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ossifragant) wrote2014-04-07 07:18 pm
ossifragant) wrote2014-04-07 07:18 pm
001 Thing Acquired - [video; actions]
Video
[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.]
[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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['...s arrival anyway.' because it's Ed and he is usually not quiet. Except when he is, and secretly just shows up if he's mature enough to not yell about alchemy not working and stuff to the network right after his arrival.
But forget that, she's going all red and flailing a bit. ...Goddammit, Winry, will you ever get used to that?]
HE'S NOT ... We're not ... I ---- uh... [Winry, please.]
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She's going to just sigh, act like nothing like that red face and other stuff ever happened.]
Walking is not so bad either, at least at first. But yes, there are quite many of those, that you can ride on. Like this -- [and she turns her gear to show her Arcanine, who is just chilling there in the background mostly.] -- Arcanine. They are little puppies called Growlithe at first, need a lot of training but then they can become a fast giant like him. But that's just one, fiercely loyal, option.
The offer is always open though, if you ever need to get anywhere fast.
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He wants one.]
I was thinking of getting one of those.... what are they called again?
Rapid Dash? Something like that? The horse that's on fire. I mean, I'd be getting the baby form first so I couldn't ride it, but that's what I was thinking of.
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Rapidash! They're great, and even faster runners than my dog there... I think. It's pretty easy to grow one from a pony to a horse, when you just keep training it for a few weeks. So a good plan, I'd say.
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[He looks oddly nostalgic about it.
And that's probably revealing way too much because, you know, homunculus.]
.... sobbing at the first line of this. Winry please
Umm, why a long time ago? I mean, sure I guess I see them more often than most people in Amestris because I'm from Resembool, but -- if you miss it [that much?!?] then couldn't you have, you know, get a horse and ride it?
[Sorry to say, she doesn't get your logic at all right now!]
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The last time I road a horse was 300 years ago, or so. Could have been a bit longer.
World's changed a lot since then. People prefer cars to horses now.
[Greed.]
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... umm... ]
That sure was a long time ago, but I guess it's not something you'd easily forget. [You still know how to ride, right? Or it will come back to you if you don't, probably, since he's learned it once.]
Well, you'd just need to go to places where they don't prefer cars to horses. It's really noisy in the big cities.
[No, it's okay. Being what most would probably call a country girl from Resembool and all that? Cars, pfffffft! She'd choose animal rides any day. She still thinks trains are uncomfortable in Amestris and she's not used to cars all that much.]
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No, of course not. I used to work on a ra-
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What the hell is wrong with him? When was the last time he thought about himself that way-- thought about that dead man he was created to replace that way?
He's not quite able to hide the horror in his expression fast enough.]
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...that horror is obvious from his face too. Don't make a worrier worry, Greed.
ummmmmmmm]
... And we could leave it at that, if you don't want to talk about it.
[Hey, she's not going to ask about people's (esp newcomer's) personal businesses too much. Well, she does that when it's Ed and Al in question but even then she usually only asks from them.]
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Sometimes I forget myself. My apologies.
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So instead she'll be trying to go to her happy face here.]
Don't worry about it! Besides, I guess all kinds of thoughts come to mind when you suddenly wake up here.
[yup, just trying to jump from that subject to something else or you know, something. Whatever makes others feel better.]
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Something like that.
[And something occurs to him, though he isn't really sure he wants to know the answer.]
You mentioned the name "Ling" before. Who is that?
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... ooops, she did mention that name earlier.]
Ling Yao, one of the many current princes of Xing, aiming to be its emperor.
[and she's really not sure how much more she can tell, ooops.]
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He's not sure he's ever heard of that country before. It could be that he knew about it at one point and his memory just never returned and Dante saw no reason to tell him about the rest of the world outside of Amestris.]
What does he have to do with me?
[Sorry, Winry, but he's going to push this line of questions.]
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He came to my home with Ed and some others, but looked like something had changed from the last time I saw him. Then he said he's Greed, but I heard that there's also Ling in that body somehow and don't ask how, I'm just a mechanic and not an alchemy freak.
A-Anyway, Ed is good friends with Ling - and it's not like me and Al are in bad terms with him either, so it's not like he'd just let that Greed guy, who looks like his friend, go wherever he wants to... Even if he says that Ed and the others are working for him.
[PFFFFFT, yeah right. Or they might be but Ed and friendships, they're always weird. And even if she knew even more details about how Ling and Greed even went to the same body, she is so not going to tell. Because really, she is just a mechanic and that stuff is for alchemists anyway.]
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What she's just told him is outright impossible, but she doesn't seem to be lying. And why would she lie to him about something like this, anyway? It doesn't make any sense at all.
Homunculi don't have souls, anyway. Left over bits and pieces from humanity, but that doesn't count as a soul. It's enough to have an identity. That, and the fact that when it came to spirit attachment, Greed didn't want his spirit attached to someone else's body. That was what Dante did and it was horrifying.
But a homunculus in a human's body implied something else, something that unsettled him more than he wanted to let on. It implied that whatever Greed she had met didn't truly have a body of his own.
Greed couldn't remember what he originally looked like, not really. He remembered enough to know he hadn't completely changed shape or form. Eyes, teeth, skin tone, maybe the hair, but he would have been recognizable to anyone who had known him when he was alive if he hadn't died centuries ago.
And again, all of this was impossible because he was about five minutes away from Dante killing him and he had walked into her mansion knowing fully well that he was going to die.
He's pretty sure that Envy knew it, too. And even if Dante hadn't killed him, Kimbley would have gotten bored of playing keep away eventually and blown up Greed's skull and he would have died that way instead.
There's something else going on. It's almost like she's talking about an entirely different set of events.]
I'm not saying you're a liar because I don't believe you are, but trust me when I say this: what you're telling me is impossible in the world as I know it.
You can't go shoving a homunculus' spirit into a human body. It would kill both of them.
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She could be a liar, sure, but she's not -- well, she might lie in special cases, but that's not what she is doing here.]
Um, it's not like I don't believe what you are saying but looks like it is possible where I'm fr--
... ...
[... Oh. Right. She never asked... Oooops.]
... I guess you're from the same place as Envy. We're -- basically all from Amestris, there just happens to be like two versions of it. It's a crazy theory, but considering how some things don't match where I'm from and where he's from, it kind of starts sounding like a ... more or less logical explanation to why things can go differently even if you are from Amestris.
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He shrugs, thoughtful.]
Since you're not an alchemist you wouldn't be able to answer some of the questions I have.
[..and that came out a little more harsh than he intended. He winces.]
Though sometimes there's advantages to not being in the know. Knowing too much can change a person and often not for the better. Don't have to know any more differences between the two versions of Amestris to know that.