DE: Late topic is late

[bjornwilde]

 So how about you give us a childhood memory of your pup's? Good or bad, your choice.

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen remembers sitting on her father's lap and looking at all of the big shiny pictures and all of the tiny tiny words in his medical texts when she was three and he decided to teach her to read instead of waiting for her to be old enough to go to Mr. Brotch's class.

Gordon remembers his older brother being staggeringly insistent on turning every single one of their interactions into some kind of athletic competition, and losing patience with it when he was around six or seven- to the degree that he punched Jay and knocked out a couple of (already loose) teeth.

Shephard remembers being six and playing with a friend in the basement of a house they weren't supposed to go into, when their parents didn't know exactly where they were, and realizing that it wasn't just rainy and wet outside but inside as the Cheat River got its massive century flood under way. It is not a memory he revisits much.

Medic remembers the first time he made a note of somebody's name so that he could, when they weren't expecting it, give them exactly what they deserved for stealing Grandamama's cookies from him. I think he was five.

Varric I'm not sure of, although I have a vague impression that a lot of his childhood memories involve snickering at his brother pouting and stomping and yelling "it's not fair!" about... any number of subjects.

Santo remembers learning to swim in a small lake or pond with a lot of other children around, and a lot of running at the lake to get up a good head of steam for a proper cannonball. Again, I think he was five.

Stacker remembers the sense of satisfaction he got watching the fire he'd set in the back of his father's murderer's nightclub grow past the point where it could've been stopped. He was twelve, and shortly thereafter he attempted to jump the man in question for more direct revenge; it was his last childhood memory.

Edward remembers sheep. Lots of sheep. They smelled awful and they had to have horrible things done to their tails, so part of the memory involves an ongoing resolve not to follow in his father's footsteps. This memory could come from just about anywhere in his childhood.

[inlovewithwords]

Tavi sympathizes about the sheep.

[jackdaws_master]

And to think people wondered about why Edward never seemed to be able or willing to stick with a farming job....

[student_of_impossibility]

So long as he was never chased up a tree by them, Edward had it easy.

[bjornwilde]

Jess: Carefully and respectfully playing with a spider in the noonday sun in a tall field of grass.

Hank: Entering one of Harvard's libraries (assuming they have more than one) for the first time and smelling all those books.

Quin: His first sunset on Coruscant and the scent of ozone, smog, and incense from the Jedi temple.

Mulan: The feel of a hoe in her hands when she finds the shoots of the first field of rice plants she'd planted.

Sam: Flying a kite with his cousin after she'd lost her father and the intense pride he felt that he got her to smile for the first time since the funeral.

Brimstone: The comfort of the simple act of kindness the one who would be know as the Warlord gave him when he offered his thigh as a pillow.

Ethan: Cottonwood fluff blowing in the breeze, making it seem like it was snowing in Spring.

Lady Trent: Opening "A Natural History of Dragons" for the first time and finally getting a hint as to how animals fly.

Andrea: Her mother washing her first cut lip and singing a lullaby while trying not to cry.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry: When Mary Margaret gave him the Storybook.

Eriond: When Zedar found him and said he had an errand for the little boy.

Lois: the blue glass bird in the window of every place her family lived until her mom died.

Tavi: his little cousins and his aunt dying in the Blight.

...Those are progressively more depressing memories, I guess.

[balancingminds]

Will: The first time he was on his own in Sherwood, how everything was big, green, a little scary but also safe.

Charles: When he first made Raven laugh and knew that she didn't mind having him as a brother.

Ivan: The crack of Miles' legs when he landed badly from coming down the bannister.

William: Going into town to look at the casualty and death lists from the battle before his mother did, that way he knew what to expect and what to do.

Moist: All of the puppies and dogs his grandfather trained licking him and playing with him until he felt happily buried in a pile of dogs.

Jane: Watching her father prepare his sermon in his study, the way his pen moved and how he would tell her what he was writing and why.

Sameth: The first time he found his way into the forge and watching cold metal be turned into something warm and beautiful.

Demeter: Using a vine to trip Zeus into the mud and knowing that she could be as powerful as he was.

Tumnus: Tasting fresh baked scones with butter on them that his mother made.

The Pirate King: The enticing smell of a sea breeze when his family went to Bath.

[for_good_taste]

Sasha never knew his mother; she died when he was very little, and his father wouldn't talk about her. So when he first learned to walk in others' minds, at the tender age of ten or so, there being no one around to tell him that this was both wrong and foolish, he looked in his father's mind for memories of his mother.

What he found was ... I'm going to use the word 'lemon'.

This probably wasn't the only reason he ran away from home, but it was the proximate cause.

[a1enzo]

This. :'-(

[hey35andholding]

Clementine ran away from home at sixteen with a suitcase to her name. Yeah, not too many happy childhood memories.

For Juliet: playing in the snow with Ewan.

For Dixie: Playing patty-cake with the younger girls at the convent

For Eponine: playing with a large doll her father bought her before the inn collapsed.

For Pinkie: Playing tag with Maud when both were wee.