suspects
CHANGES:

Rosen will be canon downgraded to a point prior to his arrest meaning he will have no knowledge of his role in outing the Alpha phenomenon nor the government's attempt to erase any formal evidence of his existence from all official record.

Rosen's most recent memory will be of the abduction of his team to Binghamton when they are falsely accused of being Red Flag, while his own identity and appearance was stolen by another Alpha working for the DoD.

Rosen at this point in his canon is much more optimistic in his beliefs about the Alpha phenomenon and the potential for Alphas and Non-Alphas to coexist without violence. He is yet naive about the proliferation of the Red Flag group across the country and is still unaware of the extent to which Alphas are being experimented on and abused at Binghamton, though the incidences with Marcus, Anna, Skylar, and the apprehension of his team have forced him to face the fact that Binghamton is not acting in good faith and he can no longer ignore the issue.

At this point in time, Rosen is also much more of a trusted guardian figure to his Alphas though some cracks have begun to show: specifically in his decision to leave Gary alone with Anna and his initial cooperation in bringing in Skylar at the request of the DoD.

Overall taking Rosen from this point will mean a much more emotionally and mentally stable Rosen, however one who is beginning to feel the weight of the world as he knows it coming down around him. This will mean he is often caught between being a bleeding heart and being preoccupied with his internal calculations trying to piece together the fate of Alphas, the role of Red Flag, and the damage done by Binghamton and what part he has played in all of this.

Physically Rosen will look healthier. He visibly takes better care of himself, he dresses well (to the extent that a college professor dresses well in old cardigans) and he no longer has his beard.

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[nonscriptum]

PLAYER NAME: Alex
CHARACTER NAME: Nathan Drake
USERNAME: nonscriptum
NEW CANON POINT: Chapter 13: Marooned
CHANGES:

Experience/Learning

☠ Post-Scotland, Nate theorizes on a flight to Madagascar that the pirate captain - Henry Avery - whose treasure they are searching for was recruiting other wealthy pirates with an elaborate vetting process intended to weed out the unworthy.

☠ Upon arriving in Madagascar with Sam Drake and Victor Sullivan he has a phone call with his wife, in which he lies to her about the duration of his "Malaysia trip" to avoid having her fly out to meet him (in a country where he is decidedly not.)

☠ Exploring the terrain around King's Bay, Madagascar, Nate's theory is confirmed when they encounter watchtowers marked with the sigils of other famous pirates. There are brief but violent encounters with members of the mercenary army - led by Nadine Ross - who competitor Rafe Adler hired.

☠ Nate and Sully head off to investigate one tower while Sam investigates another. Sam is unsuccessful, while Nate and Sully discover a complex mechanism that leads them to another trial set up by Captain Avery in a hidden chamber beneath the tower. In the process they learn the identities of the twelve pirate "lords" who affiliated themselves with Avery after the captain's invitation. Upon solving a puzzle Nate takes photographs and then rubbings of several etchings, sending the former to Sam.

☠ Nate combines the rubbings to form a map which indicates the next stop on their search: a place designated with the motto Pro Deus Quod Licentia, "for God and liberty," which indicates that Henry Avery founded the fabled pirate colony of Libertalia.

☠ He answers his phone expecting to hear from Sam only to received a call from Rafe. Rafe offers him an out, tells him to back off and go home - unsurprisingly, Nate refuses, and Rafe informs him that he knows about Libertalia, has hacked their phones, and thanks to GPS will see them all very, very soon.

☠ Nate and Sully leave the bell tower to find Sam and enter a firefight with Nadine's mercenaries, which turns into a high-speed car-and-motorcycle chase through downtown Antananarivo and the rural countryside all the way to the shipping docks.

☠ Nate, Sully, and Sam make it safely back to their motel, only to find Elena there. Nate and Elena get into an argument - although it's more like "Nate tries to defend himself, poorly, for being a crappy person and lying to her for weeks" - and she leaves. Sully goes after her, and Sam stays to help Nate pursue Libertalia.

☠ Using the map that Avery left them, Sam and Nate set out on a boat for some islands off the coast, following another trail of breadcrumbs until they uncover a clue that directs them straight to their goal. Up until this point, things have grown tense between the brothers, as Nate is unconvinced that Elena will forgive him and Sam thinks otherwise. A storm rolls in as they head back to their boat, and they realize that Rafe and Nadine have caught up with them. The race to the island through enormous swells ends in their boat wrecked and the brothers separated, Nate waking up alone on the shore.

Physical/Mental

He looks Bad™. Nate will be wearing his usual adventure garb. He'll be soaked to the skin with seawater, sandy, bloody, bruised, you name it. He'll have a much better understanding of the puzzle he has been trying to solve and the stakes that have been raised, summarily compromising nearly all of his relationships. To this end he'll have to come to terms with the way he treats his friends and loved ones.

Note

Wanted to check and see if it was okay for the Door to bring him back in a way that echoes the state he would be in at the exact point of canon update: i.e, washed up on the beach somewhere. Thanks!

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[missiondeterminant]

PLAYER NAME: Ami
CHARACTER NAME: Connor
USERNAME: missiondeterminant
NEW CANON POINT: Directly after the end of game
CHANGES: Only about four hours pass between this new canon point and the one Connor came from, but they're a packed four hours and have a big impact on Connor, especially since he's very newly deviant.

For Connor's specific path:

• Returns to Cyberlife Tower as a part of his plan to convert more androids into deviants so they can join Markus' rebellion.

• Successfully navigates the building and takes out the guards that are escorting him to be destroyed, and reaches the warehouse where the androids are kept.

• Is stopped by another version of 'himself' (version 60 of the RK800 model line, with memories from one of Connor's recent memory backups) who has taken Connor's human partner, Hank, hostage and threatens to kill him if Connor tries to awaken the androids.

• Connor backs off, Hank grabs Connor-60's gun, and Connor intervenes. There's a fight, ending up with a good old-fashioned WHO'S THE REAL CONNOR standoff after Hank recovers the gun.

• Both Connors have the same memories and so the same answers to questions, but Connor's answers show empathy and so Hank shoots Connor-60.

• Connor is able to convert the androids and rejoin Markus' group, which has just led a successful peaceful protest, causing the president to order the army to back off.

• During Markus' victory speech, Connor is pulled into the virtual reality space in his mind (the zen garden), where his handler--the AI Amanda--informs him everything has gone according to plan, including Connor becoming deviant, and that CyberLife was now taking control of him once again.

• Connor manages to find the 'emergency exit' programmed into the garden and frees himself from CyberLife's control before time runs out.

• When he does he returns to control and awareness of his body, which had been lifting a gun to shoot Markus in the back. Connor hides the gun, and returns to watching Markus speak, and the game ends.

This update will lead to a few good and a few bad changes for Connor. On the good side, the androids were successful for now; the army's been called off, the president thinks they might truly be living, intelligent beings, and everyone (or well, most people; eveyone important to Connor anyway) made it out alive. On the bad side, there are very few survivors left aside from the CyberLife Tower androids, the peace may be only very temporary, and Connor now has both the question of whether he's truly deviant at all and if CyberLife could potentially control him again in the future.

As far as affecting him in game, he's had a few months now to get used to deviancy and so is more sure of himself than he otherwise would've been regarding the issue of being 'meant' to go deviant. However, it'll still be a conflict for him as he continues to sorts out what free will is, what it means to have emotions, if any of those things are real if he was meant to develop them, etc etc. He'll be more optimistic and reassured about the general situation at home, though, and so won't have to worry about it as much.

For a last note, he'll show up in different clothing and carrying a different gun, but for all intents and purposes it's the same model and everything (he just took this one off someone else, since he had to get rid of the first one in order to not look suspicious entering CyberLife Tower.) I figure he would've just had his first gun on him when he disappeared and came back with the new one so there won't be duplicates or anything.

EDIT: Sorry for editing this late but I realized I should address a few extra things, and this was a good place to do it.

One is directly relevant to the canon update, which is that on Connor's app there was a segment about Amanda under the powers section; after the update he'll have used the emergency exit to sever the connection with the Zen Garden and the Amanda AI, so basically it just means that whole section can be ignored since it's no longer relevant.

On the other hand, the "awaken androids" power on the app he now knows he has, and better yet we got a word of god explanation for!!! Basically the way that power works is that Connor (and Markus, and presumably anyone else) transmits an intense shock of emotion, which kind of snaps the android into being deviant. I felt like this was pretty important to note once I thought about it, since it's a close parallel to the gods making the Null feel emotion, and so if it happens to work on the Null then that could be a whole thing.

[hadrielmods]

Your canon update has been approved.

[closerift]

PLAYER NAME: Kai
CHARACTER NAME: Cecily Trevelyan
USERNAME: closerift
NEW CANON POINT: Post-Trespasser
CHANGES: Her last canon update saw her mid-DLC and with the anchor threatening to end her life once and for all after years of sparkly green torment.

With this update, Cecily travels through the Eluvian and into a series of Elven ruins, seeing the anchor getting worse and worse and still doggedly following Viddasala's trail. The party fights a qunari mage - a Saarebas - and continues on until they come across qunari turned to stone and hear Solas' voice. Soon they find the elf, along with Viddasala, and when she does not agree to leave him be, he turns her to stone as well.

When Solas is able to calm the anchor, the Inquisitor is informed that Solas is also Fen'Harel, and that he created the Veil. He had planned to use the anchor to tear down the Veil in order to restore the world to what it once was before his influence, but Corypheus (unwittingly) interfered. After that, Solas joined the Inquisition to do what he thought was right. He states that he still intends to tear down the Veil, effectively ending the current world.

Too overwhelmed by the anchor to stop him, Cecily falls to her knees in pain. Solas finally removes the anchor (and her left forearm in the process). He vanishes, but the Inquisitor, and Inquisition, vows to stop him. The organization is soon considered reformed under the watchful eye of the Divine (Cassandra) and began to seek new allies in Tevinter in order to keep their actions away from the prying eyes of the Dread Wolf...

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[restinglichface]

PLAYER NAME: Mey
CHARACTER NAME: Lup
USERNAME: restinglichface
NEW CANON POINT: Post canon, one year after the Day of Story and Song, after the big wedding
CHANGES: In the year that she will be gone, much has changed in Lup's life. For one, she has a life again. She last came into Hadriel immediately after breaking free of her dozen year imprisonment, so getting a year to actually live a real life out in the world with people? Awesome. They defeated the big bad of their world and were able to finally settle down in earnest, and with that, came an unexpected job offer Lup could not say no to.

Kravitz took Lup under wing as an emissary of the Raven Queen (the goddess of death), one of her bounty hunters who hunts down souls who have escaped the astral plane or are fucking with the balance of life and death (those dang necromancers). With this position, she has a few new powers. All of these skills match with Kravitiz' own set of in-game skills, only I'm limiting Lup on just how much she can do considering she's only a couple months into this job.

↪ Body info: Though still an elf in appearance, Lup's new race would be classified as undead permanently now. As a reaper, she has three forms that she can swap between at will. The first is just her normal, elven appearance, which is completely unchanged outside of being cold to the touch, having no heartbeat, and not needing to breathe. From there, she can shift seamlessly into her reaper form, full on skeleton in a long, dark robe, very classic grim reaper. And the last is a ball of floating light, which is essentially just her raw soul. Though Kravitz can take this form to possess others, Lup doesn't have that skill down quite yet, so she isn't able to.

↪ Portal rifts: Lup's able to rip portals anywhere to hop between different areas in Hadriel, bringing items or people along with her. Basically a free teleport spell, just much flashier.

↪ Flight: Lup has the ability to hover a little above the ground in any form, but to actually fly in her skeletal/reaper form.

↪ Summoning: Lup can summon her reaper's scythe to her at any point.

Along with these abilities, she also continues to cast her usual evocation magic, nothing has changed there!

Taking Lup from this time period brings her a sense of peace that she's been missing her whole life and gives her a reason to want to leave Hadriel, to get back to the life that she's made.

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[barold]

PLAYER NAME: Mar
CHARACTER NAME: Barry Bluejeans
USERNAME: barold
NEW CANON POINT: Episode 69, epilogue.
CHANGES: It's been a full year since his previous canon point. Physically, there will be no real change aside from more gray in his hair. Emotionally and experience-wise, the changes will be more drastic:
- The Hunger has been beaten, and peace has been restored. The battle was hard and draining, and there were losses, but Barry and his family made it out victorious. Since the battle, everyone has been focusing on rebuilding their home, including Barry and the Starblaster crew.
- The battle was won in part because a magical entity called the Voidfish broadcast Barry's and the main cast's backstory to every living being in existence, uniting them all against the Hunger. This story can be found in Barry's original app. As a consequence of this, Barry and his family are almost like celebrities at home, seeing as everyone knows their story and knows they conquered the Hunger only with their help. While not totally letting this go to his head, Barry has quite enjoyed being recognized by the people of Faerûn as a heroic figure. He's enjoyed a considerable confidence boost since his previous canon point.
- While initially in trouble with the Goddess of Death (the Raven Queen), Barry and his partner Lup have been offered permanent employment at her side, enforcing the laws of life and death in their incorporeal lich forms. This has given Barry control over planar portals, access points between the Material and Astral Planes - although since the Astral Plane does not exist in Hadriel, this power will be mostly useless.
- Barry's partner Lup was stuck in an incorporeal form in his previous canon point, but in the year that passed since then, Barry has dedicated his time to growing her a new body. By the time he gets pulled back to Hadriel, Lup is corporeal again.
- Having spent a year settling down compared to over a century on the run, Barry has grown much more attached to Faerûn since his previous canon point.

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[soldier_blade]

PLAYER NAME: Robin
CHARACTER NAME:Sonya Blade
USERNAME:soldier_blade
NEW CANON POINT: Just after her daughter's born
CHANGES:
In this new canon point, three years have gone by since her last ‘arrival’ into Hadriel. In that time, she’s organized an entire military division and lead a defense against a worldwide invasion of the Nether realm (their world’s version of Hell), became pregnant and married the child’s father before giving birth to a daughter she named Cassandra.

The years before and during the invasion have been a mixed bag for Sonya. While she and her allies have been able to save Earth and recover their fallen allies, it was still a war and some of her comrades are still enslaved under the Netherrealm’s influence. Even for those rescued, Sonya knows they’ll never fully heal from their ordeal, and for the time being she’s constantly worried that the memories and nightmares might be too much and she’ll lose them again That even her daughter might grow up losing either one or both of her parents constantly nags at her, but at the same time the fear of threat by the Nether realm or other such enemies means that she can never fully ‘settle down’ to help raise her child either. Though never stated outloud or admitted, Sonya will also be showing deepening signs of survivors guilt after the war, having lose so many men under her command and nearly losing the father of her child in the process. A part of her doesn’t believe she deserves to have a nice life outside of the military, and constantly has nightmares of what might happen if the nether realm retaliates and her entire family is killed and enslaved.
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[wantsnudes]

PLAYER NAME: Candace
CHARACTER NAME: Yusuke Kitagawa
USERNAME: wantsnudes
NEW CANON POINT: post-game
CHANGES:

As of the end of the game, I'm running with the assumption that Joker completed all confidants (including Yusuke's). That means his Persona changed from Goemon to Kamu Susano-o. This change is mostly cosmetic, though it does grant immunity to ice and resistance to wind. The completion of Yusuke's confidant also means that he was able to overcome his art block and submit his final piece, Desire and Hope, to an art competition, which he wins. Through this he deepens his relationship with Joker and overcomes his uncertainty with art, later bequeathing the painting to him as a sign of their friendship.

In the more general game plot Yusuke helps steal the heart of Masaiyoshi Shido, the Prime Minister of Japan, who Yusuke learns is a deeply corrupt politician who had his campaign partly funded by his mentor's art counterfeiting. The Thieves then realise the hearts of society are imprisoned and seek to steal the "Holy Grail", the embodiment of mankind's desires and the cause of their enslavement by the God of Control, Yaldabaoth. Joker and the Phantom Thieves use the will of the people to summon the ultimate rebel, Satanael, shoot God, steal the treasure, and save the day from apocalypse. Hail Satan.

After that, Joker turns himself in to the authorities as being the ringleader for the Phantom Thieves and takes the fall for the rest of them so he can provide evidence that will see Shido imprisoned for his corruption during, and prior to, taking office. Though found guilty, Yusuke and the other Phantom Thieves lobby for their leader's release from juvenile detention, and Joker is released within three months after the new year. The game ends with them driving Joker back to his hometown, celebrating his freedom.

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[stealyoursoul]

PLAYER NAME: Shade
CHARACTER NAME: Leo Flynn
USERNAME: stealyoursoul
NEW CANON POINT: End of the second book, This Dark Duet
CHANGES: A year passes by in canon. After his brother August killed him by stealing his soul, they find out something new about their powers: when you absorb the soul of someone you love, it gets stuck in the mind of that person. August at first isn't sure if Leo is actually in his mind, or if he's going crazy, and it isn't until the end of the book he confirms Leo really was in his mind the whole time.

Leo spends his time influencing his little brother's mind. Since August is the last Sunai left to defend the city with Leo dead and their sister unable to use her powers, he pushes August to become colder and more ruthless. For the most part, he succeeds, and August successfully defends the city. Leo witnesses August lose part of himself, becoming detached from humanity as Leo became. He doesn't necessarily see this as a bad thing, though everyone else around August becomes worried.

Another Sunai is created during that year, Soro, who identifies as being non-binary. They are very much like Leo in their mindset, and between Leo inside his mind and Soro on the outside, August begins to wonder if his dream to be more like a human being was just a childish, naive fantasy. When Kate Harker, August's friend and love interest shows back up claiming a chaos monster that can influence minds has come to the city, it becomes apparent to her just how much August has changed. She directly compares him to Leo, which pleases Leo's consciousness, and disturbs August. He begins trying to fight Leo's influence with limited success.

The chaos monster is captured by enemy Malchai forces and unleashed on innocent people, brainwashing them into killing each other. August, Ilsa, and Soro end up in the fight. Soro calms down the crowd of people by using his song. August kills the Malchai who was responsible for unleashing the monster. Ilsa reverts to her true form, able to use her powers in her monster form, and sacrifices herself to kill the chaos monster in a mutual kill. All three of her siblings are saddened by this.

Meanwhile, Kate is busy fighting the Malchai named Alice that she inadvertently unleashed in the first book. It also turns into a mutual kill as Kate stabs her to death, but is gored by the Malchai's claws deep enough to die a slow, painful death. August rushes to her side. She asks if part of the people he takes stays with them and he responds he doesn't know, still unsure about Leo's soul being trapped in his mind. He absorbs her soul, and Leo, knowing there's nothing else he can do to influence his little brother, finally leaves, letting Kate's soul take his place in August's mind. It confirms to August that Leo's soul was real the whole time.

He'll come in directly after Leo's soul leaves August's mind.

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[claritatis]

PLAYER NAME: Fiona
CHARACTER NAME: Ignis Scientia
USERNAME: claritatis
NEW CANON POINT: Chapter 9, Episode Ignis DLC, just before putting on the Ring of the Lucii
CHANGES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4A4YVCg8Kw

The group has made their way to Altissia and the Astral Leviathan has been summoned by Lunafreya. While this is happening, the Empire of Niflheim attacks the city, and Ignis is separated from his friends Gladio and Prompto. He works his way across the city, entirely focused on reaching Noctis.

On the way, he re-takes several of the city districts single-handedly and has Gladio on hand to ensure that he keeps his head in the interim (here we learn just how much Noct’s safety means to him). He eventually commandeers a small speedboat in an effort to get closer to the Altar of the Tidemother where Lunafreya and Noctis are, but is knocked into the water by a falling Imperial airship. Caligo, a Brigadier General in the Niflheim army, taunts him and fires on him while he tries to get back to the speedboat, demanding that he surrender then and there. Ignis, as Ignis is wont to do, refuses and is then chased by Caligo in a mech until the boat is hit by a missile.

Ignis is still further from the Alter than he wants to be, and he is then drawn into a battle against Caligo and several Imperial soldiers. The soldiers are defeated and the mech falls, but the fight has left Ignis too exhausted in that moment to do anything against Caligo himself despite the other man’s injured state. He doesn’t have to, however, as he finds an unexpected ally in Lunafreya’s brother, Ravus Nox Fleuret.

Together, the head to the Altar, Ravus in search of his sister and Ignis in search of his friend. He learns that for Ravus, family comes before his loyalty to the Empire, and he quickly turned against them when Lunafreya’s life was put in danger. However, although their interests have aligned, Ignis knows he cannot trust Ravus to be entirely on his side.

When they reach the Altar, Ignis finds one of Lunafreya’s dogs - Pryna - dying nearby. This proves to be an ill omen, as moments later Ravus finds his sister dead on the Altar with Noctis barely alive beside her. As Pryna dies, Ignis is given a vision of Noctis’ future and the sacrifice that will have to be made to save the world from the encroaching darkness. ’The blood price must be paid.’

Seeing that his sister gave the last of her life to save Noctis, Ravus flies into a rage. He attempts to kill Noctis, but is stopped by Ignis, and the two of them fight until they are both simply too exhausted to continue. Ravus then calmly mourns his sister and the future she had given up for the sake of her destiny, and the two of them see an image of the Oracle (Luna) floating over the water in front of them (’Even in death, the Oracle does not rest.’).

Finally, Gladiolus arrives on the scene, but Ravus knows immediately that something is wrong. He is correct, as the new arrival is quickly revealed to be not Gladio, but none other than Ardyn Izunia, the orchestrator of all the suffering seen so far. Ignis is knocked down and pinned to the ground by Imperial soldiers, briefly knocked out by a boot to the head from Ardyn, and when he regains consciousness the man attempts to persuade him over to his side. As he looks about to kill the unconscious Noctis, Ravus steps in, and as Ardyn is distracted by dealing with him, the Ring of the Lucii rolls out of Noctis’ hand.

Once again, Ardyn tries to tempt Ignis to go with him. Ignis fights back, knocking away the soldiers holding him down and getting to his feet with the last of his strength. He tells Ardyn that he swore an oath to protect Noctis, no matter what, and with the Ring of the Lucii in his hand, he--

Doesn’t quite get it onto his finger because that’s where I’m cutting him off.

TL;DR; Ignis now has a wrist-mounted grappling hook which he took from the body of a dead Imperial soldier. He has fought his way across the entire city of Altissia mostly alone, been blown out of a speedboat by a missile, fought Ravus to secure Noctis’ safety, been kicked around by Ardyn, and knows far more about everything than he would have ever wanted to know thanks to a dog giving him future-visions. He’s also half a second away from blinding with a magical ring himself like the devoted idiot he is.

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[hoperulesdespairdrools]

PLAYER NAME: Em
CHARACTER NAME: Nagito Komaeda
USERNAME: hoperulesdespairdrools
NEW CANON POINT: Chapter 5 – as the poisoned fire grenade grenade is about fall on the ground, burst open and kill him.
CHANGES:

In Chapter 4, during the investigation of Nekomaru Nidai’s murder, Komaeda was given a file contiaining the profiles of him and his classmates at Hope’s Peak Academy. Reading them, he discovered a horrible secret – that he and his classmates were all members of Ultimate Despair, a group of murderers and terrorists who wrecked the world and did all sorts of terrible for the sake of spreading despair.

In response to this, Komaeda hatched a plan to kill all his classmates (including himself) except the traitor (who was not really a student from Hope’s Peak and therefore would not have been part of Ultimate Despair). He was going to set up a complex murder case (with himself as the victim) which could never be solved and therefore everyone would be executed except the traitor. He would go to the warehouse, set up a fire, tie himself up and deliberately stab himself (to trick classmates to think he was tortured). The fire would cause the students to look for fire grenades, one of which would contain a poison which would kill Komaeda and Komaeda would trust his luck to cause the traitor to pick the poisoned fire grenade.

He is taken from where the traitor unknowingly throws the grenade so he is not sure he’s dead yet.

- Komaeda has an even lower sense of self-worth than before and it shows. Discovering that he and his classmates were bloodthirsty monsters was incredibly traumatic for him. When Komaeda sets up his murder, he stabs his own body several times to trick his classmates into thinking that someone tortured him. However, this was also an indication of how he has grown to despise himself even further that he is willing to punish himself and put himself in even more horrifying situations. After all, he and his classmates were all bloodthirsty monsters who did unimaginably horrible things to cause suffering. While he would still not kill himself without causing hope, he is far more willing to put himself in harm’s way allow himself to suffer more if something came out of it. Because Komaeda has a job to do at home, he’ll stay alive and stick around until then but he’d be even less concerned about not getting killed in Hadriel.

- Any classmates who come to Hadriel will be met with complete disdain. Komaeda will treat them as if they are stupid and incompetent (especially people like Souda and Owari). After all, they were supposed to be symbols of hope but were taken easily by despair – they do not deserve that title.

- Despite this, Komaeda still retains his faith in and obsessive love for hope. He still believes that the stronger the despair, the stronger the hope comes after it. However, his goal changed – instead of being a stepping stone for his classmates, he wanted to become the Ultimate Hope (an idea planted in him by Monokuma). In what could be seen as his last will and testament (a video on a laptop played after his classmates solve his ‘murder’), he says that he wants others to know what he achieved – he wishes to be praised, to have a statue of him built and to be known as the Ultimate Hope. Like before, he still wishes for someone to care about him, despite his past as Ultimate Despair, and the only way he can do that is by sacrificing himself to destroy all despair on the island.

- Komaeda’s feelings about Hinata are more complex. Aside from discovering about their pasts as Ultimate Despair, he also discovered that Hinata was a normal boy, who came to Hope’s Peak via an exam that non-talented students could pay for, which was the icing on the cake. He was not the wonderful talented individual that he thought the guy was. As a result, Komaeda started to hurl out smarmy and abusive comments– saying Hinata did not know his place, constantly reminding him that he did not have a talent and saying it was insulting that he tried to be like the elites at Hope’s Peak. However, despite that, he cannot stop caring about Hinata and is confused by this.

-Komaeda’s hostility to his classmates will NOT transfer to his non-canonmates in Hadriel (non-canonmates were not part of Ultimate Despair so why would he be a jerk to them?). He would be friendly but distant to them. And yet he will still try to help them. Komaeda will not think he deserves their friendship but a part of him will still want to prove himself and help them out and prove himself to them (and he’ll have inner conflicts over that). Komaeda’s done some things in Hadriel like learn spells and learn to fight. And his health’s a little better. And the desire to be a capable friend who can be depended on will still be there, even though he thinks he’s lowlier than trash.

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[redwinekindofgirl]

PLAYER NAME: Fiona
CHARACTER NAME: Julie Grigio
USERNAME: redwinekindofgirl
NEW CANON POINT: The Burning World, approx. ⅓ into the book
CHANGES:

A few months have passed since the end of the first book and Julie is living out in the ruined suburbs of the city with R and several Nearly Dead neighbours (one of whom she has dubbed ‘B’). Having been given a semi-defacto role of leadership given her ‘expertise’ with the Dead and her relationship to the deceased former leader of the Stadium, she is supposed to have 24/7 guard but has a tendency to run off, believing that it doesn’t give a good impression to the Dead who are trying to fix themselves to have guns pointed at them all the time. She is doing her best to move forward with her life but is often frustrated by R’s avoidance of his past, because she sure as hell can’t forget about hers so conveniently.

She and R are on their way to the Stadium for a meeting called by Rosy when helicopters fly overhead - a strange sight, given that it was assumed that none of them were still functioning and that there was no one around to actually use them if they were. She tries to talk to her best friend Nora, but the frequency is jammed up by the BABL signal and she can’t get much information out of her about what’s happening.

When they arrive at the Stadium they discover that communication with Goldman Dome, the nearest neighbouring enclave, has been cut off and no one can get in touch with them. The line suddenly gets patched into a line called Fed 800, an old security line from the early days of the zombie disaster that no one has heard in years. Not long after this, they realise that Axiom, a corporate militia thought wiped out in the Borough Conflicts a decade before, have taken over Goldman Dome and are currently coming for them.

Julie takes an elderly friend of hers (Ella, Rosy’s wife) home and then finds R getting drunk in the bar. The television flicks away from its usual broken stream of different football games and shows an undisclosed location in the stadium. This room is later realised to be the location of the LOTUS feed signal, another pre-apocalypse relic that served as America’s last attempt to stop dissent by stifling it as well as being used to transmit messages via image metaphors and brief audio.

Shortly after this image shows a shocked Rosy wondering how Axiom even knew the place was there, a bomb explodes, killing all of the remaining leadership of Citi Stadium. Rosso is killed in the blast, and more Axiom soldiers appear to try and take the bodies. Julie refuses to allow them to take Rosso, and after a brief fight, is knocked out. Meanwhile, in the clinic (morbidly dubbed ‘the morgue’), Nora tries to keep soldiers from taking any of the Nearly Dead who are recovering there.

Julie wakes up tied to a chair, faced with the unsettling smiles of more Axiom agents. She and R are tortured as Axiom try to gain their compliance with regards to what they call the ‘unknowns’ - the Nearly Dead - with bare electrical wires. She briefly agrees to help them but rescinds this offer when they are told that the ‘interviews’ (ie, the torture sessions) will resume if their compliance slips at any point. They then cut off her left ring finger in two parts with a pair of cable shears.

She wakes up in a locked bathroom three days later - July 26th, her 20th birthday - and shares a brief, slightly hysterical amusement with Nora at their situation before someone enters the room. It appears to be Perry, her ex (and dead) boyfriend, and she collapses from the shock of seeing him. Not!Perry escorts them out of their holding cells, and they find out that they are in Goldman Dome, which has been entirely taken over by Axiom using the same terrorism tactics as Citi Stadium. The man, later revealed to be Perry’s older brother Abram, smuggles them out of the Dome in a truck under the pretense of taking a few Dead out to be cremated.

TL;DR: Julie’s life just keeps sucking, she is now down one finger, and will have her hands tied together when she arrives. She has also cut her hair to above her shoulders, but unfortunately I have no icons to show this.

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[bloodbathing]

PLAYER NAME: Kas
CHARACTER NAME: Agent Maine
USERNAME: bloodbathing
NEW CANON POINT: between seasons 9 & 10
CHANGES: Maine arrived immediately after getting shot in the throat nine times. After this canon update, he'll have been in recovery for roughly a month. He will not have received Sigma.

- Physical: Following injuries sustained during season 9, Maine required intensive surgery. He'll gain surgical scarring on his chest, neck, jaw, mouth, and left arm. He'll also gain facial scarring from said injuries. Between the injuries and all of the surgeries, Maine will more or less be in constant pain.

- Personality: Not a huge change here. He'll be more withdrawn and quicker to anger as he struggles to adapt to the loss of his voice. ("Not a huge change" because this has already been happening in Hadriel.)

- Information: Maine will gain basic knowledge of the AI being issued to Agents; he'll know that Delta exists, but that's about it.

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[ragnarsson]

PLAYER NAME: Shade
CHARACTER NAME: Ivar Ragnarsson
USERNAME: ragnarsson
NEW CANON POINT: 5x20
CHANGES: Ivar reigns as king for a year and basically becomes more insane, ruthless, and brutal during that time. He gains a wife named Freydis, a woman both cunning and manipulative as he is. She does seem to truly love him to some extent, but she also feeds his ego to the point where he starts thinking he's a god in human form. He murders anyone who speaks out against him, including any supporters of the former queen Lagertha. He continuously mistreats his brother Hvitserk, the only one of his family still on his side, until Hvitserk finally has it, and betrays him. That's what happens when you kill two of your brother's girlfriends. Freydis becomes pregnant by another man, since Ivar is impotent, but he's so far into his delusions by now he believes the child is his. It wouldn't matter much to him anyway, for he cares more about an heir and having a child to love than whether it is blood-related to him.

Unfortunately, the child Baldur is born with a severe cleft palate, and while Freydis sees this as a sign from the gods, all Ivar can see is a child with a disability. He sees everything in his son that happened to him while he was growing up, seeing a lifetime of pain and suffering in store for Baldur if he grows up. It breaks his heart, but Ivar ultimately leaves him in the woods in a show of mercy killing, one of his few non-malicious acts during this period. When Freydis finds out, her affection towards her husband grows cold. Ivar's brothers attack Kattegat and attempt to take it back, but Ivar, clever as ever, outthinks them at every turn. The only blindspot he has is Freydis, whom he still loves dearly.

She ultimately betrays him, letting in Ivar's brothers through a secret entrance. While Ivar's loyalists engage them in one last desperate battle, Ivar confronts Freydis about what she's done. She admits to it fully and he strangles her in a fit of rage, even though he keeps repeating how much he loves her as he does so. When Ivar's brothers break into his quarters, he's nowhere to be found, but has left the bodies of his wife and son displayed on the bed. It shows that what he cares about losing isn't the power of the crown, but the family he's wanted for so long.

He's last seen heading with a traveling group of peasants towards Rus, made up mostly of present-day Russia. He's beaten, but not down, and he plans to come back stronger than ever. Ivar, as always, is a survivor.

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[devilsandangels]

PLAYER NAME: Kit
CHARACTER NAME: Alfred Athelwulfing
USERNAME: devilsandangels
NEW CANON POINT: 5x18, Baldur
CHANGES: In the course of what happened for the updated Alfred, he will no longer be a new king. By this point, Alfred has relatively secured his rule. He has gained confidence in himself, in dealing with nobles at Wittans and fighting Viking hordes. He's made new alliances with a select few Vikings. One, in particular, has a deep impact on Alfred's confidence. Ubbe Ragnarsson teaches Alfred to be a fighter and to not be afraid. He pushes Alfred to understand the risk of battle but also the risk of not fighting at all.

Alfred is also far more aware of how treacherous the world was. He has found out that his brother was in a plot to overthrow him -- although, Aethelred had not been able to go through with it. Alfred had decided to forgive him only to fall ill and in his absence, his mother assassinates Aethelred in a misguided attempt to secure Alfred's rule. Alfred has had to deal with his mother's betrayal and leaving him with very few who he can trust, where he had been far more trusting at the onset of his rule.

However, this trust was not easily won between Alfred and Ubbe. Bjorn and Ubbe were very insistent upon receiving the land that Alfred's grandfather had promised their father (though, he had no legal right to do so at the time). This forced Alfred to become more diplomatic in handling the demands of the Vikings, honing his skills at managing people with competing interests. He finds creative solutions to pave a path for the Vikings to get what they want, while not compromising his own position with the Nobles further.

In the same time frame, Alfred is pushed into an arranged marriage by his mother. He does everything he can to get out of it, trying to convince his betrothed that it was not in her best interest to marry him. However, to his chagrin she is not deterred and they are married. He does not particularly spend much time with his wife and there is some clear resentment toward his mother even before her betrayal killing his brother for forcing his hand into an unwanted marriage.

In short, Alfred has matured into a wise king who carefully picks his battles. He has married upon his mother's arrangements. He has won difficult battles against Danish Vikings and suffered the difficult loss of his brother. He's no longer a boy king.

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[kingforboth]

PLAYER NAME: Kara
CHARACTER NAME: Kelson Haldane
USERNAME: kingforboth
NEW CANON POINT: Pax Kelsona, 2 years post King Kelson's Bride
CHANGES:

In the last six years, Kelson has learned a lot politically. He's gone from a mature eighteen year old to an twenty four year old adult. He's become adept at negotiations and subtly influencing events in his favor. He's made alliances with neighboring kingdoms, as well as securing multiple marriages, all able to resolve political conflicts as well as being arrangements usually favored by both parties. He also used such marriages as a distraction for his own nuptials, as for three years he'd undergone near constant nagging to just pick someone. Anyone. Not the nun. To that end he marries his cousin, thankfully distant enough that their kids wont have three eyes and bringing someone with joint Haldane and Deryni blood into the throne, so their own kids will be secure in their own power and abilities.

Kelson's grown up. Although he still cried and fought over the loss of his love Rothana, and finally admits that she's better off as a nun, working for him within the church to further his own ends, and melts down the ring he gave her and his first late bride, determined not to give the same cursed ring to his new Queen Araxie. Indeed, his new and rather benevolently conniving wife is good for him, helping to show him different angles of situations he might not have thought of and helping him grow emotionally into maturity. She helps him realize that the death of his cousin Conall could not be prevented, it was not his fault and his reign will no doubt bring other events just as difficult. It comes with the job and he is not to blame. Also, while we don't actually see the aftereffects of his marriage, it can be assumed the memory of the rape Rothana had him relive no longer fills him with as much fear as it once did. It helps him as a king, armed with that knowledge, but is no longer paralyzing.

Kelson has also become more adept at his own abilities, learning different shield configurations, wards and spells from other cultures and neighboring kingdoms, as well as collecting scholarly literature, spells and instruction books for Deryni magic, intending on forming the first school in three hundred years. To this end, he realizes that by trying to hide his own abilities in an effort to not invoke fear in his citizens is actually causing more harm than good and prolonging ignorance. He starts using his powers more outright, and aims to teach, rather than hide. He also resolves his conflict with his mother, relaxing their strained relationship as she realizes they are not damned by their Deryni blood. Knowing his mother doesn't spend all her free time praying for the salvation of his soul and thinking of ways to get his advisers executed helps lighten the load he carries. It's one less thing he has to worry about, and is genuinely happy for her, finally able to have a good relationship with her that doesn't always end in a fight.

Kelson's also grown quite protective of those younger than him. In fostering a young king until he reached age and could safely ascend his throne, Kelson reaches out, well knowing the threat that he himself had once faced. In addition, there have been more children at court and in his immediate family, and he's grown much more comfortable with them as an adult, learning to look at them as children rather than former playmates. He still tries to be a good king and man, he is just able to look at things now from a more experienced angle and is less prone to temper tantrums and self pity.

He's taken back to Hadriel shortly after the birth of his third child.

Note for the curious: Kelson is no longer Overlord of Torenth, Guardian of Gwenarch and Prince of Meara.

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[bloodbathing]

PLAYER NAME: Kas
CHARACTER NAME: Agent Maine
USERNAME: bloodbathing
NEW CANON POINT: season 10, episode 13
CHANGES: Roughly two years have passed since Maine's current canon point. Project Freelancer has ramped up A.I. production, and the Project as a whole has become far more competitive, cutthroat, and ruthless. All but a few of its top Agents have received A.I. "fragments" to help them in combat. These fragments embody specific personality traits that have been 'fragmented' off of a "full" A.I. (Notably, the "full" A.I. was created from the brain of a war criminal.) They are stored on a computer chip (two shown in gif) and implanted in their assigned Agent's head via the Agent's neural interface. Maine's assigned A.I. fragment is Sigma, who is the embodiment of the "full" A.I.'s creativity and ambition.

PHYSICAL: Maine has recovered from his previous injuries, though he is still unable to speak and relies on painkillers. He's become faster and more agile in combat. He appears to no longer fight in tandem with his teammates, instead functioning more like a one-man army. As a side effect of A.I. implantation, he suffers from insomnia and chronic headaches. He has a large tattoo on the back of his head.

INFORMATION: Maine has learned far more about A.I. Most significantly, he's learned about metastability — a theoretical state at which an A.I. can be considered fully human. This is an idea that Sigma has latched onto, and it's the reason that Maine has that new tattoo.

PERSONALITY: I'm breaking this into two sections because of Sigma, but I'll try to be brief!

SIGMA

Sigma embodies the creativity and ambition of a war criminal. He is intelligent, cunning, and manipulative. He's willing to torture; he plants seeds of doubts and resentment in others; he believes that there are no rules on the battlefield. He values his ambition above everything, and he's willing to do whatever it takes to see his goals achieved.

Sigma appears to have some attachment to Maine and regularly speaks in Maine's defense. However, he speaks to Maine himself as if he were a dog, telling Maine "sic 'em" after aiming the Freelancer at enemies. At times, Sigma's actions appear to physically hurt Maine, though it's unclear what the A.I. is doing to Maine's brain. Whatever it is, it causes Maine to grip his head and hunch over in pain, and it's implied to be the cause of Maine's chronic headaches.

Above all else, Sigma wants to achieve metastability. He wants to be human. He firmly believes that the A.I. fragments need to stick together; this, he thinks, is the first step towards metastability.

MAINE

Sigma has heavily influenced Maine. The A.I. is literally a voice in Maine's head. While Agents are capable of pulling their A.I. (taking them offline for a while), it's discouraged by the Project, and only one Agent is shown to do so regularly. Basically, this means that Maine has Sigma's creativity and ambition running through his head more or less 24/7.

Maine was given Sigma not because of his compatibility with the A.I., but because he needed a way to communicate after losing his ability to speak. And it is almost exclusively through Sigma that Maine communicates. Aside from blatantly ignoring an upset teammate, Maine no longer interacts with others: Sigma does. While Sigma speaks for them, Maine looks away, dozes off, or grips his head in apparent pain in the background. His teammates direct all communication to Sigma, and Maine does not attempt to engage. In short: Maine has completely withdrawn from his team, and his only significant interaction appears to be with the voice in his head.

Maine's brutality has given way to a sadistic streak. He taunts his enemies before killing them, taking the time to make sure they feel helpless before they die. He spends time with his teammates (though it's Sigma who interacts), but he shows no interest when the teammate he once took a bullet for is visibly upset. Maine's focus has turned inward towards his personal strength and power rather than outward in support of his team. The Project as a whole has become competitive, cutthroat, and ruthless; Maine is no exception.

NOTE: I have a specific plan for Sigma and don't anticipate playing him for very long. (We're talking like … one thread.) His presence in Maine's mind will be a catalyst for a character plot. If his presence would be an issue, please let me know, and I'll modify my plans accordingly. (The canon update request will be the same either way, as Sigma has massively influenced the changes in Maine's personality.)

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