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Please use the form below to submit your canon update! Characters will disappear into the forest once your canon update has been approved, and will be gone for three days. When they return, all memories and changes (such as scars, new powers, etc) will be present, though they will remember nothing from the forest. Also, they'll be missing their shoes. Unfortunate. CANON UPDATE <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Current Canon Point:</b> <b>New Canon Point:</b> <b>Major Changes:</b> Just write up what's happened to them in the interim! Anything major that would affect them goes here. A handful of paragraphs, depending on how much happened, is fine--feel free to focus on what will change their personality and actions in the game. <b>Ability Changes:</b> If there are any changes in their abilities, this goes here! If not, just put "N/A"

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[extrapolating]

Character Name: Elizabeth
Canon: Bioshock Infinite
Current Canon Point: In Finktown, just after she agrees to be partners with Booker
New Canon Point: The end of chapter 18, before Booker and Elizabeth head to Comstock's ship

Major Changes:
Oh boy. In between her current canon point and her new one, a lot happens. You can find an actual summary of events on the wiki I linked in her application, but I'll be focusing more on how that changes how she'll work in the game with some crucial events mixed in.

Elizabeth has grown and changed a lot in between these two points, and not necessarily for the better. Her journey through Finktown and the slums made her see the wide disparity between people in Columbia and feel angry at the injustice of it all. This is something that she still holds true, having a much wider view of the world and peoples' circumstances than she did at the time. By traveling through many Tears, Booker and Elizabeth even found themselves at the center of a riot and revolution, which Elizabeth was at least partially swept up emotionally by. However, as she saw the pain and suffering even that caused, Elizabeth also started to see more greys in how Columbia was, as well as in other people. While Elizabeth used to be optimistic when it came to other people, this has clouded her view and made her more pessimistic about people and their intentions.

Though the biggest change came as the lead revolutionary threatened innocent people. Elizabeth bravely sprung into action to save them, but by doing so, she killed the leader herself. This murder is the biggest change we see in Elizabeth, as that innocent, Disney-princess like personality fades away quickly after. She even cuts her hair right after in a true symbolic haircut, but this murder is a pivotal moment for her character, jokes aside. She's much darker, more bitter, more cynical, and as one of the weaknesses mentioned in her application, more spiteful.

The more Elizabeth has learned of why she's in Columbia and why Comstock locked her up, the angrier she becomes. Though she'd wanted to simply leave Columbia and wanted nothing to do with it otherwise, she starts to get more invested in it through her journey. She becomes hardened by her experiences and numb to what she sees Booker do and what she does herself. It's not as if the warm moments of her former self are completely gone, but they're tempered by her new bitterness. She can forgive the ghost of her mother, but it comes with the caveat of blaming Comstock for all he's done.

And finally, just at her canon point, Elizabeth has just been tortured by Comstock after being recaptured. Put through an extremely painful process of having her powers siphoned from her and being actively treated as an experiment (which we see break her in another universe), Elizabeth's rage and hatred burns much hotter. She murders in cold blood, not caring or seeming upset at all by her actions, and she boldly threatens to murder Booker too, since she has her sights set on killing Comstock. She has a new, bloody path she wants to take, and this has warped her morals significantly.

But at least in the much more idyllic setting of the game, she's likely to eventually learn to relax again. She's still that princess-like girl underneath, but she's learned all of the worst things about people in her time away.

Ability Changes:
Slightly! While all of Elizabeth's usual rules and limitations about Tears apply, she now has much better understanding of them and control over them. She understands far better what they are (and how they've been exploited), and is able to open more directed forms of Tears. Early in the game, Elizabeth refers to her Tears as a kind of "wish-fulfillment," and by this canon point, she's seemingly more specific with those wishes. So if she wants to, say, murder some scientists that had kidnapped her, she can open a tear to reveal a raging tornado. That said, it's doubtful that she specifically wished for a tornado or consciously chose that place to open a Tear to.

Also, as a slight sidenote, would it be acceptable for me to change journals for her? Her canon update also comes with a haircut, so I'd like to just swap journals rather than delete all the ones on this account if possible!

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Thank you! Your canon update has been approved.

Elizabeth will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point she will return with her new memories, her new understanding and control, and no shoes. Unfortunate.

And it'd be fine to change journals for her; please just respond to this comment with her new journal and then add it to the comms, and we'll swap them out!

[interpolating]

Excellent, thank you! This will be her new journal.

and also no shoes... terrible... but thank you for a weird inconvenience