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."