canon updates

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● ● ● 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.

Please note that new canon needs to be at least a month old in order to canon update to it.

To opt for a canon update, simply fill out the form below and wait for mod approval.

CANON UPDATE FORM:
<b>PLAYER</b>: <b>CHARACTER</b>: <b>CANON</b>: <b>PREVIOUS CANON POINT</b>: <b>NEW CANON POINT</b>: <b>CHANGES</b>:

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PLAYER: Grimm
CHARACTER: Mal Oretsev
CANON: Grishaverse
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: S1E8 — Storming on to the skiff in the middle of the Shadow Fold.
NEW CANON POINT: S2E8 — Months after the Shadow Fold is destroyed, Mal sails the high seas as Sturmhond, a privateer chartered by the Ravkan crown.

CHANGES:

In returning to canon, Mal dives into the start of a journey to truly save Ravka from the Shadow Fold. He enters a relationship with Alina as they search for one of the other two Morozova-made amplifiers, the Sea Whip or the Firebird. Alina believes one more amplifier will be enough to take down the Fold. Mal is supportive of Alina’s mission to save Ravka, agreeing to post-pone their plan of traveling the world and building a life together.

On their quest Mal and Alina meet Sturmhond, a privateer who agrees to help them find the Sea Whip. Mal is able to find the Sea Whip, but the second amplifier isn’t enough to take down the Fold. They realize they'll need the Firebird. Mal, Alina, and Sturmhond's crew arrive back in Ravka, where they learn Sturmhond is Prince Nikolai Lantsov. Nikolai is hoping an alliance with the Sun Summoner will bring peace to their nation after they defeat the Darkling and his army. Mal realizes he has little to offer her compared to Prince Nikolai and that Alina's fate is intertwined with Ravka's; that is her focus. He makes an effort to steps aside so that she can bring hard-earned peace to Ravka after he finds her the final amplifier.

With the help of the Darkling's Mother, Baghra, Mal uncovers that the Firebird is a blood line and not an actual creature. Mal is a descendant of that bloodline and the last of Morozova's amplifier. Mal realizes he was destined for Alina and the role he has to play to help her. He accepts his fate and rushes toward it, not truly processing it but feeling it's better to get it over with now that they have all three amplifiers. During the battle in the Fold, Mal’s fatally injured. Mal tells Alina she has to kill him and she drives a dagger into his heart. While Mal does die, he's resurrected. Unbeknownst to him, Alina used Merzost to bring him back.

Having served his purpose to the Sun Summoner, Mal loses his power to feel other amplifiers and Cardinal North. Instead of remaining in Ravka to serve as a bodyguard to Alina and Nikolai, Mal chooses to accept Nikolai's offer to become a privateer.

Upon his return to the Ximilia, Mal’s left to reconcile what to do once he's served his purpose. Both in Ravka and, previously, on the station, he's been driven by helping Alina; he always took her side and rushed to help.

At his new canon point, Mal is shedding the intertwined co-dependancy with Alina that was built through season one and two. He's lost the powers that link him to Alina; he is no longer an amplifier and he cannot hear the frequency he used to find her. While they still love each other, Mal leaves Alina behind in Ravka so that they can experience life without each other and can choose to be together if their paths cross again without Fate intervening. Aside from this, in serving his purpose, he's learned that there is no changing Fate and the ideal outcome isn't always possible. In season one, he'd faced challenges but things worked out in the end in his favor. While things don't always go great for Ximilia's crew, he's been able to distance himself to a degree because his focus was getting the Orbs to undo his regret and to help Alina.

In terms of teamwork and missions, now Mal's learned look at the bigger picture, not the parts that matter most to him personally (he tells Alina that she is his nation, not Ravka. He's helping her.) He realizes that everyone has a part to play and saving every last person isn't always possible. He's become more level-headed on what's possible and able to be more objective, not as quick to jump into an argument on morals. The "we have to do it no matter what" attitude is gone; he's intimately aware of the potential personal costs. He also hasn't really processed his own death, how it happened and its affect on him despite having accepted that it was coming at the time. Mal was brought back and charged forward, focusing on finding new purpose and meaning.

Skill-wise, though Mal's bones can no longer be used as amplifiers and he cannot sense Cardinal North, he can still track using learned skills; such as reading the position of the Sun and stars to find his way, knowing patterns of animal's and people's behavior after watching them. In addition, he's learned to fight with a sword and to how to sail or fly a ship. He will be returning to the station with a golden compass and a functional pistol made by Nikolai instead of his (hardly reliable) Ravkan army rifle.

As for the timing, this would occur after the A Matter of Import mission. Not immediately upon return due to a glitch but after the team has settle in & dealt with whatever is different about the return.

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[ximilian]

Your canon update has been approved! Feel free to proceed with it at any point in June, after the team have arrived at the station, or after June's mission has concluded.