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|type of villain = Manipulative Conspirator}} {{Quote|Miss Burnwood, we won a long time ago. This? This is just maintenance.|The Constant to [[Diana Burnwood]].}} {{Quote|It will always gonna end like this. All your hard work... all your sacrifice... only sped up its process. And now, you find yourself alone. Only death awaits.|The Constant taunting [[Agent 47]] in the trailer of ''HITMAN III''.}} |
|type of villain = Manipulative Conspirator}} {{Quote|Miss Burnwood, we won a long time ago. This? This is just maintenance.|The Constant to [[Diana Burnwood]].}} {{Quote|It will always gonna end like this. All your hard work... all your sacrifice... only sped up its process. And now, you find yourself alone. Only death awaits.|The Constant taunting [[Agent 47]] in the trailer of ''HITMAN III''.}} |
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+ | '''Arthur Edwards''', also professionally known as '''The Constant''', is the former controller and second-in-command of [[Providence]] and the successor to [[Janus (HITMAN)|Janus]] in his Constant position. After embezzling all the silent shares of his former superiors, the [[Partners]], he became the sole owner of the Providence empire. |
He served as the the primary antagonist of the ''World of Assassination'' trilogy of the ''Hitman'' franchise, being the overarching antagonist of ''HITMAN'' (2016), the primary antagonist of both ''HITMAN 2'' (2018) and ''HITMAN III'' (2021), and the the trilogy's final antagonist. He is the arch-enemy of both [[Lucas Grey]] and [[Diana Burnwood]]. |
He served as the the primary antagonist of the ''World of Assassination'' trilogy of the ''Hitman'' franchise, being the overarching antagonist of ''HITMAN'' (2016), the primary antagonist of both ''HITMAN 2'' (2018) and ''HITMAN III'' (2021), and the the trilogy's final antagonist. He is the arch-enemy of both [[Lucas Grey]] and [[Diana Burnwood]]. |
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| “ | Miss Burnwood, we won a long time ago. This? This is just maintenance. | „ |
| ~ The Constant to Diana Burnwood. |
| “ | It will always gonna end like this. All your hard work... all your sacrifice... only sped up its process. And now, you find yourself alone. Only death awaits. | „ |
| ~ The Constant taunting Agent 47 in the trailer of HITMAN III. |
Arthur Edwards, also professionally known as The Constant, is the former controller and second-in-command of Providence and the successor to Janus in his Constant position. After embezzling all the silent shares of his former superiors, the Partners, he became the sole owner of the Providence empire.
He served as the the primary antagonist of the World of Assassination trilogy of the Hitman franchise, being the overarching antagonist of HITMAN (2016), the primary antagonist of both HITMAN 2 (2018) and HITMAN III (2021), and the the trilogy's final antagonist. He is the arch-enemy of both Lucas Grey and Diana Burnwood.
He is voiced by Philip Rosch.
Biography
Backstory
Little is known about the Constant's past. In 1976, he submitted a scholarship application to the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sometime afterwards, he succeeded his mentor Janus as the second Cosntant for the Providence.
HITMAN (2016)
After Lucas Grey, also known as the mysterious Shadow Client, assassinated Providence member Eugene Cobb, he manipulated the ICA into foiling some Providence's plans, including the development of a virus weapon by Silvio Caruso, and a coup of General Reza Zaydan to take over Morocco.
Alerted by the Shadow Client's actions, the Constant and Cobb's successor, Director Fanin, visited a Providence vault in New York. Upon discussing the recent events and opening the vault, they discovered that the Shadow Client had raided it and obtained information on all their operatives.
The Providence immediately contacted the former ICA training director Erich Soders to gain control over the ICA's activities and deploy them in the war against the Shadow Client. However, after the hit against Sean Rose and his colloeagues, the ICA discovered Soders' treachery and retaliated by sending Agent 47 to assassinate him and Providence Herald, Yuki Yamazaki, thwarting a transaction in which Providence was to receive a list of active ICA operatives.
After Soders was assassinated, the Constant personally confronted 47's Handler, Diana Burnwood, on a train. He promised to her that there would be no action taken against the ICA for the recent transgressions and proposed a partnership between Providence and the ICA to eliminate the Shadow Client. Diana innitially rebuked it, but the Constant had persuaded her to follow his advice.
HITMAN 2 (2018)
Following the assassination of Robert Knox and his daughter, Sierra Knox, the Constant was summoned by the Partners, who confidently assured that he was in control of the situation. After the revelation of Lucas' true identity, 47 restored his memory and (along with Diana) learned about the Providence's role in Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer's projects. Thus, they joined Lucas and Olivia Hall to wage war against the Providence.
Upon assassinating Janus and Nolan Cassidy, ICA made false claims that Janus was the Shadow Client, the Constant was escorted by the Ark Society to their base and installed a poisonous chip inside his body, which will kill them once the kill-switch was activated by Zoe and Sophia Washington, two Providence agents and the newly appointed chairwomen of the Ark Society following Janus' demise.
After 47 assassinated the Washington Sisters, Lucas managed to capture the Constant with 47's assistance. After realizing he was staged, the Constant decided to betray the Partners. He spilled about the Partners' details, and Diana discovered that they had faked their deaths and plan on resuming their lives under new identities. The Constant, seemingly unaware of this contingency plan, told 47 and Lucas to follow their bank accounts, which leads the two to Milton-Fitzpatrick Bank in New York.
To achieve this, 47 had managed to retrieve the data to Olivia, either through infiltrate the vault and retrieve a data core or retrieve three backup data disks carried by the bank's director, Athena Savalas, and her two subordinates: Head of accounts, Fabian Mann, and head of security, Mateo Perez. In addition, Savalas was a Providence agent, and hence 47 had her eliminated in order to cut off the ties between the bank and the Providence.
Whilst 47 and Grey went to New York, the Constant was bitter at Diana's betrayal and suggested that 47 was the man who killed her parents under the contract of Blue Seed Pharmaceuticals, which was also affiliated with Providence. With the data acquired from the Milton-Fitzpatrick bank, Olivia discovered that the Partners paid transactions to HAVEN; a corporation based in the Maldives which presented itself as a reputation management service, but secretly created new identities for wealthy criminals. In order for Olivia to successfully breach HAVEN servers, 47 managed to inflitrate the HAVEN Island's HQ as a potential client and eliminated the resort's trio of owners, Tyson Williams, Steven Bradley and Ljudmila Vetrova.
Nevertheless, once Olivia had access to HAVEN's files on the Partners, she discovered that the Partners' controlling business shares have not been allocated to their new identities, but rather to the Constant himself, much to her confusion when she saw the name Arthur Edwards on it. Horrified by this information, Diana rushed to the Constant's jail room, only to find that he had already escaped after successfully embezzling from the Partners.
HITMAN III (2021)
Coming Soon in January 20th, 2021!
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Trivia
- Fan theorized that the Constant is the Mystery Man/Mister X from Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, who claimed to have seen 47 while in Rotterdam, presumably during his hit on Arkadij Jegorov, as well as manipulating Sergei Zavorotko on behalf of another organization. If that is officially confirmed, then the Constant can be considered as the secondary as well as overarching antagonist in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and the central antagonist in the series.
