text; @RuffRabbit

[bunnyblock]

[It's been about a month since this weird, glitchy-looking styled message has appeared on the network, but here he is again. But instead of a list of quiet, seemingly random questions, it's a pretty legible question.]

There are people here from different sorts of worlds, with different sorts of abilities, and experiences that border on the supernatural.

The longer I'm here, sometimes I find it hard to believe this is anything more than a strange dream, or something along those lines.

I understand science and machinery. I don't understand the supernatural, only in the sense of Videogames and Science Fiction.

If you have abilities or experiences that are different from this 'normal' I understand...

Tell me about it.

Your magic, your reality, supernatural creatures or abilities...

I'm interested in that.

Comments

[alchemyfreak]

Trust me, this is the third world I've been dragged into and it is never anything like traveling in your own world.

Hypothetically. It's a science so it requires study and not everyone has the drive or natural talent to make it work.

[bunnyblock]

The third...

Should I pity you or be impressed.

[Rude, but... this is Noiz you're talking to.]

I see.

Should I assume you've both the drive and natural talent?



[alchemyfreak]

Neither. Just realize I have plenty to compare it to.

[Ed's used to rude and he hates pity, so the response actually catches him by surprise. Honestly, he doesn't care what this guy assumes so his response might be a little flippant at this point, let him think whatever he wants to.]

I guess so.

[bunnyblock]

That's pretty vague.

Tells me one of two things.

Either you don't have a basis of comparison to your skill

Or you're being modest

I wonder which it is.

[alchemyfreak]

Everything is vague to you.

[Or maybe everything Ed's saying is just coming off as vague. Either way the next comment gets his attention. Sure, he's not as quick to boast about his skills anymore, but when called out on it the impulse tends to rise again. It's hard to say if the idea that he has no comparison or the accusation of being modest is what gets him more.]

I'm the youngest certified state alchemist in the country back home, I have some comparison.

[That might not mean anything to anyone who isn't native to Amestris though, and Ed's not going to point out that he's survived and pulled off more than one transmutation that should have killed a person.]

[bunnyblock]

Maybe you're right.

I just like a clear picture.

[A clear picture--yeah, that's easy enough to want when you're ignorant to almost everything in the real world. He hides it well--how little he actually knows about anything outside of computers and video games.]

...Ah.

So you're a prodigy. Somehow I almost expected to hear something like that.

[It's hard to tell if this is a compliment or something else.]

[alchemyfreak]

I bet.

[Ed was ... odd, for as much as he liked to boast about his skills when others pointed out that he was a genius or a prodigy it always made him somewhat uncomfortable. He almost leave it, almost but the idea that this guy had predicted it felt a little strange.]

what's that supposed to mean?