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[lifethatisscratched]

I AM THE NIGHT I AM THE NIGHT I AM THE MOTHERFRAKKING NIGHT.

What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood? Why is it so powerful and lasting?

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[lifethatisscratched]

Connor remembers his village burning and Mother dying, obvs. Dead parent = staying power.

Mako remembers going out for a walk with his parents the night a firebender struck them down. Again, dead parents = staying power.

Voodoo - hahaha. I have retconned and re-retconned his pre-canon origin story so many times idek anymore. Let's leave it alone for now, yes?

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine remembers from when she was four or five, her father using his magic to turn her shoes different colors to make her laugh so she wouldn't be nervous on the first day of school. She remembers it because it was just a special thing done just for her, back when her parents were still happy together. Before the fighting, the messy separation, the hiding, and the Wars.

[bjornwilde]

Asajj: I'll go with happy jedi training days with Ky Karec. She blocked most of them out as useless and weak, but lately she's returning to them. As to why she remembers? Well, they were about the only happy, non cruel times of her life.

Quinlan: His parents death. And by this I mean his great aunt giving him his mother's guardian badge so that he could experience their deaths through his psychometric abilities. Thanks great aunt!

Ahsoka: Seeing the Jedi Temple for the first time. Being a little kid and seeing the Temple and knowing it was to be your new home would have to make an impression.

Ethan: His father making him try and ride a stallion that wasn't quite broken in yet. He was all of 10 if I am remembering the story right.

Rollo: Milli-canon, but climbing up a tree with a young Ragnar and Ragnar talking about all the places they will go to just past the horizon and out of their sight.

Izana: I'm honestly not sure if childhood happens on Sidonia. Canon is confusing on this point, as everything is either happening now, or 100 years ago. Add in cloning and other characters who seem adults being only 5 years old, and well, I don't want to commit to something that may be against canon.

ETA: Sam Wilson: (Headcanon) Flying kites with his younger niece while she was grieving for her father. Eventually she grew up to work for the Dept. of Defense and built this neat set of wings.

[innerbrat]

I'm not even answering this for Dick YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.

Dinah remembers lots of things, but...
...you know how some kids just don't sleep and the only way you can get them to sleep is to take them for a drive in the car? Ted Knight used to take Dinah flying in low orbit and she remembers on more than one occasion falling asleep with the Earth beneath her.

Korra remembers a time that she and Eska and Desna got into a massive fight and somehow it was ALL HER FAULT.

Skye remembers the Brodys. There were other families, but the Brodys had a house and a garden and seemed nice and she really wanted them to like her.

[cutting_edgex23]

X remembers a lot of terrible things.

I'm gonna concentrate on what was a good one.

Sometimes, if X held really really still, or let herself pretend to sleep while Sarah Kinney was reading Pinocchio to her -- not the Art of War, but the secret book they had to keep hidden and safe -- sometimes Sarah would run her fingers through X's hair, just for a second. It was the best thing there was, in those days.

[i_am_your_host]

I think Emcee would remember the moment he learned that a husband and wife with children was what was considered a 'normal' family. And then asking what 'normal' means. But surely that had to be boring, because why have only two parents when you can have several (especially after starting life out with none), and most of them women, and some of them men, and some of them sang and danced, and some were paid to have sex, and some were actors and painters, and some of the women loved other women, and some of the men loved other men, and really, what is a normal family?

[2goodarms]

Curtis forgot most of his past as a survival mechanism. (Canon quote, maybe paraphrased slightly: "I don't want to remember anything before I met Gilliam.") The vast majority of age zero to seventeen is a big blank. That said, he has gotten a couple flashes of his life before the train, albeit nothing too enduring: kissing a girl goodbye, eating breakfast with his parents, that kind of thing. Utterly mundane to anyone who didn't live in the tail. They've really only been called up by circumstance, since he's finally off the train and trying to adapt to life in Milliways; otherwise, they'd be meaningless.

[athelstanthescribe]

The first time he was shown the books at the monastery and told he was allowed to read them and learn to make them.

(Alternatively, the last time he saw his parents and siblings, but that only came to be powerful and lasting in hindsight.)

[dejah_thoris]

Childhood is a very different thing on Barsoom. When she emerged from her mother's egg after five years of incubation, she would have appeared to be a fourteen year old girl to a human. Within another five years, she looked as she looks now.

That said, the earliest and most formative memory Dejah has is of the day she drank the Voice of Barsoom. She has an eidetic memory, but that day seems more vivid than the rest. She felt connected to every living thing on the planet.

And it's the day she remembers feeling her mother's and father's love for her, like gravity. It's one of the few memories she has of her mother's face.

[onceaviking]

Eric remembers the sea and the sand beneath his feet and the sun on his back.
When all else is gone, he remembers that.

Elrond's strongest childhood memory is Elros. It's being two and one at the same time.

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae is still occasionally weirded out by the memory of Eric telling her of his mother's bread.

[onceaviking]

That was a good thread.

[sunbaked_baker]

It waaaaaaaaas. <3<3<3<3

[rudderless]

Clementine: The sound of the roaring crowd at her last amature meet.

Dixie: A lot of the tragedy, but also the peaceful sensation of sitting in a wheat field enjoying the sunlight.

Juliet: Playing with Ewan when she was small.

Pinkie Pie: Playing with Maud, and her first party.

Eponine: Walking Gavroche over the floor when she was a child and he an infant; the softness of her childhood doll.