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Characters: Sollux Captor and open
Setting: Starting in room 2-06, but you can assume he's wandering the halls anywhere, since he'll go out exploring.
Format: I'll follow your lead.
Summary: Sollux has just arrived (~~again~~) and he's confused and Unhappy about it.
Warnings: None yet.

Sollux didn't remember falling asleep, but he definitely remembered waking up. He fought the sleep paralysis for the full thirty seconds, and then shot up from the bed the moment his eyes opened, his teeth bared in a snarl.

He'd been dreaming...something. Something bad. He always woke up badly when he dreamed about his own death, but the specifics were fading like wisps of fog in the morning, and he couldn't be sure if it was a vision or not. The voices were sure loud, though. Fuck were they loud.

He was distracted from the question of the dream, though, as he looked around the unfamiliar room in confusion. "What the actual fuck?"

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"Hey, I asked you first. You tell me your name and I'll tell you mine. And what the hell is TG?"

Ed's brow furrowed, not at Sollux's lisp, because he didn't care about that. Right now he was trying to figure out what he was. His skin was a weird color, and Ed was pretty sure there were horns on his head and then... those teeth.

"Are you a chimera?"

Sollux took a step towards the human kid. He was in no mood to have much of anything dictated to him. But then he stopped, reconsidering. If his yell and confusion was anything to go by, Ed was as confused as Sollux was, which meant they were sort of in the same boat.

Fuck.

"I'm Thollukth Captor," he said. "Tho now you have my name. TG ith a human I know who lookth like you. What'th a chimera?"

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A frown pulled at his lips, watching Sollux carefully as he approached. So was he a chimera? Was he one of Kimblee's goons? Ed was done dealing with those bastards.

Wait. So he didn't know what chimera was...? If Sollux was one, he wouldn't need to ask what they were. He would have known. That's not the kind of thing that you can forget.

"It's creature created by using alchemy to combine two dissimilar creatures into a new, complete form." Enjoy your textbook answer, Sollux. This is not a topic he enjoys discussing.

"Name's Edward Elric, by the way."

Sollux blinked at the kid. "I'm not a creature, and I wathn't created uthing alchemy, dumpathh. I'm a troll, actually, and I wath hatched from an egg like normal!"

Stupid humans.

So he wasn't TG, or any of the others, he was pretty sure. And that was weird, because if he wasn't any of the four humans, how had he survived the end of their world? Unless he had been brought from his world before it was destroyed, which he supposed was possible.

Trolls didn't exist where he was from. Maybe in stories and fairytales, but they weren't real. The only logical explanation was that he was a chimera. It wasn't a process every person survived and not all of them ended up keeping their sanity.

Ed stared. His eyes narrowed. "... And you're calling me a dumbass? How the hell is hatching from an egg normal? People don't hatch, dumbass."

Sollux scowled. Stupid humans and their ignorance of trolls. "What DO 'people' do, then?" he demanded. "How elthe would you be hatched if not out of an egg?"

"Wha--"

And that shut him up.

"We're born we don't hatch"

Ed was not going to have "THE TALK" with Sollux. This was not going to happen. Not here. Not now. Not ever. No, no, no, no.

Sollux shrugged. He really didn't want to know. At all. "Oh right, you're mammalth, right? Fucking dithguthting thpecieth."

He waved that off. Really, now was not the time to discuss human reproduction. If there ever was a time for that, it was not now.

"Look, I'm an alien from another world. And technically, I wath part of creating your world, but I really don't care about that. What I care about ith figuring out where we are, and why. Are you with me on that, Edward Elric?" At least he could say HIS name, even if he couldn't say his own.

No, there would never be a time for that. Maybe from someone else, but not from Ed. No, no, no.

He'd seen enough the first time he went through the Gate to know that his world wasn't the only planet with life, but as far as this guy being part of creating his world? Yeah, no. It wasn't important and he really didn't care either way.

"Good to hear because I don't care at all, but I'm with you on that"

"Okay," Sollux said. They were on the same page, then, and he looked around the room a bit more. There seemed to be two more empty beds, and there was a--

There was a note next to the bed he'd woken up in.

Sollux walked back to his bed and picked up the note to read.

And as Sollux walked back towards his bed, Ed found the note next to his. He was quiet as he read. That didn't last long.

This. This was a joke right? He reread everything twice over, focusing on five words: your world has been destroyed.

"What the... what the fuck?" He looked up, eyes wide. Sollux was reading something too. "Did you get one of these?"

"Yeah," Sollux said, then tossed the note on the bed again. "Ath if there wath anything in there I didn't already know. No one thaid anything about uth being taken here after our world wath dethtroyed, though."

"Wait. Your world was... it was actually destroyed?" This doesn't make sense. It couldn't be gone. There was no way.

Yeah. We thtarted up thith game jutht in time to ethcape. All thethe meteorth fell and then there wath the vatht glub, which killed everyone who wath left alive. [Including Sollux. But thankfully that was only his first death of two] Thith ith a thurprithe to you? I know for a fact yourth wath ath well, the thame way.

[The look on his face is very clearly saying "YES THIS IS A SURPRISE THANK YOU"]

What... what are you talking about?

[He nods] Earth wath dethtroyed, too. By meteorth. And four humanth ethcaped from it, and thothe are the oneth my friendth were talking to. But I don't think you're one of them, tho I dunno what'th up with that.

[watches him for a minute before plopping down on the edge of his bed and running a hand through his hair. he laughs bitterly]

Everything I worked for... Everyone's gone?

Maybe I did die in that mine. I think I'd prefer it.

[Oh. Oops. Sollux kindof belatedly realizes that he just dropped a pretty huge bomb on his roommate.

He walks over and sits down next to him, unsure of what to do]

...Thorry. I know it doethn't help, but I know how it feelth.

[shakes his head. he's right, it doesn't help.]

Y-yeah. Yeah, I guess you would.

[he's alone again. everyone's gone. everyone. Pinako, Colonel Mustang, Winry, Al. Everyone. And out of all the people to spare, why him? Why just him?]

Damn it.

[There's no pile here to have a feelings jam, and besides they just met, but Sollux doesn't really want to see this guy crying, either. He casts about uncertainly, then gets up and drags the pillows and blankets off of his bed.

In a moment, he's dumped the pillows on Ed's bed and wrapped the blanket around the human, making a sort of makeshift and fluffy pile.

He'll give him a few minutes to let it sink in. Then probably they should go looking for some answers.]

[Yeah he'd really doesn't want Sollux to see him cry.]

Thanks...

[He pats the kid's shoulder awkwardly, then blinks and feels it again. Oh, a robotic arm like Vriska's. Cool.

He sits back a bit on the pile and looks up towards the ceiling]

You want me to go look around?

Yeah, sure. I just need to get my head straight before I go take a look myself.

[You don't have to tell him twice. He nods and gets to his feet]

I'll be back later, then, and let you know what I find out. Thee you later, ee.

[He nods]

Sounds good. See you later.

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