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Current Canon Point: The canon point upon application.
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Player: Hotaru
Character: Jun "J" Kanzaki
Current Canon Point: S1C77
Updated Canon Point: S3C9, pre-S2 flashback

Updated Background: After J survives nearly drowning because Michael saves him, he runs away from Tokyo with him after successfully faking his own death (again), gives some hints to Falcon about what Bloody Monday really is (a bomb) and then gives a hint on how Falcon can stop the bomb from detonating. He meets up with a few members of the Cult, Cain, Abel, and Jacob. The three decide to come with him and they become a team of mercenaries travelling all over the world. J sees his estranged grandfather Masamune in a foreign country, and researches why he was there meeting some important people of that country, and finds out that Bloody Monday is not over. And that Masamune was the one who orchestrated the whole Bloody Monday thing (and cult) in the first place. He is still trapped in the cycle of blood and terror.

Updated Personality: Not a lot. He has just a very tiny bit more faith in people. Not much, but he's a little bit better at trusting people in the long run, and is a little bit more open about his feelings. For a while. Being dragged back into Bloody Monday is not going to make things better at all. He doesn't necessarily bite his nails when he's upset any more, he also clutches the arm his older brother Otoya shot him in.

Updated Abilities: n/a

Other: nSince I'm currently on hiatus and he's crystallized for a while longer, having him come back from canon update in connection to that would be great.

Questions: n/a

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Player: Snarky
Character: Noctis Lucis Caelum
Current Canon Point: end of Ch 13, just after Bahamut laid out what's gonna happen
Updated Canon Point: end of the game \o/

Updated Background:
Where we last left Noctis, Bahamut had just told him the World's Worst Bedtime Story and Noctis was left to drift off into the crystal's ... idk. metaphysical space??? Whatever, he's inside the Crystal where he spends the next ten years. We don't actually know the details of what goes on for him in those intervening years - only that they mentally and magically prepare him for the final battle both here and in the afterlife. The Ring of the Lucii - and through it himself - absorbs all the power that has quietly gathered in the Crystal over the ages. Whatever happened in there has left its mark - not only does Noctis possess greater power upon leaving it, but he also is physically changed. The Crystal has taken its toll on him, and he looks considerably older and worn, much as his father had been after years of channeling its power. Furthermore, whatever Noctis experienced left him change mentally as well - ready to face his destiny...

He turns up (somehow?) on an island off the coast, TEN YEARS LATER, where he is greeted by the Messenger dog Umbra. Umbra gives him a note that says, "Be Waiting in Hammerhead." With that as his guidance, Noctis sets off back to shore on his dad's boat which is mysteriously safely moored at the island. Arriving in Galdin Quay, he meets nothing but daemons and darkness. The sky is at best a weird greenish hue in spots but really it's just nighttime all the time now thanks to the Starscourge and Ardyn, the Accursed. When he reaches the main road, he only makes it a short way along it before a truck shows up with bright daemon repelling headlights. The driver turns out to be Talcott, now all grown up. He's been expecting Noctis, and he gives Noct a short summary of what's been going on over the past decade of darkness as he drives the king to Hammerhead.

Once they arrive, Noctis reunites with Gladio, Prompto and Ignis - all ten years older and hardened by their experiences in the decade of darkness but nevertheless happy to see him again and ready to accompany him to the End. After catching up a bit at Hammerhead, they don old Kingsglaive uniforms (and Noctis puts on the royal regalia, cape and all) and make their way back to Insomnia. Just outside the city, they stop to make a final camp. The last gasp before the plunge, as it were. At camp they have a final talk about what's going to happen, and Noctis does his best to spit out what they mean to him, but he's just as shit with words as ever, so all he really manages is, "What can I say? You guys are the best." It's a very touching scene. They all cry, because they all know he's not going to make it out of this.

After this last rest, they fight their way through Insomnia's streets to the Citadel at its heart. Before its gates they are greeted by Ardyn and Ifrit - the one Astral Noctis has yet to encounter. They defeat Ifrit and then ascend to the throne room where Ardyn waits for them, eager for this final battle wherein he will either triumph and thus take his full revenge upon the world and the Astrals and his family or he will at long last be laid to rest forever. However, Ardyn declares this is a battle of Kings and thus should only be between Noctis and himself, so he knocks out Noct's friends with magic then warps to the ground before the citadel. Noctis follows, and they have their epic battle, which of course Noctis wins, ending it at last by impaling Ardyn on his father's sword. Noct assures Ardyn that he will be at peace forevermore this time, and Ardyn says he "will await Noctis in the Beyond" with his dying breath.

The Chocobros are awake by now, and they meet Noctis before the citadel, where they have their parting words. Noctis tells them to walk tall before he turns and makes his way back to the throne room while they fend off daemons.

In the throne room, Noctis at last sits upon the throne and calls forth the past Kings of Lucis that he might take them into himself. They appear and one by one ram into him weapon first, which not only hurts like a bitch but also forces their power into Noctis's soul so that he can carry them with him into death to destroy the Accursed once and for all. The very last of his ancestors is, of course, his father who impales him not with some astral sword but with his own very physical, very real sword that a weakened and dying Noctis hands over. Noctis dies, but as he does so the Ring of the Lucii erupts into blinding light, and in the Beyond he finds Ardyn's soul and confronts him a final time.

Noctis calls upon all his power to destroy Ardyn. Luna helps with her soul's oracle power disrupting Ardyn, while the Lucii emerge from Noctis and annihilate Ardyn (and themselves in the process). Utterly spent, Noctis collapses into motes of light, and the Ring shatters.

"It's finally over..."

Dawn breaks for the first time in ten years. \o/ hooray!

Updated Personality:
The major changes are that Noctis is a lot more settled, centered and more outwardly mature. What was before at times bravado is now genuine confidence. He knows who he is, what he is, what he can do and what he is going to do. There are no more doubts in himself. He is ready (or so he tells the others and himself; in a way, it's impossible to ever truly be ready for what awaits him, and he cannot help the tears that fall as he sits upon the throne and commands his ancestors and braces for death). While not happy about his fate and grieved to say goodbye to his friends and the world, he is nevertheless far more at peace with and resigned to the end than he was ten years ago. He carries with him a certain solemnity and dignity that he never quite managed before, even if it is also coupled with a bone-deep weariness. Moreover, he has a lot more perspective on things and certainly seems more level-headed and a little lest apt to charge headfirst than he once was.

His fury towards Ardyn has cooled in a way - it isn't that he no longer is angry with him (and righteously so!), but more that Noctis has developed a lot more compassion for Ardyn's thousands of years of existence. At the end, he looks upon his fallen foe not with satisfaction but with sorrow. He assures Ardyn that he will at last have peace.

That said, he is openly sorrowful and tries so very hard to tell his friends how much they mean to him and how grateful he is for their friendship and all the time they spent together. But well, some things never change and he's still really bad at articulating his feelings so he stammers and stutters a lot before he manages to spit it out.

Updated Abilities:
1. He's a lot more filled with light, having just absorbed the power of his ancestors & the crystal & then brought back the dawn. Those sensitive to such things could tell that he burns very brightly, so to speak.

2. His Armiger is more potent now and in general his magic is stronger, even if he is physically more worn.

3. Having now formed a covenant with Bahamut, he could in theory call upon the Astral. But as Bahamut is not in Empatheias, this doesn't matter in the slightest.

4. The Ring of the Lucii is gone.

5. the ability to grow facial hair

Other: He'll be gone from the evening of 08/31 until the evening of 09/03

Questions:
Lunafreya originally showed up with the Ring of the Lucii, but at the time we apped it was determined that there would be only one ring in the game. Would it revert to being in her possession again since the one he had no longer exists?

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Regarding your question: the Ring of Lucii would not be able to reappear in game in Lunafreya's possession. Since it was in Noct's possession, it went with him and no longer exists in Empatheias when he leaves the setting of the game. And since it is not in his possession when he returns, it would not reappear at all.

In this case, for Lunafreya to have the ring, she (Or Noctis) would need to get it back via regain.

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thatgoodnight - 2017-08-28 07:27 (UTC) - Expand

Player: Stark
Character: Shin-Ah
Current Canon Point: 109
Updated Canon Point: 147

Updated Background: The trip through the forest that culminated with a near disasterous encounter with one of Shin-Ah's forgotten ancestors eventually lead the Happy Hungry Bunch to another village in the Water Tribe where, on a shopping trip to buy more clothes for Zeno, they ran into Lady An Lili's attendants, Ayura and Tetora. As it turns out, Lili was continuing her investigation into the Nadai trade that was plaguing the Water Tribe's territories, and her search led her to the border between Kouka and Sei-- where people were mysteriously disappearing. Two forts were being constructed on the Sei side of the border and, when Yona and Lili were abducted in the process of the investigation, the group split into two in order to find them.

Hak, Shin-Ah, Kija and Yoon went to one base, with the two-fold purpose of both searching for Yona and Lili and thwarting the base's construction. However, not only did they not find both of their missing friends, Shin-Ah and Kija also worked so efficiently that they inadvertently sped up the construction process to the point of near completion. Throughout this, Shin-Ah is also keeping watch for a signal from Jae-Ha in regards to whether their missing friends have been found or not... and he gets appropriately worried about Hak when the former general shows a shred of his soft side to Shin-Ah in the middle of enemy territory.

Shin-Ah is quick to gather his weapons when the fighting breaks out and, after a comical encounter with Tae-Woo in which he compares him to a 'Small Hak', Kija and Shin-Ah end up encountering Soo-Won. Unbeknownst to either of them, Soo-Won had been coordinating outside of the fort for related reasons, and had even touched base with Hak the night before. While Kija is ready to attack Soo-Won for everything that he had done to both Yona and Hak both in the past and in the present, Shin-Ah finds that he can't outright attack because of the look in Soo-Won's eyes. And, although his reflexes are so finely tuned that he is able to protect his friends from whips and blades even with his bare hands throughout this arc, Shin-Ah is left to watch with everyone else as Lili is brought forward for execution-- and watch as Hak and Soo-Won coordinate wordlessly across a battlefield in order to save her.

Peacefully reunited, the Happy Hungry Bunch bids their farewells to Lili, Ayura and Tetora and leave the borders of Sei, heading out in a different direction-- where they are met by envoys from the isolated Xing kingdom to the south. Among these envoys is a masked man named Vold, who explains the gravity of the situation-- the kingdom is in crisis, as the king himself is too ill to rule and has left the leadership in the hands of the eldest princess, Princess Kouren, who wishes to go to war with Kouka in light of Soo-Won's seemingly militant political agenda. However, the kingdom is divided, and a large portion of its citizens would rather follow the Kouren's sister, Princess Tao, who wishes to surrender to Kouka and become it's vassal state rather than see any more of her countrymen mercilessly slaughtered. Yona and her comrades agree to have an audience with Tao, with the understanding that they must do so discreetly-- a notoriously hard task given the motley make up of their travelling party-- and that any action they take could potentially lead to an unintended international conflict.

At first the meeting seems peaceful enough. Vold, accompanied by his comrade Algira, lead them to Tao for their meeting. After the group settled for the evening, assassins assailed them and attempted to take Princess Tao's life by burning the building with her asleep inside of it. Zeno, with his immortal body, saved her life-- but not without Shin-Ah and Kija trying to go in after him. The dragons were reunited, but not for long. A short while later they investigated the town and were found out by Kouren's people. Unable to act to defend themselves without sparking an international incident between Xing and Kouka, they were forcibly imprisoned while Hak and Yona-- accompanied by Vold and Algira, one of Tao's other bodyguards-- were sent off into Kouka to find Soo-Won and deliver a message from Kouren.

During the attack that led to their imprisonment, Shin-Ah nearly used the paralytic powers of Seiryuu on the Xing soldiers assailing them in order to protect Zeno and save him from having his powers revealed. Zeno stopped him and questioned him on it once they were settled in their cell, whereupon he declared that he would fight for his brothers, no matter what it cost him.

As it turns out, his encounter with the ghost of his ancestor had taught him much more about his powers than he had let on, for when Mizari was attacked in his cell during the start of the coup d'etat by radicals claiming to follow Tao and Kija retaliated by breaking down the barriers between all of their cells, Shin-Ah followed up with the powers of his Dragon Eyes-- and sustained paralysis to only his sword arm.

With the coup and attempt to assassinate all of Kouren's people in full swing, Shin-Ah helps to take out the attacking archers and soldiers who had surrounded Yona, Hak, Kouren and Tao within the palace. His strikes with his paralytic skills are more fine tuned than before and, although he still has trouble balancing himself with Seiryuu in those moments, it only takes Yona caling his name to call him back to reality.

And, while his upper body is so numb he can't feel Ao chewing on his hair, his feet can still move. For Shin-Ah, who previously was completely incapacitated after using his powers, this is no small victory.

The group's reunion didn't last long before they were attacked by those who wanted to assassinate Kouren once again. The leader of assault, now revealed to be Gobi, a high ranking priest following Tao's beliefs, ordered the capture of the four dragons while they were incapacitated and once more tried to strike Kouren down. Yona intervened on Kouren's behalf, but her skills weren't enough to stop the arrows from being loosed toward both her and Kouren. In a moment of panic, Kouka's four dragons released a power they didn't even realize they had and, with the raw power of their combined will manifested in the shape of a multi-bodied dragon, they shielded Yona from certain harm and possible death.

The act left all four of them bound with ropes around their necks, unconscious, and in a weakened state, but alive. The fates of the entire group hangs in the balance, and remains unknown.

Updated Personality: Since his encounter with the ghost of one of his Seiryuu ancestors during the Lush Forest arc in chapter 108, Shin-Ah has grown somewhat more comfortable in travelling with just a bandage over his eyes rather than his mask. Following this, while he still isn't the most vocal among the Happy Hungry Bunch he has started verbalizing his thoughts and needs very coherently and even eloquently. Of particular note here is the topic of Soo-Won, where Shin-Ah explains to Kija that he has a difficult time raising a sword against the man because his eyes are similar to Yona's. The words and phrases Shin-Ah chooses are still simplistic, but they're pointed enough to get his meaning across.

Additionally, he's started making small talk with Hak over mundane topics, like the weather, and he has taken to tagging along with Zeno's particular brand of zaniness with even a few hidden laughs of his own.

Beyond this, however, Shin-Ah is understanding the fragility of their existance as the Dragon Warriors of Kouka. During the affairs leading to their imprisonment in Xing, Shin-Ah was among the first to jump to Zeno's protection multiple times-- both when Zeno was caught in the inferno that was intended to cover an assassination attempt on Xing's younger princess, Tao, and when the Dragon Warriors were helpless to defend themselves against the Five Star Warriors of Xing for fear of catalyzing a war with Kouka. Despite his earlier misgivings, Shin-Ah was ready and willing to use the powers of his Dragon Eyes-- a power he has up until this point done everything he could to avoid using it-- for the sake of the people he had come to call his family.

During his imprisonment he openly declared that he would fight, and he would use his Eyes, if the rest of their travelling party are threatened again-- even while now understanding the danger that using his powers puts him in, thanks to both Zeno's coaxing and his encounter with that ghost. More tellingly: he does.

Repeatedly he stands to protect his brothers in arms. And, in the middle of the attempts to assassinate Kouren and her entire faction in the middle of the night, he turns his full powers of his gaze upon the people attacking Mizari-- the very madman responsible for tormenting them during their harrowing stay in Xing's prison cells.

Updated Abilities: During the interveneing chapters, Shin-Ah has thought long and hard over the lessons learned from the ghostly Seiryuu he encountered in the caverns in chapter 108. The ghost was the last link between the present day Seiryuu village and it's history, for it's clear that this Seiryuu knew all of the details that Shin-Ah had never been taught. As his successor at the time of the attack was still an infant, those lessons were never passed on... that is, until Shin-Ah finally met that ghost.

While we don't know the full extent of what he is capable of, it's clear to the readers that Shin-Ah has gained more far more control over the full paralytic aspect of his powers than he's ever had before. While previously a single use would leave his entire body paralyzed for an unknown period of time, he's now able to properly target his foes, and limit the backlash it has on his body. While he still suffers some after effects, like limited use of a single limb in the aftermath, he can still move.

This itself is a major change for Shin-Ah-- but, he's also learned how to properly channel Seiryuu's spiritual, paralytic powers without succumbing to the blood boiling rage that would overwhelm him in previous instances of using this aspect of his powers. Not only has he grown more confident in himself as a person, but he's gained control of the darker parts of himself that he always lived in fear of and, thus, gained control of his life.

Other: Thanks to using his powers at the end of chapter 143-144, Shin-Ah has temporarily limited the use of most of his upper body. This isn't permanent and will fade with time and rest, but it will be a nuisance for a short while.

He'll be gone from 10/1-10/3 for the purposes of the canon update.

Questions: It's worth asking, but at this particular canonpoint Shin-Ah does not have his trademark mask and headdress with him. Would it be possible for him to have them in game, or is that something he would need to regain?

Edited 2017-09-24 01:27 (UTC)

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Regarding Shin-Ah's mask and headdress, he will have to regain it.

Player: Christine
Character: Ignis Scientia
Current Canon Point: Chapter 8, as the party boards the boat to Altissia.
Updated Canon Point: Immediately following Chapter 10, after the venture through the mines at Cartanica.

Updated Background: SPOILERS for Chapters 9 & 10, if anyone is still concerned about that.

Since Ignis' previous canon point, he will have accompanied Noctis and the others to Altissia, where they were meant to meet Lady Lunafreya and attempt to get the blessing of Leviathan. Though meeting with Luna directly proves to be impossible, Noctis manages to arrange a summit with the leader of Altissia and earns the opportunity to try and commune with Leviathan the next day following Lunafreya's address to the public. Knowing that the Empire is poised to attack immediately following the address in an attempt to gain Leviathan's power for themselves, as well as the fact Leviathan is likely to cause damage to the city, Ignis, Gladio and Prompto offer their aid in evacuating and otherwise protecting Altissia's citizens, and in doing so are divided.

The details of what happened to each member of the royal retinue while divided are largely shrouded in mystery. We know that Noctis faced Leviathan in combat with the support of an injured Lunafreya, and much of Altissia was damaged in the process. Many people were killed as a result of the Imperials’ assault. The next time we see Ignis, it’s when Noctis awakens after having spent days unconscious. Ignis himself delivers the sad news that Lady Lunafreya has been killed, and he is shown to be severely injured with extensive scarring over his left eye and lesser scarring on other parts of his face, though some of it is hidden behind dark glasses. It’s unknown exactly how Ignis sustained his injuries, and Ignis himself seems more than content to keep it that way. It’s not something he wishes to discuss, saying only that it was a “small sacrifice in the greater battle” and later noting that the last thing he remembers seeing was the departure of Chancellor Izunia’s airship.

The game then skips ahead to a few weeks later, showing Ignis along with the others on a train bound for the Empire by way of Tenebrae. It becomes clear that Ignis is not only wounded, but has also lost his sight and now walks with a cane, though he insists that because the wounds have closed, it’s “only a matter of time” until his vision returns. Tensions are running high within the group in the wake of what happened in Altissia, with Gladio being particularly aggressive towards Noctis while Ignis is uncharacteristically withdrawn and Prompto makes his best efforts to keep the peace. The group takes advantage of the train stopping in Cartanica to seek out the Royal Tomb in the mines there to locate another of the Royal Arms. Given Ignis’ condition, Noctis feels that taking him into the mines is putting him at unnecessary risk, but leaving him at the train station, alone and in enemy territory, doesn’t feel like a viable option. Ignis insists that he’ll manage as they venture into the mines, and remains with the others as they seek out the tomb.

The trip through the mines is trying for all of them. Gladio is insistent on their moving slowly so that Ignis can keep up, and scolds Noctis anytime he starts to get ahead or draws a weapon a little too close to Ignis himself. Prompto is ever at Ignis’ side, quietly helping him up every time he stumbles, but Ignis himself is largely silent throughout this particular stretch, focused on pressing forward despite his new limitations and stubbornly throwing himself into combat despite not being able to see the enemy. He apologizes more than once for being in the way or not performing to the best of his ability, and the others are quick to assure him that he has nothing to apologize for as it steadily becomes more and more clear that Ignis is in denial about the severity of his condition. It’s when they reach the bottom of the mines and stumble into a morbol’s nest on their way into the Royal Tomb that he properly re-enters the fray, able to focus enough to think outside the box and use an elemental grenade to exploit the morbol’s weakness when the others are unable to keep it at bay using more conventional attacks.

The Royal Arm is retrieved from the tomb, followed by another argument between Noctis and Gladio-- during which Ignis finally snaps and voices his frustrations, both with their bickering and his own situation. He insists that he won’t suffer this ceaseless arguing any longer, nor will he be treated like an invalid, admitting that his “vision hasn’t improved, and probably won’t.” Despite his blindness, he expresses a desire to stay with his friends until the end and see their task through. Gladio objects, saying that war is a matter of life or death, while Prompto feels it should be Ignis’ choice whether or not he stays. Ignis says that if he cannot keep up, he will bow out, but until then he wishes to do his utmost to continue to aid Noctis in his quest. Noctis supports his decision, and they all work their way back up to the station together before boarding the train to resume their trip to Tenebrae. Ignis will be returning to Verens shortly after boarding, before the events of Chapter 11.

Updated Personality: Ignis becomes a bit quieter following his injury, but no less loyal, and no less devoted to serving his cause. Though he makes an effort to remain composed even in the wake of all that’s happened, he is frustrated with his current state. He has always been a person who has taken care of the people around him and been independent almost to a fault, never allowing himself to rely on others for their aid, but now he feels as though he has no choice. Regardless, he shows us that he is still as stubborn as he’s always been when he insists that he will continue on with Noctis and the others in spite of his injuries, saying that he will bow out if he can’t keep up-- and only then. When presented with a purpose, he remains driven, but without the goal of helping Noctis find the crystal and bring the dawn immediately at hand, he will find himself struggling when he returns to Verens, grappling with the reality of having to relearn the world around him and how to interact with it, and having to learn to accept aid when he needs it in addition to working hard to maintain his independence.

Updated Abilities: Ignis will be able to use the Libra Elementia ability included in his original app, which allows him to exploit an enemy's weakness by launching an elemental grenade from afar. His usual combat acrobatics will be seriously hindered for some time, requiring extensive training in order to increase his spatial awareness and regain his skills.

Other: Planning for him to be gone from the 30th to October 4th if that’s okay!

Questions: N/A

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newrecipe - 2017-09-28 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

Player: Mei
Character: Annabeth Chase
Current Canon Point: End of book 1 Lightning Thief
Updated Canon Point: End of Book 5 The Last Olympian

Updated Background: The full background of what happens in the 4 books just to her can be found here but I'll sum it up.
Sea of Monsters
Annabeth sneaks out of camp with Percy to go on another quest to find the golden fleece which will save the tree that protects the camp. This tree has protected camp since her arrival but has been poisoned. They travel with Percy's half brother who is a cyclops and fight their way through the sea of monsters. Annabeth listens to the songs of the siren to find out more about herself and saves Percy from being turned into a guinea pig. They fight Polyphemus and save the golden fleece which is brought back to camp. The tree is healed a little too well and her friend Thalia is revived.

The Titan's Curse
The group go undercover at a school to find Nico and Bianca who emanate a strong aura and are believed to be children of the big three. Here, Annabeth is captured and is tricked into bearing the weight of the sky on her shoulders. At this point she still trusts Luke. In this book, Annabeth isn't featured as much as she was a captive and the book is written 1st person POV from Percy's side but he goes to find Annabeth's father who comes to help save her.

Battle of the Labyrinth
This is Annabeth's time to shine as she has been studying the labyrinth for some time and the quest was given to her to undertake. This is also the book where she finds out about Rachel and starts showing a jealous streak that Percy may have feelings for somebody else. She has been working with Clarisse to discover the entrance to the labyrinth in their camp and then leads her quest group to go find daedelus to help them win the upcoming war with the Titans. They fight their way through a lot of different parts and eventually come across a fight where she would need to leave Percy to fight by himself. She kisses him for the first time and escapes. After an earthquakes, she thinks he's dead as he disappears for 2 weeks but he shows up as she is burning his shroud. She hugs him but then gets jealous upon realizing that he has spent all this time with Calypso.

It is then discovered that they need a mortal's help through the labyrinth so begrudgingly, she accepts Rachel's help even though she is snarky throughout and they find their way through the labyrinth. This is where she loses Luke to Kronos as he has accepted the Titan into his body and she realizes that she needs to give him up. It's a big turning point for her emotions wise.

The Last Olympian
In this final book, they fight the war against the Titans. A lot of this book is dedicated to Percy and how he overcomes the troubles for this war but the main points of this would be finding out that Annabeth has given up her feelings for Luke and has written them off. Also, that she gave up saving him when he came to speak to her under the flag of truce and because of that Hermes (Luke's dad) was very upset with her. Annabeth also finds out that Silena, one of the campers she is friends with, was a traitor to all of the camp and they eventually win the war with many casualties.

Updated Personality:
The core of Annabeth's personality remains the same as she has been fighting against monsters(kindly ones) since she was 7 years old so she has already developed a lot of courage and a very mature personality. The main changes would be in regards to her romantic side and learning about the harshness of war and growing up.

The main part would be her romantic feelings. She learns to stop being stubborn about her feelings for Luke and it takes her until the last book to realize that he couldn't be saved. By going through this, she realizes that she can't save everything. This is coupled with the information she found out from the Sirens that her hubris is Pride and she needs to learn to not fall prey to that. Her dream is to make the world better and her pride made her believe this. This included saving Luke, rebuilding the world so all the buildings were perfect and getting her parents back together (even though that is impossible as the goddess Athena would never marry and settle down with a mortal man).

She also learns to overcome pain quickly as there are other pressing things to do in life. Such as when she is crying that Percy relies on Rachel so much but she puts it aside to help him in battle and also when she finds out that Silena is a traitor. It hurts her very deeply but she realizes she must go on.

Through the additional quests, she learns that the divination provided by Delphi always has two meanings. Through the books it shows that she starts to understand that you can't control everything and that fate must take its course (even though that doesn't stop the fact that she still stays up all night trying to think of all the possible outcomes and trying to make the best outcome happen).

She also overcomes a big personal issue when she was given the choice to join the hunters of artemis to gain eternal life and be free of all these romantic problems. In the end, she decides to not take up the offer so that she could be with Percy and be a normal human (even though it takes him an additional book to actually return those feelings).

Updated Abilities: Her fighting abilities greatly improve as she has now been through the great war and gone through additional quests. Her battle tactics and knowledge over war strategies has improved greatly.

Her willpower has increased as she's learned to focus on it and was able to stay alive while she was holding the sky on her shoulders (although this may have always been the case but it only came into evidence during this part).

Other: Annabeth now has 2 items that she takes everywhere with her. In book 5, it is mentioned that she even takes them into battle with her when she can. That is the cursed knife that is strapped to her arm (that she was originally apped with) and now also the laptop of Daedlus which gives her a lot of battle plans, architecture ideas and unfinished inventions that could take her upwards of 50 or so years to look through let alone complete.

Questions:Hopefully it's okay for her to come back canon updated in the next few days as she's been on hiatus for almost a month now and I wanted her to return canon updated. I am looking to finish my hiatus early.

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Player: Caprica
Character: Laphicet
Current Canon Point: With the first Earth Pulse visit, when Eleanor becomes his vessel.
Updated Canon Point: Just after the final battle, right before changing form in agreeing to take his place as an Empyrean to fill the gap left by Innominat.

Updated Background:

They hear information that Artorius is heading to his Throne, so the group head there to confront him with Velvet. Only, this doesn't quite go as they expect, even with Laphicet continuously healing her to keep her going in fighting him. Reinforcements show up to support him, including Eleanor, an Exorcist they encountered earlier who was already beginning to question the Abbey and her role as an Exorcist. Teresa also shows up, furious at Laphicet, and orders him to kill Velvet. He refuses, somehow then tapping into Innominat's power to get them out of there, though trapped in the earthpulse until they find a way out. He's exhausted from this, and starting to be affected by the Malevolence so Velvet reluctantly agrees upon encountering Eleanor that she would help by becoming his vessel. They manage to get out of the earthpulse and rest before continuing on.

That is where I initially took Laphicet from. From here on is what he will have experienced in the update. (This is basically just copied from my original app. Because I typed the whole history up. Thank you past me for this assistance.....!)

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Along the way with their travels, they find a particular book Laphicet fixates on and takes from the library of the capital, which turns out to have information around one of the Empyreans, Innominat. They need help translating it, since it is in one of the old languages not really used anymore, so they go to find one of Magilou's friends for help, a Normin malak named Grimoirh. She helps translate it and teaches Laphicet to as well, since it is one he found and he seems so interested. They translate part of it, which talks of Innominat as a dragon with multiple heads, being connected to a therion at each of these points at the earthpulse, consuming their Malevolence to awaken himself. Basically, the therions, Velvet included, while she was in prison for three years following the events in Aball, would devour daemons, and Innominat would then tap into that subsequent energy and Malevolence for himself from this, so long as the therions stayed in that particular area.

So, as these guys are not the most Goody Two Shoes bunch, they head off to each of these points under Laphicet's guidance with his compass, defeating these therions and kidnapping them to their base so they can't be used to awaken Innominat. This does cause the problem of the Malevolence no longer being contained or siphoned off to Innominat, which causes the citizens of that area to be overwhelmed by the Malevolence and turn into Daemons though. But Velvet does not care because this is still messing with Artorius and his plans so she considers this worth it. Even if Artorius might have noble intentions of trying to help humanity, they cannot abide by the methods he's doing it - in suppressing humanity's free will in order to maintain peace. And well, Velvet still is kind of furious so she still wants to kill him anyway.

During this, they realize that they needed to use the Exorcists in order to use them as vessels in awakening the Four Empyreans. Specifically, Oscar, Shigure - Rokurou's brother, Melchior - the mastermind behind it in teaching and encouraging Artorius, and Teresa - Oscar's sister. Unfortunately, Teresa becomes a therion in her protectiveness and desire to help her brother, Oscar. But Velvet still devours her, both of them, to maintain their power she will need to awaken the Empyreans.

On the way, as they go back to visit the town where Velvet had lived, they are affected by another of Melchior's illusionary artes. A cruel one revolving around Velvet's brother and the rest of her village still being alive. This both upsets and enrages Velvet when she finds out, more so when she's treated to seeing events of the actual past around how Celica met Artorius, how her brother offered himself to Artorius to help awaken Innominat, knowing he only had maybe two years left to live at that point. This pretty much breaks her, and when confronted by Innominat in her brother's body, she seems resigned to being devoured by him. Except that Laphicet protests, clinging to her arm to keep her to him, yelling at her to help her snap out of it, causing her to fall out of that state of despair.

But they do their best even after this, heading to face down Artorius and find their way to him for a proper confrontation, once they do their part in attempting to awaken the Empyreans besides Innominat. The group are still resolved to do their part to help Velvet, for various reasons, so they face off against the Shepherd, who uses the arte to armatize with Innominat in battle against them. But this isn't enough to deter or defeat the group. The party is resolved to finish this and manage to take him down, Velvet dealing the final blow before dealing with Innominat. Innominat can't handle being free, without a vessel, and she and the rest can't outright kill him without risking Laphicet, given the two are connected, so Velvet seals herself away with him. Reunited with her brother once more, sharing her Malevolence with him from her demonic arm to nourish him and keep him somewhat contained.

Unfortunately, this also means there needs to be a replacement for Innominat, the Four Empyreans explain, once they awaken finally, and they say only a particularly strong malak would manage it. Laphicet thinks, debating what Velvet told him about wanting him to live, against the need to help and offers himself up as a replacement instead. This causes him to awaken as an Empyrean in dragon form, the one known as Maotelus, granting the world the gift or blessing of his 'Silver Flames', otherwise known as the Flames of Purification, in order to help give the world, the daemons and therions, a second chance. However this comes at the cost of lowering the level of the humans resonance, so now only those with particularly strong resonance can see and hear daemons or malakhim. He decides that Laphicet doesn't fit with his new status and appearance, so asks to now go by his True Name that Eleanor gave him. The one with the same meaning as 'Laphicet' but in the Ancient Tongue - Maotelus, 'One Who Lives'.

I'd be taking Laphicet from riiiight before he actually transforms into an Empyrean, basically.

Updated Personality:

Mostly, at this point, Laphicet is more confident in himself from having spent that much more time with Velvet and the rest, away from the influence and orders of the Exorcists. After hearing more about his family and who he really is or was supposed to be, that shook him, but not so much in the moment it happened to be revealed, given his focus on Velvet and her breakdown. But he's more stubborn than ever in being resolute in supporting her. In sticking with her regardless of what might happen to him. His personality is still stubborn, still resolute regardless of what he learned of his past and family. What could have been. He's still determined to do what he can to help Velvet and support her.

He's also formed a closer bond with Eleanor, coming to trust her probably on par or damned close to on how much he trusts and cares for Velvet almost. But this also extends to the rest of the party in general, as he learns more about them and spends more time with them.

In general, he learns a lot more about their world. About the Exorcists and the Empyreans and what Melchior and Artorius were really up to. This is obviously far from reassuring or hopeful in the least, with their intentions of ridding humans of emotions to dispel all Malevolence. It's not entirely enough that he loses his hope or naivety altogether, but enough that he wants to still give everyone a chance by the end of the game when he takes on the role of becoming the new Empyrean. He knows there's people with less than pure or good intentions. But he also knows on the flipside that there are people like Eleanor out there who really do want to help and do good in the world. So that is who he fights for. Who he wants to help in giving them a second chance when he purifies everyone with his flames at the end cutscene.

Updated Abilities:

The main update would be his getting better control (not total control, that happens once he transforms into the dragon Empyrean Maotelus) of the flames of purification.

Less sure if his 'domain' might come up in how Maotelus literally uses the land itself as his domain/his vessel in blessing/purifying it naturally, prior to things going down in Zestiria with Heldalf. If that would even come up or not, or if he would know enough/have enough control at this earlier point to make use of it.

Other:

Nothing else off of the top of my head?

Questions:

Regarding his domain, given Maotelus/Laphicet is kind of different to most malakhim/seraphim with his, given what we see and learn of him in Zestiria and all. If it would come up or if I'd want to do anything with it in-game, I mean. Just wondering on limits here in Verens if I were to do something with it. I'm totally fine with you mods saying he probably would only figure a smaller area to bless/purify given his earlier canon point still being Berseria based, obviously.

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Regarding the scope of his power, it will be limited to what Laphicet could do prior to becoming an Empyrean.

Player: AF
Character: Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane
Current Canon Point: Season 2, Episode 3
Updated Canon Point: Season 2, Episode 8

Updated Background: So, after Ulaz's death comes--well, the second volume of the comic comes next, but it's not finished so I can't give a proper summary, but also it's not like anything really important's going to happen in it so tl;dr Team Voltron helps some wyvern-riding space furries migrate to a new planet. The next thing that happens in the actual show is that the team gets a coded distress signal from the people of Planet Olkari, who are basically tech wizards. Pidge levels up her bond with her Lion while they're there, but nothing terribly important happens re: Shiro, except Keith giving him a small heart attack by trying to take a dude hostage.

As they leave the Olkari, however, they're ambushed by Zarkon and the Galra main fleet. They escape, but the team is exhausted after the fighting they already did on Planet Olkari, and the teludav, the device that allows Allura to create wormholes, has been damaged. Coran gets to work on fixing that, the rest of the team fails to actually rest despite being so exhausted, and Shiro just keeps trucking along business as usual because it's not like he ever sleeps anyway. And Zarkon keeps on dropping in on them out of nowhere to their increasing confusion, because there are absolutely no tracking devices on the Castle, they are certain of this. Eventually they jury-rig a temporary fix for the teludav for a proper full escape, but that still leaves the question of how the fuck Zarkon is even finding them.

Allura suspects they're being tracked through her because she's a magical space princess, and Keith suspects it's through him because, uh, he 1v1'd Zarkon last season and maybe that did something somehow??? (Actually he suspects this because he's starting to worry he might actually be part Galra himself, but like hell he's sharing that concern with everybody else.) Shiro is having basically none of this and instead of debating this, he just wants to move on and proactively attack the Galra stationed at a nearby planet after everybody gets a good night's rest to recover.

So naturally Allura and Keith go and bail on them in the middle of the night.

Shiro is not happy about this and tells them to get their asses back here, and then he and the other three get to work on what has now become an evacuation mission. They're attacked by the Galra while doing this, proving that Allura and Keith were both wrong about being the subject of the tracking. And the Red Lion independently crosses a great distance to fetch Keith back, which lends credence to Shiro's theory about the tracking, which is that it's because of Zarkon tapping into his link with the Black Lion as its former Paladin.

The kids go off with Coran to the mall to get replacement lenses for the teludav, while Shiro goes to have a nice chat with the Black Lion, to see if he can't get his bond with it to be stronger than Zarkon's. The Black Lion shows him the ruins of the Galra home planet and some flashbacks to its time with the original Paladins, and then Zarkon taps into his link with the Black Lion and drags Shiro into a fistfight on the astral plane.

Shiro gets his ass kicked, no contest. Zarkon just has too much raw power for even someone as technically impressive as Shiro to overcome.

But while they're fighting, they're also yelling at each other about why the other sucks as a Paladin. Zarkon calls Shiro too weak to command the Black Lion, and Shiro throws back that no one commands it, and that the bond between Lion and Paladin is one based on mutual trust instead.

The Black Lion decides it likes Shiro's answer better and blasts Zarkon straight out of the astral plane.

Meanwhile, the kids come back from the mall with a fucking cow.

But now that they've figured out and solved the problem of how Zarkon was tracking them, Shiro decides it's finally time to pay a visit to the Blade of Marmora's main base. The Blades tell them that only two people are allowed to actually come in, and Shiro decides to take Keith with him. They have a chat on the way in about how Keith's been weirdly tense lately and needs to get it together because Shiro still wants him to take over if something happens to him, which unnerves Keith badly enough that he almost steers off-course and gets them both killed, gj team, nice huddle, but they do successfully manage to make it in.

Turns out, though, that Kolivan, the leader of the Blade of Marmora, is not really too keen on them being there. The meeting starts tense and only gets worse, as it turns out that Keith smuggled a knife in despite being told to come unarmed. A knife with the Blade of Marmora's logo on it. The Blades accuse Keith of stealing it while Keith insists that he's had that knife his entire life and meanwhile Shiro is just left like "??????" because where did any of this come from? Kolivan offers Keith the chance to prove the knife is his by taking the Trials of Marmora, which Keith readily agrees to. Shiro is still just kind of like "??????" but okay, guess this is happening now???

The Trials involve a lot of Keith getting his ass kicked, which Shiro is not happy about, and once Keith passes the physical ass-kicking section, he moves on into the mental ass-kicking section, where he's shown a hologram of Shiro who urges him to give up the knife and then berates him for being selfish, which the real Shiro is really not happy about. As the Trials get worse and worse for Keith, Shiro gets more and more agitated, and by the time Keith wakes up from his hallucinations, Shiro is 1000% ready to throw down with every single Galra in this base if that's what it takes to get Keith out of this nonsense.

But just as blows are starting to actually be exchanged, Keith declares that he'll surrender the knife for the sake of forming an alliance, and that sentiment is enough to awaken the knife as a proper blade. Kolivan helpfully notes that this is only possible if Keith has Galra blood, and that shocker's enough to kick him back to Emp. (Where he's already known this information for like half a year but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Updated Personality: Nothing too major, really, just the conflict of him not being sure of where he stands with the Black Lion has been resolved, just in time for him to get it as a regain here. :V

Updated Abilities: Nothing here! His bond with his Lion has been strengthened, but that's something to talk about when I put in that regain request, not here.

Other: N/A

Questions: So if I want him to disappear while he's on the surface for the event and then come back a couple of days after the event finishes and have to make his way back to the teleporter all by himself, is that doable? Or does one have to be on the island for canon updates to happen? If it's the latter, I'll just save it for after he gets back from the event. o7

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Shiro will re-appear where his amulet is, so he can show back up on the surface and make his way back alone. Someone can also grab his amulet and bring it back and he can appear wherever the crystal was taken.

Player: Meowzy
Character: Sherlock Holmes

For the rest of the update form, I will direct you to: SPOILERS FOR DAI GYAKUTEN SAIBAN 2

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Player: Jami
Character: Keith
Current Canon Point: Season 2, Episode 8
Updated Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 6

Updated Background:

Alright, so I'm gonna do my best to concisely sum up what happens between Keith's current canon point and his new one. It's about 20 episodes worth so here we go.

We left off with Keith getting confirmation that he is, in fact, part Galra. This also means his knife came from the Blades of Marmora and this more or less makes him a member of them now, cool. With all that settled and Shiro no longer trying to throw punches at their leader, they all head back to the Castleship to get this alliance rolling.

Off screen, Keith tells everyone about the Galra thing. The rest of the team seems to take it fine all except for Allura who pretty much disowns his ass for the rest of the season. She's short, clipped and when possible, completely ignores him. She even goes as far as to imply that Keith is untrustworthy now, thanks to knowing his heritage. The grudge runs very deep and Keith is pretty tore up over it, but he doesn't confront her about it. Instead he makes a lot of iconic kicked-puppy faces when she's no longer looking him.

Anyway, after the alliance with the Blades is set, things go pretty quick. They come up with a pretty complex but miraculously doable plan to take out Zarkon. To set it up, the team has to split up to tackle a few important tasks. Shiro, Lance, and Pidge head off to break a space genius out of space prison so they can convince him to build a special machine, while Hunk and Keith go after an incredibly rare and dangerous mineral needed to power it. This mineral is mined out of the digestive system of a world devouring space abomination called a weblum, and is only the hardest material in the universe to obtain, so, you know, no big deal.

They are successful! But not before nearly getting eaten by stomach bacteria, digested, and all kinds of other fun stuff. Keith also uncovers a Galra fighter that had been eaten by the monster and frees the soldier within. The soldier doesn't speak the entire time, but they form an alliance to fight through the beast and survive. Once they're finally rounding up the mineral, the soldier turns on them, pointing their gun at Keith as they leave the weblum with a bag of the stuff. This kind of bums Keith out, but all in all the mission was a success and he and Hunk head back to the ship with tons of the mineral needed for the machine. He and Hunk have a little bonding moment in the process, it's very silly.

Back at the castle, everyone starts putting the plan into motion. The idea is to disable Zarkon's central command, teleport it away using the machine, the Teleduv, into a remote area of space without Galra ships, and then attack the shit out of it until it falls. Of course everything goes hideously wrong because this is Voltron. The Marmora agent on the inside tasked with disabling power to the station is caught before completing his mission. With the whole operation in jeopardy, Keith decides to risk going in and finishing the job. He's fast and able to interact with Galra tech thanks to his blood, which makes him the best candidate to do it. The leader of the Blades, Kolivan, objects, not wanting anyone to go on a suicide mission and instead brings up aborting and retreating but Keith is a stubborn shithead and says he's gonna do it fucking anyway. So he does. As he leaves, Allura catches him and apologizes for her actions up to this point, saying that her anger blinded her and asks Keith to promise her he'll make it back. He does and he takes off. He gets inside, actually meets up with Thace, the agent who just escaped from being tortured and the two try to get get the station to shut down again, only to find that the codes had all been changed. Thace decides instead to just blow the whole thing to kingdom come. Unfortunately this means that Keith has to leave him to make sure it happens and thus, leave him to die. Thace assures him it's fine. His story is over, but Keith's still has important things to do as a Voltron Paladin. Keith leaves him reluctantly as everything blows. The Red lion collects him back up again and Central Command shuts down.

They teleport the thing where it needs to go and Voltron starts wailing on it. This is all going according to plan until Zarkon fucking shows up in a mech and starts throwing down with them. It's a really intense giant robot fight and everyone almost dies like six times but finally through some crazy shenanigans Shiro straight up ghost steals the black bayard from Zarkon while they are in mechs??? It was some Guren Lagann shit, anyway. They do a crazy group final attack with a lot of screaming and intense faces and waste Zarkon.

They all get back to the ship but one thing is strange. The black lion was not responsive. Keith fucking desperate anime dashes to the hanger only to discover the cockpit of the black lion empty and Shiro no where to be found. THIS IS FINE.

Anyway, season three opens with Keith still searching the site of the battle for Shiro. The implication is that Shiro has been missing a long time. The team is still trying to carry on without him but its becoming obvious that something needs to be done about missing a pilot for the black lion. Keith takes this about as well as you can expect.

He ruins a diplomatic dinner between several leaders of several planets by blowing a gasket!

Anyway, after several arguments and a nice good peptalk from Lance of all people, Keith concedes to looking for a new pilot. It starts with them, each of them going to the black lion to see if she'll respond to one of them before searching outside the team. Each one of them garners no response until it's finally Keith's turn. Keith, who had wanted no part in this from the beginning, reluctantly enters the cockpit, only to have the black lion respond immediately. Keith, like many times this season so far, does not take it well. Keith goes as far to say he refuses to accept being the pilot of the black lion, only for Lance to step in and tell him he "respects the lion's decision, so [Keith] should too". With that settled, Keith accepts.

Just in time for an attack! Which goes terribly because now they have a black lion pilot, but none for the red lion. Keith, Pidge, and Hunk take off first to try and assist, meanwhile Allura tries once more to bond with a lion only to have the red lion reject her too, and now Lance suddenly can't get into the blue lion? Its a mess, but luckily, Allura realizes its because the red lion has instead chosen Lance after showing proper right-hand-man material and takes off. Once he does, the Blue lion opens up for Allura. Finally, a whole team!! It still goes monumentally terrible. Keith is not used to how slow the black lion is, Lance is not used to how fast the red lion is, and Allura is not used to how not a giant castleship the blue lion is! As Pidge put it: Wow, we are really kind of a mess right now!!

After sort of getting their shit together they find out that behind the attack was some fucker named Lotor. Prince Lotor, aka Zarkon's son. Who the fuck procreated with Zarkon? It was disturbing news for all of them. This marks the beginning of Keith being really obsessed with finding Lotor and presumably kicking his ass. Either way he gets hella fixated on him and this persists well into season 4. Example: just after this fight, Keith immediately tells them to track his ass and find him. Keith is not messing around and they are going to waste this dude just like they wasted his dad. This goes even worse than the previous fight. Lotor spends the entire time toying with them, leading them into a planet made up of highly combustible gas that shorts out all navigation and communication systems, and makes them blow themselves up.

Keith realizes that he has fucked up really bad! No shit. Lance talks him down. Meanwhile Allura has figured out the blue lion's sonar and eventually collects the rest of the team back together. They head back to regroup.

The next adventure involved finding an old Altean exploration ship jammed between two realities, holding a meteor made of the same weird material Voltron was made from. In investigating the other reality they found the Universe conquered by Alteans, Shiro was a Norwegian named Sven, and the Blades of Marmora have in fact been replaced by the Guns of Gamora. It was a strange place. A scuffle ensued to try and keep the meteor away from the evil alternate Alteans but in doing so let it fall into Lotor's hands instead, and he made off with it.

Everyone is kind of bummed about that until they fucking find Shiro, finally. The Black lion picks up a distress signal and they find him in a Galra fighter on the verge of death in the dead of space, so that's great. But whatever, Shiro is back! Everything is great now. At least until the subject of lion assignment comes up. Now they had six paladins and five lions.

Lance offers to step down first, but Keith tells him no. Keith is the one who tries to step down instead, the moment trouble happens and they have to deploy. However, when Shiro gets into the lion, she no longer responds to him. Turns out Keith was still the black paladin, after all. Keith isn't super happy about this, but he goes and they take care of business with Shiro providing support from the ship. This would be fine but it turns out Keith and Shiro's leadership styles clash horribly and they end up arguing a lot during the fight! Though they succeed, destroying something important Lotor was trying to get his hands on, things are kind of weird between them and Keith confides to Shiro that he doesn't think he's cut out for this. Shiro tries to assure him otherwise but the air is awkward after that.

Then, the team gets proper exposition on the origins of the old paladins of voltron, what exactly Zarkon's deal is and how things went so terribly. Really they should have asked this from the start. With that we move right into season four.

At the start we see that Keith has been training with the Blades of Marmora as an actual operative in addition to flying the black lion as a paladin. Unfortunately these two duties have started clashing and Keith keeps missing important missions and assignments as a paladin in favor of his duties as a Blade. This all comes to a head when he gets stuck out in space on a Blade mission when Team Voltron really needed him during a fight. When he returns he finds his absence put a lot of people in trouble, but in doing so ...Shiro was able to reclaim the black lion. Keith, finding this to be a silver lining in this mess, points out that this is the way it should be and that with the information he gained from the last Blade mission, he will need to be away on something undercover for what might take weeks or months to complete. He tells them he's leaving Team Voltron.

Everyone is really startled by this, but they support him, and everyone flies in for a group hug. He leaves with a pretty sad look on his face and from there he's missing from season four entirely until the very end.

Team Voltron comes up with a plan to solidly take back an entire system by liberating one last planet in its midst. To do that it's a complicated joint effort between them, the rebels and the Blades. The rebels and the Blades are tasked with commandeering two very large cannons positioned in various space points while Voltron comes down to the planet to try and swiftly take out their command station. While they are successful in getting the cannons (and for some reason the Blades let Keith man their fucking cannon) it turns out that the planet they were trying to free? Actually used to be an Altean terraforming planet and Haggar just showed up in a ship and has used her crazy space magic to turn the thing into a bomb with the capacity to wipe out everything in ten systems. With Voltron trapped under a force field on the planet the rebels and the Blades join up to try and take out Haggars ship. However the shields are blocking any weapon they try firing. Time is literally ticking.

Keith decides that, okay, so the weapons aren't getting through, why not something bigger? In a last ditch effort to break through, Keith pilots his fighter with the intent to smash it though the shields. That is when he will arrive back in Verens, thinking that he's fucking offed himself in crashing against Haggar's ship. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Updated Personality:

The important thing of note here is that Keith hasn't developed the same way in canon that he would have after a year in Empatheias. Empatheias, which is a place of relative peace with the occasional crises here and there, let Keith open up. He was able to form strong bonds with the people around him, he's been encouraged to do things he's interested in and he's being allowed to be the shitty teenager he never got to be back home, with or without the space war. As such he's let down a lot of walls he's had built up over the years, he's really come into who he is as a person, being in Emp.

Meanwhile, in canon we see him struggle with the role of a leader that was forced upon him when they lost Shiro. We see him unable to control his anger, and we see him wall up and pull away from the people he's come to see as friends and family. On top of that, the kids are really never allowed to rest with threat of the Galra constantly hanging over their heads and the fate of the universe on their shoulders.

His task when he gets back is going to be to reconcile everything that happened for him back home with how everything has gone for him in Emp. He will see the place he came to see as his home and be reminded of the baleful stares of his team when he came in late from that Blade mission. He's going to struggle with his place in everything for some time, and likely regress back into his prickly loner attitude, throwing up walls to keep people out, in order to protect himself from being hurt. It will take time for him to come back out again.

There will also be the fact that he came out of this 97% sure that he died, and that will be something else for him to sort through, too.

Updated Abilities: None! He is the same as before!

Other: With this update he's going to lose the red bayard because he no longer is the one to wield it. As of this update it's in Lance's possession, instead.

Questions: His red paladin armor, which he's had the whole time, would that vanish, too? It's not really stated if he takes it with him when he leaves the team, but I strongly suspect he doesn't. Therefor it's technically not in his possession anymore even if I'm sure that if he ever returned to the team it would be his again. As it is, Keith will be coming in wearing another outfit anyway, so the question is, if his armor would poof away when he got back, like the red bayard?

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Player: Melonbread
Character: Chise Hatori
Current Canon Point: Post Chapter 32, "Examples are better than precept."
Updated Canon Point: Post Chapter 38, "The darkest hour is that before the dawn."

Updated Background:
During her sleep after waking Elias from his own, Chise does a bit of out of body experience wandering. Chise's forte in magic lies in the field of sleeping and dreams it seems, given how she put Elias into such a deep sleep with a lullaby, and she experiences another piece of her skills here. In this dream she ends up on a busy street and finds Cartaphilius among many transparent looking people, feeling his emotions and pain as she does so. Cartaphilius himself can't seem to recognize his own name and doesn't remember anything from their previous meeting. He tells Chise he can see right through her like a ghost and so he assumes she's already dead but doesn't realize it.

They talk for a bit with Cartaphilius revealing some sort of memory involving finding a creature beneath the earth and his conflict between being Caraphilius and being 'Joseph' at the same time. When he begins to beg for a way to find salvation and to be saved, Chise wakes up horrified and clings to Ruth. She tries to piece together why he would ask to be saved and why it almost seemed like he was someone else. In the midst of this Lindel's selkie is awoken from where she was dozing while she waited on Chise to wake up. Alice enters and hurries Chise along because something big has happened in the two days Chise has been asleep.

In the living room she meets Tory Innes, an enthusiastic research from the College, as well as Adolf Straud. The College is an organization made up of and working for the sake of wizards. They teach youngsters with magical potential how to be wizards and pass on the knowledge to preserve it for future generations. The news they bear is grim - whelps from the land of dragons, where Lindel lives and Chise had visited before, have been poached. They're fairly sure Cartaphilius is behind it. They surmise he means to use the dragons as part of his research. They ask Elias for his help as a former student of Lindel's and Elias declines, at least until Chise reminds him of the time he enclosed her in his vines during a jealous tantrum and states she can't stand the idea of the whelps she played with being in chains.

Chise ends up stringing some things together and wondering if Cartaphilius might be selling the dragons for money at the very same auction house she was sold at. In the end she borrows a phone and calls Seth, the mysterious man she made her own contract to be sold with, finding that one of the whelps has been put up for auction. She secures invitations to the auction for the group and there she ends up making contact with someone who offers to help pay for the dragon in exchange for a little of it's blood.

In the end though the whelp is so frightened by it's experiences with Cartaphilius that it ends up sucking up all the magic in the auction house to achieve sudden growth into it's adult form and in fact eventually devolving into something like a wyrm, capable of breathing fire. Chise can hear it's pained, frightened voice as it repeats over and over again how scared it is. She begs Elias to tell her how to calm the dragon so she can return it to it's home. Elias' plan is to have Chise draw the dragon's magical power to herself and before it settles Elias will take in the power.

The plan fails unfortunately. Elias and Ruth, who was hiding in Chise's shadow this whole time, fall off of the dragon. Chise decides rather than wait for everyone to catch up with her and the dragon, she'll do as Elias said - absorb the dragon's magic into herself. Unfortunately the dragon's magic also comes with a price - the dragon's curse. The fear, madness and pain coursing through the dragon translated into the dragon's magic and now gnaws it's way through Chise's body. The human body can't handle this, much like it couldn't handle her sleigh beggy abilities to begin with, and so her body will break down over time. Chise takes this news in stride, commenting that adding a third curse to the two she already bears (her body and her mother's words to her just before she committed suicide) isn't that bad. Elias retreats then for a full day to gather his thoughts. The pair agree to find a way for them to stay together and beat the dragon's curse.

Soon after this the pair receive a visit from the person who offered to help pay for the whelp at the auction, a witch named Mariel. Mariel reminds Chise quite a bit of her mother and attempts to use a little magic to help heal Chise's arm, now heavily changed thanks to the dragon's curse. Mariel talks about how she has the blood of temple prostitutes in her veins and like spirits or fair folk can lend power to others. She offers Chise a spot in her coven as well as the possibility of finding a cure for the dragon's curse thanks to witches specializing in curses. As she leaves she tells Elias through the same magic she used to talk to Chise at the auction that she doesn't believe Chise will live to see spring. Chise also celebrates her birthday on this day, though she had managed to totally forget about it.

After this Elias and Chise use their invitation to join the coven for a meeting. It turns out the coven has no way to help them lift the dragon's curse after all - or so they say. Mariel wants to stay on the good side of Phyllis, the head of the coven, and so slips Elias a note afterward without Chise noticing. Experienced in moving curses from one person to another, she tells Elias the only way she knows of to deal with Chise's own curse.

"The only thing that can take the place of a life is another life."

Updated Personality:
The biggest change in Chise's personality is her wish to live now. She has gradually come to learn that she doesn't have to strive for worth through the approval of others and that even someone like her can earn thanks from others all on her own. She claims taking the magic from the dragon whelp was the first unselfish thing she's done for someone else and so it likely is, at least in her own eyes. Gradually she's gone from simply wanting to die when she sold herself off in the beginning of the series and feeling relief when she learned she didn't have that long left thanks to her body to now actually looking forward to life. She's making tentative plans, hoping for things, looking forward to other things she can do. Learning magic, helping others and finding a family in Elias, Ruth and Silky has given her a purpose and has begun to unfreeze a heart that wasn't quite so frozen to begin with.

Chise now actively wants to live longer and no longer passively sits by while Elias searches for ways to extend her life.

Updated Abilities:
No updates here, save the dragon's curse is sapping away at her life bit by bit.

Other: I'll be on hiatus for most of the month but I plan for Chise to pop off for her canon update immediately and likely return around the 9th/10th. That way she can exchange gifts and spend Christmas in her new home here, taking some time before she tells anyone else (save close CR) about the curse.

ALSO, Chise will be returning with her left arm looking like this. She tends to keep it covered either with a sleeve or a cape but she can still use it despite it's claws, gnarled appearance and size.

Questions:
So technically in canon, Chise likely only has a few months at most to live before the dragon's curse consumes her body completely. I do have plans for her to seek out more Arehtei help now that she ICly knows about a ritual using her crystal that could help her live longer that I'll likely PM or contact mods about soon. If I can though I'd like to slow down the progression of the dragon's curse while she's here so I can have time to set things up.

Also Chise is building her own garden and is going to be using the excess emotional magic she produces to feed the garden, thereby wicking some of it away from herself and helping her body out. Would it be possible for her to keep a garden blooming through most of the year thanks to that magic?

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Player: Gore
Character: Steven Quartz Universe
Current Canon Point: Post-Mindful Education
Updated Canon Point: Post-Kevin Party

Updated Background:

After Steven's previous canon point, the next important event to happen in his life was the sudden arrival of his Uncle Andy at the barn. Steven was unaware of this man's existence, and so he learned more about his family - Greg's original family, the Demayos. Although Andy was put-off by the Crystal Gems' ways and tried to leave, Steven managed to reach out to him and convinced him to give them a chance, because he valued his human family as well as the Crystal Gems. Later on, Steven received strange dreams that seemed to have to with Pink Diamond, and he believed that it was a key to finding out more information about what exactly happened to her, as the Crystal Gems have been secretive on the subject beyond confirming that Rose shattered Pink Diamond.

Steven and Greg caught a ride from Uncle Andy to Korea, where they investigated Steven's dreams and found that it was caused by an empathetic connection with Blue Diamond, who was on Earth to mourn Pink Diamond. Steven managed to hide from her, but Greg wasn't as lucky. Blue Diamond decided to 'save' Greg after having a meaningful talk with him, and so she spiritied him away to take him to Pink Diamond's old human zoo. Steven enlisted the help of the Crystal Gems and used the Ruby squad's former ship to travel into space, where Steven was able to infilitrate the human zoo and save his father. They also got to witness a conversation (and musical number!) between Yellow Diamond and Blue Diamond, in a room full of bubbled rose quartz soldiers. Despite Yellow wanting to get rid of anything associated with the rebellion and Pink's demise, Blue wanted to preserve them as they were Pink's creations. After returning to Earth, Steven had his room create an imaginary version of Rose Quartz, and he vented his anger about her decision to her. Although he struggled with all of the lies that Rose had apparently told, he ultimately managed to calm himself down by remembering one thing that he still believed to be the truth: that Rose meant it when she said that she wanted to give birth to him. Greg later helped to clarify that Rose had no ulterior motive in wanting to create Steven beyond just wanting to have a child.

One of the lost Rubies later crashed on Earth. As she was specifically the friendliest and the most naive of the group, Steven tried to let her into the Crystal Gems. However, she ultimately betrayed them and escaped with the Ruby spaceship into the depths of space. Soon afterwards, many of Steven's friends started going missing. It turned out that they were all being captured by a pair of Homeworld gems known as Aquamarine and Topaz. Steven also found out that they were specifically collecting humans that Steven had mentioned to Peridot long ago, as Peridot had confused the names of individual people with the names of specific types of humans. The last human they were looking for was "My Dad", and Steven posed as My Dad to get close enough to them to lead an escape. The escape attempt was foiled, however, at which point Steven decided to take responsibility, feeling guilty for putting his loved ones in danger just as he had perceived Rose to have done. Thus, he told them that he was Rose Quartz so that they would take him instead. They complied, and so Steven was taken away to Homeworld while everyone else was left behind on Earth - everyone except for Lars, who hadn't managed to escape from the ship.

On Homeworld, Steven was appointed a Blue Zircon as a lawyer and was made to stand trial before Blue and Yellow Diamond for the shattering of Pink Diamond. As the trial carried on, Steven learned more facts about the shattering that did not make sense and led the Blue Zircon (as well as seemingly Steven himself) to believe that it was someone other than Rose who shattered Pink Diamond. After Blue Zircon tried pointing the finger at the remaining Diamonds, Yellow poofed him, and the trial devolved into the two Diamonds arguing with each other. While they were distracted, Steven and Lars managed to escape together into an underground area. There, they came across a group of misfit gems called the Off Colors. They banded together to survive, and with Lars's help they were able to destroy a group of drones that were set to shatter them. However, Lars was fatally wounded in the detonation of one of the drones. Steven immediately mourned him, only to find that his tears brought him back to life. Specifically, it brought him back in a condition similar to that of Steven's Lion, complete with his hair linking to the same pocket dimension. Thus, Steven was able to return to Earth through Lars's hair, reluctantly leaving Lars and the Off Colors behind.

Upon returning to Earth, he had a heartfelt reunion with the Crystal Gems, Greg and Connie, only to find that Connie was unhappy with Steven for giving himself up and not even trying to form Stevonnie with her during the battle with Aquamarine. Connie then left with Lion, and she stopped answering Steven's texts. Steven started to learn his lesson when he tried to help Mayor Dewey with his re-election campaign, and despite all of the effort that he put into it, Dewey ultimately gave up. He spread the news about what happened in space to Sadie, Lapis and Peridot as well. Lapis was immediately struck by a fear that Homeworld would be coming to attack Earth again and, once Peridot chose to stand her ground on Earth, she fled into space with the barn. Steven accepted her decision, even though he wanted her to stay. Ultimately, Steven was able to reconnect with Connie at a party thrown by Kevin. He apologized to her, and the two of them rode Lion back home together.

Updated Personality:

Throughout this stregtch of episodes, Steven has undergone several shifts in his behavior. Steven has gotten to the point where he's more open about his frustrations, particularly the ones relating to the Crystal Gems keeping him in the dark about what happened with Pink Diamond, and he's also grown frustrated with Rose Quartz himself now that he knows what he does about her negative qualities. These feelings do seem to have been softened somewhat by the events of "Storm in the Room", where he managed to make some sort of a peace with his illusion of his mother. However, these feelings have also lead to him acting as a martyr and giving himself up to Homeworld when he feels guilty about endangering others, because he feels that this is penace for both his and Rose's mistakes. It's a far cry when he insisted that he and Connie should be equals on the battlefield, or "jam buds", which ends up being the root of Connie's frustrations when he returns to Earth. Steven comes to see part of the error in this self-sacrifical method of thinking while going through the process of trying to make up with Connie, and they ultimately declared each other jam buds once more.

Updated Abilities:

Only one ability update this time, but it's a bit of a doozy!

- Healing Tears: It was initially shown that Steven inherited Rose's healing tears only in the form of healing spit. However, in recent episodes Steven's own tears have developed a healing ability, although it only activates in extreme situations. Specifically, it has only been shown to activate when Steven mourned the freshly dead Lars and had the power to bring him back to life. However, it brings him back to life in a state similar to Lion, who is implied to have died and undergone the same process in the past: those brought back by these tears have their hair and skin turned pink, and their hair/mane connects to a special pocket dimension that is shared between Lars and Lion. They also end up having a slowed heartbeat and are implied to not need to eat, leading to comparisons to a zombie.

Of course, in-game this isn't an ability that I'll use without asking the mods and a player in question beforehand.

Other: Nothing of note!

Questions: None.

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Regarding Steven's Healing Tears - this is fine! He just won't be able to bring the dead back to life, though, as they disappear immediately after dying. But other than that, you should be good!

Player: Amanda
Character: Hope Estheim
Current Canon Point: During crystal stasis in FF13
Updated Canon Point: end of the FFXIII trilogy, in the New World

Updated Background: I'm linking to it because it's honestly incredibly long and spans two more games and a couple novellas.

Updated Personality: He's a lot more mature now, being in his mid-20s and with memories of his old life (which is about 1000 years worth too). His growing intelligence and maturity from the first have come to fruition, he's intelligent and a lot more confident in himself. A bit of a natural leader and charismatic, having risen up to to Director of the Academy by age 19 back in the old world. However, he will still show his usual signs of emotional turmoil and vulnerability due to his experiences from being a l'Cie and what happens in the interim between 13-2 and Lightning Returns when Bhunivelze essentially made him lose his mind and then tortured him for 169 years, forcing him to physically regress back to 14 despite having his adult mind. He was also rendered unable to feel emotions, which he noted in the beginning of Lightning Returns as him being able to remember things, he had all his memories intact, but he felt like he was watching someone else's life instead and could not attach any emotion to even the most terrible of memories. In fact, he wasn't even sure he was really Hope Estheim by this time. While his mind had healed, he was unable to really be himself when finally reunited with Lightning as well. Now, in the New World, Hope is one of the few who has his memories intact, and wrote them all down in a memoir. He remains much the same, but doesn't want to be a leader or anything of the sort, although his name is rising in the academic community for his works in humanities and society but he is no where near being a politician or leader of the world, nor does he want to be.

Updated Abilities: He's a normal human now, no magic or anything. RIP.

Other: None

Questions: None

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Player: Kalyn
Character: Miu Hinasaki
Current Canon Point: Final Drop
Updated Canon Point: Post-game ('Bad' End)

Updated Background: Miu found her mother and accompanied her to the rift between the world of the living and the world of the dead. She finally was able to talk to her mother about her abandonment and how afraid she is to be alone, her jealousy and her insecurities and how she thinks she understands her mother a bit more now.

As the Sunset beckons, Miu begs her mother not to leave. Miku promises to stay with her, but after a few seconds Miu calls her a liar as Miku disappears. Miu admits that she knows Miku's been dying/dead all along and only a shadow, but that she'd been clinging to it anyhow. She acknowledges that her mother is gone and that she now has no one, and wakes up alone at the antique shop once more.

Updated Personality: Not much, but she's a little more fragile and lonely now, but on the mend. She's more willing to acknowledge her flaws and insecurities and talk about them. She's also going to be focused on finding other things to live for/drive her, since her main motivation (her mother) is gone.

Updated Abilities: N/a

Other: n/a

Questions: n/a

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Player: LoneWolfPrincess
Character: Princess Allura
Current Canon Point: Season 2, Episode 13
Updated Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 6

Updated Background: Since defeating Zarkon and Shiro disappearing, Team Voltron’s been busy freeing more planets and building the Voltron Coalition, with Allura handling the diplomatic side of things by holding talks to form new alliances. Unfortunately, everyone’s confidence is a bit shaky since, well, Voltron can’t be formed anymore. The leaders of the planets being courted for the coalition are especially hesitant, no matter how tempting Hunk’s pizza rolls are. After a LOT of intense discussion and arguing, everyone agrees that they should find a new paladin for the Black Lion and start the search from within. Keith is chosen by the Black Lion (much to his upset), and there’s JUST barely enough time for Allura to be rejected by the Red Lion (which stings not just because of her distress at others risking their lives for the war, but because it was King Alfor’s Lion) before Voltron gets a distress call from one of the newly freed planets. Keith, Hunk, and Pidge fly off into a trap set by new acting emperor Prince Lotor to analyze the Lions and their pilots, while Lance struggles to convince Blue to let him in after she suddenly puts up her particle barrier. Allura goes down to the hangar to help him out, and it turns out it’s because the Red Lion has chosen him now. After a quick pep talk from the princess, Lance rushes off to join the others in Red... and then the Blue Lion lowers the barrier for Allura. She takes control and joins the others and the sight “scares” Lotor and his forces away. Allura becomes the new Blue Paladin, donning new pink armor and Lance passing the blue bayard onto her.

During the fight, Keith had placed a tracker on Lotor’s ship, and orders the guys to get to their Lions right away so they can follow him. Buuut in a shocking turn of events, it turns out chasing after an enemy with only two pilots knowing how their Lions work- none of which are the leader- is not the best idea. Allura especially struggles to control Blue and keep up during chases, getting frustrated that the Lion won’t respond to her exactly how she wants like the Castle would. Even worse, Lotor was counting on the inexperience and leads them to a planet with a highly combustible atmosphere AND a magnetic field crazy enough to render their navigation and coms useless. The team ends up separated and lost on the planet’s surface, and not only does Allura have to deal with being alone and not communicating well with her Lion, but with being pursued by Lotor. In a moment of frustration, she admits that no matter how hard she tries and how much depends on her, she can’t control everything and that she needs Blue’s help. It’s this admission that allows Blue to truly open up to her and their bond to properly form, just in time to turn the tables back on Lotor. Hope you like frozen wings, purple Loki! (Okay, she didn’t actually say that, Lance still needs to teach her to trash talk.) She finds the other paladins, leads them off the planet, and- with a team rallying speech from Keith- they’re FINALLY able to form Voltron again. (Allura’s a leg now!)

A little while after this, the Castle picks up a distress signal... from an Altean ship. Hopeful for survivors, Allura immediately sets course for the signal and find an Altean exploration ship stuck halfway through a strange, glowing portal. The team investigates the ship and goes through the portal with Voltron. The team finds themselves in a whole other reality, where Altea was able to defeat the Galra Empire during the initial onslaught under “Empress” Allura’s command, and Slav and Sven (aka 80s dub!Shiro) are enemies of Altea. Altean Commander Hira allows them to analyze a comet with the same reality-phasing molecular structure as Voltron the abandoned ship had found, and persuades Allura to bring the ship fully to the Alteans’ side of the portal so they can take the comet and help spread peace throughout every reality. Unfortunately, this method of “spreading peace” is turning races they deem violent into mind-controlled slaves, and once this comes to light, Allura refuses to help Hira further. With Sven and Slav’s help, the paladins escape the ship and take the comet back to their reality, out of Hira’s reach. Unfortunately, this was all yet ANOTHER of Lotor’s plans, and he literally yanks the comet out of Voltron’s hands before flying off, leaving Allura kicking herself for letting her attachment to Altea blind her.

After this, though, miracle of miracles, they find Shiro! While he recovers from his time in Galra captivity and escape, Allura does her best to improve as a paladin in her Lion and in ground fights, although it does make Lance and Keith wonder how they’re going to fit six paladins in five lions. Eventually Shiro is well enough to participate again, and the team finds Lotor raiding a Galra outpost for a lost lens from the giant teludav from Season Two. Despite Keith sitting out so Shiro can pilot the Black Lion again, it won’t respond to him and Keith still has to fly it. Unfortunately, even on the bridge Shiro’s commands to Keith and the rest of the team clash with and undermine Keith’s leadership, with Voltron barely able to keep the lens out of Lotor's hands, but letting Lotor escape in a new, comet-built ship before they can take it out.

During the next month after this (but not before a backstory drop from Coran), Keith begins distancing himself from the team and their efforts to build the Voltron Coalition, instead spending more time with the Blade of Marmora. Allura tries to tell Keith that the team can’t survive without him, but the words seem to fall on stony ground. Eventually this creates a situation in which Keith is absent when the team receives a distress call, leaving only four Lions and no way to form Voltron while under very heavy fire. This leads to Shiro reconnecting with the Black Lion, but the team is still sore at Keith for not being there when they needed their leader. Keith takes the moment to officially step down as a paladin to work with the Blades on a long-term mission. Everyone is sad to see him go, but they give him their blessing (and a group hug, which Allura actually joins for once!).

Pidge finally tracks down and reunites with her brother ~~space Brock~~ Matt, and after bringing him back to the Castle, the Holt siblings and Hunk create a real-time tracking system for the entire Galra empire and stumble upon a secret Galra frequency... and through it Team Voltron learns that a. Zarkon is still alive, and b. he’s hunting down Lotor for what they assume is a power struggle. Yay? Oh, and Allura and Coran learn where cow’s milk comes from!

And then The Voltron Show! happens, which can be summarized thusly!

With the help of the tracking system, the team realizes that there’s only one planet in a line of freed ones that’s still under Galra control, and if they liberate that one they can cut off a third of the Empire from central command, making them much easier targets. Shiro lays down a plan to take control of two powerful cannons and distract the remaining forces while Voltron takes control of Naxzela. Voltron’s attack goes well despite a hiccup here and there, when suddenly pillars rise from Naxzela’s core to generate a planet-wide force field. The gravitational forces become much, MUCH stronger, with Voltron not powerful enough to fly them out. (But somehow it doesn’t squish the paladins from the inside out, yay sci-fi physics!) They find out that Haggar is powering Naxzela’s defense systems from afar with her magic, and the increasing pressure combined with Naxzela’s explosive soil makes the whole planet a bomb large enough to destroy several solar systems and take out all of the Voltron coalition. Voltron tries to escape again but the gravity is too strong... until Lance tells Allura that she might be able to help them escape. With his encouragement, Allura uses her energy and her connection to Voltron to create a shielding blue aura around it, allowing them to fly out and burst through Naxzela’s force field. The hope, trust, and relief she feels in that moment of success are so strong that they bring Allura back to Empatheias.

Updated Personality: While a lot of her core personality remains the same, becoming the blue paladin brought forth a LOT of emotional growth for Allura in her world. One of the Blue Lion’s first and most important lessons for Allura has been to let go and to not shoulder everything herself. Even before Allura was chosen, she needed to let go of her desire to be the red paladin. Just like Lance had to let go of the idea of being Voltron’s leader for glory, Allura had to let go of the idea of following in her father’s footsteps and “risking her life.” Trusting Lance with an honor that means a LOT to her is what allowed her to be chosen by Blue and to follow her own path. And while being pursued by Lotor, it’s only when she stops trying to control Blue and admits to needing help and guidance too, to this being an equal partnership, that their bond reaches its full strength and Blue allows her access the full extent of its power. While she's still very dedicated to their fight and can still be stubborn at times, being flexible and trusting others are new forms of strength that she’s more willing to tap into now.

That new willingness to trust others, as well as simply being a full part of the team instead of mission control and a self-set pillar of strength, also allows Allura to develop deeper bonds with the other paladins, being more willing to spend time with them even outside of missions and training. (Not nearly as much as her development in Empatheias, but baby steps in the middle of a war are still better than nothing.) She shows a more direct concern for the paladins’ emotional well-being, asking Keith if he’s alright after losing a fellow Blade during an intelligence mission, and even allows herself to show a little more emotion around them instead of trying to be a calm, strong, supportive leader all the time. This has especially strengthened her relationship with Lance. Before, their interactions outside of the simple princess/paladin professional relationship mostly consisted of Lance flirting with her and Allura rebuffing him. Now they have a respect and even friendship with each other through their connection to the Blue Lion, supporting each other through moments of doubt and Lance even serving as a sort of mentor for blue paladin-hood.

Updated Abilities: Along with keeping her previous abilities, as the new Blue Paladin Allura now has a bond with the Blue Lion of Voltron. This allows her to pilot and communicate more deeply with Blue, activate its freeze ray and sonic cannon abilities, and form the right leg of Voltron when in sync with the other four Lions and their paladins. She now wields the blue bayard, a weapon that can change forms depending on the user and their thoughts, with Allura’s preferred mode being that of an energy chainsword/whip. The bayards can also be used to unlock hidden abilities within Voltron, but so far neither Lance nor Allura have been able to use the blue bayard in this manner so it's unknown what, if any, of those hidden abilities are yet. (And it's unlikely that Voltron will be formed in game anyway.) Her time as a paladin has also honed her ability to fight alongside a team and improved her physical stamina, able to fight on the ground for long periods of time and no longer collapsing after using large amounts of her energy to power things.

(Also, since I brought it up when I first apped her, apparently playing around too much with quintessence directly is like the equivalent of bloodbending/the Dark Side in that it’s very powerful but also addictive and mentally and physically changes a person, and it’s what made Haggar jump off the deep end and take Zarkon with her. ~~And we STILL don’t know how quintessence magic actually WORKS, darnit!~~ Sooo yeah looks like there’s an IC reason Allura hasn’t used it during her time in Empatheias after all.)

Other: Allura will be arriving in full paladin armor, and with the blue bayard in her... little hammerspace holster thingy.

Questions: Since Allura’s mice are here as well, would they be disappearing to update with her, staying behind, or is it up to me?

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Player: Ryoko
Character: Kylo Ren
Current Canon Point: End of TFA, watching Rey leave.
Updated Canon Point: End of TLJ, watching Rey leave.

Updated Background:

The FIRST ORDER reigns. Having decimated the peaceful Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke now deploys his merciless legions to seize military control of the galaxy.

Only General Leia Organa’s band of RESISTANCE fighters stand against the rising tyranny, certain that Jedi Master Luke Skywalker will return and restore a spark of hope to the fight.

But the Resistance has been exposed. As the First Order speeds toward the rebel base, the brave heroes mount a desperate escape...

Having failed to obtain the map to Skywalker, fallen in battle to an untrained girl, and still reeling from the murder of his father, The Last Jedi finds Kylo Ren, frankly, a complete mess. He's berated and mocked by his master, leading him to (after attempting to attack Snoke and being quickly put down) smash his mask in a rage and summon his starfighter, taking his anger out on the Resistance ship they've just tracked through hyperspace. However, even in his anger, he finds himself unable to fire on the bridge where he knows his mother stands—only for his escort ships to fire upon it instead. It's only through the Force he knows she doesn't perish, as impossible as it seems.

As the dwindling force of the Resistance struggles to find an escape route, Ren returns to Supreme Leader Snoke's ship, the Supremacy, and finds unexpectedly that he's able to see the girl Rey, as if she was right in front of him. While the first instance of this results in Rey attempting to shoot him, his curiosity is piqued, and he begins to ask questions about it, about what she can see and why they're connected. His interest in this scavenger girl who somehow managed to best him starts to rise, and he doesn't even attempt to resist the connection with her, even sharing with her the truth of why he turned against the Jedi and killed his father. After she shares her doubts and worries about a supernatural experience she had and they both reassure the other they're not alone, she asks for him to return and holds out her hand, and their projections reach out to each other. When they finally touch, it's almost as if Ren manifests physically on Ahch-to, where Skywalker has been hiding for years. But Luke comes upon this and interrupts them, using the Force to destroy the hut Rey sat in and shocking the two of them into breaking the connection.

We discover the truth of the Jedi's exile: Luke Skywalker, while training Ben, became so fearful of the darkness inside his nephew that he lit his lightsaber as if to strike down the boy. Even if the desire to do so passed immediately, the damage was done—Ben saw a man standing over him with an active weapon, whom he had already begun to distrust thanks to the darkness that Snoke cultivated in him. Fearing for his life and convinced that the Jedi aimed to follow through his obvious threat, Ben summoned his own lightsaber to defend himself, bringing the building down on the two of them. After this, he took several of Skywalker's students and killed the rest, reducing the temple to ruins and escaping.

Back in the present, Kylo and Rey both realize they've seen visions—hers is of a redeemed Ben Solo, who will come with her to the Resistance if she simply goes to him. Ren, meanwhile, sees her joining him and fighting by his side. Despite Luke's doubts, Rey departs and uses an escape pod to launch herself towards the Supremacy, where Kylo Ren is already waiting for her. They speak briefly in private on the way to Snoke's throne room, revealing their visions to each other, Rey earnest in her desire to bring Kylo back with her and claiming he won't kneel before Snoke, and Ren claiming he's seen the truth of her parents.

While Kylo does indeed kneel before Snoke as Rey is mocked and tortured for information, Snoke's constant taunts, belittling, and eventual command to kill Rey result in Kylo's betrayal. His uncertainty regarding the situation becomes resolve, as Snoke sees, but while the Supreme Leader sees the killing blow he wants to see, the recipient is indeed Kylo's "true enemy"—that is, Snoke himself. He uses the Force to subtly manipulate the lightsaber at Snoke's side, activating it and cutting his former master in half. Snoke's guards then descend on the pair, and Kylo and Rey fight together to kill them all.

With the battle done, Rey begs Kylo to order the First Order to stop attacking the Resistance, thinking he's redeemed himself, but killing his master wasn't something Kylo was quite prepared for, and in that moment he decides to take the mantle of Supreme Leader. He tells Rey he still intends to let the past die, revealing that Rey's parents were nothing more than junk traders, claiming they sold her off and have been long dead, his point being that her origins are utterly mundane and unimportant.

"You come from nothing. You're nothing," he says. "But not to me." He asks Rey to join him to fight and rule by his side, even pleading as he holds out his hand towards her, but she similarly pleads for him to not go down that path. He holds his hand out once more, and Rey reaches for it... only to attempt to pull the blue lightsaber towards her from Kylo's belt. The two of them struggle to pull it towards themselves, but their conflict is so great that the lightsaber breaks, split in half.

The Resistance leader Admiral Holdo, alone on a ship in the hopes of allowing her fellow rebels to escape, changes course towards the Supremacy and goes to lightspeed—tearing both ships to pieces.

In the chaos, Ren is knocked unconscious and Rey escapes on Snoke's ship, taking the pieces of the lightsaber with her. General Hux, seeking orders from Supreme Leader, discovers the scene and nearly pulls out a blaster to kill the unconscious knight, but Kylo jolts awake and explains the situation. The girl killed Supreme Leader, he claims, and begins to direct Hux to order his troops to follow the Resistance to Crait, the nearby planet they'd escaped to. The general doesn't seem to be having it at first, but Kylo quickly silences his arguments with a Force choke, bringing him to his knees. "Supreme Leader is dead," says Ren. "Long live Supreme Leader," replies Hux, recognizing Kylo Ren's authority, at least for the moment.

Ren commands the First Order down to Crait, bringing with them a cannon that will pierce the wall of the old base that protects the few Resistance members left. Livid when he spots the Millenium Falcon, he impulsively orders their fighters to focus fire on his late father's ship whose weapons Rey is currently manning. Despite that, their attack on the barrier is successful, but Luke Skywalker suddenly appears, stepping forward from the base. Determined to fulfill his destiny, he orders every gun to fire upon the Jedi, but finds that it does nothing. He decides to take care of the matter himself, ordering his ship to land so he can face his former teacher, and Ren expresses his anger towards his uncle and attempts to attack. But even though Luke deactivates his lightsaber and seems to get hit—again, nothing happens.

Kylo realizes that Luke was never actually there at all; he was projecting himself through the Force as a distraction for the Resistance to escape. Luke says his goodbyes, though claims Kylo will see him again, and disappears. Although he and his soldiers march into the base, it's now empty, aside from the golden pair of dice his father kept on his ship. Through his connection with Rey, he watches her and the Resistance escape in the Millennium Falcon.

Updated Personality:

Kylo Ren still feels conflict over his actions, and while the main instigator for his turn to the dark has been eliminated, it doesn't mean he's immediately turned back to the light. Snoke's manipulations coming to a breaking point, his failure to kill his mother, his failure to kill his uncle, and Rey's rejection of his offer have only further driven him into chaos, anger and hatred. He is, essentially, on his own at this point, and without Snoke's guiding hand, he's less focused despite being more motivated. He intends to follow through on the First Order's goals, having become Supreme Leader, even if he has little idea how to truly accomplish this other than destroying the Jedi and the Resistance—that is, Rey and his mother's small group.

That said, the way he looks at Rey when she departs on the Falcon isn't exactly the look of a man who wants to kill.

He is still capable of caring for people, as shown in his relationship with Rey, defending her and asking her to join him so they can rule together. It's also made clear with his inability to fire upon the bridge of the ship his mother was commanding. He's also come to a point where he no longer intends to suffer the manipulations and insults of Snoke, and he quickly decides to take on that authority he feels he's destined for, not bothering to humor Hux's arguments about his new role. The way he treats his underlings doesn't change; he's still very much willing to display his power when he's questioned. Hux gets tossed around a bit.

Overall, he hasn't changed so much at his core; we simply understand him a bit more, and we've seen the more intense parts of both sides: his ability to care, and the amount of darkness and anger he still holds over the past. Still, he has felt a harsh rejection, been made a fool of by his uncle, and is taking on a position of leadership he may not entirely be able to handle. It makes his temper easier to trigger, for certain—he's reduced to screaming orders when he sees his late father's ship ruining his plans to destroy the Resistance. Not that he was the most stable man in the first place...

Updated Abilities: It's confirmed he can do mind tricks I guess? (Or at least he tries to do one.) And he has a telepathic link with Rey through the Force, through which they can project themselves so it seems as if they were standing in front of the other. ... obviously this won't affect anything but his CR with Rey. :v

Other: Planning for him to be missing the 17th to the 20th ICly! I'll mark for spoilers too.

Questions: Hmmm I'll talk to you guys in mod chat later. I have Ideas.

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Character: Eva Rosalene
Current Canon Point: Post Sigmund Corp Holiday Minisode #2
Updated Canon Point: Post Finding Paradise

Updated Background:

There's no exact canon timeline of where Finding Paradise falls after the second minisode so I'll just jump right into the second full game.

A good summary of the plot for "Finding Paradise". SPOILERS WITHIN.

Updated Personality:
Little has changed with Eva between the minisode and this game. She's still Eva, though she might not be as strict about following the contract anymore since the Johnny Wyles' case.

Updated Abilities: None.

Other: N/A

Questions: None.

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Player: Mouself
Character: Rey
Current Canon Point: End of TFA
Updated Canon Point: End of TLJ

Updated Background: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rey#Finding_the_Last_Jedi

Updated Personality: Essentially, Rey is coming back a little less naive. Luke wasn’t a cool badass legend ready to grab a laser sword and Save the World. The Jedi weren’t just awesome mysterious magical wizards who always knew everything and did everything right. Kylo Ren wasn’t a heartless evil monster, nor was Ben Solo a noble hero who just needed a good pep talk to snap him out of his goth phase. Nothing was as cut-and-dry as she expected it to be, and Rey’s had to do some growing up to digest all of that.

Most importantly, Rey lost her naivety regarding her own identity. She’s no longer so fixated on her family, having had to finally face the fact that they abandoned her with no apparent plan to return. And now that her family isn’t the answer to the question of who she is, Rey is left to come up with that for herself, and she learns that she doesn’t have to be the “nobody from nowhere” she’s accepted that she is until now. When she meets the Resistance survivors, Poe has heard of her, and Leia assures her that they have “everything they need” to rebuild the Rebellion in Rey, basically telling Rey that she can be a hero. Even Kylo’s botched confession that she “has no place in this story” and is “nothing” (but not to him) helps her, if in a roundabout, perhaps not entirely as intended way, because after that she sets out to carve herself a place in the story. (Which is not to say that she’s trying to prove him wrong. More like he gets her thinking, and she turns his pessimistic “you’re nothing” into optimistic “you’re right… so I’m gonna start being something!”)

Updated Abilities: Considering she only got about 1.5 lessons on the Force, I tend to believe it’s not necessarily Rey’s abilities that got an upgrade, rather her confidence. As she becomes more confident in her own identity and self-worth, she also uses the Force more easily. That said, here’s a list.

~~Lifting rocks~~ Telekenesis - she’s better at this now. Like “lifting 30 giant boulders without breaking a sweat” better.
Lightsaber stuff - she doesn’t have to do mid-battle meditations to be badass anymore.
Force Skype??? - she doesn’t really have control over this, but she and Kylo Ren have a freaky Force connection that allows them to see and hear each other, as well as make physical contact, from across extremely long distances.
Believing... in herself...? - idk she’s just more conscious of the Force now. 1 out of those 1.5 Force lessons was really good.

Other: I’m planning to have her blue lightsaber disappear with her when she goes for canon update, and she’ll come back with it broken. Because frankly the last thing Emp needs is more versions of that saber. Also I was gonna have her gone the 24th through the 27th!

Questions: Nope!

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Player: Sara
Character: Armitage Hux
Current Canon Point: Near the end of TFA, where he finds Kylo in the snow at Starkiller.
Updated Canon Point: Near the end of TLJ, where he stares at Ren's sunken form on Crait.

Updated Background: Summary of events for Hux during TLJ.

Updated Personality: Hux's core personality is still the same-- he's ambitious, ruthless, dedicated to the First Order, and takes joy in seeing the Resistance destroyed. However, since losing Starkiller, things have not been going well for him. Instead of eliminating the weakened Resistance, they managed to completely escape, mostly due to the fault of Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. That, combined with losing the Dreadnought and half of their fleet over the course of a day, has made him underestimate the Resistance less. He knows now what lengths they'll go through to survive and he looks less than surprised when they escape Crait even though they were supposedly cornered.

But speaking of the new Supreme Leader, Hux hates Ren even more now that he's taken the position after Snoke's death. It's a position that he's always wanted, despite the fact that he also wanted Snoke's approval. While that was mostly making sure that he didn't suffer a terrible fate under him, a part of Hux truly wanted his recognition. However, those same feelings do not exist for Ren. He doesn't seek praise from him, at best, he grudgingly respects the Force abilities his former rival has. So the only thing he wants from Ren is his title.

Hux is still willing to work with Ren to destroy the Resistance, but it's only so long until the general decides to betray him in some manner. He's just patient and willing to bide his time until then.

Updated Abilities: Nothing much. Although, it is confirmed that Hux has a hidden monomolecular blade up his sleeve. I'd like if he comes back with that blade.

Other: nah

Questions: Nope!

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Player: Zetsu
Character: Mikleo /

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Current Canon Point: Post final boss, pre-DLC/ Epilogue.
Updated Canon Point: Post epilogue.

Updated Background: Following Sorey going to sleep, Mikleo went to seal his resting place to prevent outsiders from interfering with his work or doing any harm to him while he slept. Once he was finished, he allowed Alisha and Rose to say their final goodbyes before leaving Sorey behind. It took many centuries before his best friend would wake up, and during that time Mikleo went to fulfill their dream by helping to purify the land and exploring as many ruins as he could. During one such exploration, Mikleo almost fell down a hole as the floor crumbled beneath him, but he was saved by a silhouetted Sorey.

Updated Personality: Honestly his personality doesn't really change that much, certainly a more older adult given his age and growth with time but hes still the ever curious ruin exploring nerd.. just with more worldly knowledge!

Updated Abilities: No real changes, his abilities are more or less the same- just easier to use with centuries of practice. However, as it's known to be within majority seraphim's ability, they're able to make 'blessed domains' which protects an area of land. When a blessed domain is made, it is usually in a location with humans so Mikleo does have the power do that here but chances are he won't. Not yet, anyways. A blessed domain only protects said protected area against malevolence- it doesn't get rid of any already created there, but it allows the seraph to know the location of any.

Other: Given before Mikleo's leave he was using Sorey as his vessel, but since Sorey's departure and absence upon his return, he'll be using the Shepherd's wedding ring. Not nearly as safe as having the Shepherd as his vessel but it'll have to do in the meantime! ~~it would be bad to run around without a vessel and turn into a dragon /SWEATS~~

Questions: I'll be switching journals with this canon update, to which his new journal will be

afterword. So checking in here first before I go about requesting comm and filling out changes via taken list etc. \o/

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Player: Foxfire
Character: Bulat
Current Canon Point: Approximately five minutes before death.
Updated Canon Point: Five minutes from the last point :V

Updated Background: He's getting some closure and seeing Tatsumi take up Incursio and use it to kick some ass, and trusts the future to him before he closes his eyes for the last time.

Updated Personality: Not much - he'll be more at peace with himself and more settled in Empatheias now that he's done all he can back home.

Updated Abilities: He's now down Incursio, having passed it onto his apprentice. No more invisibility, no more transforming armor, and he's gonna need to get his existing armor fixed because he got shot clean through it.

Other: The real big thing that's happening is that he's spent over three years here and he's going to be having some problems with coming in fresh from a battle he died in while fighting off hypnotic music and deadly poison, and reconciling that with the peaceful life he's built here, and also being three years younger and minus all the scars and workout gains and plus a huge downturn in health that comes of being wracked with poison, even if he's alive he's still going to have some serious damage to heal.

So he's going to have some amnesia blocking out the last three years while he sorts himself out and verifies that this isn't an intense hallucination from Scream. This is a psychological self-defense thing due to trauma and not magic. I'll drop that part of the update if the mod team prefers I do, I can get some good drama and feels out of it either way.

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Player: Missy
Character: Warrior of Light
Current Canon Point: after the death of Cosmos by Chaos in Dissidia
Updated Canon Point: the defeat of Shinryu in Dissidia NT

Updated Background: Rebirth of the Cycle
I'm linking that because of potential spoilers??

Updated Personality: The most exciting thing about Warrior coming from this canon point is that he's finally a little more chill. He's still the same noble guy who will lead champions into battle for the light and all but he's come to see that opposing sides - light and dark - can set aside their differences and come together to work towards a common goal. This is something he was very NO about before. He's more sure of himself, more sure of his comrades, and more sure of who he is as a ~~manikin~~ person as opposed to just being a warrior. These little touches are the most important in terms of his change in personality because otherwise, he's very much the same.

Updated Abilities: He still has the same abilities as before. Except he can laugh now!

Other: The "connection" made to Warrior being the first protagonist from FINAL FANTASY is something that the Warrior confirms himself in the sense that when explaining the ~world~ he is from (because he's like I HAVE A HOME NOW!), he explains the events of FINAL FANTASY with now having (3) comrades and pledging himself to Princess Serah of Cornelia and making it his mission to save her. Also, the heroes and villains in Dissidia NT retain all their memories from Dissidia and Dissidia 012 as well as their home worlds. So, no memory loss for Warrior! Still doesn't know what he really is though but that's ok. We still love him.

Questions: Nope! o/

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Player: Monica
Character: Weiss Schnee

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Current Canon Point: Post-V4
Updated Canon Point: V5C11, after Weiss' death.

Updated Background: NOTHING HAPPENS IN VOLUME 5... NOTHING.

Since Weiss' last canon update, Weiss doesn't get much of an updated background. She leaves the Schnee manor and rides a smuggler's airship to Mistral. Things don't go as planned and she's picked up by a group of bandits who holds her hostage. Eventually, she runs into Yang Xiao Long who went to the bandit tribe in order to speak with her mom. Weiss finds out that it was Yang's mom who kidnapped her!

The two of them learn some information about Ozpin and the truth the man has been hiding, and then they go to Mistral to meet Ozpin, Qrow, Ruby, and the remaining of JNPR. A reunion between the three members of RWBY happens and they prepare themselves to fight Leo and any other members of Salem's faction. However, things don't go as they planned. Raven has joined to fight alongside Leo and fights against RWBY and Ozpin's group. It's in the middle of this fight that Cinder throws a glass spear Weiss' way and impales her until she falls unconscious, bleeding from her side.

Updated Personality: No huge changes, really! Weiss has become considerably nicer, but she still has a sharp tongue. We also see her regret how she treated her teammates and JNPR when they first got to know each other.

Updated Abilities: Weiss has improved greatly with her summoning ability and is able to summon a Queen Lancer now.

Other: She'll be gone likely from the 18th-20th.

Questions: n/a

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Player: Adi
Character: Jaune Arc
Current Canon Point: End of Vol. 4
Updated Canon Point: End of Vol. 5

Updated Background:
Jaune and his friends reach Haven Academy, where they find a newly reincarnated Ozpin and he spends several episodes training them in preparation for a planned attack against the academy. During that time, he reconnects with old friends as Weiss and Yang arrive too, and learns more about the world's history and the greater battle ahead from Ozpin.

Eventually, the attack on Haven comes to a head as Jaune and his friends go up against Cinder and her faction. Cinder in particular torments Jaune about the death of his partner, who she herself killed, and generally toys with him in a fight, pushing him further and further to the edge. A momentary distraction presents Jaune with the opportunity to kill Cinder, which he fully attempts but ultimately fails. Cinder, enraged by the close call, disarms Jaune and decides to pay him back by murdering another of his friends while reminding him how helpless he is. She targets Weiss, impaling her with a glass spear, before leaving the scene. Jaune rushes over to her and when he's forced to confront the fact that she is going to die and there's nothing he can do about it, his Semblance fully activates for the first time and he saves her life.

The battle continues until Cinder's faction is forced to retreat and everyone managed to save the academy.

Updated Personality:
Not too much difference! He'll start to feel more confident in himself, having finally discovered his Semblance. His loss against Cinder was a humbling experience, however, so it all evens out and he's aware that he still has a long way to go if he wants to be a better warrior.

Updated Abilities:
Special Training: This one isn't so much of an ability, but Jaune and his friends spent a month being trained by their former headmaster himself, who supposedly hasn't been going easy on them. It's likely he picked up a few tricks from these lessons.

Semblance: This one is a biggie! Jaune has the ability to amplify someone's Aura by giving up some of his own, which apparently he has a vast amount of. Doing so can improve their performance, as well as heal their wounds. Prior to discovering the nature of his Semblance, it has been hinted that he can heal his own wounds remarkably fast, as well as fortifying his defense to the point where he's invulnerable for one fleeting moment, although both instances happened beyond his control. As of volume 5, the writers have confirmed that this is the work of his Semblance, which is why it can be included as an ability now!

Other: He'll be gone around 18th-20th, give or take!

Questions: N/A

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Player: Bayley
Character: Ruby Rose
Current Canon Point: End of v4
Updated Canon Point: End of v5

Updated Background: At the end of v4, Ruby, along with Jaune, Nora, Ren and Qrow, arrived at Mistral. In v5, they...continue to be at Mistral! Alongside her uncle, Ruby and the others implore Haven Academy's headmaster, Leo Lionheart, to help them protect the Relic hidden at the school. Lionheart resists, so the others prepare to defend the school on their own. Qrow brings home Oscar, the host of the reincarnated Professor Ozpin, who decides to teach them combat as they learned at Beacon.

During this time, Ruby trains in hand-to-hand, an area of combat she is weak in, and tries to comfort Oscar when he expresses his frustrations. Eventually, Yang and Weiss arrive at Haven, and tearfully, 3/4th of Team RWBY reunite with a hug. The three of them start to bond again, even as Ruby remarks how she wishes Blake was with them. The balance hasn't quite restored to the team, but they start to make up for lost time nonetheless.

An ambush comes upon Haven one night as Cinder and other followers of Salem show up to take the school's Relic. Ruby attempts to persuade Raven to join them, but her words fall upon deaf ears and the two sides collide. As Cinder moves to attack Jaune, Ruby flashes back to the night atop Beacon tower where she watched Cinder kill Pyrrha, and her magical Deus Ex eye powers are activated. However, she is knocked out cold by Emerald before they can fully manifest. She regains consciousness awhile later, joining Yang in fighting Mercury and Emerald. Ruby takes a page out of Hercules' book and decides to use her head, headbutting Mercury. This is the most important scene for her all volume. (I'm kidding. Probably.)

As the battle goes on, Blake arrives with Faunus from Menagerie, and once Yang returns from the Vault with the Relic, all four members of team RWBY are reunited at last. Their remaining enemies retreat, and the day is won...for now.

Updated Personality: No change here, really! We really only get a glimpse into Ruby's existing motivations when she confides in Oscar about how much the loss of her friends Penny and Pyrrha still hurts and how she keeps fighting to save others from their same fate, even though she is scared.

Updated Abilities: Ruby develops her hand-to-hand combat skills through v5. In Yang's character short, she is shown to be quite weak when deprived of her weapon, and so the training that Ozpin gives her while they stay in Mistral in indispensable. She grows quite a bit better at it by the final battle of the volume. Did I mention she headbutts Mercury? That was great. A+ moment.

Other: Like the others, Ruby will be gone around the 18th-20th or so!

Questions: N/A

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Player: Mew
Character: Yang Xiao Long
Current Canon Point: End of Volume 4
Updated Canon Point: End of Volume 5

Updated Background:
Linking this because of massive spoilers but here's a tl;dr version is Yang sought out her deadbeat mom's bandit tribe so she could give her a Lyft to Ruby. Surprising almost no one, her mom's an ass and had also apparently kidnapped Weiss but eventually acquiesced to sending them both to Qrow via Raven's Uber Portal Semblance. Yang reunited with Ruby, there were hugs and tears. Yang talked about ~~Blake~~ her abandonment issues with Weiss, there were tears. And then bad stuff almost happened but there were just hugs and no tears because Yang single-handedly saved the day, the end.

Updated Personality:
Not a lot of change here. Yang's still trying to put her dad's advice to good use, both in combat and in life and she's done very well. She's also worked through some of her remaining grief a bit and is trying to be more understanding and forgiving of certain friends whose name begin with "B" but she also gained some new baggage in the form of her mom's...everything and also the Ozluminati's...everything and of course her PTSD is still present.

Updated Abilities:
YANG NOW HAS ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING. Actually nah, she's exactly the same as before.

Other: Yang'll be gone from at least the 18th to the 21st, possibly the 22nd or 23rd depending on my free time.

Questions: Is it alright if Yang returns to Empatheias with her prosthetic arm either back on her or at least near her? It's not attached to her at her new canon point but it's nearby in the background with everyone else's weapons so it clearly hasn't been lost and is still within her possession, similar to pieces of her outfit that she'd removed for combat purposes.

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