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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.
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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:
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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.
If you have any questions, contact one of the mods or ask them on the form.
Player:
Character:
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.
Questions:
Here's the clean copy and paste form:
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Character: Laphicet
Current Canon Point: With the first Earth Pulse visit, when Eleanor becomes his vessel.
Updated Canon Point: Just after the final battle, right before changing form in agreeing to take his place as an Empyrean to fill the gap left by Innominat.
Updated Background:
They hear information that Artorius is heading to his Throne, so the group head there to confront him with Velvet. Only, this doesn't quite go as they expect, even with Laphicet continuously healing her to keep her going in fighting him. Reinforcements show up to support him, including Eleanor, an Exorcist they encountered earlier who was already beginning to question the Abbey and her role as an Exorcist. Teresa also shows up, furious at Laphicet, and orders him to kill Velvet. He refuses, somehow then tapping into Innominat's power to get them out of there, though trapped in the earthpulse until they find a way out. He's exhausted from this, and starting to be affected by the Malevolence so Velvet reluctantly agrees upon encountering Eleanor that she would help by becoming his vessel. They manage to get out of the earthpulse and rest before continuing on.
That is where I initially took Laphicet from. From here on is what he will have experienced in the update. (This is basically just copied from my original app. Because I typed the whole history up. Thank you past me for this assistance.....!)
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Along the way with their travels, they find a particular book Laphicet fixates on and takes from the library of the capital, which turns out to have information around one of the Empyreans, Innominat. They need help translating it, since it is in one of the old languages not really used anymore, so they go to find one of Magilou's friends for help, a Normin malak named Grimoirh. She helps translate it and teaches Laphicet to as well, since it is one he found and he seems so interested. They translate part of it, which talks of Innominat as a dragon with multiple heads, being connected to a therion at each of these points at the earthpulse, consuming their Malevolence to awaken himself. Basically, the therions, Velvet included, while she was in prison for three years following the events in Aball, would devour daemons, and Innominat would then tap into that subsequent energy and Malevolence for himself from this, so long as the therions stayed in that particular area.
So, as these guys are not the most Goody Two Shoes bunch, they head off to each of these points under Laphicet's guidance with his compass, defeating these therions and kidnapping them to their base so they can't be used to awaken Innominat. This does cause the problem of the Malevolence no longer being contained or siphoned off to Innominat, which causes the citizens of that area to be overwhelmed by the Malevolence and turn into Daemons though. But Velvet does not care because this is still messing with Artorius and his plans so she considers this worth it. Even if Artorius might have noble intentions of trying to help humanity, they cannot abide by the methods he's doing it - in suppressing humanity's free will in order to maintain peace. And well, Velvet still is kind of furious so she still wants to kill him anyway.
During this, they realize that they needed to use the Exorcists in order to use them as vessels in awakening the Four Empyreans. Specifically, Oscar, Shigure - Rokurou's brother, Melchior - the mastermind behind it in teaching and encouraging Artorius, and Teresa - Oscar's sister. Unfortunately, Teresa becomes a therion in her protectiveness and desire to help her brother, Oscar. But Velvet still devours her, both of them, to maintain their power she will need to awaken the Empyreans.
On the way, as they go back to visit the town where Velvet had lived, they are affected by another of Melchior's illusionary artes. A cruel one revolving around Velvet's brother and the rest of her village still being alive. This both upsets and enrages Velvet when she finds out, more so when she's treated to seeing events of the actual past around how Celica met Artorius, how her brother offered himself to Artorius to help awaken Innominat, knowing he only had maybe two years left to live at that point. This pretty much breaks her, and when confronted by Innominat in her brother's body, she seems resigned to being devoured by him. Except that Laphicet protests, clinging to her arm to keep her to him, yelling at her to help her snap out of it, causing her to fall out of that state of despair.
But they do their best even after this, heading to face down Artorius and find their way to him for a proper confrontation, once they do their part in attempting to awaken the Empyreans besides Innominat. The group are still resolved to do their part to help Velvet, for various reasons, so they face off against the Shepherd, who uses the arte to armatize with Innominat in battle against them. But this isn't enough to deter or defeat the group. The party is resolved to finish this and manage to take him down, Velvet dealing the final blow before dealing with Innominat. Innominat can't handle being free, without a vessel, and she and the rest can't outright kill him without risking Laphicet, given the two are connected, so Velvet seals herself away with him. Reunited with her brother once more, sharing her Malevolence with him from her demonic arm to nourish him and keep him somewhat contained.
Unfortunately, this also means there needs to be a replacement for Innominat, the Four Empyreans explain, once they awaken finally, and they say only a particularly strong malak would manage it. Laphicet thinks, debating what Velvet told him about wanting him to live, against the need to help and offers himself up as a replacement instead. This causes him to awaken as an Empyrean in dragon form, the one known as Maotelus, granting the world the gift or blessing of his 'Silver Flames', otherwise known as the Flames of Purification, in order to help give the world, the daemons and therions, a second chance. However this comes at the cost of lowering the level of the humans resonance, so now only those with particularly strong resonance can see and hear daemons or malakhim. He decides that Laphicet doesn't fit with his new status and appearance, so asks to now go by his True Name that Eleanor gave him. The one with the same meaning as 'Laphicet' but in the Ancient Tongue - Maotelus, 'One Who Lives'.
I'd be taking Laphicet from riiiight before he actually transforms into an Empyrean, basically.
Updated Personality:
Mostly, at this point, Laphicet is more confident in himself from having spent that much more time with Velvet and the rest, away from the influence and orders of the Exorcists. After hearing more about his family and who he really is or was supposed to be, that shook him, but not so much in the moment it happened to be revealed, given his focus on Velvet and her breakdown. But he's more stubborn than ever in being resolute in supporting her. In sticking with her regardless of what might happen to him. His personality is still stubborn, still resolute regardless of what he learned of his past and family. What could have been. He's still determined to do what he can to help Velvet and support her.
He's also formed a closer bond with Eleanor, coming to trust her probably on par or damned close to on how much he trusts and cares for Velvet almost. But this also extends to the rest of the party in general, as he learns more about them and spends more time with them.
In general, he learns a lot more about their world. About the Exorcists and the Empyreans and what Melchior and Artorius were really up to. This is obviously far from reassuring or hopeful in the least, with their intentions of ridding humans of emotions to dispel all Malevolence. It's not entirely enough that he loses his hope or naivety altogether, but enough that he wants to still give everyone a chance by the end of the game when he takes on the role of becoming the new Empyrean. He knows there's people with less than pure or good intentions. But he also knows on the flipside that there are people like Eleanor out there who really do want to help and do good in the world. So that is who he fights for. Who he wants to help in giving them a second chance when he purifies everyone with his flames at the end cutscene.
Updated Abilities:
The main update would be his getting better control (not total control, that happens once he transforms into the dragon Empyrean Maotelus) of the flames of purification.
Less sure if his 'domain' might come up in how Maotelus literally uses the land itself as his domain/his vessel in blessing/purifying it naturally, prior to things going down in Zestiria with Heldalf. If that would even come up or not, or if he would know enough/have enough control at this earlier point to make use of it.
Other:
Nothing else off of the top of my head?
Questions:
Regarding his domain, given Maotelus/Laphicet is kind of different to most malakhim/seraphim with his, given what we see and learn of him in Zestiria and all. If it would come up or if I'd want to do anything with it in-game, I mean. Just wondering on limits here in Verens if I were to do something with it. I'm totally fine with you mods saying he probably would only figure a smaller area to bless/purify given his earlier canon point still being Berseria based, obviously.
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Regarding the scope of his power, it will be limited to what Laphicet could do prior to becoming an Empyrean.