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Canon: Baroque
Current Canon Point: Mid-canon, entering the Neuro Tower at -1500.
New Canon Point: Post-canon, after reviving Alice and Eliza.
Major Changes: As per Baroque, a lot of things that are abstract and hard to understand happens between his current point and the postgame, but the basic rundown is as such: Dextera restores his own memories and gains a sense of his own desires outside the whims of the Archangel. Eliza is able to birth Consciousness Orbs, using his “pure water.”
He once again fails to fix the world because the Absolute God still is unable to feel pain, and so another reset later, he learns to purify the Littles—small, angel-like creatures that are made purely of pain, the bullets of the Angelic Rifle—and gives their core to Alice, who discovers the feeling of suffering, and carries it with her to the Absolute God. Between Alice’s pain and Eliza’s orbs, the Absolute God is finally ready.
For the final time, Dextera fuses with her, and they manage to successfully form one being. Dextera panics at the idea of creating a new world, though, suffering the worst bout of performance anxiety of his life, and even with everything in place, the world he makes is a perfect recreation of the old one. No one is revived, everyone is still distorted, and the world has still ended. The lesson Dextera learns is that it’s possible to live and be happy in such a world… and he does learn it, to some extent. The doubts are still there, which is why he seeks to bring back Alice and Eliza.
The biggest difference between Dextera as he is in Awash and Dextera at the end of Baroque is his level of independence. He’s much more the person he used to be (in the Koriel), though the unfortunate truth that he has to learn to accept is that he was never missing anything—he was lonely and clingy because he’s a lonely and clingy person, not solely because his brother died. This is something he struggles with even past the end of the game, but he wears it a lot better. Additionally, he is Actually, Literally God now, and of the four parts (God, Alice, Eliza, and Dextera), he’s the most openly uncertain that what he’s done is the right thing. Basically, he’s worried about being a bad, incompetent god, but he’s striving to make the world he destroyed livable for the people who remain in it.
(Also, he learns he didn’t actually destroy the world, and that was the Archangel’s fault, but he still feels responsible.)
To make a long story short, he’s more comfortable with himself, and aware enough of his past to face the Archangel as an equal and even a friend, but his core nature hasn’t changed: a little selfish, a little insecure, and he wants to be surrounded by the people he loves. It’s just that now he’s finally done his “duty,” and can try to better the world he’s made.
Ability Changes: He has his voice back! Not exactly an ability. He’s better at purification, and his purification itself is stronger. He can sense distortions more accurately. If Consciousness Orbs existed in this universe, he would be able to transfer information, items, and his physical body from one Orb to another, but there aren’t any of those!
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Dextera will disappear into the woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories, abilities and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's peasant shoes, until he can get new ones. That's unfortunate