Lore rundown + hypothesis
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If you read the bios in all of the characters you will learn a few things:
- Gizmo was a prodigy at robotic engineering and sold inventions on the black market
- Buttercup was wheelchaired and baught modifications from the black market
- Buttercup had to run away because she was raised by a religious group that didnt approve of the robotics.
- Miko was a test experiment who was saved by a man in a demon mask (daemon, duhhh)
- Daemon lost his mother because of the government and decided to do the largest corporate data unleash in history (the skeleton key was amongst the data released)
- Buttercup's modifications were upgraded because of the skeleton key and so she wants to meet the person who helped her
- Maeve who is a grandmother was saved by one of her grandchildren that gave her that magic ball thingy that granted kinesis
- Daemon who had achieved his revenge on the government or whatever is now making an army of augmented amidst the underworld fighting circuits
- Cass who had her life taken away from her and was forced to fight at a young age is now heading towards bleeding edge to find a family
- Maeve now free to roam after kissing her children and grandchildren goodbye now heads for bleeding edge after finding the world is enslaved and depraved of life
- Kulev was a crazy scientist who studied voodoo magic and was later reborn with the same voodoo magic and now wants to join daemon so he can prolong human life and plight
Side info:
Bastardo is just a bandit that wants to kill
Makoto underwent surgery to get his massive body
Nidhogger was a black metal artist gone crazy@Evade-This5965's accurate storyline
1 - Black market augmentations exist around 2036, ~20 years ago. Buttercup uses them to begin her augmentation journey.
2 - Cass becomes a Russian agent ~14 years ago.
3 - Makutu gets his augments ~9 years ago and overtime starts to feel too restricted from using his strength.
4 - Kulev dies ~5 years ago and is resurrected, possibly over the timespan of a year or longer.
5 - Daemon establishes a band of misfits called Bleeding Edge. In this group is Daemon, El Bastardo, Miko, and Nidhoggr
6 - ~4-5 years ago, the data breach occurs, and Skeleton Key is unleashed. Black market augments blossom.
7 - Daemon continues to build his family in the underworld fighting circuits.
8 - Starting from 4 years ago Buttercup and Gizmo benefit from the Skeleton Key. Buttercup, Gizmo, Kulev, Maeve, Makutu, and Zerocool join during these 4 years.
9 - ~1 year ago, Cass joins. Likely more recently Mekko does too after being rescued by the group.
10 - The year is 2056Summary hypothesis:
Daemon creates group called bleeding edge to fight against large corporations
Buttercup wishes to find daemon
Cass goes out to join bleeding edge
Miko joins bleeding edge
Maeve goes out to join bleeding edge
Gizmo gave buttercup her mods
Miko was a test subject of Maeves children
Kulev was a crazy scientist working under maeves children
The experiments run on Miko, Makutu, and Kulev were used to make maeves orb thing -
It's just a hypothesis btw so dont start attacking me, I'm just tryna get people to think outside the box a bit with my hypothesis
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Looks good
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It might be helpful to setup a rough timeline of events. I'm not sure why you think Gizmo sold her inventions on the black market, but it's a plausible theory. Also the stuff about Maeve's grandchildren aren't anywhere I can see, but she IS called Granny Maeve, so they're assumed to exist.
- Buttercup: Started with black market augmentations which existed prior to Bleeding Edge, later revamped due to the Skeleton Key, then joins Bleeding Edge. June 3rd, 2036 is when she has her accident.
- Cass: Runs to join Bleeding Edge after it has already been established. This happened when she was ~26, and she's now 27, so its only been a year since she joined. She was a Russian agent for 14 years, very likely soon after her initial augments and following accident as the timeline is tight here.
- Daemon: Established a band of misfits called Bleeding Edge, caused the data breach dubbed Skeleton Key, and continued to expand in underworld fighting circuits.
- El Bastardo: Unclear, but there's a strong hint that he's part of the fighting circuits. However they all are, so it hardly tells us much. He's already a violent outlaw from the start, so him being antagonistic towards the government is no surprise.
- Gizmo: Won a competition at age 13 because of the Skeleton Key. In the 4 years since then, she joined Bleeding Edge, so its been at least 4 years since the Skeleton Key incident happened.
- Kulev: There is only a 5 year gap between his death and now, during which he is resurrected, fired from the university, and joins Bleeding Edge. It's very likely he joined after the data breach due to the timeline created by Gizmo, but it's unclear how long the preceding events took to occur.
- Maeve: Mentions joining Bleeding Edge by name, so likely it was already formed by then, and her adventurous spirit and sense of justice drove her to join it.
- Makutu: His first time being augmented occurred 9 years ago, very likely before Skeleton Key. It's unclear when he joined Bleeding Edge, but his goal was to test himself, and the place to do that would be the fighting circuits. So it's likely he joined after the Skeleton Key and wasn't driven to fight H.A. initially like others might have been.
- Mekko: Very likely saved after Bleeding Edge was formed, in fact it should be quite recently as a newly added member saved by the group in the past few months so to speak, lining up with his actual release in the game.
- Miko: She was saved from H.A. facilities not by Bleeding Edge, but by Daemon specifically. This means she was very likely an early addition to the group.
- Nidhoggr: His motives line up with Daemon from the get-go, and while it's not clear when he joined, it might be safe to assume it was early.
- Zerocool: He's very young, so it's likely his addition to the group was in the last 4 years, and it mentions joining the group by name so its clear it was already established when he joined.
We can assume Bleeding Edge was formed before or right at the time of Skeleton Key, and that Daemon very likely had help in the endeavor based on the wording in Daemon's profile. Also, only the original 10 roster might have been there, because the acquisition of new fighters into the game follows the timeline of events roughly so far. Based on the number of viable candidates to have been part of the initial formation, I'd posit that it was a team of 4, lining up with the very concept of the game itself. It's very likely the year 2056 if we assume it's the beginning of the year, allowing all the birthdates and ages to line up.
So my tentative timeline is this:
1 - Black market augmentations exist around 2036, ~20 years ago. Buttercup uses them to begin her augmentation journey.
2 - Cass becomes a Russian agent ~14 years ago.
3 - Makutu gets his augments ~9 years ago and overtime starts to feel too restricted from using his strength.
4 - Kulev dies ~5 years ago and is resurrected, possibly over the timespan of a year or longer.
5 - Daemon establishes a band of misfits called Bleeding Edge. In this group is Daemon, El Bastardo, Miko, and Nidhoggr
6 - ~4-5 years ago, the data breach occurs, and Skeleton Key is unleashed. Black market augments blossom.
7 - Daemon continues to build his family in the underworld fighting circuits.
8 - Starting from 4 years ago Buttercup and Gizmo benefit from the Skeleton Key. Buttercup, Gizmo, Kulev, Maeve, Makutu, and Zerocool join during these 4 years.
9 - ~1 year ago, Cass joins. Likely more recently Mekko does too after being rescued by the group.
10 - The year is 2056As for any interesting theories, it'd be helpful to note any particular mentions of technology at play.
- Cybernetics and non-specific Mechanical Augments: Buttercup, Cass, Gizmo, Makutu, and Zerocool. Black market augments, personal ingenuity, and the Skeleton Key all helped here.
- Bio-tech Advancement Therapy: Cass. Some kind of untested secret Russian tech, though its been 15 years since the first time it was used on a person successfully. Improves reflexes, agility, and sense.
- Biological Weapons: Mekko, who is a biological sonic weapon, survived a "binary communication experiment" that presumably occurred in Japan and exclusively included torturing sea life. May be similar to the Russian tech, but there's no direct connection.
- Nanobot Augments: Miko. Leads to genetic advantage and can cure a deadly plague virus that was recently discovered.
- Soul Digitization: Kulev. Apparently this belongs to the realm of computer science. A possible solution to mortality.
- Pure Martial Ability: Daemon and El Bastardo, though the latter has some sort of unspecified life support augment, but it's clear his primary power is his ability to fight.
- Hacking Ability: Daemon and Zerocool.
- Mystical Augments: Maeve. Not saying magic is real, but it was directly inspired by mysticism, though it's also unclear who invented it even if Maeve appears to have had some say in the process. It's just described as a hovering bauble.
- Music Augments: Nidhoggr, seemingly designed himself for the sake of his career.
