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>

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[pianistofraielin]

Player: The Guindo
Character: Russel Goldman/Raiel
Reason for Echo: Sona giving him a piano lesson. He has never had a piano lesson before or even had access to a piano to attempt to play it.
Type and tier: Item + memory | Tier 2 (justifying Tier 2 on this one because of HOW IMPORTANT piano-playing is to Raiel; his entire identity is basically built around being a magic pianist)
What is returned:
Memory: Pandora teaching him how to play magic music when he was 4 or 5; this will tip him off to his piano-playing as an actual useful skill.

Item: His. Piano.

OKAY LET ME TALK ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUCKIN' PIANO FOR A SECOND.
1) it is solid gold.
2) it weighs 500kg.
6) what are its dimensions? SO inconsistent omg. It's probably about 3ft across and 5ft long judging by how big it's usually drawn in comparison to Raiel.
3) it is waterproofed up to 500 meters (I'M NOT JOKING THIS IS EXPLICITLY STATED IN CANON).
4) it's enchanted with holy magic. what does that mean? hell if i know????? it's never elaborated on; I take it to mean that the piano is basically indestructible, considering the shit it goes through.
5) it has no legs. instead it has backpack straps and a harness that allows him to swing it down into a playing position as necessary.

NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS IS COMPLETELY USELESS TO HIM AT THE MOMENT. It'll just be taking up space in his bedroom until he gets enough strength regain to actually move it around.

[originaloddcouple]

Player: Nerdman
Character: Isaac and Miria
Reason for Echo: Jacuzzi's reveal that he destroyed 18 speakeasies
Type and tier: Memory/Tier 1
What is returned: Remembering Jacuzzi's original reveal of this fact. Which also delivers the context for encouraging Jacuzzi and...



I'm sorry, but I will never let go of this gif when an opportunity arises.

[skycutter]

Player: Trap
Character: Miles/Hope
Reason for Echo: Meeting Sierra/Serah for the first time. No log yet, but we're working up to it.
Type and tier: One long memory, tier 2. Because Serah is important ok.
What is returned: Handing Serah a knife, and watching her have a breakdown. 0:33 onwards in this video, complete with sounds and dialogue, all the way until she drops to the ground and cries. If that's too much, I'm fine with no dialogue.

Yes, he did see her transforming into crystal waaaaaaay in the beginning of FFXIII, and walking towards them with Dajh just before he gave her the knife, but this bit will always stand out in Hope's memory as "first contact with Serah".

[ex_purity762]

Player: Ren
Character: Clear
Reason for Echo: This conversation, when goes into developing an AI and then raising it like a person.
Type and tier: Type 1, Memory
What is returned: The recollection (or rather confirmation) that Pierce was an android, and that he was raised by a man he called his grandfather, who had a hand in his development. If possible, this would include his grandfather giving him a name, as this is tied strongly to treating a machine as a person.

[amberhearted]

Player: Mini
Character: Alexander Varista
Reason for Echo: Henry explaining he's capable of transforming objects simply through belief.
Type and tier: Mental, tier 1.
What is returned: Preincarnated Alexander's understanding of Belief. Reincarnated Alexander has gleaned info about it from previously Echoed memories, but this will fill in the gaps.

[vanisland]

Player: Awe
Character: Miranda Atmiller
Reason for Echo: Asking Suzaku to act as a bodyguard
Type and tier: Tier 1 Knowledge
What is returned: The basic formation of small groups (typically groups of four, although a one-Vanguard, one-Reyvateil formation is also common) involving a Reyvateil - a "front row" of up to either three or two melee fighters called the Vanguard and a "back row" of one or two Reyvateils.

Player: Awe
Character: Miranda Atmiller
Reason for Echo: Kari mentions her abilities didn't come with defense; Miranda assumes she's a glass cannon.
Type and tier: Tier 1 Knowledge
What is returned: The fact that she herself was a fragile yet powerful battler in her past life.

[dirtdevil]

Player: Alison
Character: Levi
Reason for Echo: This unfortunate thread with Ellie about learning to use the 3DMG
Type and tier: Tier 1 memory (more of a muscle memory I guess)
What is returned: Basic competence at using the 3DMG. Not the hilarious godmode bullshit he has in canon yet, just more of a training grad level of mastery so he can participate in stuff in season two!

[twelfthspark]

Player: DC
Character: Arxene
Reason for Echo: Talking to an animal about talking to animals.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: She remembers a talking duck yelling at her. ("Not if we can stop you!") Which means talking animals existed where her other's from. Weird.

[phoenix_temple]

Player: Eren
Character: Anais/Fuu
Reason for Echo: Unexpected realization that there is someone in her life who she barely knows at all that she would die for without a second thought. NOW THIS SEEMS SMALL but in canon this is a huge revelation for her. Fuu's boss fight of a sort took place against an illusionist who put the girls under a spell to attack each other. Fuu had to invent a spell to stop Hikaru and Umi from killing her (see below). At this, the illusionist put a spell over Fuu to kill a defenseless Umi and Hikaru. It was the realization that she would die for these two (when it was stated clearly earlier in canon that she protects herself so no one who loves her would have to grieve) that broke the spell that neither of the other girls could break and proved Fuu's strength of heart to the Mashin Windom. This was Fuu's test to become a real magic knight and so the realization was incredibly freaking important. It was her game changer of a sort, the point where her personality shifted.
Type and tier: Memory/Power ; Tier 2
What is returned: The memory of what happened at the floating mountain (the encounter i just described) and the power Binding Winds (Winds that immobilize the target completely.)

[phoenix_temple]

Player: Eren
Character: Anais/Fuu
Reason for Echo: Snakes 8| Also known as goddamnit shingekiAnthony isn't her life exciting enough.
Type and tier: Item / Tier 1
What is returned: Fuu's giant sword that is light as a feather to her, and too heavy to lift to anyone else.

[shiromadoushi]

Player: Fran
Character: Bakura
Reason for Echo: Anthony guessing that the gem in his head was pushed in
Type and tier: Memory, 1
What is returned: Knowledge of the existence of the Millenium Eye and that it had to be "installed" (aka, shoved into someone's head in replacement of an eye) to be used.

[hawaiianheir]

Player: Mon
Character: Mac Kapule
Reason for Echo: canon reoccurance: referring to mac's powers as "the windy thing"
Type and tier: 1, Memory
What is returned: The first time that John did The Windy Thing.

[anequal]

Player: Squigs
Character: Anthony Albert
Reason for Echo: they got attacked by snakes and it was because they went out at his invite
Type and tier: tier 1 - memory
What is returned: The strong, gripping feeling of guilt and self-blame and hating himself for causing the (near) death of someone who trusted him, and not being able to do a thing to actually help them during the time of danger -- the feeling of absolute worthlessness Armin felt when his squad got killed at Trost.

[goldenclothes]

Player: Myf
Character: Reilanin Bainbridge
Reason for Echo: Alexander explaining his death (while visibly wearing his wedding ring).
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: The memory as Alexander describes it of his death and the subsequent routing through his ashes and taking his wedding ring.

[sugarslice]

Player: Mini
Character: Angeline Strauss/Stocking Anarchy
Reason for Echo: The briefing on the farmhouse and what was inside of it, done at the 1/25 meeting at Elian's house.
Type and tier: Mental, tier 1.
What is returned: The memory of being briefed on a mission regarding a Ghost (1:15-3:45).

[needsmorezippers]

Player: Bookie
Character: Neku Sakuraba
Reason for Echo: Finding out that Skyler is super obsessed with protecting his little sister. Just like some other not very smart person Neku used to know.
Type and tier: Item/ability; tier 1
What is returned: Rhyme's pin & use of it. because i'm an awful, awful person.

[youngestone]

Player: Fae
Character: Killian Ryan/Kili
Reason for Echo: Fae is a derp Back at Christmas, Killian crafted jewelery for his close CR with the words for various things, "luck" and the like, in runes by looking them up in Earth's runes and tweaking until they looked right to him (as he could read Khuzdul from his first Echo but not yet write it).
Type and tier: Tier one, mental
What is returned: Knowing how to write in Khuzdul.

[beyondrebirthday]

Player: Des
Character: Beyond Birthday / Ban Ueno
Reason for Echo: Meeting L in person for the first time in years, he's shocked at how much his appearance has changed for the worse (and for the 'looking like canon.')
Type and tier: Tier one, memory
What is returned: A simple memory of seeing that same appearance in his mirror (after putting on the makeup that makes him look like L.)

[belphe]

Player: Katie
Character: Belphegor of Sloth // Belle Goldman
Reason for Echo: While attempting to intercept L, who she believes is having an episode, Belle runs afoul of two Blood Keys members who intend to steal her car. In attempting to reason with them, they attack her.
Type and tier: Tier one, Ability
What is returned: her teleportation. I intend this to be her first power returned to her, but the one that will take her, by far, the longest to get a reign on. For now and the near future, it will be a reflexive danger response and not something she can willfully use/control.

[fusionjack]

Player: Lampdevil
Character: Isaka / Peacock Undead || Jackson Isaka
Reason for Echo: Watching Hajime Aikawa use a Rouse Card to change himself back from bug-man to human.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: Remembering that he had been working towards making the Leangle Buckle, a device that uses cards in the same fashion.

[pokebonnet]

Player: Bii
Character: Ivy Curry
Reason for Echo: Mr Lyall telling her about what he remembered about her former self.
Type and tier: Memory (Tier 1)
What is returned: The knowledge that she was indeed named exactly what he says in her previous life.

[vaimo]

Player: Gilbert
Character: Åsa / Finland
Reason for Echo: Siiri's going to give her keys in this post
Type and tier: Tier 1/memory
What is returned: The memory of Siiri's previous self giving her keys when they set up their own house after Kalmar. (Note: the memory isn't canon, but it's a headcanon we both share, and fits in with Sweden calling Finland wife. In viking times especially, but in most times past the wife was the one who took care of the household, and so she'd have the keys as a ceremonial and functional thing. It's the kind of thing Sweden would have done to try and give a hint give Finland some more power while at the same time tying him to himself more.)

[drama8om8]

Player: Louise
Character: Princess Buttgal McHairstyle/Octavia
Reason for Echo: Karson getting his sticky lil fingers all over Octavia's lovelife (in like a jillion threads in this post please don't make me link them all because I will die), culminating in her assuming his role as leader was based on him being Cupid Jesus.
Type and tier: Tier 1 memory
What is returned: A memory of Karkat being leaderly and schooling Vriska in matters of romantic bullshit - from CG: OK FIRST THING'S FIRST. to the end of the page.

EH I FIGURED THIS'LL WORK BETTER

[spellfire]

Player: Mindy
Character: Helene
Reason for Echo: Fighting against Calvin & Arthur; Arthur specifically.
Type and tier: 1/MEMORY
What is returned: Remembering that hey! She encountered some people with watery sea creature powers! GODDAMN OROTHEANS.

[betroth]

Player: kou
Character: chloe weiss (christa/historia)
Reason for Echo: her conversation with blaine here, specifically the bit about not getting killed for anyone's sake.
Type and tier: memory, tier 1.
What is returned: the last bit of this page. the whole 'living and dying for x's sake' is a huge theme for their relationship. in that scene, where they're stuck on the front lines with means to defend themselves, historia is needling at ymir to try and figure out why she was willing to put herself in such great danger for her. then ymir fires off that line. she was trying to throw her off, but historia actually responds with relief, because she's weird.

specifically, she'll remember that line, and the feeling of relief she has accompanying it.