[Video] Loose Screws 8

[hands4healing]

[Winry is at a furniture store that caters to ImPort fangirls and -boys. And totally bemused. So she has to share what she's found.]

I was window shopping today and I found...this.

[She turns the camera to show a soft giant robot, like a plushy version of those robots Hiro and Tadashi make. What she really wants to know is if Hiro and Tadashi know about them. Whether they're getting a commission.]

They say it's a bed.

[...A confused expression.]

I don't know if I'd want to sleep on it.

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[hands4healing]

Mm! It was a...convention celebrating...us? It really was fun!

[chancetoatone]

[He frowns slightly.]

They make quite a spectacle of us, don't they?

[hands4healing]

They do.

[...reading his expression.]

It's not all bad. I mean. It's really kind of crazy! But it's familiar, too. Back home, people went crazy over Ed because he's a State Alchemist.

[Good or bad, they went crazy over him, all right.]

[chancetoatone]

I'm more accustomed to...not being seen.

[hands4healing]

Then it could be hard.

[A disappointed little moue on her face.]

[chancetoatone]

[He nods.]

It's very difficult here. They find other species a novelty.

[hands4healing]

I did...for a little while. Until I traveled with Mr. Zampano and Mr. Jerso.

[chancetoatone]

I'm not familiar with them.

[hands4healing]

No, they're not here. But they're people I met in my world. Chimeras. Sometimes they looked like humans, sometimes they looked like monsters.

[chancetoatone]

...shape shifters?

[hands4healing]

Yes. Mr. Zampano was part frog and Mr. Jerso was part hedgehog.

[chancetoatone]

Part...animal? How is that possible?

[hands4healing]

[Winry makes a huffing sound.]

Alchemy.

[chancetoatone]

Alchemy? [Hey, something he hasn't heard of before!] What is alchemy?

[hands4healing]

Ah, not everyone's world has it. It's a...type of science in my world that looks a lot like magic. But it's a type of chemistry, I guess. I'm not an alchemist. My boyfriend is.

[chancetoatone]

I see. I don't know of any worlds with magic, either.

[There are none where he's from.]

Though we do have biotics.

[hands4healing]

Biotics?

[See that curious light, Thane?]

What's that?

[chancetoatone]

Some individuals of several species in my universe are born with nodes of an element called Element Zero in our nervous systems that allow us to manipulate mass effect fields. It may be better to demonstrate.

[hands4healing]

[Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?]

Would you?

[chancetoatone]

[Thane is secretly very confident in his abilities.]

Of course.

[hands4healing]

Do we need to meet up?

[chancetoatone]

It would be best to demonstrate in a wide, open area.

[hands4healing]

...now?

[chancetoatone]

No.

[A pause.]

Unless you would like to see it now.

[hands4healing]

No, we can wait! But I will want to see it some time.