Echo Requests

[theearth]

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.

As of November 2014, Characters who have had their echoes for over a year can cause echoes in other people This is involuntary, cannot be controlled by either character and doesn't require a recurrence. The receiving character must have 15 echoes or less; they must be physically close to the other character; only tier 1 echoes can be caused that way; one cannot give themselves echoes. Both players must, of course, have consented to this oocly. A character can receive echoes through this mechanic no more than 10 times, and only up to 3 times from the same character. If requesting one of these echoes, please indicate the character from which the echo was received.

Reason for Echo: What caused the Echo, whether it be by a plot-related trigger, a person 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> If this is a plot Echo, please state which plot is acting as the trigger. If this is a canon recurrence/parallel Echo, please clearly explain how the reason for the Echo parallels canon. <b>Type and tier:</b> If this is a Tier 2 Echo that receives approval, then note that it is a Tier 2 in your Received Echoes list AND the month for which it counts. <b>What is returned:</b> Clearly explain how the Echo relates to its trigger. If this is an ability, please briefly describe it. Assume the mods are unfamiliar with your canon. If this is a Tier 2 encompassing two Echoes, remember that the Echoes must be related somehow. Please explain how they're related.

Comments

[substitutable]

Player: Squigs
Character: Shintaro Kisaragi
Reason for Echo: plot echo; Vermedi encounter
Type and tier: tier 1, item
What is returned: this photo that he comes into possession of in the anime will show up on his desk at home

Reason for Echo: canon recurrence; seeing that above photo for the first time
Type and tier: tier 2; power+sort of memory (for august)
What is returned: Shintaro always had a dormant power inside of him that activated the first time he saw this picture. Upon seeing the same picture in his Locke apartment, he will gain that back. The power is actually memory retention, and before its activation it had been storing up Shintaro's memories from the timeloops he had lived through; activating it released the seal that was on them. By gaining back his power, Shintaro will also gain back the same memories his past self did.

[theearth]

Hi - your first echo is approved, but I'll need some clarification on the second! I know very little of this canon, but it sounds like you're requesting that Shintaro gets back a full set of memories for several separate timelines, is that the case?

If so, you'll need to revise that echo - we can't really allow so many detailed memories to come back at once, even as a tier two. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[substitutable]

That's cool! I submitted it to see how it'll go, since I had my doubts, and I've got an alternative ready:

Reason for Echo: canon recurrence; seeing the photograph for the first time
Type and tier: tier 2; power+a memory
What is returned:

the power: Shintaro has dormant power that is awakened when he sees the photograph for the first time. The power is called the ability "to burn things into the eyes" which, in canon, gave him back a lot of memories from his past timeloops but also serves to give him some photographic memory, even while in its dormant form. While he will not be getting the memories back, I would like to get him back the photographic memory part that allows him to remember everything he sees, hears, or experiences. It just makes him really good at remembering shit.

the memory: Seeing the photo for the first time is also the first time Shintaro, in Locke, sees Ayano Tateyama (the girl with the scarf), and seeing her will give him back his memories of who she is (an old friend whose sudden death caused Shintaro to drop out of school and become a shut-in because he blamed himself for it), because seeing the picture brought back memories about her he was repressing in canon, anyway.

[theearth]

Alrighty, you're good to go with this one! Sorry for the delay. Echo approved! Please add the relevant data to your info post.