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 9

[filetofish]

[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.]

TAKEAWAYS

[filetofish]

> Okay I guess this is why I'm an asshole?
> My grandpa was FUCKING AMAZING and I love him so much!!
> Which is why, it turns out, I HATE THAT CHANCELLOR GUY
> Wow I'm sure fuckin' glad I became a terrorist and killed the fucker