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[rubberpirate]

[The feed starts rather abruptly, with Luffy perfectly focused for the first time ever.]

Has anyone seen my brother? I haven't seen him in a couple of weeks.

[He puts one of his hands up, moving the camera farther so everyone can see his other hand slightly higher than his head.]

He's this tall, has a lot freckles, doesn't wear shirts, and oh, his name is Ace!

[He hums, moving the camera closer, thinking for a moment.]

Is it normal for people to disappear?

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[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

[Greed frowns.]

[He had assumed that Ace is just avoiding him but this suggests that maybe, that’s not the case.]

He’s up and vanished on me too.

[Greed shrugs almost casually.]

I’d thought he had just... ‘ghosted’ me - in the network sense, not the Geischnact one - but...

[The newly learned term, ‘ghosted,’ comes awkwardly out of Greed’s mouth.]

I guess this means he didn’t.

[Which is, for Greed, both a relief and a letdown. A relief ‘cause it means that Greed isn’t the cause of Ace’s radio silence, and a letdown ‘cause it means that Ace is gone and Greed might never see him again.]

‘Cause, yeah, people do disappear here. Elric, the Full Metal Alchemist from my world, was here the month I arrived, and I haven’t seen or heard about him since.

And I’ve seen other posts on the network, about people vanishing. No one else I knew, though.

[rubberpirate]

[Luffy frowns and nods]

So he's gone? He can ghost anything because he isn't alive!

[Luffy doesn't understand what Greed means.]

Oh so if you don't see him around that means he isn't in this world anymore?

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

[Greed frowns.]

[Greed’s not entirely sure what Luffy means now, to be honest, since he’d thought he’d eliminated the ‘ghosting’ possibility already and he had never said Ace was dead.]

[So, the crossed wires are even more crossed now.]

Yeah, he’s gone.

Dunno if he’s dead, though.

[Sighing, Greed then says:]

I really hope he’s not.

[rubberpirate]

I hope he got somewhere where he's not dead.

[He frowns, but then smiles.]

He died 2 years ago, but somehow showed up here and it made me super happy!

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

[Though that is new information for him, Greed’s not really that surprised by it. After all, before Greed appeared on Prismatica, he was dead too.]

[(Or, well, sorta dead, anyway.)]

[Casually, Greed says:]

I’m sure he’s fine.

[Though Greed says that more for his own benefit than for Luffy’s, trying to convince himself that if he disappears he won’t become dead again.]

[Greed doesn’t think he will disappear but even still... the idea of becoming dead again disturbs him.]

[And so, Greed tries his very best to avoid it.]

[rubberpirate]

I hope so too, I wanted to spend more time with him.

[Pouts!]

[nosuchthingasnosuchthing]

[Frowning, Greed replies:]

So did I.

[rubberpirate]

He'd be happy to know that people like him here!