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You devilish son of a biscuit.
Okay let’s rock some good old Essy because she easily has the most nostalgia memory fodder.
❤️- A happy memory that makes them smile:
There’s so many things that could really fit into this but in order to not cut into any of the other ones let’s go with the time she got a job as a miner for a high blood.
Now you’d think that’s a really weird memory considering incredibly hard labour and also that there was a cave in and she broke her arm at one point, BUT she did it so she could get money so she could buy her friends presents for twelfth perigee. I think that’s also how she met Lixie? So two fantastic things in one tbh. Plus all the work got her even more fit so BONUS.
💙- A sad memory that makes them cry
SO MANY POTENTIAL OVERLAPS BUT OKAY, for purely sad there’s probably the time Obbie got super hurt and almost died when he was going to try fuck up Jadrek for fucking with Caeli and got ultra fired and almost executed. That was WAY SAD. But hey they’re rad eyeless buddies now.
Insert gif of them missing a high five and hitting each other in the face.
💛- A memory that makes them feel angry
This one would probably be the situation with their ex-matesprit? She feels angry at herself because she got into a relationship with someone she didn’t really have feelings with because she was so lonely, but ultimately now that it’s way down the line she just feels incredibly pissed off at THEM. Kind of like when you can retroactively look back on an abusive relationship and realise just how fucked up it was.
Like, they tried to force her to have sex when she wasn’t ready and she broke up with them over that, and then when Essy went back to try and help her when she was having a shit time DESPITE WHAT HAPPENED that asshole kidnapped her and tortured her and almost killed her by leaving her to starve in a cave. How much of an asshole do you even have to BE, holy shit.
I reckon Essy tried to justify a lot of it to make it not seem as bad because she’s just that kind of person who wants to see good in everyone, but it’s so far down the line I imagine they’ve gotten over the idea of trying to make it seem any less bad than it really was. So now there’s just a whole lotta anger for that douchebag.
💚- A memory that makes them feel guilty
This one would probably be what happened with her lusus. Like, ultimately it isn’t vaguely her fault considering Feral Alex was a massive cockmongler and killed her lusus as revenge for her…what, stopping him from killing someone for no reason? But I imagine she’ll never really get over the feeling of guilt that she somehow caused her lusus to be killed, and that she was too injured at the time to save her.
💜- A memory about one of their loved ones, happy or sad
To be honest Essy will never really forget how much she loved her lusus. Like, they weren’t the nicest lusus ever but it was pretty obvious that they cared about her pretty much the entire time? She was just really bad at showing how much she cared, and just kind of projected it through how she was trying to force Essy to be a better hunter because as an animal that was pretty much the only thing she knew properly, like
“If I can make them be a better hunter they’ll be happier and have a nicer life so this is how I need to show my love.”
Even if that meant her being pushed way harder than she should have been a lot of the time. Because it’s probably really hard to gauge how much a tiny troll can deal with when you’re a building sized panther.
💔- A memory that leaves them feeling lonely
Honestly the only time Essy has felt genuinely lonely was the time leading up to when she got with her now ex-matesprit. Girl’s always had friends and had her lusus, but with her lusus gone and Caeli happy with Eth and a bunch of other factors she just felt really garbage about herself and made some poor decisions. But now she lives with Caeli so she’ll probably never feel lonely again, so it’s more just remembering how she used to feel than feeling right now.
❣- A memory that leaves them laughing
Drunken Obie Shennanegans
💕- A memory about their significant other
Well I mean this just HAS to be when Caeli asked her out, like
That’s still something that resonates with me on how cute it was SEVERAL YEARS down the line like holy fuck. How Essy was going through this slow as hell recovery after everything that happened with her former sprit just clawing her way out of that trauma pit and getting healthy again, now living with Caeli on a friendly basis so she didn’t have to feel shitty or alone anymore, her comforting Caeli about Eth being gone all the time and all the shit she was going through because of that (HERES LOOKING AT YOU JADREK YOU FUCK)
And then just Caeli realising that Eth had ditched her completely and was never there for her, and with Namor’s help realising SOMEONE HAD BEEN THERE FOR HER THE WHOLE TIME.
And then she sang a cute as hell song and Essy cried.
💞- A memory about their children
Essy has no kids because trolls so here’s an intermission of an even older character than Essy being cute as hell with her kid, who she gave birth to when I was actively RPing her.
💓- A memory about their friends
Fun fact ESSY USED TO HAVE A MOIRAIL. She was a red blood who’s name I’ve forgotten that lived nearby her. She was a really aggressive person like a scrappy alleycat and Essy was there to hold her back. Essy had a crush on her moirail’s kismesis, but then their black relationship escalated and they killed each other before Essy could intervene.
Essy still wears her moirail’s colour in memory, which is why her skirt is red.
💗- A memory about a good deed they did
Probably saving Caeli from Feral alex. It kind of helped set off the whole chain of events with her and Caeli, and it DEFINITELY helped them get closer. But that aside it just felt good to help someone in need, even if her ribs and arm got smashed for her efforts.
💖- A memory that made them feel special
This one would probably be Morgan traipsing through the jungle for ages to find her after her eyes got damaged when she was attacked by that one random asshole no one liked. Considering she was just flopping around the jungle blind she’d probably be dead if not for that, and Morgan going out of her way to come help her definitely makes her feel special.
OR THE CAVE RESCUE. So many people coming to help her, Caeli included. Plus finding out after the fact how many people were like, GEARED UP FOR WAR just hearing that she’d been hurt by someone.