[This is a headcanon memory covering stuff that happened offscreen but was talked about in-game. It has a lot of spoilers for Cold Steel 1 & 2.]
[Backstory Montage Part 1: This starts with a series of short clips of tiny Crow playing around with his grandpa. His parents are nowhere to be seen but their house is very nice -- not quite palatial but it is a small mansion and they're clearly well off.
In this small mansion Crow seems to have a healthy childhood. He slides down banisters, gets rides on his grandpa's shoulders, eats home-cooked meals, and... gambles. Yeah. His grandpa is a whole lot like him, and there are flashes of him teaching Crow to play various card games, billiards, darts, etc, and how to do sleight of hand tricks and make dirty jokes. They're happy and everything is good.
But then things go wrong. Crow's watching his grandpa stress over documents. Visitors come over and he's listening to the discussion through the door -- about the Erebonian Empire and the railway they want to build into Jurai. It'll solve all our economic problems, surely! Although of course there's ulterior motive, it's worth it and they can handle that later. At one point there's a visit from a tall man with strong features and a streak of white in his hair -- it's the same guy Crow's previously remembered assassinating.
He's just a little taller in the next clip. Alone in his grandpa's study Crow's reading the newspaper. It's a huge front page story about the bombing of the railway bridge.
There are more clips -- more arguments between Crow's grandfather and his associates. No one knows who blew up the railway. The Empire says they won't fix it unless Jurai joins them as a "Special Economic Zone". Their security is too lax, after all. Crow's grandfather objects to the obvious power grab but his contacts say it's a good economic deal. Maybe Crow's grandfather was behind the railway bombing, then!
There's another newspaper clip. Jurai joins the Erebonian Empire, and the Mayor resigns. Crow and his grandfather are in a different, smaller house now, and the next few flashes show the old man growing more and more ill, listless.
The last clip is Crow, a tiny bit older and taller again, visiting a grave. He says a brief goodbye, picks up the single bag full of his belongings, slings it over his shoulder, and walks away.]
MEMORY 9
[Backstory Montage Part 1: This starts with a series of short clips of tiny Crow playing around with his grandpa. His parents are nowhere to be seen but their house is very nice -- not quite palatial but it is a small mansion and they're clearly well off.
In this small mansion Crow seems to have a healthy childhood. He slides down banisters, gets rides on his grandpa's shoulders, eats home-cooked meals, and... gambles. Yeah. His grandpa is a whole lot like him, and there are flashes of him teaching Crow to play various card games, billiards, darts, etc, and how to do sleight of hand tricks and make dirty jokes. They're happy and everything is good.
But then things go wrong. Crow's watching his grandpa stress over documents. Visitors come over and he's listening to the discussion through the door -- about the Erebonian Empire and the railway they want to build into Jurai. It'll solve all our economic problems, surely! Although of course there's ulterior motive, it's worth it and they can handle that later. At one point there's a visit from a tall man with strong features and a streak of white in his hair -- it's the same guy Crow's previously remembered assassinating.
He's just a little taller in the next clip. Alone in his grandpa's study Crow's reading the newspaper. It's a huge front page story about the bombing of the railway bridge.
There are more clips -- more arguments between Crow's grandfather and his associates. No one knows who blew up the railway. The Empire says they won't fix it unless Jurai joins them as a "Special Economic Zone". Their security is too lax, after all. Crow's grandfather objects to the obvious power grab but his contacts say it's a good economic deal. Maybe Crow's grandfather was behind the railway bombing, then!
There's another newspaper clip. Jurai joins the Erebonian Empire, and the Mayor resigns. Crow and his grandfather are in a different, smaller house now, and the next few flashes show the old man growing more and more ill, listless.
The last clip is Crow, a tiny bit older and taller again, visiting a grave. He says a brief goodbye, picks up the single bag full of his belongings, slings it over his shoulder, and walks away.]