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_{[GOOD MORNING, JOHTO!]

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

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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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[She stares at the screen and tries... really hard... not to throw it to her feet. What is this. Poor child is mixing reality and video games --or so she desperately tells herself because she does not want to believe this. He's messing with her, right? Has to be.]

Hah... yeah, they're silly! I've never heard about the corpse reanimation, but what I've read about alchemists are that they worked to turn rock into gold. But even though turning things into gold is impossible, they contributed a lot to basic science! You mom? must have tried really hard?? with the whole birth thin g

[?? ???? Sometimes a baby's heart is stopped at birth and needs to be restarted but they're technically 'dead' and they get revived and his mom is a scientist or something WHO KNOWS]

_{[... Well, the irony here is that she's spot on about alchemists (they DID largely want to figure out how to create infinite gold), and more importantly, also about Wrath's mom.]

[Izumi Curtis had been one of the most gifted alchemists the world had ever seen.]

[Her baby had been stillborn.]

[The rest was history.]

[But unfortunately, bringing it up may have been a mistake. Because after a few minutes of stunned silence on Wrath's end...]}

THAT IS NOT MY MOTHR

SHE THREW ME AWAY AFTER BRINGING ME BACK BCUZ I WAS NOT WHAT SHE WANTED!!!

SHE WAS LIKE ALL THE OTHER ALCHEMYSTS I HATE HER

DONT EVER TALK ABOWT HER AGAYN!!!

[Cripes. She stepped on a landmine and there goes her head]

I'M SORRY I'M SORY THAT'S TEERRIBLE OF HER WE DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE I'M SSORRY

YOU HAVELOTS OF PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU NOW! LOST OF FRIENDS!!

**LOTS!!!!!!!!

[oh crap that was a terrible typo]

_{[POOR HITOKA YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER]}

thats ryt i DO

i hav lots of frens they r good

they dont throw u away just bcuz u r not a real baby

or try 2 kill u when u com back agayn layter

i dont want 2 talk anemore

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Okay. I'll work hard to find your friends! Who care about you!! And won't try to kill you!! I won't try to kill you either, promise!!!!!

[Envy winces at that grip because it's definitely painful, but he doesn't let go at all. Instead he only ducks his head, throat tightening and making his voice thick as he says the only words that he can think of.]

I know, I know, I know...

You're very welcome.

Can I see what you look like so I know if I run into you? I promise I'll do the very same.

_{[As much as the three disappearances genuinely are a big deal, they pretty much vanish from Wrath's mind in the wake of this revelation.]

[He's silent for awhile. Which is better than having a complete meltdown, but at the same time, silence from Wrath is historically worrying.]

[Finally, he speaks.]}

If we don't come up with a plan, we're all going to die.

ok i wil turn on the video

_{[Wrath has literally never grasped the importance of stranger danger despite being kidnapped MULTIPLE TIMES.]

[Wrath needs an adult.]

[The video pops on and reveals Wrath in all his glory. Who knows what Ashley had been expecting after their last conversation, but what she GETS is a grubby, deathly-pale little boy with a wild, tangled mane of black hair (there's one or two visible leaves stuck in it) and blue eyes so intense that they're edging into purple territory.]

[He tilts the camera a couple of times until satisfied, peering at the screen to make sure it's on.]}

Here I am.

[The deathly pale part is a surprise, but she did kind of expect a wild child. Especially since apparently everything becomes human here, so abomination didn't automatically translate into horrible awful monster.

But still, she blinks for a moment before responding in kind, studying his eyes and his...accessory leaves, as it goes. A face to words, especially that well-meaning but severe advice he offered last time; what gives her pause, more than anything else, is that he really does look like the perfect mix of innocence and...what to call it, anarchy? Maybe.

Either way, she makes sure to offer a kind smile when she flicks on her camera, and a little wave.]

And here I am. If I find anything, I'll report it right to you, um... [...a name oh jeez he probably wrote it but-] Rath?

[She certainly tried.]

i just want you to know i read that as child dispenser instead of chill dispenser and almost gave you advice that would righteously piss off every plus sized lady in a fifty mile radius
the tales of your instantaneous annihilation by sheer panties crapping fury would have been legendary
but anyway you know those soda vending machines?

They're hotter than hot dogs if you'd believe it.

_{[Innocence and anarchy pretty much sums Wrath up, all things considered.]

[He lifts a hand and waves back, a little more listlessly than usual. He's normally a bundle of energy, but he's pretty worn out. Which she can probably tell, especially when he then uses the same hand to rub at one eye despite the fact that his knuckles are coated in dried paint.]}

Yes, that's me. I'm Wrath.

WHAT

I WAS JUST TYPNG WAT U SAYD!!!

U KEEP SAYING WORDS THAT I DONT KNO WHAT THEY MEAN

_{[Poor Dave's frankly impressive wit is pretty much lost on this horrid child.]}

BUT I DO KNO WAT A VENDING MACHENE IS I GET PUDING CUPS FRUM THEM I LYK THEM THEY R GOOD

ok well if you go to one of those and buy yourself a lemonade
thats pretty much liquid chill right there
i mean apple juice is better but for some reason thats harder to find around here??
like you gotta go to stores and shit and man sometimes i just aint got time for that runaround
i demand fruit flavored sugar water delivered into my hands as instantaneously as thought

[The name clicks now. Wrath. It's a word, one she wasn't expecting, but...]

Well, Wrath, I'm Ashley, and I'll do whatever I can to help. Your friends' names, what are they again? Uh...Al...phonse, right? And...

[She's. She's leading somewhere with this, really.]

[Envy loosens his grip enough to actually look down at Wrath.]

[This is not at all where he'd expected this conversation to go. He's also really not sure how to explain why a plan wouldn't matter in the long run...except maybe for Wrath himself.]

[The mechanics of going home are vague and uncertain. Even if it probably wouldn't matter, the idea that it might is a tempting one. There's already two versions of Amestris. What if Wrath could make one more? One where he turned traitor at just the right moment, and he and Lust could both run?]

What...kind of plan?

[It's not a lie to hope, is it?]

... What?

How does that work?

A LEMON ADE?? I HAV NOT HAD THAT

IS IT LIKE ORNJ JYUSE

MAMA LETS ME HAV THAT SOMTYMS

Ash-lee?

Oh. Like ashes. Okay.

_{[He doesn't entirely understand the logic behind human naming schemes, but he knows what ashes are! He's been reduced to ashes on several occasions!]}

Their names are Alphonse, Scar, and Greed.

_{[He repeats these names, fairly patiently. He's gotten used to doing that for everybody who asks.]}

_{[Wrath is staring right back, expression grim but determined. But he doesn't say anything right off the bat. He's clearly still thinking. And hey, he has shown some strategic promise in the past, so maybe he's got something!]}

... Well, I'm her only servant left except for Gluttony and Pride, and she knows how good I am because she trusted me to take care of the traitor Lust.

So if I tell her that you were all traitors and I destroyed you, she'll probably believe me.

And then you and Lust will just have to hide forever and never come out.

_{[THERE. A PERFECT PLAN.]

[... Oh, wait, but Pride might be a problem. He's always so nosy.]

[Wrath frowns again, before deciding--]}

I might have to kill Pride.

huh
well sure i guess its kind of like orange juice in that lemons and oranges are both citrus fruits
lemonades yellow instead of orange though
and sourer
but they put hella sugar in lemonade so it still tastes sweet as fuck
hey kid how old are you

[Sure, alright. Like Ashes, if that helps him remember it.

She nods along, alright. Alphonse, that's what she thought. Scar, that's a weird name, and-

...Oh.] Greed?

[Blink.]

Kind of...spiky hair, sharp teeth? That Greed? Oh, what am I saying, of course that Greed, it's not a common name... My gosh, I talked to him... Not recently, but.

I DONT LYK SOWR THINGS BUT I DO LYK SUGAR

I ALSO DONT KNO HOW OLD I AM

A YEAR I THINK

?

MAYB 2

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text; I'M SORRY psych class was more recent than my fma rewatch so that's all i could think of asfdj

text; tbf FMA homunculi are pretty f'd up when they're first born MAYBE ONE LOOKED LIKE THAT

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