envy_the_sinners | 001 ☓ actions + text

[action: eastern route 29]
[Scar had left New Bark Town as quickly as he could when it became apparent that he wasn't the only one who had suddenly shown up. Questions could wait, and he certainly isn't about to out his identity to anyone who might be nearby.

So he can be found wading through the tall grass of Route 29 with a Zangoose at his side, whom he as named Amit. Scar is obviously still getting used to this Pokémon thing. The closest they have to creatures like these in Amestris were chimera.

Not a fun experience.

He moves warily, eyeing specifically any people who might be passing by. He needs to know if somebody is going to recognize him. So far, so good. But he never knows.]

[text]
The ledges at the southern entrance to route 46- are they impassible like the ones mentioned in the "Trainer Handbook?" And if one were to go about finding manual work nearby, where should he look?

[action: south end of route 46]
[In spite of his text post, Scar is still lingering just north of the building that leads back to Route 29. No matter how he tries to climb the face of the ledge, he tumbles to the bottom. Over. And over.

Most of the other new arrivals are making their way westward, and this is precisely the reason that Scar is trying to force his way north. He needs to keep away from the crowds for now.

Amit, his Zangoose, waits not-so-patiently at the bottom. She knows what's up. He's so not getting to the top of that ledge.]

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[Antisocial doesn't even begin to describe it.

That mention of Greed, though. The homunculus...]

I may have briefly seen him.

[Only on the video, though. Blessedly.]

Then it really does make sense that you wouldn't want to go in the same direction as that guy.

[TALKIN' SHIT ABOUT GREED BEHIND HIS BACK, AW YEAH]

good luck with those ledges then

[WAIT.]

Why wouldn't I?

[He mostly just wants to see how you're going to respond, Strange Person. Whatever you end up saying won't mean anything one way or the other. But after the nature of his conversation with Greed yesterday, he's curious. It's most likely that the homunculus simply rubbed someone the wrong way.

But...]

Oh I used to know that guy back in my world. he's obnoxious and his head is so big I'm surprised he doesn't just fall over.

[Because really, what are the odds that three people would show up from Amestris on the same day? He might have been more careful back when there were a lot of them arriving, but now?]

[WHATEVER, NOBODY EVER CARES.]

[Ooooh did you?]

I didn't realize people who knew one another were brought here. The odds seem too unlikely.

[Hahaha bullshit. Sorry, Envy, Scar kind of cares about everything.]

You weren't friendly, then?

you'd think so, but it happens all the time.

[Too bad Envy has no idea that Scar is Scar or that he cares about everything.]

We used to work together, but not anymore. Idiot wanted to go off on his own.

[...however there are a lot of things that Envy doesn't tell people here about, and specifics on what he did back home is one of them.]

[Too bad indeed. Just not for Scar. But he also knows when to stop pushing. The person on the other end could very well be another homunculus, or even the master...

Unless Greed did other work that Scar doesn't know about. That is also something to consider.]

That makes him an idiot?

No he was just already an idiot.

[Leaving didn't help, but Envy doesn't want to bring that up because he knows that would sound questionable as hell. He keeps a low profile in Johto, aside from being a sarcastic jerk to random strangers.]

but you could probably tell that if you met him.

[Quite the contrary, Greed has been rather helpful thus far. Perhaps a little too loose-lipped, but Scar has no reason to believe that everything that homunculus told him is true.

Though he also can't imagine that he has no reason to lie, either.]

Arrogant, perhaps.

Yeah, that too. Always thinks he's the most important guy in the room.

You don't talk much, do you?

[Blah blah something about people in glass houses and throwing stones...]

About petty personality traits regarding a man whom I have just met? No, I do not.

[Oh this entire conversation has been the pot calling the kettle black. But that response gets a laugh out of Envy.]

Well I guess you've got me there, don't you?

But would you be talkative about anything else, I wonder?

[No, Envy, you don't want a melodramatic monologue about sin.]

Does it matter?