Echo Locast

"You're pretty amazing yourself!" ~ Echo

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Lewis Locast (Father)
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Scooby Gang

## Overview

*"It doesn’t matter at all whether I’m beaten or bloodied, if my friends are ok then, I’m ok!" ~ Echo*

Echo Locast is a student at the Valerian Highschool located in Poppy Valley. She has a very large interest in cryptids and cryptozoology. She's met and even befriended many cryptids throughout her life, documenting facts about them in a little journal she owns. One of her best friends is a cryptid, that being Glout the Vantagolb.

Echo is a very adventurous lady, who doesn't mind getting up close and personal with whatever she's studying. She's also like this towards helping out anyone she's friends with. She'll risk life and limb for those she cares about, like with saving Lori from the creatures in the woods, or Alice Marigold from Sticks and nursing her for a few weeks. This is both a great quality and a great weakness. Echo may be a fun-loving lady all the time, however, she does know how to fight. She's been in too many rough patches do not know. She can hold her own in a battle, even if the only thing keeping her standing is pure adrenaline.

## Appearance

Echo is an average size girl, with pink hair and scars all over her body. She has heterochromia, so her eyes are both pink and purple at the same time. Echo's a bit sleep-deprived due to insomnia and late-night cryptid hunting, so she has some eyebags. Her mouth is like that of a cat sometimes, kinda looks like " :3 ". She also has freckles all over her face, they coincide with all the scars there too. When it comes to clothing, Echo likes to keep it casual yet cute, like something comfortable. She loves to wear skirts, so she does whenever she can!

## Story

Echo came to PV to hopefully make it to a better living situation than the last town she lived in. She finds out that this place is not what it seems exactly. However, it's much better than her old home by a long shot. After messing with some hazmat men with Shinobu, she finally moves into her dorm. After getting acquainted, she goes out into the woods and starts exploring. She then finds a den of Vantagolbs, that she promptly scares. After going home with the information that Vantagolbs speak English to an extent, she lays down to relax. However, a Vantagolb broke from the group and followed her home. Ever since then, she became quick friends with them.

Later, she met more and more people. People like Ruby, and Lori. Lori ended up becoming quick friends with Echo due to her being nice to Lori instead of mean or rude. At this time, the Halloween Ball was coming close, and Echo didn't have a date. Her eyes were set on Ruby, the agent. Ruby, to Echo, was the kindest and sweetest person she'd ever lay eyes on. Lori, being the matchmaker she is, got the two together. And they've been together ever since!

After the ball or some time around it, Echo went poking around in the Jimsonweed computer room. There, she found YAI.NME, a computer virus that became sentient over time. YAI wanted a vessel of its own and didn't care whether it was Echo or someone else. He gave a deadline of the next day for a vessel to be created for him, or else Echo was the vessel. Echo, out of pure stress and panic, roughed together a husk of some parts and junk she found in a lab not too far from her room. After she finished, she went with Glout to give him the vessel. It worked, YAI was now free from the confines of his digital prison. However, despite the victory, YAI wanted Echo's memories as a memento for the occasion. To get those memories, he stabbed Echo in the stomach with a sharp metal piece in order to download it right from her brain. After seeing all of Echo's trauma, he feels awful for his actions and leaves the two alone. Echo later recovered physically, but never mentally.

After that, and various other adventures, Echo found an old lake near Jimsonweed that had strange bubbles coming from the depths below. After finding a kayak nearby, she makes her way to the strange bubbles. It was there she found a woman trapped under the water, with her leg tied to a heavy rock to keep her underwater. Her name was Saorise, and she was a selkie. Echo saves her from the watery prison, and in return gets a hug. She learns that Saorise came from an old Irish family of selkies that used to live there. They kept their identity a secret, except for Saorise, who was kidnapped and thrown into the lake because she was revealed as one.

Soon after that, Echo moved to Valerian to do cheer with her friend Lori, however, the rest of what happened after that is fuzzy to her. In fact, she may still be a bit fuzzy in the mind...

## Cryptids Encountered

- **Vantagolbs**: A Goopy kind of creature that's neutral towards humans. Naturally curious.

- **Iyeba**: A large cyclops esc creature that roams the woods. It floats around and screams like a banshee.

- **Puffmoke**: A strange gas creature that sings in hidden places. Was last found in a Janitorial closet.

- **Selkie**: A woman who can transform into a seal. The one she found was far from home.

- **"Sticks"**: A Large skinny creature who produces burning black ink. Large and lanky.

## Trivia

* Echo's character was partly based on a combination of me, Madeline from Celeste, and Mae from Night in the Woods.
* In the YAI arc, the ending of it was going to be much darker. YAI was gonna use the Large memory downloader on Echo, almost killing her. He'd then talk about her memories and story instead of his own. This was scrapped because I was gonna have Echo somehow survive being stabbed in the head. Yeah...plus it's cooler if we get to see the past of YAI.
* Echo likes hiding things where no one but herself and find them, where do you think she hides her snack hoard?
* Echo's favorite animals are Raccoons, but Axolotls come second.