![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
CANON UPDATES.
 | |
| NAV. • ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} awashrpg• awashlogs• awashooc• NAV • PREMISE • FAQ • RULES • TAKEN | 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. |
no subject
Canon: Voltron
Current Canon Point: End of Season 4 right before Lotor intervenes in the final battle
New Canon Point: End of Season 5 right when Keith discovers that he's face to face with his mother.
Major Changes: So in this canon update, Keith will learn that he didn't die in the battle like he thought. Hooray! So that will certainly change his outlook, but he'll still be as determined to find a way home for himself and everyone here.
If anything, this canon update means that he's been away from the other Paladins and with the Blade even longer, and that means he'll be extra out of practice at how to people. But as he shows through season 5, Keith still very much hangs onto his human values, despite the Blade's emphasis of mission over anything else, and emotions being a luxury they can't afford -- he's still willing to deviate to save the people he loves or go back for his fallen comrades.
That said at the point he is, he's fully ready to let himself be sacrificed for the sake of the mission, getting genuinely angry when Krolia trades the codes for his life; though she later explains that this is as much a trap for their enemies as anything else, as the super weapon will destroy them before they can put it to use.
The biggest thing is Keith is coming from the moment that he discovers that his mother is still alive and that he's standing face to face with her. He'll be yanked back from that exact moment, so he will have a lot to wrap his head around, since he has spent most of his life believing that his mother just left him without ever having a reason for it. Discovering that she's alive and well and with the Blade (and dealing with "I left you once, I'll never leave you again") is going to be jarring and confusing and really he's going to need a hug. Someone please hug him.
Note: Season 5 released 3/2, so I think that means 5/2 is the clear point for two full months.
Ability Changes: More missions and battles under his belt. No new abilities or skills, but further honing the ones he already possesses. Not stealth though. Why do they keep sending him on stealth missions he's terrible at them.
no subject
Keith will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories (no new abilities apparently, thanks Keith) and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones.
no subject
Sadly he's already resorted to the unfortunate shoes since he showed up in a space onesie, and that's just not always a practical sartorial choice. He'll be extra grumpy about having to go find new ones though. He finally broke those in!!!
no subject
Canon: DC Comics
Current Canon Point: Post-Brainiac attack
New Canon Point: Action Comics #1000
Major Changes: He's gone through the events of New Krypton, he's gone through the change over to nu52 and now into Rebirth, wherein he's been moved to the 'new' version of the universe with his wife, Lois, and their newborn son, Jon. They've raised Jon in the new universe, taking care of threats that the people in the new universe they're in may not have been aware of, kind of sub-Supermanning while that world's Superman was also supermanning. It's... complicated. But eventually the other Superman sort of died and at this point, he's the only Superman and his son Jon is good friends with Bruce's son, Damian, and they sort of minisuperhero themselves. It's adorable.
Ability Changes: N/A
no subject
Clark will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones.
no subject
Canon: Voltron
Current Canon Point: Season 5 End
New Canon Point: Season 6 End
Major Changes: Hunk doesn't go through any major personality changes but oh boy does plenty happen in season 6. There's a lot of revelations, the biggest one being how much of a bad guy Lotor is, and how Shiro actually died with his soul being preserved in the Black Lion which is then transplanted into the body of his evil clone. I know, it's crazy but there you go, that's Voltron.
Hunk's biggest episode of the season is the first one, where he displays a willingness to learn about the Galra. He shows that he's got no patience for people who squabble amongst themselves and shame both their history and each other when they can't focus on what's really important. He's a grounding presence to others, as per usual, and maintains that through the entirety of the season.
The last episode of the season, he also demonstrates his willingness along with the others to do whatever they can in order to protect the universe. Diving into danger, despite being scared, and facing the threat of Lotor head-on.
Ability Changes: N/A
no subject
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender
Current Canon Point: End of Season 5
New Canon Point: End of Season 6
Major Changes:
During the time of his canon update, Keith spends two years inside the quantum abyss on the back of a
plot deviceSpace Whale. Time passes differently there, so the two years for him is a significantly shorter time for everyone else in the universe except his mother. But during this time he connects for the first time with his mother. This makes a huge difference in Keith. He's spent his entire life wondering why his mother left him, knowing nothing about her, knowing so little about who he is and where he came from. After his father died, Keith was very clearly lost. If it hadn't been for Shiro appearing in his life, he would have taken a much darker path, if he'd gone anywhere.But, even with Shiro's influence, even with his friends and the things he's accomplished, there's always been something empty and painful about his mother's absence. Getting to know Krolia (and being dragged into visions of her past and his past, a sort of bonding whether they wanted to or not) has sort of eased and partially healed some of these deeper wounds. Keith knows that his mother left out of love for him, not because the mission was more important. This has allowed him to come to an understanding not only with Krolia, but also with himself. Keith's long been at war with himself, and while that's not over entirely, he's defeated at least a few of his inner demons. Also he gets a puppy, and that probably helps too. Space therapy wolf.
During this canon update, Keith also comes into his own in terms of leadership. Where his previous experience as the Black Paladin had been frantic and chaotic, haunted by grief and then tension, and ended in him retreating and yielding the position of leader back to (who he thought was) Shiro. Now Keith returns and steps into the role of leader without hesitation. He's decisive and quick to action, but also ready to rely on his team and their input and skills. He bonds more strongly with the Black Lion.
He also shows that he's willing to lay everything on the line for the people who matter to him most, something that becomes clear in his confrontation with Shiro and his unwillingness to give up on him, going so far as being ready to die for his closest friend.
Of course, it's still Keith. He's still dealing with his emotions being intense and sometimes overwhelming. He's still impulsive and impatient (sorry for snapping Lance, but he didn't have time for that) and can be a bit single-minded at times. But over all, he's grown up and come into his own in many ways, even if he's still very much a work in progress.
Ability Changes:
No new abilities, but it's been shown clearly that some of Keith's Galra heritage is not quite as dormant/buried as might have been thought. In his battle with the Shiro-clone, his eyes begin to change when he is on the edge of losing his control. Not quite hulking out, but you know. He also gets taller, muscles up a little, earns a scar or two. And his mullet levels up.
no subject
Hunk will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones.
no subject
Keith will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones.
no subject
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!
no subject
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!
no subject
and also no shoes... terrible... but thank you for a weird inconvenience
no subject
Canon: Owari no Seraph
Current Canon Point: Chapter 61
New Canon Point: Chapter 71
Major Changes: It's just ten chapters, where Guren isn't always the focus, so this is mainly as a refresher for me but! Basically: Guren and co. finish with Ky Luc and rescue Ferid, but not the Queen. Guren goes more into depth with them all about what he does know: things about the Mikaela gene, fighting some big monster against humanity, and the seraphs. They defeat the seraph that's causing all of the horsemen to appear, and save him, and then take off towards Tokyo to meet up with another group.
There, there's even more going on. Things are tense and everyone's confused that there are vampires and humans together, but Guren meets with Kureto who's in charge and calling for him. He tells Guren that he was possessed by something that's been possessing every Hiiragi before him. Kureto says that he wants Guren to kill him if he doesn't seem like himself, but if possible, to save him.
The main change in Guren with this is just that his goals are further along, but there are also more obstacles in his way. As a person so involved in the plot, that's a huge effect on how he thinks about things and his own feelings about returning home. Even if he thinks time is stopped back there now, he has so much he needs to do. He's tired and even more exhausted in every chapter and that'll show in Awash, too.
It's a pretty small jump but I think that covers it, so let me know if that's not enough!
Ability Changes: Not really any! Guren and Mahiru are always growing closer and seem to be getting steadily more powerful, but there's no changes to the powers themselves that we know of?? That are explained, at least?
no subject
Guren will disappear into the woods for three days, at which point he will return with his new memories and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones. That's unfortunate.
no subject
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!
no subject
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
no subject
Canon: Zettai Karen Children
Current Canon Point: Right after she moved out of Minamoto's apartment
New Canon Point: After chapter 520, the bit where they go to an alternate universe and meet rule 63 versions of themselves and the people they know.
Major Changes: Yuuri came back. Also Babel and the rest of the world got taken over by Black Phantom and she's a criminal now. What this means is that she will be even more driven to become stronger. Also, she'll come back with a black uniform...but no matching boots.
Ability Changes: She's recently discovered that she can activate the Boost and the Force of Absolution without activating the Boost function on her Limiter.
Also, I'm submitting this request now but is it okay if I make the actual date of her disappearing into the woods the last three days of the month instead?
no subject
Kaoru will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point she will return with her new memories and without her shoes. Guess she'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until she can get new ones.
And it's fine to decide whenever you'd like to have her disappear -- it can be flexible!
no subject
Canon: Fate/
Current Canon Point: Post-Camelot
New Canon Point: Post-Shinjuku/SE.RA.PH
Major Changes: Just bringing him up to date on current story/event stuff! Story-wise, humanity’s been saved and a version of himself assisted his master in the final boss battle. Thereafter, his master encounters the first of a series of new threats to the Chaldea Security Organization. In addition, Merlin joins the crew, as does the male AU version of Artoria, both of whom cause Tristan no end of internal turmoil.
He’s also had a fairly prominent presence in some events since his last canon point. He moonlit as Cleopatra’s bumbling, incompetent minion during Halloween 2018. During Valentine’s 2019, it’s revealed that he’s made a recording of his music while drunk—a fact which he regrets deeply because one way or another it will absolutely bite him in the ass in Chroma.
His last major event appearance as of this canon update is the SE.RA.PH event. This time, another version of him is summoned into a digital world where he assists the protagonist in fighting off another threat to humanity. Along the way, he encounters certain characters who remind him of his old flame, even if he’s also constantly butting heads with them at the same time. However, this Tristan and the Tristan currently in Awash are two different people. Awash!Tristan is unlikely to learn about what exactly happened in SE.RA.PH since only a select few people were able to retain their memories of that event. However, we do get to learn more about his personality and backstory, such as the fact that he’s tsun for a certain kind of monster girl—and that he can’t help but be chivalrous to women even if he sees them as his enemies. Also, some of his powers are given further clarification in the story.
Ability Changes: Not so much a change as a confirmation of sorts. The bulk of his abilities were already mentioned in his app, and the wiki I linked there has a full list of his powers. Catching him up to this canon point just means that we get to see him showing off these abilities in the actual storylines, instead of being mere footnotes in the official guidebooks and whatnot.
For instance, Halloween 2018 shows that he can use his harp to fly. SE.RA.PH further expands on this by showing that he can use his harp like a hang glider at best—meaning no upwards flight. The latter also shows that his harp’s “arrows” function more like strings, which he can use to ensnare things. Granted, this was demonstrated in his combat animations already, but there you go.
Also I'd like for him to disappear starting May 13/after the event, basically!
no subject
Tristan will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point he will return with her new memories and without his shoes. Guess he'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until he can get new ones.
And it's fine to decide whenever you'd like to have him disappear -- it can be flexible!
no subject
Canon: Zettai Karen Children
Current Canon Point: Ch. 397
New Canon Point: After Ch. 520, immediately after the Rule 63 arc in which Shiho travels to an alternate universe and finds out that there's a rule 63 version of herself and people she knows.
Major Changes: She's a criminal now that the actual terrorist group Black Phantom has come straight out of the woodwork and is slowly taking over the world, including the government organization she was once a part of. There aren't many personality changes to speak of, since she's pretty set in her ways already, willing to do whatever it takes to keep people safe. Her outfit is black because things are serious business now.
Ability Changes: Shiho's psychometry has gotten much stronger now, and using her powers at full blast doesn't tire her out as much as it used to. She also has a mental limpet in the form of a psychic copy of the Director of BABEL, Fujiko Tsubomi that she can project and get the opinion of if she wanted it. (Not that she does most of the time.)
no subject
Shiho will disappear into the Woods for three days, at which point she will return with her new memories and without her shoes. Guess she'll have to use some of the Town's unfortunate shoes, until she can get new ones.