Octane is such an adrenaline junkie. Granted, that's his entire schtick--we've known this about the Apex Legends character since his introduction in Season 1: Wild Frontier. The dude blew off his own legs in order to gain the necessary boost of speed to beat the Gauntlet record after all. But the speed demon's heirloom takes Octavio "Octane" Silva's obsession with chasing the high to new extremes and acts as a reminder that the adrenaline junkie's backstory is a sad one.
Coming to Apex Legends next week, during the System Override Collection event, Octane's heirloom is a butterfly knife. This isn't an ordinary blade though--the knife is filled with Stim, the drug that Octane uses to achieve his enhanced speed. And so Octane has customized the butterfly knife so that it can be used to both slash opponents and inject the drug into his own body.
While inspecting the heirloom, as seen in the video on the Apex Legends blog, Octane will dangerously twirl the butterfly knife around and then stab himself with its plunger to get the Stim into his system. He'll stab himself just because. He doesn't go on to use the drug to run faster either--Octane just celebrates the rush of the Stim coursing through his veins.
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