crimsonjewel

[x] = Locked for now.
[*] - Requested

( Memories )

( Skills )

Trivial Negative - Holding grudges with Aladdin
Regained: Game #253
Form: a walnut-sized blue glass ball. You must shatter the ball to get the memory. The pieces will disappear afterwards. One use.

here to here and here to here.

Things learned/reactions
- First appearance (though not name) of Morgiana.
- Approaching Alibaba, Aladdin and their friend as they train, with Hakuryuu.
- Hakuryuu is supposed to stick with those three. I'm just tagging along.
- Wow, there are a lot of bad feelings between me and Aladdin! On both sides. I think it has something to do with Judar, but I just don't remember anymore than that!

Taken? No

Trivial Neutral - Wedding jitters
Regained: Game #251
Form: apple-flavored hard candies in the shape of hearts. Open the wrapper and you'll see that they are actually broken hearts in two pieces. Suck on a piece to receive the memory. Two uses.

here to here

Things learned:
- Ka Kobun has something called a Household Vessel. I wonder if that's related to the metal vessels, somehow. His can heal. Useful!
- Judar was badly injured. :( At least he's alive and going to recover.
- She and Hakuei really never got along, did they. Constant low-grade nagging resentment.
- I really honestly don't want this marriage thing and feel like it's a waste of a perfectly good fighter.
- Relief that the whole thing fell through, from what she's learned about Abhmad.

Taken? No

Trivial Positive - Kouha and his posse (mildly headcanon)
Regained: Game #248
Form: snake fangs. Stab yourself with it to gain the memory; it breaks after three uses.

Okay, so this is a memory founded entirely on canon information, but not shown onscreen. Cause Kougyoku had to have met or at least seen Kouha before the Medium fight and known what his deal was. ...And of course I don't have the relevant pages noted, since Kougyoku doesn't appear around then.

The memory itself is basically Kougyoku watching Kouha with his people, from around the corner, the way she does with Hakuei and Hakuryuu, here.

What she learns/reactions:
- Kouha wouldn't have had it easy either, at court.
- His mother had gone insane, or at least that's what people said?
- Like Kougyoku, he's not a son of Koutoku's wife, though his mom was probably noble
- Everyone said Kouha was crazy like his mom, and bloodthirsty
- Only Kouha dun cur. And basically goes 'you think I'm a crazy monster, sure, I'll be a crazy monster, then!'
- And then, he proceeds to take in other people seen as 'monsters' or outcasts: discarded science experiments, outlaws, etc. They are his army and he loves them a lot. And they love him a lot.

- There are people in her family who don't care about what others say about them?
- Extra kinship to Kouha, due to the proximity of this memory and the last one she received
- Curiosity and possible dere for the sorts of people Kouha would take in. They loved her brother, after all! Even if they look kind of scary...

Significant Negative: The lonely childhood afforded a "lowborn."
Regained: Game #246
Form: a slightly torn teabag of nettle tea. brew and drink the tea to share the memory— it'll only work on the first brewing, but you can share it with up to ten other people if you all take tiny sips.

This is basically her whole childhood until Ka Kobun's appearance and Judar's intervention. It's not flashbacked wholesale, but there's enough info. First referenced here. Also here, though that's actually a different memory. I think I'm forgetting a reference here and there, but that should give you the general gist.

Things Learned/Notes
- It's expected for Kou royal men to sleep with lots of women, to have lots of heirs. (Reference in a different omake that doesn't feature Kougyoku, so I don't have it on hand.) However, her father went above and beyond the call of duty with his womanizing.
- There's probably something to be made of the fact that there are a ton of princesses, all from different mothers, but the only prince with a different mother is Kouha. From that, I'm drawing the impression that Koutoku had a policy of ignoring his male bastards, but legtitmizing the girls so he could use them for political marriages. (And no, I don't know what went differently with Kouha. We're entirely in speculation at this point.)
- Kou royal court is extremely status conscious, and being the daughter of a prostitute was basically a social death sentence. We're not just talking being snubbed by court ladies. The servants refuse to acknowledge her existence. She's basically got at least ten years of systemic neglect to deal with. Someone fed her and stuff, but that's about it.
- This memory is going to put at least a temporary kibosh on the social skills and confidence Kougyoku's been developing in Aather. She may literally go hide under a desk and develop crippling shyness around people she previously calmly approached. She's gonna be pretty scared of people abandoning or ostracizing her.
- On the very slight plus side, this memory will make her more self-reliant when it comes to entertaining and taking care of herself. Just not in a happy way.

Trivial Negative - Dunya's funeral
Regained: Game #243
Form: small chocolate horse.

here to here

Kougyoku's not shown onscreen, but she must have been there.

Reactions:
There was another princess in Sindria, at the same time as me. Another girl my age. But she died, in some kind of sad and unstoppable way.

I didn't even know her. All the deluge of missed opportunity feelings.

Significant Neutral - Judar pays a visit
Regained: Game #241
Form: tiny baggies of jungle slime. Eat the slime to get your memory! . . . it tastes like peanut butter even if it doesn't look to appetizing, and also goes well with bread. One use.

here to here.

Reactions:
- It was just like Sinbad had said. How badly did I mess up, in Balbadd? Thinking about that was a morass of bad feels...
- Judar, what are you doing?
- I don't want to be caught in-between...
- Anxiety, anxiety