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"... So I just talk? I start talking? .... Now? ... What's the light mean? ... Oh! HI, I'M WRATH, THIS IS MY MAIL VOICE, PLEASE LEAVE A--" BEEP.

[OOC: Want to thread with me but don't have a current post to do it on? Wanna send Wrath a private message? Wanna prank-call him in the middle of the night and then instantly regret it as he dials you back over and over and yells "Hello? HELLO?" into the mic? Pop a thread on here with the IC date and time and let's get playing!]

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_{[Wrath looks up, not startled at Envy's sudden appearance but surprised at the suggestion.]

[8U HE HADN'T TRIED THAT!]

[He immediately clambers upright and then onto his hands he goes. He might not have his perfect Homunculus reflexes and strength anymore, but he's still a limber little thing, and he manages it without even a wobble. His hair drags on the floor.]}

--it's even BETTER this way!

[WHOOPS.]

[Envy holds out his hands to either side of Wrath's ankles, not grabbing on yet, but spotting for him.]

Uh--yeah, it's pretty great, right? You should really only watch it this way when there's someone else around, though.

[Re...sponsibility.....?]

_{[NICE SAVE.]

[Wrath shrugs this off. He doesn't see anything wrong with doing this by himself! What could go wrong?]

[He grins broadly, tipping his head slightly in time with the rhythm of the machine, not caring how his baggy shirt is bunching up under his arms and chin.]}

There's so many colors!

Envy, you should look at it this way too!

_{[JOIN HIM.]}

[Envy is really not sure about this plan.]

[At all.]

[But Wrath sounds so enthusiastic, and he does seem to have his balance. And really, it's kind of nice to have the younger homunculus invite him to join in on anything. Things between them have already been changing so much from what they were before.]

[So he sighs and pulls his arms back from Wrath's ankles, looking for the best place on the floor to do this.]

If you're asking, I guess I can try it.

[The circus comes in handy, as do the four hundred years of acrobatic practice beforehand. He goes up on his hands next to Wrath like it's as easy as breathing.]

_{[The contents of the washing machine tumbling around really aren't any more interesting to watch upside-down than they are right-side up, but Wrath certainly seems over the moon about it.]

[Mostly because Envy doing something with him at all is NEW and NEAT.]

[He BEAMS as the older Homunculus copies his pose. Now both of them are upside down, and BOTH of them are collecting a floor's worth of dust with their hair. This is great.]}

What if people walked upside-down like this all the time, and did everything with their feet?

If we still had our powers we could turn our hands into feet and our feet into hands and do it even better!

... Well, YOU could do that. I could only do it with one each. But I'd still be better than the humans.

[Envy can't help but laugh, but it's not a snide or mocking sound.]

[He's honestly fielded enough questions from Henry in the middle of the night that he can take things like this in stride. And Wrath on a normal day can sometimes be a whole lot like Henry in the middle of the night.]

Yeah, doing it with half is still better than not being able to do it at all.

We'd be the only ones with any thumbs that weren't on the ground. Imagine the possibilities.

[Talking to a stoned Henry at 3AM is honestly remarkably like talking to a troubled eight-year-old.]

[His grin only grows wider when Envy plays along. Back in Amestris, Wrath knows from experience that Envy would have just brushed him off with anywhere from irritation to outright disgust.]

... We'd be the only ones who could peel oranges!

We'd get to have every orange.

[Another amused snort.]

[Wrath is right about that, Envy would have had exactly no patience for this back in Amestris. None of them ever did, really. But things are different now, five years later.]

Every single one. But why stop there?

You can't unwrap chocolate bars with just your toes, either.

_{[WRATH LIKES THE SOUND OF THIS SCENARIO.]}

... We'd get to have all the oranges AND all the chocolate!!

_{[Envy ALWAYS thinks of the best ideas!]}

Everyone would be so jealous!

_{[He sways in his enthusiasm, overbalancing slightly to the side before catching himself.]}

All those humans, jealous of us. How great would that be?

[As much as he doesn't have a problem with humanity anymore, there's still something of a disconnect there and probably always will be. He doesn't even sound bitter, like he would have making that same joke a few years back.]

[He does see that wobble though. He decides to give it a little longer before he tries to stop the game. For now, he's enjoying it.]

SO jealous! SO great!

_{[Wrath really has no problem with humans at this point, either-- even if he doesn't remotely buy that he truly IS one, he's still FRIENDS with plenty of them, and very few humans have actually hurt or mistreated him here.]

[But some things just can't ever be completely unlearned.]

[Of course, now that he's getting REALLY enthusiastic, and he starts to sway, awkwardly stepping forward and back on his hands to compensate. DON'T STEP ON YOUR HAIR WRATH]}

[Envy lets out a full on Evil Cackle in response, before he notices that Wrath is starting to have some trouble. Whoops, time to prevent disaster. RESPONSIBILITY???]

[He comes down from his handstand, a little red in the face, and stands back up to hold onto Wrath's ankles, keeping him upright.]

Hey, careful, you won't be able to have any foot-hand oranges with a broken leg.

[Would he actually break a leg? Maybe? Humans are fragile, it could happen.]

_{[Just in time-- right as Envy's getting to his feet, one of Wrath's hands stamps straight down on his trailing disaster-mop of hair and he starts to topple with a yelp, only to be halted by the saving grace of Envy's support.]}

--oh! Thank you!

I don't want a broken leg.

Those don't go away here so it would just be broken forever.

_{[Human healing has in fact been explained to Wrath but to a Homunculus, the thought of having to deal with a serious injury for more than about five seconds might as WELL be 'forever'.]}

[Wrath had said thank you! To him! Envy feels a completely involuntary grin coming on, and that line of thought is what gets this to come out of his mouth instead of just laughing and agreeing that yes, it would be broken 'forever':]

Well, I'm your brother, I have to look out for you.

[...OH.]

[Honestly, it's not like Envy had thought of this as a secret. It was just...the sort of thing he doesn't really mention or talk about, especially when the alliance with Wrath was still so relatively new and possibly just as fragile as a human bone. But it's out there now, no unsaying it.]

_{[It catches Wrath by surprise, hearing that word out of Envy's mouth-- and he presses his chin to his chest to look up at the older Homunculus with wide eyes.]}

--you are?

... You are!

_{[There was always some sort of sibling-like camaraderie between Dante's servants, even if it was dysfunctional and... very rarely positive. But no one ever said it, ever.]}

We are brothers! Yes.

[Envy's almost nervous for a moment, in case Wrath rejects the term brother completely, but then he agrees and there's an odd tight feeling in his chest. He grins down at the younger homunculus, because he kind of can't help it.]

Yeah, yeah we are. That's what we are.

[...hey. Hey, he's still got Wrath's ankles and has had a sudden idea that will maybe keep him from sounding more like an idiot.]

[So he lifts Wrath up off the floor, turning so that he can carry him upside down against his back, swinging him lightly from side to side, laughing.]

Ha, and I've got you!

--AAAAH!

_{[OH NO he's been CAPTURED]

[This time last year, Wrath would have turned on Envy like an enraged wolverine, but he knows how to play pretend now, and they are BROTHERS so there's no reason to actually be worried.]

[He flops against Envy's back, arms dangling over his head.]}

OH NO!

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