echo doesn't want to forget monty and harper. they know they could never forget them, but they worry about forgetting the little details - all their little traits and quirks, the things that made them laugh, the crinkles in their eyes when they did.
they weren't lying to bellamy when they said they didn't remember their parents - or at least, it didn't feel like a lie. they can recall the trauma of the night they lost them, but not much else. echo has lost many of the personal details that would have made them feel real. to echo, compared to bellamy's massive and ever-present, deeply impactful memory of aurora, it didn't feel like a lie to say they didn't remember their parents. they have very few fond memories of them, and those that they can recall are muddy, so much so that echo doubts if they were even real. so much about before nia has been repressed and buried and forgotten, and echo has years and years of not allowing themselves memories of before because doing so meant death. for as much damage as queen nia caused, nia was the closest to a mother figure echo can remember. so much of unraveling the traumas echo has experienced is coming to terms with the abuse and molding they faced from the only family they felt they had.
they think of monty and harper often and will talk to them sometimes. this typically happens when they're alone, but they're not embarrassed or shy about it. their grief doesn't manifest in a large, overpowering way (by nature of trauma and inability to produce such loud displays of emotion but also simply by nature of echo), and they're mostly at peace with the decision they made, but it is ever-present. it's quiet and private, much like echo. they loved harper and monty deeply and will carry them with them always.
