[Video/Action for anyone in the Goldenrod suburbs] Backdated to immediately after everybody woke up.

[garbagechild]

HELLO?

HELLO!

HELLO HELLO HELLO!

HELLOOOOOO?!

<sub>[Assuming you didn't just mute the video INSTANTLY because the audio consisted of a child hollering into the mic, what follows is some very uncertain sniffling. The kind where the kid in question is still kind of working out whether they have a reason to be crying or not.]

[The video display is going from room to room of what looks kind a generously-sized suburban house-- nerds who have gotten familiar with the architectural aesthetic of each city might be able to note that it looks like one of the typical for-rent Goldenrod homes in those sprawling neighborhoods on the southern end.]

[There doesn't appear to be anybody else home but the camera-holder (and a few Pokemon here and there, but he's not paying attention to them), who seems to be getting more panicky with each empty room he finds.]</sub>

Where is everybody?!

<sub>[THE SEARCH GOES ON.]

[Until, five or ten minutes later, the feed finds him sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor. Without a shirt. Eating sliced bread straight out of the bag.]

[While crying.]</sub>

All my friends are go-o-oooooone.

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[a_sin_for_him]

It's alright, Wrath. We're all simply...scattered at the moment. I'm outside the city, I'm not very far. I'll be home soon.

Where are your clothes?

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[!!!!!!!!]

[By this point he'd heard from Envy (and the two human residents as well, just by proxy), so Lust was the remaining missing puzzle piece.]

[If she'd been at the door rather than on his screen, he'd probably have flying-tackled her.]</sub>

LUST!

I thought you went back! I thought you were DEAD! I don't know where my clothes are! I thought she GOT you!!

_{[His shirt is somewhat visible wadded up on the floor in the background. He just... got so upset that he took it off.]}

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[a_sin_for_him]

No. I haven't gone anywhere. I haven't died. I'm just as I was, right where I'm supposed to be. I'm simply working on helping with the roads at the moment, that's all.

Your clothes are in the upstairs closet, between my bedroom and the bathroom. The bottom drawer, the one you can reach easiest.

Can you do something very important for me, while you're at the house?

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[Lust was the last on Wrath's 'list' of People Who Can't Be Gone They Can't Be to report in, so already, he's calming down a little, the sobs from before dying down to shuddery breaths and the occasional hiccup.]

[He swipes at his eyes and nose with the back of one hand.]</sub>

Y-yes, I-I can!

What i-is it?

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[a_sin_for_him]

Good.

I'd like you to get some soap and clean yourself up and put on clean clothing.

Because I'd like to give you a hug when I get home, but I hate hugging you when you're filthy and smell like a compost heap.

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[garbagechild]

_{[... oh :(]}

... I'm still clean. You just cleaned me before.

<sub>[... as in four days ago, before they left for the prom.]

[Seeming to realize this (a startlingly self-aware feat, for Wrath), he hangs his head a little bit.]</sub>

I'll do it though.

For you.

[a_sin_for_him]

You have to clean every day, Wrath. It doesn't last.

Thank you. I'll be home before dark.

Would you like me to send Guttle back, to keep you company?

[garbagechild]

_{[He sniffles again, rubbing his face. He's at least calmer now that Lust has shown up. He'll have to call Envy and tell him that she's still here. It's his job.]}

No... I'll be okay... the other Pokemon are all here.

_{[It was the people he was worried about.]}

[a_sin_for_him]

Alright. Take good care of them for me.

Is there anything I can bring you, when I come home?

[garbagechild]

Can I have peanut butter and a spoon?

[a_sin_for_him]

....How about peanut butter ice cream? Which you may eat with a spoon.

[garbagechild]

_{[Wrath thinks about that long and hard.]}

... Okay.