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ICly, When your character is on a canon update, they completely disappear from the world. It's almost as if they were removed the game, however there's a key difference. Their amulet will remain and be in a translucent state. Characters will be gone from the game from three days to a week. They will reappear wherever their amulet is and can continue their progress from wherever they left off. They will also retain all of their memories.

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Current Canon Point: The canon point upon application.
Updated Canon Point: The new, desired canon point.

Updated Background: All we need is all the new information, so just a summary of what's happened between the current and updated canon point.

Updated Personality: If anything has changed about the character's personality fill it here. Just like in the original application process, we need as much details a possible, especially if there were any big changes.

Updated Abilities:

Other: Anything else worth mentioning.

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[simpathis]

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[becomeashield]

Player: Kiri
Character: Zeno (Akatsuki no Yona)
Current Canon Point: End of chapter 101
Updated Canon Point: Chapter 130, after the fire

Updated Background: After saving his family from the rogue soldiers, and a three-chapter flashback arc later, Zeno continues his adventures with Yona and her group of merry men. One day they camp in the middle of a forest to have Shin-Ah possessed by the ghost of a past Seiryuu. Once they realize that he was acting strange, this spirit starts to use his eyes' powers on Yoon and the other dragons warriors. Zeno puts himself in front, and they discover that the Seiryuu's powers are useless on his immortal body. Seiryuu faints, but soon wakes up again and kidnaps Zeno by tying him up with a rope. They're followed to a mausoleum from a past Seiryuu village. Inside the tomb, other Seiryuu ghosts try to possess Zeno, but to their surprise he's okay with it. He warns them about the terrible downsides of his body. The ghosts step away, and the spirit decides to take on another dragon. That makes Zeno act; he steals his sword, cuts the flesh of his own hand to cause scales to grow, and breaks a wall to come to their help. Before he and Kija can confront him, Yona comforts the spirit away. They all get out of the mausoleum with Yoon's help.

Their next adventure takes them to a city in the Water Tribe. They go to the marketplace to get Zeno new clothes, as he keeps ruining his. In his shopping he meets lady Lili's bodyguards, Tetora and Ayura, who pay for a new outfit for him. They ask the group for a favor: to help their mistress who's planning to go near the border to the kingdom of Sei to investigate about drug dealers. The next day they go to a festival in a town to meet a contact. At first they have fun, but Yona and Lili get kidnapped by the contact, who was working for Sei. The girls are taken as slaves to the construction of one of two forts. Zeno's group goes check one of the forts, and he manages to find Yona wounded and surrounded by soldiers in the forest. Zeno throws himself from the sky while flying in Jae-Ha's back, and beats some of the men up. Yona tells them that Lili was taken to be executed, and they run/jump off to her rescue. They all arrive in time to see the second group and Soo-won's own force working to save Lili. After a short talk with Soo-won, to ask him if he desires the power of the dragons, Zeno reunites with his family.

Much later, the group is confronted by a few ninja-like men from the kingdom of Xing. The leader, Voldo, knows they are the "monsters" of Kouka and asks them to come along with them. The second princess, Tao, wanted to meet them. They go along and are taken to the princess' house by Voldo and another strong warrior called Argila. The princess wasn't expecting to actually see them, but she welcomes Yona and the rest into her house and tells them about her country's situation, her sister Kouren, and how close they are to go to war with Kouka. That same night, men from Kouren attack Tao's mansion. Zeno can feel danger and goes inside a burning building where Tao and Argila happen to be. He holds a burning pillar, saving Tao's life, and urges them to escape. Unable to walk away, his flesh is charred along with the house. Before his friends can get inside, he appears completely burned brown, in agonizing pain. He falls into Yona's arms as his body slowly heals, leaving only golden scales behind. He falls asleep cradled in her embrace. Once they're all safe inside a cave, we can see Zeno alive and cheerful, his skin normal, and eating some stew.

Updated Personality: His essential cheery but wise personality hasn't really changed, but we can see a change in attitude considering his previous canon point. He's much more open about his powers and his immortality, not only with his found family but also perfect strangers. Perhaps the acceptance by his beloved people has given him more confidence. He's also 200% more reckless and extra. Whereas before he'd act with prudence and do the minimal in action scenes, now he throws himself into extremely violent situations to protect others, as the newer examples mentioned in his biography. He's now a poster boy for gore and blood, and isn't beneath causing the harm to himself to prompt his super strength and defense that comes with the regeneration. Quite the opposite, we now know he's used to and he's mentioned suicide attempts and self-harm for experimentation. These things often upset his brothers and Yoon, who complain to him and try to shield him before he gets hurt. He seems to be clueless and amused in canon about the effect of his actions, although his two-year development in Empatheias should make him more sympathetic to their pleas here.

Updated Abilities: We know this new information about his powers.
- Correction to application: His ability to hear the gods was long lost when he drank Ouryuu's blood
- Seiryuu eyes can't immobilize him or devour his heart. He'll fall and immediately snap out of it
- Hurting a section of his body (say, an arm) can just give him powers in that part only
- His fist in scales is strong enough to break a wall that Kija and Jae-Ha couldn't with his own dragon limbs
- He cannot get drunk. He gets dizzy only for a few seconds after ingesting alcohol
- Gorging his own eyes doesn't turn them into dragon eyes like Seiryuu's
- Drinking his blood or eating his flesh cannot turn a person or animal into an immortal

Other: He'll be gone July 2nd-4th

Questions: n/a

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised!

Spoilers for Final Fantasy XV

[quickpic]

Player: Skye
Character: Prompto Argentum
Current Canon Point: Post Chapter 11
Updated Canon Point: End of Chapter 13

to keep the tl;dr caged...

He'll be gone July 4th to July 6th.

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognized!

The new pictures on his camera should be fine.

[gr1m]

Player: Leo
Character: Reaper
Current Canon Point: Post Old Soldiers
Updated Canon Point: End of Masquerade

Updated Background: After leaving Ana and Jack in Cairo Reaper has been busy.

A mission sends Reaper, Widowmaker, and Sombra to Russia to kill the CEO of Volskaya Inudstries, Katya Volskaya. Volskaya Industries is behind the creation of weapons and mechs capable of fighting omnics. We see that Reaper and Widowmker work together very well, trusting the other to have their back. Something goes wrong despite Reaper and Widowmaker doing their parts, the alarms Sombra was supposed to have cut off sounding and alerting what guards remain to their presence. Katya Volskaya is not killed and the three have to leave Russia with the mission a failure.

At Christmas we see Reaper possibly in LA watching a family in the rain. It's only a brief glimpse and nothing is said or seen from him again.

At least until Reaper is reported and seen picking a man called Doomfist up from a high security Helix prison where he has just punched his way out from his cell. Reaper had taken care of what guards would have prevented them from leaving in the jet, which he had arrived in for the pick-up.

Then with Doomfist updated on things he'd only seen in newspapers during his stay in prison(along with the Russian job, which wouldn't have been reported on, where Reaper states his knowledge of Sombra deliberately foiling the assassination of Katya Volskaya for her own purposes), they are on their way to Venice. There Doomfist re-establishes himself as a member of the Talon Council amongst other members while Reaper is once more doing what he does best when the time comes; clearing the area and taking out guards that would have attempted to stop or warn others of their coming through. Reaper also goes to the secret meeting taking place during the masquerade, seating himself at the Talon Council table amongst the few other members already seated.

Still in masquerade costume.

Updated Personality: There is no real change here, going about business as Reaper has been for years.

Updated Abilities: There has been a change to his passive Reaping ability to where just damaging someone causes him to absorb life energy instead of having to kill someone to do it.

Thi ability will be under the same change to emotions/emotional energy rather than souls/life energy as was given when apped in.

It has also been found that scans do not read Reaper as a life form.

Other: Be gone July 19th to July 22nd, if that's alright.

Questions: N/A

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised!

[sweetjoker]

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

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognized!

[thatgoodnight]

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?

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised!

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.

[thatgoodnight]

Cool! I figured that was the case, but I wanted to double check, so thank you!

[farseen]

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?

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognized!

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

[newrecipe]

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

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised!

[newrecipe]

Thank you!

[thewisegirl]

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.

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised.

[laodicean]

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.

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognized!

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

[lionhandler]

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

[simpathis]

Your canon update has been recognised!

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.

[greatestdefective]

Player: Meowzy
Character: Sherlock Holmes

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

God i'm so sorry

[redpaladin]

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?