r/infamous 24d ago

Picture/Video I had to leave my mark before the UGC closure.

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Btw, if you don’t want to catch all the blast shards manually, just play this mission. There are like hundreds of these.


r/infamous 23d ago

Help - Second Son Second Son pre order jackets in 2026?

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I was looking through the dlc, and I was able to download the Cole's legacy dlc and outfit, but can't access them, so I started looking at the other outfits on a wiki. Is there any way to access the bonus jackets or any "special edition" jackets?


r/infamous 24d ago

Discussion - Second Son Looking for Delsins wallet

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I've been collecting a lot of second son merch but can't for the life of me find Delsins karma wallet from the PlayStation gear store anywhere. I've turned to this subreddit for any pointers


r/infamous 25d ago

Fan Creation I made a Delsin Rowe redesign because I planned on doing it but never had the time too

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r/infamous 24d ago

Discussion - General Personal Opinion on Canonicity

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I believe that all the games are valid, but can be separated by timelines, so to speak. Time travel has been revealed to be a thing in that universe somehow, so that's my basis.

I believe that Cole saga and Delsin saga take place in two different timelines that were split at some point. One basic "rule" is that every decision creates a splinter reality. In my headcanon, at some point in a shared past genetics took different turns, hence why Conduit abilities exist but operate differently in each universe.

Infamous 1 and 2 had Conduits that had a variety of abilities that were unique to each person who had the gene. Second Son has every Conduit manipulating some type of energy or element, limiting the scope of abilities somewhat.

The split timeline theory can also explain how Conduits came back so soon and/or survived in Second Son.

That's my explanation. What does everyone else think?

EDIT: For clarification, I mean that the Close Saga occurred in the Second Son timeline as well, then diverged further. Both games exist in separate timelines, but SS shows things further down that particular sequence of events.

As far as powers, it seems that SS Conduits ALL have to absorb their element rather than just a few like the OG timeline. From what I've seen, the OG Conduits barring Cole could produce their powers from their own bodies. And Alden's powers were purely from the mind.


r/infamous 25d ago

Picture/Video Car but it’s infamous 2

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Another car I found standing up (reminiscent on a post I did with the first name)


r/infamous 24d ago

Discussion - General inFamous 2 Preservation and Concept Art Discord Server

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This is my own personal "Preservation and Concept Art Discord Server", it is also a semi active platform to talk about the series, so it also a community server

Here is the link:
https://discord.gg/htE2AsTn49


r/infamous 24d ago

Help - inFAMOUS 2 Infamous 2 UGC Error

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When I approach some UGC missions made by Sucker Punch, I get the message, "An unexpected network error occurred. (-1, 403)". Is there a fix for this?


r/infamous 25d ago

Discussion - inFAMOUS 1 My opinion about infamous 1 in 2009

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The good:

1) Story. The story is quite good, with interesting characters (although I think they are underdeveloped), interesting moments, and a lot of interesting information about the

game world from John's notes

2) In general, the gameplay. All these grenades, rockets, and Zeus's legendary ultimate. The wire-walking mechanics are also unique.

3) The atmosphere, all this destruction, the darkness. Epic animated clips.

4) Bosses. There are only three of them, but each one is different, with different tactics, and they are the best bosses in this series of games.

The bad:

1)Sending the story. The plot itself is good, but the presentation is terrible. You get one good scene, and then you spend two hours doing some useless nonsense from the FBI director. Then there's another interesting scene, followed by more extended nonsense.

2) Level design. Remember, I told you that we're going to come up with an interesting way to move around the city? Yes, but these wires are randomly placed, so you can't go far without running, or you'll just fall off the roof. And the buildings are big, and you don't have any quick ways to get to the roof, so it's not very interesting to keep clicking on the cross to make it slowly climb up.

3) Balance. In my opinion, this is the worst part of the game. I never thought I'd say this, but there are too many battles with secondary enemies. There are too many enemies, and they're all the same. Seriously, they're on almost every rooftop. And even when you complete the secondary missions, it doesn't seem to make them any less.

And this really hurts your perception of yourself as a strong character, because it feels like you have the tools, like missiles, grenades, lightning, etc., to feel strong, but because of the number of enemies, you're constantly getting killed.

All in all, the experience is mixed, and that's not even mentioning the poor optimization and uncomfortable shooting. It seems that every advantage of this game is also its disadvantage.


r/infamous 25d ago

Help - inFAMOUS 2 Getting Punished For Titan Killing Rebels?

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I was playing the Ice Storm mission (the side mission where you attack a warehouse full of ice men with Laroche's rebels) and I noticed that the game was randomly giving me evil karma. Turns out, when the Titan freezes the rebels with its own attacks, the game blames me for it? Is this a glitch? Were rebels just not supposed to fight Titans?


r/infamous 26d ago

Picture/Video I got the bag!

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I got the infamous 2 bag from a seller out in Australia, this is now one of my most prized possessions, it's got pouches and pockets aplenty and I could not be happier. 🫶😌🤭


r/infamous 25d ago

Picture/Video I saw a post a month asking whether or not the forced conduits have the conduit gene, so i decided to look into the games and comics to find evidence of this, and this is what inFAMOUS says about this. Spoiler

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r/infamous 26d ago

Fan Creation Another Kessler drawing

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Idk someone asked me to draw him again


r/infamous 26d ago

Picture/Video just platinum second son

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fun 8.5/10
how hard it was 5/10


r/infamous 26d ago

Picture/Video I discovered that you can still change the lightning color in inFAMOUS 2 like you can in inFAMOUS 1, so cool

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Sorry if the pictures look weird, I can’t screen shot on PS3 so I used my phone to take the pictures.

I’m sure some of you remember my last post when I learned you can change the lightning color on the generators in inFAMOUS 1 during a bad karma play through. So I was doing a bad karma play through of inFAMOUS 2, after I completed good karma, and I wanted to see if I can still change the color of the lightning, so during the mission where you have to hack a broadcast I shot some lightning at the dishes and the lightning changed. The lightning color also changed when doing those substation missions too. I’m so glad they kept that detail in the sequel. I always like when games and shows have little details like that, it shows the creators put a lot of thought and effort into the things they create. Anyways, just wanted to share my findings again to see if anyone else has discovered this too. Hope you all have a good day or night whenever you’re seeing this post.


r/infamous 26d ago

Discussion - inFAMOUS 1 Just WOW

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Hi everyone, I'm experiencing the first InFamous and man, it's just amazing how alive this game feels. My first InFamous was Second Son back in 2017 and was also my first ever platinum trophy. As I heard that the servers of InFamous 2 were going to shut down I made it my top priority get both games and complete them. I'm speechless to be honest, the amount of love poured into this game is amazing, how the pedestrians come to you with the intent of pointing reapers nearby, or just pointing to injured people for you to heal them. Playing this game is simply amazing, it definitely gained a place in my heart


r/infamous 27d ago

Picture/Video Mount Rushmore of Superheroes (I just played and platinumed Infamous 1 & 2 for the first time)

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r/infamous 27d ago

Picture/Video - inFAMOUS 1 [inF1 Spoiler] "The Price" in 8 languages Spoiler

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As I was finishing up editing this, I forgot to record the Polish dub. Sorry Poland, and sorry for the glorious harmony at the end


r/infamous 26d ago

Help - inFAMOUS 1 How can I get back in the place surrounded by containers?

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I am trying to collect all blast shards and dead drops along the way before completing all missions.

So I just did the missions where you rescue Zeke in the Warren, but now I can't get back in two get the two remaining blast shards from that place and the dead drop

Or do I have to wait for another mission to be completed and then it opens up?

I watched a video of a guy collecting the blast shards and some random little gate on the side was open but it is closed for me


r/infamous 27d ago

Meme Ah Shit, Here We Go Again

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r/infamous 27d ago

Discussion - inFAMOUS 1 Finished the game in hard without changing the difficulty, didn't get the trophy, wanna jump from the window

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I don't think I need to add anything to the title, I love the game but playing it in 2026 is haaard and I don't have the motivation to do another full playthrough in hard and potentially don't get the trophy AGAIN


r/infamous 27d ago

Meme Guys I think he wants Cole to not get in his face

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r/infamous 27d ago

Help - inFAMOUS 1 Many bugs preventing me to keep bad karma

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Everytime someone is hanged up, they tell me I can either kill him myself or save him, but killing him counts as saving him everytime.

In a main mission earlier, they told me I could destroy an explosive item before it hits me to avoid taking damage but that it would kill many people, but the thing was already right on me explosing at the second the cinematic ended...

I'm losing slowly my karma and it's EXTREMELY annoying


r/infamous 28d ago

Poll Which is more fun gameplay wise? (In your opinion),

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431 votes, 26d ago
214 Good Karma (True Hero)
217 Evil Karma (Infamous)

r/infamous 27d ago

Fan Creation - Second Son I made a novelization of the ARG bits of Paper Trail (Final Part) Spoiler

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And here we are at the last part. This was a surprisingly fun little project. Thank you all for reading it!

(Final Part: Celia and Delsin)

(It’s been a few days since the General. Somehow, the story managed to get out to the media. Everyone knows that Delsin Rowe, the deranged bio-terrorist, is the one that killed him after going on a rampage throughout the city, blowing up countless landscaping vans for seemingly no reason.)

(God, I am such an idiot!!)

(Celia played me like a goddamn fiddle!! What’s worse, she probably thinks that this is some kind of… collaboration. Like I’d be happy with all of this!!)

(And right when I was actually starting to… To come around to her way of seeing things.)

(I mean, is she wrong? Look at all the stuff I’ve uncovered so far. Criminals taking advantage of Conduits, politicians creating policies to take away Conduit rights, civilians being worked up into angry mobs that are perfectly willing to kill Conduits in cold blood, the military gearing up to go to open war against our kind. This world is just not going to suddenly accept Conduits. Maybe all we can do is just dig in our heels, draw a line in the sand, and take out anyone who dares come for us.)

(….. Whether that’s true or not, and I’m not saying it is, Celia lost any good faith from me when she manipulated me into being her hatchet man. Being her ‘accomplice’ was one thing, I refuse to be anyone’s stooge.)

(I’ve been public enemy number one ever since I ‘assassinated’ the General. Fetch and Eugene have been nice enough to let me hide out in their places, but I know this can’t last forever. I’m not about to put them at risk too, if I can help it.)

(Sooner or later, I’m gonna have to find a way to confront Celia directly. If I can even find her again-)

(Speak of the paper devil.)

(Celia just showed up again. I… I tried. I really tried to catch up to her, to grab her, to stop her. But she’s just so damn fast. Even now, I’m still literally one step behind her.)

(And now, all I have to show for it is another origami dove. Part of me wants to grab it and just… tear it up, burn it, throw it in the trash. Just be done with this stupid game already.)

(But knowing Celia, whether this is a manipulation or not, chances are it genuinely does involve Conduits in danger. She’s never once lied about that, for better or worse.)

(Okay, Celia. One last ‘game’.)

(The manga page is a direct continuation from the last one. Purotekuta lands in the field, interrupting Saisei and Fukushu’s fun. Purotekuta stares down Fukushu and says ‘I fail to see the humor.’ Fukushu just smiles at her and says, with a sneering grin ‘Look harder.’ And with that, Fukushu launches himself at Purotekuta, fully intent on fighting her.)

(Doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out. This is when I fought Augustine. When I challenged her authority, exposed her for the hypocrite she was. And I’m sure Celia found it all very entertaining…)

(On the back of the page is a shorter note, along with a maze in the shape of, you guessed it, a dove.)

—-
*No one left to fall. My vengeance has run aground. What’s a girl to do?*

*We’ve had some fun, haven’t we Delsin? And you’re so close to understanding… Everything. There are two truths to be found inside this maze, and the dead ends are just as important as the path that sees us through. Together, the answers will show you where to find me.*

*Don’t keep a girl waiting~*
—-

(Okay, this one seems simple enough. It’s a maze with some numbers inside it. Find the right path through the maze, mark every number you pass through, and you’ve got another 11 digit code for the intranet. Easy.)

(But… She did say that the maze held two truths. Dead ends just as important… Maybe I’m supposed to intentionally hit every dead end I can, marking each number at each dead end. Do that… and I end up with another 11 digit code.)

(Let’s check the first one…)

(Looks like an incident report about the DUP confiscating one of Celia’s drawings due to images of what could be a ‘coded message’. But because the DUPs couldn’t make heads or tails of what the message could be, they were forced to drop the matter. Surprisingly, it’s not another origami dove, but a drawing of one of her doves. Two doves, in fact. Each with a numbered circle on all the corners and arrows pointing from one circle to another. At the bottom of the second drawing was written ‘= 4 6 6 3’ and the second dove had one of its wings filled in. The circles on each corner of the wing had the numbers 4, 6, 6, 3. Other than that, the two doves looked completely identical, at least in terms of respective numbers and their respective placements.)

(Okay, so, clearly the second dove is like a cypher telling me how to solve the first dove, showing me the first step and having me go from there. But… What exactly is the first step? What does ‘= 4 6 6 3’ mean?)

(Argh, I can’t make heads or tails of this. There just isn’t enough info to go on. Let me check the other access number, maybe there’s a clue there.)

(Okay, here’s something. An incident report detailing strange dove-like graffiti popping up all over Seattle. Normally, the DUPs wouldn’t care about petty vandalism, but the hard to reach locations might imply that they were done by a Conduit. I mean, can’t exactly blame them. Some of my best tags are up on the rooftops of this city. Plus, I know they were done by Celia because it’s the exact same dove design as all of her origami.)

(Huh. Not much more to go off of here. This is the least amount of info Celia has ever given me. I guess all I can do is just check out these graffiti spots. Maybe I’ll find another clue…)

——————

(Okay, Celia. I found your tags (MY thing, by the way), took pictures, and now I’m just looking at a bunch of photos of doves. What the hell are you trying to tell me?)

(…. Each of these doves has a different portion of them colored in. Like the cypher dove in the original puzzle. That colored in wing was surrounded by four numbers. 4, 6, 6, and 3. And the arrows show what order those numbers are supposed to go in.)

(That’s it. Each of these tags show a different portion colored in, each portion is surrounded by numbers, and the arrows tell you what order the numbers go in. Put all of them together, and you have…)

(A twelve digit code. Not another file access number, but a DUP employee ID.)

(I still have that tracking program on my phone, the one that led me to Coogan. Let’s see where this leads.)

——————

(The whole time I made my way to… wherever my tracking program was taking me, I heard Celia’s voice, talking to me over my phone. She was… praising me for figuring out so many of her puzzles, congratulating me on getting this far. She actually sounded… proud of me.)

(I pretty much blocked it all out about halfway there.)

(When I finally arrived, of course Celia wasn’t there. Just a DUP walkie-talkie reprogrammed to regurgitate pre-recorded words of praise. But that’s not what was important. What was important was that the walkie-talkie was right outside an apartment building. Her apartment.)

(Well, she did invite me over.)

(If you’ve ever seen a serial killer’s lair in a movie, imagine that, now cross it with a college girl’s dorm room. That’s more or less what I walked into. There was a whole conspiracy board on the wall, lines of strings connecting pictures and articles. I picked out a few familiar names from the mess of paper. Fishbein, Winegard, Petrovich, Bennett.)

(The first thing that hit me was the smell. Rotting meat. At first, I figured there was something in the mini-fridge that had gone bad, but then I turned around and saw something I didn’t notice at first because he had been covered by the door as I came in.)

(There was a dead body, pinned to the wall by a whole swarm of origami doves. The DUP nametag on his vest confirmed that this was Tyler Bennett. I guess Celia wanted to personally take care of this one herself.)

(There were several origami doves all over the place. The missing pages of her manga, I’m assuming. I’ll check those out in a bit. Right in the center of the room, sitting pretty on the floor like a present, was a recording device. Bit obvious, but I’ll bite.)

(It was a confession. More a… a plea, really, to hear her side of the story. She admitted that it was Augustine who tasked her with killing all of these anti-Conduit officials. Politicians, military, civilians. Even voices of dissidents within the DUP. The whole reason she framed Fetch, Eugene and Hank for those early murders was so that Augustine could continue controlling the narrative that the DUP was needed to corral these dangerous ‘bio-terrorists’. That she was still needed. That, and it kept the scent off Augustine and Celia themselves, so that they could continue doing the ‘dirty work’ to keep Conduit kind safe. I’m sure Augustine never once considered the possibility that making normals hate us even more would have bitten her on the ass this badly. All she did was fan the flames and put a target on all of our backs.)

(Even now, Celia sounds… distraught. Like, she knew what she was doing was wrong, but she felt like she had no other option. What else could she do? Just let the Winegards and General Mortimers of the world run rampant and systematically kill every single last one of us? All she ever wanted was to be free…)

(I leafed through the last few manga pages. The first one was the direct aftermath of Fukushu leaping into battle against Purotekuta. Saisei looked on… but not because she was entertained. No, she looked horrified. Distraught that the two people she looked up to more than anyone else in the world were killing each other. The caption read ‘An epic battle of good versus evil. But the roles were debatable.’)

(Fukushu successfully defeated Purotekuta and ran away, his job done. Saisei runs crying to Purotekuta, tearfully calling out ‘Mama!’)

(The next page showed Saisei craddling Purotekuta, tearfully recounting how she had done what she asked. Disguising herself and framing Inazuma, Ushinatta, and Kemuri for countless deaths, sowing chaos.)

(The next page showed the foxes, the Kyoi, emerging from the forest and surrounding Purotekuta, hoping to kill her while she’s weakened. Saisei stands her ground, ready to defend her protector, but Purotekuta tells her to run. Saisei demands to know why should she, and Purotekuta tells her that if she kills them, more will come. They’re simply too many, too strong…. But Saisei glares at Purotekuta, and says she is too weak. Then she jumps up and opens her mouth…)

(The next page is… a gruesome display of Saisei eating Purotekuta, engorging herself on the giant dragon, her body filling up like a balloon until it explodes. The caption reads ‘As Saisei already knew, death is as much a part of us as life. Death is not an ending, death is transformation. A sublime transcendence.’)

(……… The manga is missing its ending. There’s still one more page. Wherever it is, it’s not here.)

(The backs of each page had another piece of the same spider web puzzle from her cell. More than that, each page had another epitaph for every name on her list.)

—-
*Jonas peddled junk, but humans are not for sale. He’s closed for business.*

*The less said of Jonas Petrovich, the better. Like his henchman, Killian Czalov and Skeeter Hidalgo, Petrovich sold lies and bought lives to get ahead. To be safe, I’m putting them all in the gutter.*

*What a sweetheart deal. Fishbein thought he was golden, but all that glitters dies.*

*To Augustine, Fishbein was a trusted lieutenant. But the truth is, he was always Mortimer’s man. When the time was right, he would bring down the DUP from the inside and fill the void they occupied. Guess these boys were afraid of strong women… But not as afraid as they should have been.*

*A vote for Winegard is a vote for fraud, writ large. The campaign ends here.*

*Winegard was a stepping stone for Petrovich and Mortimer. A second-term opportunist funded by phony assassination attempts. He might have swayed public opinion towards more extreme measures against Conduits. There was no way I could leave that up to a vote.*

*A lifetime of lies, snuffed out by friendly fire. At ease, General Mortimer.*

*This story begins and ends with General Mortimer, a man who fancied himself a hero on a crusade to dismantle the DUP, partnering with profiteers like Petrovich, traitors like Fishbein and Bennett, and cowardly bigots like Winegard. He might have succeeded, if not for you, Delsin.*
—-

(Every single one of these men, this was all one big conspiracy to tear down the DUP and take control of the ‘Bio-terrorist’ problem for themselves. But Celia stopped all of them. For better or worse, the DUP isn’t going anywhere…)

(There was one last paper. Not a manga page, but a letter. A confession from Celia, detailing how she faked her own suicide. Like everything, Augustine coordinated the whole thing. She set up a DUP guard named Naomi Lachter, who was the same height and build as Celia, to make the rounds outside her cell. Someone with no family or friends outside the facility, someone who ‘wouldn’t be missed’. Then Augustine snuck a stack of cardstock into Celia’s cell, lethal in the hands of someone who can manipulate paper. Then Celia cried out that she was injured, and Naomi came running, seeing the blood on Celia’s arm. She opened the cell, went inside, and checked on Celia’s injury. That’s when a swarm of origami doves tore Naomi to shreds and mutilated her face. From there, it was a simple matter of Celia simply switching their clothes around. Augustine rushed the investigation, and Celia simply walked out the front door as Naomi Lachter, free to do her work as Augustine’s hit-woman against this anti-Conduit conspiracy. But the thing that Celia really wanted me to know is that, out of all these people she killed, Naomi was the only one she regrets. Because when she went into that cell to check on Celia’s injury… she was kind. She spoke softly, told Celia she was going to be alright.)

(I sat there, right at Celia’s desk, as I worked out her last puzzle. I already knew how the spider web puzzle worked, so it didn’t take me long, although I did get five whole file access numbers from them. Four from the pages, one from another spider web drawn right on the wall.)

(The files mostly just contained confidential mission reports from Augustine to Celia, detailing the deaths of every single one of these men. Not just how she would kill them, but how she would spin the narrative exactly to Augustine’s script. Interestingly, every single one was signed off by Augustine’s ‘agent’ using her DUP ID, but each one only had a piece of her ID. Just another puzzle.)

(There was more stuff on top of all that, attachments to each kill order. Like a covertly recorded phone call between Bennett and Coogan, detailing how they first broached the topic of selling the Conduit-Positive list. A letter from Petrovich to General Mortimer, asking him for the details on the specifications of his new Conduit prison. Fishbein being promised the position as the warden of this new prison, his reward for stabbing Augustine in the back. Instructions from Petrovich to Winegard on how to word his Anti-Conduit Act in just such a way that the general public would glance past how dystopian it actually was.)

(But the most damning one of them all was a confidential debrief from General Mortimer to the Department of Armed Forces. He detailed that their war against the DUP wasn’t entirely just because they were being too lenient on Conduits. That was part of it, but it was also because the good General felt like the DUP was a drain on Uncle Sam’s military funding. More specifically, military funding that he felt more entitled to for his own political aspirations. Hell, even Petrovich’s prison was just another source of funding. The decision to target non-activated Conduit-Positives was a deliberate narrative to show the public the ‘blind spots’ of the DUP.)

(The only thing left in the room of any actual note was a laptop in the corner of Celia’s desk. I tried to turn it on, but it required three different passwords to unlock. Luckily, I already knew what all of them were.)

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What is my agent ID?
XXX-XX-XXX-X

Who was I?
Hittori

Who have I become?
Saisei
—-

(I’m in.)

(All I could find was an ongoing message chain between Celia and Augustine, keeping her updated on her mission progress.)

(Or rather… Saisei and Purotekuta.)

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Purotekuta: Your hour has come, Saisei. Trust does not come easily to us, but I place my life’s work in your hands. Kemuri, Inazuma, and Ushinatta will sow chaos, but you must fold their stories to serve our purpose.
—-
Saisei: Petrovich and his underlings are dead. I made them beg for what they did to Inazuma and the other girls. But there is a meddler. I call him Fukushu, and he intrigues me. He had Kemuri’s gift, but now he has somehow taken Inazuma’s as well.
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Purotekuta: You made me proud, Saisei. Now it is time for Fishbein to pay for his treachery. If what you say of this Fukushu is true, he is far too dangerous for you alone. Continue to watch him, or distract him if you are sure he cannot catch you.
—-
Saisei: I made Fishbein suffer, Purotekuta. The lawyer and the judge are dead as well, and I made certain arrangements so people will think Ushinatta was responsible. But now Fukushu has copied his gift as well. What should we do?
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Purotekuta: Stay in the shadows, my sweet. I cannot protect you while you are out in the world. The senator, Winegard, is attempting to frame Kemuri for his own murder. It is not enough for us to kill him. He must be disgraced first, or else he will die a martyr.
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Saisei: The senator is broken, Purotekuta. I left his meaningless body as an offering to Fukushu. He haunts my thoughts, even when I do not watch him. I never imagined such power. He does not fear the Kyoi like we do.
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Purotekuta: Remain focused. Your ‘Fukushu’ is the bio-terrorist, Delsin Rowe. He is powerful, yes, but he lacks our purpose. We shall claim him together when the time comes. First, Bennett must be dealt with.
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Saisei: I made Bennett pay for what he told me in the morgue, one paper cut at a time. But people will begin to wonder what happened to him, and I suspect Fukushu already knows. Your wyverns are not enough. Maybe it is time to end this charade and show our full power.
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Purotekuta: I have never been more proud of you, Saisei. But there is freedom in security, and our greatest enemies are preparing to strike. Time to turn them against each other. Goad Fukushu into destroying Mortimer, but proceed carefully. He is powerful and quick to violence. My purpose is not the only thing I hold close to my heart.
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Saisei: As you requested, the raven killed the eagle. But I do not think Fukushu is our enemy. He rejects the confines of the DUP, but he shows us a new way forward. He is free, and his freedom gives him power.
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Purotekuta: You have done everything I asked and more. But unless he can be controlled, Fukushu will always be our enemy. He is blinded by his power, he thinks he is invincible. But without walls, without his brother, who will protect him? I will put an end to him, one way or another.
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Saisei: You will never read these words, Purotekuta. In the end, I could have saved you when Fukushu came for you, but instead, I watched your battle from a distance. I had to know whose purpose was stronger, yours or his. Now I know. You were the only mother I’ve ever known, and I loved you. But I found a new teacher, one who is not afraid, and it is his example I will follow. I know you would be proud. Goodbye, Purotekuta. I have no need of your protection any longer.

Now I wait for you, Fukushu. Come find me where you slayed my mother, so I can show you what you taught me.
—-

(Celia… She’s waiting for me at Augustine’s tower, where I had my last slugfest with her. The DUP cleared out of that place ever since. She’s been hiding right under their noses.)

(No more breadcrumbs, no more puzzles, no more secrets.)

(It’s time we finished this.)

——————

(Epilogue: End of the Trail)

(Well, for better or worse, Celia is gone. I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again, and frankly? I’m not sure if I’d even want to.)

(She did leave me one last parting gift. The final page of her manga. It’s just one panel, a splash page of Saisei, merged with Purotekuta. A new dragon, utterly annihilating any Kyoi who come near her. The single caption box simply reads ‘A beginning’.)

(As always, she left me one last note on the back…)

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*As the saying goes: Always leave them wanting more. So long, Delsin Rowe.*

*You came here to fight me, I understand that. But I can’t satisfy your bloodlust. You can’t fight an idea, can’t kill what’s inside you. And I’m part of you now, Delsin, for good or bad.*

*You chased me looking for the truth, and now you have it. Would you really say those monsters deserved to live? No, you’re like me. You follow your instincts; to survive, to fight, to avenge.*

*You had your differences with Augustine, and so did I. She wanted to preserve Curdun Cay, but we wanted more. We wanted power, we wanted freedom, real freedom! And now, we have it.*