Player: MaxSalsa Character: Winter Adamas [Rikka Hishikawa] Reason for Echo: Plot - Blood Keys team combat with Bakura, Annie, and Russel; December 11th. Type and tier: T2, Memory + Memory What is returned: A conversation early in the school year between Mana and Rikka, regarding Mana's recent awakening as Cure Heart, that quickly devolves into a discussion of the (apparently popular with fourteen-year-olds) Oscar Wilde short story "The Happy Prince", with the ending notably left out. Specifically, Rikka summarizes the idea of the Happy Prince, a gold-leaf-coated statue with gems in his sword and eyes, giving everything of himself to those less fortunate, and a swallow that tries to dissuade him from giving so much of himself but eventually gives in and makes the statue's deliveries of his gold leaf and gems to the poor. (Eventually, the Prince keeps the swallow too late into the winter, and she dies at his feet; his lead heart cracks in two at the sight. This isn't relevant for this Echo, though Winter will probably find it out when she hunts down the story... assuming the Oscar Wilde work that it's sourced from still exists in Locke City. A children's book version also exists in Dokidoki canon, for another character to find and read, with the ending intact.)
Coming out of the story, Rikka tells Mana that the pinkette is just like the Happy Prince, and Mana half-jokingly tells Rikka that that would make Rikka the swallow. That memory ends with the image of a red-faced Rikka objecting on principle, and another memory follows: it doesn't seem to be much later in subjective time, maybe a day or two. Cure Heart is standing before Rikka, apparently having just transformed; the shock is plain on Rikka's face. But one spoken line comes through from Rikka, strong with emotion and resolve: "Please, let me be your swallow!" Cure Heart looks back at Rikka with a shocked expression, before it shifts into a confident grin, and an "okay". That's all Winter sees from this one.
[Effective knowledge gains: cementing that Mana is Cure Heart, and the prince and swallow relationship between Mana and Rikka, as declared, because it's played for spectacular ham aside from the actual descriptive value.]
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Character: Winter Adamas [Rikka Hishikawa]
Reason for Echo: Plot - Blood Keys team combat with Bakura, Annie, and Russel; December 11th.
Type and tier: T2, Memory + Memory
What is returned: A conversation early in the school year between Mana and Rikka, regarding Mana's recent awakening as Cure Heart, that quickly devolves into a discussion of the (apparently popular with fourteen-year-olds) Oscar Wilde short story "The Happy Prince", with the ending notably left out. Specifically, Rikka summarizes the idea of the Happy Prince, a gold-leaf-coated statue with gems in his sword and eyes, giving everything of himself to those less fortunate, and a swallow that tries to dissuade him from giving so much of himself but eventually gives in and makes the statue's deliveries of his gold leaf and gems to the poor. (Eventually, the Prince keeps the swallow too late into the winter, and she dies at his feet; his lead heart cracks in two at the sight. This isn't relevant for this Echo, though Winter will probably find it out when she hunts down the story... assuming the Oscar Wilde work that it's sourced from still exists in Locke City. A children's book version also exists in Dokidoki canon, for another character to find and read, with the ending intact.)
Coming out of the story, Rikka tells Mana that the pinkette is just like the Happy Prince, and Mana half-jokingly tells Rikka that that would make Rikka the swallow. That memory ends with the image of a red-faced Rikka objecting on principle, and another memory follows: it doesn't seem to be much later in subjective time, maybe a day or two. Cure Heart is standing before Rikka, apparently having just transformed; the shock is plain on Rikka's face. But one spoken line comes through from Rikka, strong with emotion and resolve: "Please, let me be your swallow!" Cure Heart looks back at Rikka with a shocked expression, before it shifts into a confident grin, and an "okay". That's all Winter sees from this one.
[Effective knowledge gains: cementing that Mana is Cure Heart, and the prince and swallow relationship between Mana and Rikka, as declared, because it's played for spectacular ham aside from the actual descriptive value.]