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notbloodyNations like Finland and Sweden can pass a part of their "racial" characteristics over to those that stay close with them for an extended amount of time. This part is, from what we know at this point, nation immortality and human-like sentience. The latter is obviously irrelevant for humans, but the former means in their canon that humans would go mad with this lifestyle in a relatively short amount of time - their brains are simply not made for a long life without aging while everything around them dies (maybe there are other aspects here too, point is that a human would be driven crazy by staying close enough to a nation to be affected by this for a longer time). Animals, however, can take this development and prosper - we know that it works for at least two different kinds of birds, cats, dogs, rabbits and maybe whales. (I requested this curse/ability for Sweden here though I have no heard back about it yet. Technically just being around someone who has at least partial nationhood should cause the above, but I wanted to be safe).
Okay so, sorry for the tl;dr but staying with a nation = sentience and immortality for an animal. Floweregg's preincarnation stay, and thus the beginning of her preincarnation journey towards sentience, started like this (warning, wonky fan translation from before her gender was known, but you get the drift). Finland found her, picked her up and carried her to Sweden (the master of the house) who agreed that they could keep her and proceeded to start the naming process for her.
Reincarnation Floweregg first caught sight of Åsa, who picked her up and carried her over to Siiri who then agreed that yes, she'd take this dog and started the naming process. At the same time as the adoption process starts in similar patterns, Floweregg for the first time encounters (though siginificantly weaker) nationhood (even though none of the involved parties is aware of it), which was the cause for the sentience the first time around.
So the trigger would be: A similar adoption process like the one (starting the living situation) that gave her sentience the first time around.
And the echo would be: The sentience that she had reached four hundred years after that process started.
If the adoption process should not work as a trigger, I think the encounter with "nationhood" could be used as a trigger instead(? The problem here is that none of the involved parties would be aware of it and if only conscious encounters can cause pulses...). Siiri has a small part of her nationhood (a part of the immortality) already, and Siiri and Åsa will regain significant parts of their nationhood (namely the connection to their land) during the season finale.
Okay so, sorry for the tl;dr but staying with a nation = sentience and immortality for an animal. Floweregg's preincarnation stay, and thus the beginning of her preincarnation journey towards sentience, started like this (warning, wonky fan translation from before her gender was known, but you get the drift). Finland found her, picked her up and carried her to Sweden (the master of the house) who agreed that they could keep her and proceeded to start the naming process for her.
Reincarnation Floweregg first caught sight of Åsa, who picked her up and carried her over to Siiri who then agreed that yes, she'd take this dog and started the naming process. At the same time as the adoption process starts in similar patterns, Floweregg for the first time encounters (though siginificantly weaker) nationhood (even though none of the involved parties is aware of it), which was the cause for the sentience the first time around.
So the trigger would be: A similar adoption process like the one (starting the living situation) that gave her sentience the first time around.
And the echo would be: The sentience that she had reached four hundred years after that process started.
If the adoption process should not work as a trigger, I think the encounter with "nationhood" could be used as a trigger instead(? The problem here is that none of the involved parties would be aware of it and if only conscious encounters can cause pulses...). Siiri has a small part of her nationhood (a part of the immortality) already, and Siiri and Åsa will regain significant parts of their nationhood (namely the connection to their land) during the season finale.