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  1. I'm sorry for the oversight: I will be upfront in saying that I didn't include this information originally because I honestly forgot about First Age incarnation memories potentially being important, especially to Abyssals, until I had discussions with Eclipse/Skylark's player and we were both like, oops, maybe we should...fix that.
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  3. and here's the extra information.
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  5. As an overall thing, Abyssals having memories of their prior incarnations is pretty much a case of "dangling reminders of heroism", lingering memories of what the corrupted shard was once (and could possibly be again, if they know about the possibility of Abyssal redemption, aka "freeing their shard from the Neverborn and cleansing it back into a Solar shard", which is basically 1) extremely rare info, 2) extremely mythical to even try without guarantee of success) and sort of throwing a wrench into things. Reincarnation in general in Exalted is, in fact, a separate process from what happens with Celestial Exaltations: assuming someone who dies doesn't become a ghost or fall into the Void, their higher soul will pass into Lethe, is cleansed of all memories and identity, and is reborn. Usually between incarnations of Celestial Exalts (Solars, Lunars, Abyssals, Infernals, Sidereals), their Exaltation shard is supposed to have all memories cleansed from it, but sometimes accidents or fuckery happens or the god of Exaltation fucks up the pruning.
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  7. Which is kind of a long roundabout way of saying "even if you are a Celestial Exalt with very strong past life memories, you don't necessarily feel any kind of emotional attachment towards whatever you see or have it beyond "that sure was a thing that happened", since even if the unlikely event that you both got a prior incarnation's soul and the matching Exaltation shard, there may not be any emotional resonance or attachment left (and the chances of that happening are like basically impossible anyway). Some Exalts do have strong emotional attachments and feelings with their memories, especially if they are really unfortunate and have strong echoes of a prior incarnation's personality still lingering on the shard. Bride is not one of those Exalts: he's pretty unlucky in a lot of things, including the Neverborn, but he doesn't have to deal with any fragments of Rose in his head literally crying at him or trying to possess him. So, overall, having these memories didn't really affect him much emotionally because a lot of his memories of Rose are fairly distant in terms of emotional impulses (which means that any lingering remnants of them trying to possibly guide them to better places are ignored) and he's not in a place to really care much about any impulses towards not being a violent anti-hero, between his own problems/agenda and the Neverborn constantly in his head. In addition, he does not know about the possibility of Abyssal redemption and even if he did isn't really...in a place where he would even consider trying, so he's mostly...ignoring the fact he has remnants of an all-loving, pacifist god-monarch in his head.
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  9. The knowledge he gained about the First Age was helpful, but having their memories in his head really didn't do much for him otherwise.
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  11. With Persephone in imeeji, I plan, first of all, for these memories to be rare: what Bride has is a selection of strong memories, not a complete life story of Bright-falling Rose and their successor. They are also still mostly stripped of emotional impulses, and honestly, he's not likely to really take them as models for better behavior either, both because he's not inclined to as a person and because imeeji's environment between murdergames and sensitiv's...everything...is not conducive at all. Plus, again, he doesn't literally have Rose in his head crying at him, so there's a lot less immediate impetus to...actually listen. Like he'll definitely be upset by what some of those memories contain, because the sheer horrifying scale is Bad, but it's an impersonal kind of Bad, and not "this was literally me, watching the apocalypse."
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  13. What I primarily plan on using the First Age incarnation memories for is as a vehicle to provide him with the truth behind the setting, both the Primordial War (to some degree) and the First Age because a lot of what someone who grew up in the Second Age knows about non-Dragonblooded/non-Exigent Exalts (barring Abyssals and Infernals who are So New that it's ?????) is, in fact, a complete propaganda piece written and orchestrated by the Sidereal Exalted (including the disappearance from history of the Sidereals). The Solars - and Lunars- are painted as villains, as demons, as Nothing Good, because the choice the Sidereals made at the end of the First Age to preserve the world, if diminished, was to kill them all and try to make sure they never came back because otherwise they would destabilize it completely. So Bride primarily got his info from his First Age memories + reading ghost books in the libraries in the ghost metropolis of Stygia, and...honestly, while I could give Persephone back a lot of memories of [reading ghost libraries] for information that blew his mind, that's kind of boring. So development-wise, I'm mostly just focusing on using First Age incarnation memories for revelations about "so everything you thought you knew about the early history of the world? a lie", which is honestly going to generate enough doubt and confusion on its own, even with amnesia-wrought distance, to last a while.
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