IC Inbox

[armoured]

This is the IC inbox for Alphonse Elric at Snowblind.

Network name: @LELRIC

This is the place to contact Al over the Network. Contact by voice, text, or video is all perfectly acceptable, and there is no need to plot with me prior to posting in this inbox.

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[maskintape]

no
Operator

[ h-how can somebody not know what the Operator is??? ]

[armoured]

[He has literally no idea...]

Is the operator the admin?

[maskintape]

yes no
it Takes us
here
takes memory takes life? take us Home

[armoured]

[Is the operator the admin? Does this alter ego of Tim know more about what's happening here? Or... no, he doesn't want to believe that Tim himself might know more than he's letting on.]

Please tell me more, I don't understand.

[maskintape]

we do not
too
admin "monsters" town no death everything taken
it is.the Operator
all
it is silent you are hollow helpless help less

[armoured]

[It's so hard to follow what's being said, but he thinks that's a confirmation that the admin is the operator... definitely something to discuss with Tim again when he's been found and helped.]

We're not helpless, you are not helpless. We all want to help you, Jay wants to help, that's why we need to find you.

[Just going to ignore the hollow comments, thanks.]

[maskintape]

we
donot need help
?
help us less
helpless

[ WORDPLAY!!!

Barely coherent wordplay.

Yeah. ]

[armoured]

[Really? He is so not having this same fight with Tim's alter ego as well, not when it took him all this time to finally get Tim to agree he could help however reluctantly.]

I can't, and I'm sure Jay can't either, that's what friends do.

[maskintape]

wearenotfriends

[ It might be prickling just a little behind the text. It knows what friends are and it DOESN'T HAVE ANY ANYMORE. >8CCCC ]

[armoured]

I am friends with Tim. I care about him, and I want him to be okay.

[Including recovering from bouts of crazy.]

[maskintape]

we are safe
tim is safe
we are shared.divided

[ You know, in case it wasn't completely obvious that the guy who is OBVIOUSLY TIM IN A MASK is... Tim, in a mask.

Body-wise, anyway.

The mask doesn't even cover the fucking sideburns, it's the shittiest disguise ever. ]

[armoured]

He told me.

[Sort of. At least that he had someone else in his head, which he assumes is what is meant by shared and divided.]

I'm glad you're both safe, but we still want to find you.

[maskintape]

no

[ WELL APPARENTLY IT CAN BE STRAIGHTFORWARD SOMETIMES ]

[armoured]

Some part of you must want to be found and talk to us, or you wouldn't have called me.

[maskintape]

no
you are hollow.no face
masked
wewantedtoknow

[armoured]

Tim already knows, I told him about it before.

[How could this Tim know he was hollow, but not remember the explanation why?]

[maskintape]

we donot under
no sense.stand
?
we are envying

[ read:idk how to parse any of this shit man but not having a face is super fukken rad, A++ fashion choices ]

[armoured]

Don't!

[The reaction is so immediate that the tablet switches to voice, the strength of this unable to be conveyed by text.]

You shouldn't ever envy what I have, not ever.

[maskintape]

wearenotfriends
we do not listen
do not obey

[ FUCK U MASKY DOES WHAT IT WANTS ]

[armoured]

We are friends.

[But this is going nowhere, and so Al just... hangs up after that last vehement statement, not giving Masky the chance to be weird at him again.]