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

[dead_black_eyes]

Player: Lexil
Character: Lazarus "L" Lawliet
Reason for Echo: This thread in which Shou switches over to Mandarin Chinese (not his first language) while helping Lazarus move Project Jump to a safer location.
Type and tier: Tier 1, ability
What is returned: L speaks Mandarin!

[theearth]

Is this his first time to encounter Mandarin Chinese, or how else does it create a new experience?

[dead_black_eyes]

First time in a conversational context spoken not as a first language! Lazarus took Japanese in college (very few students attempt to take two languages as difficult and different as Chinese and Japanese simultaneously so he would have been less likely to encounter non-native speakers of Chinese there) and since canon L would have a grasp of a language as commonly spoken as Mandarin (but probably with a heavy accent and definitely not as his first language) I think this could trigger an echo.

[theearth]

So the trigger would be Mandarin Chinese spoken with a Japanese accent, which he has never heard that before as Lazarus, only as L?

[dead_black_eyes]

Sorry for the lateness, I'm traveling and really should have called hiatus D:

Yes, that's correct! Since canon L is part Japanese it's more than plausible that he would have learned Japanese before Chinese and even geniuses aren't going to speak everything perfectly flawlessly, so the accented Chinese would be what he got back.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please update your info post!