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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I love how it's like DON'T BLAME YOURSELF. And then failure happens elsewhere.

[heroproceeding]

[ It feels cruel, in reality, to have to deliver those kinds of words to someone he knows cared deeply for Tadashi- and knowing Al and especially hearing him now, the kid had definitely... Maybe Zack's just making things worse though. He doesn't know. But he does know that if it was someone who mattered a lot to him, he'd want to know their last words, too.

Even if they aren't easy ones to hear.

Even if he can read between the lines almost immediately after Al speaks them. Not that he can talk, himself, but it makes him squeeze a hand into a tight fist all the same. ]

We will be... I'll make sure of it. [ He pauses at that. Debates on arguing. But the truth is he's just so damned tired. And in the end, if Al's anything like him as far as stubbornness goes, it'll be fruitless anyway. So, he'll try the next best thing as he slowly relaxes that hand. ]

Al... You keep in touch, you hear me? If anything happens... you let me know. [ There's another pause before: ] You know I'll listen.

I know right, they're such losers

[armoured]

[He knows that Zack is only trying to make things better.

Any other time he would be applauding him for it, and probably even joining in to try and make both their pain less. He knows that he will have to get back up from this and keep moving on, but not... not right now. Right now it feels too raw and too painful to even think about making light of it.

Tadashi is gone, and he's not the first person here that Al has failed. God help him, he has to be the last or Al doesn't know how much longer he will hold together.

He only manages a tiny hum of acknowledgement for the offer, not even agreement, before he's terminating the call and pushing the tablet far out of reach.]

ooc: Just dating this for later reference. Took place on the night of Day 41.

[heroproceeding]