video; un: fullmetal alchemist

[fullmeddle]

[Blond fifteen-year-old boy sitting at the kitchen table of one of the standard apartments, dressed in a black shirt and a strikingly red jacket. There's a glass of water in front of his white-gloved hands.]

Edward Elric, state alchemist. I know this place has those bots to fix everything up after... what happened... but I'm offering my help, too, if anyone wants it. I'm skilled at transmutation, and I can fix something little, like this -

[He intentionally smashes the glass of water in front of him. It ends up in big, jagged pieces, water splashed over the tabletop. Since he planned this, it barely takes him any time at all to afix the array he needs in his mind, clap his hands together, and place his palms firmly on the table. With a flash of blue electric light, the glass becomes whole again, complete with the water in it again. He raises it to his lips and takes a sip from it, showing off that even the water's okay to drink again.]

- or something bigger, like a building. I'm not asking for much of anything in exchange - there's still stuff I want to learn about here, if anyone has time for questions.

And I'm looking for a mechanic, too. Someone who could work on prosthetic limbs. [He's not sure he wants to announce why he needs that on an open network right now, though a decent handful of people already know since they saw him without his prosthetics during the whole horror mess they just got through.]

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[leastdramatic]

Nah. Don't need it. What kind of questions you got?

[fullmeddle]

[Well. Ideally, he was hoping for people who'd been here longer than him, not someone who showed up last month.]

You settle in okay, now that the place isn't [what was the word?] Halloween?

[leastdramatic]

[Jason shrugs]

As well as I can be for someone who suddenly got yanked from his universe to another. It helps there are enough similarities to this world and mine.

[Truth be told, his first month here has been shit. Hallucinating a more nightmarish version of his one of the worst moments in his life has left him on alert at all times. Makes it difficult to sleep too. It's hard to relax when one isn't sure if something resembling a supernatural Joker is going to spring up and try to pummel them again.

But that isn't something that should be said in polite company]

What about you? How's this month been for you?

[And he wonders if anyone else got as messed up as he did]

[fullmeddle]

Well, I made it through the month in mostly one piece.

[That's. That's it. He made it. Gold star for Edward Elric.]

[leastdramatic]

"Mostly?" Meaning because of the arm or something else got busted?

[God he really hopes there's nothing else because this guy seems young...]

[fullmeddle]

I mean I'm in pieces already.

[Not that he loves that being common knowledge now, but it's not like he could keep it a secret while still asking for help.]

[leastdramatic]

Yeah, I noticed. What happened?

[fullmeddle]

[Okay? This is even ruder than calling his alchemy magic??]

It fell off.

[leastdramatic]

Just randomly or something happened?

[fullmeddle]

[Flat:] Yeah. My arm fell off randomly.

[leastdramatic]

I'm talking about the metal arm.

[fullmeddle]

[Something in his face twitches as he mentally runs back through their conversation and realizes that he may have misunderstood something.]

- I knew that!

They took it off me at the hospital when everything was creepy. It hasn't worked right since.

[leastdramatic]

[Whoops. Jason probably should've been more specific. But mention of the hospital as him at attention, given what had happened to him earlier in the month]

What'd you see at the hospital?

[fullmeddle]

Mostly shitty stuff.

[Meaning: nothing he wants to talk about.]

[leastdramatic]

Ditto. Sorry you went through that.