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[exeggutorhead]

"Hey, this is Envy. I'm busy or not around, so say whatever you want here and I might get back to you about it."

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[exeggutorhead]

[...to be fair, they'd all been kind of hoping that it wouldn't be an issue. There hadn't been an incident like that first one since it happened, and candles aside, Henry had seemed to be beginning to act a little more like his old self.]

[They should have known better.]

[But it's kind of hard to be thoughtfully regretful in the face of Wrath's copycat snottiness.]

Well it's an issue now, isn't it?

[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath sniffs haughtily.]}

Your human is the issue!

Mine was minding his own business.

[exeggutorhead]

Well he wasn't going to do it again anyway, so what do you want me to do about it?

[Intensely immature argument about who belongs to who aside, unlike Wrath, Envy doesn't exactly think of this as something that gives him the right to order Henry around.]

[garbagechild]

_{[That's because Envy doesn't live in Wrath Land (tm).]}

You have to make sure he doesn't do it again an-e-way!

_{[The last bit is delivered in another pseudo-mocking parroting of Envy's voice.]}

[exeggutorhead]

[That mocking tone earns Wrath an annoyed scowl, sure. But unlike what Walter may have feared would happen, in spite of his annoyance the thought of punishing Wrath for it doesn't even cross his mind. It probably would have, once upon a time...but that was a long time ago.]

[Instead, he scoffs and rolls his eyes. This sarcasm escalation train ain't slowing down any time soon.]

Yeah, sure, I'll make sure of it. Happy?

[It's not a lie, he just doesn't think he'll have to actually enforce Henry not doing anything.]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[He pauses a moment, either thinking hard or intentionally drawing it out for Homunculus Dramatics (tm).]

[But then...]</sub>

Yes.

[exeggutorhead]

[He sniffs at the answer, because he's not quite done being snippy yet.]

Fine then. Deal.

What did he tell you happened, anyway?

[He might as well hear it from...well, kind of from Walter, via a Wrath filter.]

[garbagechild]

That Henry told him he wasn't allowed to come back to Goldenrod, and then punched him.

_{[He doesn't mention the part about Walter's Pokemon then beating the shit out of him, because 1. Walter asked him not to reveal that it was Assumption, and 2. everybody knows it was Assumption anyway.]}

He also said that defending himself would be bad and wrong, and that anyone else defending him would also be bad and wrong.

But I'm already bad and wrong, so I might as well.

No one else is doing it.

[exeggutorhead]

[Absolutely everyone knows it was Assumption.]

Hey, don't expect us to, he's not ours.

If you wanna defend him, fine, but I'm not gonna, even if I'm not gonna attack him either.

[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath sniffs, haughtily.]}

Just don't let your humans hit mine.

I wouldn't let him hit yours.