Echo Requests (retired)

[theearth]

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.

<b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Reason for Echo:</b> <b>Type and tier:</b> <b>What is returned:</b>

Comments

[hawaiianheir]

Player: Mon
Character: Makani Kapule
Reason for Echo: He'll be getting into a fight/scrap/encounter with the Blood Keys. Probably in the clinic log.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Ability.
What is returned: (Warning: Classpect Headcanon)
Heirs, as a role, have the unique ability to embody their aspect on a singular level. (Note: Headcanon Ends Here) For John, the Heir of Breath, this means he can literally become the wind. This affords all the benefits you would expect it to. John is shown to essentially be able to free roam and avoid detection by both a godlike Super Fish Hitler and his brainwashed half-omniscent space-controlling dog-sister (long story). It's shown that John has pretty much complete control over this, and he can essentially go anywhere that there's a path for air to flow into, be it through vents or otherwise. It's also a handy dodge against threats of bodily harm (read as: stabs)

Obviously, this is a SUPER KINDA GAMEBREAKERY POWER in a game about stealth and infiltration, but luckily I planned for this, since Mac still only has Stage 1 of his Wind Manipulation back (subconscious, low power-control). In this form, Becoming The Wind is basically only useful in the example above: Dodging Shit, and it's going to be more reflexive than anything else (think making someone flinch, or scaring the bajezus out of them). He will reform almost immediately roughly a foot or two away from where he was standing, in what would be the most likely direction you would actually be trying to dodge. (So if someone did scare the bajezus out of him, he would phase out, and then phase in probably a foot back from whatever scared him.) Obviously, overpowering him or basically just straight up knocking him upside the head are still fair game, since he'll only really flinch -once- before getting used to a fight or something along those lines. (And that's only if he notices you.)

So an incredibly useful power will basically only be useful to laugh at Mac as he poofs in and out of existence! 8V (for now)

[theearth]

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

[glorifiedtrash]

Player: Cat
Character: Zelos Wilder
Reason for Echo: The snooow
Type and tier: Tier 1/Memory
What is returned: His mother's death and the circumstances surrounding said death

[theearth]

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

[schild]

Player: Jan
Character: Ryan Brown
Reason for Echo: Meeting Chloe face-to-face for the first time.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: The memory of Christa being seen by everyone as a goddess, along with the fact that Reiner wanted to marry her. Uh, not seriously. I think. He's gonna be baffled by that too.

the first of many... but this one I should've requested sooner, whoops.

[theearth]

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

[toobig]

Player: nor
Character: Bertholdt Fubar
Reason for Echo: In this thread, Jamie makes Bertholdt feel better about himself. In canon, Jean is the one to talk him down from his breakdown.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: The memory of Jean's speech to him when he's crying and screaming. He'll remember Jean saying they're still comrades and friends and reminded him of their time in training camp together. He won't know why he was upset, just that Jean (Jamie) made him feel just a little bit better.

[theearth]

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

[honestopinion]

Player: church
Character: Jamie (Jean)
Reason for Echo: Meeting Marzio for the first time in real life (action post.)
Type and tier: Memory 1
What is returned: Jamie remembers one of the warmest smiles a friend could ever give to another, he can swear the other person is Marzio.

Reason for Echo: Memory of the name 'The Colossal Titan'.
Type and tier: Memory 1
What is returned: How much of a grave impact and negativity the name had on his past life.

Reason for Echo: Meeting Chloe.
Type and tier: Memory 1
What is returned: That shes a Goddess, Jamie doesn't know why... but for some reason this woman is a Goddess.

[Sorry this log is suffering, just let me know if we need to drop anything off this list.]

[theearth]

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

[charcoalfeather]

Player: Drizz
Character: Rakka Yoshitoshi
Reason for Echo: Talking to Julien Sakazaki about birds
Type and tier: Tier 1, memory
What is returned: A memory where Rakka is being told by Kana how bad crows are around garbage while one stares straight at her.

[theearth]

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

[reapsthewind]

Player: TealDeer
Character: Chris Starsky
Reason for Echo: Seeing a kid totally immobilized/stuck in time
Type and tier: Tier 1, memory
What is returned: Some crazy guy on the side of the enemy of the Decepticons once invented a device called an Immobilizer. Starscream and Megatron totally stole that shit, until SOME OTHER JERK broke it so it instead un-immobilized things.

This will come with memories of Wheeljack: that he was with her enemies, that he was kind of a crackpot but also brilliant.

Unfortunately, Chris will not know how it works, how to build one, or the scientific principles behind it, and it will never come up again, because what is continuity in this TV show?

[theearth]

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

[pianistofraielin]

Oh god I'm piggybacking stuff again I'm sorry I DON'T MEAN TO ABUSE THE SYSTEM, REALLY

Player: The Guindo
Character: Russel / Raiel
Reason for Echo: Blood Key plot echo
Type and tier: Ability | Tier 1
What is returned: SHOUNEN DURABILITY. He'll bruise where others break, recover more quickly from blunt force trauma, and will have a surprising amount of resilience. Basically, it is the uncanny ability to only be seriously injured when it is suitably dramatic or the plot requires it.

Reason for Echo: Teaming up with Annie to save Bakura from some Blood Keys as part of the magical girl rescue squad. Dramatic entrances and nick-of-time rescues were his life, you do not even know.
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: He will remember that he called himself "The Hero of Love, Golden Piano Player Raiel" (because this is how he always introduced himself during these dramatic rescues).

Reason for Echo: During the same event as above, he is going to be...providing the dramatic soundtrack by way of speakers and an iPod. He, uh. Fights by playing music, in canon. So bursting into a fight and giving it a soundtrack, well, that's pretty much what he always does.
Type and tier: Ability | Tier 1
What is returned: His Magic Music ability.

How it works:
1) Magic music requires you to know and understand the context of the song you're playing in order for it to have any effect.
2) You must physically play it, on an instrument, with that context in mind.
3) The effect ends if you stop playing, except with summons where they can persist as long as you keep the song playing in your head.

Russel will be regaining each of his summons as a separate Echo, so his summoning music won't work yet. Likewise, he will not be regaining his marionette control ability yet, either. This Echo will be just the basics of magic music.

Those basics are essentially bard skills. The music plays on the emotions of those listening, and uses resonant emotions to buff or debuff the listener(s). The effect is easily resisted if the song's meaning does not resonate with the listener, and people who cannot physically hear the music will not be affected at all. It also only works in person (there is likely a psychic element to it?) so recordings or any kind of audio transmission will kill the magic aspect.

It can also just Make People Feel Stuff, but again, there needs to be some kind of foothold of emotional resonance or it'll fall flat. (I realize this is basically emotional godmoding but I will be asking people for permission first.)

The biggest limitation on this right now is that RUSSEL CAN'T PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS AND HE IS COMPLETELY TONE DEAF. So until he regains his piano playing ability, this skill is useless.

[theearth]

/HANDS ON HIPS

By that I mean be a hero, Billy! ...Russel!

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

[dododo]

Player: Toss
Character: John Smith/The Doctor
Reason for Echo: Luke's post where he says he can hop forward in time and John goes what you mean like time travel-- oops.
Type and tier: Memories, tier 2.
What is returned: Memory of Jamie explaining to Victoria about the TARDIS and how they travel time and space with it. And the species/title "Time Lord".

[theearth]

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

[drama8om8]

Player: Louise
Character: Octavia
Reason for Echo: The Doctor mentioning the phrase "Lord of Time."
Type and tier: Tier 1 memory
What is returned: Octavia has already heard of Lord English through another of her echoes, and she will now remember that he was also known as the Lord of Time.

[theearth]

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

[wastingtime]

Player: Mindy
Character: Elian Price
Reason for Echo: Arguing with Vriska & Alan
Type and tier: MENTAL; 1
What is returned:
Various split-second memories; knowing exactly when, where, and how to act were essential to Vector Prime's work (as opposed to being on the sidelines). With the feelings of frustration, helplessness, and anger he's getting from his conversation with Alan and Tavia, I think that it's a good time to remind him that he did, in another life, do that kind of thing. (Especially since he probably felt said specific mix of emotion back then, a LOT)

The Echo will present itself as fragmented dreams when he's asleep the following night, but instead of being forgotten upon waking like most dreams are, this one will linger as real memories.

[theearth]

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

[caosgo]

Player: Enzel
Character: Emmanuel Hall (Castiel)
Reason for Echo: choosing the alias "Clarence" to use on Chris's Darknet
Type and tier: memory, tier 1
What is returned: The memory of speaking to a homeless man who offers him food, while going by that same name after losing his Grace and pretending to be human. He remarks that he's found that those with the least to give are the most generous.

[theearth]

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

[hawaiianheir]

Player: Mon
Character: Mac
Reason for Echo: Tavia being TOTALLY WILLING to make Blood Keys kill each other under the influence of mind control.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: this page, which was vaguely echoed before (an argument about mind control) but with the compounded dubious morality and killing of people, is recalled in its near entirety. He will also recall the feelings of the conversation- such as thinking an idea of such suspicious morality and flagrant abuse of mindy shit to be completely insane on every level.

E: OH GOD ONE MORE SORRY ABOUT THIS

Reason for Echo: Tavia bringing up her preincarnate's real name (Vriska)
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: This conversation. (this page and the next one.)

[theearth]

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

[wonk]

Player: kappy
Character: Mordin Solus
Reason for Echo: Blood Keys encounter (plot)
Type and tier: Memory tier two
What is returned: First, the memory of his time in the salarian special tasks group. Second, the memory of the formula to make medigel. After a month of study of this formula, he will be able to produce medigel for a cost of about sixty dollars per unit with his current lab setup, and will be able to produce about four units from materials he already has.

Reason for Echo: Blood Keys encounter (paralleling having to defend his clinic from various gangs on Omega)
Type and tier: Memory tier one
What is returned: The memory of his time on Omega, up until right before he met Shepard. If I can't squeeze two echoes out of this, then I'd prefer the first tier two echo.

Character: Roxy Lalonde
Reason for Echo: A Blood Keys encounter - I'll make a post for this if I get the Echo
Type and tier: Item tier 2
What is returned: Firstly, her high-octane laser gun, and secondly, her sylladex, allowing her to store objects cards which are then stored in bottles in a liquor cabinet in a hyperspace-inventory fashion. Roxy removes items by smashing the bottles.

[theearth]

First and third Echoes approved - please update your characters' info accordingly!

[destinedforrock]

Player: Blue
Character: Cinderella (Rarity)
Reason for Echo: Bearing witness to comrades singing while tipsy.
Type and tier: Mental - Tier 1.
What is returned: Memory of the Flim Flam Brothers' song - alternatively a song that the near-entirety of Ponyville joined in on and was about what is ambiguously in fact booze.

[amberhearted]

Player: Mini
Character: Alexander Varista
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence: Sherman staking him.
Type and tier: Mental/item, tier 2
What is returned: 1) The memory of his second/permanent death via staking, and 2) the stake made of hawthorn that was used to kill him.

[theearth]

I'll be shaking my head solemnly, but all the same, Echo approved - please update your info post accordingly!

[argents]

Player: kou
Character: banagher links
Reason for Echo: audrey burne reciting back his own words to him.
Type and tier: memory, tier 1.
What is returned: he won't remember that conversation with her. he will remember the ensuing one that relates directly to it though, with a fatally wounded cardeas vist. he won't recognize the man himself, but he'll recognize that they're standing in the unicorn's cockpit. before cardeas would hand the gundam over to him, he asks one thing:

"The burden she bears is immense. You need the resolve to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders if you wish to go with her. Do you still...?"

to which he replies:

"I don't have confidence or resolve. I just know I want her to need me."

Reason for Echo: encounter with the blood keys, currently being plotted with ez and luci.
Type and tier: item + ability, tier 2.
What is returned: a piece of psycoframe + boost in newtype skills. INCOMING TL;DR I'M SO SORRY

at the time of banagher's canon, the psycoframe is still not a widely used piece of technology. in fact, it was discontinued because there were "too many unknowns." it's basically the metal framework of a mobile suit's cockpit, with psycommu receptors built into it at an atom level. psycommu (psychic communicator) receptors harness the brainwaves of newtypes (as outlined in the abilities section of his app) and amplify them, translating them into direct computer code where necessary. three years earlier, during the events of char's counterattack when the psycoframe was brand new, it was demonstrated that it was possible to carry around a single, manageable-sized piece of it, mostly with the same effect. heightened reflexes, quicker reaction times, and the ability to sense the presence of others. the psycoframe is also capable of generating a phenomenon known as a psyco-field, which is where it absorbs the intense emotions of its pilot (or pilots, or just anyone being feelingsy in its general proximity) and creates a "a unique spacial phase around an area of space, in which human consciousness is capable of manifesting as physical phenomena." it's stated that this instance defies the laws of physics, and within this space, it's possible for another person's emotions or memories to be directly experienced.

i'd like banagher to get back a bite-sized piece of the unicorn's psycoframe comparable to the image linked above (instead of being installed just around the cockpit, the unicorn is basically made of psycoframe -- all that red glowing stuff), along with an 'upgrade' in his newtype ability that'll let him generate a (very weak, though functional) psyco-field.

[theearth]

Echoes approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

I HATE MY LIFE AND ALSO MY CHOICES

[hawaiianheir]

Player: Mon
Character: Makani Kapule
Reason for Echo: Tavia linked Mac the same video John linked Vriska OH LORDY HERE WE GO
Type and tier: Memory/Mental, Tier 2
What is returned: First off, seeing that movie clip (seeing as how Mac himself has never been that much of a Cage fan) will echo back John's COMPLETE AND UTTER OBSESSION AND INFATUATION WITH ALL THINGS CON AIR. (THIS IS STUPID YEAH RIGHT!) He will be full on infatuated with the movie on a very singular level. It's honestly kind of worrisome.

He will also recall, with vivid detail (if absolutely zero fucking context), the most dramatic reenactment of said scene, as performed by his past self.

LOUISE IS THE WORST, TXT IT

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post, and watch more Cage films with Soren. OH NO NOT THE BEES

[vetala]

Player: Surge
Character: Kanti Singh [Kanaya Maryam]
Reason for Echo: This conversation with Octavia
Type and tier: Tier 1; Memory
What is returned: Memory of her text based conversations with Vriska.

[theearth]

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

[espigeonage]

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Julien
Reason for Echo: Recurrence - starting to wrestle with identity issues and declaring that damn it, he's himself. On a route distinct from the one I'm taking him from Yuuya gives advice on this which seems to be very personal to him. By the time of the games he seems to have himself figured out.
Type and tier: Memory/knowledge, Tier One.
What is returned: The knowledge that Yuuya's mother is high in the peerage and his father was much lower class. On one side he can trace his ancestry back to pre-flu times, it's "pure", on the other he's not sure of his grandparents. To some people that's important, especially nobility.

...and he rejects the nobility, any place he might have among them, and the whole concept that purity of breeding and who you're descended from so defines your worth. There's a sense that it might have taken a long time to get to that without thinking that he's rejecting his mother and part of himself, and he's had identity issues of his own which he now feels are resolved.

Ultimately, "There's a lot more to worry about than who you are. You are yourself. Never let anyone tie you down."

[theearth]

Our apologies for the delayed response - and for the verdict; however, the nature of Julien's and Yuuya's respective presented crises of identity do not seem quite parallel enough in nature for the former (Julien is becoming someone who he's unsure he wants to consider himself to be) to serve as a "reminder" of the latter (expectations from factors in Yuuya's background that do not insert themselves into his nature).

So sorry for the inconvenience - although, of course, we will consider that as a trigger for an alternative effect if you can devise one or that effect for a more direct trigger.

LAST FOR AT LEAST A WEEK I PROMISE

[wastingtime]

Player: Mindy
Character: Elian Price
Reason for Echo: Discussing methods of time travel with the Doctor
Type and tier: Mental/1
What is returned: SO A SWORD CAN BE USED TO TRAVEL THROUGH TIME[and also space] TOO
HOW ABOUT REMEMBERING THAT

[theearth]

I WANT TO GIVE YOU A JOKE BUT I CANNOT THINK OF ONE. 8(

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

[selfassured]

Player: Heather
Character: Derek Hale
Reason for Echo: Running into the Blood Keys
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: Memory of Chris Argent and his group of hunters being intimidating at the petrol station. So the most passive aggressive windscreen wash ever before having his car window smashed.

[theearth]

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

[enrages]

Player: linda
Character: karson valenti
Reason for Echo: talking to travis about youtube comment wars
Type and tier: memory, tier 1
What is returned: karson remembers karkat ordering his friends to troll the humans.

[theearth]

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

[poisonousflame]

Player: Kasarin
Character: Axel | Axel Engres
Reason for Echo: gratuitous use of the word "flattered." (really)
Type and tier: memory, tier 1
What is returned: the memory of shouting "I'M SO FLATTERED" and a mess of emotions (YES REAL ONES) that come with it: deadly determination, internal conflict, a sense that it's too late, and a powerful bond with whoever he's yelling at. (at that point in time, canon!axel knew that he probably couldn't defeat roxas — but he thought that, maybe, they could disappear together.)

SO BASICALLY a mess of feelings and ... shouting. :|;;;;; i'm ridiculous i'm sorry

[theearth]

I have been so happy to stamp few other Echoes - approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[summit]

Player: Shikki
Character: Tavros Nitram | Travis Martin
Reason for Echo: Seeing Vriska's quirk, remembering long conversations with someone who talked in cerulean with that quirk.
Type and tier: Tier 1, memory
What is returned: His own typing quirk.

Reason for Echo: Octavia using his past life name! Nothing good ever came from Vriska using his name. Nothing good ever.
Type and tier: Tier 1, memory.
What is returned: The memory that yes, that is indeed his name, and he's used to a certain cerulean troll yelling it and harassing him every time it was used. No concrete memories! Just uncomfortable stressful emotions by association.

[theearth]

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