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 11

[filetofish]

[This memory is covered here from 55:50 to 01:01:15, 01:48:10 to 01:49:01, and 01:52:30 to 02:04:30. It's from Crow's perspective so you won't see any of the cutaways to other people. This is also major spoilers for the finale of Trails of Cold Steel II.]

[This memory cuts in on what appears to be a dramatic climax. There's a red mecha screaming and letting off terrifying red light while the redheaded man from Crow's earlier memory laughs maniacally. He's yelling about it being the "demon with a thousand weapons" and the "absolute ruler" from 250 years ago and it's a very supervillain moment.

The hot witch lady Crow runs around with and one of his and Phoenix's classmates are protecting the whole class group with a magical forcefield, but it's about to collapse. Crow suggests the witch lady ("Vita") use an enhancement technique on him to create an opening for Phoenix and the rest of the class to get through and fight until Crow & Phoenix's mechas have recovered their mana. The goal seems to be less "defeat evil" and more "rescue the crown prince from inside the evil". With the help of a magical bird and cat, Vita lets Crow unleash a powered-up attack that stuns the red mech long enough for everyone else to run in and fight it.

The memory skips the fight itself, but it seems the heroes have done a good job, and Crow & Phoenix's mechs have arrived. They jump in and go to have a rad two-on-one mech battle. The actual combat is cut again, until you see Crow & Phoenix having won victory and exposed the core. Crow says he'll "clear a path" for Phoenix and charges forward to do just that.

But as he's doing so, the red mech stabs its tails into the ground, which comes up in front of Crow's -- and stabs right through it. As the hole is ripped through the azure knight, the same one is ripped through Crow. But he responds to Phoenix with a lie:

"I'm fine! It barely scratched me. You keep going! You're the only one who can save him now, so don't you dare look back!"

Phoenix goes and uses his special final attack on the red mech and rips the core out of it, which causes it to dissipate. From within the azure, as Crow's bleeding out, he watches his friends successfully save the prince and call it "mission complete".

It's only when they stop and remember he's not talking and notice the state of his mecha that he leaves it and lets them see the extent of the damage. Held in Phoenix's arms, as he coughs up blood and the witches try and fail to heal his fatal wound, Crow ruffles Phoenix's hair and, still smiling, tells everyone how much they mean to him. In the end he gives a last bit of advice:

"You're all going to be in for some... tough times ahead. I can't go any farther now... but you can... so keep going forward... Relentlessly, without looking back... Heheh... As long as you do... I'm sure..."

He doesn't get to finish it. The world fades out of his vision, and the memory ends.]

TAKEAWAYS

[filetofish]

> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa again
> god that was bad
> but... I was satisfied, in the end
> but now I've had more and don't want to be dead so maybe I don't want to go home afterall?!