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Echo Requests (retired)

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Please fill out this form when requesting an Echo, then post it to this entry. The request will be dealt with as soon as possible.

When requesting an Echo induced by a past-life parallel/recurrence, please demonstrate clearly the similarity between the events, as well as the relation between the events and what is returned.

As of September 2013, Tier 2 Echoes can be granted once a month per character. Take care to specify the limitations and/or level of detail to the Echo requested! If you are unsure, suggestions will be gladly offered.

Reason for Echo: What caused the Echo, whether it be by a plot-related trigger or a canon recurrence. For the latter, this must be unusual enough to have been the first time the character has encountered it within Locke City, and strongly resemble a specific event from canon. Picking up a jug of milk from the store will not cause an Echo if it isn't any different than the times the character has done it before.
Type and tier: Physical change, power/ability, mental/memory, or item/creature. Tier 1 are the regular Echoes, and are typically a single memory/ability/item/etc. Tier 2 are essentially two regular Echoes rolled into one, such as an item and a memory or ability associated with it, or two directly-related memories, or so on. Currently only one Tier 2 Echo is allowed per month, so please be sure to note them somehow on your info posts.
What is returned: In the case of canon recurrences, these must be directly related to what has caused the Echo. Stronger recurrences = stronger Echoes.

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Player: Mon
Character: Makani Kapule
Reason for Echo: Seeing the Lights
Type and tier: Memory/Ability?, Tier 1
What is returned: In Homestuck, there's a sort of item combination-upgrade system known as Punchcard Alchemy. It involves physical punchcards of their weird inventory system and overlapping them in AND-coding ways (only applying the holes that both cards have) and OR-coding ways (punching out every hole both cards have) to create sweet new items.

Point is, John figured out a lot about the system and wrote about it in a walkthrough. Upon seeing the lights, Mac would echo back the knowledge of the part of the guide he wrote and with it, how Homestuck alchemy works, with the added caveat that he has literally none of the equipment to perform it. (And even if he did, he needs Grist, which is a whole other can of worms...)

Reason for Echo: Following the disturbance to Tuning Tower.
Type and tier: Tier 2, Ability + Item
What is returned: John's affinity with and mild control over wind. John's Aspect, which is to say his powerset, is Breath, aka wind powers. And is shown at minor levels to have gusts strong enough to put out small fires. The caveat? At this level, the wind power is a completely subconscious reaction. Even if it were to work in a way that made its presence obvious to Mac, he has no control over when, where, and how it works.

He will also reclaim his Heir of Breath God-Tier outfit, which is just a rather comfortable set of pajama-style clothing with a unique hood (in John's case, a large windsock) and the symbol for the Aspect of Breath emblazoned on the front. Naturally, this entire outfit is made to be worn by children ages 13-16, so it's way too small for Mac. MORE USELESS TRINKETS!

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Ketsu
Character: DJ/Dirk

Reason for Echo: Seeing the lights
Type and tier: Memory/Item, tier 2
What is returned: Lil Cal, his ventriloquist puppet buddy, as well as the feeling of intense adoration for it.

Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing to Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: Part of this conversation, from "Jane, one more thing" to "The one where you, hopefully not literally, offered to catch me in the crevice of a great big squishy butt! Hoo hoo hoo!"

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Awe
Character: Miranda Atmiller/Mir
Reason for Echo: Sky lights
Type and tier: Memory/Knowledge, tier 2
What is returned: The hymn EXEC_VANISLAND/.* and what she did with it - that being destroy over half of a (floating)** continent.

*The sound, yes. Neither the intellectual meaning or the conveyed emotion will be returned. The emotional aspect is arguably the most important part.

**This is kind of a big deal given the surface of Ar Ciel had been covered in unanalyzable poison gas.

Edited 2013-09-20 00:07 (UTC)

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Kya
Character: Soren Castor
Reason for Echo: the lights on 9/21
Type and tier: physical, tier 1
What is returned: sollux's red and blue eyes

ADDING ANOTHER ONE HERE i hope that's ok

Player: kya
Character: soren
Reason for Echo: karson using his quirk
Type and tier: memory / tier 1
What is returned: memories of someone he called KK and talked to a lot who typed just like that

Edited 2013-09-20 07:29 (UTC)

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Lucy!
Character: Aria/Aradia Megido
Reason for Echo: The lights!
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1.
What is returned: This super questionable conversation with Rose. 0_0

Reason for Echo: Investigating the buzzing!
Type and tier: Item/ability, Tier 2 I GUESS??? Correct me if I'm wrong?
What is returned: • Changing into her Maid of Time gear. It's basically a magical girl transformation (at will) into that outfit. Technically it includes the wings in canon but I figure that can come at some other point if that's not okay? I think it counts as tier 2 because the outfit is an item and the ability to change into it is...attached...I'm not sure okay.

Reason for Echo: Karson's need for there to be an established leader at all times, apparently.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1.
What is returned: This conversation about leaders.

Edited 2013-09-20 05:29 (UTC)

All three Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Jisu
Character: Kari Acosta
Reason for Echo: Pink lights
Type and tier: Tier 1 - mental
What is returned: Memory that while she was on the run from someone (as remembered in an earlier Echo), she spent a year travelling the world and searching both for anyone who had escaped and for news on someone important to her who was missing.

Player: Jisu
Character: Kari Acosta
Reason for Echo: Creeping on the Tuning Towers because that's what she does
Type and tier: Tier 2 - ability + ability
What is returned:

A) The transformation ability that she remembered having in an earlier echo is now a thing she can actually do. Yes, Kari is now a magical girl. She can only access her first form, which is less resilient than her second (and, when she starts remembering songs, she'll only be able to sing the lower-level ones to their full ability). Even her pearl "transforms", embedding itself into a microphone (E-pitch).

B) The ability to sing to cast magic. This is usually attacking someone by making their ears hurt or trying to reach their heart all mahou-shoujo-healing-wise, and right now, that is all she can use it for; as of yet, she will not be able to heal/shield herself/shield others/crack walls/light candles/whatever the writing staff wants. She doesn't know any of the songs she received from Aqua Regina, so while she'd be able to sing anything she does know, it would be at the weakest level of effectiveness (songs from the goddess are stronger than, say, singing the alphabet or something). She also will not know that she's supposed to sing to fight, so that'll be fun.

Player: Jisu
Character: Tessa Hart
Reason for Echo: Pink lights
Type and tier: Tier 2 - item + ability
What is returned:

A) A bunch of bottles of holy water. They're round, glass, small enough to be held in one hand, and topped with a metal cross.

B) When she throws one and the glass breaks, the water will burst into blue holy flame for a few seconds before going out. This will damage demons and "evil"-aligned creatures -- fun times!

Player: Jisu
Character: Tessa Hart
Reason for Echo: Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Tier 1 - mental
What is returned: Memory that the aliens she was summoned to fight were called "Bacterians" and took a variety of forms, from people to spaceships made of cells to giant organs.

Edited 2013-09-20 01:38 (UTC)

All Echoes approved - please update character info posts accordingly!

Player: Bri
Character: Nick Burkhardt
Reason for Echo: Seeing the lights
Type and tier: Physical change/ability | Tier 1
What is returned: His Grimm blood, at a lower power level. This would mean than anyone not-human who ingested his blood, or otherwise got it into their system, would temporarily lose all or some of what makes them not human. Essentially, the duration of the re-humanification and what abilities or physical characteristics would be lost will be up to the player whose character it effects, although ICly the character would have no knowledge or control over this.

Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing to the Tuning Tower
Type and tier: Item | Tier 1
What is returned: One of his Grimm books! Specifically the catch-all, brief summary book that he uses most often in season one

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Whit
Character: Wheatley
Reason for Echo: Lights on 9/21
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: The distinct recollection of floating aimlessly in space.

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: The Guindo
Character: Ravindra Savarna
Reason for Echo: The lights on 9/21
Type and tier: Skill | Tier 2
What is returned:
PT 1: the knowledge of how to use his magic to repair flesh wounds (using this definition of what constitutes a flesh wound). Limited to minor/moderate wounds (if it just needs a few stitches he can handle it, anything more serious than that and he can't quite manage at his current magical capacity).

PT 2: ditto for blood-loss. Also limited by his magical capacity, so I'd say max atm of about 2 pints (roughly 20% of average adult blood volume, enough to make a difference between life and death but not enough to save a serious hypovolemia case by itself).

NOT REGAINED: being good enough at this to do it w/o scarring. that'll come back with practice or a future echo.

Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing to Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: oh hey phantom earthquake, sounds like a GREAT time to remember that whole experience of his entire city falling into a ravine with him in it.

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: The Guindo
Character: Raiel / Russel Goldman
Reason for Echo: Seeing the lights on 9/21
Type and tier: Mental | Tier 1
What is returned: An inexplicable emotional connection to Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, and the Infernal Dance in particular. Basically he'll feel like the composition is very important to him personally but won't be able to place why.

(it is because that's how he summoned his bff Firebird-kun but shh that's for later)

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

whoops doing this in advance since the record itself was approved...

Player: Zero
Character: Raul Light/Protoman
Reason for Echo: Listening to the Hope Rides Alone record, which is a massive canon recurrence, as it discusses the night he was completed and sent out to his death in great detail--events integral to his arc and to the canon itself.
Type and tier: Memory/physical, tier 2
What is returned: The memory of the places and events the song is about, including his own death.

I'd also like to give him his mechanical skeleton through the rest of his body. At this stage, it will effectively work as a strengthened version of his human one, bonded to his muscles, teeth, etc.

Edited 2013-09-20 16:01 (UTC)

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Edited 2013-09-20 20:03 (UTC)

Player: Aave
Character: Alan
Reason for Echo: Lights in the sky!
Type and tier: Tier 1 memory
What is returned: His first titan transformation and wandering around singlemindedly slaughtering other titans. As Eren was not entirely conscious at the time, Alan will remember the Echo in a dream and only gradually recall what it's about.

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Aave
Character: Alan
Reason for Echo: Fun day trip to Tuning Tower
Type and tier: Tier 1 item
What is returned: His Survey Corps cape...though it will be unrecognisable as such due to being torn up and turned into a papoose. Tragic.

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Alex
Character: Kaworu Nagisa
Reason for Echo: Seeing Shinji's plugsuit
Type and tier: item, tier 1
What is returned: His Unit 13 plugsuit.

Reason for Echo: Investigating the towers
Type and tier: memory/ability, tier 2
What is returned: The memory of beginning his descent into Terminal Dogma and taking control of Unit 02, and the ability to levitate.

Edited 2013-09-21 14:52 (UTC)

First Echo approved! But solely to clarify on the second, would the memory Kaworu sees as part of it involve his past self levitating?

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Player: Alec
Character: Shou Chinen/Sho
Reason for Echo: This conversation with Adrian when Adrian confesses he's afraid of what he might become. This is a canon re-occurrence, specifically the time when Sho and Kei argue over the possibility of Kei killing Sho because Kei is a monster and Sho's denial of that ever happening because he doesn't see Kei as being anything but a person with a special need.
Type and tier: Tier 1 -ITEM-
What is returned:
This gun which Shou has no idea how to really use and is in fact rather too much of a gun for him to use since he is still using a bitty practice gun under strict supervision so he isn't even going to touch the thing expect to slip a newspaper under it and push it over into a drawer or something and pile a lot of crap on top of it.

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Nick
Character: Vanessa
Reason for Echo: Seeing the pink lights.
Type and tier: Memory/Memory - Tier 2
What is returned: Knowledge of brass and zinc as Allomantic metals. Reduced power so it will take more effort to influence a person's emotions and it will be easier for the target to resist and shake off the effects at first. In addition she will not be getting the memory of what these metals actually do so she'll have to experiment with them to figure that out, since their effects are not readily apparent like steel and pewter.

Player: Nick
Character: Vanessa
Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing sound to the Towers.
Type and tier: Item - Tier 1
What is returned: Her bronze earring minus its supernatural attributes of boosting her power in bronze and mentally linking her to Ruin. It will also appear out of nowhere piercing her ear, so that's going to suck.

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Nerdo
Character: Asuka Langley Soryu
Reason for Echo: All the lights in the sky are Echoes
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: A memory of a brief discussion of philosophy between her, Shinji Ikari, and Rei Ayanami while stargazing. Nothing of import is mentioned other than the term "Angels" and the fact that they're some kind of enemy.

Reason for Echo: Investigating the Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Memory+Ability, Tier 2
What is returned: Asuka will remember the very brief fight against Matarael, including an awkward feeling of being much larger than she is, the images of Evangelion Units 00 and 01, the feeling of getting splashed with acid and a nice solid look at the spider-like Angel, living and dying. Along with it, she'll remember the basics of how to make an Evangelion form an AT Field. Please note this is ability is completely useless without an Evangelion.

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Julien/Yuuya
Reason for Echo: Recurrence in this log. Julien says/thinks something to the effect of "When my friends leave me I replace them, but I couldn't do that with you".
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: This memory, "No one can ever be replaced". ...yes, it's adding on to a scene he just got part of a few days ago.

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Pam
Character: Regina Akamine/Kallen Kouzuki
Reason for Echo: Pink lights in the sky!
Type and tier: Tier 2 - Item/memory
What is returned: Start-up key for the Guren, which is the same one she saw in one of her previous echoes. Additionally, she can now remember the very first time she made her debut in her Guren, using the same key to turn it on inside the cockpit at Narita. She can also remember how she used the Guren's claw to cause a massive landslide. The only other contexts are that it's battle-related and she's been ordered to do so by the fishbowl guy from her old echoes.

Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing noises all the way to Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Tier 1 - physical ability
What is returned: She's gained back the ability to cut flying bugs in half with her hand. I'm not kidding. (Scene ends at 7:44)

Edited 2013-09-21 20:24 (UTC)

Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Krystal
Character: Mamoru Nakamura
Reason for Echo: HE GETS TO SEE THE PINK LIGHTS THIS TIME
Type and Tier: Physical/ability, tier 1
What is returned: The first bit of Ichigo's lifetime of kendo training and swordfighting. He doesn't have conscious knowledge of techniques, but can instinctively use a sword at an above-average level.

Reason for Echo: Going to Turing Towers!
Type and Tier: Physical + memory, tier 2
What is returned: The ability to use Sonido to move super fast plus knowing that both it and his ability to walk in the air are because of invisible particles of energy.

Character: Aaron Strider
Reason for Echo: WOULD YOU LOOK AT THOSE PINK LIGHTS, DAMN, WHAT HAVE I EVEN BEEN SMOKING
Type and Tier: Physical/Ability, tier 1
What is returned: The next level of his swordfighting skills. It's going to take one more Echo to get him to where he was in canon -- the best alive -- but he's championship-level good.

Reason for Echo: Going to Turing Towers
Type and Tier: Ability, tier 2
What is returned: This is a tier 2 Echo because it's the most hax power Aragorn has and he's getting it back all at once. If he puts his ear to the ground, Aaron will be able to hear what's going on around him for several miles as it relates to impact with the earth. Footsteps, cars, construction, subways -- he can hear the vibrations they make and get a sense of how far away they are. It's going to take practice to master, since the city has a LOT more traffic than Middle-Earth, and the further away the activity is the less accurately he'll be able to figure out what's going on. Also, he can do it on a floor indoors/against a wall if the building in question has solid foundations, but it'll be fuzzy/indistinct and much harder to understand than it would be if he were directly on the ground.

All Echoes approved - ye know just what to do!

Edited (Awhoops.) 2013-09-22 02:56 (UTC)

Player: Fran
Character: Bakura
Reason for Echo: Tuning Towers
Type and tier: Item, 1
What is returned: His Duel Disc with his deck inside. The disc projects solid vision holograms of the cards placed on it. In a duel, this holograms would actually be solid enough to make people feel pain when they got punched by one, but since you need a second disc and deck to duel, the disc would be in display mode where cards could be summoned, but not actually do anything but stand around.

Sorry for the inconvenience - both the disc and the deck together however'd likely be best granted through a Tier 2 Echo. Use his for the month, or ought one or the other do fine?

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Player: Bookie

Character: Neku Sakuraba
Reason for Echo: Seeing the lights
Type and tier: Tier 1; ability
What is returned: The 'Blue Blood Burns Blue' pin and its associated powers. He's going to have to figure out how to use it, though.

Reason for Echo: Checking out the buzzing
Type and tier: Tier 1; memory
What is returned: Memory of the build up to and his pact with Beat. He won't recall the circumstances, just that he was worried about not having a partner, some Reapers (whose faces he can't identify) giving him crap over, Beat showing up and saying something stupid, and then pacting. I can probably hunt down the conversation if you guys need it.

Reason for Echo: Canon reoccurance in response to people being creepily placid
Type and tier: Tier 2; memory & item
What is returned: No context, just a memory of people with glowing red eyes reciting, "To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, so this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world that would be..." Mostly he remembers that this is creepy as shit. He'll also get the red O-pin, and while he won't know the O-pin caused all that, he'll be pretty freaked out by it for unknown reasons.

Character: Pharos/Phillip Santorini
Reason for Echo: Shiny lights!
Type and tier: Tier 1; physical
What is returned: This is a little tricky to explain, but basically the 'feeling' of being a Shadow (probably best described as an aura here). He won't physically change ~~because wow are they vague about Shadows sometimes~~, but to Shadows and people who can sense non-human things he will ping very high on the radar.

If that doesn't work, I can try and explain more or the same thing could probably be accomplished by just saying 'ok he's a Shadow now just with human emotions' and bumping this up to Tier 2.

All three Neku Echoes approved - please update his info post accordingly!

On Phillip's, however, is there a certain aura/emanation/other such phenomenon associated with them in canon? If so that'll be solid - if not we'll stamp it as the proposed Tier 2 with a bit more detail on what becoming a Shadow might imply for him.

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Player: Eric
Character: Marisa Kirisame
Reason for Echo: Lights in the sky on the 21st!
Type and tier: item, 2
What is returned: Preincarnation Marisa's notes on magic! These will not be particularly useful yet, as she has lousy handwriting, they're in Japanese, they're horribly disorganized, and they're designed as a reference for someone who already knows how to use magic instead of a primer for someone who needs to learn the basics. It would take months of careful translating and trial and error to get anything useful out of them, so for now they'll just sit in a messy pile on her bed and surprise her when she gets home.

Also: more of her innate magical potential. She is now positively brimming with magical energy, but still has no idea how to use it beyond the very simplest of commands to her broom.

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

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Player: Nerdman

Character: Isaac Dian
Reason for Echo: Them Pink lights
Type and Tier: Memory, Item. Tier 2.
What is returned: He remembers (ineffectually) threatening a hat store owner to not tell anyone he and Miria had stopped by. The top hat from the incident is also returned.

Reason for echo: Tower
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1.
What is returned: He receives the memory of traveling to Alcatraz for his imprisonment. He distinctly remembered being handcuffed, sailing in a prison boat, surrounded by guards, and being really excited to see the island from the boat.

Character: Miria Dian
Reason for Echo: LIGHTS
Type and tier: Memory/item. Tier 2.
What is returned: She remembers a cave, where she read a letter from a girl named "Ennis" to Isaac. The letter itself appeared soon after.

Reason for Echo: Tower
Type and tier: Memory. Tier 1.
What is returned: Nothing except the story of "The Rail Tracer."

All Echoes approved - please update your info accordingly!

Player: Mini
Character: Alexander Varista
Reason for Echo: Following the buzzing to Turning Towers.
Type and tier: Physical, tier 2.
What is returned: His conditional immortality. Decapitation*, drowning, complete incineration, and stabbing him in the heart with a hawthorn stake are the four ways to permanently kill him.

*In his app, this is typoed as "decapacitation." I just noticed, oops.

Decapitatioooooon...

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

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