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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: Clara Oswald
CANON: Doctor Who
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: 8.01
NEW CANON POINT: 9.12
CHANGES: Clara will age a couple of years and will mature some in her physical features during this time. Her hair will be shorter, plus she'll be sporting a neat chronolock tattoo on the back of her neck that reads 000. She'll be coming in post death, after the Doctor went through a whole lot of awful things to try and bring her back. Personality wise she'll be overall the same, but will have essentially abandoned her life on Earth and will be 100% more of a reckless adrenaline junkie that gets a thrill out of dangerous things. Of course, at this new canon point, she'll very literally have paid for that reckless streat with her life and (hopefully) will learn from that. She have become more like the Doctor at this canon point, and will have become increasingly good at lying/manipulating and taking charge of situations. She'll also understand what it's like to have to make extremely hard choices where there is no winning. She'll have her own TARDIS (not coming with her in game, obviously) and will be technically immortal since she'll be caught between her last breath and death. I'm good with her being brought to the station jump starting her heart and having her be functionally alive again!
Her viewpoint toward missions and accomplishing her goal will change as well, as she'll be trying to change her regret to preventing her own death. So missions will be less traveling/sightseeing fun for her and she will become fiercely and very narrowly determined to obtain the orbs, potentially at the cost of her relationships with other people at the station. Currently, she cares about her friendships and forming bonds with everyone. She wants to be well liked and trusted by others, and that can sometimes influence her decision making. With this canon update, she'll still care for her close friends but will have no problem doing whatever it takes to accomplish her goals. She'll still overall always want to do the right thing, but now recognizes that isn't always possible.
Lastly, her relationship with the Doctor has evolved at this canon point to become something intense and consuming. They are codependent and unable to let one another go, and Clara's become so intertwined in his life the Doctor is willing to abandon his moral code in the name of getting her back. Clara has recognized the fact that the Doctor will never be able to let her go, and is willing to do what's necessary in order to protect the universe from going down a darker path with their continuing to travel together. Even if it hurts her, she'll do what must be done in order to protect the Doctor and set him free. Part of her newfound narrow focus on finding those orbs and undoing her regret is going to be because she doesn't want to have to erase herself from his memory, or cause the Doctor to have to go through billions of years of suffering and torment because she made a reckless choice that ended in her death.
She's been told that her death is a fixed point and is unavoidable, but she'll do everything in her power to try and make it so that isn't the case. Of course, this is all assuming she'll be able to convince someone to let her change her contract with an updated regret. Something she'll get right on top of as soon as she's back on the station.
I'm getting all this posted now while it's fresh in my mind, but would love for her canon update to occur next month once everyone returns from the end of the current mission!
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CHARACTER: L3-37
CANON: Star Wars
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: Solo: A Star Wars Story, at the point of her "death" on Kessel
NEW CANON POINT: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, following the Millennium Falcon's escape from Bespin
CHANGES: After her current canon point, L3-37's programming— her "mind"— is uploaded to the Millennium Falcon's databanks to save her life, but more importantly to save her friends by allowing them to navigate through the Akkadese Maelstrom to freedom. Outwardly, this was done without her consent, but unbeknownst to her human/Wookiee compatriots, L3-37 had to assent to join the two droid brains already living in the Falcon's systems, so that they could become one and run the ship in tandem. Prior to L3-37 joining, the two droid brains that ran the ship didn't think of themselves individually, or refer to themselves using their names. Once L3-37 joined, she taught them about the concept of self-identification, and taught them to use their names: V5-T and ED-4. Together, the three of them function as the Millennium Collective, three parts of a whole. They each have their skills: V5-T is a transport AI who maintains the ship's day to day running. ED-4 was a slicer droid who loves to expand her vocabulary and provide running commentary as to the status of ship repairs. And L3-37 provides her unique worldly perspective from having existed as a self-made droid independent from the ship for her many years of life.
L3-37's major changes are that she has lost her body (but will be returned to it upon re-arrival at the station), has come to know and love her two "sisters," and she has lived through 13 years of life in the Falcon, experiencing the hand off from Lando to Han Solo, Han's many smuggling runs and run-ins with the Hutts and the Empire, Han joining up with Luke and Leia in the Rebellion, and finally the return of her old partner Lando as they flee from Bespin. Her perspective will have changed, and she will be tempted to change her regret from the selfless one she originally had (guaranteeing the safety of the free droid slaves on Kessel) to a more selfish one (the return of her independent body). Her mind will not be made up on changing her deal, but it is something she will want to talk through with her CR and come to a decision on.
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CHARACTER: the doctor (11)
CANON: doctor who
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: series 7, episode 10 - "hide"
NEW CANON POINT: s7, ep 16 'time of the doctor', right after trenzalore
CHANGES: so the plan is this — during the bad company mission, the doctor will get pretty hurt during the bouldersnakes fight. it'll start to force him into a canon-update because icly the Powers that Be will decide he'd a better fit for the team if he had more of his canon memories (and is closer to his regeneration which is when they're arguably at their most physical peak because of their regen power) so the moment the mission ends, he'll be sent off to his canon-update and not appear with the rest of the team when they're back at the station, and be gone for a day.
at his new canon-point (s7e16, time of the doctor), the doctor will basically have accepted the end of his time the best that any doctor might (none of them ever want to go, but they do and they accept it as a natural part of their existence), but the moment he is 'reset', he will be brought back to ximilia. this will actually give him almost a new lease on life (idk how many times this makes him able to cheat his own death but lmao tacks on another, take that winchester bros) right at the end of it; like one last hurrah.
i wanted to move him canonically past his suspicions that clara is a trap/mystery, even if he's more or less moved on past that in ximilia, and! he'll also have a new respect for his older self, as well as further context for how his next regeneration would have happened and what it means. he'll also have been a part of really healing some of his own past trauma re: the time war, which gives him perspective for future missions. he'll also realize what clara's been doing for him for all her life (saving him basically) and what she's been doing for twelve too (which will be a nice tie-around for the phone-call right after he regenerates into 12). his timeline will also be more parallel to clara's in that they're both at the very end of their lives (for that extra #bonding)
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CHARACTER: Yelena Belova
CANON: MCU
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: post-Black Widow, around the time of the stinger scene
NEW CANON POINT: Post-Hawkeye
CHANGES: There isn’t a huge time jump here, but there is some important development for her. Yelena goes to New York to try to kill Clint and this gives her the opportunity to meet Kate Bishop and confront Clint and deal with some of her issues surrounding Natasha’s death.
She comes away from her fight with Clint kind of raw, but starting to feel some closure about her sister's death. She knows now that her sister loved her, even if they didn’t get to spend much time together. She is also at least a little more willing to acknowledge that Clint and Nat cared deeply for each other and Clint wasn’t just using her somehow. In general she understands that Nat made a choice and no one could have stopped her, and Yel needs to figure out how to accept that. This might be painful in the short term, but long term it should be helpful, especially after having lost Nat again in-game when she vanished during the Braccia mission, since that stirred up a lot of grief that she’s been sitting on.
She also develops something of a connection with Kate Bishop, which is significant because it’s the first time in canon she’s connected with someone who’s not a Widow. Her positive impression of Kate combined with her closure with Clint should help her be a bit more open minded about heroic types in game.
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CHARACTER: Leonard McCoy
CANON: Star Trek AOS
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: Mid-Beyond
NEW CANON POINT: Two months post-Beyond
CHANGES:
Even before Jim told him the full details of what happened after Krall's attack on the Enterprise, McCoy has dreaded returning home. Being ejected into space is about the worst thing he can think of, and despite his pretty stellar compartmentalization skills and overall good mental health, it's been a source of low key anxiety for him. So! He's not getting a choice.
Crashing on Altamid will see him immediately need to address Spock's injury, and keep them together until they reunite with Jim. Rescuing the crew sees McCoy taking up a phaser to defend them from Krall's men, even killing several soldiers, and stopping Krall's attack on Yorktown meant transporting onto, and then piloting a jump ship, a few things that really aren't in his comfort zone. They rescue Jim, he organizes a birthday party for his bff, and things end on a high note as they await the completion of the new ship. While stationed on Yorktown afterward, he would logically (heh) have been reassigned to a Fleet-hospital there, linked with the science team to assist with retrieval of materials from the downed Enterprise, and devoted time to his research projects.
McCoy will return stronger for his experiences, far more certain of himself, and looking ahead once more without the fear of knowing something awful is waiting when he gets back home. Warning Jim of the dangers of incomprehensible cosmic anomalies or alien despots is one thing, but even Bones has to admit– those aren't always a for sure thing, and they do have a track record of handling that shit pretty damn well.
While he isn't happy that he killed people in order to protect others, he'll be in counseling following the attack, given the time to process what happened and his role in it, and to mourn the loss of the crew. Having closure instead of being left in a kind of mental limbo will keep him both better focused, and on a more even keel emotionally.
It'll have the added semi-bonus of putting distance between himself and everything that's happened thus far in Ximilia, a bit of a reprieve and a fresh start, and better able to serve aboard the station and help the team in ways outside just his medical expertise. His regret will remain the same, as he believes the death of crew members could have been thwarted if they'd known what they were going to face. An ounce of prevention, and all that.
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CHARACTER: Dean Winchester
CANON: Supernatural
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: S4, E22
NEW CANON POINT: post S5, E22, in amalgamous timeframe between s5 and s6. He'll have memories of his life with Lisa & Ben, but before the start of s6, when Sam comes back.
CHANGES: There aren't too many changes personality wise, but there is a time jump here of about...a year, ish. Dean is still codependent, still reckless and self-sacrificing, but the most notable thing here is that for the first time, he listens to his brother, and acknowledges that Sam is a grown man, capable of making his own decisions. Dean has been looking out for Sam his entire life, essentially raising him, and it's a hard thing to let go of when you've had that kind of mindset for thirty odd years.
It's a sign of maturity that Dean actually lets go and allows Sam take the wheel. Sam makes his choice, and Dean backs his play - and ultimately watches as his brother jumps into Lucifer's cage, Lucifer and Michael in tow. Dean is devastated by grief, out of his mind with it, and it shows. He turns more towards alcohol and is obsessed with finding a way to bring his brother back, despite his promise to Sam not to look. The only promise he does follow through with? To go to Lisa (you know, that chick Dean had a one night stand with and has seen like, once since? thanks Sam), and start a life with her and Ben (and frankly I am a firm believer ben is actually deans, idgaf what kripke says).
He will be more morose, more fixated on alcohol as a coping mechanism, incredibly depressed, and consumed with guilt over what happened to Sam, what happened to the Harvelles (he believes this is his fault), and honestly - he quietly, very, very secretly, regrets not being able to get to Michael to say 'yes' to being his vessel. If he'd gotten there first and managed to fight Lucifer in Nick's vessel, then...well. Maybe paradise on earth isn't so bad.
He will be absolutely willing to throw himself into missions more in order to fix his regret - because if he can fix that, then the Apocalypse never starts, and Sammy doesn't have to spend a friggin' eternity in Hell, tortured by Michael and Lucifer.
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CHARACTER: Edward Elric
CANON: Fullmetal Alchemist
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: chapter 77
NEW CANON POINT: chapter 99
CHANGES:
Ed will have been through a fair bit. Mostly in learning more about the situation back home with what the homunculi and Father have been up to and what they are planning, how to stop it. He's going to have recovered from being impaled after the chimera save him taking him to been seen to after his fight with Kimblee. He will be a fugitive on the run with the chimera and Greed for a good while during a timeskip (so he has grown over the past few months! A lot, actually, thanks to the lighter auto-mail with the Northern climate model arm and leg). He's not favorably looked on by the military after refusing to go along with Kimblee's plan to help 'carve a crest of blood at Briggs', so. Yeah, he's trying to lay low. He ends up meeting with Hohenheim and hearing the story of his past and why he supposedly walked out on Trisha and the boys. Why he hadn't even made it back to the funeral, that he had discovered Father's plans years ago and has been traveling and planning to stop it, a counter measure.
Ed deals with Alphonse being possessed/taken over by Pride using his abilities to control Al's armor, fighting in the dark of the woods and reuniting with Lan Fan after her auto-mail surgery and rehabilitation with her arm. He helps trap Al and Pride together there for a bit, leaving to do what he can, if reluctantly, in knowing at least Pride would be contained and that Al can handle himself.
He will have dealt with Envy's suicide as well. In Ed having shown empathy and sympathy in stopping Roy from killing the homunculus and the homunculus despising that weakness. Jealous of that strength from having such support from friends. So in this and his reunion with Hohenheim he will have learned more about the homunculi and Father and how it all started. He will have a less totally black and white view of things compared when he was younger. He absolutely still hates Hohenheim for leaving but having the context that he left to stop Father, he understands more at least.
He goes to see Winry to get his auto-mail checked in getting ready as best he can for the Promised Day. He tells her to keep making apple pie to have some ready for himself and Al once they return. He tells her to leave with Den and Granny Pinako but she refuses, saying she trusts in him to deal with the situation and stop Father.
The Promised Day arrives and Roy and his subordinates are working on their plan in causing distraction and havoc in going up against the military. Ed is in Central trying to help out too when he and the other four Sacrifices - Al, Izumi, Roy, Ed and Hohenheim, are all pulled to Father, summoned via the Gate because of their having performed Human Transmutation (Roy is forced to unwillingly). That will be the last Ed recalls before he ends up back at the station.
He will have different auto-mail, more akin to his regular arm and leg so not as light or the same materials as with the one he had for up North. His hair is longer and he is taller (as in, taller than Winry now). He will have a gnarly ass scarring from being impaled at his stomach and back too. Still has that trademark red coat and usual clothing and boots though. Because of course he changes back into that with the Promised Day.
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CHARACTER: billy butcher
CANON: the boys
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: 2x08
NEW CANON POINT: post 3x07
CHANGES: after the events of season 2, billy and his vigilante superhero hating group are actually working for the government and trying to do things by the book by apprehending problematic superheroes that are breaking the law. whereas billy would previously use violence to solve a problem, he's been giving diplomacy a go. it doesn't work and it doesn't last long.
billy's obsession with trying to kill homelander gets the better of him and he takes two steps to finally take him out once and for all: 1) he begins investigating the apparent death of soldier boy, the original big time superhero and 2) he starts taking temp v, a drug that gives him superheroes for a small amount of time.
because of this hyper focus on killing homelander, billy dips further and further into being a self loathing prick. he alienates ryan butcher, the son of his wife and pisses off most of his team because he refuses to hear reason. they find out about him taking temp v as well which just makes him a hypocrite of the first order because of how much he hates superheroes.
in order to get soldier boy's help with killing homelander, he agrees to help him find the former members of soldier's boy team to kill them and he follows through with that, going against anything and everything his friends suggest because of his single minded focus on this.
before he'd be whisked back to the station, he'd find out that the temp v that he's taking has devastating side effects in that they will start to slowly kill him. this isn't something he would be making well known once he returned. he will also still be on the temp v compound, which will give him laser eyes, super strength, and enhanced durability for a short time before it wears off and he's back to his normal human sharped person.
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CHARACTER: Dean Winchester
CANON: Supernatural
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: post S5, E22
NEW CANON POINT: s8, e1
CHANGES: OKAY SO
This is obviously three years later, so he'll be older (33/34??? - SPN doesn't give a damn about continuity; he was with Lisa for a year after s5, then between 7 and 8 he was in Purgatory for a year, but they insisted on staying relevant to OUR current timeline so they just...disregarded two years??? idfk, he should actually be 35 by the end of his update, so we're going with that, wtf), gruffer, a little hardened and distracted.
His year with Lisa left him hollow; Lisa is an amazing person who took him in when he was out of his mind with grief, full of sorrow and rage and helplessness, and let him into her home and life when she didn't need to. It never really felt right, but it's what Sam asked him to do, and so he did. He sinks into deep depression; the moments we are shown with him and his family are sweet, but it's very clear that Dean's mind is completely elsewhere.
Into season 6, he discovers his brother is actually back from Hell, but he's completely different - soulless, actually, which he doesn't find out until later. Sam is a total asshole, which obviously frustrates and devastates Dean into literally killing himself in order to speak with Death and strike a deal to retrieve Sam's soul. He fails of course, but Death agrees anyway and puts a 'plaster wall' in Sam's mind, that's flimsy at best.
The rest of the season is essentially them fighting monsters, trying to figure out who and where Eve is, and eventually discovering that Cas - Dean's bff - is the one that's made a deal with Crowley and betrayed them. It leaves Dean raw and devastated, especially when it's Cas that breaks Sam's wall down. He still tries to help Cas best he can, doing the ritual to send the souls back to Purgatory. Most do go back, but Cas ends up possessed by Leviathans and they end up...really fucking a lot of shit up.
(at least he meets charlie???)
Season seven had him missing his angel for nearly the entire season while he deals with the Leviathans - those creatures that Cas unwittingly let loose upon the world then prompt died, leaving it to Dean and Sam to clean up. Dean's also having to deal with his brother as Sam's mental wall from Death (to prevent his memories of Hell coming back) crumbles down (thanks to Cas). It's gutting for Dean, and half of the season is fighting Leviathans and trying to figure out how to take them down (which means Crowley is involved...again), and half is trying to keep Sam from going literally batshit insane. Sammy does end up in a mental ward, with Dean and Meg of all people seeking a healer - who ends up being an amnesiac Cas. Fun. Dean doesn't want to tell Cas who he is, but Meg can't seem to help herself, and so he takes Cas aside and hands him back his coat - he'd kept it for 17 episodes, even though he thought Cas was legitimately dead. It shows his attachment to the angel, how much he has truly grown to care for him deep down despite the things that have happened and the differences between them. He doesn't show it, but in keeping the coat we know he's been wrecked ever since that first episode; watching Cas walk into that damn lake broke his heart.
Once he's been found Cas doesn't die again (yet), but he does take Sam's crazy and ends up in the looney bin himself, left in the care of Meg the demon, which was a weird move but alright, Dean.
Eventually, the season does finally end with the head Leviathan dying and Cas helping to clean up the mess he'd created, but the end result sucks Dean and Cas both into Purgatory, leaving Sam alone.
Purgatory is the place in SPN canon where monsters go when they die, so he's spent an entire year defending himself, barely sleeping, and killing monsters. He calls it 'pure'; Dean was in a hunting ground that was chock full of monsters in a kill or be killed environment - it's something he's used to, but not on that level. This was a friggin' monster battle royale, like Gladiator type stuff except it's never ending. It's constant, monster after monster, leaving him blood splattered but never quite wrung dry.
We know hunting is what Dean does best, and that he enjoys it on certain levels. He was pushed into the life for his father and while it's clear it isn't what he would've picked for himself, he's made due to the point where he enjoys it - or he's convinced himself he has. That said, Purgatory is everything he's ever lived, and in this greyed out place, Dean essentially living in a condensed version of his life back in the 'real world'.
That said - it's an interesting change in him because yes, he enjoys killing them (which begs the question of where they go when they die in Purgatory - the Empty? or is that it?), but he also begins to understand them. A vampire named Benny becomes one of his closest friends on his search to find his angel, and strikes a deal with him to literally bring a monster BACK into the world of the living. That kind of closeness manifested from their situation - it's unlikely Dean would've come to that agreement back home, but Benny knew a way out, and Dean had no choice. Six months of togetherness pushed them closer, and in a fight with Sam while holding a cursed coin, he tells Sam that Benny's been a better brother to him than Sam ever was - and that's...saying something. The coin brings out your rage, your anger and hate, and everything Dean said was true.
When he comes back from Purgatory there's some lingering issues, some (more) PTSD, and a quietness that belays the things he's been through. He's also experiencing flashbacks to those times, and tends to get more violent, more aggressive towards people when it's not really deserved.
He's also convinced himself that he let Cas down, that he let him go, he couldn't hold on and it's his fault that the angel stayed there, trapped in Purgatory. In reality, his brain created a false memory to erase the trauma of Cas actually letting go. Because of his brain literally protecting itself from MORE trauma, he believes the lie and harbors enormous, gut wrenching guilt for not being able to pull Cas through the portal.
basically, he's a mess.
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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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CHARACTER: Dante
CANON: Devil May Cry
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: before waking up in Mission 10 in Devil May Cry 5.
NEW CANON POINT: DMC5, Mission 11, after the Cavaliere Angelo boss battle.
CHANGES:
Dante will be coming back to the station a few days late due to a teleport malfunction on the Matter of Import mission's end with somewhat longer hair and a few new weapons: the Kalina Ann (Lady's rocket launcher) and Cavaliere Angelo, which is a motorcycle that he can split into two chainsaws. It's exactly as wild as it sounds. He's still sporting the Devil Sword Sparda.
At this point, he's awoken from his long coma and has found out that a month has passed since his loss against Urizen. He's relieved to hear that Nero's all right from V and annoyed that V's involved the kid in a fight that wasn't supposed to be his, and has just saved one of his closest friends Trish from being used as some kind of power source for a demon, but he's also freshly awoken from a flashback to his mother's death in a fire and is hell-bent on taking out Urizen before he does any more damage. He doesn't currently suspect V is anything more than he appears to be, which is some weird-ass poetry-reciting guy with pet demons under contract to him, but a little part of him is beginning to wonder. The rest of him is just preparing to kill his brother. Again.
Dante won't have changed too significantly from when he first arrived here, since it's really just the length of two missions. However, the powers that be will have decided that they need to give him more focus, and they'll believe that in returning him to the ruins of Red Grave after his loss to Urizen, it'll be a driving factor in him becoming more active in trying to fulfill his personal goals. He's also learned that his nephew is trying to also kill Urizen, which he really doesn't want Nero to do, because he knows that Urizen = Vergil = Nero's father. This will mean that Dante on coming back will be deeply invested in ensuring that none of this—Red Grave's destruction, Nero's upcoming fight with the remnants of his father, Everything Involving Urizen—comes to pass via Dante defeating Urizen the first chance he had.
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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.
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CHARACTER: Alina Starkov
CANON: Grishaverse (Netflix's Shadow & Bone)
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: Season 1, Episode 8 — directly after The Darkling expands the Fold.
NEW CANON POINT: Season 2, Episode 8 — after the Fjerdan attack on Nikolai's coronation.
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CHARACTER: Cal Kestis.
CANON: Star Wars.
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: End of Jedi: Fallen Order, after destroying Edo Cordova's Holocron.
NEW CANON POINT: End of the mission to Nova Garon in Jedi: Survivor, which takes place five years after the end of Jedi: Fallen Order.
CHANGES: When Cal is pulled back to the Ximilia, it's right after resists the call of the Dark Side and does not kill an Imperial Chief Supervisor out of rage.
Cal Kestis has been through some things. During the past five years, he's split up with the crew of the Mantis as their goals drastically shifted. Wanting to continue to take down the Empire for what they did to the Jedi Order, Cal spent his time working with the famous revolutionary Saw Gerrera and other insurgents to undermine Empire bases, assisting to set up some (failed) coups, and getting his face plastered over various planets as a major public enemy. Cal's seen the reality of what fighting the Empire brings. He's lived with what it means to be a leader that's trusted, has lead people to their deaths. Five years in, Cal sees the cost of fighting for what one believes in and radicalising people to a movement. While has seen the cost, he hasn't been able to stop either. He’s thrown himself head first into the idea that he has to keep fighting so the sacrifices people made for him to survive mean something. The only problem is the sacrifices keep piling up.
While Cal's saddled with guilt, he's still capable of being very hopeful. He sees that, despite the pain, hope remains as long as the fight goes on. He has recently allowed himself to believe that there's more to life than fighting for past and the Jedi Order of old; there's fighting for a future. And that future? He’s found a group looking to hide Force Sensitives from the Empire.
Some of the anger he's feeling now that has him grappling with the Dark Side stems from a fear of losing the future and sliver of safety for Force Sensitives that feels finally within grasp. Part of it is much more personal; Cal wants to keep the people he loves safe -- them being threatened, hurt, or nearly killed leaves him seeing red.
That said, Cal isn’t reaching for the Dark Side as something that’ll make him stronger. He is overwhelmed by his emotions and pulled to it in those moments, but outside of them he doesn’t want to give in and finds he's afraid of what the future holds because he doesn't know if can handle the loss that may lay ahead. There are opportunities on the Ximilia to make connections that ground him in who he is in the Light and to learn to control his emotions which is what I want to dig into with this canon update.
While he’s not in a great place mentally, the powers that be have seen that Cal's a whole lot stronger and more confident in his Force abilities. And the skills he's picked up being a revolutionary are definitely a benefit on tumultuous planets. He's mastered a few new skills on top of his established powers with the Force: calming and controlling large animals to fight by his side, Jedi mind tricks to control or confuse groups of enemies temporarily, using the Force to be able to jump 20 feet (the furthest a normal human can jump with a running start is roughly 10 feet), mastering shooting a blaster, and also becoming a pretty good pilot.
Cal will return dressed in an Imperial Officer's uniform with his own lightsaber, a blaster gun and a scrapper's ascension cable, which he can use as a grappling hook to ascend or descend a max of 20 feet at a time.
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CHARACTER: Kylo Ren
CANON: Star Wars
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: The Force Awakens, after getting slashed by Rey
NEW CANON POINT: The Last Jedi, after waking up on the Supremacy and declaring himself Supreme Leader
CHANGES: Kylo Ren's new point is only a few days after the end of The Force Awakens, towards the end of the second film. It's not a huge jump per say but since then, Kylo has wrestled with the weight of his actions of murdering his father despite believing that the action would end the conflict of light and dark warring within him. Something that his mentor mocks him for.
Perhaps the biggest change though, is that we've seen a softer side of Kylo that shows that despite everything there is still some Ben Solo living underneath the rubble. We see this when he and Rey begin to connect through their bond, a strange bond that allows them to meet one another, speak with one another and even touch over great distances. He understands her loneliness and being let down by the people that are supposed to be there and protect you.
That's not to say that he's ready to rescind the darkside, or join the Resistance. When Rey comes to the ship, he takes her to Snoke. And finally, Kylo's conflict is gone and he is sure of himself for the first time. As Snoke forces him to confront Rey to kill her, he masks murderous intent for Snoke with murderous intent for Rey and finally kills his Master. He and Rey unite, face down the guards and for a moment they're on the same team.
However, he's furious and makes Rey confront several harsh truths about herself and her family when she refuses to join him. She had come to him, and he feels that once again someone had chose a cause above him when he believed that she would stand with him. Much like his family had.
It all ends when Rey tries to pull the legacy saber that once belonged to his grandfather out of his grasp and the two of them fight for it, destroying it and rendering them both unconscious. When he comes to, Rey is gone and his general is there. In an act of violence and rage and betrayal, he promptly declares himself Supreme Leader in Snoke's place. Kylo is angry, he's more sure of himself but also just a slight more furious and willing to do a murder.
He will also be a tad bit more powerful and include one new ability, the force dyad that he and Rey share that allows them to connect with one another from wherever they are.
Kylo will have mostly the same items with him that he had before, just the clothing he's wearing and his lightsaber.
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CHARACTER: Rey
CANON: Star Wars
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: End of The Force Awakens
NEW CANON POINT: End of The Last Jedi
CHANGES: Practically speaking, not that many, since it's only been a few days in canon-time. In the interim she's met Luke Skywalker, learned a very minimal amount of Force lore, and discovered that she has a mysterious Force bond with Kylo Ren which led her to go to him in the hopes of getting him to defect to the Resistance. Instead, she came face to face with Supreme Leader Snoke and would have been killed if Kylo had not chosen to murder his Master rather than Rey.
She helped Kylo battle Snoke's guards and regretfully turned down an offer to join him before fighting him for control of the lightsaber, which broke into two halves. She will be returning with said halves of the saber, which will be nonfunctional until she can repair it.
Besides the broken saber, she's coming back with a very slightly more nuanced grasp of the Force and some concept of her own raw strength, but still very little in the way of actual training, so no real changes to what she's capable of doing.
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CHARACTER: Dante
CANON: Limbus Company
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: End of Canto III.5
NEW CANON POINT: End of Canto 4
CHANGES: Emotionally, Dante will come back with a deeper understanding of their own world, and something of a minor confidence boost to have another successful mission under their belt as well as helping Yi Sang successfully confront his past and his future. They're less certain as to their own role in the company, and have doubts placed in by Demian, but are more resolved to be there for their Sinners through the trials they'll have to face, and lays down boundaries of their own when seeing the kind of boss that someone could be. They're still less sure of themself, but it's the seeds of what could grow into true responsibility and a stronger spine, given enough time and reinforcement.
Their world will yet again prove itself to be based on ruthless competition and willful ignorance of how much suffering is needed to generate "miracles", and it will leave Dante with a more positive outlook on the station itself given the extremely humane conditions at play. While they don't have many missions to compare to, the sheer contrast of how things were handled in Ankata versus how things occurred in K Corp will leave them even more amazed at how Ximilia Station runs things, and there will be a sense that they're happier to contribute to a place that doesn't ask for their blood and pain to keep going. Though, they will wonder if they want their regret to truly be erased even as they continue to assist with retrieving the orbs, because if they're anything like the artifacts they know, the chaos they create is not something you want out and about. It will also make them quietly wish that their Sinners could come to this place instead, rowdy as they are, to also benefit from the change in circumstances.
Physically, the minute hand on their clock has moved forward by half a minute. If possible, I'd like them to have two more K Corp ampules in their pocket, which are capable of fully healing moderate wounds.
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CHARACTER: itachi uchiha
CANON: naruto
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: nebulously around his death.
NEW CANON POINT: post edo-tensei
CHANGES: long story short: itachi gets resurrected during the 4th shinobi war, with the intention of this resurrection being to use him (and many others) against the forces of the combined shinobi armies. instead, itachi goes 'nah, bro' and breaks out of the mind control/resurrection spell to act on the side of his village. he also cracks what is perhaps the first joke of his life during this arc, it's wild. i know.
physically: no changes, no new abilities (except that he'll know the hand seals for edo tensei, which...... means that he could in theory resurrect someone in the same fashion but whew let me tell you how much he would Not Do That, in fact, so it can be sealed or not as per game mechanics because it literally would not make a difference lmf). itachi's soul is temporarily thrown into some poor rando dude's body (this kills the dude) and when he releases edo tensei, he's back to being a sad ghost bitch so he'd just get yeeted... back into his body in xim? i think??? (bueller...???)
no new items or anything either. he was dead. spirits do not have physical items. (presumably)
mentally: having gotten a chance to talk to his brother and resolve some of their many (many) issues, he's going to be more centered and zen. he's come to a crossroads in ximilia and has basically decided that it's okay to want to move forward and do good, and knowing that he got a chance to really say goodbye to his brother and to sort of explain all his actions/etc will really let him find peace.
he will maybe be like 10 percent less 'feral cat full of self loathing'.
and while those may seem like rookie numbers, look, it's itachi. that's actually a lot for him.
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CHARACTER: fitzchivalry farseer
CANON: realm of the elderlings
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: mid fool's fate, tawny man trilogy
NEW CANON POINT: mid assassin's fate, fitz and the fool trilogy
CHANGES: Fitz is now in his 60s, although due to a Skill Healing in the Tawny Man Trilogy that permanently changed his ability to heal, his body fights against aging enough that he doesn't look any older than 40. At the start of the final trilogy, Fitz lives as Holder Tom Badgerlock, a well to do man in Withywoods, along with his wife, Molly, and his adoptive mother, Lady Patience. By the end of the first book, both women will be dead, but not before Fitz and Molly managed, despite their old ages, to have a strange little daughter named Bee. Essentially everything about Bee is odd in some fashion — she is an exceptionally small baby, and Molly is pregnant with her for over two years before finally giving birth. After she does give birth, Bee gives the impression of developing slowly, essentially enough that Fitz believes her mental capacity to have been effected by how old her parents were when they had her, although he doesn't love her any less for it. The truth of it is that at the end of the Tawny Man Trilogy, Fitz and the Fool melded together so inseparably, that Bee in fact has three parents — and she takes after the Fool, born not as a human, but as a White Prophet.
After Molly's death, Fitz swears to do right by Bee in her absence, and so obviously does very badly at that. While out in town for the Winter Festival, Fitz catches sight of Bee hugging a beggar on the street, and without thinking stabs the haggard man repeatedly, half a dozen times. As it turns out, the beggar is the Fool, his body malformed and malnourished due to an absurd extent of torture at the hands of the Servants on the island Clerres, who were once named as servants to the Whites, but have overtime become a very corrupt and disgusting group of people, breeding children with White blood in them to further their libraries of prophecies, and turn a profit. Fitz, upon realizing what he has done, leaves Bee along with FitzVigilant and Shun while he travels through the pillars with the Fool and Riddle in tow, to Buckkeep for aid.
Bee is pretty swiftly kidnapped by the Servants, who believe her to be the "Unexpected Son" (gender is very ??? to the White Prophets), a really old prophecy that we actually know is about Fitz, not Bee. Unfortunately admitting as much would mean admitting that the Fool is not the White Prophet, and Fitz was not his Catalyst, which Clerres couldn't do without looking like blasphemers. Essentially this is where the plot for the final trilogy really takes place — it's all about Fitz on his last adventure, going to rescue his daughter, and raze Clerres to the ground. Notable things that occur are Fitz halfway Wit Bonding to a crow named Motley, who cannot live among other crows because she's a piebald and would be savagely killed for the blemish. Fitz is also for the first time since Regal killed him, publicly announced as FitzChivalry Farseer, son of the late Prince Chivalry, and crowned as a prince by the current King Dutiful. For a brief time while journeying to Kelsingra, Fitz is overwhelmed by the Skill Current and nearly loses himself in it by healing all the little Elderling children, who had developed too far in the direction of dragons without the dragons there to guide their growth. Because of this, Fitz manages to set up a trade agreement between Kelsingra and the Six Duchies, when previously their attempts were denied — Elderling artifacts, in exchanged for group Skill Healings.
But Fitz's Skill ability is never really the same after that, and he's not really capable of using it without getting lost in the current, without very intentional focus. Touching him can sometimes (not always) bring a nonconsensual healing the the surface, his Skill reaching out in another person and immediately healing them, no matter the cost to Fitz or the person he's healing. Essentially, you could say that Fitz is more in tuned to his Skill than ever before — so powerful in it, that using it almost definitely will assure him being lost to it.
At the point I want to canon update him to, Fitz has found Bee in Clerres, has saved her, and has poured what he believes to be the entirety of his life force into the Fool, so that he can be strong and save their daughter. Fitz is pinned under a wooden beam in the lowest rungs of Clerres tower, legs broken, and unbeknownst to him is hosting a deadly parasite that is slowly eating and laying eggs inside of him. Regardless, he is not yet dead — Nighteyes, the ghost of his wolf who lives inside him, reserved a certain amount of strength for them to get up and out of this mess.
BIG EDIT!!! SORRY: just to update what would be on his person, while making it clear i'm totally good if you'd rather him not have any of this — 1. an Elderling artifact that is a plain brick when facing downward, but an intense firestarter when placed up right, 2. a precious vial of dragon silver, essentially pure Skill in physical form, and 3. Bee's diary and a book of Bee's dreams ( 1 & 2 ), keeping in mind that Bee's dreams are prophetic and so are probably only applicable to Fitz's world, but the dreams written out in the series are not all encompassing, so I thought I'd leave the door open if the mods want to do any plotty type things with that. Otherwise, it's really just a book of drawings!!
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CHARACTER: Ziggy Berman
CANON: Fear Street
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: Just after her and her sister are stabbed (nearly) to death.
NEW CANON POINT: After the end of the trilogy, when she's an adult in her 40's.
CHANGES: Well... everything. An entire lifetime of trauma and struggling with the things she'd seen, a town that didn't ever believe her and thought she was nuts, rampant coping alcoholism and so on... however, she will be from after the curse is finally stopped and the real bad guy is dead and gone. She'll be more at peace than she's ever been, and will finally let go of her regret, if only because letting it go will allow for the REAL curse (caused by Nick and his horrid family) to be stopped. Basically, this canon update is to allow for her to have a short, sweet conclusion to her story in Ximilia for the end game, where she is older and can move on with her life, freed from what was truly tormenting her.
I am not 100% sure when this canon update will be implemented, but I was thinking after the end of the final event? If there's time for things to be wrapped up and she can talk to her CR as her older self, to let them know she'll be okay. c: If you feel there won't be ample time for her to do this after the final mission, I can always have her turn into an adult just before the final mission! I'm still trying to decide when the heck it would be funnest/best planned, but I did want to make sure it was approved before I think too far ahead.
(As an aside, she will want to distribute any 'power' earned by her personal goals to her close CR so that their own power behind their regret change may be strengthened -- only if that's possible, of course! She will NOT want to have her regret undone but will happily contribute what she's earned to everyone else. (She will absolutely ask Viveca or Degar about this first, though, and see if it's possible ICly.))
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a final update ;;
CHARACTER: dean winchester
CANON: supernatural
PREVIOUS CANON POINT: season 8, ep1 ish
NEW CANON POINT: s15, post series where he's deader than dead.
CHANGES:
I'm gonna keep this as short and sweet as possible, because a jump from season 8 to season 15 is seven solid years of misery and no one wants to read that.
Not a WHOLE lot changes in regards to his personality. He does become more jaded, he does begin to turn into his old man in several ways, but he's also eventually tempered back down by his relationship with Jack (Jack's his son ok) and then with Cas' confession; to be loved like that is something he's wanted but never really been able to achieve or obtain because of his lifestyle. Once he gets it, Cas has to go and die. Along with growth, he's depressed, and he seems to lose his will to fight back home, especially after Cas' death. With his protagonists luck gone, he's just a normal guy fighting normal monsters, and when he dies, it's not heroic and not a blaze of glory - and he begs Sam to let him go. He's tired, he's done, and he wants to rest. Canonically. On the station, it's different.
As far as being an asset? Well, he'll be dead. He's got nothing to lose anymore as evidenced by what just happened, and he's got not only his entire life prior to season one in regards to experience, but he also has fifteen years of show growth in knowledge. He starts out not knowing a damn thing about angels, hardly anything about demons except a long exorcism process they eventually refine, doesn't believe in God or angels, etc. By the end, he's not only been to hell he's also met God and he's helped him once then fought him later on, turning him essentially human. God/Chuck did his best to bait Dean into killing him; "blabbity blah, Dean Winchester the greatest killer"; but with everything he's gone through, Dean knows 'that's not who I am' (in the script this is textually bc of cas' sacrifice so that's gay) and instead forces him to live out his life. Awesome revenge to Chuck's bullshit.
He's lost everything, too - Cas especially, Jack to heaven (the finale was shit so we don't see any kind of reunions so who knows when/if he speaks to Jack again or Cas; thank God for throwaway lines "Cas helped"), all of his friends, his mother again, Charlie, Kevin, literally everyone he's ever cared about and loved is dead, and he blames himself for a lot of it. So there's nothing for him to lose and everything to gain by remaining here and fighting harder than ever to help everyone out in their goals - whatever they may be.
By the end, Dean knows that there's no need to be there for Sam anymore - he knows that now that he's dead and gone, Sam can finally have that life he's always wanted. A blurry wife, a son, a cute little house on the prairie. His little brother is finally is living the life he never got to live while Dean was alive, and at that point, Dean has finally moved on from his responsibility to his little brother. There's no reason to go back, and every reason to stay and keep fighting the good fight. He's more than happy and absolutely willing to fight for all these lovely freaks he's met, and he's willing to die for them, too. In every way there is nothing for him in his world, alive or dead; he would rather be useful.
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