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[When the feed clicks on, it's shaking slightly, and a man with strange eyes is staring at it from under his sunglasses like he's half-expecting it to explode.]

So this thing is visible to anyone who is connected, huh?

[Someone says something just off camera and he smirks.]

In that case, I just have one question.

Are there any bars in New Bark Town?

[Priorities.]

Action- New Bark Town

[And get an immediate answer or not, Geed is going to wander the town with the strange cat thing following close by. This feels much closer to the freedom he had been searching for in the first place, even if there is a nagging sensation in the back of his mind that something is extremely off.

Really, he can't be worried. He's escaped the bitch as far as he's concerned so he's going to be stopping every single person he runs into to ask about the town hoping he can learn something useful because he sure as hell can't blend in. He might as well stick out in the most obnoxious way possible.

At least it'll get him noticed.]

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[There's a shrug in his voice when he speaks.]

Couldn't tell you. She's probably intensely aware of the sort of person who would attempt to create a homunculus.

In my case? Well, she made me, so she didn't exactly have to go looking.

You say that she seeks immortality. [Foolish.] Yet, the homunculi I have met spoke of attaining humanity.

[Not a direct question, but Scar is hoping pointing out the contradiction draws something else out of Greed.]

They're being tricked.

We homunculi... well. it's hard to erase that nagging sensation that something is wrong with us.

Personally? I've never wanted to be human. That particular bribe never worked with me. She found it threatening to say the least.

[And he pauses.]

Are you aware of how a homunculus is born?

[Scar is silent for a moment longer than he would have liked. How should he answer? There are so few people alive who know about his brother. And even then...

It's hard to erase that nagging sensation that something is wrong with us.]

...Yes, I am.

[Nobody would expect an Ishbalan to know such a dark secret of alchemy. It would be more likely for an Amestrian to assume that he was ignorant.

How ironic.]

[Well, that saves him the explanation, then. But there's probably one thing he doesn't know about it because it's not something really talked about.]

Successful human transmutation is impossible. When we're born, we're born incomplete. Conscious, but immobile and in horrific pain.

Keeping that in mind, it's fairly easy to see how she gets homunculi on her side. She works her magic-- takes the pain away, and she has loyal minions on her side.

And she promises them their humanity if they get the Stone for her?

[When in reality, it was only a matter of using the Stone as an ends for immortality. Is that even logistically possible? With Scar's limited (at least in his opinion) knowledge of alchemy, he cannot imagine how that could even work.

But again, Scar has no reason to believe everything this "Greed" is saying. But still, he wants to hear it out like anything else.]

That's right.

And without the means to know better, they follow her.

[Because newborn homunculi are trusting, naive children. They may look like adults in most cases, but they never act like them. Not at first.]

I did, too, for a time. But then I realized I really didn't want mortality. That's too finite, too much like nothing for me. And then I remembered things that, frankly, made sticking with her impossible.

Remembered things?

[Oh God, not this again. It lines up too eerily...]

[He hesitates. He's said this much, and really, he wouldn't have said anything at all if he didn't think that this was Dante's newest puppet.

Still, admitting this-- admitting his past isn't an easy thing to admit because he really doesn't want to be that human who died hundreds of years ago. He remembers hardly anything about him anyway.]

We remember our deaths.

[...and with any luck, Scar will be able to read between the lines.]

[Scar hesitates. Perhaps it's because his focus has been slightly compromised from the original goal of speaking to this homunculus, but the simple fact alone without inferring Greed's story behind it is enough to make him hesitate once again. But after a moment... It starts to sink in.]

She didn't...

[There's an emotional edge in his voice. Faint, but-]

Are you saying that she had something to do with how you died?

[And it's only several moments after he's spoken that Scar realizes he's just referred to Greed and his human form as the same person.]

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[And he's going to pointedly not answer that question. Which is honestly probably a big enough answer given how freely he's given information up until now.]

How did you come to learn the truth about us?

As far as most humans are concerned, we're a myth.

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[The lack of answer is indicative of Scar's worst assumption. How, exactly, did "Greed" die? Does he even want to know? But... No. She had been sick. Scar had watched it happen, watched her slip away...]

That is none of your concern.

You mentioned Lust earlier which means you encountered her without dying.

That's a pretty exclusive club you've found yourself a part of.

[OOPS...]

I have had your kind on my tail before. There was one called Gluttony as well.

[So she really had been trying to get him to make it in particular. He wonders why.]

Mm, Gluttony is a unique case when it comes to us.

I can't imagine why he looks like what he does now.

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[Except everyone dies if they meet Lust. Whether she intends them to or not.]

That seemed to be the case. He behaved more like an animal.

[And was always at Lust's side, except in the last moments of Liore. Slowly, Scar is starting to put this together.]

What he looks like?

Couldn't tell you what he looked like originally since that was before I was born, but he didn't always look like... well. That.

He looked more human once.

Dante did a lot of experimentation.

I see.

[A pause.]

You have been helpful, Greed.

[Not that he's sure if he believes everything, but the amount of detail at which this homunculus was able to recount his story is to be spoken for.]

I do what I can.

[He really doesn't care if this person believes him or not since it's not like it really applies here. But, you know. Small little things.]

I may be contacting you again.

[Depending. The feed clicks off.]

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