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Player: Byte
Character: Soundwave
Current Canon Point: Transformers #54
Updated Canon Point: Transformers Unicron #5 After he sacrifices himself and disintegrated to dust

Updated Background: From here on.
Transformers Unicron event To summarized Soundwave's role in the event; he doesn't seem to do anything noteworthy (fighting off the Maximals and general trying to save as many people as possible) for the most part until towards the end. The one and only major play he did is sacrificing himself by calling the souls of all the dead in the Afterspark (humans, Cybertronians, Elonians) with his telepathic power and the Enigma of Combination, sending all their hope and faith, including his own, to boost Optimus Prime to "defeat" Unicron's creator, disintegrating himself to dust during the process.

Updated Personality: Not much has changed at his core. Soundwave is still loyal, serious, and generally cold, but the comic does elaborate more on a few of his key traits and his development and he is a fully fledged good guy. One main trait that is brought up multiple times by other characters was Soundwave's faith and that he believes that "some things must be taken on faith". Simply put, even when he has no evidence to show that they could possibly stop Unicron all he needs was his faith to keep on fighting the seemingly impossible threat and win in the end. And they did, he literally uses his faith to save the universe.

At his new canon point, Soundwave is much more prone to resolve battles by peaceful means and reaching to an understanding rather than using violence until he has no other choice left but to fight back. It worked once with the Sharkticons, urging them that they are oppressed and convincing them to turned their back on their master to attain their freedom. He tried the same once more against the Maximals, but that ends up being futile as the Maximals are hellbent on the destruction of the entire universe, too.

There were instances that shows Soundwave is much more empathetic and emotional than he seems. When he found out about his friend's death, who was a human, Soundwave is immediately overcome with grief and unintentionally broadcast his feelings and memories in his anguish. Which also shows he's much more willing to befriend humans, but that development had already happened in Empatheias anyways.

Outside of those, his general attitude remains the same.

Updated Abilities: Nothing new, really. Though his telepathy power does seems to continue to develop over time, as he's able to contact the dead in the afterlife with the Enigma of Combination.

Other: He'll return with the Enigma of Combination with him. What the artifact does is that it has the power "combine" the thoughts and mind of sentient beings into one and physically combine Cybertronians together into one form. As Soundwave himself put it, the Enigma of Combination is not about physical combinations, but it is about the spiritual combination- the hearts, mind, and spirits.

Soundwave is not likely to use it again for any reason at all as it did disintegrate him along with the artifact, so it'll just be a mystical artifact he'll keep around.

Forgot the add the date oops, he'll be leaving on the 10th and returning on the 14th.

Questions: Nah.

Edited 2019-01-02 10:35 (UTC)

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Player: Callie
Character: Kolivan
Current Canon Point: Season 4, Episode 1
Updated Canon Point: Season 7, Episode 5

Updated Background: The vast majority of what Kolivan gets up to happens offscreen, on account of ~~his being so stealthy a ninja he's not even in the show most of the time~~ the Blade doing most of its work in the background. At Kolivan's current canonpoint, Keith had just abdicated leadership of Voltron to Cloney McShiroson and gone off with Kolivan and the Blade to focus on tracking a source of weird, potent quintessence that was floating about. Kolivan appears several episodes later when Voltron and their rebel allies, Blade included, launch an attack on a planet called Naxzela, but the focus there is on Keith as he nearly splatters himself all over a cruiser shield in an attempt to break it; Kolivan is just there. The Blade is present some while later when Prince Lotor moves to seize the throne at the Kral Zera, by which we also mean Keith, but Kolivan is not. However, the arrival of Shiro and the Black Lion at the Kral Zera is a total shock to Keith, when in the past the Blade and Voltron seemed pretty in tune with one another's movements -- a sign that Cloney is starting to get slowly brainwashier, and relevant to Kolivan's interests.

Kolivan next appears at the beginning of season 5, episode 5. In the midst of the power vacuum left by Lotor taking the throne, Kolivan sends Keith on a mission to extract one of his agents from her undercover post in a warlord's base. He lectures Keith before he leaves that Emotions Are Bad and he should not give in to his feelsy impulses as he has in the past. The reason for this becomes clear later when it turns out the agent Keith is extracting is his own mother, Krolia, who Keith has been known to drop everything just for a single answer about in previous seasons. There is no way Koli did not know exactly what he was doing when he orchestrated this. Thanks, dude.

After this Kolivan drops off the radar for some time, though he remains in communication with the paladins offscreen, and it's mentioned towards the end of season 6/beginning of season 7 that after Keith and Krolia discover Lotor's little secret Altean farm he passes the coordinates along to Kolivan; later they say that Kolivan sent the Blade to investigate and found it abandoned. More importantly, after Voltron emerges from its fight against Lotor in the quintessence rift, they discover that it's been three years since they disappeared into it, thanks to bullshit space wibbly wobbly timey wimey. Kolivan would have spent those three years scrambling to hold the Blade together in Voltron's absence. Sure enough, season 7 episode 5 arrives, and Team Voltron, on their way to Earth, pick up a distress signal that Keith's mother recognizes as a code known only to senior members of the Blade. They follow it, finding a post apocalyptic planet that shows incredible signs of destruction, including marks that Krolia is able to identify as left behind by Marmora swords.

On this planet they meet a skeevy fellow named Macidus who claims that he and the people of this planet had allied with Kolivan and the Blades, who were scrambling for safety in the aftermath of Voltron's disappearance -- because the original arrival of Voltron had thrust the Blade out into the open, its agents were sitting ducks when Haggar's Druids decided to make it a point to wipe them all out. Kolivan had used the planet as a last stand to attempt to regroup, Macidus says, but they were attacked, and the bulk of them wiped out. Krolia locates a wall in Macidus's cave with several Marmora knives embedded into it, which he claims he has built to honor the Blades, and sadly notes that she recognizes most of them and trained many of them herself. Each Marmora knife is unique and tuned to its Blade's life force, she notes, pulling Kolivan's dim sword out of the wall and declaring that it is his.

The sword flickers, indicating that Kolivan is -- barely -- still alive.

After this it comes out that Macidus himself is one of Haggar's druids and one who Keith had fought previously, and after feigning an alliance with Kolivan and getting the distress code from him, he has been using it to draw in the remaining Blade and pick them all off one by one. A fight ensues, and Keith discovers Kolivan in very poor shape, suspended from the ceiling elsewhere in Macidus's cave. After Macidus is defeated, the Voltrons get Kolivan down and check over his injuries, and Kolivan apologizes that they were drawn into the mess. After he explains the situation and notes that he has no idea how many Blades are left or where they may be hiding, Krolia pledges to go with him to gather whoever is left and rebuild the Blade. Some episodes later we find that they are successful, but the moment I am taking Kolivan from is the moment when Keith and the others finally get him down from the ceiling.

Updated Personality: Nothing new to report, Kolivan is old as balls and thus eternal. Three major points of interest that I'm working in to what I had when I apped: first, at Naxzela, Kolivan at one point questioned whether a Galra cruiser ceasing fire indicated that it was retreating, and it was Keith who pointed out that the Galra are suicidal when it comes to achieving victories. This had already happened when I apped in, but later seasons show that the Galra were significantly less bloodthirsty before Zarkon turned evil, so I am taking this as confirmation that Kolivan really is from that far back and his question is a sign of his continued laid back nature, inspired by a culture separate from what the Galra have become.

Second, the fact that it's Keith of all people that Kolivan sends alone to retrieve Krolia is a display of incredible cunning and understanding on Kolivan's part. We have learned that the Blade totally knew the Blue Lion was on Earth, because Krolia went there and freaking found it. When Shiro and Keith turned up in the Lions later to form an alliance with the Blade and Keith whipped out Krolia's knife -- and we now know each knife is individually attuned to its owners -- Kolivan had to know whose knife it was, and when Keith underwent his trials and managed to wake the thing up into a sword, he thus had to know whose son Keith was. He proceeded to keep Krolia's identity and whereabouts to himself for several seasons, training Keith personally in many scenes and sending him off to fetch Krolia with the one warning he needed most, knowing that they'd figure it out and their desire to protect one another would ensure that both of them would make it off that planet alive. Given that he trusts Krolia enough to agree to her help later and she turns up later with a sash over her uniform that marks her as Blade Boss 2 and his new second in command, this sure is some huge long-term emotional manipulation...and, perhaps, an acknowledgement that if Keith and Krolia were unable to reunite now, they may never get another chance.

The third and most heart-wrenching thing: Kolivan is long established as having one (1) fear and it's losing his agents; it cuts him deeply whenever a Blade is killed. When the Voltrons find him in Macidus's cave and get him down, he has just fought one of the hardest battles of his very long life, and has spent who knows how long watching his agents killed in front of him one by one after he had done his damnedest to find them a safe sanctuary. As he is rescued, he doesn't express relief. He doesn't act shocked to see them, given that they'd been missing for three solid years and their absence is what threw the universe into this turmoil. Instead, the first thing Kolivan says is, "I am sorry that my code led you here," an acknowledgement of his regret that they were nearly killed by Macidus too. Kolivan prioritizes the lives of his Blades above all else, always.

Yes, I am doing this right before Selenium on purpose.

Updated Abilities: None. He doesn't smile for the first time onscreen until some episodes later. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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Player: Jami
Character: Keith
Current Canon Point: End of Season 4, Naxela
Updated Canon Point: Season 7, Episode 9

Updated Background: BUCKLE IN.

So when we last left Keith, he was hurtling towards an impenetrable space shield with his cruiser in hopes at making a last ditch effort to break it and stop an explosion from taking out ten solar systems. Lucky for him, at the very last moment Lotor swans in and breaks it for him, saving Keith from becoming splattered space debris.

From there, since Keith is still not a part of the team anymore, he falls to the background and goes back to his Blade missions. We don't see him again until he's with the Blade secretly planting bombs all over the Kral Zera because hey, what a great opportunity to take down the empires worst people, than at a battle royale where they've all gathered to fight over becoming emperor.

It's going great until Shiro shows up with Lotor, which was definitely not apart of the plan. Keith immediately starts trying to deactivate the bombs while the other Blades leave his ass behind because the odds of him actually succeeding are fucking slim. He's not entirely successful and winds up having to bodily tackle Lotor out of the way of a blast by the end of it. He spends the rest of the ensuring chaos fighting off generals and making meaningful eye contact with Axca until Lotor's able to light the Kral Zera himself, declaring himself emperor.

This is not the worst case scenario, but it does create one hell of a power vacuum as factions of the old empire either swear to Lotor or fight for their own power. As such, Keith is assigned a mission to extract an agent out from under one of these conflicts. A high ranking, undercover agent who served as the next in command to a general taken out at the Kral Zera. Kolivan sends Keith off with a lecture about controlling his emotions to which the intention becomes increasingly obvious when we meet this undercover agent.

Turns out she's Keith's fucking mom! Kolivan you absolute bastard. In any case, despite the whole thing going to shit, the two of them make it out by unleashing a experimental hell monster on their attackers. They quickly move onto their next mission while Keith is still reeling from the fact that his fucking mother is right in front of him for the first time in his entire fucking life.

The good news is that their next mission leaves them traveling through space that's concept of time is grossly distorted and broken, and to get to their destination they have to travel right through it on the back of a space whale for the next two years while time doesn't move back home. In that two years, Keith and Krolia get to actually bond and Keith adopts an adorable cosmic space wolf. Once they finally reach where they are going they are surprised to find that it is a weird space compound and the inside of it is an entire colony of Alteans. They meet Romelle who tells them that Lotor brought all of them here generations ago to when they had thought was to protect them from the empire but no, actually, it turns out that he's been using them for awful experiments and that weird spooky quintessence that Keith's been tracking for a few seasons was extracted out of them! Oh shit.

So Keith, Krolia, Romelle, and the Wolf all get the heck out of there to go tell Voltron that Lotor is a fucker and they need to yeet his ass out into space. Which is what they do. They show up, explain what the deal is, and then Allura personally yeets Lotor so hard he bounces several feet off the ground and goes unconscious. Nice. Unfortunately Haggar decides this is the right time to totally override Clone Shiro and so he goes rogue, scoops up Lotor and takes off while the rest of them come under fire. It's a huge mess. Luckily Keith takes up the Black Lion with no hesitation and they form Voltron to fight.

Eventually Clone Shiro and Haggar try to escape through a worm hole and Keith makes it through just barely in time for it to close on him. Keith is then lead to Haggars spooky ass clone lab where he throws down with Clone Shiro. Keith, not entirely realizing its a clone yet, spends the entire fight trying to reason with him. It does become pretty obvious that the clone is doing this against his will, because up until this point, he was pretty damn sure he was Shiro, and its honestly really upsetting.

The fight reaches a dramatic end as the lab breaks apart. Keith is left dangling over a piece of debris holding onto Shiro, refusing to let him go in favor of pulling himself to safety. Accepting that he'd rather die than let go of the one person who believed in him. As it all goes white, Keith instead wakes up on the astral plane and finally talks to the real Shiro.

Shiro explains that he has been fighting a clone this entire time and he also explains that back during season two, he disappeared because he straight up died. The Black Lion has kept his consciousness safe all this time but he doesn't have a body anymore. Keith is pretty upset about this! And also it turns out the rest of the team is having a really hard time holding off Lotor, who's back now. So, Keith has to really get moving back to them before it's too late. Keith unlocks the Black Lion's teleportation wings just in time by going full guren lagann and bursting onto the fight scene. They form Voltron and have an incredibly epic fight with Lotor and his mech.

The fight ends with Lotor trapped on the other side of the quintessence field and with the fabric of reality fucked up beyond all means. To fix the mess, they sacrifice the Castle of Lions to close the breach. Once reality is safe, they settle down on a planet so Keith can address the Shiro problem to them. Allura takes Shiro's essence out of the Black Lion and sticks it in the dying Clone body and Shiro wakes up!! With white hair because somehow he is even more tired now than he was before. The team then decides they need to head back to Earth because the only one who could rebuild them a new castle ship is in fact, Sam Holt.

So Voltron goes on a road trip. During this road trip they find that space is somehow stranger than when they left it. Which, they found out, is because their fight with Lotor propelled them three years in the future and the resulting power vaccuum left by Voltron and Lotor vanishing has left the universe kind of a mess. They learn all this from Axca who has become their ally while fighting off the other two of Lotor's generals who have become space pirates in that time.

They also find that the Blade had been greatly decimated, and they land on a planet following a distress code, which Krolia picked up and recognized as a code only senior blades would know, and find out that one of Haggar's druids had kept Kolivan chained to a ceiling barely alive and used him to draw blades to the druids lair so he could pick them off one by one. That's fucked up!! After defeating this guy, Krolia ends up leaving the team with Kolivan so they could go out and the remaining blades and reform them properly. Keith and Krolia have a very heartfelt farewell, and Keith gives her back her knife as a promise that she will see him again.

They continue on to Earth but are disrupted by a weird ass space storm that leaves them stranded in space without their lions. All of them nearly go mad from it, particularly Keith who just loses his complete shit at all of them over a lot of upsetting reasons! But Hunk is the one able to talk him down and inspire them all to keep it together and eventually they are reunited with their lions in time to finally!!! Reach Earth!!!

Only to find out it's been conquered by Sendak. What the fuck!!

So, very sneakily they get down to earth without their lions and touch base with the Garrison about how everything has gone to shit. Keith makes up with Captain Iverson, Shiro finds out his ex-boyfriend is fucking dead, and Hunk finds out his parents are being forced to work in some awful Galra work camp. It's a huge mess!

Keith is going to be coming back right after he gives Hunk a peptalk about being strong for their loved ones so they can go in and save them at the right time. They hug and then decide to do some sneaking about.

Updated Personality:

Keith's last update left him pretty messy. For a long time he was convinced that he was not meant to be the pilot of the Black Lion and that his sad attempt at leadership was a huge disgrace and he was better off with the blade. He has slowly been recovering from that, but for the most part, that's where he's been.

Coming back, Keith has had the time he needed to sort himself out and work not only on his skills, but also his confidence. The biggest factor in this was Keith finally reuniting with his mother, putting to rest a huge chunk of his baggage about his early childhood. After he came back from his two year vacation with mom, whatever doubts he had about the Black Lion were gone, because when the team asked who's going to pilot with Clone Shiro gone, Keith doesn't even hesitate to say it'll be him.

While Keith is still absolutely a hot headed, stubborn force of nature who is incredibly awkward around people, there's a certain inner peace in him about who he is and where he comes from that wasn't there before. There's confidence in the way he holds himself not present in the Keith he was two years ago. This is a Keith who is able to lead Voltron in a way the rest will follow him. A Keith who is capable of giving inspiring speeches, and reaching out to comfort his friends as well as make peace with someone who wronged him in the past. He's grown into the leader Shiro knew he could be.

Updated Abilities:

Keith spent the last two years training with his mother, who is a senior member of the Blade responsible for training many of it's members. He's seamless in a fight, now more than ever.

He has also learned how to Give A Hug. I'm so proud of him.

Other: He's got a badass scar now, as seen in all his icons.

Questions: Nah.

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Player: AC
Character: Ritsuka Fujimaru
Current Canon Point: post-Camelot
Updated Canon Point: post-Solomon

Updated Background: Well let's see, there'll be the whole Chaldea Summer Memory/Heat Odyssey, Prisma Codes, Return of Nerofest, Super Ghouls'n Goblins, and The Little Santa Alter for events. Then for story, Babylonia and the big arc finale of Solomon. In other words, a lot of silly shenanigans, topped off with facing off against not one but two of the Beasts that represent the Evils of Humanity practically back to back, with a lot of bravery and sacrifice for all involved along the way. But hey, at least the world was saved in the end, right?

Updated Personality: Very little will change, actually. In-game development has already brushed on some of the things Ritsuka's confronted with during this update. The biggest difference is that she won't be quite as anxious about getting back to Chaldea; she'll also initially be a bit more melancholy as she's just experienced a major loss, though she'll absolutely be trying to move on/keep her feelings to herself.

Updated Abilities: None whatsoever!

Other: She's technically now been officially recognized by the Mage's Association as a Fes rank mage but that basically means squat since she can't use magecraft anyway. ALSO both to make sure that we're safely past the one month rule and because I'm terrible, the canon update will ICly happen immediately following Selenium, so the first through the third or so. Apologies in advance for any Servants left behind and freaking out during this time. :|b

Questions: Will it be possible to ICly find leftover candles from Selenium in the days/week following it? Because Ritsuka's totally going to look and see if she can still get one once she's over her initial disorientation.

Could you give us some further clarification on the events of the background? As it stands, we have little context for what actually occurred during Ritsuka's canon update.

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Player: Alex
Character: Kiyohime
Current Canon Point: post-Camelot
Updated Canon Point: post-Solomon

Updated Background: Main story wise, Kiyohime herself did little more than be a weapon to burn enemies. As a whole, ancient Mesopotamia was reached and saved, as her Master had to survive the harsh world of the worlds first real civilization, do battle against gods, body horrors and a sin of humanity made real, all in order to stop Uruk from being destroyed and sending all of history into disarray. Not that anyone has a chance to celebrate as the big bad of the story decides "fuck this" after they got done doing that and kicked down Chaldeas door.

The final Singularity has opened because of the door kicking, within it is merely an infinite respawning collection of Demon Gods all to be taken care of by one normal human and a girl with a shield that does not have big attacks. That and every Servant encountered through the journey, here through the bonds made during trying times. Kiyohime is part of this, as everywhere her Master goes, so does she. But that is still mostly being a weapon to burn enemies... just that the enemies are demons. But in the end, after one major sacrifice and one... odd sacrifice, the Incineration of Humanity has been halted and another sin of humanity has been defeated. So the world has been saved and now Chaldea has to do some clean up now that everyone is waking up to learn more than a year of their lives is gone, but Kiyohime has nothing to do with that one.

Event wise? Kiyohime was part of a group stranded on an island (Chaldea Summer Memory), where in she tried and failed to become Adam and Eve with her Master, because they are both Eve. Not that it'll stop Kiyohime, THERE ARE METHODS SHE CAN USE. But they did manage to escape the island after many harsh encounters and those stupid talking boars. Outside of a brief gag bit at her expense at Halloween (Ghouls 'n Pumpkins), she does not have any role in the rest, which are Prisma Codes, Nero's Festival of fighting and that weird Christmas incident where Jeanne Alter became a little girl and Santa. They were large enough incidents that she would know of them, if not the details.

Updated Personality: Kiyohime doesn't change terribly much, as there is little reason for her to change. That said, even with her general lack of involvement she will have a higher respect for those who have willingly sacrificed themselves, for one reason or another.

Updated Abilities: Outside of having the faintest idea of knowing to use a naginata, none.

Other: Same thing about the 1st through the 3rd that Ritsuka is doing. This update is mainly to keep Kiyohime up to date in terms of what's going on and... knowing who is no longer around.

Questions: In addition to what AC asked about candles, would it be possible to find materials to make the selenium lanterns again?

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There would be a few leftover candles here and there, and it would be easy enough to find the paper and other materials to make a lantern.

Player: Gaacha
Character: Arjuna
Current Canon Point: post-Camelot
Updated Canon Point: post-Solomon.

Updated Background: Events including Chaldea Summer Memory/Heat Odyssey, Prisma Codes, Return of Nerofest, Super Ghouls'n Goblins, and The Little Santa Alter.
Arjuna is a recluse and a shut-in and he didn't actively take

Storywise, Babylonia and the conclusion of the First Order: Solomon. The purpose in which Arjuna was first summoned to assist Ritsuka with has been concluded, and Humanity has been 'restored', thereby he upheld his title of 'Hero' in aiding saving the world. It was a bunch of foolish things followed by an even bigger pile of serious things, and it all ended not-quite-so cleanly and neatly as one might have hoped. But at least it's over.

(For Now.)

Updated Personality: Slight, nearly nothing changes. He's still a shut-in, he's still over-dramatic and someone who pretends to be one way but is truly someone else. The only difference is that he'll be a little more relaxed about returning to the world here, because there's no longer some world-endangering crisis to return home to. (for now.) He also confronted his brother about his plans on how to move forward while having to be allied with his rival.

Updated Abilities: None yet. His strengthening interlude doesn't come for a while yet q q

Other: Canon Update being made to match that of Ritsuka's, going back to help her with aiding humanity makes sense. (Gone between Feb 1 and Feb 3)

Questions: n/a

Could you give us some further clarification on the events of the background? As it stands, we have little context for what actually occurred during Arjuna's canon update. Additionally, there is an unfinished sentence that we're unsure what you may have wanted to say!

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Player: Gore
Character: Steven Quartz Universe
Current Canon Point: Post-Kevin Party
Updated Canon Point: After his nightmare at the beginning of Change Your Mind

Updated Background:

After patching things up with Connie, Steven started to make visits to Lars through the dimension connecting his head with Lion's mane, and he also started to receive flashbacks from the perspective of Pink Diamond. Eventually, he traveled to the moon upon realizing that Lapis Lazuli was hiding there. He tried to talk her into returning and almost succeeded, only to be disrupted by receiving another flashback. This one left him thinking that it was Pearl who actually shattered Pink Diamond. Lapis also misunderstood what Steven was saying about the Diamonds, causing her to panic and retreat. Steven tried to question Pearl about what he had discovered, and her answer was to send him into her gem in search of her phone. He ended up going through several of Pearl's compartmentalized memories, ending with the memories related to the big reveal: that Pink Diamond was Rose Quartz all along, and that Pearl had worked with her to fake Pink Diamond's shattering.

In the aftermath of that, Steven tried to focus on helping Ruby and Sapphire to cope with the truth, although Amethyst got him to talk a little a bit about his own feelings regarding what had happened. Steven was able to help Ruby and Sapphire to patch up their problems, and it was decided that it would happen in the form of a wedding. Steven was beyond excited to plan the wedding, but he realized that it would not be complete without one more guest. So he freed Bismuth and told her the whole truth about Rose. He convinced her to attend the wedding as a maid of honor (who is made of honor) and prepare their rings. Steven proceeded to officiate the wedding, which ended in Ruby and Sapphire reforming as Garnet. The celebrations were short-lived, as the Diamonds attacked. They tried to force the Cluster to surface, which would destroy the Earth (remember that plot?). Steven managed to telepathically warn the Cluster, and it was able to successfully fend off the Diamonds' attempts to force it to form. Steven and the other Gems ended up fighting off Blue Diamond, and it was then that Lapis returned to them. Steven attempted to reach out to the Diamonds and tell them the truth about Pink Diamond, but they would not listen to him. Instead, Yellow opted to stomp on him. This caused Steven's consciousness to be temporarily be trapped in some psychic plane. In this form, he was able to cheer his friends on in their battle and was finally able to reach Blue and Yellow Diamond with the message that he was Pink Diamond.

With the hostilities ceased, Steven explained his situation to Blue and Yellow Diamond, who were willing to help him now that they knew he was actually Pink (or rather, had her gem). He convinced them to help her to cure the corrupted gems, but it became apparent that they could not permanently cure the corruption without White Diamond. So Steven set off to Homeworld with the Diamonds and most of his allies in an attempt to reach out to White Diamond. However, upon arrival, White Diamond snatched Steven away to a meeting with her. She acknowledged him only as Pink, welcomed him and then had him sent to Pink Diamond's room without allowing him a chance to speak. Steven was then forced to live on Homeworld as Pink Diamond for a while, without any opportunity to talk to White. Although Blue and Yellow were sympathetic towards him, it was hard to find time to talk to them because of how busy they were. But Steven started to realize that Pink's position with the Diamonds was similar to how he was with the Crystal Gems at the beginning of the series. He started to hope that he could help the Diamonds to come together as a true family and threw a ball, as all of the Diamonds had been known to attend the balls Pink threw long ago. But the plan quickly fell apart. White Diamond did not attend. Steven ended up dancing with Connie and fused with her into Stevonnie, which enraged the Diamonds, as they saw it as inappropriate behavior. The two of them were thrown in a dungeon to think about what they did, and the other Crystal Gems were poofed in the process.

Desperate to find a way to escape, Steven managed to use his psychic powers to possess a Watermelon Steven back on Earth. In this form, he traveled back to the temple, where he delivered an SOS to his father and Bismuth before his watermelony body fell apart. Steven then woke up back in the chamber. Soon afterwards, he had a nightmare about one of Pink's memories of being imprisoned in the same dungeon for misbehaving. The nightmare also included a vision of the Crystal Gems being poofed and his own appearance shifting between his actual self, Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz.

Updated Personality:

His basic personality remains the same. He has retained his sense of optimism through this all, as well as his willingness to empathize with virtually anyone, which he extends to even the Diamonds. He also still retains his habit of focusing on others' problems while trying to downplay his own. He has shown a greater capacity for assertiveness; after the Diamonds accepted him and stopped fighting him, Steven quickly became very passionately insistent that they do everything they can do undo the corruption of gems. He's also been coping with knowing the truth about his mother being Pink Diamond; with the nightmare that he's just had at his new canon point, it is shown that Steven is having identity issues while being forced to assume Pink's position on Homeworld.

Updated Abilities:

The only update to his abilities has been the range of his psychic ability and his control over it. This time, Steven was able to willingly cast his mind out after falling asleep, and he was even able to send his consciousness out across the universe, from Homeworld to Earth. Of course, I don't intend for Steven to have that type of range in-game, and I figure it can probably be nerfed to being city-wide. (and of course, he won't be possessing or entering the minds of anyone without permissions/plotting it out).

Other:

At the time of his canon point, he's wearing a version of Pink Diamond's outfit in his size that was made by Pebbles. So he should be arriving in that!

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Player: Ri
Character: Lance
Current Canon Point: S5E5 after launching the sentry into space to the tune of Amazing Grace
Updated Canon Point: S7E10, before the actual attack on the Zaiforge bases

Updated Background: I have discovered that my ability to summarize leaves a lot to be desired.

After launching the Fun!Sentry into space, the team regroups and learns that Lotor and Allura happened upon a magical rock that lights the way to the mystical realm of Oriande... which is actually just a floating island inside a white hole whose entryway is blocked by a white lion (the cat, not the band) made of light and alchemy. They head to the coordinates and after an attempt to enter leaves Voltron and the Castle dead in the water with no power, Lotor and Allura run off to do it themselves since they're the only ones who fit the 'chosen one' criteria while the others work on trying to fix the ship. During this time, Lance, who was VERY against Allura going with Lotor, drives the others up a wall, fretting over Allura's safety to the point that he's shoved off on Shiro and removed from the room. The two of them hang out in the hall and have a little heart to heart talk so that the others can work in peace. Eventually, the oxygen levels hit 5% and they're all on the verge of blackout when suddenly Allura and Lotor return and the ship is now at full power again due to the magic of alchemy.

Not long after, the team goes to the aid of a shield station that's suffering damage due to an attack by Sendak's troops, rushing to assist and repair with Lance and Allura working together to weld a broken plate. Unfortunately, the weld begins to short out and Lance/Red slam into Allura/Blue to push them out of the way of the explosion that ensues, taking the blast themselves. Red is shorted and powered down. Lance... got the shock of his life and unless the circuit was completed through his body there's no way he didn't end up dead. While Hunk scrambles to get everything fixed, Allura exits Blue and flies to Red, using her alchemy to revive her teammate.

Back on the Castle, Lotor and Allura work on infusing Lotor's ship while Pidge and Hunk tease Lance mercilessly for crushing on Allura who clearly has a thing for Lotor. When Lance finally leaves the room, he ends up hanging out with the mice who 'listen' to him pour his heart out over her. Afterwards, the mice prove not terribly trustworthy because they rat him out to her, and she doesn't seem to know how to take it because she's... really not into him.

During some down time, they play Monsters and Mana, a D&D knockoff. Lance really isn't interested because it's a book, and only plays because of Allura, then when she runs off to Lotor after one campaign, sticks around because he's depressed about it and has nothing else to do. One-sided feelings are hard, man.

When the ship is completed, Allura and Lotor take it for a test run in the quintessence field through a trans-reality gate... and an Altean pod shows up. It's Keith, with his Galra mom (Krolia), a wolf (Kosmo), and an Altean (Romelle). Explanations ensue and *GASP* Lotor has been playing them all along: some Alteans survived the destruction of Altea and Lotor banded them together in one place claiming to want to keep them safe, shuttling them between two colonies. Yeah, it was a lie and he used them as batteries for his own shit, sucking out their quintessence. Upon return from the test flight, confrontations happen, Allura dumps Lotor on his head and Shiro whacks out, grabs Lotor, steals a ship, and it's hasta la later. The rest of the team gets their lions, and off they go after Shiro~!

However, Voltron is too slow, so the lions split and launch the Black Lion through a wormhole so that Keith can chase Shiro while the rest of the team contends with the nasty computer virus parting gift Shiro left. Pidge and Coran go to town on the ship and Allura blames herself for everything that happened... something Lance immediately intervenes on. He does his best to comfort her and remind her that hey, we all fuck up sometimes, when Keith cuts in to say he's on his way back with Shiro... oh and Lotor is coming. They realize Lotor's going for the gate, and set out to cockblock by blowing it up.

When that's done, the team meets Lotor and his generals only to get their asses whupped hard until the Black Lion shows up in the nick of time. They form Voltron, still get beat, and then follow Lotor into the quintessence field to match his power. They duke it out, but it's adversely affecting the paladins, so they concede to Allura's plan to overload Lotor with quintessence before making a break for it and leaving him behind, teaching him not to mack on a girl after using her people as Energizer replacements.

Except now they have a bigger problem: all that jumping in and out left tears in reality that are starting to get bigger and will destroy everything if they're not closed up, but how to close them? Coran suggests overloading the teludav and use the explosion to do the trick but they'll have to sacrifice the Castle... so they evacuate everything, and do just that. They regroup on a small planet where Keith explains that real!Shiro's been dead for a while but his spirit's chillin' in the Black Lion and the other was clone!Shiro who's... right there on the ground, so Allura pulls real!Shiro's consciousness out and plants it in the body of clone!Shiro that Keith brought with him, and Pidge reveals that her dad has a copy of the Castle's blueprints. So we go to Earth!

While Shiro (who is actual Shiro now and not a clone) is unconscious, Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Coran, and Romelle set out to find something called faunatonium which will help to recharge the Lions since oops, that was what the Castle was for. To do this, they have to find and track an anteater called a Yalmor, but instead they're sprayed by an alien skunk and shrunk down like kids in a Rick Moranis movie. Adventure and mayhem ensues as they hitch a ride on said Yalmor and eventually locate the faunatonium which returns them back to normal size. Now that they have the substance they need, they return to... wherever it was they set out from and Shiro wakes.

The group heads for Earth and attempts to contact the Coalition, but no luck. They eventually reach a Marmora outpost that's long abandoned, and are attacked/captured. Despite Lance's best efforts, there are no secret passages to be had. Coran, Axca (former Lotor general), and the mice band together to get everyone out, and when they get to their lions and away safe, Acxa then fills them in on what's happened in their absence: somehow, thanks to the beauty of plot holes, it's been 3 years since the fight with Lotor, because how does that even work when not everyone was hopping through reality? Wouldn't the people on the Castle have noticed that 'wow, this is taking forever'? Does nobody other than Romelle ask questions in this series?

They continue toward Earth when they're whisked off in a weird group dream game show called "Garfle Warfle Snick" and are made to play various games/solve puzzles that have them reflecting on the people and places they've seen during their travels as Paladins of Voltron. After getting to the final round, they're told to vote one off the island and the rest would stay forever, so they all vote one another off for different reasons. Host Bob caves and lets them all go, and as they wake up and wonder what just happened, Coran says Bob is an omnipotent inter-dimensional being who judges the worth of would-be heroes, and he must have accepted them, meaning that they are meant to be the defenders of the universe.

Again, they continue their trip until they come across a distress signal used by the Blade of Marmora, tracking it to its source where they meet Macidus who fills them in on how the Blade had fallen... only to say something to Keith that makes him realize that oh, this is a bad guy. Turns out Macidus is one of Haggar's druids, and used the signal to lure in Blades and kill them. He attacks and all are frozen except for Keith and Kosmo who teleport away in time, but Allura breaks them free so they can help defeat him and free Kolivan. After discussions, Krolia decides to leave the group to help assemble what Blades are left and everyone else pushes on toward Earth.

Still en route, they encounter an energy storm that incapacitates the lions and causes everyone on board save for the Paladins to again be frozen. The team attempts to tether the lions to keep them from drifting, but another wave hits and they're pulled away and left stranded. They link arms to stay together, but weariness eats at them and tempers fray to the point that they're all starting to lose it, fighting among one another. Hunk saves the day and their collective asses after they're nearly eaten by a giant intergalactic manta ray, and their renewed camaraderie calls the Lions back to them. Afterward, they're once again hit by the storm which reverses the effects, and as luck would have it, also blows them right outside the Milky Way, putting them right where they wanted to be and shearing time off their trip. Talk about catching a break.

HOWEVER! Nothing is ever happy and cheerful in this series, because as soon as they get close enough, they get a message from Pidge's dad (Sam) on Earth... which is a cry for help from anyone nearby as they're prepping for their last stand against the Galra's invasion force. Well, shit. The team rushes into the Milky Way where they park by Saturn and "borrow" a ship to get in undetected. After landing, they're set upon by the enemy and rescued by allies who take them back to the Galaxy Garrison where Lance and Pidge are reunited with their families. The group is then brought in for debriefing and things don't go well with Admiral Sanda, who thinks they need to hand over Voltron so that Sendak will leave them alone, which would absolutely happen because Sendak is just a compassionate and misunderstood soul and not an absolute bloodthirsty warlord hellbent on getting his way. They also get to see the MFE fighters and IGF-ATLAS, which can't even get off the ground because it's a freaking Airbus and no power source is strong enough to make it work. Then everyone breaks to go do other things but the most important thing here is that Pidge and family interrogate an AI version of Sendak built from data to try and get a clue on what he's up to. And Shiro gets a new floaty arm.

Eventually, information gleaned from the AI leads them to decide on a course of action: sending a scouting party to sneak in and gather intel on what the Galra are up to. A party of five paladins, two MFE pilots, Kosmo the space wolf, and an analyst set out on the mission, returning with the info that Sendak is building six Zaiforge cannons which have enough destructive force to take out the entire planet. In an effort to combat this, a plan is devised in which five of the six bases will be attacked by a lion and the sixth will be hit by the MFEs. Each paladin would be escorted by an MFE and after rendezvousing with their lion, the MFEs would continue on to their base with the only exception to this being Lance, who would be escorted by the analyst from earlier, his sister Veronica, who would drop him off and return to the Garrison.

When the plan is launched, everything seems to be going well... up until Lance and Veronica are attacked by a Galra fighter and the vehicle they're in is rolled due to an explosion, tossing them both out and breaking Lance's connection to the Red Lion. He comes around and finds Veronica alive, but they're both wide open when Galra sentries start shooting, and he uses both his shield and himself to protect her, firing back at them. That's when the fighter swoops in, lighting up the ground to either side of them in an effort to blind him with dust. Without thinking twice, he takes the shield down, switches from rifle to blaster, and opens fire, though the shots have no effect. In that instant, he closes his eyes...

...and the connection is made, the fighter slamming into the ground as Red lands on it.

Updated Personality: For the most part, Lance remains more or less the same in that what makes up his core is still present. He's still the same fun-loving, excitable, competitive, personable individual that he was before... but now it's tempered with a bit more maturity. The biggest change for him is that he's much less likely to flirt or butt heads with someone just for the sake of doing it (Keith is where this shows the most), and his childish razzle-dazzle antics are nowhere near as prevalent. While he still acts the goofball, he's dialed it back quite a bit, and it only really crops up to break tensions or when there's a personal 'need' for it. His self-sacrificing streak is still intact as well, and not only will he trample and bottle up his own feelings for the sake of others, but he's grown to be just as quick to jump to their defense and offer support and comfort when they need it.

As far as his own insecurities and personal growth goes, it's something he's still working on, and although he hits walls, he's now learning to dust himself off and climb over them instead of slamming into them over and over again and getting nowhere. He's honestly still feeling himself out as far as who Lance really is and what he wants in life. And because he's finally been reunited with his family, the homesickness he'd felt has been alleviated somewhat.

Updated Abilities: He's been training his ass off on learning to use his bayard's sword form. While he's gotten better, he's still got a little over 6 canon months to go before he's good enough to take on a Very Skilled Swordsman and hold his own.

Other: Since it's a lot of info to cram into someone, he'd be out from 1 Mar to 7 Mar.

Questions: Nada.

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Character: Seijuro Akashi
Current Canon Point: Post-series, before Extra/Last Game
Updated Canon Point: Post-Last Game. Last Game, specifically, since the movie has an additional story to it compared to Extra Game.

Updated Background: Akashi still hasn't seen a therapist because therapists don't exist in the world of Kuroko's Basketball.

Between the events of the main series and the movie, Akashi and the rest of the characters move up a year. The Winter Cup has passed, and the summer vacation before Akashi becomes a senior high school student. Rakuzan won in the Winter Cup, and presumably the Inter-High.

During the break, a street basketballteam from America called the Jabberwock play against a team of freshmen in college called STRKY. The members of Team STRKY happen to be the former teammates of Kise, Midorima, Aomine, Murasakibara, and Akashi. At first, the Jabberwock seem to be intimidated by STRKY's play, but soon reveal their true nature as players who taunt and pick on their opponents. STRKY was crushed in the end, and Jabberwock told everyone who played basketball in Japan that they were monkeys and should just kill themselves.

Kagetora Aida challenges Jabberwock to another game, insulted by everything he heard. That's how the team Vorpal Swords was born. Akashi meets his former teammates (the Generation of Miracles), as well as Kuroko, Kagami, and some other people, and is appointed captain of the new team.

A few days before the match, the true Akashi (Oreshi, since he uses the pronoun "ore" to refer to himself) informs his teammates that his other self (Bokushi, uses "boku") may have to make an appearance. I'm only using Oreshi and Bokushi in this explanation so things are less confusing and repetitive. These aren't canonical terms. MOVING ON...

At some point during the game when Vorpal Swords is at a disadvantage, Oreshi speaks with Bokushi in his head (THIS SERIES IS ABOUT BASKETBALL, I SWEAR) and asks for his help. Bokushi takes over and uses his Emperor Eye to assist Vorpal Swords to score more points. Eventually, Bokushi realises that even with his Emperor Eye, he can't beat Jabberwock's Nash's Belial Eye. He and Oreshi have another conversation saying he's realised that it's not that his Emperor Eye is weaker than Belial Eye, just that it's incomplete. Bokushi forces himself to disappear completely so Oreshi himself can be whole again and claims that he was never meant to be born anyway.

In the end, Vorpal Swords win and Kagami and Kuroko tell their teammates (while the Generation of Miracles eavesdropped) that Kagami was leaving for the US so he can get into a school that will help him get into the NBA.

Updated Personality: Not much change in personality! Oreshi's gotten used to being himself again, and presumably, he's gotten better at socialising with his current teammates and former teammates. He doesn't have any enemies anymore apart from Jabberwock, so he's a lot milder. He'll definitely be a little meek and quiet at first upon getting back, since Bokushi going away means that Oreshi's alone, in a manner of speaking. Oreshi didn't seem to want Bokushi to go, and there's some feelings in him after being told by Bokushi that he wasn't meant to exist in the first place.

Updated Abilities: An improved Emperor Eye. Oreshi will be able to use the full extent of the Emperor Eye without needing to access his other self. In the series, this grants him the ability to see the future, but it's just a glorified way of saying that Akashi is very, very perceptive and he's gotten even better.

Other: Prior to being updated, his left eye's been clouded by self-loathing, sadness, and distrust, but that will disappear once he gets back. Hoping to have him gone from March 2nd until the 5th!

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Player: Auste
Character: Charles-Henri Sanson
Current Canon Point: Post-Camelot
Updated Canon Point: Post-Solomon

Updated Background: The seventh Singularity in Babylonia, brought about by the Three Goddesses Alliance and a creature of unimaginable power stirring into consciousness, threatens the fabric of space, time and history. Ritsuka and Mash Kyrielight are sent to Babylonia, to the Age of Gods, in order to correct the Singularity. There, they must prove themselves capable before King Gilgamesh (the Caster, not the Archer) before they embark on dangerous missions to clean up the demonic beasts plaguing the land and to face the Goddesses. Tagging along with them are Merlin, who has escaped his prison in Avalon, and a mysterious girl who turns out to be Medusa Lily.

Though the Alliance falls to Chaldea, with Ereshkigal and Quetzalcoatl joining their side, as well as Ishtar successfully bribed to help them with a little something from Gilgamesh's treasury, the primordial goddess Tiamat wakes, seeking destruction of the earth. As an earth goddess, she is nigh difficult if not impossible to destroy, and in order to defeat her, she is brought down into the underworld, with Merlin and Ereshkigal providing a lot of assistance.

Chaldea can't catch a break after that, however. The facility has been drawn into Solomon's realm, the Grand Temple of Time, guarded by the 72 Demon Pillars. Obviously they can't defeat Solomon if they can't even reach him, so all the Servants Ritsuka has contracted with across the Singularities and even the events band together, a rain of stars falling in order to engage the Demon Pillars. After a path has been created, Ritsuka and Mash (who is nearing the end of her short life) make all haste to meet Solomon - and there, discover the truth.

As it turns out, their true enemy is Goetia, king of the Demon Gods, and the real Solomon was among their number in Chaldea all this time after wishing to experience being a normal human. Solomon makes the ultimate sacrifice, as does Mash for the sake of her Master - although Mash is brought back by a certain Beast which in turn sacrificed all his power and memory for that cause. All is well in the end, as Ritsuka and Mash manage to escape back to Chaldea, with the foundation of humanity restored.

Sanson is not involved in Babylonia but again, it is presumed that he is in the know and has lent some form of assistance to their cause. During the battle against Solomon, Sanson is one of the Servants summoned to the Temple to help fight the Demon Pillars, and he arrives with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Marie Antoinette's heels. Even in the heat of battle, Sanson and Mozart exchange some verbal barbs.

Updated Personality: There are no major changes to his personality, although he may have a sense of achievement and relief after going through Solomon - and some melancholic feelings from the sacrifices that had to be made.

Updated Abilities: No updated abilities.

Other: Sanson will again also remember the events between Camelot (his last canon point) and Babylonia, and then between Babylonia and Solomon. These include Chaldea Summer Memory, Chaldea Heat Odyssey (both are summer events that caused several Servants to be stranded on a desert island ALSO IT'S SUMMER, TIME FOR SWIMSUITS), Prisma Codes (LAND OF MAGICAL GIRLS), The Return of Nero Fest (fight challenges in Rome's arena), Super Ghouls 'n' Pumpkins (RPG-based adventure with Elisabeth Bathory, who must reclaim her castle from someone who dropped a pyramid on it), and The Little Santa Alter (Jeanne Alter shrinks down to a child and takes up the mantle of Santa).

Sanson has no major roles in the events, but he is briefly mentioned in Chaldea Summer Memory as not allowing Marie to eat pizza (FOR SHAME) and he is seen teaming up with Marie, Mozart and Chevalier d'Eon for Nerofest, promising to eliminate anyone who would hurt Marie. Mozart tries to needle him about being Robespierre's dog, only for Marie to break up the fight and get everyone to say VIVE LA FRANCE together. Later, Sanson is seen claiming that he is the greatest sinner because of. You know. Everything he did.

Again, this is simply to keep his knowledge up to date especially after some of his other castmates went and canon updated.

Questions: Please let me know if I need to add anything.

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Player: jd
Character: Elphelt Valentine
Current Canon Point: Revelator chapter 06
Updated Canon Point: Post-Revelator DLC chapters

Updated Background:

At Elphelt's current canonpoint, she has been kidnapped by her mother and the process of turning her into the God of Destruction (Justice) has started. On top of that, she (are convinced her sister Ramlethal is dead, killed intentionally by their mother (Ariels) via a bomb on the scale of a nuclear warhead. She has spent the better part of several days in this situation: initially being brainwashed into non-stop dream, then left physically imobile and completely alone, save for her mother visiting and making her life extra miserable.

After that point, the countdown to Elphelt's transformation into Justice has entered the final 24 hours. All that is necessary is a massive amount of energy, which Ariels is accumulating during that time period.

In the meantime, her mother makes an announcement to the entire world regarding the plan. Seeing as her mother (originally a bodiless being from another dimension) had possessed the body of the spiritual and religious leader of the world, this causes chaos and Ariels kills hundreds of aristocrats she had invited to a celebration, as well as releasing an army of mutant Gear-like creatures on the capital city. Elphelt does not witness this firsthand, but her mother explains the plan in detail beforehand, including her intentions of not only killing all humans, but making them as miserable and hopeless as possible beforehand.

Thankfully, Ky Kiske was present during the massacre and attacked Elphelt's mother. Despite being beaten immediately, Ky's sword had a sample of blood, which was used to identify the location of Ariels and, by extension, Elphelt. Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Sin Kiske, and Jack-O Valentine (the only Valentine not created by Elphelt's mother) arrived to save Elphelt.

Between Ramlethal's apparent murder and the arrival of her rescuers, Elphelt continued to do her best to stop her mother, even though she was physically incapacitated. Her begging failed, as did her attempts to get her mother to understand what she was doing was wrong. Never at any point does her mother show any sign of underestanding Elphelt, much less any empathy.

When her rescuers arrived, her mother gave Elphelt the option of either allowing the group to come to them and die or to tell them to go away and they would be left alive, but Elphelt told her off as she believed Sol and the others would be capable of defeating her.

Elphelt was incapacitated for the entirety of the final fight. Jack-O introduced herself as being Elphelt's "other mother"; unlike the other Valentines being clones of Justice, Jack-O was genuinely half of the person Elphelt was copied from. More importantly, Jack-O was there to take Elphelt's place to revive Justice, but also return Justice from the human-hating destructive back to the gentle human whose body was used to create her.

Sol, Ky, and Sin fought Ariels, who had no trouble handling the three. Gradually, all the commotion ended up weakening and breaking the chains that kept Justice's body steady. This was a problem due to long-range weapon Sol's group intended to use to provide the energy needed to fuse Jack-O and Justice's body into one could not adjust its aim easily. Gradually, one after another broke and Ky, then Sin, then Sol all needed to keep Justice in the line of sight, meaning no one was capable of keeping Ariels busy.

At that moment, Ramlethal appeared. She had been saved at the last moment from her mother's murder attempt, but not without harm. The individual who saved her was part of a third group separate from Sol's and Ariels's, and the fact she survived was kept secret so that she would be used as a surprise trump card. Ramlethal was able to steady Justice's body, freeing Sol to keep Ariels from interfering with the plan. Eventually, the weapon was charged and fired; along with providing the energy needed to fuse Jack-O with Justice and thereby freeing Elphelt, Sol punched Ariels into it, which was the first thing strong enough to incapacitate her.

With Jack-O fused with Justice in her place, Elphelt's purpose as a tool to start the Apocalypse was finally nullified. Rather than reviving Justice proper, Jack-O and Justice's body fused and become the human that was used to create Justice, Aria. This removed any threat of Justice being revived in the form of the 'God of Destruction' and revived Sol's lover. Elphelt and Ramlethal's mother was emprisoned by the United Nations.

After, Ky and Sin brought the Valentine sisters back home to recover. After overhearing Ramlethal tell Elphelt they couldn't stay there with King Kiske or the rest of his family, Ky pointed out the Valentines were part of that family. Ky said he would reveal the existence of his wife and son to the world, as well as the Valentines, and said they would all be together even if he had to abdicated the throne for marrying Dizzy. Despite everyone being pessimistic about that, Elphelt thought things would work out and referenced that day's newspaper: Dizzy had participated in the fight and had been noticed by many people, but rather than being afraid of a Gear, the people quoted in the paper had nothing but good things to say about her, hence why Elphelt thought the human world would be able to accept the human king's family predominantly not being human.

The whole 'a family' thing was more than just the adoption of two homeless girls, though. Elphelt and Ramlethal were clones of Justice/Aria, who was the mother of Dizzy (hence why the human king marrying her wasn't expected to go over well), who herself was the wife of Ky and mother of Sin. They were legitimately biologically related and effectively something between Dizzy's aunts and sisters, thus making the Valentines a part of the royal family.

The positivity came crashing down when everyone realized that meant they were related to Sol, who was recently forced to admit to being Dizzy's father and, by extension, Ky's father-in-law. Ramlethal realized, being children of sorts to Aria (being clones), they would need to call him father. She was appropriately mortified. Elphelt, however, thought 'sisters' was a more appropriate analogy for their relationship with their original, so she thought calling Sol 'big brother' would be more appropriate.

And that was where the canon ended for the time being. Elphelt was saved, her sister survived, her mother was defeated, and Elphelt finally found the family she had been looking for that her mother would never provide.

Updated Personality:

The biggest change to Elphelt's personality is the result of her mother finally being defeated. With Ariels being imprisoned and Justice being revived without her, Elphelt is no longer a symbol of the threat her mother poses to humanity, so one major source of shame in her life has been eliminated. Her programming is still a threat, but nothing on the scale of total extinction. She still harbors some insecurities as a result of being non-human (and being a copy of someone else), mostly regarding her Pinnochio-like syndome of not feeling like a 'real' girl, but that is not nearly as soul crushing as being a ticking time bomb.

Learning Ramlethal had actually survive her mother's murder attempt eliminates the feelings of despair. She will still feel guilty for having put Ramlethal (and everyone else) in danger for her sake. Even though not saving Elphelt would mean the world ending, they made it clear they were doing this as much to save Elphelt as the world; this is true in particular for Ramlethal who is still not particularly attached to the world as a whole and prioritzes Elphelt above it. The depression and mourning she has dealt with in Empatheias for the last few months will be cut short.

The frustration and distress Elphelt feels towards her mother due to her being 1) evil and 2) a terrible parent will be toned down considerably as a result of finding a new family that are not insane and treat her like a doll. This does not mean she will not still want to understand her mother, want her mother to understand her, and her mother to stop being evil, but the feelings of loneliness and having no place to belong (even being with Ramlethal) will be a moot. Even being away from her family, the knowledge she is a part of one will be enough to keep her spirits higher in general and in particular when the topic of family comes up. Mothers in general will still be a sore spot to some extent, though. New family or not, the person who brought her into the world still exists and is terrible.

Overall, Elphelt's optimism will be higher than ever, even taking into consideration that her optimism was already high despite all of the terrible things going on around her.

Being the aunt-in-law/sister-in-law to a king means she will double down on the whole 'womanhood' thing so she can be appropriately prim and proper, but she will probably be bad at it and forget half the time.

Updated Abilities:

None.

Other:

None.

Questions:

None.

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Character: Jill Valentine
Current Canon Point: During Last Escape DLC
Updated Canon Point: Post-Resident Evil 5

Updated Background: Gets her butt dragged to the chopper and goes to save Chris and Sheva with the help of Josh. She gently grabs Chris's butt for like .03 seconds and drags him into chopper, hands off some launchers, and a mutated Albert Wesker gets blown to smithereens while lava'd to death.

She escapes her imprisonment with Chris, make a dumb doofy face at him while they make googly eyes, and she goes home, alive. Good stuff. A+

Updated Personality: N/A, though she's a little more chill because she's been saved.

Updated Abilities: N/A

Other: Hey, she doesn't die!!!

Questions: N/A, but how nice is it that I was brief? Heck yeah.

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Player: QC
Character: Gilgamesh
Current Canon Point: post-Camelot
Updated Canon Point: post-Shinjuku

Updated Background:

Background events like Chaldea Summer Memory/Heat Odyssey, Prisma Codes, Return of Nerofest, Super Ghouls'n Goblins, The Little Santa Alter, Moon Goddess Revival, Vengeful Demon's Wall, and the Valentine's event happened. Gilgamesh doesn't participate significantly in any of these events--Master likely gave him chocolate during Valentine's and he ended up giving them a fancy goddamn bracelet and making fun of their effort to give him some substandard chocolate... while pigging out on all of it. He sends his present from an anonymous king, and while that could've potentially worked given Chaldea has like five kings running around at various times, none of them have quite his level of 'get that bitch lapis lazuli and gold' going for them. At least he didn't try to send master to a sexy lady only waterpark... filled with hot dudes.

He also shows up briefly in Nerofest to be part of a team of bash brothers with his ~~friend~~ fellow king and acquaintance, Ozymandias. They have a scene where they're both very obviously praising themselves, but Ozy thinks Gil is praising him and vice versa because they are too egotistical (Gilgamesh) and dumb (Ozymandias) to realize any different. This is why they're ~~friends~~ close acquaintances.

IN TERMS OF ACTUAL CANON, when we last left off, Chaldea had just headbutted its way through the Camelot singularity, paving the way for the final Singularity located in Gilgamesh's hometown of Uruk. Gilgamesh's Caster version took center stage here, trying desperately to stop the goddess Tiamat from overwhelming his version of Uruk. Archer Gilgamesh aided his master if called, and ended up making an appearance as Chaldea and King Gilgamesh (Caster) tried a last, desperate gamble to stop a sea of primordial rot from overtaking and destroying every living thing--Caster Gilgamesh ended up taking a shot meant for Chaldea's master, guaranteeing his demise... and as he plummeted into the underworld with the defending servants, Chaldea's master, and the gargantuan form of Tiamat herself, Caster made a last, desperate wish to call Archer Gilgamesh's essence into himself, becoming the vessel for himself at the height of his power in order to give Chaldea the one of the last edges it needed to defeat the goddess of destruction.

With Uruk saved beyond Caster Gilgamesh's wildest dreams (500 people left alive, instead of no one but Gilgamesh himself), Chaldea scarcely had time to catch its breath before it was being drawn in to/hunting down the true final Singularity--the Temple of Time, Solomon's Throne. Chaldea's final assault was a desperate, all or nothing coin flip, and Gilgamesh once again stirred himself to come out of the ~~space where F/SN characters go to not be relevant in the story~~ woodwork, fighting with other servants against the Demon God Flauros. Flauros, dying and desperate, railed against the servants and the fact that they cared about humanity, despite being mere magic and unfulfilled wishes themselves--and Gilgamesh laughed in the pillar's face (eyeball... thing?), calling it a fool that had already answered its own question and failed to accept that fact.

He saw parts of himself in the pillar--in the distant man who'd been a tyrant king far removed from the people he was meant to rule over, the man who'd never had a friend, or realized the worth of humanity itself; but where the demon pillar could only see pain and sorrow, Gilgamesh had come to see the value of life, of humanity as one big, flawed tapestry. He laughed at the pillar's dying, anguished confusion, relished in the delight of battle itself, and then faded to leave the rest to the humans. It was their lives to save, after all--and even at his most helpful, Gilgamesh was still a watcher. The stronger side would prevail, right or wrong; and ultimately, the human desire to live overpowered the sorrowful decision that they must be destroyed.

Roll credits, get a fancy badge, thank you for playing; the servants return to the throne, and Gilgamesh gets to go back to rolling in his treasury, right?

Wrong, it's Nonsense pt. 1.5 time; the rest of the world suddenly exists again, and Chaldea has a lot of explaining to do. While the Heroic Spirits supposedly faded away, Chaldea stored their Spirit Origins just in case shit happened to go down--and guess what? Shit happened to go down. While Chaldea was in the middle of doing some creative accounting in order to protect its lone master, a whole new Singularity cropped up--and considering that the sources of Singularities are supposed to be hella dead, that's a problem. Gilgamesh, drawn away from rolling around naked in conveniently placed golden flowers, helped his little idiot master as needed as she tried to help good Archer of Shinjuku fight bad Archer of Shinjuku while an extra demon pillar popped up like heeey, didn't get all of us, it's weird wiggly roach time! He probably breathed heavy like a big ol' creep because Altoria showed up, and he's weird about Saberfaces, but that's all in a days work for Gilgamesh.

Updated Personality: Gilgamesh's remains an egotistical tsundere with a heart of garbage that's tinted gold. Part of him has warmed up to his little idiot master, with the end of the false Uruk and the defeat of the demon pillars; he remains aloof in his way, loathing and adoring humanity's nuances in equal, confusing parts.

Why should all of this hold such value to you? the demon pillar Flauros asked.

Fool. You have already answered your own question.

With the 'last' great battle, Gilgamesh stands firmly on humanity's side, declaring humans to be worth something--even if he did have a lot of fun destroying the one set of creatures with an ego to rival his. A hero is a hero, even if there are times when he stumbles, and fails, and tries to kill everybody... but that's a different timeline. Gilgamesh remains a jerk and a mentor-figure, in love with himself and probably yelling in the corner with Ozymandias while people try to keep him away from the fifty-odd Artoria's running around.

Updated Abilities: Nope. He's got all his strengthening quests did.

Other: Not that I can think of.

Questions: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck had access to a chainsaw and a trebuchet? Nothing!

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Player: Mew
Character: Yang Xiao Long
Current Canon Point: End of Volume 5
Updated Canon Point: End of Volume 6

Updated Background:
Linking this due to big spoilers but the short version is everybody went on a big road trip to the port city of Argus to try and get to Atlas. Grimm happened so JN(P)R went on by train and Team RWBY and co hoofed it across a snowy landscape, found a haunted farm, burned the haunted farm, and then motored the rest of the way to Argus. Rule 63!Napoleon wouldn't give them clearance so they stole a ship, killed a man, and high-tailed it to Atlas which has apparently gone full Iron~~wood~~ Curtain in the mean time. To be continued...

Updated Personality:
Not a whole lot of change, although Yang is decidedly not a fan of her former headmaster Ozpin anymore. On the positive side, she's gained a lot of closure in regards to her trauma at the Fall of Beacon after facing down and defeating the man that maimed her alongside her partner Blake. This event also helped heal and strengthen her bond with her partner, opening up all kinds of possibilities for growth between the two in the future.

Updated Abilities:
None really, although canon confirmed Yang can bulls-eye somebody with a speeding motorcycle.

Other:
Yang's prosthetic arm was damaged in the fight with Adam Taurus. While the functionality does not seem to have been affected, there are obvious tears in the exterior metal plating as well as some heat damage. Her appearance on her profile will be updated to include this damage.

Questions:
None! Just want to make sure it's alright to have Yang back in Emp on or around the 14th.

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Player: Auste
Character: Nora Valkyrie
Current Canon Point: Post-V5
Updated Canon Point: Post-V6

Updated Background: Beginning from here to the end of the article.

After retrieving the Relic of Knowledge, Team RWBY, JNR, Oscar/Ozpin and Qrow set out to catch the Argus Limited, a train that will take them to a town between Mistral and Atlas. However, an army of Grimm attacks the train, forcing the teams to split up - JNR protecting the passengers with Ren's Semblance amplified by Jaune, and Team RWBY, Oscar, Ozpin and Qrow continuing to fight the Grimm and winding up lost for a little while in the snow.

They regroup at Saphron and Terra Cotta-Arc's place, where Nora is absolutely thrilled to see everyone and in fact she tackles Oscar (which is a thing she will keep doing). Caroline Cordovin refuses them passage through to Atlas even with Weiss Schnee on their side, prompting them to think of another way to enter Atlas.

Nora, Jaune and Ren are brought up to speed with the knowledge Team RWBY received from the Relic about Ozpin's true past, and needless to say, the three are dispirited and frustrated at this new development. Nonetheless, they try to look for Oscar, and along the way, find a statue of Pyrrha erected in her honor. Nora reminds a downcast Jaune that she and Ren love him as much as Pyrrha did, and that they would continue to fight as if Pyrrha were still with them.

The new plan? Steal an airship that will take them to Atlas, fight Cordovin in her giant mecha, and wind up having to work together with her to bring down a horde of Grimm that threaten Argus. All's well that ends well, although there were quite a few snags like Jaune and Nora having their Auras snuffed out during the fight. The series ends with them being welcomed into Atlas. (Welcome home, Weiss.)

Updated Personality: There are no marked changes in Nora's personality, although we get to see her experience frustration in V6 (when Ozpin's true back story is revealed) and how she deals with them. She is also more up front with her affection towards Ren a.k.a. COME BACK HERE WITH MY MAN

Updated Abilities: None, but Nora was seen in episode 1 performing a combo attack with Ren where he grabs her and swings her around at the enemy. She may be able to perform that with someone else here considering how small and strong she is.

Other: Nora will be gone from the 17th to the 20th, and will arrive just in time for the Zephyras Festival!

Questions: Nada banana.

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