I'M SO GROGGY I'M GONNA TAKE A SHOWER and then I wanna bonk heads with everyone else to think on the possibilities.
There are so many options for Leslie and most of them are painful but some are cute and even a few aren't sad-cute.
Do you have Discord, Yosie? I wanted to poke you
Yosie#2706 is me. (Anyone else adding me, please let me know who is poking me as I don’t know most people’s handles.)
ok, ty, mine is Amber#0621
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Also, yes. Make him sad. Stab him in the feelings
gsdragono: OH BOY how dramatic do you want to go? Eavesdropping on the family casually talking about murdering her? Threatening her sister? Actual literal child sacrifice for dark magic??
I go all in give me that last one
Intercession: There are so many options. One especially dramatic one is her mom making her call herself useless into a mirror, or the time her sister tells her to just wait around quietly to be killed because the magic belongs to her, or...many options.
OH BOY FIRE SACRIFICE FOR HUBERT. (Whether he gets to see her powers awaken depends on the mod answer to whether ghosts are visible.)
because that can spark some good talk
Oh, that is a good idea. Time to see what Leslie previously had for a woman looking after her pre-duchess and pre-aefenglom.
Your mention of a second part to the memory for Edelgard's memory made me think that there's the option for a followup for that one of either letting Edelgard get to see the oft-mentioned Duchess Salvatore or see a moment where Leslie lets some of her own hair get torn out in order to escape getting brought to the mirror again later on
when she's working on escaping the family.
Or we can stick to just the short and terrible of just the mirror scene.
I want Juza to see her big bros... at least one big bro
I'm sad that this one scene with both big bros happens after her canonpoint unless I suddenly canonupdate her before the 13th, because knight bro smiles at her while his subordinates freak out in the background because the captain never smiles, and then when he scolds the mage bro, Leslie copies the mage bro's pout.
At her current canonpoint, you have to either pick and choose or take the ones where mage bro was still "????? why do we have our enemy's child here????"
Hmmm..... ..Can I see knight brother?
Yes! There are a lot of good knight brother scenes. If you want to index hard into cute, you can go with when he bought her her stuffed rabbit she had in the dream (and in her room here). You can also see when they meet and he’s really awkward but Leslie doesn’t care.
let felix see why you have such tiny weenie arms and no muscle mass leslie
HECK YEAH how does being deliberately starved sound for explaining? Which has two particularly potent options. One where the servants both disavow responsibility for following orders to starve her and blaming her for not being obedient enough, or one where her mother tells her to only eat broth for a while so she'll be beautiful for "that day."
("That day" Leslie now knows is when her family were going to literally sacrifice her by burning her alive. Leslie's canon is wack.)
I'm gonna go second one because he's gonna have to ask
or the first one bc he'd be fuckin livid
If it's the second one, Leslie tends to avoid talking about being sacrificed if she can get away with it (she never told her adoptive family until it was necessary as part of preparing for a court case), but even if he doesn't manage to get the deets out of her, Lorenz is probably going to get to see the sacrifice.
So if necessary he can find out from him.
(Hubert is definitely getting to see the sacrifice but hahaha Felix getting information out of Hubert.)
Edelgard might get to find out that information or maybe Byleth on a needs to know basis, but I imagine for everyone else Hubert is taking all information he knows in the world to his grave.
He knows to hold other peoples' tragedies close to his chest, okay
(Not fully related since it’s not part of her canon point, but Leslie got taught in the most recently translated chapters of her comic that it’s okay for her to retaliate against people.)
(A friend of her abusive sister tried to blackmail her and Leslie tore into her and used her new family name like a club until the girl fled, and she realized that it can be gratifying to make people angry at her.)
(I love that, as cute and friendly as Leslie is, she’s not always pure goodness and sweetness and light. She might only do it to people who deserve it, but she can be mean,)
Leslie will not be learning that Alex used to be a prostitute, but other than that I'm good for any memories from either Leslie or Alex.
Oh gosh yeah we can avoid heavy stuff! And if you still wanted to do the baking..maybe they can make pie?
I'm actually cool with heavy stuff! It just would take a lot for Leslie to understand the prostitute bit, because she was never given even basic sex ed. This might be advanced studies. But I'm also down for light stuff if you'd like that! And pie. Pie is good.