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Edward Elric ([personal profile] automailed) wrote2012-01-14 01:33 am

[Voice / Action] backdated to JANUARY 13th

[...So it's been a week. A full week since his parents had shown up in Luceti. And as of today, with the last bit of furniture in place, he and Al are officially "moved in". At least, in the sense of physically living there. Edward still finds himself looking out the window an awful lot and double-taking at the house number across the street, and at least three times now he's turned to approach the door of the Hughes' household instead of his own. He hasn't barged in unintentionally yet, at least. That would have been awfully embarrassing.

He's still not sure how he feels about this... home life. Thing. Adjustment is one thing, but actually coming to expect his mother's smiling face when he walks through the front door? It's a little scary. Wonderful in a lot of ways, but...

And that's not even getting into the issue of living so close to Hohenheim for this long, something he hasn't done since early childhood. And despite promising to give the man a chance, their relationship is tenuous at best, violent at its worst. He's still not calling the man "father", either. And there's poor Al in the middle, still stuck in his wheelchair... dammit...

Well, let's just say he's in desperate need of some distraction. So after giving it some thought, he turns to the journal-]


Hey, got a question for anyone listening out there-

I was talking to this kid a while back - Aoba - and something came up. Do we have some kind of directory of all the worlds people are from? I don't mean that world sharing class, I mean actual maps of all the different worlds, or countries within those worlds, or whatever.

Because if there isn't, then I'd like to make one. So if you wanna get involved, talk about where you're from here- show a map, gimme an idea of what it's like. I'll take what I can get.


[A little while later, he'll be venturing to his usual hotspots- the library, for some books for poor Al to read, and the Battle Dome, to take out some of his pent-up frustrations (and to duke it out with a few of the homunculus for kicks), then to the shops for a bit of perusing. He can be pestered around down at any time, looking uncharacteristically unsure, though he's been looking that way all week, so at this point it may not be anything new.

Eventually he'll return home to his family some time before dinner, carrying with him (in addition to Al's books) a toolbox, a bag containing some clothes, and a collection of sticky buns for dessert/snacking-

...but not before barging into the Hughes house accidentally. Apparently there really is a first time for everything.]
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-15 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He holds up a finger to silence Ed as he writes out this last bit and... yes! This might just be it.]

Uh, hey, Ed. What's up- is this important?
markofthewise: (Checking it out)

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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-15 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Right.

[Well, he leans back so Ed can see. Here's his alchemy circle. It's a little clumsily drawn, but he didn't have a compass handy and circles are hard to draw!]

This transmutation should transform some dull, tasteless ingredients into a delicious plate of dinner. Well, not the plate itself. I figured the plate could be the alchemy circle itself. So it's reusable!
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-15 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What? Of course not. [He wants to be useful. Do awesome things. And maybe, maybe sometimes be able to make an awesome dinner when he's out in the wilderness without a microwave handy.] But you did say cooking and alchemy was similar. This seemed like the obvious way to start for my first circles.
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Why should it? It's just rearranging the same material, fusing it together, and giving it a new shape... even if it's on a molecular level. It may not sound pretty, but there's no reason it shouldn't work! Here, look for yourself.

[He taps his notes here. Aside from his shoddy drawing skills, he's got more or less everything the way it should be. At worst, he's using a recipe that wouldn't be very good anyway. But he wanted to keep it simple.]
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-17 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Really? [He peers at it, not immediately getting why it's wrong. But he goes ahead and scribbles that out and notes the correction for later. He was going to have to read up on that.]

It's okay if it's an alchemy egg right? I don't know how you guys ever learn to quickly make these things.
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-18 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well it's not like a person can draw a perfect circle. There has to be some allowance for margin of error, right? [At least with his plate idea, he doesn't need to keep redrawing the circle after the first time.]
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-21 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. That's what the book said.

[Frowning. Being able to make circles at any given time is probably going to be beyond him.]

Guess I'll have to stick to pre-made circles.
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-21 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? What's his specialty?
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-25 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[... did he say flamethrower.]

... okay, now that I like. So where do I get that one?
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-25 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[He frowns, looking back down at his own equations.]

Well that's not very science-y of him. Doesn't he believe in the whole, you know, shared understanding of the universe?
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-27 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whatever is going on in Ed's head at that moment, it completely goes over Sokka's. He lifts up his work and stares at it quizzically.]

I need to write this in code!?
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[personal profile] markofthewise 2012-01-28 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was your book, Ed! Or. Girl Ed's book. Whatever.]

Maybe I could just write it all in Pig Latin.

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