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81. [Video/Action for Ecruteak]

Oct 27, 2011 22:35

Hey, 'Zilla, you got the 'Gear?

This stuff NEEDS to be documented.

[That's the first thing that can be heard over the feed. When the camera first comes on, a pair of large, familiar reptilian red eyes are blinking down at it. Is it recording...? Oh, okay, recording! Good ( Read more... )

*miguel, tis the season, godzilla, scary stories to tell in the dark, action, *sasarai, *kid flash, *henry, *cooper, *nero, *vanitas, *eridan, it came from the black lagoon, ic, cunning plan, ecruteak city, *superboy, *clover, video, adventure time, *liquid, loling forever, looking good kid, *kaito, *jack, *envy, what is this i don't even, croconaw, *harry

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[video] exeggutorhead October 28 2011, 05:22:35 UTC

[Envy is snickering at that display with the mask.]

How terrifying.

So is it everyone that puts on costumes for this Halloween thing?

[Envy's been considering it. Both for thieving purposes because nobody would be able to tell who he was, and also just because he really likes disguising himself and hasn't gotten much of a chance to in Johto.]

[video] foolishwren October 28 2011, 08:27:42 UTC

Yep. It's tradition!

I think the idea was that if you dressed up as monsters and shit, it'd scare evil spirits away so you could walk at night safely.

'Least that's what I heard once.

[video] exeggutorhead October 29 2011, 00:51:37 UTC

Yeah? Too bad that probably wouldn't have worked last year, or that whole mess would've been a lot easier to deal with.

What kinds of monsters are there to dress up as? Besides rabid wolves, I mean. [Envy doesn't really recognize most of the costumes he's seen besides the Pokemon ones.]

[video] foolishwren October 31 2011, 06:52:00 UTC

I dunno... there's a little of everything.

All the animal-based ones are Pokemon, of course...

[video] exeggutorhead November 3 2011, 05:17:49 UTC

[He nods, thinking about this. He'll figure something out.]

[...But for now he smirks at the camera.] I see your hair isn't looking like you dipped it in a paint bucket anymore.

[video] foolishwren November 4 2011, 09:39:49 UTC

Har de har.

Yeah, I hacked off the last blond bits once it was long enough.

Whatcha think?

[She reaches up to run a finger through the ebony rat's nest on top of her head.]

[video] exeggutorhead November 10 2011, 03:05:46 UTC

[He grins and gives her hair a considering glance.]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't biased, but it looks good on you.

[Shrug and a teasing smirk.] A hairbrush wouldn't exactly hurt, though.

[video] foolishwren November 13 2011, 09:58:08 UTC

Pfft.

I'm too manly for hairbrushes.

[She runs her fingers through her hair flippantly, but then looks back at the screen, expression curious.]

Biased, huh? Towards what? The black, orrr...?

[video] exeggutorhead November 14 2011, 06:49:47 UTC

[Snerk.] I'm in awe of your manliness.

[It's actually a sign of how comfortable Envy's gotten talking with her that he's cool with just answering that question and not immediately making something up, even if it is pretty minor.]

Yeah, the black. It's what all homunculi are born with. [He shrugs, an unconcerned 'what can you do' expression on his face.] So, wound up with a bias for it.

[video] foolishwren November 16 2011, 20:25:13 UTC

Huh... well, it was my birth-color too.

Guess we got that in common!

... What... IS a homunculi, anyway?

[Go figure. Give her an answer and she winds up with more questions.]

[video] exeggutorhead November 17 2011, 00:55:40 UTC

Yeah, guess we do.

[There is a definite moment of hesitation after she asks that question. It's one of those odd things about Envy, that the more attached he becomes to anyone, the more secretive he gets about some things, especially things that he knows scare people. He'd told her a little of it, almost a year ago...but he'd decidedly dodged around the actual nature of what a homunculus is then, and it hadn't really come up since.]

[So it figures it comes up in the Halloween store. Well, he'd told others, and they hadn't freaked out. And after what he'd seen in that dream of hers, he doesn't think she will either.]

It's homunculus, for just one. [Thank you, Mr. Latin Autocorrect.] I think I told you some of it last December. Artificial humans with superpowers. But that's...really just a small part of it. I'll tell you the rest, if you want to know.

[video] foolishwren November 21 2011, 06:29:59 UTC

[She falls silent, listening.]

[He's right-- it won't freak her out. Very little, it turns out, could truly freak Heather out after the things she's done and seen.]

[So she looks down at the screen with an open expression as she continues to rummage through the hangers.]

Why not? I've got the time.

[video] exeggutorhead November 21 2011, 07:34:46 UTC

[He pauses again, but this time it's more to think how he's going to put this than hesitance.] We're what happens when some alchemist [his voice darkens on that word, he can't help it when he's talking about this] decides that they can play god and tries to bring a dead human back to life.

Alchemy's main law is equivalent exchange; you can't get something without giving something of equal value up in return. And there's nothing equivalent to a human life, so they're given one of us instead. [He shrugs lightly.] I only know of one person who's ever created a homunculus intentionally.

[video] foolishwren December 9 2011, 04:58:02 UTC

[... Whoa. That's.. spooky.]

So... you're what happens when somebody tries to bring a dead person back to life?

... Does that make you kinda like a zombie?

[video] exeggutorhead December 9 2011, 05:19:50 UTC

Right. We wind up looking like that person too, once we've put ourselves together, but I'm lucky enough to be able to change my form.

[He sounds a bit proud of himself about that. And then just looks confused at her next question. Somehow nobody has ever mentioned this to him.]

...Maybe? Depends on what a zombie is.

[video] foolishwren December 10 2011, 04:02:59 UTC

A... y'know. A reanimated corpse.

[... Not that Envy looks like one or ACTS like one, but...]

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