#Micha Echo

[littlegeecko]

future feel-good au for echo characters my beloved (featuring Michase)

[moodytanuki]

I miss the echo cast like I miss actual old friends I haven't talked to in a bit... most sane echo fan ever

[ethylvanny]

Klepto from tetanus alley

[sing-geronimo]

toying w the idea of making some physical echo shitpost stickers-that earlier kanaya and jenna one included. lmk the consensus on interest . pov ur the back of brian's head

[twinned69]

What Could Have Been

[yeenthebin]

your honor, boyfriends

[thisfuckingdork]

[crowroboros]

make a tier list of what echo characters you'd smooch

.......fine

[rattydearest]

Tag yourself

[earthling-wolf]

What D&D Alignment are Echo's Side Characters? (and Arches)

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What D&D Alignment are the characters in Echo?

At first, this was supposed to be a post about the alignment checks on Echo's secondary cast. Still, I eventually decided to add Arches. Since I'm not planning on doing individual posts for its characters.

Echo's Secondary Cast

Sydney Bronson

Sydney was a childhood friend of the main characters. He tragically drowned some years before the events of the story.

Since he died as a child, he is True Neutral.

Raven

Raven is the main secondary character of Carl's route, a somewhat dim but cheerful husky dog who ends up trapped with Carl, Chase & Jenna in a twisted version of the Hendricks mansion.

Before the events of Carl's route, Raven was just an average guy just living his life. Raven is a friendly, optimistic, eccentric oddball. Before and during the hysteria, Raven consistently tries to be helpful and understanding, both helping Chase and Carl prepare for the interview and helping play peacekeeper between Carl and Jenna during the hysteria. Chaotic Good.

Kudzu Téngwàn

Kudzu is the main secondary character of Leo's route, a raccoon who moved into Echo recently and lives in the trailer next door to Leo's.

After the death of his boyfriend Falion, Kudzu moved to Echo to pursue a life of seclusion. Despite this, Kudzu is shown to be a valiant, reliable, and caring person. He acts as a peacekeeper between Leo and Clint. Once the hysteria starts, he goes out of his way to help Chase and his friends, even risking his life to save them, despite having no obligation toward any of them and despite Leo's increasingly hostile behavior. Neutral Good.

Julian

Julian is the main secondary character of TJ's route. He is a stag, an old friend of TJ's, and he works part-time in the same diner as Janice.

There isn't much to say about Julian. He is generally polite, helpful, and friendly toward everyone. Neutral Good.

Daxton

Daxton is the main secondary character of Flynn's route. He is a nerdy salamander and Flynn's roommate. During Flynn's route, Daxton becomes good friends with Carl and Chase.

Daxton is friendly yet socially awkward. His most notable moral act is when Duke tries to convince Echo's citizens to lynch Chase to stop the mass hysteria. Should Flynn allow it, Daxton will try to talk him down since he is putting himself at risk by confronting an armed and unstable Duke and doing so to protect Chase, someone he has known for less than a week and has just been accused of murder. I'll say both this action and Daxton in general are Neutral Good.

Micha

Micha is the main secondary character of Jenna's route. He is a bat who has been missing for a few years. He seems to spend most of his time in Jasmynn Street, where Jenna grew up.

Micha is a drug dealer and thief who shows open disdain for law, order, and authority figures. He is generally rude, prickly, and disagreeable. However, while he is mostly out for himself, he doesn't go out of his way to harm anyone else either, and when push comes to shove, Micha reveals himself to be extremely loyal to those he considers his friends. Chaotic Neutral.

Duke

Duke is one of the town's older residents, a stoat who likes to imagine that he calls the shots and commands respect among the townsfolk. On Leo, Flynn, and Jenna's routes, he attempts to take matters into his own hands, causing much of the trouble for the gang after the hysteria hits.

Duke's primary goal in all routes is to stop the hysteria by any means necessary. To do this, he kills Janice, kidnaps Chase, Carl, Leo, Jenna, and Micha to intimidate information out of them, and stirs up a lynch mob to attempt to kill/let Chase die. While he claims to have everyone's best interests in mind, he also seems more concerned about stopping his own hysteria-induced hauntings. Lawful Evil.

Brian Dubois

Brian is a psychopathic manchild bear who spends most of his time being resentfully ordered around by the Duke.

Brian is a sadistic drug kingpin and serial killer; he regularly rapes, tortures, and murders people for the sake of his own sexual gratification and has a body count in the double digits. Chaotic Evil.

Arches

The problem with finding the alignment for the new characters, Cameron Wilson, Devon Mateo Ortega, and Arturo "Artie" Herrera, is that for half of the novel, they are all in true neutral survivor mode, desperately trying not to let themselves or the other two be killed by Brian, combined with the overall shorter length of the novel compared to Echo, it all led to my decision of not having separate posts for each of them, opting instead to this current arrangement. Now, to address their alignment properly.

All three are definitely good-aligned. Not only are they consistently kind, friendly, and helpful toward each other, but they all display selflessness toward people in general. Cameron expressed a desire to use his psychic powers to help others, and he is shown in the epilogue giving anonymous tips to the police whenever he has a vision of Brian's victims. Devon is said to take much care to ensure anything he builds is as safe as possible. In the alternative timeline, where Cameron is killed by Brian, he becomes a sort of echo-hunting vigilante, and Artie goes on to work with children with low-functioning autism.

As for their lawful x chaotic leanings, Devon doesn't display a preference for one or the other, Neutral Good. Artie is laid-back, has poor impulse control, and, despite the best intentions, often comes off as insensitive and oblivious to others' feelings, Chaotic Good. As for Cameron, even ignoring his past as a drug-addicted "trailer trash," he still shows stronger leanings toward chaos, in between him delaying their departure from Echo to so he can find out more about his powers, and secretly micro-dosing with shrooms behind Devon's back so he could read Artie's mind, I'll say he is Chaotic Good.

[littlegeecko]

You've been hanging with the unloved kids, who you never really liked and you never trusted ⛈

[moodytanuki]

ok I'll just post this now before I have no internet again 

 snake juice but its echo the visual novel

 enjoy :) (heavy spoilers)

[comically-large-cowboy-hat]

mmmn

[sing-geronimo]

i am mentally unwell

[azelle-intermisson]

Echo vn review

i have finally finished echo as my second ever visual novel after adastra. i really loved this vn and it was a super interesting read. for anyone who hasn't read it if a furry horror vn with very human feeling characters peaks your interest then i would 100% recommend echo its a really good story with some really strong characters that i enjoyed thoroughly. in this review im gonna be going through all the main cast and some of the side cast so its gonna be a kinda long post where i just gush about parts of each route i really liked but there will be titles before each section if you want to see what i have to say about one character in particular for whatever reason.

this review is all my opinion and is not going to be exhaustive so i will end up missing some things (mainly because i did not take notes while reading and forgot a lot oops). so if there is something i missed you wanna hear my opinion on ask :). also this is my first time writing something like this so lmk if there are things i can do better if i end up doing this again.

SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE GAME AFTER THE READ MORE

before i fully dive into the review i wanna go over some of the external factors that have influenced how i view this vn. during flynn's route i was the most sick ive ever been in my whole life and im pretty sure i missed out on some vital details because of the brain fog during that sickness. i am not well versed at all in vns the only other vn i have played is adastra, however i am familiar with romance tropes so even though i feel like i missed out on some cool moments simply because i haven't played many vns i did not miss out entirely. also about halfway through my playthrough i learned that there is kinda an order you are supposed to read the routes in which is:  Carl > Leo > TJ > Flynn > Jenna, i ended up reading it in this order: TJ > Leo > Flynn > Jenna > Carl. i don't really know how much this ended up changing how i view the story but thats how i did it. i also made chase gay i don't really know what that ended up affecting since i played all the routes as gay chase and whenever i got something i considered a "bad ending" i would reset to my last decision and do something different. the last thing that might have some sway on how i feel is how sweet the community has been to me so far, i don't usually get myself involved with a community before i finish something but this time was different since i was making fan art and everyone was super nice <3

Visuals/Music

I really loved the music and artwork for this game. i feel like the music did such a good job of creating an atmosphere whether it was chilling in the diner with jenna and tj or getting kidnapped by brian it always did an amazing job at really putting me in the shoes of the characters. i adored all of the fully rendered drawings throughout the game i love the colors i love everything about it. of all of them i think the one below is my favorite i just love how serene it looks.

this was my favorite track i feel like it does such a good job of capturing the tone of the whole game so well or the one that plays whenever they are just chilling idk what its called and i can't find it for the life of me it is driving me crazy.

Misc

there are a few things i couldn't quite fit into any of the next sections so i wanted to put them here. i really loved every character in this game i feel like the reason why i loved them all was because of how human they felt. whenever someone did something i didn't agree with i always defaulted to sympathizing with them because of how human they felt to me. also after writing this i have realized my ranking of each of the routes is just how much leo is involved with each of them i guess i just really love the guy.

Prologue

this part of the game is a little less fresh in my mind since i only read through it once on my first playthrough but from what i remember it did a really good job of establishing the setting and getting me interested in the lore of these characters. the first river scene was such an amazing moment i love how the route split happens in a way that makes you choose between emotionally comforting someone or going after who you want to romance. my only issue with it was that i did not realize that this was a route split in my first playthrough and ended up picking tj since he seemed the most affected by flynn and i was really worried about him even though the character i really wanted to romance was leo. even though i did not realize it was a game with so many diverging paths at first i still think the prologue was really good and got me very invested in the lore of echo.

MAIN CAST

Chase

i walked into this game not really expecting to care for chase too much since i kinda didn't like marco in adastra and i was expecting him to be more of the same type of guy but i was pleasantly surprised. i hate it so much when player inserts are just blank slates so im very glad that chase is an actual character who interacts with the world and people around him. he never had any moments where i was frustrated with him and wished he had said something different(aside from the ending of tj's route) and for the most part he reacted the way i think i would in his situation so i really liked him in all of the routes.

TJ

in retrospect i really like tj's route for how subversive it is as a romance with tj not reciprocating chases feelings and how nasty chase's jealousy felt. while playing it i kept waiting for leo to show up and whenever chase would try and romantically pursue him i would get kinda sad because i wanted to hangout with big wolf man. however i feel like this gave me a really interesting perspective on this route since before chase even kissed tj i never expected them to actually get together since it didn't feel like tj was all that interesting to me. this made chase's jealousy over julian feel even more scary than it already was and that final confrontation at the lake with flynn horrifying. i loved how the horror aspects where handled in this route and how subtle a lot of it was in comparison to other routes. chase drowning flynn and the description of it is one of the most haunting things from this game for me. overall i thought tj's route was pretty good even if i spent the whole thing wanting to hangout with leo because i was dumb and didn't know i had gotten to the route split. its in 4th place in order of my favorite routes in this game.

Leo

leo's route is my favorite i love him so much. i love how you get the bad ending of his route for trying to stay with him. his route was also my first time seeing the hysteria in full swing so that was a crazy twist. every single scene with brian made me feel so anxious i never really knew what to expect from him. i loved how his unhealthy obsession with chase was treated with the weight that it really deserved. the way he reacts to kudzu and chase's relationship not only feels like a natural progression of his character but also adds so much to the horror of his route since his jealousy often ends up causing serious harm. it was so sad to see him unravel and act the way he does during the hysteria because i really wanted to see him be happy and somehow move on from chase. the final scene of the "good" ending gave me what i wanted in the most evil way possible. i had wanted him to move on so bad that i had forgotten how brutal moving on can actually be. leo ends up losing the person he is closest to in the worst way possible i say this with love though it made me cry real hard. and the implication that he is planning on staying in echo is too just heartbreaking. i could go on forever about all the things i love about leo's character but i don't want this section to be too long so i will end it here and say leo is my favorite of the main cast and he has my favorite route of this whole game.

Flynn

i feel super conflicted on flynn's route, it does so many things so well but the ending left me feeling weird. i wanna talk about the things i liked first, which is most of the route. aside from leo he was the character i was most interested from the prologue mainly because i could tell that he wasn't just going to be a one-note mean guy and i thought he had a ton of potential for a really interesting story and i was right . i really enjoyed how his mean demeanor was written the times when he decided to be nice never felt out of character, like the way he helps carl with his interview and really wants his friend to do well and when things don't turn out well he still supports carl but does it in such a flynn way i just loved it so much. flynn and chase's relationship during this route stressed me out the most out of all of the routes mainly because of how they hid it from leo i really wanted chase to just talk to leo about everything but i can understand why he was avoiding it so much. i really loved the reveal of chase killing sydney and how flynn reacts to it. the way everything in that scene plays out was just amazing i can't be mad at either side of the it since i can understand why jenna and leo don't want to believe that their childhood friend killed someone but i can also understand flynn's immediate reaction to this and wanting to lash out at chase. the sydney flashback really got to me everything about it felt so real to me and flynn trying to take a big brother role for sydney and try and protect him from seeing the corpse anymore was so heartbreaking. my favorite part of this route was when you get the perspective of flynn rather than chase it was not something i was expecting in the slightest and i was so happy to be able to see some of his thought process when he does stuff. i really liked the hysteria portion of his route but im a little iffy on the ending. on one hand i like it for the story the fact that flynn dies kinda makes sense to me i just really wished he had lived and we had gotten to see a healed flynn who now knows the truth of what happened fully, even though i know this vn doesn't like giving out easy solutions. overall flynn's route is really good i just wish it had ended differently i would put it at 3rd place in my ranking of the routes in this game.

Jenna

i almost adore jenna's route as much as leo's. i really like her personality and aside from leo she is my favorite character. learning that she likes manga and watching anime with her was such a fun little moment that i thought was cute. it really surprised me when carl went missing in this route i was kinda expecting his birthday to play out the same in every route but i this was a really good plotline. i liked that this route forced jenna and flynn to interact more since the tension they have is always so fun to read. i loved the side characters in this route micha was my favorite out of all of them(even though i think jeremy is really cute). i want to give micha his own section in this review but to put it shortly his relationship with leo made me super happy. i really liked the tension between jenna and leo it was such a good conflict that i enjoyed reading. the whole fake cheating prank was such a gut wrenching scene that i was honestly having a hard time getting through. i liked the section where they are kidnapped by brian more in this route than in leo's mainly because brian getting rocked by the ghost thing was really satisfying. the implication that carl was tortured the same way chase was for multiple days is unfathomable to me. leo and chase being sewn together made me feel sick because anything remotely body horror related gets me and micha having to sever that tie was really cool foreshadowing for leo and micha's whole thing. the whole van section was also really incredible and seeing leo start to move on from chase warmed my heart in an otherwise very intense route. i liked heather she is such an intresting character to me since i really want to sympathize with her because its clear she has a lot of unresolved trauma but she was also an asshole to jenna and tried to flood all of echo. i really loved her trying to flood the town it is such a crazy plot point but i still really loved it and jenna having to put aside how shitty heather was to her to talk her down was a really good moment. the dinner scene after everything also felt very satisfying and it was good to see micha be apart of the group for a bit his interactions with everyone made me smile. i really liked jenna's route all around it is my 2nd favorite and was a super fun read.

Carl

i really liked carl's route i relate to a lot of his struggles and even though there where less scenes that scared me it was still really good. this was the last route i played so i was feeling kinda melancholic while reading since echo had become my nightly routine for about 3 weeks and i was really loving the characters and story. i liked how much lighter(in comparison to the other routes) of a tone carl's route took staying over at his big haunted mansion is such a silly concept on paper but it ends up playing out super well. i thought raven was a silly guy even if he didn't really add or remove much from this route and he helped keep jenna somewhat in check so that was nice. the escape room stuff was so interesting to go through. i found myself feeling scared that they may not actually make it out or they would end up killing each other. my favorite scene from this route was the hanging tree stuff. i had such a vivd picture of everything happening and it was really hard to watch jenna and carl to do things that i know they wouldn't. this route also had a ton of echo lore so i kinda wish i had played it first since i feel like i missed out in other route because i was trying to piece together things that are revealed in carl's route. i really liked the james hendricks and john begay stuff . even though carl's route is my 5th favorite by no means do i think it's bad.

Side Characters

i'm not going to only talk about the ones that really stood out to me and in a much shorter way than the main cast (other than micha)

Micha

micha is my favorite of the whole side cast and i really adored him and leo's relationship that i interpreted as romantic during the last bit of jenna's route. at first i didn't really like him and thought he was kinda an asshole. as the plot kept going i kept getting more and more attached to him since he was still an asshole but he was working with the main group. normally i don't like characters like him but i feel like he was written in such a realistic way that i found it hard to stay mad at him. i really loved him and leo's relationship their connection felt so real and i think they could be soooooo good for each other. the van scene was so incredible the way the player and chase have to fill in the blanks as leo and micha talk about what happened between the two of them really immersed me in the story .leo feeling guilt over never reaching out to micha after he was disowned was such an interesting thing i never really expected leo to want to help someone who was a bully to his friends but i still feel like it makes sense for leo to feel this way since he just wants to protect people. i think its really sweet that leo ends up leaning on micha more after the van scene. also the scene in the dinner at the end of jenna was really sweet i loved seeing micha being added to their group dynamic and i wish i got even more. in conclusion leo and micha should kiss and live happily ever after <3.

Brian and Clint

i don't have a lot to say about these guys other than the fact that they are horrifying antagonists. before i saw brian fight i was under the assumption that if leo is present then we are probably safe but brian ends up breaking that sense of safety in such a horrifying way. i like that even though clint isn't physically strong the fact that he has the strongest character following his orders made him so intimidating

Jeremy

i wanna give him a big kiss even tho he is mean

Janice

i really liked janice in tj's route. i love the fact that we never get a clear answer for why she needed chase and tj to be digging holes. i almost want to trust that she isn't killing people but she clearly has a few screws loose.

Closing Thoughts

i really loved this furry visual novel and its really human feeling characters. i had way more to say about it than i thought and the more i write the more i love the story and the more i want to say but this is already such a long post. i liked adastra more but i don't really feel like it is a fair comparison because if i hadn't played adastra this account would not exist and i prob would not be drawing at all but maybe if i had played echo first it would have done that to me since it still is really good. this was super fun to write even tho i know some of it might not make any sense lol because this is just kinda stream of conscious. i might end up doing this with other things i read/watch since it also gives me an actual reason to take notes when i read/watch things. also i wanna say thank you to the community on here i haven't been involved with fandom spaces for a really long time and im still not very involved with this one but you guys have been super nice and i wanna continue making art and talking about this game :)

[yeenthebin]

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