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Echo Requests (retired)

New Echo Request page here!

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: Eric
Character: Sam Middleton
Reason for Echo: Being in a collapsing building is a canon recurrence
Type and tier: Type 1 ability
What is returned: The ability to use any built up power he has to heal his wounds.

To clarify, what's the connection between the instance of his past self's being in a collapsing building and the ability - for example, had he gotten injuries in it from which he used it to heal?

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I've got a few here, kind of let them pile up, sorry. All for Ravi.

Player: The Guindo
Character: Ravindra Savarna
Reason for Echo: During the TT mission, having Toushirou on his team and being forced to interact with him
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: One of his preincarnation's good friends was an elf who looked 12 but was actually more like a hundred, and he had major issues with people not taking him seriously due to his apparent age. SOUND LIKE ANYONE YOU KNOW?

So yeah dealing with Toushirou will cause him to remember Rafsjalel "Joel" Ahmnratasa, the elven priest with the same issues about ageism.

Reason for Echo: December 1st, while returning to the city after a holiday out of town, Alex's vampire hunger kicks in when they cross the echo border and Ravi volunteers his own blood for the cause.
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: Memories of himself bottling his own blood for Alex to use later. This is like super gross you guys I'm sorry.

Reason for Echo: Sneakily healing folks in the hospital after the earthquake. Obviously he has never used his healing magic in a structured environment or large-scale emergency yet, but his preincarnation did it rather often.
Type and tier: Ability | Tier 1
What is returned: Knowledge of how to heal deep-tissue damage. (He's got flesh wounds and blood loss rn.) That includes organ damage but every organ requires a slightly different technique so there will be a bit of a learning curve involved.

All Echoes approved - please add relevant data to your info post!

Player: Cat
Character: Zelos Wilder
Reason for Echo: Earthquake
Type and tier: Tier 1/Memory
What is returned: Memory of talking to Emil in earthquake ridden Meltokio about Emil's dual personalities and future choices

Character: Zelos Wilder
Reason for Echo: Seeing Xander's shadow powers
Type and tier: Tier 1/Mental
What is returned: Guardian ability

Character: Zelos Wilder
Reason for Echo: Sword fight with Karl
Type and tier: Tier 1/Mental
What is returned: Sword skills

Character: Zelos Wilder
Reason for Echo: Fight with Kanti
Type and tier: Tier 1/Mental
What is returned: Level 3 Exsphere

How very busy Zelos's paranormal life grows - that said, the first three Echoes are approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

To clarify on the fourth, however, what'd be the "reminder" in the figt with Kanti for the Echo requested?

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Player: DC
Character: Chell/Michelle
Reason for Echo: Being indoors during the earthquake.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: The memory of being in an old, abandoned hotel room (actually a fancy stasis chamber, but she doesn't know that) as it started to shake and crumble like it was being ungently picked up and moved. Which it actually was, but she doesn't know that either.

Echo approved! Please ~~say "apple" and~~ add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Trouble
Character: Reimu Hakurei
Reason for Echo: Playing Laser Tag at the Mall on Marisa's birthday party (Dec. 1)
Type and tier: Ability, Tier 1
What is returned: Dodging lasers (and magical bullets) is something Reimu did frequently in canon, so Reimu gets her fast reflexes/crazy dodging skills back.

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

Player: Kasarin
Character: Axel / Axel Engres
Reason for Echo: talking horse :|
Type and tier: mental/memory, tier 1
What is returned: Kingdom Hearts has talking animals. Donald Duck and Goofy (whatever he really is) are main characters. No one ever seems to think it's weird that HEY THESE ARE TALKING ANIMALS!!!! So, that'll be what's returned: the indifference to talking animals.

I suppose there could be no better icon for that request!

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

Player: Mini
Character: Alexander Varista
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence: the populace of Locke all up in a tizzy after an unusual occurrence that caused many deaths and injuries paralleling the populace of Tyrol all up in a tizzy after a "god" suddenly attacked the Golden Hour and killed and injured a whole lot of people.
Type and tier: Mental, tier 1.
What is returned: The memory of returning to Tyrol in the aftermath of Cita's attack and turning Rayna into a vampire because she was dying.

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

Player: Sire
Character: Kavi || Signless
Reason for Echo: seeing that font color and quirk combination + hearing dead peeps
Type and tier: Tier 1 mental/memory
What is returned: A memory of Psii having a break down similar ( but not as extreme of course ) like in the post and Signless talking to him about it. No faces or anything like that, but similar silhouettes like you see in the comic ( the only things that stand out are the colors and horns ).

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

Player: Anduin
Character: Kallie
Reason for Echo: The earthquake - something she's never experienced before. :F
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1.
What is returned: Being in the Bodhum Vestige as it's attacked from the outside, seen here. Just the general area, people there, and... herself trying to protect a crystal statue(??) from the falling rubble?

Echo approved - please update your info accordingly!

Player: Colin
Character: Brooke Reynolds
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence spurred by the earthquake
Type and tier: Ability, tier 1
What is returned: The occasional, uncontrollable power flare-up that so often resulted in accidental earthquakes and other disasters in her past life. The flare-ups won't be nearly as strong, for the safety of the city, but her powers will still kick in sometimes without her wanting them to.

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

Player: Mawi
Character: Stella / Romsca
Reason for Echo: This is actually her very first time seeing fish. ye
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: A lot of fish based information, fish being the primary source of her food on the sea. Also, the sneaking suspicion that fish was a part of her very last meal.

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

Player: Batty
Character: Kotetsu Kaburagi
Reason for Echo: He's my partner. I'm putting this in as a canon parallel echo bc even though he already knew Yuji and Nick were partners, he wasn't really particularly close with either of them pre-network, and this is the first he's getting a taste of the emotional significance of the term "partner" over and above mere friendship. Essentially, the way Yuji emphasizes that Nick is his partner in this thread is what triggers the echo, rather than the actual fact of their partnership.

Type and tier: Mental, tier 1
What is returned: The feeling that there is something deeply, personally significant about calling someone "partner" that differentiates them from a "friend", and also a strange sense of lack--as if he once had someone he called partner, but doesn't anymore.

I hope it's okay to do the second part in a tier 1 echo, because awhile back he'd echoed back the feeling that someone was "missing" from his life, which i'd like to tie to this (or at least, have this echo remind him of that one if that works better!)

Edited 2013-12-05 21:32 (UTC)

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

Getting these in ahead of time just in case there are any problems!

Player: Louise
Character: Octavia
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence! As soon as word breaks about the Blood Keys, she's going to sneak out at night and go looking for members of the gang with Alan. They'll be catching them alone or in pairs, mind controlling them into dropping their weapons, then forcing them to run away (with the understanding that unless they actually see the blood keys killing someone, they're to be left alive).
This directly parallels Vriska's FLARPing exploits in canon: she and her teammate went after other FLARP teams, defeated them, and reaped the loot/exp spoils. They had an agreement not to kill the other players by feeding them to Vriska's mom unless they were wicked evildoers - to quote Terezi, they "W3R3 SUPPOS3D TO B3 L1K3 4 V1G1L4NT3 DUO D1SP3NS1NG JUST1C3."
Type and tier: Tier 2, memory/item
What is returned: The memory as recounted above - being part of a vigilante FLARP duo called Team Scourge. Along with this, Tavia will also receive the weapon she used for all her FLARP escapades: the Fluorite Octet. This will make the sword she already echoed back disappear, as discussed in a previous echo request. 8V

Reason for Echo: Plot echo, for the act of encountering the Blood Keys!
Type and tier: Tier 1 memory
What is returned: This memo.

If the recurrence isn't okay as a tier 2 (I'm assuming it is BUT STILL), I'm fine with having her plot echo be the Fluorite Octet and getting rid of the memo. 83

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

Player: Myf
Character: Reilanin
Reason for Echo: While working at the library, seeing (and avoiding) all of the mess of the earthquake happen harkens back the memory of being in the Golden Hour library at the time of the attack by the Citadel's "god", creating similar havoc.
Type and tier: Tier 2, memory and ability.
What is returned: The memory of the attack comes back- the destruction of the building and a consequent fight with one of the "god"s followers who wanted to kill her because of what she was- it also brings back her enhanced speed, having escaped the destruction and encounter unscathed due to her speedy reflexes.

(If the ability doesn't work out just let me know, I'm good to lget it go if it doesn't quite jive!)

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

Player: Nick
Character: Vanessa
Reason for Echo: It might be a little tenuous but trying to think up a codename for Chris's Darknet, inspired by her use of "Starscream."
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1.
What is returned: The memory that she is "Mistborn" but no actual meaning to the word.

~~Really, I just want an excuse for her to use it as a superhero name.~~

Well then have thy hero name.

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

Player: TealDeer
Character: Chris Starsky / Starscream
Reason for Echo: Going after some Blood Keys after they mug her beloved uncle (IN THE FUTURE) (SOON)
Type and tier: Tier 2, Memories / Personality Change
What is returned: Chris will first off get back memories of the five million year long Third Cybertronian War

Unfortunately, we know JACK SHIT about this in canon, save that it was brutal, bloody, killed something like 99% of the planet's population (no, seriously) and ended with Cybertron a barren wasteland.

Human brains are not designed to handle five fucking million years worth of memories. Chris will thus not actually be able to comprehend all this -- the memories are there (in the bits of her soul that have become a Spark) but not really accessible as a coherent whole. She'll know that:

> She was a Decepticon, in her mind an embattled rebel faction fighting the status quo against a tyrannical and oppressive somebody-or-other, and that toward the end, they were winning.
> Pieces of horrible, horrible bloodshed. Well, energon-shed, but the memories will be about the same as anyone who's been in a horrific war.
> This war was what left Cybertron a wasteland (she knows this from a previous Echo)
> A horrific sense of a totally incomprehensible abyss of time. five million years is really long.

All of this won't be something that happens all the time, because to be honest she's going to try not to think about it. Every so often though, she's going to alternately feel way too old, and yet simultaneously like she's way, way too young (twenty-eight years? that's NOTHING.)

In addition to this, and adding on to her already increased sense of bravery/foolhardiness, Chris will obtain a very disconcerting disconnect from the act of killing. It'll seem totally, completely mundane and routine to her.

OBVIOUSLY this won't happen until she encounters the Blood Keys, as planned in ~the future~

This will end in the deaths of some Blood Keys. I do so love consequences.

Edited 2013-12-06 01:09 (UTC)

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

Player: Aave
Character: Alan
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence from one of the Blood Keys encounters detailed above in Octavia's request - specifically getting shot in the leg and seeing his friends get badly injured.
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: Memory of his first battle, in which most of his squad died and he got his leg bitten off.

Reason for Echo: Plot echo for encountering the Blood Keys
Type and tier: Ability, tier 1
What is returned: Increased healing ability: it still won't be as fast as canon so major injuries and lost limbs will still take at least days to fully heal, but more minor things will heal very fast.

Edited 2013-12-06 01:01 (UTC)

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

Player: Trap
Character: Miles/Hope
Reason for Echo: Waiting for a train in the business district's subway station with his mother when the earthquake hit plus the chaotic aftermath. Basically the earthquake hits, a train gets derailed, and he and Mama Asher and a whole lot of other people are trying to get away from it out onto the street.
Type and tier: Tier 2, 2 related memories
What is returned:
Memories of the Purge, specifically Hope and Mama Estheim crawling out of a derailed train in awkward clothing with other panicked, screaming people wearing the same + the memory of watching his mother falling to her doom off a platform parallel to his. 1:57 to 2:14 in the video.

Note: He wont see the warzone-like atmosphere in the Hanging Edge, the soldiers or who's been holding Nora up before she fell. Just that it's chaos and there are derailed trains and debris everywhere like something shook up the whole place.

The worst thing to happen to Miles with his mom is this earthquake because it was so damn bad. The worst thing to happen to Hope with his mom is the Purge. Which involves trains and trains getting derailed. And Hope's mom dying. That's the most important bit: Hope associates the Purge with his mother's death, and Miles would definitely think the same of the earthquake, considering he's a gigantic mama's boy.

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

I'll... be here, removing my hat.

Player: Eren
Character: Anais/Fuu Hououji
Reason for Echo: Earthquakes happen a lot in her canon, but especially in the second series. They're created from the Pillar being unable to pray for the peace of Cefiro, and it meant giant hunks of the world were falling off. So the earthquake that happened when I wasn't looking could set one off as a canon recurrence if I think this right?
Type and tier: Memory/Tier 1
What is returned: The memory of an earthquake from series 2 as pieces of the world continue to crumble off--Cefiro is nothing more than a palace situated on a small island of rocks, and there's almost nothing left. The memory will come with a choked feeling of guilt that this is her fault.

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

Player: Bookie
Character: Pharos/Phillip Santorini
Reason for Echo: Plot echo; run in with the Blood Keys (being worked towards in a log)
Type and tier: Ability/physical, this probably needs to be a Tier 2
What is returned: Can no longer be killed by anyone/thing that is not the Persona 3 MC (male or female, doesn't matter). Can still receive wounds and feel pain. (If that's actually lower than a Tier 2, let me know~!)

Reason for Echo: Phillip and Luke killing a Blood Key member like the little idiots they are.
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: A memory, from the perspective of Death, of the night he broke out of the lab and killed many of the people working there and going on a general rampage.

Echo approved - with the former as a Tier 2 for security's sake! 8|b Please update your info post accordingly!

Player: Mawi
Character: Skyler / Sora
Reason for Echo: CERBERUS!?!? To be more specific, the mention of a three headed wolf drew him in, and the association with Cerberus kind of nailed it.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: The memory of this fight! He won't know who the guy in red is, or the duck and dog, but that big black dog thing is definitely Cerberus.

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

Player: Alec
Character: Shou
Reason for Echo: Plot echo granted by encountering members of the Blood Keys - Shou brings a bunch of stuff to the Clinic near the Dead District, and doesn't disguise himself as being anything but a rich boy dropping off charity. He ropes Hajime to help him unload the stuff so they will both be in the area at the time (in the next couple of days tbh).
Type and tier: Item - Tier 1
What is returned: His long white trench coat, the one that comes down to his ankles and is cut to hide all the guns he carries in canon.

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

Player: Airdra
Character: Hajime Aikawa
Reason for Echo: He and Shou are going to be running into some Blood Keys. There will be a fight.
Type and tier: Item/Ability, Tier 2
What is returned: The first part of Hajime's Echo is his Category Ace card, the Change Mantis. This card's effect on him will be twofold: it allows him to assume the form of the Mantis Undead, which is what he did in canon to fight as Kamen Rider Chalice, and it also serves as the other half of what keeps Joker's instincts in check. Since Hajime only experienced a partial regain of Joker's instincts, this should be enough that he won't have to worry about going crazy bugmonster like he's been.

The second part of the Echo is his motorcycle. StE Hajime drives a 2004 model Honda XR250 motorcycle. Since this is 2013 and not the 2004 of his canon, this bike is sort of worn in places, despite Hajime's best attempts to care for the engine as best he can. It is also blue. It will be replaced by canon Hajime's Honda XR250, which will not be as worn and also have a red paint job. At first, Hajime will assume that the paint is the only thing that's changed, even if it's running as though it were much newer. (That is clearly the result of his skills as a mechanic.)

If Hajime transforms into Chalice, his motorcycle will turn into Chalice's motorcycle. This will give the motorcycle more durability and make it compatible with any Rouse Cards Hajime may use with it...not that he has any useful cards or even knows that this is a possibility. He needs to be able to see the bike when this happens. Range is never really brought up in canon, but it's not doing it in a parking garage somewhere if he's transforming inside the mall, that sort of thing.

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

Player: Leriel
Character: Barnaby Brooks Jr.
Reason for Echo: Ravi's post saying "I am in this job because I want to save people."
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: The phrase "A Hero's job is to save people," and the feeling that he knew someone who said it often.

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

Player: Nerdman
Character: Miria Dian
Reason for Echo: This thread with Ravi.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: Miria recalls being on top of a train with Isaac, trying to convince a little kid named Czeslaw that he's a good person.

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

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