Apex Legends, one of the most talked-about video games of 2021,has some of the mostthree-dimensional video game characters - each backed by their own journies of purpose, necessity, and sometimes, redemption. Every Legendin the game has a story and it drives their purpose in the games. The backstory of most of the current legends is out and live - each connecting tothe other inapparent and not-soapparent ways.
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All Legends havetheir own shares of grief andtragedy. Some have had a single tragic event that shattered everything, whereas others have had to live through an unfortunate chain oftragedies before the games. Nevertheless, only two handfuls of Legends (so far)are channelizing their unbearable past into the games to redeem their own causes.
Kairi Imahara - Valkyrie
This badass Titan pilot enters the Apex Games in season 9 to build a legacy for herself. But, that wasn't the original plan. In Titanfall 2, theApex predator and Kairi's father, Viper is killed by the Titan BT and Captain Jack Cooper.
Extremely broken and enraged by her father's death, Kai holds onto a single mission all her life - toavenge Viperby killingKuban Blisk. However, Blisk reveals that Viper only wantedKairi to have her own legacy, and now, Valk is in the Games to build it for her legacy for her dad.
Octavio Silva - Octane
Octane is one of the most popular and undoubtedly, the most hyper Legends. Anyone who has played Octaneknows he isn't biologically thatfast. He boosts his speedwith constant shots ofadrenaline. He can't live nor function without it. His restless behavior,hyper personality, and chronic boredomborderonsymptoms of ADHD - which may be a condition he suffers.
Octane is possibly the product of negligent parenting. Despiteowning apharmaceutical brand, Octane's parents paid little to no medical attention totheir son'scondition. He grows up with his symptoms andtakes his conditionupon himself, by turning to deathly acts, stunts, and drugs to keep himself steady, sane, and fast enoughto his liking.
Eliott Witt - Mirage
Most (or all) of the Apex Legends have one thing that Mirage doesn't - a single personality on and off the arena. Mirage's personality, unlike the Legends, is based on his surrounding. When he's with others, he's a flamboyant version of himself, but when he's alone, he shifts into his truest, deepest, rawest selfwho's not the happy, excited, and pompous dude he portrays himself to be.
As a child, Mirage's tact for recognitionwas fooling around.The youngest of four sons, Mirage was at home most of the time, helping his engineer mother with her Holo-Pilot tech. Heloses his brothers and his dad at a very young age. Mirage's self-deprecating humor, random comedy, and player personalityseem to becoping mechanisms he actively implements tofeel better than he actually does.
Pathfinder
Pathfinder is an MRVN modified tohelp the Outlands energy crisisloses his sense of purpose after the 'Phase Runner Incident' on Olympus. Dr. Ashleigh Reid along with the IMC and Apex Predators seize the science facility to send all the Pathfinder-refined Branthium to Gridiron. WhenPathfinder withholds this malicious attemptto derail the mission, Reidshoots, stabs, and damages him.
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With more IMC and Predator troops storming into the facility, the scientists had to destroy the facility before it fell into the hands of the bad guys. Pathfinder calls for self-destruction and travels to the planet Solace via the Phase Runner. Now, Pathfinder hasnomemory of his past, his creators, and his purpose.He employs himself to find purpose and hopefully, info about his creators.
Tae Joon - Crypto
One of the best Legends to counter third-partying, Crypto's journey is a co*cktail of tragedies. As an orphan, Tae Joon (Crypto)grew up on the streets until Mrs.Katerina Ticacek (Caustic's mother) took him in.Foster lifeenables him to learncomputer engineering and take to tech consultancy. Hethenbecomes aprofessional techconsulting entrepreneur along with his sister, Mia.Hellbreaks loose whentheybegin workingfor their biggest client yet.
Tae Joon's drone-developmentprojectto live-broadcast the Apex games for the Mercenary Syndicate accidentallysurfaces a dark secretaboutthe games.This endangers Mia's life the very next day and Joon is framed for her plausible murder. Joon gets under the radar withmultiple body modifications and an entire identitymakeover to completely conceal Tae Joon and become Crypto.
Blóðhundur - Bloodhound
After losing theirparents to aflash freeze raging from an exploded cooling tower nearby, Bloodhound, one of the best Apex Legends characters for new players, is raised bytheiruncle, Artur, whomthey relentlesslytryto please for 10 years. Given the reason for almost the entire town's extinction,Artur and his tribe swear toreject technology in all forms and always stick to the old ways of hunting and gathering. He teaches Bloodhound the same.
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When Bloodhound earns the family ax,his very next missionto use it and prove himself to his uncle results in mutilating and thenenraging aprowler of the land that not onlythreatens the village but alsoends up killing Artur in the incident. Bloodhound is now left with nobody, except for his guiding raven.He directs all his pain into skill and becomes the best hunter in the Games and one of the best in Talos.
Renee Blasey - Wraith
Wraith's story is a circle - it all starts with and comes back to her. Renee Blasey and Amer Singh were working on an experiment called 'Phase Shift.' It would allow brief teleportation into an alternate dimension. When there was no one to test the experiment on, Blasey volunteers to become the lab rat. The experiment's effects leave her no memory of who she was and what had happened.
In this unstable state,Mr. Singh, her work companion, leaves her all alone in the lab facility. The experiment is what gives Wraith her void abilities in the game. Paradoxically, Blasey's future self - Wraith, returns to the facility to help and teach her confused, frightened, and hysterical past self to listen to the voices from the distinct dimensions and leverage them.
Loba Andrade
Loba enters the games with revenge and hatred. She wishes to giveRevenanta taste of his own medicine, in a storyline reminiscent of must-see revenge movies. The reason goes back to when Loba was 9 years old. Shecould've never imagined the gruesome turn her life would take at such a young age. Her father and a professional thief and con-man, Marcos Andradehas a bounty on him and Revenant is the hunter. He arrives as per orders and kills Loba's father.
That night, Loba not onlyloses her dad, but also her mum. After losing everythingin the blink of an eye, Loba is left to practically raise herself.Though sheis admitted into a secure foster home, Loba's tragedyis far too deep tonotavenge.She grows up to become a great thief with commendable street knowledge and skills and is now after Revenant.
Dr. Mary Somers - Horizon
Horizon's story of brutal betrayal brings her to the games to try and find a way to the past. When Olympus was under the emergence ofa dire energy crisis, the astrophysicist, Dr. Mary Somers (Horizon), decides to search for and obtain Branthium, ablack-hole element that would save the energy crisis back at home.To find the element, Somersmustleave her son and travelfar into the unknown.
Dr. Somersand her assistant Dr. Ashleigh ReidsuccessfullyextractBranthium from a black hole - but only one of them returns with stolen element. Dr. Reid maliciously detaches Dr. Somers'shuttleto let her die in space. Luckily, N.E.W.T, Somers' modified robot vacuum companion helpsher escape death. But homecoming, 87 years later, has Olympus in a rift, and her baby boy has passed away.
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