Hot Drop: Who Is Pretending To Be Octane's Father In Apex Legends?
Hot Drop is GameSpot's weekly Apex Legends column, in which Jordan Ramée takes a closer look at Respawn's battle royale to provide additional insight into the game's evolution, as well as dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.
It's been an eventful couple of weeks for Apex Legends. As we near the end of Season 12's Quest, The Perfect Son, Lifeline and Octane stumbled upon a startling realization: Octane's dad, Eduardo «Duardo» Silva, isn't actually his dad. The real Eduardo Silva has been dead for a while, meaning the big bad of Apex Legends has been an imposter. So the big question is, of course, who the hell is Duardo?
We don't know all that much about Eduardo or Duardo, but we have a rough timeline of the two men's lives. Eduardo is the childhood friend of Darian Che--Lifeline's dad--and the two played in Pecks Labs as kids. A genius, Eduardo would grow up to become the CEO of a galaxy-wide pharmaceuticals company called Silva Pharmaceuticals.
Eduardo would go on to create Stim, the powerful adrenaline drug used by Titan Pilots and, eventually, his son, Octavio «Octane» Silva. Eduardo wasn't a great dad or husband, marrying four times and neglecting Octavio for the entirety of his life. I assume that somewhere here in Apex Legends' timeline is the point where Eduardo dies and Duardo takes his place. Because it's after this that Octane begins to notice some slight differences in his father's behavior, including a willingness to orchestrate a terrorist attack during Season 7's Quest, Family Portrait.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt… pic.twitter.com/qiTuRdU2rX
We subsequently learned that the attack was actually planned in an effort to undermine people's belief in The Syndicate, the ruling group of
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