foolishwren: I'm pretty sure you have the wrong number. There's no Back-That-Booty-Up Jones here. (... who is this?)
Heather Mason ([personal profile] foolishwren) wrote2016-06-07 02:02 am
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IC CONTACT (Victory Road)



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"Yo, it's Heather. I'm probably asleep or one of the Pokemon ate my 'Gear or something so I can't answer you right now. But feel free to leave a message or something.
I'll probably get back to you. ... Probably. Peace out."


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exeggutorhead: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-29 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He really can't hide much from her at this point, and especially not when he's in a state like this one. If he'd really wanted to hide it, though, he would have just texted. But he wants to hear her voice right now.]

[This kind of reaction to an arrival...really HASN'T happened before. Not like this. There's never really been another arrival like this, not even Lust's all those years ago.]


I'm...it doesn't matter right now. Later.

[Figuring out how to put an emotional state into words isn't easy for Envy at the best of times, much less at a time like this.]

He's from later on than he was. After things really went to shit.

[He's never talked to anyone about what happened in that ballroom, except for when Scar had asked about what happened to Gluttony. But there's a heaviness to his voice. He sighs, roughly.]

He's not okay. Lust's got him right now, I just wanted to tell you before you got back.
exeggutorhead: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-29 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is a VERY fair question for her to ask! If he weren't in the throes of The Guilt, he might even have laughed at the 'supervillain' phrasing. As is, the surprised little huff he lets out isn't quite there.]

No, he hasn't gotten more evil. He's just...really sad, and quiet.

[Heather may not have spent a ton of time with Wrath but he knows she knows that nobody could ever describe that little tornado of a kid as 'quiet'.]

And he's got...do you know what automail is?
exeggutorhead: (Gluttony are you okay)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-29 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, metal ones. He's got it for his right arm and most of his left leg. [He doesn't want to just leave it entirely up to her imagination, but also Wrath's limb situation has always been wild and a lot to explain.] I don't know if you ever noticed those were a different color than the rest of him before.

They weren't actually his, it's complicated and I don't think I should try to get into the whole thing out loud right now. But they were taken right before when I'm from.

I think it's been a few years for him since then, he's older.

But yeah, it's bad. A lot happened to him.

[There's a pause, and when he speaks again he's muttering. It's partly so he won't be overheard. But more than that, his voice gets smaller. He can let Heather hear it, she's one of the only people he WOULD let hear exposed shame without fighting it the whole way.]

Some of it was me.
exeggutorhead: (okay I may have messed up)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-30 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She can't see it, but he winces at the question.]

[It's not like she doesn't know what he was like before. She's seen what he was like before--both when he first got to Johto and the day he forgot everything. And she also saw at least some of how pissed off he was at Wrath's initial arrival...and whatever else Al had told her after the fight on the beach. It's been pretty obvious for a long time that he wasn't exactly nice to the youngest homunculus back in Amestris.]

[But in the years since it happened, not telling anyone and avoiding thinking about it? And being surprised tonight by seeing the aftermath in Wrath's personality for himself? In his mind, his role in that has twisted up even worse and larger than it already was in reality.]

[He's going to have to admit to it. He doesn't want to.]


I...yeah. Yeah, okay.

You can take your time, though, he's sort of... [Skittish? Sort of? Envy's not sure how to describe it but it doesn't seem like someone else who Wrath didn't know well coming in abruptly would be the best idea.] I'm going to go try and talk to him, and I don't know how it'll go. You've got time to finish at the Center.

[Yeah he heard that tune he knows where she is.]
exeggutorhead: (melancholy)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-30 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[This is one of those times where Envy is made very aware of how unfathomably lucky he is to be with Heather.]

Okay, sure. I'll tell you more later.

And...thanks.

[He lets out a slow breath. It's already steadying, just to have talked to her.]

I don't...know what to say to him.
exeggutorhead: (okay I may have messed up)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-08-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[A low, drawn out groan comes through the call. It doesn't sound like he's making a show of it, for once, just...not looking forward to this.]

We did...it wasn't really like this though.

[It had been a lot easier to deal with apologizing to an angry Wrath than it is to figure out how to approach a depressed Wrath.]

[Especially since he's had longer to think on things past the static frizz of shock, he's pretty sure he's connected the dots on who that very sad ""horse"" really was.]


I'll try it. I guess...I can't do any worse.
exeggutorhead: (off guard)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-09-01 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
He's...I don't know kid's ages very well. But he looks a couple years older.

[He didn't know Wrath COULD age back in Amestris, so it's honestly surprising now that he's thinking about it. But then again, Wrath had always been strange like that.]

He's not so easy to read anymore. But he did say he was glad we were still here.

[Which is still a whole lot of a feeling, even just repeating it.]
exeggutorhead: (come what may)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-09-03 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
It...yeah, it is good.

[He really is so, so relieved by it. As much as he's not sure he deserves it, one thing he's never been too concerned with is whether or not he truly deserves any good thing he's offered in this world.]

That's what I'd been thinking. He had to walk all the way here from New Bark, he wouldn't have otherwise.

[It IS nice to hear that she, a certified non-anime-villain person, had the same thought. Heather will probably note that he's at least not sounding quite so twisted up like a feelings pretzel anymore.]

It just...did get really bad, especially for him. We never told him before.
exeggutorhead: (puppyface)

[personal profile] exeggutorhead 2024-09-05 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[He listens to everything she's telling him, holding onto the reassurances. He knows that they hadn't told Wrath for a reason, that it wouldn't have helped anything. It hadn't been for sure that he'd have ever gone back, and why put that on him if they didn't need to?]

[The only thing that could have been helped is that he would have arrived and known that they already knew what had happened. That they'd already forgiven him, long ago. That he didn't need to be afraid that they wouldn't want him back.]


Yeah. Yeah, he's safe now. [Safe from Dante, safe from everything that had gone on in their world. Safe from the old, vicious him. He takes a slightly shaky breath.]

I want to try to. [So badly, more than he can describe.]

I think things might have calmed down out there...I'm going to go see. I'll talk to you when you get home.