Roy would absolutely die if he learned Alphonse was the one who needed to be kept in check on this world.

"Here? Not a whole lot. Trying to figure out what's going on, but so far I haven't been able to uncover anything that everyone doesn't know already." It really took the wind right out of his research sails, that was for sure. It took four years to get their hands on a stone, and people had been here for nearly a decade with no promising answers.

"Al's working on getting his badges. Lust lets me stay at her cottage whenever I want so I spend a lot of time there, fixing the place up. There really isn't anything all that exciting to do here between disasters and ... weird universe bending weeknds, like this one."