[Please End] Crow Armbrust ([personal profile] filetofish) wrote 2019-01-10 11:02 pm (UTC)

MEMORY 10

[This is a headcanon memory covering stuff that happened offscreen but was talked about in-game. It has some spoilers and implied csa and other potentially troubling content.]

[Backstory Montage Part 2: It's a series of clips of young Crow wandering through various villages, towns, & cities. At first he's doing okay -- looking for information on the Ironblood Chancellor, picking up what odd jobs people will give a 13 y/o while he moves. In one clip an adult asks him if he's attending Sunday School and suggests he look into going into a church orphanage.

But pretty quickly he's out of money. The clips descend from stubbornly washing dishes and carrying supplies to picking pockets and swindling people with card tricks. He ends up in bars and gambling dens, relying on wit and charm and being a kid to cheat adults out of their cash.

Once, the memory shows him throwing up in an alley after getting beaten for his efforts. And it only gets uglier from there.

Ultimately these memory fragments land Crow in some kind of huge city. There he does a bit more stealing -- and a bit more. He's hanging around the red light district, cozying up to influential people, asking questions clearly targeting sensitive information about the imperial government. The memories never show what happens behind closed doors but it's pretty easy to tell what he's giving in exchange.

Finally, he's sitting on the edge of a huge bed in an unbelievably opulent room, talking to a man with red hair and a flamboyant attitude. If he wants to take out the chancellor so badly, the man says, he'll help. Crow will be given lodging, and the man will help him get his revenge -- but he needs to keep quiet and out of sight. And be patient -- they're playing a long game.]

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