![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
no subject
Character: Julien
Reason for Echo: Blood Keys encounter at the clinic
Type and tier: Transformative, Tier Two
What is returned: Avian skin and muscle tissue.
Bird skin is much thinner and softer, but it has a varnish-thin film called the sclerotic layer, which makes it tougher. When breached in a non-massive way the sclerotic layer tends to seal back up, restricting blood loss but also sealing in contaminants. It covers the surface of the eye and extends down through lungs and air sacs to bind bones, inside and out, making them resistant to fracture. Julien's skin at least retains his melanin and does not at a glance look that different.
Sweat glands cease production and are reabsorbed. Skin oil glands change over to producing bird oils, which are thicker, waxier, and antimicrobial. A noteworthy duct, the uroptygial gland, appears below the small of his back, only about as big as a large chickpea. Without feathers to coat it'll need a bit of gauze and a bandaid to keep from leaving spots in his clothes. When he's clean the oils smell pleasantly sweet and yeasty, if he doesn't wash for long enough they go rancid and musky. There's more oil in hot weather. The whorled fingerprint-y skin of hands and feet goes white and peels off and underlying skin has tiny polygonal scale-shapes, though not actual scales yet.
Bird muscle tissue in pigeons is nearly all "dark meat" suitable for high performance over a long period of time. Strength increases about fifteen percent, endurance gets the potential to increase above even human limits (humans are second only to birds in this regard), recovery time after exertion drops, it heals faster (Injuries take weeks, not months). It processes oxygen differently. If the changes stopped here, Julien would potentially live notably longer than a normal human.
It also burns energy faster, so there's a somewhat higher metabolism and a temperature increase of nearly ten degrees. ...so along with this there'd be whatever adaptation's needed to keep that from being treated as a permanent high fever.
Reason for Echo: Recurrence: being stabbed. Yuuya's a secret agent, entirely used to being shot at, and underreacts to injury enough so that I suspect that wasn't the first time.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier One
What is returned: This lengthy memory, First Mission. It's totally headcanon, but this is pretty similar to various things we've seen the Dove Party do and it fits well with Yuuya's talents. When he's older he's also well used to being injured and things going horribly wrong, too.
Reason for Echo: Recurrence: grasping a gun in a combat situation.
Type and tier: Mental or ability, Tier One
What is returned: Familiarity/comfort with using guns, awareness of recoil and how the bullet falls, that sort of thing. By necessity Yuuya doesn't hold a gun in the same way a human would and this isn't like the kinds he uses, so this only goes so far and doesn't grant much accuracy. It doesn't overcome Julien's normal reluctance to handle guns, but this is a special situation.
no subject