ECHOES First Echo
Near the end of her ninth year at Starling, Brooke was walking home through an unfamiliar part of town after spending the evening with her friends. She took a wrong turn and ended up in a darkened alleyway where a police officer in plain, ragged clothes was waiting on what must have been a stakeout. In the dim light, she looked like she matched the description of a dangerous suspect, so the officer shouted out and started chasing the now-startled Brooke. He gave up once she got into the light of a nearby convenience store (she was basically only a match for height), and once he was gone Brooke clutched her stomach as the weirdest sensation came over her. She had this strange moment of déjà vu where she could swear she'd been running exactly like that before, being chased through a place with high walls and afraid for her life. A canyon and a scorpion? It... didn't make sense. She'd never even set foot in the desert. Second Echo
Only a few weeks after being "awakened", for lack of a better word, Brooke found herself actually being chased by a giant purple scorpion. (She's starting to hope that most of her weird déjà vu moments will stop involving oversized arachnids.) A couple days after the encounter, she woke up in the middle of the night feeling dizzy and with an awful stomach ache. It cleared up soon enough and she fell back asleep. When she got to work the next night, though, it was... different. She felt like she couldn't trust herself to do something as simple as her job, that she'd been doing for three years with zero problems. In fact, thinking about it, she found herself riddled with way more self-doubt than she'd ever remembered having before. Third Echo
Seems she's gotten her wish. After drinking some of Locke City's tainted water supply, Brooke began experiencing an unnatural stiffness in her right wrist. She doesn't know it yet, but over time her arm will begin to petrify in spots, until everything from the shoulder down is solid, immovable stone. Any preemptive amputation won't stop it; she's losing her right arm, one way or another. Fourth Echo
Some lights appeared in the sky around the time Tuning Towers started vibrating, and several weeks later, Brooke finally noticed a change. She woke up one day knowing that, somehow, she had control over the earth in her past life. Rocks, mud, dirt, what have you—she now knows that she can bend it to her whim. She just... doesn't know how to do it yet. But it's a nice spot of hope for her, now that her arm has petrified. Fifth Echo
Upon going on a date journey with Rachel Roth to the Tuning Towers, Brooke suddenly gained the ability to control the earth! Lucky day. It's not to its fullest extent, of course, because that would be dangerous. But she can control earth enough to manipulate her arm as though it's flesh and bone again, which means holy crap, she can hold things again! Sixth Echo
That's not all the Towers had in store for her that day, though. Who knew that past-life Brooke had investigated a similarly iconic tower in the midst of unexplained seismic activity alongside past-life Rachel Roth? Well, now Brooke knows it. They worked together to stop... something big and wormlike and ouroboros-y, that much she's sure of. How this will affect her friendship with Rachel remains to be seen. Seventh Echo
A surprise attack on Halloween night by a horrible creature Brooke would come to know as a vermaxi triggered a huge spark in dark power for Rachel Roth. Unfortunately, seeing Rachel attack a horrible manmade monstrosity with that selfsame dark energy forced Brooke to recall that she should be very, very scared of that energy. If she's ever on the wrong side of Rachel's powers of darkness, she knows now that it could and likely will kill her. Eighth Echo
The vermaxi attack also helped develop Brooke's geomancy, though it took her a week or two to realize it. She can now control chunks of earth as big as her torso, though the closer they get to that limit, the harder it is for her to keep controlling them. Ninth Echo
Brooke returned from a fruitless expedition through the subway tunnels to a pizza trophy sitting on her kitchen table. She doesn't know why it's there, but for some reason it feels kind of greasy. Tenth Echo
Expeditions bearing fruit isn't always a good thing. After breaking off a chunk of the strange pink rock underneath the city (with Danny's help), Brooke accidentally caused an enormous earthquake. Turns out past-her was kind of notorious for that sort of thing! So now her powers aren't in perfect control anymore. She'll occasionally have flare-ups where her powers just switch on without her meaning to. This could be bad. Eleventh Echo
On the only day of Echomas, the space aliens gave to Brooke a pair of heavy-duty brown gloves, more for working with one's hands than trying to keep warm. They're totally inconsequential and clash with everything she owns. Twelfth Echo
After being publicly embarrassed, Rachel called Brooke "Terra", which Brooke immediately recognized as the name she had from her former life. Significantly more consequential. Thirteenth Echo
With Wise Snake gone (and Brooke having no hand in it), a trio of aliens came to apologize for their renegade member's behavior. Upon watching their address on TV the morning of April 12th, Brooke suddenly remembered the name Slade, belonging to a man with an orange and black mask. Who is he? Maybe one of her former Titan friends knows. Fourteenth Echo
Trusting Brooke with an echo of her own, Rachel showed off the extra pair of eyes she'd regained the ability to reveal at some point. Though Brooke promised not to freak out, just the sight was enough to remind her that, in her past life, she'd seen Raven being dragged down below the earth by hands made of mud, all four eyes clearly showing. But could that really mean what she thinks it does?
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somesayinfire) wrote2013-06-30 01:36 pm
