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* "My name is Mithos. Mithos Yggdrasil." Meeting Kratos, pleading his case to the Tethe'allan court and failing.

Earned from Game 100: Cohabitation for Cheshire.

( snip. )

+ This is one of the defining moments of Mithos's life being shitty as a kid, a massive pileup of rejection and racism and failure and the deaths of thousands of people he legitimately tried to save and felt responsible for. It happened well before he ever had any real power or tried saving/destroying the world and it very nearly shattered him back then.
+ This is also what shoved Mithos onto the 'let's be a lone hero doing things normal people would consider suicidally insane' path -- he was completely unable to make either of the warring countries listen to him, and he was weak, so he chose to gain so much power he could make both sides stop in their tracks and quit fighting.
+ The one bright spot in the memory is Kratos Aurion, and this is also the memory that best defines why he loved Kratos so much that it got twisted and obsessive later -- Kratos is legit the only human in that time period who ever believed in Mithos and looked past his race and gave him the chance to make something of himself.
+ Martel is a more steadying presence/voice of reason in this, and he also learns how conflicted their beginning relationship with Yuan was.
+ . . . gosh this is shareable :'D . . .
+ On the whole, though, it's all backstory memory, so he'll have a lot of feelings about it when he takes it but they should be mostly private and he will keep rolling.

* Martel tops Yuan and that's adorable.

Won from Game 97: Charades for Dream.

Basically take this video and look at what happens around 00:30, 3:50, and 5:00. This memory is just a big montage of cute moments like that which Mithos was around for. None of it is actually new info, but. Origipartyyy.

+ Cute cute cuuuuuuuute. /)^o^(\
+ Except Martel is dead and Yuan will never forgive me, oh yeah. <( .____. )
+ Overall it is an enjoyable memory that will induce a lot of nostalgic fondness but also sads, which is pretty par for the course with all his triv positives now. Oh well, nothing to be done. He is pretty okay with this one not being shareable, though -- some moments are just private.

* THOSE FUCKING SOUL GUNDAMS.

Won from Game 92: Feasts for Anansi.

In the final dungeon of Symphonia the party runs into three robot sub-bosses -- the Fugitive (fear, selfishness, cowardice); Judged (sins and the ability/inability to face them) and Neglected (internal bitterness and self-loathing). They are all representations of the pain in Mithos's heart! They have to kill these bosses in order to make taking on Mithos easier, because Mithos's very final boss form is . . . a fourth magic demon robot that is a combination of the first three. Yes.

This memory doesn't cover those confrontations, but rather his creation of the robots and the circumstances around it, probably a couple of thousand years prior to any of Lloyd's party even being born. That was probably a period of Mithos's life where he was starting to come out of the emotionlessness that accompanies the lifeless being state, and didn't want to because it was easier to keep not feeling feelings, particularly when the vast majority were super negative. His solution was to delay the return of emotions by literally booting the worst of them out of himself and crafting the robots so he didn't just have a back room full of emotions gunk somewhere.

(They still came back after, but that is another memory.)

+ SOME PEOPLE WRITE EMO POETRY, I MAKE EMO SOUL ROBOTS
+ In hindsight, that was kind of stupid; did he seriously have nothing better to do with his powers . . . ssssideeye . . .
+ The whole embarrassment aspect aside, this is an extremely unpleasant memory with some alarming implications about how he casually chucked out bits of his soul! It is also full of blatant self-directed hatred as well as hatred of others, which are things he tries super hard to shift away from in Aather. His general sentiment towards it is going to be 'llllet's move on now' and it will probably put him in a mood for a while after.

* Playing music for Luna and Aska.

Won from Game 89: Viola's heart.

Another headcanon memory. Luna represents the Moon and Aska represents the Sun; they are collectively the Summon Spirits of Light and come as a package deal. You have to make a pact with the both of them together! And while Luna may stay in one place, Aska roves unless he's called down by the music from a special kind of panpipe.

I'm figuring that they both liked the pipe music for its own sake, though, and they liked to sit back and chill while Mithos played for them sometimes -- probably at dusk or dawn hours when neither of them was in majority. It's a very quiet and peaceful sort of memory; bittersweet, like all his Summon Spirit memories are, but calming as well.

+ More of that charged sort of dere that comes with remembering the Summon Spirits as friends/people in little ways.
+ A rekindling of interest in music; he has panpipes from way back when and sort of learned how to play them, but for a while they were filed away as 'a thing Martel liked to do' rather than something he enjoyed doing for his own sake. So maybe sometimes he will play up on the clifftop, make up tunes, etc.

* Kratos fleeing Cruxis with Anna.

Won in Game 85: Noble roles for Mother.

( haha oh god. )

+ Ssssso he killed Lloyd's mom and took back Lloyd's dad for completely selfish reasons, that happened. That happened.
+ Realization that Cruxis and the Desians are one and the same; that he is also responsible for the torture camps and human subjugation by half-elves -- that is, thousands of years of systemized torture and killing to produce Exspheres.
+ Knowledge of the Angelus Project's nature, though that won't ever be directly addressed onscreen because canon is super vague about it and Mithos probably wouldn't even have been that interested if Kratos weren't involved.
+ Knowledge of what Lloyd's mom looks like :'D They never met directly but I'm pretty sure Mithos saw a picture of her to snarl at or something.
+ Knowledge of the 'stone cold asshole who enjoys casually causing other people pain' side of his insanity, which he vaguely knew about but never had to confront so overtly in his memories before.

* Impulsively saving Tabatha from falling rocks.

Earned from Game 81: Letters for Kiriko.

Manga version page 1, page 2; the game and manga versions are pretty much the same.

( brief script snip )

+ ow rocks hurt when they hit you.
+ remembered siscon points.
+ something was wrong --
+ a bit more protectiveness toward people who resemble Martel (so, hi CC.)
+ a reminder that he hated Tabatha because she was a robot doll who failed to contain his sister's soul (he already has the memory of breaking her later and ranting about that . . .)

* "I think what I'm doing may be wrong. And now that I've started to think that, I can't help but feel there's no meaning to life."

Won in the final push to free the Forest region from the darkness.

( THAT'S DEFINITELY A DOG! )

+ A-AFFECTION FOR NOISHE
+ Impressions of Noishe being an old (old, old) friend! Definite conviction that Noishe can understand him! Noishe used to be party. 8(
+ Knowledge of the Protozoan legend. Lloyd your dog is even more magical than we suspected, sigh.
+ remembered definite tsundere for Lloyd Irving.
+ I had an existential crisis . . .
+ I had an existential crisis . . . all over Lloyd's dog . . .
+ FLOPPING ON ADMIRAL RIBBARK
+ TALKING TO CUTE ANIMALS -- wait he does that already.

* "I couldn't forgive the humans who killed her!"

Won from Game 75: Skillswap for Cheshire.

( just a brief skit. )

+ :'D oh that...that explains a lot...
+ bluh bluh acknowledgement; I don't hate humans here.
+ I sure hated them a lot in the past though.
+ complex hatefriendship dynamics.
+ WHAT AM SUBTLETY???
+ this in no way preps him for the day he gets Martel's murder back, whoops.

* Fights and pacts with the Summon Spirits of Aselia. "I swear to revive the Great Tree and restore peace to the world. Will you help me?"

Earned from Game 69: Zelos's heart.

( HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD )

+ INFINITE DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY POINTS
+ INFINITE BELIEF THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH ENOUGH WILLPOWER
+ INFINITE HEARTBREAKING SENSE OF LOSS/DESIRE FOR ATONEMENT
+ something something Personae something duties and rules and bindings something something--in actual words, that's more understanding of how supernatural systems like this work, and even more significance attached to bonds, pacts, patronage and similar (though his principles on Sterling/Onyx remain firmly breakfast-oriented.)
+ about a day or so of wandering around dazed from sensory and mental overload, once he finally catches up on memories and takes it.

* Asleep, at one with the mana of the Great Tree.

Won from Game 67: the Nobles' Ball, for Mother.

This is headcanon for what Mithos is like after dying. He's asleep, his soul is mingled with the other souls making up the flow of mana in the Great Tree, he finally gets to rest peacefully. There's not much sense of still being Mithos specifically, just being connected to something vast and alien--the world's mana network--and sensing the slow, macroscopic ebb and flow of it.

+ Yeah he is not going to understand what the fuck is going on here until he remembers dying too.
+ It is an objectively nice memory, though! Mrrrrr sleep and warmth and cosmic universal connectedness zen feelings.
+ Though he is pretty resolved to stay living when he finally leaves Aather rather than going back to this state :'D O-O-OPPOSITE OF CANON.