Voice Testing >> Homeless. Looking. Muse is being difficult.

[slave_number_23]

 ... You're really doing this, ma'dam?

I already have to put up with the loud-mouthed nin-ja brat— [— Don't be rude to Obito-kun, for god's sakes— ]—You're not my Master, you can't flog me, so why the hell should I listen to a word you say, lady?

[ ... Because I am your mun and have control over your very existence and actions— ]— What does "ex...ex..istence" even mean anyway? Whatever. Now you're going to... tra-trans-...port me to a different world? [ Yep. ]

I have work to get done, ya' know ma'dam, and my friend in the flask is going to teach me more whole words, now that I've mastered the alphabet. I don't want to lose my meal for a third time in a row because Master threw it to the dogs again.

[ Sorry, buddy, but I'm not compromising here, understood? Your corporation is mandatory this time. ]

...

... What?

[ Boy, you're stupid. ]

—SHUT UP ABOUT THAT ALREADY, ASSHOLE!

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Glad to hear it. Powercuts suck. /has had a few over the years.

[braided_icarus]

Well, yeah. I'm a State Alchemist in the Amestris military. I learnt alchemy from our father's study where we found his books. [It's different but Ed is sure he recognizes some of what Hohenheim has drawn and scribbled.]

Annnnd then my car battery ran out on the way home. drat. /thanks you for the concern!

[slave_number_23]

State Alchemist? I haven't heard of any position like that before. Do you work for His Majesty? [ He sounds genially confused, pausing in his slow, paced scribbling, and sometimes stopping to rub out an incorrect letter or reverse a symbol he printed backwards.

You are so behind the times, Twenty-Three. Like four centuries out of date before. ]

Your father's study? So he's an alchemist, and you decided to follow in your father's footsteps?

Oh dear.

[braided_icarus]

Well, I am in the army so I guess in that respect I work for the Fuhrer, Bradley.

[Not sure if he would call Bradley 'His Majesty' but it was...close enough.]

Well, Mom seemed really pleased when we started doing transmutations so Al and I just....kept at it.

[slave_number_23]

So the "Fuhrer" is to your country, what the King is to my country, Xerxes? Your ruler? You seem too young to fight in the military, kiddo.

[ Hohenheim scowled down at his work, expression annoyed. That's the third time he scratched out his letters backwards or in the wrong order. He scuffed out the mistakes with the side of his finger, then rewrote them in the right way. ]

Oh, that's why. You wanted to make your mom happy?

[braided_icarus]

I guess? And I'm not too young. Teacher taught me how to fight! [But he also has a few losses under his belt. :l]

Yeah. That's how it started, anyway.

[slave_number_23]

You're, what? Fourteen years old? Good at fighting to defend your homeland or not, that's too young to take lives.

[ Everyone loses at some point. There's no shame in that.

Twenty-Three nodded, the look on his dirty face a little solemn. How it started... But not how it ended. Despite comments by others, Twenty-Three was merely ignorant, not stupid. ]

I had a reason for picking up alchemy, too.