This won't be first-come-first-serve; rather, whatever's most interesting as a scene. I likely won't have room for too many threads, and I'll prioritize existing CR, though I won't say no to ideas from new CR. HMU here or on Discord (bird#9111) for plotting!
1. Stepmother (no cws) A lighter memory, though melancholy. A very young Dimitri turns to his stepmother after his father returns from a campaign in the north, full of stories of battlefield heroics that Dimitri finds much more upsetting than exciting. Patricia can't change an entire culture, but she reassures Dimitri that his distress is normal.
This memory will be less interactive; interruption will be met with "who are you and how did you get in here"
But it's a chance for his CR to glimpse a more positive version of why he's Like That, so I still wanted to include it.
2. Fhirdiad (no cws) Another lighter memory. Ten-year-old Dimitri. A noble girl his age is visiting from Adrestia, the nation to the south. They've quickly become close friends, with the other girl being more assertive and forceful (in a ten-year-old way) than Dimitri. While Dimitri hasn't spoken of her in-game, this was an important if brief friendship for him, and it's one of his few pre-trauma memories that remains clear.
For the less canon-blind: his friend is baby Edelgard.
Strangers won't be remarkable in this memory, though they'll be regarded with the same confusion/suspicion with which ten-year-olds regard older strangers.
Baby Dimitri!
3. Gwenhwyvar foothills (cw: genocide aftermath, gaslighting, forced sedation) Dimitri's thirteen. He's in an infirmary at the base of the mountains that make up the Faerghus-Duscur border, having just witnessed a double dose of mass murder. He's freshly traumatized, badly injured, feverish, and desperate to make anyone listen to his witness, which they won't. Doctors keep sedating him because the badly injured child really needs to lie the fuck down, which he won't.
This memory in particular I'm restricting to prior CR.
This memory will also feature fourteen-year-old Dedue, as discussed with his player.
Strangers will raise suspicion, but this is an emergency encampment and there's a lot of strangers around. Assert enough authority and a doctor or nurse will probably assume you're meant to be there.
Dimitri will be paranoid and angry, but he'll be more receptive to a stranger who sides with him.
Includes a chance to meet Dimitri's godfather, Rodrigue, freshly mourning his son and his lover king and dear friend, and/or his mentor&tutor Gustave, a sopping wet sadsack of a man!
4. Battle in the west (cw: gore; I'll adjust gnarliness/explicit detail to player comfort.) Dimitri's fifteen. You know what a 15-year-old with PTSD needs? To be sent out as a commander in a civil war. That sounds fine and normal. Definitely not an attempt to get him killed. He's a shockingly competent commander for a 15-year-old, at least until his berserker side activates and he starts tearing through infantry like soggy cardboard.
This memory takes place on a battlefield, and will involve combat. Dimitri himself probably won't try to kill you, but if you get in his way, all bets are off.
Involves Dimitri's near-death.
Characters who've heard about his ex-best-friend Felix, who hates him now -- meet Felix, also 15! And find out why firsthand!
Dimitri memshare plotting
1. Stepmother (no cws)
A lighter memory, though melancholy. A very young Dimitri turns to his stepmother after his father returns from a campaign in the north, full of stories of battlefield heroics that Dimitri finds much more upsetting than exciting. Patricia can't change an entire culture, but she reassures Dimitri that his distress is normal.
- This memory will be less interactive; interruption will be met with "who are you and how did you get in here"
- But it's a chance for his CR to glimpse a more positive version of why he's Like That, so I still wanted to include it.
2. Fhirdiad (no cws)Another lighter memory. Ten-year-old Dimitri. A noble girl his age is visiting from Adrestia, the nation to the south. They've quickly become close friends, with the other girl being more assertive and forceful (in a ten-year-old way) than Dimitri. While Dimitri hasn't spoken of her in-game, this was an important if brief friendship for him, and it's one of his few pre-trauma memories that remains clear.
- For the less canon-blind: his friend is baby Edelgard.
- Strangers won't be remarkable in this memory, though they'll be regarded with the same confusion/suspicion with which ten-year-olds regard older strangers.
- Baby Dimitri!
3. Gwenhwyvar foothills (cw: genocide aftermath, gaslighting, forced sedation)Dimitri's thirteen. He's in an infirmary at the base of the mountains that make up the Faerghus-Duscur border, having just witnessed a double dose of mass murder. He's freshly traumatized, badly injured, feverish, and desperate to make anyone listen to his witness, which they won't. Doctors keep sedating him because the badly injured child really needs to lie the fuck down, which he won't.
- This memory in particular I'm restricting to prior CR.
- This memory will also feature fourteen-year-old Dedue, as discussed with his player.
- Strangers will raise suspicion, but this is an emergency encampment and there's a lot of strangers around. Assert enough authority and a doctor or nurse will probably assume you're meant to be there.
- Dimitri will be paranoid and angry, but he'll be more receptive to a stranger who sides with him.
- Includes a chance to meet Dimitri's godfather, Rodrigue, freshly mourning his son and his
4. Battle in the west (cw: gore; I'll adjust gnarliness/explicit detail to player comfort.)loverking and dear friend, and/or his mentor&tutor Gustave, a sopping wet sadsack of a man!Dimitri's fifteen. You know what a 15-year-old with PTSD needs? To be sent out as a commander in a civil war. That sounds fine and normal. Definitely not an attempt to get him killed. He's a shockingly competent commander for a 15-year-old, at least until his berserker side activates and he starts tearing through infantry like soggy cardboard.