Group Intro Again

[oi_theoi]

Who: M-More Newkids
When: Day 18, Early evening
Where: Shrine room
What: 8D;

[The Other Intro was getting rather full, so here is another one!]


[Top Level Comments | Valvatorez | Edward Elric]

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[nometal_alchemist]

*clearly thinking all the way back to see if he can figure it out*

Maybe this place does something strange to time. Or... time was messed up at the end, there, that could have affected all of our personal timelines, too... you still have the scars on your back, right? And you remember the caves changing and King's prom?

[pyxising]

[reaches back like he's going to touch them]

Yeah - yeah, I remember.

[nometal_alchemist]

But in your memories, no one made it out...

If it was the changes in the flow of time, it would make sense. That somehow more than one outcome of the fight could take place... it's strange, but so was nearly everything else about that place.

[pyxising]

. . . so . . . in some other timeline - your timeline - everyone lived? Is that what it is? Fucking . . . what's the word, diverging timelines?

[nometal_alchemist]

*nodding, slowly*

Everyone lived. Everyone got out of the Old Man, left the Foreman and the other Judges, and every last one was transported away, including two of the Judges themselves.

That's the only way any of this could possibly make sense.

[pyxising]

. . .

[nometal_alchemist]

It might not be much comfort, but at least one version of you still had a chance at a normal life.

[pyxising]

. . . hah. Yeah, good to know I didn't fail somewhere.

[nometal_alchemist]

Pyxis was actually a big part of what got us that victory, you know. You and the rest of your team--you didn't fail.

[pyxising]

. . .

[nometal_alchemist]

I am sorry you weren't the one to actually make it out.

[pyxising]

. . . it doesn't matter, I've - this is a second chance, even if it ain't what I wanted.

[nometal_alchemist]

It wouldn't have been my first choice of a second chance, either. What's life like, here?

[pyxising]

[won't say he'd rather be dead 8D;;]

Active . . . we gotta clear out all the plants and shit.

[nometal_alchemist]

*I'll just jiii you in the action tag world, then, because he doesn't know any better*

I'd assumed there had to be some sort of challenge to this place. I'll guess that it's nothing like common gardening, either.

[pyxising]

The plants like to bite back. So do the dragon things, and the other shit out there . . .

[nometal_alchemist]

*sighs*

Doesn't seem like the kind of place for an old man like me. I guess I'll find my way through it like I've always done.

[pyxising]

Yeah, uh . . . you might wanna stay out of trouble . . .

[wait. Fifty years + = ???]

Wait a fucking second, you were sixteen in Sabra?! YOU WERE SO SMALL.

[nometal_alchemist]

*actually laughs at this, he had a lot of time to get over his height complexes*

Seventeen, but only barely. There was a lot wearing on my body back then, that my wish took care of. I didn't even have to specifically wish myself taller, it just happened as a result of the rest of it.

[pyxising]

You were older than me . . . I could've sworn you were like, twelve.

[nometal_alchemist]

Was I really? How old were--are--you?

The automail was heavy enough to weight my body down and keep it from getting taller. And my life force was supporting my brother, too, so I didn't have as much to work against it. Without those two things affecting me, it didn't take long at all to reach a normal height.

[pyxising]

[has to. think about that for a moment] Sixteen . . . ?

Makes sense . . . your brother?

[nometal_alchemist]

Not older by a lot, then.

My brother and I, when we were young, we... we made a big mistake. As part of it, his body and soul were separated, and his body pulled into a sort of limbo. I kept him alive by binding his soul to the world, but there was nothing to eat in the place where his body was trapped. Somehow, in the whole process of what we did, our souls became tangled up with each other, though, so his body was able to take sustenance from mine.

[pyxising]

[shrugs a shoulder] Ain't like age really mattered in the first place.

. . . is he okay now? Your brother.

[nometal_alchemist]

Not there, at least. For a bunch of kids, we did all right in the end.

He's all right. My wish brought his body back, and he's had the full life he almost didn't get a chance to live, too. He's even got grandkids now, everything worked out well.