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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

I can think of two that might stand a chance. Maybe a third, but I've never been sure whether his understanding has been right or not.

[explosivecombat]

We're at about the same number, then.

[doitrockapella]

Do you think you're one of them, Nietzsche?

Genuine curiosity.

[explosivecombat]

I'm arrogant enough to believe I might be.

[doitrockapella]

Maybe it's that arrogance that lets you.

[explosivecombat]

You mentioned earlier that you wouldn't want to have that other version you spoke to, instead of me. Why is that?

[doitrockapella]

For one thing, you don't blankly shove deer at me when you haven't the slightest idea how you're supposed to respond to me.

[explosivecombat]

I'm never living that down, am I?

[doitrockapella]

For another thing, I doubt he would've thought to call and ask me to come to his favorite city just for the sake of seeing me.

[explosivecombat]

With no ulterior motives? Probably not.

[doitrockapella]

I'm sorry the three-day blackout interrupted it.

[explosivecombat]

We still have Christmas, you know.

[doitrockapella]

Be careful or it's going to start sounding like you're looking forward to it.

[explosivecombat]

As though you aren't?

[doitrockapella]

Of course I am. But I'm the sentimental one, remember? It's hardly surprising for me.

[explosivecombat]

And yet I believe you were just talking to me about how I called you to my favorite city, just for the sake of seeing you for a while.

[doitrockapella]

Being sentimental generally comes with the prerequisite of having a sentiment in the first place.

[explosivecombat]

And what sentiments do you have in my direction, if I may?

[doitrockapella]

Shouldn't I be asking that of you?

[explosivecombat]

Perhaps, but I'm curious.

[doitrockapella]

Well, I do keep coming back to talk to you even after your smuggest and most superior moments, so I suppose I must rather like you, Major Nietzsche.

[explosivecombat]

I haven't been "Major" anything in years.

[.............wait.]

So you got my title out of me - am I to assume you got my name as well?

[doitrockapella]

If I knew your name, you'd have heard mine by now. We have a deal.

[... :|a ]

...I don't remember anything. That's strange — you must've...I'm sure you asked who I was, at least. You must've said something. But I don't...hmm.

Armstrong was a major. Maybe I guessed it from that, since you worked together?

[explosivecombat]

Ah, perhaps...at any rate, it's accurate. All State Alchemists are given that rank upon acceptance to the program.

Of course, it's been a moot point for me since Ishval.

[doitrockapella]

Oh? So does that make me a major now?