MEMORY SHARE: 12 OF BEETROOT EVENT (May)

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JEMA'GRETHY MEMORY SHARE

The caves of Jema'grethy will allow for a few different ways for memories to be interacted with. But for most, such as those entering in bonds, it will be seen like a vision in their head, putting them in the position and perspective of whose memory it is.

For people sharing bond memories, and also memories being shared while moving through the Memory Cave, this is the spot to place said memories! It's not necessary if you'd like to write it during the thread, but hopefully convenient for others. Just make a toplevel with your character's name in the header, and remember to include any content warnings thereafter for each memory, as applicable!

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Ruggie Bucchi

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First Memory - Last 48 Hours

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Your name is Ruggie Bucchi and right now you're dealing with a problem. Or are you? Usually life throws problems at you, but you have a way of turning them from problems more into situations, which are problems except not quite as bad. Because that's just how life works. Some people have luck, and are born with more money than sense, and other people are born into problems and have to make the best of them.

This time, your problem is a simple one: you need to buy as many sandwiches as you can. (And salads, and sauces, and anything else that's edible and about to go bad. You're not picky.) And everything's cheap, going for practically nothing, but that's not how things work with you and life and money. If things are cheap, you gotta make them cheaper.

"...I'll give you 30 for the whole shelf."

"Deal!"

"And here you go. Pleasure doin' business!"

It wasn't like you had anything else you needed to do. You had your bags and you packed your things, you kicked Leona out of bed and this was the last thing you had to do before you went off on a well earned vacation-except-not-really, as you'd lined up a stint dish washing for a diner back home. (But that still was pretty easy. Some people had money and vacations, and others made the most of what time they had.)

Second Memory - Positive

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You really like donuts.

This cannot be stated enough.

The first time you had a donut was...you were a kid, so small you didn't really get what a birthday was, or what a year was. You just knew that the day was special. You were full, in a way you weren't always were, and everything felt warm and slow and satisfying, and grammy baked (which she usually didn't have the time to do, what with her cleaning job and putting up with you) and you had donuts. Plain, crispy on the outside, but sweet and warm on the inside. The first time you had them, you didn’t even know what they were, just that they were unlike anything you had before.

But that was years ago, and you're not so little anymore, and now you know what birthdays are, and now you're old enough that you can do things to help out so it's not just your grandma supporting the two of you all by herself. It's you helping her. And you want to do more, but, well-

Not much you can do now. But it's your birthday, so you can take all of that and weave it together, make a wish from it, polish it so that it will shine like a star: you wish to be able to protect your grandma, for the two of you to not be hungry ever again, to have enough money that you can do anything and everything you want. (Even if your idea of anything and everything is still very small. Night Raven College has yet to mean anything to you.)

…the donuts are different this year.

Normally: plain, crispy, sweet, and undecorated. This year you smell a hint of something new, you see a drizzle of something sweet (chocolate?) and maybe some nuts, and you’re hungry, but you know that money’s short. Even with you helping out, money’s short. And you look up at your granny, an unspoken question, because of course she knows better than you do, but you know enough-

But she smiles. “It’s okay,” she says. She tells you to eat.

And of course you do, because you’re hungry and it’s your birthday, and as you eat (and the donuts are so sweet, they’re crispy on the outside and soft on the inside) this is when you know that things will change, and maybe, just maybe, if you could do this much for your granny now maybe you can do more for her, you, the both of you when you're older.