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Newt Geiszler | Pacific Rim ([personal profile] groupiedrifter) wrote in [community profile] ximilia2022-12-02 12:26 pm

Voice; un: newt

Oh man, we have new blood again? Welcome aboard!

I've been saving these stickers for the occasion.

[He sends a snapshot of the stickers in question:]



If you're not a newbie and you really want one, I barter in any of the following: snacks, shiny rocks, manga, monster movies, cool figurines, cigarettes, conversations about tattoos, spaghetti or any type of noodle, cute dimples, cheek kisses, compliments about my boots, neat pictures of any manner of phyla, a tall can of pringles, pens with blue or red ink, caffeine patches, 80's or 90's band shirts, things that hover that shouldn't, fancy scissors, dinosaur stickers, or coffee.

Just come on down to the lab and get your very special prize!

If I'm bumping into tables and jumping six feet in the air because you so much as sneezed in my direction, it's because I'm temporarily blind and literally can't see my own hand in front of my face.

Ciao!
chrysology: (Does it take)

[personal profile] chrysology 2022-12-10 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.

[Look. He won't say anything. Not if Newt isn't. Whatever. He's mostly just relieved Newt is okay. Or, well. As okay as he could be, considering the potential danger depending on the timing of this sort of thing happening at random. Ed gives a shrug, glancing to the others notes briefly.]

The volcano and all, right? I missed out. But making notes about the missions isn't a bad idea. I guess you are more the expert in terms of the creatures?
chrysology: (Pages in my notebook)

[personal profile] chrysology 2022-12-15 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, I have my journal but that is usually more just research on figuring a way to help Al. I haven't been using it so much since I got here and all, with the missions.

[Because, beyond the orbs themselves helping given his regret is what happened to Al, to be able to fix things for him in getting his original body back. Ed otherwise has yet to figure any other option here or on the missions yet. So he has not figured adding all that much to his journal during his time here.]
chrysology: (Too close)

[personal profile] chrysology 2022-12-22 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Alphonse.

[He assumes Newt is asking how Ed did it. In sealing Al's soul to the armor. Which is. Kinda tricky to try explain to someone that doesn't know about alchemy. And not the most pleasant but he doesn't mind talking about it. He has been more open about things here. It's no secret or anything.]

How it worked? I was desperate. My leg had been taken in the attempt to bring mom back. Al was gone. Taken entirely. I didn't really think on it too much. I just said I'd pay whatever it took to get him back. Offered my arm, my other leg, my heart. whatever it was that it took in exchange. I got his soul and bound that to a suit of armor. The blood seal is at the top of the back just under the helm. If that is damaged, it negates his binding to the armor. That would kill him. For all that some would say it is great, not needing to sleep or feel pain or whatever. It's not a long term solution. There's a time limit. His soul is being pulled back to where his body is at the Gate. That's why I have to hurry....
chrysology: (For something)

[personal profile] chrysology 2022-12-28 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Why I gave you these as some homework.

[Or. Well. Newt is a fellow nerd so he probably doesn't necessarily consider this as a chore like homework. Ed spends a lot of his time researching as well. So it probably seems more fun and exciting than others might consider. He hopes.]

The Gate is...like this part of us, inside all of us, that gives us the potential for alchemy. That knowledge. Al is trapped in his, in ours. Or, his body is. Because when we tried to bring her back, we mixed our blood. As payment. Alongside the other ingredients of a human body. I can't speak for this Drift, except you said it was like it links people? I guess that is kind of similar. At least in that basic sort of sense. Al and I, our Gates are connected.

But -- yeah. I hope so.
chrysology: (Do you know)

[personal profile] chrysology 2023-01-03 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Not like there's a way to check but. So far nobody else aside from me from all these different worlds have been able to transmute? Even if you might be vaguely aware of alchemy. It might just be something specific to my world.

[Doesn't mean others might not be able to understand the theory. But actually making use of that to perform a transmutation.]
chrysology: (Know it)

[personal profile] chrysology 2023-01-06 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't really tried to explain the Gate to anyone else. It was just...I only go there when we do Human Transmutation. This white space that's just empty except for us and Truth, this white figure. And Al, Al's body is there, with his Gate now. I just have to figure how much, what to give up in exchange for it. It's because of the Gate that I can do alchemy the way I can, without needing to draw a transmutation circle. I guess in a way this Drift is sort of similar in terms of knowledge?
chrysology: (Waiting for)

[personal profile] chrysology 2023-01-11 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I mean. The Gates aren't technology so I'm not sure there would really be a way to compare, really. I would offer to help fix it but you would need all the pieces and I'd need to understand what it is supposed to be like to figure transmuting it.

[Probably more likely what he needs is Winry. Winry would likely be happy to help rebuild futuristic technology. She would be all over something like that. Would probably live in the lab if she were here aboard the Ximilia.]

I'd say Winry'd help you and be all over something like a half busted machine from the fugure if she were here.
chrysology: (There's still)

[personal profile] chrysology 2023-01-14 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I get that. I know I'll probably have to figure that Gate at least once more time to get Al's body back, but.

[He's in no rush to be keen on experiencing that again. For all that he is desperate and will do it however many times it takes to drag Al's body back. It had taken so much from him. From all of them. His leg, his arm. Al's whole body. Izumi's insides. Roy's sight. But at least Ed could still trust his own mind. His thoughts. Newt had been unable to for a while there, given his attempt to Drift with those precursors. It's understandable he might be kinda unsure and not keen on fixing the thing given that.]