garbagechild | 005. [Video]

_{[For what is possibly the FIRST TIME since this kid figured out how to hit the 'post' button, the video is actually STILL.]

[That's because he's set it down on a fence post. The pale, mystical feathers that have been coating every surface like magical dandelion fluff are drifting past on the breeze, but they're not the focus of the video. Instead, the 'Gear's camera seems to be pointed directly into someone's yard, although it's from a little bit of a distance.]

[The place is kind of a dump, with junk littering the corners and lots of weeds. A ramshackle doghouse is erected in the middle, with an upturned waterbowl that doesn't appear to have been filled in some time.]

[A coil of old, frayed rope is tied around one of the boards of the 'house' and at the end of it is a snoozing blue Vaporeon, ear-fins twitching lightly.]

[The view isn't especially zoomed in, but it's still obvious what the Pokemon is.]

[For a time, that's all the video shows.]

[But then Wrath speaks, his voice hushed.]}

... I saw the man in that house come home and he didn't even PET her.

Or give her any food.

She looks sad.

[Half an hour later...]

_{[Now the feed shows HIM, and there's part of a rotten board stuck in his hair. And rope twines in his teeth. And he is cradling something blue that kind of overflows out of his arms in a pile of contented paws and fins.]}

This is Sleepy.

She's blue and I love her.

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_{[GOOD CHOICE LOCKING THIS, AL. Wrath still doesn't even know locking posts is a THING yet.]

[He scoffs, instantly assuming the wicked, snotty persona he virtually only employs when he's talking to an Elric.]}

Get caught for WHAT?

I didn't do anything.

I FOUND her and she followed me.

_{[Which totally explains the visible strands of torn rope IN HIS TEETH wrath what the hell did you CHEW THROUGH THE ROPE?]}

[Al's able to ignore the tone at this point, and just rolls his eyes in amusement.]

There's still bits of rope in your teeth, Wrath. I agree with what you did, I just want you to be careful.

What? No, there's not!

Is there?

_{[Distractedly, he starts to straight-up pick at his teeth right there in front of the camera. No shame at all.]}

[...Wrath, how are you both horrible and cute at the same time?]

Just a bit. You didn't feel them in there?

_{[It's a gift.]}

Ah-uh.

_{[That's what 'nuh uh' sounds like when you've got your fingers jammed into your mouth trying to dig stringy twine from your gums.]}

Jeez, what've you been eating that rope in your mouth feels normal?

I've been eating PEOPLE FOOD like a PERSON!

Why do YOU care, anyway?

Because you're a friend to me, even if you don't remember it. I worry for you.

_{[Every time they talk, Al just keeps saying that.]

[It seems like a stupidly long time to keep up such a ridiculous lie. Why doesn't he just give up already?]

[Wrath glowers at Al for a long moment. Even for him, it's difficult to remain vicious in the face of such steadfast and persistent benevolence.]}

... Well, don't.

I don't worry about you.

I know. You've made that pretty obvious.

[He isn't bitter or upset, there's no point. Wrath's attitude is absolutely understandable given their history; the onus to prove himself is on Alphonse, he knew that from the start.]

Good!

'Cuz sometimes I think you don't remember!

_{[WHY IS HE NOT UPSET?! WRATH WANTS HIM TO BE UPSET. WRATH WANTS HIM TO CRY STUPID HUMAN BABY TEARS. >8(]}

[NO TEARS FOR YOU]

Hehe, it must seem like that a lot, huh? But I don't forget, and I know you have every right to hate me.

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_{[Wrath is scowling SO SOURLY.]}

... I liked you better when you were in that stupid armor, trying to kill me.

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Why? Isn't it better to not be enemies with someone?

You were more honest back then.

Metal doesn't tell lies.

_{[Or maybe you just don't want to accept that he's telling the truth, Wrath!]}

[Al frowns and lets out a small, sad sigh.]

I haven't been lying. What have I done since being here to ever intentionally try to hurt you?

_{[Wrath is silent again for a moment. As much as his perception of things is limited by his age and experience (let's be real, existing in the physical world for less than a year has its intellectual costs), he's not stupid.]

[The answer on his lips is that Alphonse must be trying to lull him into a false sense of security, so that he might strike when the Homunculus least expects it.]

[But that makes no sense in this place, where Wrath has his powers and near-invincibility stripped away from him. If there was ever a time to pick a straightforward fight with Wrath, it's now.]

[AND THEN IT COMES TO HIM.]}

You're just too scared to fight me now that you have a body.

Now that you can hurt.

You don't wanna lose that body again!

You KNOW I'd destroy it!

[...Wrath.]

[Child.]

[Alphonse levels him an incredibly unimpressed look across the screen. Really.]

Yes, that's exactly why I'd nearly gotten into a fist-fight with Envy five times while I was still in Goldenrod.

_{[... Well, aside from making a REALLY good point, Al has introduced a topic that is successfully distracting, because Wrath blinks, looking intrigued.]}

You almost fought with Envy?

Why didn't you ACTUALLY fight with Envy?

_{[WRATH LIKES THE IDEA OF TWO PEOPLE HE'S REALLY MAD AT PUNCHING EACH OTHER.]}

Because a friend's giant owl keeps sitting on us every time we start.

[Total deadpan. He can't make this shit up.]

So?

Both of you can fight chimeras.

You should fight the owl and then fight each other.

_{[HE'S SO UNIMPRESSED, AL. SO UNIMPRESSED.]}

Sunny belongs to someone. Would you like it if we beat up Mama because she tried to stop us fighting?

That wouldn't happen, because Mama would be helping me fight you.

_{[Okay first of all Wrath, no she absolutely wouldn't, and second of all, WAY TO MISS THE POINT.]}

[Predictable answers for 500, Alex!]

Then pretend she tried to stop a fight between two other people, and one of those people hurt her just because she got in the way. You would be upset, wouldn't you?

Oh, I'd kill them.

I'd rip their heads off and scatter their pieces all around the town. And stomp on them.

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