Because I could not stop for Death,

[ ring ring goes the flame ]

Memory: ☇ Bekku gets kidnapped by Makita (Ch. 5) [ Significant - Negative ]
Game: 85; Mother
Form: Memories are in the form of a tea bag, encased in a delicately embroidered silk package. You can steep it three times before the memory fades, you'll have to drink the full cup to get the memory though.

( Jamakita... )

Memory: ☇ Working with Bekku to stop the fire (Ch. 2) [ SIGNIFICANT - POSITIVE ]
Game: 81; Kiriko
Form:These memories come in small wooden boxes in your team colors. Opening the lid will show you the memory. They are shareable and unlimited. [ UNSHARED ]

( Two days to turkey )

☇ receiving the book of predictions (headcanon) (Significant-Neutral) [Game 79]

What happens
This happens shortly after Banjou's parents have died, sometime during his final year in middle school. He finds an old tattered notebook amongst his parents' things and while he flips through it, he finds nothing but pictures, and all the pictures show nothing but deaths. He's shocked at first, but keeps on flipping through it, and the very last photo shows an older Banjou, dead beneath a sakura tree, with the date of his twentieth birthday on his watch. He accepts this book of prediction as being real and begins to form his philosophy that guides him through to the end of Ann Cassandra, which is basically: if I can stop all these predicted deaths, then I can stop my own.

Also included in this memory is Banjou's attempts to copy the book and it's photos, which all end in failure.

What this means
WELL, this is quite the memory to take as soon as he returns to Aather, but this memory provides two important pieces of information as to who Banjou is. 1) It tells him how he knew about events that were going to happen. He has a book of predictions! He figures out what happened in those photos and prevents it from happening. 2) He's going to die when he is twenty years old. This is the thing that is going to shock him the most. He's received memories of him doing things that are extraordinary, that should have killed any regular man (I see you there explosions and kicking down clock towers) but he lived. This did create a sense of... I guess immortality? in Raccoon, that Death doesn't want him. Now he understands that Death wants him, but just not yet. He understands that he has been godmodded to not die for another year and half or so. He's going to deal with that sort of knowledge most likely by just repressing it for the moment. The most important thing he's going to get from this is an increase in his suicidal actions during games. If it is a bad game and there is a very good chance that Coral may get hurt badly, Raccoon will now actively knock his team out and take all the damage himself. I'M GOING TO DIE ANYWAY, MIGHT AS WELL GET USED TO IT.

So in short:
> Raccoon has returned to Coral.
> Raccoon will now DIE for Coral.

also at some point I should do write ups for the memories I had pre-drop.

Just a heads up that I am flying home from Spain tomorrow! I'll be picking up threads today after my last class and before dinner. Hopefully I get enough sleep on the plane that I don't spend July 1 as a zombie.

memory 06
☇ the old man talking... (Ch. 3) (Trivial Negative) [Game 32]
( THREE HOURS LATER... )

memory 07
☇ the Clock Tower (Ch. 3) (Significant Positive) [Game 33]
( dang I'm kinda cool )

SKILL 01
☇ first aid (Mundane) [Game 22]

Raccoon knows how to bandage wounds now! Anything from a papercut to setting a broken bone.

SKILL 02
☇ advanced athletic ability (running, strength, maneuverability, etc) (Mundane) [Day 42 event]

Raccoon's general athletic ability gets boosts! He's faster, stronger, and in general is able to do a lot more. Still within human limits, just exceptionally better.

☇ IT'S A TRAP THAT GOES BOOM (Ch. 7) (Significant - Negative) [Game 30]

What happens
here to page 38

Banjou is rushing to pick a locked door so he can prevent an apartment room from exploding. He thinks that the ringing alarm clock is what is going to cause the spark that causes the explosion. He stops it, and turns to the mannequin on the floor, thinking it's his friend Chiasa. Except, it's plugged into a socket, and when Banjou moves to pick it up, it becomes unplugged. The explosion happens as planned.

What this means
I... blew up.

Raccoon is not going to get from this memory that he survives by hiding beneath a table. But uh, more to come when he takes it. :|b

OKAY, so Raccoon pretty much thinks that he's dead in his world now. There really seems to be no way for him to survive an explosion like that. It really shocked him to see that.

So Raccoon is definitely going to be more willing to put himself into more danger during games. Having already died, getting maimed or dying more times is not going to mean much. Also, he's repressing most of the feelings he received from the memory. Coral was there to comfort him, and Rabbit pointed out that they care for him. And Banjou is telling himself that even if he can do no more good at home, he can do a lot of good here in Aather, which is true! But thinking that he's died really threw him for a loop, and it's going to take a while for him to really bounce back from it.

☇ Bekku attempting a Kiss of Life (Ch. 6) (Trivial Positive) [Game 24]

What happens
here up to page 8

Banjou has just saved Bekku from Makita and has been unconscious for the past week (getting stabbed in the shoulder with a burning pole and getting pretty much burnt all over the body will do that). He's staying with an unlicensed doctor who's been looking after him for the past couple years. He tells Bekku that a kiss might bring him back, and Bekku tries it! Except Banjou wakes up before she's actually able to. TSUNTSUN HEADBUTT.

What does this mean
OW. MY HEAD.

Also definite liking of Bekku goes here. She is someone he likes, but how much, he's not sure. Enough that he wouldn't have minded a kiss from her. .////. Also wow, I was asleep for a week :|a

☇ Stalking Bekku (Ch. 2) (Trivial Neutral) [Game 18?]

What happens:
this

Banjou learns about Bekku's clairvoyance and wants her assistance. Bekku says no and Banjou won't take no for an answer. So he follows her, asking for her collaboration, each time her saying no. He breaks the camel's back when he bugs her while she's in the bath and he ends up blasting off.

What does this mean:
MAN I AM WEIRD

Raccoon knows that Bekku has something he needs her help with, but not sure of what. He doesn't learn his name or Bekku's name, but he does learn that whatever he's doing is pretty important. All this does is increase his persistence and his unwillingness to take no for an answer. Also man he is weird and he kinda likes it.