[MEMORIES 12 - 23]

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The castle banquet part two: Assassin attacks. The march of the Ionioi Hetairoi. (significant neutral)

[a gift (after the Prince's rescue) | Day 426 | nonshareable (flower seed; plant)]

Scene transcript - episode 11.

+ Taken onscreen.

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Robbing the library. "TINY! Your ambition is tiny!" (trivial negative)

[Game 333 - death - Dog | Day 428 | shareable 4/5 (white carnation; pluck petal)]

Scene transcript - Episode 2.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Learning about his grandmother and the Velvets' (limited) history of magic. An ambition is born. (significant positive)

[Game 336 - scavenger hunt - Eliza's Brother | Day 433 | shareable semi-indefinitely (scrap of paper; write on)]

Pre-canon memory.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Assassin is dead! Having a minor tantrum at Rider for not wanting to do anything. Seriously Rider can you do something besides eat snacks and watch TV? (trivial neutral)

[Game 337 - a bet - Chance | Day 434 | nonshareable (chocolate coin)]

Scene transcript - Episode 3.

+ Taken offscreen.

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His parents' funerals. (significant negative)

[Game 340 - Personaquest - Marjory & June | Day 438 | shareable ~4/5 (apple; take a bite)]

Pre-canon memory.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Receiving his letter of acceptance to Clock Tower's Evocation Department. (significant positive)

[a gift (after defeating the Darkness plague) | Day 441 | shareable ∞ (pink plastic teacup; pretnd sip)]

Pre-canon memory.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Camping out on a leyline in order to restore Rider's mana. (trivial neutral)

[Game 342 - make a hero - Snow White | Day 448 | shareable ∞ (quill pen; write)]

Scene transcript - Episode 20.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Being publicly called upon and ridiculed in front of his peers; Kayneth tears his thesis apart and discards it. (significant negative)

[Game 345 - what is love? - Cutie Velvet | Day 452 | shareable ∞ (plush fish & Kunzite globe; attach together)]

Scene transcript - Episode 1.

+ Taken offscreen.

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Caster's nightmare workshop. "If my Master were unmoved by such a sight, I would have to strike him." (significant negative)

[Game 347 - the fearful garden - Maleficent | Day 454 | shareable ∞ (silver-backed mirror; look into)]

Scene transcript - Episode 9. GRAPHIC GORE/BODY HORROR WARNING.

+ Taken onscreen.

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Battle at the Mion. Caster's horror. Second summon of Ionioi Hetairoi and the release of Excalibur. (significant neutral)

[knight brokerage activation | Day 455 | presumably nonshareable ([memory form unknown?])]

Scene transcript - Episodes 13-15.

+ Taken onscreen.

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SWEET HOLY MOTHER OF ROAD RACES. Saber destroys Rider's Gordius Wheel. The long walk home and the rooftop conversation with Glen. (significant neutral)

[Game 349 - roles - Story | Day 457 | shareable ∞ (prism containing his Command Seals; hold & contemplate)]

Scene transcript - Episode 22.

+ Taken onscreen.

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"My Servant, by the seal upon my hand, I command you...Rider, fight until you achieve victory. Win the Holy Grail. And...take the world for your own." (significant neutral)

[Game 350 - a bow, a blade, and teeth - Giant | Day 459 | shareable 3/4 (ball of cloud; pull off some fluff)]

Scene transcript - Episode 22.

+ Taken onscreen.


The overall impact of these is a lot of game-changer revelations with regards to the actual events of the Grail War; a lot more of his actual bonding and formative experiences with Rider and the War back; a whole lot of guilt and upset (some of it survivor's guilt of a sort, with regards to the dead in Caster's lair); a profound sense of how deeply serious the Grail War got and just how in over his head he was; the novel experience of someone finding out he was a deceiving mage brat and accepting him in anyway; the equally novel experience of Rider truly acknowledging and befriending him after their trials by fire; and the action he took with all of these things weighing down on his head.

Or, in emote form: щ(ಥДಥщ) ??!?!?!?!!??!?!

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MEMORY 17

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This is Waver camping out in his own front hall by the door, until a letter with the Clock Tower seal finally drops through the mail slot; a moment of heart-thumping dread where he can't bring himself to break the seal in case it's a rejection and not an acceptance; tearing the envelope itself before his thoughts can chase themselves around his head any further.

He actually screams "YES!!!" out loud once he skims the first paragraph:

Dear Mr. Velvet --

Congratulations. You have been selected for admission to the autumn term . . .