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Echo Requests (retired)
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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Character: Juliyuuya
Reason for Echo: Exploration mission - Mission Control.
Type and tier: Tier 2, physical and... power? Birds are weird.
What is returned: a) Pigeon hearing, b) Pigeon... emergency time perception.
He's already got pigeon ear inner anatomy and hair cell regeneration. Pigeon hearing isn't particularly sharper than in humans, but they can hear vastly lower frequencies. Low frequency sounds carry far further than higher ones. A pigeon in the center of the continental US can hear the ocean on the East, West, and Gulf Coasts, and the wind against the chains of the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, extending hundreds of miles. Also audible in this way: auroras, explosions, storms, waterfalls, meteors, earthquakes and volcanoes, tornadoes, some kinds of engine, the various animals that communicate with low frequency sound. Incoming tsunamis, seismic events, and tornadoes can be heard minutes to hours before they can be detected by human senses. It's how many animals can sense these things coming.
Also, avian temporal sensitivity is ten times more acute than in humans. Sounds too fast and complicated for humans to really grasp are heard with much greater fidelity and complexity. With enough practice Julien might become exceptional at vocal analysis and more precise imitations. Temporal sensitivity ties into the next bit:
Birds see faster, hear faster, and can produce sounds faster than humans can. Their reflexes are faster. Bold ones seem to wait until the last possible second to move out of the way, and they can fly swiftly and surely through chaotic tight spaces like underbrush, that require tilting and folding wings out of the way to pass through.
So, this is not quite superspeed, since only his voice and senses can entirely keep pace. And it's not that everything is always in slow motion, either. But if something moves quickly enough to startle him, or he is alarmed, Julien's perceptions speed up briefly, so that the world seems to move at one tenth its normal rate. Humans have a little of this already, when there's a crisis and sometimes the world seems to slow briefly. But like this it's more pronounced, happens more often, and can to some extent be controlled.
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