Canon divs again because I listened to the End Title again and had to STOP for one second:
We were the Sextet. The Sextet was us. That’s why I call this canon collectively the Atlas. The comet birthmark existed too but that was to show that we were reincarnations. The Sextet actively carried our memories and emotions between lives because it was born out of our anger, frustration and desire as Frobisher. However many memories tended to depend on how hard the current incarnation had thought about the past - Luisa and Cavendish were two halves of the soul split due to the… traumatic circumstances of Frobisher’s death so that’s why they existed at the same time and also why Rey believed in reincarnation but Cavendish didn’t. And as much as Ewing was part of that reincarnation cycle, the collective ties to him were fuzzier than the rest.
We don’t fit into the canon of either book or film that way. The book says Ewing didn’t have the birthmark and Cavendish most likely didn’t, the movie suggests the reincarnations were all characters with the same actor which is a bit pointless if you ask me since that implies Jocasta and Luisa is the same (which must be… extremely uncomfortable for Sixsmith if you know the plot). I think our canon was a mix of both that way since the comet birthmark is definitely still a thing in the film. But as I write as Frobisher in the book, “Cloud Atlas Sextet holds my life, is my life.”
— The Atlas (Cloud Atlas kin) #📺🎙💥
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