Blade Runner Codexery

K

A replicant detective who uncovers a buried secret and chooses to reunite a father with his daughter.

K is a Nexus-9 replicant serving as a blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department. He is a replicant detective who locates Rick Deckard in the ruins of Las Vegas. He is informed that Deckard is the father of the child Rachael gave birth to before dying in childbirth. K saves Deckard from a replicant enforcer named Luv and drowns her, getting severely injured in the process. K takes Deckard to his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline, at her facility, and receives the toy horse from K's childhood memories.

Affiliation
Los Angeles Police Department (Blade Runner Division)
Handler
Lieutenant Joshi

Lore & Background

K is a replicant detective who serves the Los Angeles Police Department. During an apparently routine investigation, Officer K uncovers a box containing bones and hair buried under a tree. The remains are shown to be that of a being who died after a caesarean section, and upon the discovery that the being was a replicant, K is ordered by Lt. Joshi to track down and kill the replicant's child. K later learns the pregnant replicant was Rachael. After capturing Deckard, Niander Wallace designs a physically near-identical copy of Rachael and offers her to Deckard in an attempt to persuade Deckard to reveal the location of the replicants who helped hide his and Rachael's daughter. After Deckard declines, Wallace has the copy killed. K saves Deckard from Luv and drowns her, getting severely injured in the process. K takes Deckard to his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline, at her facility, and receives the toy horse from K's childhood memories.

In Their Own Story

K is a replicant detective who locates Rick Deckard in the ruins of Las Vegas. Deckard is informed that he is the father of the child Rachael gave birth to before dying in childbirth. A replicant enforcer named Luv kidnaps him and takes him to Niander Wallace, the CEO of the Wallace Corporation, who offers him an identical version of Rachael in trade of information on the child's whereabouts. Deckard refuses, noticing an error on the Rachael dupe. Wallace makes Luv kill the dupe and take Deckard off-world to be tortured in order to extract information. While she is transporting him, K saves Deckard and drowns her, K getting severely injured in the process. Deckard is taken by K to his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline, at her facility, and receives the toy horse from K's childhood memories.

Reader's Guide

K is a replicant detective who serves the Los Angeles Police Department. He locates Rick Deckard in the ruins of Las Vegas. He is informed that Deckard is the father of the child Rachael gave birth to before dying in childbirth. K saves Deckard from a replicant enforcer named Luv and drowns her, getting severely injured in the process. K takes Deckard to his daughter, Dr. Ana Stelline, at her facility, and receives the toy horse from K's childhood memories. K's defining moment is his choice to save Deckard and reunite him with his daughter, despite the personal cost.

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