Audience: Ashiya Douman

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You like me? Oh, that's very kind of you. I like you, too.

[Because Wrath is easy to talk to! AND ISN'T A DEMON LIKE GLUTTONY OR WHATEVER PRIDE IS]

Its fine, though. I do deserve this.

Anyways...we have the internet over here by the way. Are there any videos I should watch? Its all new to me so I don't know where to start. I watched Puppet History the other day and it was fun.

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i'm glad you do! maybe i can try to come down sometime soon
it's really rough on us to do it so i can't always but - we'll see, yeah?

i don't think you do, but i don't know how much i can convince you so

re: internet
haha shit that's really funny that you guys have that
uh, i don't know, it's been a while. have you seen the guy that makes knives out of random things? that's fun.

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If its rough on you, you don't need to. I can imagine the line between the living and the dead is hard to cross. Do you know where we even are? Are we still on the ship?

And I've never heard of that. Knives out of things? What kinds of things?

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i'm not entirely sure, i just know it's hard to get there :(

like, uh
paper, or cardboard, or cucumbers
theyre real sharp actual knives too that work

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That's fine. Please take care of yourself first.

Cucumbers? Into knives? I'm glad we can see those videos and not the living. I don't want them to get any ideas for future crimes...

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ok but if someone made a knife out of cucumbers and killed someone with it i feel like i would just be impressed

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Wrath please don't encourage this!!!

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hahaha
i'm not really
i don't like it when people die so

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Good!

But see I knew you had a good heart. A pity that we have to keep watching all this happen and then have to deal with the ship or whatever eating us...

Speaking of the ship, did that group find anything? The ones who came back in such a terrible shape.

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i try.

not much? it was more like this place was taunting them
i guess the conclusion we came to was that we shouldn't have poked our noses in

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You don't have to try. You just are.

And I see. :( We've been trying to come up with theories here. We wonder if there's a monster possessing the ship, maybe? Like a pink eye?

Oh, and we saw the group of you in some sort of vision? Memory? Stepping forward and accepting something. This place is dragging in memories of the past...

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you
you saw what?

how? how did you see that? what exactly was it?

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Like a vision out of the blue on Sunday. You all standing in front of a machine, thinking about...your dead comrades, I think. There were nine of you. Some I recognized, some I didn't.

But it seemed like the decision you were making was monumental, and the lights flashed different colors and...you changed, I think?

I suppose that is when you became Avatars.

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I probably need to go back, I just- don't know if I want to? And if you guys end up still existing here, I don't want you to be left alone, either.

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...Well, as long as we have everything, I don't suppose it would be too bad. Perhaps. Even though we are the dead.

[....So they're basically like one of Envy's ghosts now, huh.]

Besides, its what I deserve. You deserve more than that.

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-you're a lot more convinced of that than I am.

[he manages a slight smile, but. only a slight one.]

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...

Envy. Convincing, not convincing. After everything...you are someone I want to see have a happy life.

[Because Envy is so much like them, and there is a selfish part of them that wants Envy to succeed.]

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yeah.

we've been here for a long time, bud.

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How long is long? So you were in a similar situation as us?

Those people who died...they were consumed weren't they.

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including the time you guys have been here, six months. ish.

... they're gone now, so it doesn't matter.

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Half a year...

And of course it matters. They were your friends.

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[no more texts, because that's twenty. :(

some food for thought, though.]

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Ah-!

[THIS IS EXTREMELY NERVE-WRACKING but! Douman watches the ball intently, and when it gets down to the levers...]

[They slam the button! And the ball shoots back up into the field!]

Oh! I did it!

w5, tuesday

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[envy stops texting there, but as promised, after the party... hello, he's popping over to the graveyard to come find douman. where's a clown.

once he locates them, he just. immediately takes both their hands, smiling. his cheeks are flushed, and he's obviously still at least a little drunk.]

Shiya!

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...Oh, Envy!

[There's a light smile as they see the familiar form of Envy, though they almost seem self-conscious, a little shy even as the other takes their hands.]

[That...is certainly a Look, though. Douman stares at him, concerned.]

Um. I'm guessing you had a lot to drink, huh.