(Canon is Fullmetal Alchemist)

[roy_mustang]

Hardly a creative username, but I guess there's no particular need to be; the population here is still rather sparse. Getting a name doesn't do you much good if there's nobody to play with though, does it?

Comments

[edward_elric]

Yeah, ya do. I knew it wouldn't be the same without me but I thought you'd find other stuff to do.

[roy_mustang]

Don't you think you're overestimating your presence in my social life?

[edward_elric]

You found enough time to come here and complain about the name.

[roy_mustang]

Can you blame me for wanting a little more creativity, a few signs of intelligence from the people I work with?

[edward_elric]

You mean the people who do your work for you?

If you don't want that name, you can use won't_work.

[roy_mustang]

I am more or less retired now.

[edward_elric]

Yeah? Al mentioned you left. I was surprised, I didn't think you were old enough to be okay with that. Yet.

[roy_mustang]

"There's always something more important than your dream," wasn't it?

[edward_elric]

[He grinned, remembering the time too.] It took you that long to listen to me, huh?

[roy_mustang]

Wasn't I already on my way to bury that dream when we met up?

[edward_elric]

I thought retirement from you would be a little different, at least.

[roy_mustang]

Technically, I'm still working, in the loosest sense of the word. Doesn't that fit your image of me perfectly?

[edward_elric]

Yeah, that sounds more like the Colonel I knew.

[roy_mustang]

I'm a Corporal, now. Something he forgot to mention, I guess.

[edward_elric]

He mentioned it, I'm just not used to using. Colonel fits better.

[roy_mustang]

When we last met and had that talk, actually, I had been promoted to General.

[edward_elric]

[He doesn't seem to think that's important either.]

What I don't get is why you stopped.

[roy_mustang]

I woke up.

[edward_elric]

None of us were laying around waiting for stuff to happen. Sounds like you gave up to me.

[roy_mustang]

There was something more important. I don't regret it.

[edward_elric]

What's more important now?

[roy_mustang]

You were completely willing to leave even Alphonse-kun behind... Even after everything you two had been through. Even after everything you did for his sake. Weren't you?

[edward_elric]

Yeah, but I had reasons. I wasn't gonna do it because it was what I wanted.

[roy_mustang]

So I won't listen to you say that you don't understand an adult's circumstances anymore, Fullmetal.

[edward_elric]

I didn't say I didn't understand!