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Echo Requests
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.
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.
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Character: Stefan Salvatore
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence, seeing doppelganger posts on the Network (and more specifically, referring to the mess his doppelganger made)
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: Stefan remembers meeting HIS canon doppelganger Silas for the first time (at the edge of town) the day Stefan graduates high school. Silas reveals his true form as Stefan's doppelganger, and then proceeds to stab Stefan and ask him to "imagine what it would like to be trapped for 2,000" years. While Stefan's in pain, Silas then pushes Stefan into a giant safe and drowns him underneath the nearby lake.
Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence, meeting Xander's doppelganger
Type and tier: Tier 1, Memory
What is returned: Knowledge of his world's doppelgangers: only two lines exist (Petrova's and Silas's lines), created to restore natural balance as they were the first two immortals in human history. They essentially represent mortality - they, after all, are shadow selves of immortal beings who can die. They're also soulmates who find each other every 500 years.
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A question about the second one, though. How does meeting Xander's doppelgänger after already seeing doppelgängers around count as a new experience?
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I was thinking it was different because the confusion of Stefan's doppelganger was similar to scenes in early S2 for Stefan, where he couldn't tell if he was talking to his girlfriend (Elena Gilbert) or his girlfriend's doppelganger (Katherine Pierce). If that doesn't work, the canon recurrence could simply be Stefan plotting to injure doppel Xander, as he's similarly plotted to injure / maim / kill doppelgangers in canon.
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