po... ssibly... testing for a game...

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—fine. Let's get this damn mess out of the way.

You want a ... a 'voice check'? Research, hypothesis, and then—you look for evidence, right? Right. So start with basic alchemy principles. First lesson: "in order to obtain or create one thing, something else of equal value must be lost or destroyed." Keeping up so far?

That's it. Lesson over. Go home.

. . . ah? How much of an explanation do you need? You're obtaining something already, and what've you paid? Exactly.

And time's not a transmutable element, and this's got nothing to do with the usern—shut up!

Comments

[alkahestic]

[ oh, big bro... that username... ]

Eheh... I don't think that's how those work, Brother. The "voice checks", I mean.

I've been waiting to throw this abomination at an Ed xD

[guardian_chimera]

Alchemy? That word sounds familiar.

[The more human part of the Chimera speaks.]

[honoo_no_renkinjutsushi]

Ah ha. That username is something you've been given! Very fitting, might I add.

[morepersonal]

[Another short guy with a temper. Cute.]

You might need a better comparison.

[alkahestry]

You know alchemy has nothing to do with what's going on right, brother?

[Of course, he's all too used to hearing Edward relate everything to alchemy so... excuse him while he ducks his head and does his best to keep his laughter in check. That user name.]

[poofed]

Do voice checks have anything to do with alchemy?

[hissterical]

[ Don't mind Martel over here. She's just going to be laughing her ass off. ]

[rocketry]

.. It's cute. The username.

1/2

[shortcut]

[ that's not the question. the real question is: will he ever get used to this without having executed every inch of the trade himself.

(answer: no. never. what in five damned hells.) ]

[shortcut]

I know you're making a face.

[ HE SENSES IT. ]

It's close enough to alchemy!

1/2, oh god

[shortcut]

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Just "familiar"?

1/3

[shortcut]

Fitting for what—





[ shut up!!! ]

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[ shut the hell up shut the hell up must not overthrow composure in front of a giant bastard shut up augh!!!! ]

[shortcut]

—tch! Shouldn't a colonel have bigger goals to aspire to than hanging around for something like this?

[shortcut]

They do if they're about me.

[shortcut]

Equivalent exchange's as easy as it gets. If this doesn't get through, there's no use in trying anything else.

1/4

[shortcut]

Fair trade's the same everywh—

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[ invoking meta, invoking meta, because if he doesn't fourth-wall, it's going to be really goddamn hard to cope with the realisation of everything he's been working for in the past two years, standing before him like the simplest of results. ]

—where. Everywhere.

[shortcut]

And it's close enough!

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... Al?

[shortcut]

You got something to say, just say it.

1/3

[shortcut]

I'm still a year older than you, Al, even if you—

[shortcut]

[ hold that thoughtttttt...! ]

[shortcut]

You're—shit. You're really not Al. Is that it?