[Envy turns away to glare at nothing again, and is quiet for a long moment. This isn't something he likes to tell anyone. But...it hadn't been more than an hour ago for him that the story had come out once already. And he doesn't particularly feel like hiding it, not in this mood. So he starts talking, his voice low and full of deep, old resentment.]

He created me. Then he stuck around long enough to run some tests and figure out that I wasn't the dead son he'd been trying to get back, I was just some monster. And then...he left. Cut his losses and abandoned me and my mother, and went off to start a new family to replace us with.