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TEST DRIVE MEME

Test Drive Meme!

Scenarios:
> The Park. Man, what a nice day out. Why not enjoy it? I'm sure -- shit, yep, there's some echo monsters.
> The Mall. Exactly what it says on the tin! Dodge the hordes of teenage mallrats or take part, whichever suits your tastes.
> Rainy Day. Agh, it's fucking awful out. And is it raining those vermilion things?? Now you've got an Echo to contend with on top of everything else. Find some shelter, quick!
> PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. HOW FUN
> Arts and Crafts Fair. All the kitschy fun you can imagine.
> Wild Card! Make up your own.

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[Fili stares the screen blankly for a long moment. It was his uncle...his uncle was on this network which means... And the words. He understood the words, which were as familiar to him as English. He replied with one word, in the same language.]

Uncle.

[There are way too many things about this reply that he did not expect. Sure, he worried about a member of his family being part of this as well. He knew that "people from the same other life" could be all from friends and colleagues and enemies to family. He's seen the two come together.

But that did not prepare him for the wave of vertigo that swaps over him at the word. Or the knowledge that comes with it. Not that the whole fact of his nephew being on the network wouldn't have been enough.

He considers staying in the same language for a moment - he would normally switch to Icelandic with such matters, the language is just closer to his heart, but he's never sure how much his sister's children really understand of that - and then realizes that with his nephew, there seems to be none of that feeling of uneasiness, at least not right now. It feels right.]

Come to the smithy. We have to talk.

[It's the place where they will be most likely not interrupted by anyone, and Þórir has always much preferred talks in person to talks in any other medium.]

[He took a moment or two of closing his eyes and just breathing before replying. If it was only that one message, he might have written off as a joke. But his uncle had replied to him again in that same language and now the entire thing just feels to big for him.

But his uncle was part of it too. And that language feels right, feels like it's part of his very bones and his heart. So he replies again, a short and simple affirmation before getting up and heading to the smithy.]

Yes, Uncle.

[Thorir will already be waiting for him, sitting on the anvil and polishing one of the swords that he's worked on over the week. He could do all other kinds of activities, but this one is oddly calming.

When Filbert enters the room, he'll look up.]

Fil. How long have you been on the network?

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[The smithy too was bone-deep familiar, even though he'd never spent a long time in it. Fil automatically goes back to that odd-yet-familiar language they were using on the network, though he could have tried Icelandic as well if it was what his Uncle preferred. He wouldn't call himself completely fluent but it was getting better all the time, especially since his Uncle had the tendency to speak it more than he realized.]

A few weeks. I'd say it started shortly after I moved in.

[He'll come back to that later. Shortly after - shouldn't he have noticed something earlier? Had he made himself not wanting to see?

But one after the other. He places the sword over his knees, the work resting for the moment, all concentration on listening. There is a chair nearby and he won't invite Filbert to sit on it, but not hinder him either - the boy (sorry, Fil) should feel at home enough in this house to not need invitations for such things.]

What do you remember?

[If there was anyone close to him that was part of this network Fil didn't notice, having been too busy trying to pry his newfound knowledge into something logical enough for himself to accept.

True, there was a chair nearby and he knew his Uncle wouldn't mind if he sat but Fil was too full of nervous energy to sit down. So he wandered around, picking up an object here and there to look at, even though he'd see all of them before. ]

Not much. Just this language, and some things are familiar.

[That doesn't sound much more useful than what he has.

Still.] Familiar?

[Fili holds up the object he'd been playing with on his hands as an example.]

Take this as an example uncle. I've been in here a few times before, but this wouldn't have caught my eye before. Now? I feel like I should know how to use it. But I still don't. If that makes any sense?

[Well, that is not useful at all. And sounds pretty frustrating - though at least - no. Better ask than assume.]

Have you felt any change in feelings, attitude or other such things?

[Fil could only shrug helplessly at his uncle. It had been beyond frustrating, the feeling that he should know something, but the actual knowledge was out of reach.]

Not really. I feel like I should know YOU a lot better but...

Well, you were my nephew.

[He smiles at that, and places his next words as carefully as warmly - he had feared that there would be more trouble with fitting a young adult newly into the household, and to his pleasant surprise found that despite how different his and Filbert's personalities were it has been a very smooth and easy process. (ooc: going with that he lives with them for this thread, I hope that is okay?)

He likes his whole family, but there are degrees and there are differences in ease of being around them, and he's found this nephew of his on the high end of the scale. There really are worse people that he could share not only one but two lives with.]

I would hope that you would remember your uncle, Fili.

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Eh? Of course I am...mother was your... [Fil's reply trailed off as he stared at his uncle twice over. Thorir had always been one of his favourite relatives and though when he'd wanted to strike out for himself in a new city it didn't take that much effort on Thorir's part to persuade him to take a room in his Uncle's house. He'd been prepared for a certain amount of adaptation needed to live with another family but it had all gone very smoothly and easily.

To share two lives with his man in front of him...Fil thought it couldn't be bad thing.]

Fili...It feels right. You as my Uncle...that too.

[ooc: My understanding is that memory!echo= a sudden memory that cannot be forgotten anymore, but the nature of the memory can be varied - I've seen ones that were basically "the complete scene with every detail from the character's viewpoint" over "this scene from the character's viewpoint but without the surroundings/without character X in it/without sound/etc" to "they remember now a certain fact (what their name was, that they hated X, that they had horns, even just "this happened to me before")" or... basically there is a wide variety and the length and size of the memory is also super variable, and the character doesn't necessarily understand or interpret the memory correctly. The only constant is that it is suddenly there and cannot be forgotten anymore.]

[It's such a weird feeling, knowing this - remembering a sister that he knows nothing about but the name. He does have a sibling about whose whereabouts he knows nothing these days, and that is weird enough. Remembering that he had a sister but not remembering anything about her...]

Fili Dísarson... I wonder if his mother resembled yours. [Because while they seem to have been those other men once, he refuses to see themselves as them. Even if they might at least partly become them again.] Do you remember anything about her now? [It's possible - the knowledge that he just received goes along the lines of "I had a nephew through a sister by the name of Dís and he looked a lot like Filbert". Maybe Fil remembered something about the mother of his former self?]

[ooc: I just realized, Dís (yielding Dísarson) and Dísa (yielding Dísuson) are actual Icelandic female names, in case you want to do to Fil what I did to Thorir aka keep/roughly keep his parent's name.)

[ooc: that makes more sense. I just might have to flip through some apps to get a better idea of things. It's only one echo per thread or something like it, right?]

[There was an image in his head now, of a very short woman in his head, one with long dark hair and a...beard? of all things.]

Dis...? Her name is Dis? Yes...that sounds right. She's got long dark hair with bits of grey in it and a beard of all things. Ma's got the dark hair, but she's much taller and of course she doesn't has a beard. [Fili gives a quick shake of his head. This was getting confusing.]

[ooc: No, actually! It's one echo per trigger (unless it is a 2 tier, then you get two related echoes for the trigger, but those you can only have once per month), so you can have multiple echoes in a thread (though it's rarely done). So if for example Thorir tells Fili about Dís, and then later in the same thread Kili shows him his runestone for the first time, that would be two different triggers and he could get two echoes. Echoes are basically up to you as long as it's not overdone - when the mods feel that someone is getting disproportionately many echoes in a given month, they will stop approving them or asking for a break in echoes the next month, but that happens rarely. I guess if you wanted ten echoes out of the same thread that would be the same. They seem to be looking more into triggers - is the connection between trigger and echo clear, and was the trigger (or something super similar to it) used before - though that can sometimes be fixed with a clarification (f.ex: "Thorir talks to Fil in Khuzdul" and "Killian talks to Fil in Khuzdul" would probably be too close to both be used as triggers, but if it is "Killian calls Fil "brother" in Khuzdul" it is probably echo worthy). And it would of course always have to be the first time that that thing happens for it to cause an echo.]

A beard? [Someone really needs to tell Thorir about the dwarf part. Seriously. Right now he's thinking more of something like Beorn's family, and that is. an awkward idea. (It will also solve the confusing question of why he thinks that Kili was a lot taller than Killian is while Killian seems to assume that he was shorter... Dear Thorir, you were shorter...)

At the moment, he's just. Staring at his nephew. Imagining Eydís with a beard. Sorry sis.]

[ooc: thank you so much for taking the time to explain everything to me. I feel much better now. I think I was worried before that it's going to take too long for characters to regain their memories. I guess in this thread Fili got an echo of an image of his mother from the name Dis, though no details yet.]

Yeah. It's a nice beard actually. Very neat and it's braided with decorations and everything. [And this is when he notices the look on his uncles face. This is when the little shit part of him surfaces.] I'm going to tell ma you think of her with a beard.

No!

[There is a moment of panic - not deep to the bone, fearful one, more the "my sister will kill me" type - but then he shakes his head.] You would have to explain to her how I came to that thought. [And that is obviously not an option.]

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permakhuzdul?

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entirely fine! I'm still not 100% sure how echoes worked yet, but this could do I think

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