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_{[GOOD MORNING, JOHTO!]

[THERE'S A PICTURE IN YOUR INBOX.]}

>>open file: gone.jpg

if u hav seen them mesg rath pls

thank

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_{[Are you in Goldenrod City or its surrounding territories?]

[Then YOU JUST MIGHT HAVE THE LUCK to be approached by a small child in increasingly-grubby conditions as the day goes on. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about approaching strangers by this point, but if he has, it's not stopping him.]

[He will approach anyone and everyone who stops long enough to make eye contact, but instead of challenging you to a Pokemon battle, he will instead thrust the image above, finger-painted on a scrap of filthy paper rather than a crappy .jpg at you. He's still got paint on his fingers. Maybe his beseeching puppydog-blue eyes (the most pitiful ones he can MANAGE) will outweigh the unintentionally-horrifying nature of the three portraits.]

[8( WELL?]

[HAVE YOU SEEN THEM?]}

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[Squint. Squuuiiiint.]

uh
is one of those
me

Yeah....

_{[HIS SOUL FEELS LIKE IT'S DISSOLVING.]}

So chin up! You might not find 'em for...y'know...a while. A while a while. But. Some day, yeah?

ARE YOU MISSING POTATOES, HUMAN????

it is my frens hav u seen them

probaly not if it was u i think u wud kno bcuz u hav ben mising and ther r pepl worred abowt u

is ur name allfonz scar or gred

wat?

no!!!!

and i am not a hyuman!!!!!

[*OFFENDED!!*]

rely??? thats a nice job myn was not nearle so nice

thank u 4 helping yachi!!

[THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CARE ABOUT PEOPLE, RALPH]

Someday sounds really far away.

I'd rather find them soon.

they all liv in a hows 2gethr

2 of them i thot were with anothr who went away 2 somwher els 4 a wyle but it turnd owt they wer not

the othr 1 just sudenle was not ther ane more

all of there pokymon r stil heer tho

[Envy almost sits on the bench instead, but with a sigh decides to sit on the grass next to Wrath. Will that help with this? Will anything help with the news he's about to give? He has no idea.]

Ah--I think it's big enough on the first one.

But Wrath...

[How does he do this? He's only ever explained this to adults before, who would get it right away.]

I don't think that missing posters'll help. They're...not here for anyone to find. Not anymore. Has anyone you've known here ever just not been around anymore?

_{[That makes Wrath look up from his new masterpiece, wearing a vaguely-annoyed frown.]

[Really? Envy too?]}

Well, they're not dead.

I already found out people can't die here. They come back just like we do back home.

_{[As for Envy's question, well yes, there's been a few, but no one Wrath... knew well enough to really pay attention to. Especially with the fact that he was barred from all contact with the outside world for a couple months there. That didn't exactly help when it came to keeping track of everybody.]}

So they have to be somewhere.

_{[C'mon Envy aren't you supposed to be the brains of this outfit?]}

[Envy just...shakes his head. It's all he can do.]

No, they're not dead. If they were, we'd have found them. And they're not lost somewhere in this world.

You know how you and all of us...we just show up one day, when we weren't here before?

Sometimes people go back the same way. The three of them were sent back to Amestris.

[Where two of them at least are dead, but he's been trying not to think about that too hard.]

It's nothing any of us can control, they didn't decide to vanish. They just...went.

[OBLIVIOUS]

WHAT A COINCIDENCE! NEITHER AM I!

[...oh no
it's the cute abomination kid who also might be a little terrifying
what does she do--]

I haven't seen anyone like that, but I'll look for them! I just need a little more information. These are people or Pokemon?

nah my name is dave
though allfonz sounds like an awesome name and one i might take under consideration if i ever feel the need for some kind of alternate identity

_{[Another cringe as he waits for someone and their two Furfrou to pass in front of them.]}

H-hey, some day might come sooner than you think!

What was your job? Sometimes all you need is a change of attitude to see a job in a better light.

_{[Fully distracted from his drawing now, Wrath continues to frown up at Envy.]

[The gears in his head are clicking away, but his reluctance to accept what the older Homunculus is saying shows plainly on his face. It's not the same violent hostility as what had been behind his screams and accusations back in that first month in the basement-- that hasn't been present since Envy had made that promise to be honest.]

[Instead it's milder, the frustration of talking to someone who clearly thinks they're right but can't possibly be. It's the same look that Wrath still sometimes wears when the others talk about Dante.]}

That can't be true.

Why would we be here if we were just going to go back?

_{[It sounds preposterous. But then again... showing up here in the FIRST place had always been inexplicable. No one had ever offered Wrath a real explanation for how he had somehow traveled through time and space to a completely different dimension.]

[His annoyance starts to take on an edge of "oh shit I can't think of a way to refute this".]}

then do not call me 1!!!

_{[He won't really be human until he has completed his body part collection and claimed them all for himself, thank you very much!]}

and aneway i do not lyk potaytos they r hard and tayst bad

i am mising my frens

_{[This post honestly probably hasn't done anything to dispel the "cute AND a little terrifying" image he's created for himself.]}

they r pepl i dont kno ane pokymon that look lyk the things i droo!

_{[He's a little surprised at the number of people who can't tell what the pictures are of!! They look perfectly passable to him...]}

they r my frens ALLFONZ GRED and SCAR

they r gon

hav u seen them

NO!!!!

U CANT HAV ALLFONZ NAME IT IS HIS

_{[Pardon Wrath, the last time he had to come up with anything involving alternate identities, his response was to panic and yell "ANGRY! ... I mean, TIM!"]

[And for reasons he's not quite a sophisticated-enough thinker to grasp yet, he doesn't like the idea of more than one person having the same name. It's troubling.]

[No one tell him that there are definitely other people out there with the name 'Alphonse'.]}

I hope so.

_{[Wrath sighs again and plants his chin in the middle of Ralph's spiky hair.]}

Can we get something to eat?

My stomach is starting to snarl.

o it was mostle killing pepl

somtyms it was fun but then somtyms they wud try 2 kill u back and then it was not so fun

BUT, YOU'VE BECOME ONE UPON ARRIVING HERE, YES? JUST AS I HAVE!

BUT! POTATOES ARE THE MOST VERSATILE VEGETABLE OF THEM ALL! YOU CAN MASH THEM! ROAST THEM! BAKE THEM! GRILL THEM! PUT THEM IN STEWS! WHY, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!!!

!!! YOUR FRIENDS! I'M SO SORRY! WHERE DID YOU SEE THEM LAST? THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL ASSIST IN YOUR SEARCH!

[o wait what

She could maybe reason her way around that first "killing," but with that second "kill," she can't pretend he's made the same typo twice. There's a sudden distressing thought that maybe this isn't a missing persons poster as much as it's an assassin's hit list, but she forcefully swallows that down with a shake of her head. Jumping to conclusions has gotten her into trouble too many times, especially when she's thinking bad thoughts onto people who don't deserve it.

Kill... Killing... There's kills in volleyball, in which you successfully score a point for the team. Maybe he means this sort of kill? A game? A violent but fun video game?]

Yeah... I can imagine it'd be frustrating, and really scary! But you don't do it anymore? Did you win, or did something happen?

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