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Lumi/Rapunzel (letdownmyhair) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-10-20 00:19:00

Entry tags:

!days 280-289, chrono, edward elric, fay d. flourite, himura kenshin, kiryuu zero, {rapunzel}

Who: DelPavo + Visitors
Where: Geardorm
When: Day 282, morning
What: Memories

[HEY GUYS ARE YOU STILL HUNGOVER? Better perk up because we brought home memories \o/]

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	clap_your_hands 2011-10-21 02:56 am UTC (link)
	Mm... There was a lot going on in this one. Our alchemy wouldn't work, but that girl and the Ishvalan could still use theirs and she kept yelling at me about something. Shapeshifters and people who aren't people and schemes and hostages... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-21 03:03 am UTC (link)
	[what kind of world are you from] ...t-that's a lot... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

clap_your_hands
2011-10-21 03:16 am UTC (link)

*idk, man. it's screwed up.*

Mm...

*pulling his watch out again and looking at it*

I threw this back at the Fuhrer in that memory, too. Told him I would quit being a military dog, and work against him to stop his schemes... and he threatened someone close to me. I had to take it back.... The Colonel didn't give his up; said he'd rather be a kept dog than a broken one. Bastard had better be in control by the time we get back.

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	overclocking 2011-10-21 03:24 am UTC (link)
	[Wait let me try to parse like 70% of that] ..."Fuhrer"? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

clap_your_hands
2011-10-21 03:41 am UTC (link)

The leader of both the military and the country. Normally an average soldier--or even State Alchemist--probably wouldn't draw his attention, but I know I was starting to figure things out by then, and the Colonel must've been too. Most of his team had been made hostages through reassignments.

And we both knew by then, too, that he wasn't human. He was a homunculus, a creature created to take the role of leader and manipulate the course of events in Amestris so his creator's goal could be realized.

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	overclocking 2011-10-21 03:53 am UTC (link)
	So...your king was a figurehead? And the military is separate from the country itself? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

clap_your_hands
2011-10-21 03:59 am UTC (link)

*shakes his head*

He had power, and lots of it... if he was a "figurehead" it was only because he was doing the bidding of the man they called "Father." To anyone who didn't know about that guy, though, he looked like he was pulling all the strings. And the military... it ran the country. There were bases and headquarters all over, and we were constantly at war or threat of war with neighboring countries. Since its founding, Amestris grew by fighting and absorbing the nations around it.

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	overclocking 2011-10-21 04:20 am UTC (link)
	But...didn't you say you worked for that military? It doesn't sound like you approve... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-21 04:22 am UTC (link)
	I started working with them to try to get our bodies back--my brother's and my own. But things got more and more complicated the longer I was there, and the more I learned... the Colonel didn't approve either, I remember that much now, but he was trying to quietly change things from the inside. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-21 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	The military could restore your limbs? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-21 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	shakes his head The research I was doing for them, and with their money, could have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-23 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	Ah...so you didn't have much choice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-23 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sure I could've just resigned myself to it... but not with what I did to my brother. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-24 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	[...not sure if should pry :/a] I'm not sure you've told me this before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

clap_your_hands
2011-10-24 10:08 pm UTC (link)

...I don't think I've really told anyone on this team. Not of the people who're still here, anyway.

Al and I... our mother died, when we were young. I thought we could use alchemy to bring her back... Human Transmutation was illegal, but we thought it was just because no one had made it work, but if we tried hard enough, if we wanted it enough, we could do it. So we studied, we researched, we trained, and when we finally thought we had all the pieces together, we tried it.

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	overclocking 2011-10-24 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	... But? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

clap_your_hands
2011-10-24 11:49 pm UTC (link)

It failed. I saw it rebounding, starting to pull my brother apart, and then turning on me. I reached for him, but... *shakes his head* next thing I remember is being in an empty white space, with nothing but an enormous black Doorway, and a creepy blank guy calling himself "Truth." I was pulled into the Doorway, felt it breaking me down, filling me with information... and then thrown out before I could reach the piece I was sure I needed. When I asked the Truth to let me back in, to see it again, he told me I'd seen all I could for the toll I'd paid, and took my leg.

Then I was back in our house again, with my leg missing and Al's empty clothes on the floor beside me.

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	overclocking 2011-10-25 12:08 am UTC (link)
	[asdfghjlk how do I even parse this] . . . . . (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-25 12:15 am UTC (link)
	what are you talking about, this is totally a heartwarming story of brotherly love and good decisions We didn't bring her back right, either. For all that... we had something that was twisted and wrong. Something that moved a little, coughed up blood, and died again. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-25 12:23 am UTC (link)
	...Edward... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-25 12:29 am UTC (link)
	...sighs It's fine, it was my own fault for pushing Al into it after all. That's why I have to make it right, somehow. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-25 12:34 am UTC (link)
	So...you're here to wish him back? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-25 12:43 am UTC (link)
	shakes his head I got him back... sort of. Paid another toll and pulled his soul back, at least. He's still back in my world, bound to an empty suit of armor. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	overclocking 2011-10-25 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Then...it's his body that you're trying to restore? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2011-10-25 01:02 am UTC (link)
	nods To bring it back. It still exists, it's still alive, stuck in that limbo with Truth. But I couldn't pull it out on my own. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)