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02 { feb 13: late afternoon } { video[s] }

[The network was spammed with a flood of messages in the span of a few minutes. Instead of posting each separately, it compiles them into a single post since there are so many. Each block is a separate message.

He posts all of them publicly since there is nothing remotely private about them. They're all addressed to Roy though. Who cares about saving Roy's face? It's not like Roy's in charge of a bunch of people, right?]

Roooooooooooooooooy, I'm BORED. Hey, you should come over.

Roy. Roy. Hey, Roy. I'll bet you'll never guess what Elicia did a few nights ago. It was the most adorable thing ever! I had just got home, and I was really tired bu— [The video cuts off suddenly.]

ROY, MY APARTMENT'S ON FIRE. [He looks frantic, but there is no evidence of a fire in the background behind him.]

Hey, stop working and get your ass over here, Mustang. I'm dying of boredom, over here!

There's nothing to do, Roy. You should come over and share some of that paperwork with me! And by share, I mean, give it to me and don't do any of it at all.

Hey, didja' know that Falman has impeccable memory? I tried moving the chess pieces once when he wasn't looking, and he figured it out as soon as he looked at the board again. Yeesh! How about we play a round, Roy?

Roy, have you ever seen a toilet paper roll be flushed down the toilet? Not the whole thing, but if you pull the paper over from the holder, put it in the water, and then flush it? It's pretty funny. It's probably a waste of paper though.

...okay, so I ran out of toilet paper. That wasn't a really good idea. Roy, could you get some toilet paper for me? I'm out. Please? Pleeeease? [In the background, anyone can see that he still has toilet paper though...]

Seriously, Roy, you should stop working and come over here. Don't leave me hanging!

Alright. You know what? Since you probably think my place is complete boring, and there's no reason to come by, how about I show you something you can't resist?
[The video moves and focuses in on Amaterasu, who's sleeping on Hughes' bed. After a few seconds, it shifts back to Hughes, who is smirking.]
What was that? I couldn't hear what you said over your sheer jealousy.

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[Oh yeah, you're going to see her perk up at that.]

Daggers? Close range fighting? Wow....I used daggers, too, at times, but normally, I used cards with elemental properties.

[She hasn't forgotten about the alcohol, she's just a little sidetracked now.]

Ooooh! Cards? That's cool! I picked that up as a hobby at one point, but I kept making holes in the walls...so...wasn't that good of a plan, hahaha. I think I prefer my daggers though. I typically hide them strategically so that people don't know I have them available to me as weapons.

Ummm...how did you keep making holes in the walls? [She's picturing holes burned out with Fire magic.] Didn't you practice without using the magic first?

I was the same way with mine. I hid them where I could get them easily. They could actually be better for distance, too.

Oh. They were cutting into the wall. Uh. I can't use magic. I would've just used them for cutting and slicing I guess, hahaha.

Yeah? That's pretty cool. Maybe we could practice throwing some time? I was the only one in my division that specialized in throwing weapons, so I've never actually met someone else that did it aside from my instructor.

[Smiles] Somehow I don't think we're talking about the same kinds of cards here. And technically, I can't cast spells, but I can activate the elemental magic in a card.

Sounds like a plan to me. A lot of us used throwing weapons, but I was the only one who could use the cards. [She grows quiet.] Not even my Grandpa who trained me could.

...oh. Ahahaha... Well, I can only throw them, so...

Yeah? That's pretty neat though! That's nothing to be ashamed of.

Well, when I was growing up, I wasn't easily accepted by my village... And being able to do that only made things worse.

Oh, I see. Were you treated as an outcast for being different? [There is concern laced in his words.]

[Scoffs lightly.]

I was treated as an outcast for not even being born in the Village. As far as I know, I was the first outsider to ever be brought into the place in a very long time.

...huh, that's a really silly reason, I'd say. I get you though. I kind of know what that's like. At least in the sense that tradition is so important to some people that they have to judge everyone that does not follow it. It's not really right...

[Yeah, it's not her fault she had been abandoned and Igaguri took her in...]

Well, it was a silly reason, but it also made me not judge people based on their appearance. I'd rather judge them on what they do to me or my friends--then on how they look or where they come from.

Hehe. That's good. I'm glad you learned the right thing to do, even though they were treating you poorly.

Well, I know how much it hurts to be treated that way, and I don't like seeing people suffer.

Especially children.

...yeah. It's...cruel what adults do to children sometimes... [Like killing them mercilessly because of war.

He is a bit glad Sheena cannot see his expression right now.]

[Unfortunately, he can see hers, but all he'll notice is a tightening around her eyes.]

Tell me about it...

[Like turning them into ability-enhancing Exspheres....]

...ah, well. Sometimes, the only way to change things is with your own hands.

I know. [She's still quiet.]

And sometimes, people don't react well to those changes, do they?

That's correct. That's why it's sometimes better to hold your tongue. It's not to say you shouldn't defend what you believe in, but there's a right and wrong time for everything. You have to make sure you don't create any loose ends that people can tear you down with.

[Sorry, Hughes, she's got to laugh.]

Well, I've always had a little trouble in keeping my big mouth shut at times. I don't always think before I act.

[He chuckles. Hughes remembers a time when he used to be like that too, though it seemed like ages ago.]

It's fine, hahaha. It's not something that's easy to do. It takes a lot of self-control, and we aren't exactly born with that ingrained into us, hehe.

I didn't learn until after I went to the military academy. There, we were basically forced to hold our tongues or get punished for speaking out of turn, usually by being forced to do extra work despite not having much time to do it in. If we failed to accomplish the punishment, we received an even harsher task to do on top of it, hehe. It was pretty brutal.

Wow...that... [She pauses.] That sounds effective.

I'm not sure if it would still work on me, though. [Chuckles.]

The punishments weren't too painful, were they? [She knows nothing about military training, her punishments usually involved constant repetitions of moves until she fell over, exhausted.]

Hahaha! Well, if we didn't want to get kicked out of the academy, we had to do it no matter what. That was probably the main driving force for most of us when it came to actually learning, hehe.

They were usually more routine exercises or chores around the encampment. They weren't too bad, but...well, since we were training all the time anyway, sometimes, doing extra exercises or chores wasn't exactly something you would feel up to doing, hahaha.

That's a pretty good incentive. [Chuckles.] You called it an academy...is it like a regular school, too? [She's never been to one, so, yeah, there's a little jealousy there.]

And let me guess, sometimes it wasn't just the person responsible who got punished, was it? [She remembers other students being punished along with her because she would take the blame over something she didn't do.]

Oh, no, far from it, hahaha! It's basically kind of like boot camp, but larger. Er...boot camp being a normal type of training or recruitment facility for the military. The Military Academy is definitely more organized and prestigious than most other places though.

Yep! Exactly. Usually, all people involved have to take punishment of some sort, hehehe. Roy and I used to get into all kinds of trouble! It was mostly his fault. Man, he loved to start things, but...well, I didn't mind half of the punishments if it meant that I got to spend more time with my friend, hahaha. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't have gotten much chance to speak with each other at all.

[She's glad he explained what a boot camp was; she had never heard the term before.] Oh. I think I get it. Kind of like the difference between a village school that teaches only local children and a larger academy that takes people from all over--if they meet the requirements.

[Another wry look.] So he's the one that would start things, huh? [She can't help thinking if that were true, then some of that rubbed off on Hughes.] But, wait... Why wouldn't you two have spent any time together otherwise? That doesn't seem fair.

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