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_{[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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[...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.

So why should we make someone else feel like that? It's not fair to them that they should feel bad because Envy's a giant piece of shit.

_{[IT'S INCREDIBLY VALIDATING TO HEAR ENVY BEING CALLED A GIANT PIECE OF SHIT.]

[But he's still mad at you, Al.]}

Well, you should because then they'd kill both of YOU and scatter your pieces around town and stomp on them.

I think that would be great and you should make it happen.

[SIIIIIIIIIGH]

I'm not interested in committing suicide, Wrath.

Edited (DAMN YOU PHONE) 2015-04-29 03:37 (UTC)

That's a shame.

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