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canon updates
● ● ● CANON UPDATES
ICly, whoever is in charge of bringing the characters to the station decides that you’ll be a better asset to the team with new memories, hence they return you back to your world to get new experience and then whisk you back to fulfill your contract.
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CANON UPDATE FORM:
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CHARACTER: Takeshi Kovacs
CANON: Altered Carbon
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: season 1, episode 6
NEW CANON POINT: season 1, episode 10 (after the Head in the Clouds satellite crashes into the bay)
CHANGES:
In returning to canon, Kovacs will have a meeting with his sister, Rei, whom he thought to be dead. The relief of the reunion will be short-lived, however, since he'll soon discover that Rei had been masterminding everything that had been happening to him from behind the scenes. He learns that the massacre of the Envoys two hundred and fifty years prior had been a result of her making a deal with the Protectorate, all because she felt spite against Quellcrist for "taking her brother away from her" and that the only reason he had been pulled from the prison ice and awoke after two and a half centuries from sleep was because she had pulled the strings in manipulating Bancroft into killing himself so that he would hire Kovacs to investigate his murder. Furthermore, the torture clinic that had tortured Kovacs and killed him under virtual repeatedly is actually run by Rei, which she had been using for years as a means to extract information from people, as well as torturing prostitutes who would try to undermine the shady business of her high class brothels.
Ultimately, Kovacs tries to talk to Rei to attempt reminding her of the kind sister she once was, only to further discover her spite towards their past and their mother, realizing that her extended years of being alive, poisoned with toxic greed and selfish ambition, had turned her into the very same kind of person he and the Envoys had fought so hard to try to prevent. In order to protect his friends and prevent further innocent deaths by Rei's hand, Kovacs is then forced to kill her, cradling her lifeless body in his arms as the satellite they're in falls from the sky and crashes into the bay.
Prior to this update, in game, Kovacs had been trying to learn and accept the possibility of a means for him to leave a more peaceful-led life after years of only really knowing violence. With only the goal of gathering the orbs, he'd begun to steer towards focusing on a more hopeful future, balancing away the anger of the Patchwork Man inside of him, with a willingness to quiet the ghosts still living inside of him.
However, these "powers that be" find more value in Kovacs' violent nature as well as his hardened perspectives instead of the kind of man he's trying to reinvent himself into being, so this return to his world, in witnessing the truth about his sister, will result in him coping with the betrayal while now having his own sister's blood on his hands. This will be a damper on his pre-update perspectives, forcing him to continue to struggle with the demons inside of him that never really leave him, tormented into believing there's little difference between him and the Patchwork Man that resides within.
As for the timing, this would occur immediately after the Big One mission, with his brief disappearance upon everyone's return before showing up again newly updated soon after.
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