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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] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-15 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I...did. Once. He went home though, shortly after I got here.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-15 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
The one called Alfons, yeah. And your brother Alphonse...who also went home after a time, I think. I spoke with Alfons more often, though. It's a little fuzzy after my own trip home.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-17 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think so. He mentioned at the time knowing that [Pause. How to put this?

Hell with it; he might as well be direct. That's how he's been with Ed so far. Kid seems like he can handle it. Better than a lot of adults could, actually.]


You and/or Al were not from the same place as him. I think. Not sure who was from where, but there was at least one of you where the histories didn't match up. But yeah, he was from Germany, which is a country in my world, too. But it wasn't the same one I know about. He was also the one who pointed me to Alphonse when the whole thing with the alchemy happened.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-18 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno. Get one theory from my own world that states every time you make a decision, somewhere another you makes a different one, and from there a new reality splits off from the main timeline.

...Which would make the answer 'endless'.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-19 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Look at it this way; there will always be something new out there to find.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-20 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
You never know. We got here.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-20 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
True. But it doesn't mean other places won't have the capability. The Malnosso can't be the only beings that can make...I dunno, rips in reality?

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-20 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that would be a problem. You'd need some way of marking and maybe anchoring your path, assuming it was a two-way thing. Otherwise...might end up in the wrong 'home'.

Might be part of the reason the Malnosso can't figure it out yet, if we want to give them benefit of the doubt. If you don't know the right formula numbers, you can make a lot of screw ups just by putting one wrong number in the right place. Probably like putting the wrong symbols in a circle, I'd guess. Result wouldn't be pretty.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-23 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Gotta agree with you on that.

By the way, here's a brief map; I;d need a few days to get anything more concise.

[And Derek activates the second page he'd been working on while they'd been talking. It's pretty basic; continents and oceans for the most part, but it's pretty precise for what it is.]

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-25 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, more or less. There's a whole lot missing from it, including a good chunk of the country borders and most of the cities. Give me a week though and I can get something more accurate to you.

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[personal profile] rather_be_surfing 2012-01-26 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
No problem.

[He'll have it to Ed in about two weeks or so.]