105. FOURTH WALL POST [Action for Saffron City, anywhere in Saffron City! Video's okay too]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[You know what?]

[Heather's not even sure why she TRIES anymore.]





[So done. So done.]</sub>


Here we go again.


... Yes, Cooj, I still love you.

Just not right now.

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[foolishwren]

_{[... Now that gets a weird look out of her. She tilts her head slightly.]}

... A soul?

What d'you mean?

[exeggutorhead]

I don't have one.

...Maybe.

[He scratches the back of his head; he used to be pretty sure he didn't. At least, until Johto happened. After a moment of consideration, he adds:]

I'm not supposed to have one.

[Hey, they never remember these weekends; no harm in telling her a few things he doesn't usually talk about.]

[foolishwren]

... Th'heck are you talking about, of course you have a soul.

_{[She says this almost scornfully, as though he'd just told her that he was pretty sure he didn't have a nose. Or fingers.]}

You talk and think and have feelings, don't you?

[exeggutorhead]

[For a second, he looks surprised. Then he shrugs, hands in his pockets, a small, almost resigned smile on his face.]

You don't need a soul for talking and thinking. Not in my world, anyway.

[He hesitates.]

...The feelings are new. I think. They stuck around when I went home that time, so maybe they've always been there after all. [He laughs quietly.] Anger's a feeling, I guess, even if I never really counted it before.

Still, homunculi aren't supposed to have them. We're incomplete.

[foolishwren]

Listen, I've met some people who were seriously the closest to soulless it's possible to be. But they still had 'em.

Maybe it's different in your world, but as far's I'M concerned, you've got one. Souls aren't something that're exclusive to people who came into existence the normal way.

Otherwise I'D be screwed, too.