Memoriiies

[filetofish]

Just blocking off bits rn, there's a lot of shit that needs to be split or gotten rid of, much of it is plot notes rather than memories I'm gonna use, as Crow's offscreen for a lot of plot things relevant to him, but for now it's a quick reference of what happened when for me to draw on!



PRE-GAME
> grandpa stuff (can be broken up??)
> meeting duke fluffyface
> going on adventures with vita
> single-letter code names
> meeting towa/angie/george, fighting with angie

1204 MARCH/APRIL
Prologue: watching newbies arrive
April 17: meeting rean
April 25: post-chapter scene??? (idr)

1204 MAY
May 22: 50 miraaaa
May 23: free day
> first bond event (candy gambling)
May 30: post-chapter scene??? (idr)

1204 JUNE
June 15: study day
> 2nd bond event (helping rean study first aid)
June 16-19: mid-termsss
June 20: free day
> 1st bike sidequest (it's my baby too!)
June 28: post-chapter cutscene

1204 JULY
July 18: free day
> helping Rean find Elise
> ?? whining about gambling, idr if this was the 18th or the morning of the 24th
July 26:
> in heimdall at the cafe
> festival, fountains
> festival, post-dragon faito
> is there a post-chapter scene idr

1204 AUGUST
August 21:
> joining class vii
> chatting w/Sharon
> evening dorm hangouts (guess you're fated to be part of my life)
August 22: free day,
> 3rd bond event (moving stuff)
> old schoolhouse
> saying goodbye to G [C]
August 26: practical exam
August 28-29: jurai trip (think about this later)
August 30: garellia
> hanging out w/machias
> railway guns!!

1204 SEPTEMBER
September 18:
> convo with Rean at engineering building
> evening dorm hangouts
September 19: free day,
> old schoolhouse
> 4th bond event (evening classroom gayness)
September 22: practical exam
September 25: Roer day 1 stuff
> show dem titties
> hanging out with Elliot, festival prep
> illicit phonecalls
> ooOOOoo rean met up with a giiirl
September 26: Roer day 2 stuff
> rescue the miners!!
> totally not doing anything shady

1204 October
> ymir trip, last-minute festival prep
> hot springs scene (use manga)
> giving people their shit back (idr when it's mentioned but somewhere in here)
October 21:
> bike scene
> evening dorm hangouts
October 23:
> each possible festival event w/Rean
> final concert practice
> "mine's doing it too"
> loa erebonius
October 24:
> 2nd fesitval day
> concert [R]
> international bank of rean
> final bond event
October 30:
> leavingggg
> assassination
> sen1 final battle

1204 November
> whatever offscreen shit was mentioned
November 29: giving Toval the anonymous tip
November 30: my buddies kidnapped a princess [R]

1204 December (uh oh)
> nts figure out what day bullying the prince part 1 was
December 12:
> mech fite
> fish burgers
> not-mech fite
December 21: V :(
December 24: Celdic.
December 25: S!!
December 27: Vita bullying kids at the shrines
December 30: Rean got laid and I wasn't there (you get a Crow profile on this day but idr why)
December 31: UH OH
> Bullying the Prince Part 2
> not gonna happen
> TIL OUR SOULS BURN OUT [R]
> forward, relentlessly

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MEMORY 4

[filetofish]

[Disclaimer: This is a long memory with a ton of info dump and spoilers!!

The memory is covered here from 30:42 to the end, and here from start to 6:02, but it's from Crow's perspective so it'll play out differently than the video. Namely, you won't see anything happening in the classroom, but I didn't feel like getting timestamps for each little clip so see the write-up for deets.

As of this memory, names are now audible.]

[It's roughly noon and H is standing on a rooftop in a busy city, looking through a big face-concealing helmet. Below him a large thoroughfare stretches up to a grand plaza in the distance, where a large crowd has gathered in front of a podium flanked by soldiers and tanks. There's a radio at his side, broadcasting news commentary on a national address about to be delivered by "the chancellor", and the tension is palpable.

In H's hands is a gun -- not just any gun, but a massive sniper rifle, set up and aimed right at that busy scene. As the voice on the radio switches to the beautiful voice of a female reporter, he watches the chancellor stand at the podium through the rifle's sight.

The speech begins -- an impassioned criticism of unforgivable acts by the "province" of Crossbell, which has declared independence and apparently both frozen the financial assets of "the empire"'s citizens and used a weapon of mass destruction in the process. This is a call to arms, self-righteous and demanding "justice" and submission to the "firm but fair" hand of the empire. Just as the speech reaches its fever pitch, with the crowd cheering for war, H mutters to himself with steely anger.

"Go finish your speech in hell."

Then he squeezes the trigger. The chancellor falls, and the crowd erupts into screams. H seems satisfied with himself.

"...Well. That was anticlimactic. Aaaand there's our coup de grace. Now, just have to add the finishing touches."

But then he's interrupted by a female voice and the impact of a gunshot shattering his helmet. It leaves his face exposed, as he turns to see a woman in police uniform.

"It really was you all along..." she says. "To think, all the time we spent searching for the leader of the Imperial Liberation Front, and he was right under our noses... Crow Armbrust, from the Jurai SEZ."

H (No, Crow) doesn't seem to bothered. He jokes about it, about how well he hid his tracks and whether "Arundel" was the one who found him out. The police woman is furious ("How could you?!"), but Crow's bitter tone comes back, referencing the annexation of "Jurai" eight years back.

"You let your guard down, you lose. That's how your boss' favorite little game works, isn't it? Well, he lost. And now he won't be playing any of his games again. Ever."

She attempts to arrest him, threatening him with interrogation, but he's not impressed, and quickly it becomes evident why -- as the radio plays the pretty reporter's coverage of the assassination, a giant silver airship appears and drops a company of... mechs. They proceed to totally dominate the tanks and armored cars already present, and it's immediately obvious that the city will be occupied by this force with minimal effort.

The police woman asks what the mechs are, and Crow tells her they're "humanoid combat armors", "knights for a modern age", called Panzer Soldats. He backs up to the edge of the building, ignoring the police woman's threat and mentioning "Zephyr" handling "Valflame Palace".

"But I've got my own score to settle", he says, then jumps backwards off the roof. In a flash of light he's suddenly inside the same big blue mech from a previous memory.

"See ya, Icy Maiden." he says to the woman, then flies off in his mech, and the memory cuts out.

TAKEAWAYS

[filetofish]

> holy shit I'm a terrorist. A terrorist cell leader, even?
> I really, really hated that chancellor guy
> this is what I betrayed my friends for, and I'm sad to leave them and hurt them, but I don't regret the decision even a little
> My name is Crow!! And I'm from "Jurai". I'm also really pissed about it having been annexed, but I still don't remember exactly why or how it personally affected me.
> My codename is also "C". Haha AlcheME is funny now.
> I don't feel invested in the military coup at all. I'm not bothered by it but it wasn't my goal? I was working with whoever's goal it actually was, and they're the ones who funded all this crap, but I don't remember who that is or why. I just know all I cared about was killing that dude.
> Hmm maybe I'm a bad person!