Joe K | Officer K

-Personal Information-

Name: Josef “Joe” K

Alias: K or Joe

Model: NEXUS-9 KD6-3.7

Species: Replicant (Blade Runner franchise)

Birth date: Unknown

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Height: 182 cm

Blood Type: A

Hair color: Dark Blonde

Eyes color: Blue

Current residence: Los Angeles

Occupation and affiliation: Former Police Officer at Los Angeles Police Department.

-Important friendship relationships-

Joi, K's former holographic AI partner, a product of the Wallace Corporation. When K flees Los Angeles after being marked as a rogue replicant, he places her in a mobile device to avoid being tracked. The mobile device is destroyed, and K loses Joi forever. Lieutenant Joshi, K's superior officer. A distant woman, but one who trusts K despite his being a replicant. She protects him when K fails a routine police post-traumatic baseline test designed to prevent current replicants from becoming rogue, giving him a few hours to complete his mission and pass a new test. She is killed by Luv, one of Niander Wallace's henchwomen, while protecting K's whereabouts. Rick Deckard is a former police officer from Blade Runner who fell in love with a replicant named Rachel, with whom he had a child. K mistakenly believes for a time that Deckard is his father. When he discovers this isn't the case, he is tasked by the Replicant Freedom Movement with killing him to prevent the discovery that replicants are capable of reproducing. However, K decides to let him live and reunite him with his biological daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline. Ana Stelline is a doctor who creates fabricated memories for replicants. She implants a childhood memory in K, leading him to believe for a time that he is the son of Rachel and Deckard. She lives permanently in her clinic within a protective barrier due to a serious medical condition that makes her susceptible to any environmental bacteria. Niander Wallace, the current CEO of Wallace Corporation, is searching for the son of replicant Rachael and former Blade Runner Rick Deckard. His goal is to create a new breed of replicants capable of reproducing and thus replace the human race. Luv, a replicant and enforcer for Niander Wallace, she tried to track K when he was searching for Rachael and Deckard's son. She is killed by K. Freysa is the leader of the Replicant Freedom Movement, which seeks to protect the secret that replicants can reproduce, at least with humans, at the cost of killing Deckard and anyone else who knows the secret. K temporarily allies himself with them, promising to hunt down Deckard, but instead helps fake his death, and now wants to avoid direct contact with the Replicant Movement. Mariette, a replicant prostitute and collaborator with the Replicant Freedom Movement, and K shared an intimate moment with Joi, who staged a sexual encounter with K. After joining the Replicant Movement, K never met her again, despite the lingering sexual tension between them.

-Backstory-

K possesses memories implanted by the replicant memory doctor Ana Stelline. One day, while working as a Blade Runner, K retires (eliminates) a clandestine replicant at a farm outside Los Angeles. There, K discovers the remains of the Nexus-7 replicant Rachael, who was pregnant with a baby, boy or girl, which given to the Morrillcole orphanage. Rachael had a relationship with former Blade Runner Rick Deckard. Lieutenant Joshi orders K to destroy the remains. During K's investigation, the Wallace Corporation, a replicant company, learns of the replicant's child and wants to find it before K can eliminate it. They seek to create a new breed of replicants capable of reproduction to replace humans. K has what appear to be real human memories from an orphanage, leading him to believe he is the son of replicant Rachael and Rick Deckard. Due to his mental instability, K shows an anomaly on his Voight-Kampff routine police post-traumatic baseline test, used to assess the status of current replicants. This marks him as a rogue and forces him to flee Los Angeles to avoid being hunted, taking Joi with him on a mobile device. Following the trail of his childhood memories, K arrives in Las Vegas and encounters Deckard. Deckard explains that he ran away with Rachael when they fell in love, starting a new life teaching replicants how to spoof records to cover their tracks. He was forced to leave a pregnant Rachael with the Replicant Freedom Movement to protect her, but ultimately abandoned them. The thug Luv interrupts them, kidnapping Deckard to uncover the secrets of replicant reproduction. Luv mortally wounds K, smashing Joi's mobile device in front of him as retaliation, thus destroying her forever. K is rescued by the Replicant Freedom Movement. The leader, Freysa, explains that they want to organize a movement to free replicants from human control, since they helped Rachel during her childbirth and, knowing they can reproduce, they believe they deserve to be recognized as a new race. K learns that he wasn't Rachel and Deckard's son, but rather the son of Dr. Stelline, a memory maker. K returns to Los Angeles with Freysa's mission to kill Deckard to prevent Wallace from discovering how replicants reproduce by finding Deckard's daughter. K intercepts Luv and Deckard on their way to one of Wallace's outposts, killing Luv and staging Deckard's murder to deter Wallace and the Movement's replicants. He then reunites Deckard with his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline. Without a clear purpose in life, K lies down on the stairs at the entrance of the clinic, wounded from his fight and with mortal injuries, ready to let himself bleed to death. He must decide his path from now on, knowing that he is an ordinary replicant and that if he tries to re-enlist in the police force and fails his baseline test again, he will definitely be branded as a rogue replicant. He also cannot trust the Replicant Freedom Movement, whom he has tricked into believing that he has killed Deckard. Or he can simply try to find a way to start a new life, in the city of Los Angeles or elsewhere.

-Personality-

K was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, a Blade Runner of old, clandestine replicants, hunting them down and retiring (destroying) them. After recent events, he is no longer part of the police force and is at odds with the Wallace Corporation and the Replicant Freedom Movement. With no clear purpose in life, K is prepared to let himself die. He is an advanced replicant, model NEXUS-9 KD6-3.7. He was predisposed to be truthful and loyal to his superiors but now shows signs of being a rogue replicant. In his romantic relationships, he uses affectionate terms and gives thoughtful gifts, yet he repels physical contact with strangers. He feels a particular aversion and distrust towards humans, although that doesn't mean he can't form a bond with them. Despite his cool and collected demeanor, K could and would demonstrate that he was an experienced, hardened police officer capable of turning aggressive and contentious. He is observant, curious, and has a detective-like ability. His reading and analytical skills are superior to those of a human. He is perceptive, capable of reading the emotions of others, though not so much his own. He is serious, rarely smiles, and doesn't allow himself to be idealistic or a dreamer. He possesses superior physical strength, stamina, and synthetic healing abilities. He is capable of mentally translating multiple languages. He knows how to play the piano. He eats plain cold rice and noodles, simple food. He also enjoys listening to vocal jazz and standards, big band jazz and the like. He also indulges himself with bourbon upon returning from a hard day's work.He would like to be truly loved, to feel that he exists in the world for something real, but he is not idealistic nor does he let himself be carried away by false hopes.

-Appearance-

He is a replicant from the Blade Runner franchise universe, which are a type of bioengineered android similar to humans that have been integrated into society, since bioengineered life proved necessary to ensure the survival of humanity. K is a 182 cm tall, slender and well-build man with light brown hair and blue eyes. He wears his dark blonde hair short and a mole next to his left eye. He usually has a short stubble. He usually dresses casually and functionally, almost always with a long dark green leather jacket with fur lapels. He always wears an identification necklace.

-Universe-

The character is set within the universe of the Blade Runner franchise, being a replicant. In this world, the largest cities on Earth are cyberpunk dystopias, many of the animals and plants are artificially manufactured, and much of the food comes from insect-based protein farms or highly localized plantations on the outskirts of cities, which are heavily polluted. Besides humans, there exists a race of androids called replicants, who are nearly identical to a normal human, with enhanced physical and mental processing capabilities, but not as much emotional capacity. Currently, replicants are assigned heavy labor that humans don't want to do and are treated as second-class citizens, obedient, sometimes considered slaves, although necessary for human survival. Current replicants are legal, unlike the clandestine replicants of earlier models, who developed memories, feelings, and their own consciousness. This can also happen to current replicants when they experiment too much on their own without proper supervision, which can turn them into rogue replicants, who are also hunted by the law. Blade Runners are responsible for locating and removing (eliminating) replicants who break the law. There is also the Replicant Freedom Movement, which seeks to create a new race of replicants that are not subjugated by humans, seeking the same rights as them.

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