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[Lust has been drinking. She doesn't usually indulge to the point where mildly tipsy starts heading to drunk, but it's been an emotional week and two drinks turned into three until she's fiddling with her gear with a half empty wine bottle on the table beside her and a full glass in her hand.

Probably not the best time to flip on the record function and put out a general message.]

Why do emotions have to play such a ridiculously large part in daily life? They're nothing but organic chemical reactions. You mix sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid and get fizzing, bubbling carbonic acid. It's the same damned thing, at the most basic level. Chemicals interact with other chemicals and cause a reaction.

But the molecules that give birth to emotional feeling...they're never dormant. They're never inactive. They're always combining and breaking apart and firing off signals that we have no choice but to be ruled by. Human beings are like a single chemical in that way, one that reacts in a most volatile manner to every other substance and stimulus it encounters.

The sheer number of emotions a single person experiences in a single day... it's overwhelming. And like all chemical reactions, prone to change drastically the moment something new is introduced. The simple act of going from content to frightened or angry or even irritated is enough to interfere with daily life.

That seems like a detrimental design flaw, to me.

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But why "downgrade" something like that? If you were better than a human before, what's the point of being turned into one?

If I found myself under the water, I wouldn't consider gills and fins a downgrade. It's a necessary adjustment to live in this environment.

Homunculi don't naturally exist here. The laws that allow a homunculus - or whatever else - to function don't exist here. So a homunculus can't exist here.

I-I suppose... I never really thought of it that way before.

Aside from the emotions, has it been difficult adjusting?

I've found the world makes the most sense when viewed through a lens of logic and science.

And it's been fine, I suppose. I'm used to most aspects of humanity by now, it's been half a year.

That's... hard to do sometimes.

If you've been here for half a year though, you arrived about the same time as Greed?

Emotions contradict rationale. They oppose logic. Again, it's a design flaw in the system.

Not very long after him.

... Odd, when you put it that way.

[He purses his lips slightly.]

I would say I wonder why he never spoke of you but I realize he never told me much of himself to begin with. Are there... more homunculi here other than you two?

I'm odd.

[A simple fact, nothing she feels awkward or badly about.]

And we didn't know one another before. I'm very young - even for a human, in the chronological sense. Envy's about, he's like my brother.

[Raikov just shrugs in response to that. He doesn't consider her that odd. He's dealt with far stranger. ~~sup COBRA unit.~~]

Ahh. I see. I don't think I've spoken with Envy before.

I'm assuming there's seven of you total back in your world?

The number was often in flux, from what I understand.

Like I said, I'm very young.

They say to never ask a woman her she but you've got me curious.

There isn't even an easy answer to the question.

My...soul or whaveter you want to call the collection of feelings and impulses and personality that make us a person, is 35.

My physical and mental age is 21 - as of this month.

But I've only existed in this form as this person for fourteen.

That is rather complicated... but I see what you mean by being young. I remember Greed mentioning he was well over a hundred.

... I... err, sorry for asking so many personal questions. We have super humans in my world but they're not the same as you and the others. It's interesting hearing about the differences between the two.

Greed and Envy are quite old.

If I didn't want to answer them, I wouldn't. And we aren't 'super humans'. We're just humans who've been tampered with a bit.

Which is essentially the same as the people I'm speaking of. They were born humans. But most of us suspect their unusual abilities were the results of science.

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