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50. Accidental Video

_{[When the feed flickers on, it's first displaying a somewhat unsteady view of Heather's back. Occasionally it swivels back and forth shakily-- showing a blurry view of what looked like a lot of cracked eggshells. There were a few towels lying crumpled on the floor, as well. Her voice, muffled and slightly blotted out by the constant clicking and rattling noises resulting from the Totodile claws that are grappling to keep hold on the camera.]}

--thought you weren't gonna make it before the first day've the New Year was over. Guess you like cuttin' it close to the wire, huh little guy?

_{[There's something small but fuzzy and ragged-looking draped over her shoulder, jostling slightly as she rubs it down with a towel.]

[It's white, mostly-- with spiky, damp hair and something indistinct sticking out of its head-- something black and sickle-like. A reaper-y blade.]}

Guess it's appropriate, though.

_{[She sits back and the camera's view scurries forward a little bit, swiveling upwards insistently. Catching sight of it (and its carrier-- guess who) out of the corner of her eye, Heather turns with a quirked brow.]}

Wh-- Zilla, put that thing down, you're gonna break it.

_{[She uses one hand to better support the fuzzy white thing cradled against her shoulder and makes a sort of halfhearted grab for Godzilla and the 'Gear with the other-- he dances out of reach, but she does hit a button and the Pokedex function comes online.]}

ABSOL, the DISASTER POKEMON. It has the ability to predict disasters and impending danger. Its tendency to only appear before humans prior to disasters has earned it a reputation as an evil omen and often caused it to become a target, leading to the species becoming even more shy and reclusive.

... Predicting disasters, huh.

Guess I'm safe, then. _{Mine's already happened.}

I know just what I'm gonna call you.

_{[Curious about the newest addition to their little motley crew, Godzilla inches forward with the camera once again, zooming in on the little creature's face. As the view gets clearer, a single red eye-- the one not obscured by a limp mop of white fur-- drifts open.]}

How do you feel about 'Alessa'?

[ooc: TAGS WILL COME TOMORROW-- I just realized I'm running a fever and shit's starting to move that really shouldn't. SORRY ILU GUYS. I'll-- .. um, I'll be back later. 8(;]

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Makes sense, that humans would mistake a warning for the cause. [He shrugs, but he does look very interested in the Absol.] Still, that sounds like something good to have around.

Happy new year, though.

Yeah. You'd think we'd learn after awhile.

_{[She knew good and well what it was like to be mistaken for the cause. She'd learned it a long time ago.]}

Happy New Year.

Doin' anything cool?

Some do, most don't. I've seen it play out in most every way, but once in a while the persecuted manages to come out alive.

Probably, someone I knew from back home showed up in town and knowing Greed he's probably gonna drag me somewhere with him. And knowing him...maybe you should keep an eye on your disaster detector tonight, just in case. [He laughs, and as he does a Shinx pokes its head up to investigate the screen, sniffs once or twice, then turns to start gnawing on Envy's hair. He doesn't seem to pay it too much notice for now, since it's been hatched and doing this a few days already.]

What about you?

Yeah. Some.

_{[She's one of them.]}

And eh... nothing, really. Been tired lately. Probably just gonna hit midnight and then sleep.

_{[... Which is sort of out of character for her, but... there you go.]}

Heh, that doesn't sound all too bad either, if you're tired.

This is the first time in a long time I've paid attention to a new year at all, really.

I used to.

Not so much in the past couple of years. But hey, it's technically just another day, right?

Yeah, technically. And after seeing four hundred of them it sort of loses its novelty. [This is said a little cautiously. The only other people he's told he either hasn't cared what they think or have been similarly aged.]

But here, I dunno, it feels like I should pay attention to it.

_{[She opens her mouth-- then pauses.]}

... Four hundred days or four hundred new years?

Four hundred new years. Give or take a few.

... Guess you weren't lying when you said you weren't human...

[He nods. Might as well get it over with and see what happened.] Yeah, I may be a liar, but that's true.

I'm what's called a homunculus, an alchemically created thing that was meant to be human. Or I was, anyway. Who the hell knows what I am anymore. [Shrug. He's proud of what he was, it's Johto that's the confusing part.]

_{[She doesn't look repulsed like she might have a year ago. After all, can she really say she came about through natural means, either?]}

Huh. Never met something like that before.

[The lack of revulsion makes Envy look noticeably less wary, even a little bit relieved.] I wouldn't think so, we're pretty rare even in my world. Plenty of alchemists like to play God, but not many have the right skills. There's only six of us right now and we try not to get found out.

[He does grin at the next part though.] But we do come with cool powers. Strength, speed, regeneration, and an extra. I could shapeshift into anything.

_{[Hey, when you're the product of a dying psychic-powered girl who had just incubated and given birth to a demon god and then formed you from nothing with her crazy witch brain powers, you don't have a whole lot of room to judge. ... Not that that stopped Heather from judging a lot of the time, anyway.]}

Cool powers, huh?

I used to have some of those.

_{[... Hell, technically she probably still did... after all, how else could she have warned herself about what was coming on that fateful night? Alessa had been able to know things about what was to come.]}

Wouldn't mind regeneration... that'd be pretty sweet.

So you could turn into ANYTHING, huh?

[Screwed up reincarnation buddies~ Too bad Hohenheim wasn't awesome like Harry Mason or Envy might not be so crazy. He does look pretty interested when she mentions that she had cool powers too; he wouldn't have guessed.]

Really? What kind?

[Bragging is one of Envy's favorite hobbies, maybe he should have been called Pride instead.] The regeneration was pretty useful, a long time ago me and Greed used to go find roads with brigands on 'em and see if we could get them to attack us. They made real good faces when our heads would grow back or we'd just pull the arrows out. Even better when he used his shield power, it made him look like this big black monster thing and they'd just run like all of hell was after them.

Yeah, anything or anyone. Even stuff like turning my arm into a sword.

_{[She doesn't normally talk about it, but meh. He's four hundred years old. What can he even do with the info, right?]}

I could do things by thinking about 'em.

Other kids called me a witch.

_{[That was in her past life, of course... although she suspected some small vestiges of it still remained. She would never be completely normal...]}

And man, that sounds like a hoot. Wish I coulda seen it.

[Well color him actually impressed.] There's nothing like that where I'm from, that does sound like a pretty awesome power to have. Kids are little bastards, especially when they're jealous.

It was, I'm pretty sure we're still boogeymen in a couple of places because of it too. If I had my powers here there's a few of those native trainers out on the routes I sure wouldn't mind scaring the hell out of, that's for sure.

It was more of a curse than it was a gift. _{[In the end, it had probably been why Dahlia had become so obsessed with using Alessa as the vessel for God's birth...]}

HEH. Stop 'em from badgering you all up and down the road trying to get you to fight, that's for sure.

_{[She got sick of those guys fast.]}

Hell, it'd practically be a service to the community to get them to leave people alone. Although then it might be harder to take their money...[He snickers and grins at her, but underneath that he's considering the first thing she said.]

[His face drops into a more neutral expression. A little curious, but mainly thoughtful. He's familiar with the sentiment; it sounded like something Lust might say.] Something happened besides stupid kids, huh? [Even though it's a question, he doesn't sound demanding of an explanation if she doesn't want to give one.]

_{[Sorry, Envy. Maybe you'll get an explanation eventually, but Heather tends to be sparing with details of her life. So she shrugs noncommittally.]}

Some people wanted to use it for their own purposes.

_{[It's a true enough answer. But she ain't gonna go into the details.]}

Isn't that always the case. [He nods, and shrugs back. He can tell it's time to let the subject drop.]

Oh, I didn't get the chance to say so before, but...thanks for the presents. Gloves're really warm.

[He grins.] Don't worry about your dog jumping on me, I probably had it coming anyway. [For many a reason.]

OH. Heh, no problem!

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[video] sorry, the notif got eaten!

Re: [video] It's okay, I've been super bad about tagging, myself. XD;;;