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[There's a teenage boy staring at the camera for just a fraction too long before he starts to speak. Ed's a smart kid, and while he doesn't have any kind of phone remotely like this back home, he figured out how to use it pretty quickly. Still, he's done a lot more listening and watching and reading than actually communicating with other people through it. He wants to make sure he understands it fully before he uses it.

But he's ready now. Once he's satisfied that it's recording, he nods, then sits back.]

Hi. I'm Edward Elric. I'm an Alchemist. But from what I've heard, that doesn't mean anything to most of you. But even if you don't have alchemy, you do have science, right? What do the scientists of your worlds study?

[There, question posed successfully. He's mastered this fascinating device. He turns it off, and waits for people to reply.]

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[What. Ed sits back, squinting at him.]

You're making that up.

LITERALLY WHY WOULD I.

How would I know? I don't know you. I don't know what stories you'd make up for fun.

Literally no one would make up a story that fucking stupid.

Seems more believable that someone would make it up than that someone would actually do it.

Fossilized shit is important for archaeology or paleontology or what the fuck ever.

And people are studying humans that way?

Why the hell wouldn't they be? There's humans in intergalactic zoos.

What? That's horrible! [Ed grimaces.] You can't keep humans in zoos!

Why the fuck not? We're just animals like e-everything else. We keep whales and shit in captivity, l-let's face it, the human race kinda has it coming.

We're sentient. Creatures in zoos aren't, and if they are, they shouldn't be there either!

Have you ever met a whale or a dolphin? Sentient as fuck. Have you e-ever met an octopus? Sentient as fuck. All of 'em in aquariums. Google "Sea World" sometime.

[How do you google something.]

No, I've never met any of those things, but they shouldn't be in aquariums if they're sentient. It's wrong.

What fucking planet are you from.

There are planets where they're okay with locking up sentient creatures?

Fucking obviously, what kind of universe do you think we're living in?

{Ed goes quiet. He knows that it's not a particularly just universe. Too much terrible stuff has happened. It's just still sometimes hard to think that good people would be okay with things like that. Even if pointing it out makes him feel like he's being naive. He's seen a man experiment on his own daughter and turn her into a monster. Why does he still think people might not be terrible?]

Still, you'd think someone would complain at least.

[He knows Al would.]

Sure they do, but who cares? N-Not like anyone listens.

[They don't. Ed clenches his fist angrily.]

Not unless someone makes them.

Yeah, wow, good luck punching entire planets, metalfist.

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