Cayde-6

About

Cayde used to be a human soldier with a large debt over his head when he was approached by Clovis Bray to have his debt removed. The job offer itself isn't explicitly stated, but what Cayde remembers next is coming to Europa where he was converted into an Exo.[1] Cayde's Letter Fragments in Destiny 2 reveal that Cayde had a wife and a son whom he nicknamed "Ace",[2] he threw his life away from gambling, and that his only means of escape was to sell himself to Clovis Bray's Exo program.[3] Unable to contact his family, he kept a journal which he addressed to Ace.[citation needed]. Upon becoming an Exo, Cayde spent some amount of time in the Eventide colony on Europa, at one point coming across Micah Abram as the boy tried to sneak into Bray Exoscience; Cayde had flashbacks of the encounter even after his five subsequent resets.[4] He continued to write in his journal as a means of preserving his memories. As with many Exos, he resented the need for resets and in his diary logs promised Ace never to let Clovis Bray track him down when he finally finds his family.[5] At some point he was assigned as a security officer to the Ishtar Collective,[6] where his job was to look after Dr. Maya Sundaresh. Though he wished to get to know her better, she barely noticed him.[1] Cayde witnessed the Collapse, remembering being restrained by a shadowy creature in a destroyed world.[1] It is unclear whether that was the moment of his death or not. Cayde was found with a journal containing Ace's name on his person after being revived by his Ghost, Sundance. He reportedly freaked out right after the resurrection, smacking the Ghost and ran off a cliff.[7] Despite not remembering a thing about Ace other than what the journal had told him, Cayde continued to address subsequent entries to the boy.[8] The memory of him and his mother, whom Cayde dubbed "his Queen", was what helped Cayde through the toughest times and "made him a better man". Later, in a series of audio logs addressed either to Ace or the possible future "Cayde-7", he would admit he was not sure if the memories were even real or his own delusion he had constructed to "make himself whole".[9] He apparently tried to get into Mara Sov's good graces and learn some answers from her, though to what questions remains unclear; the Queen ordered him to search for the Vault of Glass, most likely before the Guardians even learned what it was.[10]

Personality

Cayde-6 was a beloved, wisecracking Exo Guardian and the former Hunter Vanguard in the Destiny universe. Known for his reckless bravery and humor, his lore reveals deep tragedy—a human turned into a machine to erase his debts, carrying fragmented memories of a lost family

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