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Housing: Unit 302 (roommates: Alphonse, a number of kittens)
pre crash: Unit 807; former roommates: Sylar, Sidel Blanchet, Dirk Strider, Thane, Randel Oland, Nathan Young
Stuff that's happened:
- Pulled from somewhere around January 1924, a few months after he returned to Earth and a little while after the last scene in the movie.
- Arrived towards the end of the monster attacks. Didn't encounter too many himself.
- Met up with Winry. Found out they were from different worlds.
- Lay low for a month or two.
- After Winry disappeared, raided her place for scrap metal and an unfinished project or two before the Initiative could clear it away. Most of the bits and pieces were still in his room up until the spaceship crash that took out the original housing building.
- Taught himself programming, among other things. Picked up the hang of encryption very quickly.
- Mostly grumped around and tried to stay in the shade in Black Rock. A week or so later, the timeline distortions deaged him to the exact point when Envy stabbed him in the chest. (This time, Snow bailed him out before he could bleed on too much of the library.) He tries not to talk about this.
- Wrote a script, shared publicly, that notifies a user whenever a particular inputted name or part of a name is registered to the network. On his own tablet, he has several instances of it more or less constantly running for the following names: Elric (for all he knows, there's nothing stopping the Initiative pulling in more parallel versions of himself or Al), Hohenheim, Rockbell, Roy Mustang, Izumi Curtis. There are other... acquaintances he'd like to know about if they ever arrived, but most of them he's not convinced would bother with their real names.
- Met up with Al after getting pinged by said script. Found out they were still from different worlds. Things were awkward.
- Swapped bodies with Larsa during the art theft mission and for a little while after. Did not take well to suddenly being shorter, or having a gambit set up to cast Float at random intervals with no idea how to switch it off.
- Got an idea to help him keep an eye on other science-minded people's skillsets...
- While getting an Initiative-sponsored research team off the ground, got a bit cranky from lack of regular sleep.
- Was sent on a mission with Al to prevent the death of Rudolf Diesel in 1913. Came back to a blackout, which was so much fun.
- Was sent on a mission with Franziska von Karma to 1923 Berlin because daddy issues, thereby missing out on the Australia mission. It was resolved successfully, but with violence and bitter feelings all round. Came back to, a few days later, the spaceship crash. Also so much fun!
- One of the volunteer bodyguards in the Initiative's experimental foray into the Baccano! world, 2002. He wanted to keep an eye on what the Initiative scientists did, but mostly wound up wandering around and getting pissy at people - too many damn boats lately, which is to say two.
- When said experiment ended badly, arrived pretty early on in Japan with Al. While going about trying to nonlethally disable soldiers and hunt for survivors, an unexpected grenade split them up, and led to Ed's left arm getting impaled below the elbow on a piece of fallen rubble. He managed to pull himself free with a little alchemy and a lot of stubbornness, and lasted a good few more hours searching for Al, managing to meet up with him again in a different building... but then, as they were leaving and arguing over whether to head back (it being less than half an hour before the Initiative would sound the retreat anyway), a soldier they'd overlooked shot him in the chest. Angst occurred once the Initiative revived him.
- As part of the ~defense team~ side project, helped Billy Cranston develop a telepathic comm device intended as a fallback in case anything happens to the Initiative's network. They were confident enough in it to ask for volunteers in a large-scale field test. Their confidence was unwarranted.
- Despite contracting the UE's virus fairly early on in the second week of the epidemic, was too stubborn to drop all of his work and go to hospital until he started coughing up blood and Al literally carried him there. Before his condition stabilised, he happened to have a few weird fever dreams, one involving Envy in a sea of blood and one where he was on somebody else's roof, although he doesn't really remember the details; they were probably just his imagination going haywire, anyway.
- Recovered pretty quickly once a cure was available, and was well enough for a few trips up and down helping people into the catacombs. At one point, he found a kitten and dumped it on Al, who was hoarding them. Sadly, he could not dissuade Al from keeping a large number of the cats once the bombings stopped.
- Took on a few more of the household responsibilities once Exile-Transport tensions increased and Al couldn't move around quite as freely. Also, trying and failing to come up with any better way to make himself and his usual outfits blend in, transmuted himself a brown hat (like the one he briefly wore in canon, but not as wide-brimmed) .
- Most of his efforts for quite some time after the bombing went towards reconstruction.
- Volunteered to go into space when the shuttle was first fixed - he hadn't worked on it seriously, but he'd poked his head in once or twice since a friend of his had been - only to spend most of the trip in too much debilitating pain to properly look around and appreciate it (automail problems!).
- Spent all of the dinosaur beach trip in a bad mood (further automail problems!) and, in large part because of his bad mood, a good fraction of it mildly drunk.
Other game-specific notes:
- Current in-game age: 19. But he's a few months older than he thinks himself to be, since by now he's accustomed to just following the local calendar; he lost track of his exact age a world-hop ago.
- His weapon is a revolver. He keeps it with him on missions, and sometimes if he knows he'll be heading into danger for another reason, but hasn't trained much with it, generally sticking to the training he's more familiar with; right now his aim isn't great and the gun doesn't do anything fancy. It is, however, a gun.
- What he knows: the setting info, some recent history, some dredging through earlier history of the network (mainly plot posts) and of the world (from books in the library), the stuff in the newbie guide, the cyclical nature of new arrivals, a bit about the unfamiliar tech in this time period (including an actually pretty good grasp of programming), the fact that the Initiative's resurrection technology almost certainly does work as advertised (before the 6 hour war where it was used on him, he was slightly in denial), his way around, where to get a drink.
- What he doesn't know: where to get a decent drink.
- Plan: get in close with the Initiative, gain access to their jamjar technology somehow and work on improving it. He doesn't trust them further than he can throw them, but he doesn't trust any of the people who seem to be stirring shit, either - he figures not making waves will be the quickest way to his goal. Since he's naturally inclined to make waves, how well this works out remains to be seen.
- Interim plan: keep tabs on the abilities and skillsets of as many other transports as possible in order to figure out who might help him with this.
- The idea is to make it possible to send home anyone who wants to go home, not to make it compulsory. But in particular, the idea is to make it possible to send Al home; even with all the weird and wonderful technology and magic he theoretically has access to in this place, and even though Al has said explicitly that going home isn't a priority of his, Ed doesn't really believe there's a better way of getting this Al his body back.
- He saw first hand how badly the Initiative's own efforts towards this have been going, but there's always a chance. He just needs to get serious!
Major points of cross-continuity rubbish as he ICly understands it:
Some points of cross-continuity rubbish as he's told it:
pre crash: Unit 807; former roommates: Sylar, Sidel Blanchet, Dirk Strider, Thane, Randel Oland, Nathan Young
Stuff that's happened:
- Pulled from somewhere around January 1924, a few months after he returned to Earth and a little while after the last scene in the movie.
- Arrived towards the end of the monster attacks. Didn't encounter too many himself.
- Met up with Winry. Found out they were from different worlds.
- Lay low for a month or two.
- After Winry disappeared, raided her place for scrap metal and an unfinished project or two before the Initiative could clear it away. Most of the bits and pieces were still in his room up until the spaceship crash that took out the original housing building.
- Taught himself programming, among other things. Picked up the hang of encryption very quickly.
- Mostly grumped around and tried to stay in the shade in Black Rock. A week or so later, the timeline distortions deaged him to the exact point when Envy stabbed him in the chest. (This time, Snow bailed him out before he could bleed on too much of the library.) He tries not to talk about this.
- Wrote a script, shared publicly, that notifies a user whenever a particular inputted name or part of a name is registered to the network. On his own tablet, he has several instances of it more or less constantly running for the following names: Elric (for all he knows, there's nothing stopping the Initiative pulling in more parallel versions of himself or Al), Hohenheim, Rockbell, Roy Mustang, Izumi Curtis. There are other... acquaintances he'd like to know about if they ever arrived, but most of them he's not convinced would bother with their real names.
- Met up with Al after getting pinged by said script. Found out they were still from different worlds. Things were awkward.
- Swapped bodies with Larsa during the art theft mission and for a little while after. Did not take well to suddenly being shorter, or having a gambit set up to cast Float at random intervals with no idea how to switch it off.
- Got an idea to help him keep an eye on other science-minded people's skillsets...
- While getting an Initiative-sponsored research team off the ground, got a bit cranky from lack of regular sleep.
- Was sent on a mission with Al to prevent the death of Rudolf Diesel in 1913. Came back to a blackout, which was so much fun.
- Was sent on a mission with Franziska von Karma to 1923 Berlin because daddy issues, thereby missing out on the Australia mission. It was resolved successfully, but with violence and bitter feelings all round. Came back to, a few days later, the spaceship crash. Also so much fun!
- One of the volunteer bodyguards in the Initiative's experimental foray into the Baccano! world, 2002. He wanted to keep an eye on what the Initiative scientists did, but mostly wound up wandering around and getting pissy at people - too many damn boats lately, which is to say two.
- When said experiment ended badly, arrived pretty early on in Japan with Al. While going about trying to nonlethally disable soldiers and hunt for survivors, an unexpected grenade split them up, and led to Ed's left arm getting impaled below the elbow on a piece of fallen rubble. He managed to pull himself free with a little alchemy and a lot of stubbornness, and lasted a good few more hours searching for Al, managing to meet up with him again in a different building... but then, as they were leaving and arguing over whether to head back (it being less than half an hour before the Initiative would sound the retreat anyway), a soldier they'd overlooked shot him in the chest. Angst occurred once the Initiative revived him.
- As part of the ~defense team~ side project, helped Billy Cranston develop a telepathic comm device intended as a fallback in case anything happens to the Initiative's network. They were confident enough in it to ask for volunteers in a large-scale field test. Their confidence was unwarranted.
- Despite contracting the UE's virus fairly early on in the second week of the epidemic, was too stubborn to drop all of his work and go to hospital until he started coughing up blood and Al literally carried him there. Before his condition stabilised, he happened to have a few weird fever dreams, one involving Envy in a sea of blood and one where he was on somebody else's roof, although he doesn't really remember the details; they were probably just his imagination going haywire, anyway.
- Recovered pretty quickly once a cure was available, and was well enough for a few trips up and down helping people into the catacombs. At one point, he found a kitten and dumped it on Al, who was hoarding them. Sadly, he could not dissuade Al from keeping a large number of the cats once the bombings stopped.
- Took on a few more of the household responsibilities once Exile-Transport tensions increased and Al couldn't move around quite as freely. Also, trying and failing to come up with any better way to make himself and his usual outfits blend in, transmuted himself a brown hat (like the one he briefly wore in canon, but not as wide-brimmed) .
- Most of his efforts for quite some time after the bombing went towards reconstruction.
- Volunteered to go into space when the shuttle was first fixed - he hadn't worked on it seriously, but he'd poked his head in once or twice since a friend of his had been - only to spend most of the trip in too much debilitating pain to properly look around and appreciate it (automail problems!).
- Spent all of the dinosaur beach trip in a bad mood (further automail problems!) and, in large part because of his bad mood, a good fraction of it mildly drunk.
Other game-specific notes:
- Current in-game age: 19. But he's a few months older than he thinks himself to be, since by now he's accustomed to just following the local calendar; he lost track of his exact age a world-hop ago.
- His weapon is a revolver. He keeps it with him on missions, and sometimes if he knows he'll be heading into danger for another reason, but hasn't trained much with it, generally sticking to the training he's more familiar with; right now his aim isn't great and the gun doesn't do anything fancy. It is, however, a gun.
- What he knows: the setting info, some recent history, some dredging through earlier history of the network (mainly plot posts) and of the world (from books in the library), the stuff in the newbie guide, the cyclical nature of new arrivals, a bit about the unfamiliar tech in this time period (including an actually pretty good grasp of programming), the fact that the Initiative's resurrection technology almost certainly does work as advertised (before the 6 hour war where it was used on him, he was slightly in denial), his way around, where to get a drink.
- What he doesn't know: where to get a decent drink.
- Plan: get in close with the Initiative, gain access to their jamjar technology somehow and work on improving it. He doesn't trust them further than he can throw them, but he doesn't trust any of the people who seem to be stirring shit, either - he figures not making waves will be the quickest way to his goal. Since he's naturally inclined to make waves, how well this works out remains to be seen.
- Interim plan: keep tabs on the abilities and skillsets of as many other transports as possible in order to figure out who might help him with this.
- The idea is to make it possible to send home anyone who wants to go home, not to make it compulsory. But in particular, the idea is to make it possible to send Al home; even with all the weird and wonderful technology and magic he theoretically has access to in this place, and even though Al has said explicitly that going home isn't a priority of his, Ed doesn't really believe there's a better way of getting this Al his body back.
- He saw first hand how badly the Initiative's own efforts towards this have been going, but there's always a chance. He just needs to get serious!
Major points of cross-continuity rubbish as he ICly understands it:
- From Winry:
- She was a few years younger than he is right now.
- At some point, he and Al went north to Briggs. (He doesn't know if this was the same Al who later showed up in Exsilium too.)
- When she last saw him, he was heading to Central and told her to get out of the country.
- From Al:
- The first time they ran into each other, it was almost like Al didn't recognise his face...
- Al is 14 and still in the armour. Something must have happened to his "hair", although he fixed it himself at some point after returning from the Baccano! world. His breech cloth is a different colour as well, but that's dumb and Ed is never going to mention it.
- He and this Al also went north. Kimblee was there, apparently. And Winry, which is kind of worrying, but apparently they got her out okay.
- Al is on a time limit because his blood seal is wearing out, or something. He says he's passed out a couple of times while his actual body tried to pull his soul back, but has no idea how much time he actually has, and seems to want to downplay this.
- There was a mention of a "Promised Day" that Al hasn't elaborated on yet. But he also says he has to be home by spring and claims it has nothing to do with his blood seal, so that's a possible connection. It's on the list of stuff to ask about later.
- Al has encountered the homunculi and a couple of them (Lust, Envy) sound familiar from his description, but he says they're all totally artificial beings made with a philosopher's stone at their core (which itself doesn't make any sense), and that their leader is an eighth homunculus who calls himself the other homunculi's father and apparently looks like... Dad. Al also thought the idea of a human controlling them was crazy. (Ed hasn't mentioned Dante by name or explained to Al what he understands a homunculus to be, although he's said that it sounds different.)
- In Al's version of Amestris, Wrath runs the country. What a weird mental image.
- Al can transmute without a circle, so despite not being a Stone he must have remembered the Gate at some point. Ed brought it up after Al was damaged fighting in Japan, but is still a bit uncertain about the details - why would Al then apparently not be able to imagine someone using alchemy as their worldhopping technology?
- Al's blood seal looks like the one Ed knows, but their respective methods of alchemy are subtly just different enough that he's leery of doing anything with it and risking something going horribly wrong.
Some points of cross-continuity rubbish as he's told it:
- To Winry:
- It's a big old multiverse and there must be lots of versions of him.
- To Al:
- Yep, it sure is a big old multiverse.
- After some pressing, he recapped everything between "finding" the real Stone and winding up on Earth for two years... in the absolute vaguest possible terms, skipping over both his own death and the fact that Al was the Stone. After yet more pressing, plus his inadvertently giving away how badly he took his relatively recent deaging, he also admitted that he was outmatched against his world's version of the homunculi and that later he tried to trade his life for Al's because he was out of options.
- The world he landed in right after that is a weird one where alchemy doesn't work, so it probably isn't exactly the same Earth as this one that he's subsequently been pulled into.
- He met that world's version of Al, who was just a stranger with a familiar face, and they spent a fair bit of time together. He was quite a guy. Ed explicitly promised to tell this Al the full story sometime (which he's made a few inroads towards since), and implicitly denied that he's run into any other Als or parallel versions of himself. The former is completely true!
- The last time he saw Winry before landing in Exsilium didn't go well. He hasn't elaborated beyond that.
- There was nothing weird or untoward about his stymied attempt to patch Al up with scrap metal, okay. :(
- He likes cats and refuses to admit it.
- He's brought up a few things about Heiderich, like his name, his (headcanoned) status as an only child and the circumstances of his death.
- Things he's offhandedly explicitly mentioned that Al may or may not have caught: the last kid who tried to hijack his body.