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What's the first thing your character remembers?

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[bjornwilde]

Oh challenging and interesting.

So far Ben is the only one speaking and he says his brother Daniel sneaking out through a window to go do "stuff".

[minkhollow]

Cata isn't being forthcoming; Sam remembers bits of his life with his mother, but his first truly vivid memory is walking in on her (second, as it turned out) rape and going batshit on the guy responsible.

Claudia remembers teaching herself to read by pestering her parents and Joshua for what words were.

Apollo remembers killing the Python!

Imp's father took him along on several stone-circle-building things; his first memory is likely one of those.

I think Regulus' first memory involves his mother shouting about something. She does that a lot.

Red, if she thought about it long enough, does remember her mother, but only vaguely. On the other hand, Ruby would be hard pressed to truly recall anything short of trying to leave for Boston and finding out her grandmother had a heart attack; thanks to the curse, that's the first thing that really sticks.

[kd7sov]

It's times like these (and... most of the times unlike these) that I wish Hasbro would give us something about Fluttershy's past and/or family. (Technically, for reasonable definitions of "something", they have. But two snippets almost certainly from the same summer, featuring only herself, one other named character, a few random bullies, and a single uncaring adult, do not a cohesive backstory make.) Considering how functional Pipsqueak is, at what I infer to be less than a year old, Fluttershy's first memory would likely be from considerably before she got her cutie mark.

Felix's first memory is of hearing his little sister's first word. ("Block", for the curious.)

Kain's first memory... I'm not sure. Probably something related to his father, but not actually including him.

[landlesslord]

Guy's first memory... probably running through/rolling in the herb garden with the family's dogs.

[thenewblack]

The first thing that Artemis remembers remembering is her mother singing a lullaby in French, but the details are all iffy. She worked that memory over in her mind for years and all the rough bits of reality have worn off.

The first thing she remembers for herself is being thrown into the air and caught. She doesn't remember who did it, just that it probably wasn't Jade. They were too close in age for her sister to have the upper body strength.

[ladyoflorien]

Hmmm. Interesting. *takes a coffee break from srs bsns*

Leela - eyeeyecaptain - The doorstep of the orphanarium; potentially, the day she discovered she was the only one-eyed alien in the whole universe.

Porthos - srspirate - The round, happy faces of his parents.

Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - Her first trip to the zoo -- or what constitutes a zoo by that time on Earth, which I get the feeling would be little more than an exotic animal shelter, and endangered plants kept in glass boxes with misters on an automatic timer.

Renee Walker - whathastobedone - A trip to Virginia Beach when she was four, and the pink-and-yellow polka-dotted two piece (her favoritest one) she wore that day. In addition to her mother's over-sized sunhat. The straw smelled of sunblock and Cinnabar.

Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - Silver and bronze; colourful obverse ribbons that look like prisms in the right light. Proudly pressed uniforms.

Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - Playing hide-and-seek in the garden at three, occasionally clambering into her mother's lap to touch her needlepoint flowers to be sure they aren't real. I also get the distinct memory that plentiful heavy skirts worn by her mother made a most happy hiding place, though it was particularly frowned upon.

Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - The right forward catwalk on the ship she lived on from ages two to six. It was the perfect spot to hole up and listen in on conversations that didn't want being heard. Good acoustics.

Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - Her mother -- and by that, of course, we mean her mother's maidservants -- lacing her into her first corset. She was seven. Regina doesn't have a lot of early memories. She has replaced them.

[seat_five_girl]

Regina doesn't have a lot of early memories. She has replaced them.

Ako has so much terror from those two sentences. So much terror. She might choose memory editing over death, but it would be painfully close.

[happilyneverafter]

Bwaaahahaha. Well, the true memory editing in Storybrooke happened to the other characters, but yes. *pats Regina's head* *...carefully*

[saphyria]

The furthest memory back that Yrael can recall with any clarity is the betrayal that let to his binding.

One of Zelgadiss' earliest memories is Rezo explaining to him that his parents had died in an accidental laboratory fire. (Much later, Zel learned not to trust purple-haired, shut-eyed, staff-slinging priests.) He was four.

Rae's earliest memories are of sitting, at the age of three, in the kitchen floor, crying until someone let her stir something. Also, of her father magicking her shoes different colors to make her laugh and to calm her fears about starting pre-school.

[crabbycustomer]

Karkat's first coherent, joined up memories start in his hive, after completing the trials. Everything before that point is a muddy haze of a brand-new body and everything trying to kill him. He has -zero- conscious retention of his experiences s a grub, before his pupa phase.

There will probably be an EP in that someday.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy's earliest memory would probably be how to either kill or annoy his baby brother, most likely by trying to smother him with a tiny homemade teddy bear named Tim.

[innerbrat]

Dinah remembers being thrown up in the air and caught. She doesn't exactly remember who it was, but given that she was thrown really really high, it's probably an uncle.

Renee remembers locking her brother in the bathroom and saying he was a "criminal." She was sent to be early FOREVER.

Floyd remembers playing in the garden with his big brother.

Mel remembers getting into trouble for climbing into the high cupboard to get chocolate for her and Harth. She remembers vividly that Harth didn't get into trouble, despite the fact that it was his idea.

Will remembers sitting on his mother's lap while she told him stories of her father.

Teresa remembers her mother and her father and her family. It's all a bit blurred now, but the most vivid memory she has of them is watching them being torn apart by yoma.


Mac isn't telling.

Death remembers the first thing ever to die.

[rowanberries]

Harth: :D?

[innerbrat]

Harth can get bent.

[the_fairest]

Because it was a hilarious reaction. I read the question and the first answer in my head for Mary Margaret was:


The last twenty-four hours to half week.

Older memories do exist and they will fill in if the mind needs them, pulling them from a murky, very fuzzy dim place back to the present. The further back you go in this the harder it gets. Before Emma started time it's even more astronomically hard to get precise on details.

[happilyneverafter]

>:D

[not_my_sandbox]

For Amascut and her brother, it was when the first living thing died because of the presence (or birth) of another living thing(s) -- the first instance of Life begetting Death and Death begetting Life. Unless you take the meeting of their parents Tumeken (sun god) and Elidinis (river spirit of the Elid) literally, then it is probably standing on the banks of the Elid, toes digging into the rich silt.

[havetubawilltravel]

Clementine recalls a stuffed pink elephant she had when she was small - likely lost in one of the forty million moves she's made over the years.

Juliet's involves snow; the one time she went to visit her grandma in Canada, and it was her first experience with snow.

Dixie's was definitely the scent of her mother's skin as she pressed her palm against her forehead when she was very young.

i'm hesitant to name Pinkie's, in case the show decides to do it for me.

[genarti]

Trowa remembers war.

No, really; it's canon that he doesn't remember a time before he was a child soldier. (Which makes sense, since his parents died when he was maybe two, and he was picked up by the soldiers when he was four or so.) So probably a snippet of sitting around camp -- walking by a truck, eating dinner, doing some kind of very very basic mobile suit maintenance. I suspect he may also have a very fuzzy memory or two of wandering around in a war zone when he was a child refugee, but he hasn't differentiated those from later ones.

River remembers twirling around and around in the living room; a flash of Simon sitting on the couch, and the clear sense that he was wrong and not listening to her tell him so; her mother making something (probably tea) in the kitchen, and River watching from under the table.

Clare remembers several brief flashes of village life (houses and streets from a child's height, a neighbor's stoop), and several brief flashes of her parents that are more impressions or brief semi-photographs than clear memories. She doesn't remember their faces, voices, or names. A lot of that got buried deep by the trauma afterward.

Uzura remembers waking up! She doesn't remember her past self(/selves, if you count the tree) in any conscious way, although other characters obviously do.

Regan's first memories are similar to River's in their normality and cultural context, although they're blurrier. A favorite toy, playing with the fringe of a rug while her parents lit incense, the decorated ceiling of her childhood bedroom, that kind of thing.