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Totally forgot that the pink hats were part of the tutorial mission that the Avatar picks for both of them. 
 

 
I’m thinking after World Tour Bosch wears the hat out of reverence for the avatar character. Kinda like how Ryu wears the headband Ken gave him. 

Site updated:
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/character/ed
 

 
I mentioned this on twitter. Do we actually know if Ed was a clone or was a kidnapped kid that got aged up? Over the years I've forgotten.
 
 

It seems Bosch has always had some sort of face scar that he covers up with his hair. You can kinda see it in the game too, before his brainwashing and sacrifice. 

Not only does the pink hat guy have Bosch's scar on his face, but also his shoes and same-colored pants.
 The pink hat just seems to be a recolor of his traditional red white and blue cap. I would go as far as to say that Bosch is indeed alive after the events of the World Tour.
 
 
 
 
 

Apologies if this has already been discussed before, I've been gone from here for a while so I don't want to really scour through 100+ pages to see if this was already mentioned lol.
 
It's definitely Bosch and they're definitely teasing his survival/return;
 
https://x.com/82kmnr_works/status/1759008481074364694?s=20
 

 
The person with the cap running with the other Buckler recruits has the same hair and scar across the eye that Nakayama recently posted for Bosch (which you posted in the reply I quoted). I'm not sure if Bosch had this scar before being blown up at the end of World Tour because you can kinda see something similar to it under his hair in the other artwork Nakayama posted;
 

 
Also to add a bit more fuel to the fire, Luke's birthday artwork has someone wearing the same hat as the NPC/Bosch. It's coincidentally just obscured enough to not see who it is for sure, but it's pretty obvious it's Bosch (thanks @Lord_Vegafor pointing this out on Twitter, I never noticed this until I saw you point it out);
 

 
At the risk of being completely wrong in the future, I'm calling it now; Bosch IS alive and will be playable in the future, maybe as soon as Season 2. There's way too many deliberate nods here to chalk it up as just asset reuse or some random NPC we're not meant to notice.

Photo of Akuma in wall-art form. No idea where this was taken.
 
Edit: Taken by Acqua, who's happens to be at a Capcom Cup LCQ event. 

Posted the instrumental on Youtube.
 
 
"Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy." Sweaty... Ok, Eminem! 🤣

Lyrics translated via Google Translation @Darc_Requiem:
 

I'm gonna need that translation of the lyrics. That said SF6>SFV theme.
 
Edit: There is making of Ed's theme video up. Dude performing it has an interesting background.
 
 

@EvilCanadianKing of the Youtube FGC Channels.
 

 
Seriously. He's concise and knows what the hell he's talking about. He'll drop a 15 minute video that more informative than 30 to 60 minute vids from his contemporaries. I can actually watch his content and still have time to play the game covered in the video.
 
TLDR: Keep up the good Evil Canadian. 👍🏾

Posting a clip from our Monkey Man, his slow motion work helps. Ed's fireball effects (the spiral, the blue) have more than a whiff of Rose's fireballs, imo (timestamped)
 
 

From left to right:
- Previous game
- ① Sliced-like scar
- ② Like the previous game, less grotesque
- ③ Claw scars (done by herself? Balrog?)
- ③ *
*same as the upper one, just with the eye closed.

I'm write a post in my blog now and has anyone else noticed that Ed has white eyes and an evil smile in his Critical Art 2? 
 

 
For me, this is an indication of Bison's influence. Apparently, when Ed's Psycho Power turns purely purple, his"dark side" is activated.

What i love most of that symbol is how many layers to read it have
 
Example the thunder is same that was on skull forehead

 
So having it as a Shadaloo symbol, the second thunder of NS emblem being carved, an hole like a crack on shadaloo's thunder it's like symbolize Shadaloo's destruction
 
Also the owl (wisdom/enlightment?) is cool because they literally used as base the old symbol (round owl's body more or less where the skull was) trying to turn it into something good
 
Another thing that got me intrigued it's how ambiguous is JP's golden pin, seem can be wink at NS owl, but unlike Ed's owl it's not clear and could be something else (i would say a bat)

 
 
SF can truly be cool with emblems, i remember also Kolin/Helen emblem mixing Gill with a version of Kiev's coat of arms in SFV
 
Another interesting is SF6 symbol of Masters Foundation wich imply kinda hard that the society (and even Ken possibly, as he wear it) is part of Freemasonry lol

 
wich due the compass wink hard at freemasonry real world symbol

Ed’s Japanese blog post (by Producer Kansuke Sakurai) for his arrival in 6 also notes that “In the past, he was captured by SIN” - so it seems pretty concrete? 

https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2024/02/09/20240209-sf6/
 

Site updated:
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/character/ed
 

 
I mentioned this on twitter. Do we actually know if Ed was a clone or was a kidnapped kid that got aged up? Over the years I've forgotten.
 
 

Yep! However, things coming from capcom usa are usually taken with a grain of salt... unless it's from a jpn producer/director. Even in SFV there are things that were wrong in the localization....
That was the initial thought back when SFZ3 came out. Decapre resembled like Cammy because of her hair (pigtails). Since it was said that she hails from Russia, it was a safe bet that she was kidnapped, enhanced like Juni and Juli and that a clone was made with Vega/Bison's DNA in the mix.
However... when Decapre was revealed in Ultra Street Fighter IV, producer Tomoaki Ayano gave the following statement: "We plan to talk more about her play style and abilities in the future, but for today we’d like to explore her story. For those not in the know, DECAPRE IS A CLONE OF CAMMY. At a quick glance she does look like a scary Cammy with a mask."
Two years later, Street Fighter V director Takayuki Nakayama, answered a question about the matter a few weeks after A Shadow Falls was released  (open X to see the trend):
capwpanda: I'm sorry, but I'd like to know which is the big sister, Cammy or Decapre?
takaNakayama: Don't know if "big sister" is the correct term, but Cammy is the oldest. It's defined (Decapre) as a clone of Cammy.
capwpanda: Is there a reason for them having different birthdates? I thought that Decapre was the oldest because of her appearance and close birthdates...
takaNakayama: I feel there' s a one year difference. Shadaloo is known for controlling the aging speed. Like with Abel.
 
Since Cammy DOES have a birthyear or age mentioned in some games (16 yo while she was at Shadaloo and 19yo during SF2, also her dog tag mentioned this info even during the Zero era), she might not have been submitted to aging speed... unlike Decapre.
 
About the clones being blond with blue eyes.... it's actually less DNA meddling. I'm no geneticist, but you need to activate several genes in order to get darker phenotypes.
That's the same reason the first clones (as far we know) were females (remember Dolly? Hum, Dolls, Dolly, Dolly Parton., big breasts, Juli....).
 
I don't think so. They age faster to age of combat (circa 15-18 years) and to be able to use some Psycho Power. That's the case with Ed, he was able to use it when he got rescued by Bison/Balrog while pretty young, his powers grew as he got older (he even tried to "Psycho Shot" Urien), and when the aging process got complete, he can snatch his opponents with Psycho Web. LOL
 
Could also be under Ring of Power stage....
 
 
It's not degeneration from her creation. Besides, have you guys ever noticed that Decapre's USF4 mask has a crack right where Cammy's left cheek scar is?
Probably Decapre got her face burnt from a mission or even training. However, I really would like to know what Psycho Contamination is....
 
About the scars, those are just production notes and instructions of how it should look (darker rougher, etc). The top right even mentions "something sharp. Balrog/Vega?"
 
Actually, the S.I.N. stage wasn't for making Seths. That was in a secret lab where Mike Bison was in charge to take care.
 
The actual stage is actually a exact description of what Smart/Smalt Raven before finding Vega, but i don't think it's the same location.

Well, the owl with a laurel wreath and N.S.  (Neo Shadaloo).
 

 
The owl and the laurel wreath are more positive symbols than Shadaloo.

Yooo, Ed's stage is awesome! Destroyed lab, broken Shadaloo logos and dead human incubators everywhere! He also looks like he starts going a bit evil in his first winpose! Cool stuff!

Site updated:
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/character/ed
 

 
I mentioned this on twitter. Do we actually know if Ed was a clone or was a kidnapped kid that got aged up? Over the years I've forgotten.
 
 

Site updated:
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/character/ed
 

 
I mentioned this on twitter. Do we actually know if Ed was a clone or was a kidnapped kid that got aged up? Over the years I've forgotten.
 
 

Yeah, I haven't watched the whole thing but Tekken 8 really did things awesomely as Darc said. No spoilers, but the fact that they had certain characters having story related affects on their movements was awesome. I remember back in the 90s when my sister and I played Soul Blade and in Edge Master mode there were certain matches with special conditions (player is poisoned, opponent can only be hurt in air, etc), I'd love to see more of that in story modes!

We will, hopefully, find out shortly but I don't think Neo Shadaloo is dead by any means. Ed seems to be on the run because he's the chief target of the Shadaloo remnants. Given a key aspect of his story is him traveling the world to rescue other Shadaloo experiments, he'd want to avoid drawing attention to them. If he's on his own, they'll chase him and leave everyone else alone. If I had to guess, he probably left Falke in charge while figures out the best way to handle the remnants of Shadaloo.