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NAME: KD6-3.7CANON: Blade Runner 2049
TIMELINE: Post-Movie
NICKNAMES: Officer K,
GENDER: Male
SPECIES: Nexus 9 Replicant
AGE: Mentally/physically 30, chronologically less than 10.
HEIGHT: 6'
WEIGHT: 250lbs+ (appears to be about 180lbs)
OVERVIEW
Replicants are biogenetic androids made entirely of organic material, generally built for either hard labor or pleasure. KD6-3.7 ("Officer K") is a Nexus 9 series combat model specifically designed to hunt and kill other earlier model Replicants who have gone rogue (including other combat units), and as such has the highest class strength and intellect available at his time of manufacture. He is owned and employed by the LAPD, where he works as a blade runner in the Retirement Division, possessing an exemplary record and never once straying from his baseline...... until recently.PERSONALITY
As a Replicant designed for working as a law enforcement officer, KD6-3.7 is mild mannered, adaptable and detached. He's also repeatedly shown to be a pretty curious guy, though whether that's an investigator model quirk or just a him quirk, who knows? While around humans, he tends to be very carefully neutral at all times, and though he is (as most sufficiently intelligent Replicants of his generation are) fully capable of experiencing emotions and thinking his own thoughts, he almost never actually expresses either of those things with his face or out loud. This is a highly necessary defense mechanism for him, as the second he shows too much emotion and therefore strays from his Baseline (which is the word used for a test which he undergoes every 48 hours, designed to stop Replicants from going rogue by detecting emotional instability as soon as it manifests), he will be deactivated.Regardless of the way he appears—quiet, unassuming, obedient—he is both perfectly capable of extreme violent acts and of adapting to particular personalities in order to manipulate people over the course of his investigations. He seems overall fairly uncomfortable with his own capabilities, though: he tries to avoid confronting the reality of his purpose by refusing to call it "killing" (the in-universe euphemism is "retiring" when referring to Replicants) even in conversations where the other person refers to it as such, and at the start of the movie he is quick to grasp at the possibility of taking a rogue Replicant in to the police station alive rather than killing him (though obviously the Replicant would just have been killed there by someone else.) He has a survival instinct that overrides any particular distaste for it though, and kills a lot of things over the course of the movie in order to spare his own life, or accomplish a mission. Luckily (?) K's engineered history and personality were designed so that he would be capable of withstanding physical and mental trauma, giving him the uncanny ability to persevere despite the undeniable bleakness of his career and general existence, earning him the nickname "Constant K" for his stability during Post-Traumatic Baseline Tests no matter what sort of acts he had to perpetuate over the course of his work, or how he actually felt about any of them.
Nexus 9 Replicants don't "run," which is the in-universe way to refer to Replicants of previous generations eventually developing feelings of individuality and rebelling against their programming and pre-determined purposes. Instead, Nexus 9 units were engineered specifically to obey commands even to the point of harming themselves or terminating their own existences, whether or not they've been active long enough to develop a sense of identity. In order to combat the sudden, destabilizing onset of emotions over the course of self-discovery or when experiencing extreme trauma, which had been the catalyst for rebellion in earlier series of Replicant, the Nexus 9s are manufactured with a series of fictional memory implants spanning back to childhood in order to make them more stable, easier to control psychologically and easier to socialize if they are being manufactured to interact with humanity over the course of their work (as K was.)
K is a fantastically lonely individual: Replicants are treated extremely poorly by humans, but even other Replicants don't like or trust or generally socialize with blade runners, whose entire purpose it is to kill their kind. As such, the only companion that K has ever had is a hologram AI program named Joi, a sort of perfect girlfriend simulation manufactured by the same company that manufactured him. She's the only thing he ever expresses himself around, breaking away from his inoffensive, bland persona in order to (more or less) play house with her every night. They pantomime an old-fashioned married couple, making a joint effort to maintain the illusion by doing things like being careful to avoid clipping through each other even though they both know they're artificial and it's pointless. It is only while he's at home with her that K reveals that he has a sense of humor, though it's extremely dry, and an affinity for things like old books and other fiction. He clearly survives his generally shitty life by relying on those small snippets of escapism behind closed doors, and the moment he has the ability to do so he starts bringing Joi everywhere with him like a security blanket. The movie leaves it ambiguous how much sentience Joi actually has, but it's made obvious by the way that K treats her that he thinks she is her own person... or at least, that she is as sentient as he believes himself to be.
All of this shifts after K discovers one of his memory implants wasn't just a simulation but actually happened when he finds a piece of physical evidence corroborating it over the course of an investigation, and the idea it sparks in him (maybe he is real, if he has a real memory) is the first thing we see to ever send him careening right off his baseline. The minute he starts believing that he's more than just a Nexus 9 Blade Runner unit... he breaks programming and runs. He lies to his superiors (which he hadn't thought possible before), he seeks out personal connections with the past he thinks is his, and he even expresses an emotion or two! Shocking. Of course, then it turns out that the memory wasn't fake... but he wasn't the one who lived it. He wasn't real or special after all, he was just what he'd always been... and now he's also the first Nexus 9 Replicant to run.
Well. Whoops.
ABILITIES
Physical Class: AKD6-3.7 has pin-point accurate marksmanship skills, as well as super-dense muscle and skeletal structures. He is capable of breaking through solid rock as well as surviving long falls and other physical trauma. While still made entirely of organic matter, and therefore needing to breathe, eat and sleep, he is much more likely to survive in environments that humans might not (radioactive places, extreme temperatures: replicants are shown dipping their hands into boiling water without flinching, for instance.) He is also more agile and faster at
Mental Class: A
As a Replicant designed for investigative work, K was manufactured with what would be considered a genius level intellect. He is sharply observant, more-so than any of his human coworkers, especially skilled at picking out small things that are non-standard in an otherwise seemingly normal scene. He can understand and speak a multitude of languages, and memorize basically everything he looks at. He is also capable of doing things like interpreting raw digital data at high speeds, seen when he matched two DNA pairs flickering by on a screen while searching for any anomalies filed in an entire database. He also has a high degree of emotional intelligence, which makes him capable of figuring out the right sort of pressure to exert on suspects or informants in order to get what he needs for an investigation out of them. He also reads a lot in his spare time: it's basically his only hobby.
APPEARANCE
