[Action] Fourth Wall

[selfhelp]

BILLY KAPLAN will be either a) flying/teleporting around or b) wandering through the chaos just wondering what the hell is going on; he's never seen this in Luceti before, and it's definitely something to look at. He'll be watching for familiar faces, definitely, or just poking at interesting-looking people.

EDWARD ELRIC is, surprise! Back from his kidnapping. Sort of. Temporarily. And he's trying to get himself home, but who knows what he'll run into on the way... eh-heh.

ASCH is in Good Spirits, mostly unruffled because he's been through like five years of this madness and refuses to get his feathers ruffled. But he will anyway, because he's like that. You might catch him outside as well, if he decides he's had enough and tries to drown himself in the lake or something. (This is entirely possible.)



[ooc: please put who you want to ping in the subject line or something, this is a catch-all! And Ed's just back for 4th Wall, his real return will be a few days after this. |Db]

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[selfhelp]

["Leaving out the bad stuff" after saying Cassie and Jonas died omg Eli plz 8| ]

Oh god.

[Why is today full of awful? Seriously. Just. Why?]

That's why... oh my god. When he first showed up, I called him Nate... I thought...

[Shit. Shit. How could Nate do that!?]

[supersoldiered]

[He's leaving out the play-by-play where Billy's the catalyst for everything. He's also leaving out the lederhosen.]

I told you we deserve to be here. At least. I do.

[selfhelp]

[The lederhosen was the only good part omg.]

That's not... what Nate decides to do, evil or not, it's not like we chose for him...!

[supersoldiered]

The day we put on costumes and tried to fight crime, it became our fault.

[selfhelp]

...We were just trying to help people.

[He can't help but think that Eli has a point, though. Would Cassie be okay if they hadn't formed the Young Avengers? What would have happened to Nate? But they would never have met...

It's not like they can change the past. But now he desperately, desperately wants to change his future somehow.]

[supersoldiered]

We were just messing around. Like kids. We wanted to be cool.

[selfhelp]

That's not why we started the team! It's not why we kept trying no matter what!

[Maybe they took it too far, though. Maybe they tried too hard. Cassie wanted it just as badly as the rest of them did, she wouldn't die for their egos...]

[supersoldiered]

[No. She died for something they shouldn't have tried to change.]

Billy. I need you to drop it.

[selfhelp]

[Something in Eli's tone - and the words finally sinking in - makes Billy's face fall, and he ducks his head, going silent at last. He's not going to convince Eli of anything, is he? Especially when he's not even sure he believes his own words anymore. Without experiencing it, only feeling all of this secondhand? As overwhelmed as he is right now?

Yeah, he's just grasping at straws. And it's not helping, either.

Dammit...]

...Sorry.

[supersoldiered]

[It's too tense. And Billy's got enough time to be hurt later. Eli knows that.]

Why don't you give me the tour of this place? It seems like there's a lot more to see than what I'm used to.

[selfhelp]

[A W K W A R D

But Eli's extended the olive branch and Billy clings to it, glancing away and nodding absently.]

Yeah... yeah, okay. I'll show you around, and then we'll find the others.

[supersoldiered]

Is it true you guys have a Holodeck around here? Like in Star Trek?

[selfhelp]

More or less. It started out as just a battle simulator, but we got an upgrade for some reason.

[supersoldiered]

Of course you did.

[He doesn't mean it to sound as bitter as it does.]

[selfhelp]

[W....ow okay. He really can't win at all here.]

Maybe... you can stay here from now on.

[Doesn't fix everything, but... every little bit help, right...?]