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[moustre]

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When a character undergoes a canon update, they'll find themselves drawn to The Looking-Glass House once more, to the mirror they came through, no matter the time of day or night, or what they're doing at the time. In it, they'll see the events of their canon update flashing quickly through the mirror, until only their reflection remains. Though it goes fast, your character will find that they can remember everything with perfect clarity - this is thanks to the magical resonance each character has with their mirror. With that all out of the way, if you'd like to update our character's canon point, simply copy and paste the following form in a reply to this entry! Please add these somewhere in your character's information or as a comment on your character's application, if you have it posted in your journal. Player: Character: Updated Canon Point: The new canon point you'd like them to be at. What's New?: Anything new that's happened between their current canon point and their updated one; this includes major events or other information you'd generally put in a history/background section, any character development/personality changes, or new skills/abilities! Other: Anything else worth mentioning. Questions: <b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Updated Canon Point:</B> <b>What's New?:</b> <b>Other:</b> <b>Questions:</B>

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[newtralize]

Player: Kim
Character: Newt Scamander
Updated Canon Point: End of Fantastic Beasts Crimes of Grindelwald
What's New?: From choosing a side to the end of Grindelwald's Paris rally is the events that occur in the second movie.

Newt's personality is mostly unchanged. The biggest change is that Newt had been a more neutral party; not wanting to take sides in any capacity, but changes his tune after the events of Paris. This, however, is not as monumental because Newt has already decided to assist in anyway possible in Aefenglom after seeing the city destroyed in the dream (basically mirroring his feelings during the rally). It really only solidifies his want to be more pro active and less neutral in his decisions going forward.

He'll also be a little more closed off as he'll be grieving over the loss of a loved one, but Newt has always been somewhat private about certain details of his life to begin with.

His abilities remain the same.
Other: N/A
Questions: If I need to write out anything pertaining his history instead of linking the wikia history, let me know.

[moustre]

Aw, Newt. You're good to go, Kim!

[usurpers]

Player: owlie!
Character: eren jaeger
Updated Canon Point: chapter 118
What's New?: mentioned here for personality changes in my app already, but events + summary:

✔️ eren meets with yelena, zeke’s spokeswoman, in secret; the contents of this conversation are unknown, but causes eren to break away from the survey corps and paradis, traveling to marley on his own accord to meet with his brother.

✔️ eren also talks to historia during this time about having a child with a childhood friend of her’s. the contents of this conversation also aren’t known, but confirmed that it has happened.

✔️ eren infiltrates the nation disguised as a crippled soldier back from war and lives in a mental hospital for a handful of months (he actually sawed his own leg off for this to make the perfect cosplay). he befriends a boy named falco during this time (to sadly use him for relaying messages), and also meets with his half-brother, zeke. they discuss zeke’s euthanasia plan of the eldian race and eren “agrees” to it (confirmed that he doesn’t and is also using him).

✔️ eren hangs low and sends messages to paradis for help with his own plans— a surprise attack on the city of liberio during a festival. he lures reiner through falco into a basement underneath an apartment building, where he talks to reiner and sends him into a psychological breakdown. they listen to a speech that ends as a cue for eren to attack, destroying the building and hundreds of civilians. he also ate a dude. eren continues to stage jump on crowds until the holder of the warhammer titan reveals herself. he attacks her and in a pinch, the survey corps arrive to save him and provide backup. eren’s plan is to eat the warhammer titan to gain her powers.

✔️ after some resourcefulness and a tiring battle, eren is successful and flees with the rest of the survey corps on a blimp. the reunion between him, armin and mikasa is excruciatingly strained, gets beaten up by levi, the corps lose their trust in eren for forcing them to come into battle to save him, and is immediately arrested for war crime.

✔️ gabi kills sasha by gunfire. it’s hinted that eren blames himself a lot for this and is the moment where he pivots from passive hobo to aggressive clothing refusal. he’s imprisoned on paradis and doesn’t talk to anyone (only hange, briefly, which doesn’t go well). eren escapes when the time is right and meets up with the only allies who support him at that moment enough to help him along— an extremist group that calls themselves “jaegerists”.

✔️ eren goes in search of zeke, though meeting with mikasa, armin, and gabi before he flees. he tells mikasa he’s always hated her and fights armin, then puts all his friends in jail.

✔️ pieck and porco infiltrate paradis island and find eren; she briefly holds eren at gunpoint and he challenges her, before being led up to the roof. porco titan shifts and nearly eats him, forcing eren to shift as well. reiner and the rest of the marley military arrive, and eren takes them all on alone.

✔️ severely outnumbered, eren still fights to the death until zeke arrives unexpectedly to help him. shit hits the fan, titans start popping up everywhere and is apparently what eren did not want. they eventually get back up from the remaining survey corps and paradis military, set free from jail by yelena. and that’s where I’m taking him from 👀

✖️ personality + appearance wise: nothing has changed too much about his core! he’s matured even more and has become indefinitely grey on the moral scale. would possibly use horrible measures for “”positive”” results, more focused, resourceful and always looking to do things on his own without reliance on others. will be plenty secretive/closed off now about his current situation back home more than ever, and will not be above manipulating people to get to where he needs to be. he’s hellbent on dying and pushes his canon friends away to make that opening for himself, but everything he does, he does for them, for people and for freedom. since this skip contains little less than a year of events from the canon point I apped him from, he’s probably a tiny bit more built, longer hair, etc.

Other: I’d like to get these changes starting September 1st, please!
Questions: —

[moustre]

Looks good to go!

[horkbajir]

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Toby
Updated Canon Point: About three months; probably about book 40.
What's New?: With age comes more authority in the hidden valley. Toby's been to the homeworld with the Animorphs and the spirit of her great-grandmother, expanded the population of the valley and her peoples' operation against the Yeerks, and overseen the final moments of the unfortunate Hahn Tunad. Also, her mother is pregnant again.

No dramatic changes to her personality, just more knowledge of logistics and battle and what her people have lost, and the risks taken. She's seen more and done more.
Other: n/a
Questions: Toby's grown the better part of a foot over her time in Aef; the canon update is half that. She'd be more battle-damaged - different notching and wear in her blades mostly - and also smaller, at this canon point. Can I pick and choose aspects to change in her here?

[usurpers]

Player: owlie
Character: eren jaeger
Updated Canon Point: chapter 123
What's New?:

✔️ after being decapitated, eren wakes up in the coordinate, where all the paths converge (a timeless and spaceless dimension all eldians are spiritually tethered to). zeke tells him this is possible because he was able to catch eren’s head in his hand before he completely died (physical contact with each other was necessary). he tries to get eren to command ymir, the founder, to sterilize the eldian race, but eren refuses, saying that he only pretended to go along with zeke’s plan in order to end up here. first uno reverse. eren attempts to speak to ymir, but only responds to zeke because of his ✨royal blood✨, going on to say that eren was just a key to unlock the founding titan’s power. second uno reverse.

✔️ though disappointed in eren, zeke chooses to blame their father for brainwashing him and resolves to ”save” eren by forcing him to witness their father's memories. contrary to all beliefs, zeke discovers that was all wrong and grisha was actually a good dad this time. lmao. continuing through grisha’s memories, zeke comes to accept that eren had never been manipulated by their father. however, eren quietly sends his father memories of the fall of wall maria through the attack titan (revealed to be able to transcend time), prompting his visit to the reiss family the night the wall falls. his father hesitates at the idea of killing the entire family, especially the children, yet eren goads him into doing it, reminding grisha of everyone who has died to get him this far. surprise reverse reverse card, eren was the one who manipulated his father, and all these events were only possible in the past because future eren caused it. the connection breaks between zeke and eren after grisha communicates with the eldest brother that eren will get the future he wants, and needs to be stopped. there was one more memory that eren visited, and was apparently what convinced grisha to give his younger self the serum to inherit both attack and founding titans, but that hasn’t been shown yet. zeke then commands ymir to do his bidding before that happens, and eren runs after her to stop her.

✔️ after getting ymir’s backstory (a slave girl condemned for releasing a pig, hunted down, then accidentally stumbling upon a life force that turned her into a titan only to be used, bred and cannibalized) eren manages to hug ymir from behind and stop her, saying that she does not have to be a slave and obey anyone. she has the ability to choose. he believes she is the one who led him here, and that she has been waiting for 2,000 years, for someone to help her. finally hearing him and weeping, she chooses to give eren her power to end the cycle. in present time, eren’s head reconnects in a really nasty way that i could only say involves a centipede bursting out of his body (????). wall maria shatters, thousands of colossal titans break loose, and eren shifts into the final boss kaiju he was always meant to be.

✔️ using the power of the founding titan, eren announces to all eldians his intention to kill everyone in the outside world in order to protect the people of paradis.
Other:


Questions: maybe i should be questioned

[moustre]

Eren... You're good??? to go.

CS3 SPOILERS AHOY

[fiddlestick]

Player: Yuff
Character: Elliot Craig
Updated Canon Point: End of Cold Steel 3!
What's New?:

First up, career stuff: Elliot graduates from the Heimdallr Music Academy and makes his debut as a professional musician. He releases an album that sells well, tours Erebonia for a few months, and is able to land a good number of concert venues.

But unfortunately for Elliot, Cold Steel is a JRPG and not a music game. Troubles continue to build in Erebonia. When not performing, Elliot uses his tours to investigate the situation and gather information. That's basically what he's up to whenever he's not on screen. As for his friends: Rean & Towa take a teaching job at a new school, Alisa's a manager at her family's company, Laura's teaching at a training hall, Fie's a Bracer, Machias is an inspector for the justice department, Jusis the an acting duke of his province, Emma's still looking for her sister Vita, Millium's with the Ironbloods, Crow's dead and Gaius has been MIA for the past six months.

In April, while touring in the Sutherland province, he gets word that the school Rean's teaching at would be doing a field mission nearby. He, along with Fie and Laura, decide to keep an eye on the situation. When the school's camp is attacked by Ouroborus, the three intervene and Elliot helps with healing the injured students.

The next day, Rean gets ordered by the Imperial government to investigate the Ouroboros situation. Elliot, Fie and Laura show up during the meeting with their "I do what I want" permits, and insist on helping Rean with his mission. From there they slowly start to unravel some dark truths: Rean's power has become unstable, the imperial army isn't helping to make the local authority look bad, and there was a village named Hamel that was massacred and covered up about 14 years ago. With the help of the bracer Agate, they find and fight the Ouroboros agents outside of Hamel's ruins, as well as a giant robot Ouroboros had been testing. And if that wasn't crazy enough, Fie's dead dad shows up less dead and also piloting a giant robot. But then he runs off before they can get any real answers.

In May and June, Elliot continues his touring and investigations. Occasionally he contacts and/or visits Rean, but mostly he's not around so to quickly summarize events relevant to him: A masked man named Azure Siegfried that looks exactly like Crow shows up, Abend Time starts airing again even though the host is on the run, George and Angelica go missing, and Gaius finally turns up but keeps procrastinating on saying where he's been.

In July, all of old Class VII reunite in Heimdallr. After a happy reunion, they conclude that things are getting real bad on multiple fronts and they gotta look into ways to stop it. The next day, investigations lead them to find some distortions are causing an ancient evil dragon to get resurrected, and that thing would wipe out all of Heimdallr, so they go to stop it along with New Class VII. Afterwards, they meet Emma's grandmother and run into Azure Siegfried - who turns out to have no memories but also has Crow's divine knight. Cool.

The next day is the Summer Festival, and everyone decides to enjoy it because they just beat a flipping dragon. Class VII gets invited to the palace that evening to attend the royal ball and it's a nice event. But because we can't have nice things, Rean's student Ash decides to cap off the evening by putting a cap in the Emperor.

Things rapidly go downhill from there. Ash had used a Calvard-made gun, so Chancellor Osborne uses it as an excuse to declare war on Calvard. Gaius reveals he has holy powers now and joined a secret church organization and also their old history teacher is part of it, there's a curse in erebonia that sometimes makes people go violent and crazy, and some other exposition.

Then things get even worse when Osborne triggers a ritual that'll basically cause the end of the world and giant monsters start rampaging through Heimdallr. Class VII goes on a mission to stop the ritual and travel to the Grail of Erebos where it's happening. Along the way they find out George's a traitor and shot Angelica, Alisa's dad is alive and evil, Alisa's maid Sharon is back working for Ouroborus again, and they intend to sacrifice Rean's student Altina. Elliot travels through most of the Grail with the group, but stays behind with Jusis and Machias to fight off the Ironbloods including Millium. Not long after that, the mission goes incredibly wrong when the Courageous flies in as back up - only to get blown up. Millium jumps in to save Altina at the last second and gets killed instead. Rean goes completely berserk and kills the beast that killed Millium, completing the ritual. The curse begins to spread all over Erebonia, triggering the start of the end of the world.

Personality wise, Elliot isn't that much different from how he is in Aefenglom other than more depressed because uh yeah. Look at that ending there.
Other: I'm intending to do this sometime in January, depending on how life goes!
Questions: Will be canon-bumped affect Elliot's cwyld seed implant any?

[moustre]

You're good to go! For simplicity's sake, you can say it won't affect his cwyld seed implant.

Trails of Cold Steel III spoilers, beware

[overworker]

Player: Michi
Character: Towa Herschel
Updated Canon Point: Post Trails of Cold Steel III
What's New?: Towa became a teacher at the branch campus of Thors Military Academy, in charge of Class IX: Military Finance. Located in Leeves, just outside of the capital, the branch campus is the dumping ground for a lot of individuals that are considered problematic in some way. It has a meeger staff of four teachers, their principle and an academic advisor that has a questionable interest in the actual school itself. So she's had to work very hard to keep the school running-- at one point she admitted she put together the entire catalogue for the library and she was also doing ordering and running the nurse's office at the beginning, until they found a nurse to fill in. So it's not a comfortable position to say the least, but she's very happy there and doesn't regret her choice in the slightest.

Throughout the school year, students were asked to perform several field exercises and train on soldats (mechanized humanoid robot weapons) throughout the school year. Each time they would go to a new location, something would bring to light more of the activities going on in the shadows of the Empire and the shifting of enemies and their goals. Ouroborous' scheming was the first to show itself. It became apparent that they had joined forces with the Chancellor to take over the Phantasmal Blaze Plan and bring in the Twilight.

- Most notable of all these enemies (particularly to Towa)-- is the one who calls himself Azure Siegfried. Wearing a mask, he still looked and sounded chillingly like their dead classmate: Crow Armbrust. It was a painful reminder, even while they still believed it was impossible. He didn't seem to have any memory of them either so it's probably nothing, right? (It's definitely something.)

- It's him, 100%. In fact, one of Towa's other close friends who took care of the funeral was responsible for taking him and reviving him. He did, at least temporarily, lose his memories in the process though. Angelica got suspicious and did some digging (literally, at his grave) and got shot in the process for learning too much.

- Things up until now have been tense, but not necessarily bad for the branch campus. They have Cedric bullying them to try and steal Rean over to the main campus and a whole lot of mysteries, but they have no idea JUST HOW BAD IT'S ABOUT TO GET.

- During a celebratory party during the Summer Festival in the capital, the Emperor was shot by Ash Carbide (one of the branch campus students) and is currently in critical condition. What has become of Ash is yet unknown. And then, it All Starts Happening.

- We're declaring war on Calvard, because the gun Ash used was from Calvard. That's all we need, he was clearly a Calvard spy and not having a psychotic breakdown (if you hit x to doubt, then you are correct, Osborne just wants to destroy Calvard.)

- George revealed that he is a member of the Gnomes, that run the Black Workshop, and has always been. He told Towa that he killed Angelica and then proceeded to use explosives to take down the ship carrying Prince Olivert and others to stop them from interfering, destroying the Courageous in the process.

- In the Grail, the result of the ritual within, sanctioned by Osborne, Crown Prince Cedric and Ouroborous led to the activation of the "Twilight", releasing a dark plague throughout the land.

- Crow Armbrust, whom she thought was dead, is actually alive. Although she's not yet entirely aware of the situation since she wasn't in the Grail.

- George Nome confessed that he has always been one of the Gnomes, the shady organization responsible for creating the homunculi Millium and Altina. It was also dropped on her that he killed Angelica Rogner. Despite not believing him at first, he made a great show of blowing up a whole airship to prove his point that he's a villain now.

- That ship that exploded was the Courageous by the way. Also Prince Olivert was on board and is now decidedly very dead.

- All the events that took place inside of the Grail are unknown to her as of this point, because she stayed outside with the other teachers and students of classes VIII and IX. Likewise, the things she learned outside about Angelica and George are unknown to the members that went inside.

- Personality-wise, Towa doesn't change significantly. But learning these things do cause some doubts to spring up and become the seeds for a great deal of depression, feeding into her fear of loss and being left alone. The four friends that had been so close are now all torn apart. Angie's dead and George is supposed to be her enemy-- but hey. At least she got Crow back, right...? She's not fine, but she continues to try and give the impression that she is.

Other: N/A
Questions: None!

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[bad_crowmance]

Player: Rin
Character: Crow Armbrust
Updated Canon Point: Post Trails of Cold Steel III
What's New?:
So you remember how I said in my app that Crow died at the end of Trails of Cold Steel II? Well... that's 100% true.


• So Crow definitely died. 100%, he died in Rean's arms and in front of the entire rest of Class VII. This is not in question. There was a funeral!
→ Actually, his corpse was stolen before the funeral and swapped out with a very realistic replica. So the "Crow" that everyone saw in his casket at the funeral wasn't... actually Crow. Hey, wasn't it George who made all the funeral arrangements...?
→ So yeah, it turns out Crow wasn't the only traitor in their little group of second years (Towa/Angelica/George/Crow). George is actually a gnome (George Nome... G.Nome.... Who could have suspected?) and is working for the Black Workshop.
→ Anyway, George stole Crow's corpse and at some point during the last year and a half resurrected him somehow. (They don't actually get into the specifics of what's up and how Crow got brought back until Cold Steel 4. That's a story in and of itself!)

• So, Crow is back! Why didn't most of his friends know, you ask? Well to be fair, Crow himself wasn't entirely aware of what's going on-- he's got amnesia and is under the control of the Black Workshop. Now known as "Azure Siegfried," he's mostly popping up to sound mysterious and cryptically observe the events around him.
→

• At one point, all of Old Class VII meet up to discuss what their plans are for the future and how they want to help the myriad problems Erebonia is having.
→ Little do they know, all of Old Class VII is there-- Siegfried is watching them from outside, standing on top of a building. George is with him.
→ George: "Something wrong?"
Siegfried: "No. Just a nostalgic smell wafting around. I understand what I am... and the situation I'm in."
George: "Is that so...? ...Would it be selfish if I said I'd rather you hated me?"
Siegfried: "Heh heh... That question itself is completely pointless. Give me Alberich's orders... Copper Georg."
George: "All right, Cr--"

• After a couple of months of cryptically showing up during major events and observing-- and shaking his friends to their core as they question how the hell he could possibly be alive-- Rean challenges him to a one-on-one fight in the Heimdallr underground.
→ "This won't be like before," Rean says, referring to their last fight in the Heimdallr underground in Cold Steel I, when Crow was in disguise as the masked terrorist leader C.
→ (That mask was a better disguise than his mask as Azure Siegfried.)
→ When the fight concludes, Siegfried withdraws-- in Ordine, Crow's Divine Knight. He starts making references about how Rean shouldn't bother to ask for interest, which REALLY shakes Rean up because that's a direct reference to something Rean said to Crow once.
→ "Do you really not remember?" Rean asks forlornly as Siegfried runs off.
→ (He really does not remember, but things are definitely starting to leak through.)

• Shit Goes Down while Siegfried isn't directly interfering and the Emperor gets shot by a teenager having a psychotic breakdown (Ash Carbide, who is a member of New Class VII). The entire incident is blamed on Calvard since Ash used a Calvard-made gun and the country is preparing to go to war. Another member of New Class VII, Altina, was called off by the Intelligence Agency for mysterious purposes. This is bad!

• Anyway, the Black Workshop is working with Osborne and Ouroboros has joined in, too. Siegfried is waiting for Old and New Class VII in the Grail of Erebos, which has been summoned for mysterious and deeply unpleasant reasons.
→ He continues to face off after them while more and more members of Old Class VII stay back to fight opponents so Rean and New Class VII can get to the bottom of the Grail, where Osborne waits.... and a monster that must not, under any circumstances, get killed.
→ Except Altina's being prepared as a sacrifice to become an all-powerful sword. Millium jumps in to save Altina and becomes the sword instead.
→ Rean loses his entire damned mind and succumbs to his mysterious and deadly berserker power and kills the monster that should not, under any circumstances, have been killed. Oops, there goes the entire country getting super-cursed.
→ .....AND THIS IS WHEN CROW GETS HIS MEMORIES BACK.
→
→ The first damned thing he does is jump ALL THE WAY DOWN SEVERAL STORIES and call Ordine over so he can try and hold Rean back because once Rean's done beating the unholy shit out of a monster corpse, he's trying to kill Osborne in his berserker rage.
→ Like Rean, that's relatable, Crow wants the guy dead too but this does not seem like the time or place??? Get ahold of yourself!
→ Anyway, this game ends on a cliffhanger.

• Personality-wise, Crow has just been through approximately a year and a half of having his memories and entire sense of self suppressed for the sake of working for the person he hates more than anyone else on the entire continent. That... has an effect! He is Crow however, so basically all that means is he's going to do his best to act like he's not very affected by any of it. It's business as usual, except for how he needs a lot more therapy.

And let's face it, he already needed therapy.


Other: I'm intending to do this in January at some point!
Questions: Not that I can think of!

[moustre]

Sounds good to go!

[krihnnges]

Player: Ryuu
Character: K'rihnn Tia
Updated Canon Point: Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers 5.1
What's New?: Hoo boy... THERE BE SPOILERS...

-K'rihnn finds out from Krile that the sleeping Scions in the Source are starting to have their souls deteriorate. He goes back to the Crystarium on the First to inform the Crystal Exarch, as well as most of the Scions (Thancred and Ryne stayed in the Empty to monitor Eden).

-The Scions put forth a theory for the Warrior of Light to carry them back to the Source by putting their souls in a dormant state in white auracite. To see if this has any merit, or is even worth the risk of soul deterioration, the Crystal Exarch proposes they seek out a Nu Mou who specializes in the soul. Y'shtola, the Exarch, Alphinaud, and Alisaie join the Warrior of Light in entering the Grand Cosmos to meet with Beq Lugg, the Nu Mou.

-They clear out the Grand Cosmos and convince Beq Lugg to help them get the Scions's souls back to the Source. After filling Beq Lugg in on the situation, and swearing them to secrecy, they say that putting their souls into a dormant state would be exceptionally dangerous if they have no way to rouse their souls afterwards. They decide the best course of action would be to check on the patients at Journey's Head Inn in Amh Araeng, as their souls are suffused with Light's stasis. If they can rouse these patients from the Light's stasis effect, then perhaps they'll have a possible solution to that problem.

-Beq Lugg, Alisaie, Alphinaud, and K'rihnn head out to Journey's Head Inn, and they're tasked with collecting ingredients to create a familiar. This familiar will essentially try to jumpstart the souls of the patients who are very far along in their corruption. It works for a few seconds on a small child who is the furthest along, which is exceptional progress. Beq Lugg has Alisaie continue this form of treatment to see if there's any change after some time.

-Alphinaud and K'rihnn are then called away to Eulmore to help track down a missing Chai-Nuzz, who has been elected as the new Mayor. As they search the city and the surrounding areas, they eventually find him at Amity. Chai-Nuzz explains that he's searching for Wrendon, who was the adviser to the previous Mayor. Since he's not a politician by any means, he needs all the help he can get to be temporary leader of Eulmore. Alphinaud, Kai-Shirr, and K'rihnn agree to help him find Wrendon and convince him to come back to Eulmore to aid Chai-Nuzz.

-While they do find Wrendon, he puts before Chai-Nuzz a test of worth. In the end, Chai-Nuzz succeeds in convincing Wrendon he's worthy by taming a few Talos to aid in reconstruction and patrols around the nearby settlements.

-Alphinaud and K'rihnn head back to the Crystarium to deliver the good news. Unfortunately, they receive a mixed bag of news from the others. They had to scrap the idea of using white auracite as the dangers far outweighed the rewards. However, the Crystal Exarch's Allagan Eye might hold the key to getting their souls back safely. If they can unlock the secrets of the technology behind the Royal Blood, they may be able to use that to bring the Scions back to their bodies in the Source.

-While they researched that possible avenue, K'rihnn returned to the Source to inform Tataru and Krile of these developments. Estinien then arrived with news from Garlemald, and K'rihnn experienced a very powerful Echo that allowed him to see the events directly through Estinien's eyes.

-Estinien and Gaius escaped the Imperial Palace, though barely, and the previous Emperor was dead. However, civil war was likely about to break out as another war of succession. Estinien came across a vile experiment that he had to defeat before successfully escaping the Imperial Palace.

-After the Echo fades, Estinien informs them that he'll be leaving as his service to the Scions is now complete. Everything else that happens after this is player knowledge and not currently known to the Warrior of Light.

Other:

Questions: None!

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[sylphid]

Player: Babs
Character: Fie Claussell
Updated Canon Point: End of Trails of Cold Steel 3
What's New?: vague gestures at all of this hot mess

Personality wise, Fie's still the same, but like the others in her cast, much more depressed now. Yay for cliffhangers? Also she'd gain an ARCUS II and associated quartz, which are still just pretty rocks here.
Other: Gonna do this asap after approval if granted.
Questions: Not right now!

[moustre]

Good to go! Have fun with your pretty rocks and depression, Fie.

[mirshikar]

Player: Avi
Character: Asura
Updated Canon Point: Expedition to Arcadia
What's New?:
EVENTS; summarized here!
PERSONALITY; No major changes here. Asura will just be galvanized and inspirited by the victories and progress made by his Freehold (and by being spoiled with all of the opportunities to fight!!). Alternatively, he will also be burdened with the knowledge that he has to kill someone he formerly leaned on and called a brother. 8'(
APPEARANCE; A more draconic form! As mentioned in Asura's app, Asura has a secondary form which he adopts when in the heat of battle. With Asura's canon-update placing him in one such instance, I'd like for his more monstrous traits (wings, tail, taloned feet, longer claws) to follow him to Aefenglom, if this is possible!
Other: If approval is granted, I'm planning to have the canon update take effect in early March! I'd also like to note that if the appearance changes can't be allowed due to game constraints, I'd still like to proceed with the canon update.
Questions: Just the question regarding the possibility of Asura obtaining more of his draconic traits from his canon!

[moustre]

Sorry about the wait, you're good to go! He can keep the more draconic traits present at his new canon point.

[escardos]

Player: Tori
Character: Flat Escardos
Updated Canon Point: End of Volume 6
What's New?:

• Flat is not too present in most of volume 5, seeing as his Servant is metaphorically cut in half by True Archer. They watch one of the major fights from the sidelines while discussing the situation Flat still wants to save Tsubaki, even if it means going on his own and without his Servant...so of course False Berserker decides that they'll join in too. They also talk about whether or not Berserker can be fixed once True Archer is killed--short of having the grail, this is not possible.



• In the midst of talking, someone walks up to them. It's none other than False Caster, Alexandre Dumas (pere), who has a very fascinating chat with Flat about sweets. Sure, Flat nearly kills the Servant with a spell he was preparing during the chat, but he didn't fire it because he realized that Caster was a friend! That's fine, right?!



• Alexandre asks Flat a rather unsettling question: "Boy, what are you?" Flat's response is to introduce himself, but also adds on the fact that Flat Escardos is not his real name. We still don't know what it is, because, in his words, hiding his name protects him from curses and what not. (A/N: considering Flat's incredible magic resistance: I smell bullshit.)



• With that small cryptid moment past everyone, Caster goes to make his proposition: he will "cook" both Flat and Jack together. And before you start talking about vore, this is all very metaphorical and done with the power of his Noble Phantasms in order to give Jack a temporary power boost. The downside is that now Flat's spirit origin will be mixed with his Servant's, who's a serial killer. This means that, just how Jack can now become "Flat Escardos", Flat could very well snap and become Jack the Ripper. Flat agrees to the fusion anyways, because upholding his Professor's ideals to an unreasonable extent saving Tsubaki >>>> everything else.



• Flat and Jack fight True Archer with the help of one of Snowfield's policemen. Flat hides himself under a pile of corpses in order to get close enough to the Servant. And with the help of one Command Spell and Archer's own carelessness, he's able to make True Archer explode from the inside out. Said attack does not kill the Servant (because grail mud is Quite the plot device) but we get yet another unsettling scene when Archer recognizes what Flat is, but says NOTHING about it. Thanks Narita.



• Off screen, Tsubaki's servant (Pestilence--yes, the Horseman of the Apocalypse), drags Flat and Jack into her dreamworld along with like half of Snowfield. End of volume 5.



• And begin volume 6! Flat and Jack find themselves in the Tsubaki's dreamworld--specifically, the city's hotel casino, along with the Grail War's observer, Hansa Cervantes, and his four subordinates. They're looking for a way out of the dreamworld, which looks incredibly similar to the real version of Snowfield. Flat asks to go to the top of the hotel, where they hope to be able to observe the entire city to find this dreamworld's weak spot.



• They reach the top floor, where it is able to look down at the entire city. At the same time, in the real world Enkidu notices that something is watching them--something that is human-like, but not quite. Back in the dreamworld, however, Flat's having the time of his life in a giant hotel room full of Mesopotamian artifacts, dragging Jack, Hansa, and the subordinates along...until they find a rather strange magic circle. It realizes that this is the place that is most strongly connected to the real world. Flat also notes that the dreamworld is actually created by taking various snapshots of the real world-- Google Maps, but make it magic.



• As they're talking about the city, shit starts to go wrong. Cerberus is back and causing a rampage and Jester, the world's most disgusting vampire Dead Apostle is spotted in the city. And you know how isekais go, if you die in the dream you die in real life. However, Flat does manage to get in contact with Waver via Hansa's cellphone, who gives them all a lesson on Underworld Lore because guess what the dreamworld actually is. Yay, exposition.



• As that is happening, someone breaks into the room-- False Assassin, to be precise. She asks Flat if he's a magus looking for the Grail, fully intent on killing him if that is the case. He says that, while he thought that the Grail was cool at first, he really needs it to get his Servant healed...and that after, he would just donate it to a museum. The answer confuses Assassin so much that, with a little push from Hansa, she decides to spare his life. As they converse, though, Jester appears to terrorize them all....or tries to.



• With his own cellphone Flat gets in contact with someone else in the outside world-- Dead Apostle Ancestor Van-Fem. Having gotten Jester's True Name from him, Flat begins to attack Jester's real body in the real world, which is Bad News for him. Jester turns into his Final Form (tm) and destroys the entire hotel in the dreamworld. Could it be that Flat's dead????



• Actually, Flat is fine. Simultaneous to that attack, Tsubaki releases everyone from the dreamworld, which means that nothing happens to him. He and his Servant find themselves at the bottom of the Crystal hill, where they spot Saber's Master, Ayaka Sajyou--or whatever is using her name. Flat and Jack have a heart-to-heart conversation, and they tell Flat that, if they win the Grail War and Jack is ultimately replaced with their true identity, then they want Flat to only remember them as the Servant that was with them throughout the war and Flat agrees.



• Flat finds Ayaka and questions her about her true nature. She has no idea, but it seems that Flat is able to find an answer and is just about to tell her--



• --When he's shot in the stomach. He realizes that there's dozens of snipers trained on him and that there is no chance for him to survive. His last words are an apology to everyone, followed by a smile, before he's ultimately shot in the head and killed, with Jack disappearing quickly after.






BuT wAIt THerES MoRE


• Even though Flat is dead, that does not mean the same for the body. Something else is now in control of the body and its first choice of action is to kill every soldier that was sent to kill Flat Escardos. It does so by basically ripping them apart, limb by limb. Afterwards, it declares that it will continue Flat Escardos' dream by living on as him until it is able to become a real human...even if it means wiping humanity off the face of the Earth.



• Fun fact: because English and Japanese Do Not Get Along, Flat's second personality has been hinted at since volume 4, as he would change his pronoun from 俺 (ore) to 僕(boku) and as a child he would also refer to himself as 僕. It speaks exclusively with 僕 once it shows up at the end. Because both of these pronouns translate to “I” , though, it wasn’t picked up by translation until it became a key part of Flat’s mystery.



• Personality changes: For Flat? We learn that he is not the only person in that body...and that he is aware of it, too, from extra materials. In other words, Flat is aware of his own dual personality, and it's highly implied that he is not the original host of the body. Instead, he was created due to Waver treating them like a normal human being, which made him want to become a human--hence why he carbon copied Waver's ideals and follows him like a baby duck follows its mother. In Aefenglom, his death will hit him quite badly, because jesus that came out of left field.
  
  However, the being that is inside him is rather robotic, caring only about Flat Escardos' demise and completing the purpose that they were created for. They look down upon humanity, considering them to be nothing more than mere tools for their goal. They recognize that they are the completion of the long-forgotten 1,800 year pursuit of the Escardos family, and that they must bring the end to all humanity in order to become a real human themselves. Unlike Flat, who keeps himself from giving into his own amoral impulses due to Waver's guidance, it has no issue with slaughter, as long as it is for the purpose that they were made for. They won't feel one way or the other about being in Aefenglom, though being reduced to a human is not something that will sit very well with them.


tl;dr:

Other: help me theres still at least four volumes to go
Questions: I just want to make sure that I can still keep the "original" Flat Escardos personality? If I have to canon update him right before his death instead of the end end of Volume 6, I don't mind at all, but I'd rather keep the main personality for now. Also I'd like to get an approval of this before I go and add it to his info page, if possible!

[moustre]

You're good to go. Yes, you can keep the "original" personality (we assume this means the one he was apped in with).

[bloodwit]

Player: ale
Character: viren
Updated Canon Point: from the same episode he'd been taken from, but a little further through episode 9 of season 2
What's New?:

viren's hot on the heels of posing as regent, failing in that, and now is faced with imprisonment (or worse, according to another member of the council) for treason. there isn't any recovering from that one, allegedly; returning to his mirror, aaravos makes a suggestion: he reminds viren that, because his fellow rulers have failed his test of "love" wherein viren tried to appeal to their sensibilities, they are nothing more than animals that deserve to be motivated by fear.

using the ashes of fallen elven assassins, viren completes a dark magic ritual to return them to some shadowy forms of life. he charges these assassins to murder (or, as he puts, "bring terror") to the other four rulers of the human kingdoms, theoretically killing multiple birds with one stone and all the while neatly placing the blame on the elven kingdom of xadia for it.

at this point, although still a wanted man in his kingdom, he's yet to be captured. personality-wise, i think at this point he'd realize there's really no going back from some of the decisions he's made at home, and more completely understands his "nothing left to lose" mindset.

Other: nothing, i don't think?!
Questions: also none over here

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[taciturnly]

Player: Skye
Character: Lan Wangji
Updated Canon Point: End of the show, just as he and Wei Wuxian reunite (after what we can only assume to be a few years).
What's New?: Knowledge. As Chief Cultivator, it's probably safe to say that he's had to exert stronger leadership skills, though his personality remains otherwise unchanged. He's now aware of all the wicked things Jin Guangyao orchestrated, everything else that ensued because of them as well as the details surrounding Nie Mingjue's death. It's quite possibly going to create some conflicts as he's going to be extra protective of his brother, who in turn is most likely going to want to give Jin Guangyao a second chance. Lan Wangji doesn't share the same benevolence towards the man who deeply hurt/betrayed his brother and threatened to kill his lover, so I'm expecting a lot of interesting conversations/encounters.

Also, he'll learn the reasons why Wei Wuxian stopped using his sword (loss of his golden core) and thus ultimately had to resort to demonic cultivation, so he's probably going to feel ten different shades of guilt for a while. He's already beating himself up for not making the right choices at the right times so he's going to be having a m o m e n t.

Or twenty.

Other: endless staredowns probably
Questions: --

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[inlikethebrume]

Player: Lita
Character: Mira Chambers
Updated Canon Point: Post 5.25: Echoes of a Fallen Star
What's New?: Broken into sections, only giving the most important parts that would impact the story/Mira. Naturally, Shadowbringers Spoilers.

I'm also linking it because there's quite a bit.

Other: OH GOD I'M SORRY FOR ALL THE INFO DUMP THERE'S A LOT. There's actually more but it's not relevant to the main story. Trust me, you do not need me talking about YoRHa and all the 80 side quests.

Questions: I never saw this in the FAQ anywhere but as they go through the mirror update, will they know of Aefenglom while living the canon update?

[moustre]

You're good to go.

As for your question, canon updates are only witnessed through the character's mirror, which essentially implants the new memories as if it has been lived - without having knowledge of Aefenglom during those new memories. Canon seems to proceed as normal back home.

[rightfoot]

Player:
Character:
Updated Canon Point: Mid-End of chapter 166 (In his life, it's November after his 19th birthday)
What's New?: His personality hasn't changed much, but his experiences HAVE changed and he has many more under his belt. And, he's physically...lost about 1/6 his body weight. He's a little more tired, a little more ragged, and he's putting up a stronger front than he normally would just to maintain. He's still a mix between serious business and typical 19 year old. The impact it will have is that it may cause him to try and work harder to keep up his front around people he doesn't know or who he wants to maintain appearances of. He also tends to show more of his ~typical teenager~ side around trusted people, and he will come to trust others more easily than he does now.

As far as events go:
- Since leaving the hospital with Legosi, a lot has happened
- Meets with Juno, who confesses her feelings to him - she says that his future marriage will be a sham. She also announces to the entire world on TV that she is in love with him.
- Tries to spend some time with his fiance, it does not go well
- Is contacted by the Shishigumi and Legosi to help with Melon (you discover he prefers time with them to his fiance)
- Reuinited with all of his favorite carnivores
- Meets with Kopi Luwak, finds out about Melon (a new villain)
- Has a dinner meeting with his father (does not go well)
- Runs off to Back Alley Market putting himself up on sale again
- Runs into Legosi here again
- Tells Legosi about where he came from, meets two kids who are from where he is from
- Spends time with Legosi supposedly frequently
- His dad dies, and has a heartfelt conversation before hand
- Takes over company
- Runs into Haru at Odd Souls Festival, comes from their early conversation

Other: 2/26 was when these chapters were released in Japan, but had a fan translation within a day or two. I wanted to get this submitted to give you guys plenty of time :)
Questions: I plan on bringing him back a couple days into May, if that is alright!

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[weiward]

Player: mi
Character: Wei Wuxian
Updated Canon Point: end of series
What's New?: whew...ok.

Immediately after his current canon point, Wei Wuxian comes across Wen Qing, one of the Wen siblings who've helped him numerous times in the past. After demanding information from Jin Zixun, they go to the camp where her brother and a few harmless remnants of the Wen clan are being held prisoner. After finding that Wen Ning has been murdered, Wei Wuxian summons him as a fierce corpse to take revenge on their captors. He then tries to escape with them, stopped by Lan Wangji at first, who ultimately lets them pass. Wei Wuxian takes them all to the Burial Mounds, the only place where they'll be safe, and thus becomes the Yiling Patriarch. Rumors spread that he's forming his own wicked sect, when he really just wants to live in peace. During this time he brings back Wen Ning's consciousness and stages a fight with Jiang Cheng in which he officially defects from the Yunmeng Jiang to protect their reputation.

Meanwhile, Yanli weds Jin Zixuan and the two have a son together. Wei Wuxian is invited to the one month anniversary of Jin Ling's birth, but is ambushed by Jin Zixun and his men along the way. Things begin to escalate, with Jin Zixuan showing up in the middle to try and calm things. But during the fight, Wei Wuxian seemingly loses control of Wen Ning, who kills both the Jin cousins.

This action spells the beginning of Wei Wuxian's end. Wen Qing uses her needles to paralyze him for his own good, and all of the Wens leave him behind at Burial Mounds to turn themselves in at Carp Tower. The Wen siblings along with the rest are executed there.

Once Wei Wuxian breaks free of the needles' effects, he's angry, hurt, and consumed by resentful energy. He crashes a party of cultivators and sect leaders, where everyone keeps talking shit until someone shoots an arrow into him. Wei Wuxian is still looked at as the bad guy when he kills them in return, and big-time fighting breaks out. Lan Wangji does his best to get through to him, but when Yanli is accidentally killed during the ruckus, Wei Wuxian can take no more. He breaks apart his Stygian Tiger Seal and falls from the cliff, though Lan Wangji desperately tries to save him.

Sixteen years later, Wei Wuxian's spirit is summoned by Mo Xuanyu and resurrects in his body....but still somehow manages to keep looking like Wei Wuxian, prompting him to wear a mask to avoid being recognized. But naturally, his old flame Lan Wangji recognizes him. New things involving the Stygian Tiger Seal have started to happen, which makes no sense after Wei Wuxian destroyed it. When the pair start looking into it, they discover that an overly ambitious Jin Guangyao is behind it along with a lot of other dirty deeds (Nie Mingjue's qi deviation, Jin Zixuan's death, his wife's suicide, the death of his son...the list goes on.) He's eventually brought down, along with an entire temple on top of him.

Other noteworthy things that happen along the way: Wen Ning is revealed to have not been executed and continues being best boy, Wei Wuxian discovers that Lan Wangji was punished and left scarred for his involvement with him, Jiang Cheng finds out that his golden core is actually Wei Wuxian's, the two reconcile as much as they can, and Lan Sizhui is revealed to be Wen Yuan, the little boy that Wei Wuxian adopted at Burial Mounds, later raised by Lan Wangji after his death. They have a son.

Personality-wise, Wei Wuxian's gets much darker right before his death, as he is overcome with the resentful energy that damages his mind and body as he controls it. Post-resurrection however, he's much more stable and willing to accept Lan Wangji's help. He's not quite the carefree boy of his youth, but his canon update is still largely just information and not any significant personality changes.

Other: n/a
Questions: n/a

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[yesdoubt]

Player: Revise
Character: Momo
Updated Canon Point: End of Part 4
What's New?: NOT MUCH since it's just one chapter, so there's no personality/abilities stuff to speak of, but the main events are:
-Momo and Yuki finalise their long-running "booting Ryou out of his position of power" plan (with the reveal that Momo previously convinced Ryou's father to take back his position as head of Tsukumo Productions once they got enough support behind them to make the switch quietly), with the final step to happen on the night of Black or White. Shortly before the event, Rintaro, the owner of the production company Momo and Yuki work with, takes over the final steps of the plan with the apparent intent of gaining more influence for Okazaki Productions in the aftermath and so Re:vale can focus on the upcoming show.
-During Black or White, Momo and Yuki perform "t(w)o...", the song created from the lyrics Momo gave Yuki after telling him he wanted a song that belonged to the two of them, solidifying Momo's intent to move forward with his lyricist work for Re:vale. While the other three idol groups perform (TRIGGER at their own New Year concert rather than BoW), Re:vale await the winning group as the ones that will be their true rivals in the upcoming year.
-Also during the event, the plan to oust Ryou goes into motion. Upon finding out his father is taking back the top position because of Momo, Ryou sneaks into Black or White with the intent of getting onto the stage and dropping every ruinous bit of information he has on all four of the main idol groups to bring all of them down with him, particularly Momo given his "betrayal" of Ryou. However, ZOOL (the group Ryou manages) notice him in the audience and finally give him the attention he was always seeking from his idols, settling him down long enough for security and the police to catch up and arrest him. Ryou finally realises what Momo had meant in confronting him about his "sour grapes" and how his refusal to admit what he wanted was keeping him from happiness, but also seems aware it's too little too late as he's taken into custody.
Other: ICly I'm planning to have this update happen on the night of June 24th, just sliding it in a little early.
Questions: N/A

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[fabrications]

Player: Kei
Character: Goro Akechi
Updated Canon Point: Persona 5 Royal ;; True Ending
What's New?: Quite a few things! As a summary of events, Akechi died. He died for what should have been the first, last, and only time... and then he gets brought back. Though initially confused, he immediately jumps back into action. He turns himself into the police to testify against Shido so that Akira won't have to, claiming that he only seeks to repay the debt he owes. A few days later, Akechi is suddenly released from custody, which prompts him to notice a variety of other odd events occurring around him. Thanks to the gap in his memory after his death, he eventually realizes that he's in some sort of altered, idealized version of reality where many people, himself included, have been brought back from the dead.

Disgusted by the rewritten world, Akechi seeks out Akira and once again agrees to work alongside him to set things right. He and the rest of the Phantom Thieves work together to stop Maruki, the man responsible for reshaping reality. The night before their final confrontation, Maruki reveals the truth to Akira and Akechi: returning the world to its true shape means that Akechi's resurrection will also be undone. Akechi counters by pointing out that not only has he known this the whole time, but that he fully intends to follow through with stopping Maruki even if Akira decides not to. But in the end Akira sticks to the plan, and once Maruki is defeated Akechi vanishes without a trace.

Throughout the course of this, a facet of Akechi that had only been previously glimpsed in the original game it put in the spotlight. Before he realizes he's been resurrected he seems much the same as he did before - calm, pleasant, and cordial, if a bit colder than usual. Once he does realize he's been brought back from the dead, it's like a switch has been flipped and Akechi stops caring enough to maintain his Detective Prince persona from that point forward. He's rude, blunt, vulgar, and aggressive, making no effort to pretend that he and the Phanton Thieves are friends or even that their relationship is anything but transactional. He stops using Robin Hood and switches to Loki on a permanent basis, makes no effort to hide his chaotic and bloodthirsty mindset during battle, and is openly contemptuous of both his enemies and allies.

And why wouldn't he be? His original plan for revenge against Shido is in shambles, his carefully curated reputation is tarnished, and the most meaningful thing he's ever done has been rendered meaningless. Akechi has nothing left to lose except for his life - and he doesn't just not care if he lives, he actively wants to go back to the reality where he's dead. Not because he harbors suicidal tendencies, but because dying when he did and the way he did was his own decision, one he made for the sake of allowing Akira and the rest of the Phantom Thieves to live. Being brought back and, in his opinion, having his continued existence held over the person he died to protect in the first place completely infuriates him.

But it's worth noting that the events of the third semester are very unique, and that there's plenty to suggest this change won't be permanent for Akechi. There are a handful of moments where he's a little softer with the rest of the party, like when he's (relatively) patient with Yoshizawa's effort to adapt to the Metaverse, thanks the Phantom Thieves for taking care of Shido, or even just engages in casual conversation with the rest of the group. It's not like his desire to be wanted and seen as a valuable member of society has gone away, and while he'll be angry about being brought back to life again, the lack of a singular entity to direct his anger towards will cause it to fizzle out.

In summary, Akechi's behavior in Aefenglom will be largely but not entirely unchanged. He already has several relationships to maintain, including a Bond, and no reason to abandon them. Despite that, Akechi will be markedly less invested in maintaining his perfect flawless facade. He'll be less careful about keeping his cynical mindset, mean sense of humor, and rude comments to himself, but he also won't be going out of his way to antagonize or alienate other people, and will still generally make an effort to fit in and play nice with most people. Basically, he'll be slightly more but still not entirely honest.

Other: Nothing to note, except that I'm intending to have the update take place before the new round of applicants arrive!

Questions: None!

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[fordola]

Player: Kururu
Character: Fordola
Updated Canon Point: Post-5.0.
What's New?:
Fordola has been taken into captivity, and lives constantly bombarded by visions of what she did. (She has the Resonant, as mentioned in her app, and part of it is uncontrolled visions from people near to her.) She is visited by some of the heroes to discuss her situation, and she begs for death. This is when the Warrior of Light sees her past... and she sees theirs as well. She sees all the betrayal and pain they've gone though, and questions why the Warrior of Light keeps on fighting.

Instead of answering her, the group leaves. But soon, one of them - Lyse - returns. To ask for her help. You see, the Resonant can prevent people from being controlled by Primal - god-like beings. And one has been summoned nearby, and the Warrior of Light (alongside Arenvald, one with the Echo) cannot fight them off themselves. She aids - but then is confronted by others of her country. They do not forgive her, but they thank her.

Fordola returns to prison.

But her abilities are not put to waste. With the Warrior of Light busy with other events, she is conscripted to fight against Primals. In case she tries to escape, she's put in a collar that would choke her if she escaped. She has at least fought one Primal after this - alongside Arenvald.

Fordola next appears to the Warrior of Light - a Summoner in this case, because she appears in their quest line - when they come to ask her why she fights Primals. They tell her about what's happened to them, and she isn't sure she believes them. But she tells them her new resolve. She feels guilt for those who died to give her her gifts... but she will fight on. It's all she can do.

Personality-wise, not much has changed.
Other: I plan on this happening likely early July.
Questions: n/a

[moustre]

You're good to go.

[guesser]

Player: owlie
Character: tendou satori (haikyuu)
Updated Canon Point: chapter 402
What's New?:

- tendou has graduated high school, college, and has gone on in life; he's left volleyball as a thing in the past and has found a new passion: he's a professional chocolatier at age 27!
- implied that he's starring in some sort of cooking reality show (a la master chef) and living in paris. still keeps tabs on his friends, especially meeting up with ushijima for dinner that had been broadcasted.
-no personality changes or huge skills beyond confectionery! he's probably matured a little bit but he's still plenty buoyant.

Other: although this chapter just came out (and is haikyuu's end), it's more of a filler for information that was already happening in chapter 395 that came out a while ago. if i can't update to 402 now because of the wait time, that's cool and i can update to an earlier "point" (between 395 and 402), but all of this would be happening before either way. this is also for the beginning of august, please!
Questions: n/a.

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[wordsinthesoul]

Player: Kunenk
Character: Thancred Waters
Updated Canon Point: 4.4, quest title The Call- the point at which Thancred gets yanked for parts technically unknown to the cast at this point.
What's New?: so much oh god (uh there are a couple mentions of suicide in there? just… so you know.)
Other: Uh- visually, Thancred's skin is a lot darker? I don't have many icons like that right now, but… yeah.
Questions: Uh I was… thinking of this happening late July? But if that's a problem that's fine! Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to expand on.

[moustre]

Apologies for the delay, you're good to go!

canon update

[enkidoh]

Player: Mari
Character: Enkidu
Updated Canon Point: Right after their Interlude (this will be playable after completing Shinjuku)
What's New?: In short this Interlude is about Enkidu going to Babylonia with a ragtag band of Servants that have piqued their interest because they are in a way 'tied to a role/function assigned to them' (for instance Moriarty in his role as the archetype villain, Nursery Rhyme being made from stories). The important highlights during this interlude are mostly them getting to know about Kingu, realizing that Gilgamesh has become a great and wise king (and not visiting him because Gilgamesh is the King of the People now, despite the fact that Ishtar tells them that Gil would come running for them if he knew they were here) and Moriarty, Mashu and Fujimaru dropping the truth bomb that they should not act like a fool and consider themselves bound to their role as a weapon. Enkidu does pull a couple of surprised faces but doesn't really discuss it. Instead of that they mull it over and at the end they make the conclusion that they should give this Master and Servant relationship a try instead of perceiving themselves as their Master's weapon and nothing more. It also comes to light that Enkidu has died with a certain regret in their heart, a bit towards Gil, but mostly towards their bond with Huwawa (Humbaba).
Other: nope
Questions: none

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[blankpieces]

Player: Lauren
Character: Near
Updated Canon Point: End of the 2020 one-shot
What's New?: Near is TEN YEARS OLDER. And also he has a lot of hair. And he's been L for a decade so he probably mentally thinks of himself as L rather than Near (though neither are his real name). He's solved many cases, and been witness to two more appearances of the Death Note, the latter of which got away from him. (He calls this a loss, but I'm not sure he ever actually officially took on the case...) Otherwise his personality is still very similar to what it was, perhaps slightly more mature. Slightly.
Other: If accepted, I will be changing his journal to oftheletter so I don't have to worry about icons.
Questions: Nope!

[moustre]

You're good to go!

[unsundered]

Player: Siren
Character: Emet-Selch
Updated Canon Point: end of Shadowbringers patch 5.3
What's New?:
· As was generally summarized in his application, between the point he was taken from and the end of the base part of the expansion, everything goes to hell and he dies, having reached some manner of peace with it. But basically:

· The Warrior of Light fails to contain a massive amount of light within their soul, and is on the verge of becoming a mindless, world-ending monster. This results in Emet-Selch breaking off his friendly overtures with them, as the WoL's value to him hinged on their soul being sufficiently durable. In the process, he shoots the Crystal Exarch in the back, kidnaps him, and tells the WoL to follow him to his abode under the sea, so that they can lose the remainder of their sanity in private.

· The heroes, naturally, follow, after finding a means of removing most of the water from the... water. There they find that Emet-Selch had recreated his lost city of Amaurot, over where its ruins originally lay. It's complete with friendly shades of its original inhabitants, one of whom, Hythlodaeus (who was a close friend of Emet-Selch's in the past) ended up with more self-awareness than the others, and who tells the WoL a bit about the cost of creating Zodiark to save the world (the cost was sacrificing most of the Amaurotine population, who did so willingly). As well as revealing that the ultimate goal of the Convocation/Ascians is to restore the world and sacrifice everyone who remains on it to Zodiark, so the god can revive all their friends and loved ones who originally fed Zodiark's creation.

· Armed with more knowledge than intended, the heroes find and confront Emet-Selch in an argument that clearly hurts everyone. This results in Emet-Selch demanding that they run through a recreation of Amaurot in its final moments- when both the city and the world was on fire, dying, falling apart- to witness the scope of the disaster and death that they faced.

· Successfully getting through the ruined Amaurot isn't good enough- because nothing will ever be good enough to convince Emet-Selch of humanity's value over that of his people. Another impassioned dialogue commences, along with the Ascian knocking out each of the WoL's allies as he refutes their attempts to convince him. Once only the WoL is left, they happen to get a bonus piece of soul merged with theirs and end up just strong enough to contain all that light, how convenient, they're not about to turn into a monster anymore. (As a small side note, for a brief moment, Emet-Selch sees the WoL as being someone else- their past self, someone he was apparently close friends with. This connection with that person does end up being important.)

· But since this is obviously past the point of convincing anyone, the WoL and Emet-Selch end up fighting anyway. This results in Emet-Selch's death, though he faces it with apparent acceptance, asking only for his people to be remembered.

· Nothing in particular is added about him in 5.1

· While not present in 5.2 (being dead and all), his choices were brought up by the heroes, and criticized by his remaining ally, Elidibus. It's implied that Emet-Selch's recent actions- his attempts to reach an understanding with the heroes to avoid bloodshed (which ultimately failed, but) had not been part of the plan. According to the protagonists, Emet-Selch's final words suggested that he had come to believe in or understand them in the end, and had accepted their right to survive in the current world. Elidibus seemed to agree with their assessment of his feelings, viewing it as a weakness, a flaw- a faltering of Emet-Selch's will and commitment, due to the difficulty of their task.

· In 5.3 the WoL meets the shade of Hythlodaeus again, who provides them with a collection of 'constellation stones', crystal records of some memory from each of the Convocation members. The last of them, the one representing the 14th, Azem- was unofficially made, as that member defected from the Convocation in their refusal to cooperate with the plan to create Zodiark. While Hythlodaeus only says that a 'friend' made it, it's pretty heavily implied that Emet-Selch was the one responsible for its creation. Partially because it was made in secret, and yet this technically-created-by-Emet-version-of-Hythlodaeus both knew of it and was in possession of it. Partially because these crystals were something the unsundered Convocation members used to restore their sundered members their memories/powers. Partially because Emet-Selch is known to have been close with this person. And partially because of its result in the following point.

· During the WoL's final battle against Elidibus, the man imprisons them and their allies in the space between worlds- a place of impenetrable darkness and emptiness. Though they're able to break the shackles that bind them, they're yet unable to teleport themselves to safety. All they can do is clutch the crystal of Azem- in a prayer that results in invoking that personal magic of theirs, that their old self had created: to call to others for aid.

...Which in this case, results in Emet-Selch appearing in the physical world, in his original, Amaurotine form- and who teleports the WoL and their companions back to the battlefield, saving them from being lost forever. Saying nothing, he only turns away and gives his familiar little wave as he saunters back into the Underworld/Lifestream.

· Afterwards, characters speculate on his motivation for doing so, considering that he arranged the WoL's receiving of Azem's crystal for this specific purpose. That he'd recognized that the Ascians' task was impossible (and perhaps had been so from the start), and had arranged for Elidibus' death rather than leaving him to suffer the burden of it alone, forced to endeavor on a path unending, in solitude. It's also likely part of Emet-Selch's recognition that the world belonged to the younger races now, and the WoL can't very well do a good job of remembering if Elidibus kills them.

· In a sidestory published afterward, written from Emet-Selch's perspective post-death (though it's mostly him reminiscing on much earlier events), it concludes in a poem of all things, that seems to further indicate his acceptance of the world now belonging to the younger races. It also implies that he, at least for a brief while, has been able to maintain a sort of consciousness after death, and that his assistance against Elidibus was a deliberate choice on his part (and not just some magic left behind that happened to take his form or something).

· Being suddenly alive again in Aefenglom after everything is probably going to involve a major shake up of many of his core beliefs (primarily his views regarding humanity), along with having to deal with the task that he'd devoted himself to for thousands and thousands of years being... over. So he'll have a lot of things to deal with.

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[moustre]

You're good to go.

[omnicrafter]

Player: Qu-ko
Character: Irhya Pendhula
Updated Canon Point: Patch 5.3
What's New?:

• 5.1 involves Eulmore getting its shit together politically with a new mayor in the form of Chai-Nuzz, who puts his head together with the former advisor of Vauthry's father, Wrenden, to bring positive change to the city.


• 5.1 also introduces the nu mou Beq Lugg, a key character in the research into condensing the Scions' memories and souls into an object to carry them home with the Warrior of Light as they go back and forth between the Source and the First, whole of body unlike their companions. Initially, Beq Lugg is reluctant to participate, having isolated themself after the huge conspiracy that resulted in the fall of Voeburt (in which misuse of his magical research played a key role in the kingdom's undoing, and the death of its royal family), but eventually, after hearing of their plight, they agree to lend their knowledge.


• 5.2 sets up for the following patch, involving Elidibus taking Ardbert's body and introducing the entire Crystarium to the Echo. The Scions learn more about the Echo, that it is the remnant of an ability all Amaurotines possessed, and that a meteor shower is the trigger for it, as a sort of ingrained soul memory of the Final Days.


• Through Beq Lugg's knowledge, a potential treatment for primal-tempered people emerges, one Alisaie immediately employs to try and treat the light-saturated people of the Inn at Journey's Head. It seems to be a promising lead if it can be taken back to the Source.


• The Warrior of Light hears news, courtesy of Estinien who has borne witness to the whole thing, that Zenos is alive again, and by the way, he killed his father, the Emperor of Garlemald, and the whole country is in an uproar over it. Yeah... great... love to hear it...


• Finally, 5.3 is the meat of the update, in which the Warrior of Light learns from Hythlodaeus that they were in fact Azem, the fourteenth member of the Convocation that defected in protest at the idea of summoning Zodiark. It is also mentioned that they refused to back Hydaelyn, either... but, well, Irhya has feelings now on how that turned out, ending up as a tool for Hydaelyn anyway despite the attempts to stay neutral.


• WoL also finds the constellation crystals of the fourteen Convocation members... well, thirteen of them, with a fourteenth being made later by Emet-Selch and presented to its true owner by Hythlodaeus. The crystals were primarily used to ascend Sundered Ascians to their original stations; WoL holds onto them temporarily, only keeping the stone meant for Azem in the end and giving the rest to Elidibus upon his defeat.


• Elidibus attacks G'raha Tia and uses the summoning magic sealed within a memory crystal, invoked once before during the fight with Emet-Selch, to summon heroes from across the myriad world shards who have all wanted for salvation -- they are incomplete, but they provide a source of prayers to feed the primal's power, as all primals require.


• During the showdown with Elidibus at the top of the Crystal Tower, who himself becomes a Warrior of Light to answer the prayers of the Warriors of Light across the shards, Azem's crystal is invoked by the Warrior of Light, and who answers their prayer but Emet-Selch, who teleports them out of the Rift where they've been left to wither in the flow of time.


• Afterward, G'raha seals Elidibus within the tower, which is basically a giant auracite intended to collect energy, and the memory crystal is recovered. G'raha finally overtaxes himself to the point of crystallizing atop the Crystal Tower, but his research into getting the Scions home is complete, all that remains but to test it out. Their memories and souls carried on the Warrior of Light's person, the rest of the Scions are reunited with their bodies on the Source at last. Source G'raha is also awakened from within the Crystal Tower (where he was left at the end of the 2.x raids) and imbued with the Exarch's memories from the First, and officially accepts the offer to become a Scion full-time.


• In the end, Irhya has lots of residual feelings about Elidibus and his plight. Elidibus was sacrificed to be the core of Zodiark, like Venat for Hydaelyn; he separated himself from Zodiark to try and aid his people when things did not eventually work themselves out between his people after His summoning, and remained so after the Sundering as well. It is said that Elidibus was the youngest Convocation member, a bit short of stature but beyond suitable for the position as agreed by his peers, despite his relative youth. His memories slowly started to drift away from him as time marched onward, and he eventually lost sight of why he did what he did, and even who he was fighting for, only driven by his directive as a primal -- which was to save his people.


• Similarly, Venat, of whom little is known at the moment other than she became the core for Hydaelyn, was a member of a rather small faction of Amaurotines that felt Zodiark needed a "check" of sorts, to limit His power. (Gender unclear in the English version, but the French version uses female pronouns, so I'm going with that for right now.)
  
  Irhya personally has... a lot of questions for this Venat person, admittedly. And for Hydaelyn, should She ever deign to contact her again.


• Worth noting that the first and second parts of the Eden raids happen in this time frame, laying down the plot as an attempt to use the primordial sin eater Eden to revitalize the Empty, the light-scathed part of the First where life cannot be sustained from all the excess light aether. Gaia is introduced in the second part as the presumptive Oracle of Darkness (to Ryne's Oracle of Light), a few parts angry teenage girl and a few parts lonely teenage girl. Understandably, since she's an amnesiac who had her future taken from her, and it takes Ryne's prompting to make her want to reclaim it again, despite some ominous happenings and a "voice" inside her head... The Warrior of Light is definitely a proponent for awkward teenage girl friendship, though, judging by the way they try to help Ryne win Gaia's trust.


• Also worth noting that the first two Nier raids are within this time bracket as well, so Irhya... may recognize any 2Bs or 9Ss from their roles in the Copied Factory and the Puppets' Bunker. 9S was deactivated by 2P at the end of the Copied Factory after attacking the Warrior of Light for defending her. But in the leadup to Puppers' Bunker, 2P herself turned out to be a traitor to us, attacking the dwarves of Komra after their assistance was "no longer necessary" before 2B swooped in to save the day, though apparently more on a personal vendetta than anything. (The 2B and 9S of the actual Nier games are not going to have a clue about any of this, naturally.)
  
  I'll probably ask any potential players before breaking that wall if we ever get them in-game, though. Crossovers are weird, man.


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Questions: If I may, I would like for Irhya to have the Azem crystal to bring with her? It won't have any powers in Aefenglom, of course (it's unclear what exact powers it even has in the first place), but as something to remember her experiences by! Not a tragedy if not, just thought I'd ask.

I... I think I got everything? I'm sorry this is so long lmfao.

[moustre]

She would not be able to obtain any items from a canon update. You would have to drop and reapply for her and include the Azem crystal in her inventory section, or wait for the next item regain event.

Otherwise, you're good to go.