#larivoc

Havoc & Lust Reunite:

Havoc is too stubborn to relinquish control of his body so Lust frankly doesn’t get to just take over, but Havoc’s also too stubborn to die, so Lust still has a chance

Despite this, Havoc expresses to New Lust that he’s willing to let her borrow his body as long as it isn’t forever

He takes it as a chance to talk to her about the whole homunculi thing and also whether or not she was ever actually serious about their relationship. Not to mention he could probably gather some intel for Roy about the homunculi and Hughes’ death and stuff!

The entire conversation, Havoc is calling Lust “Solaris”

Lust is just like “Who the fuck is Solaris? Who the fuck are you? What are you talking about? This is my body now, thanks, please go away”

Ultimately though, Lust knows how unlikely it is she’ll get another chance to come back without Havoc, she’s useful to Father but not necessary. So she reluctantly agrees and agrees to share the body, but she intends to eventually completely take over

Father has Lust go undercover eventually to help prevent Roy’s team from continuing to get in the way of their plans

Lust isn’t too happy about having to pretend to be Havoc and paralyzed but she’s not going to disregard her orders

Havoc makes a good point (much to Lust’s surprise) that he can just front when they have to talk to anyone who knows him and Lust really hates to admit that it’s definitely smarter than having her take his place sometimes

Miscellaneous:

Havoc spends a lot of his time when he’s not in control talking to Lust, or trying to

He never calls he Lust, he completely insists on referring to her as Solaris

And most of his topics is just him going over dumb stories from hanging out with Team Mustang or from growing up or what random trivia he seems to know about things

He does however try talking to her about their dates a lot

Lust hates to admit it when her memories start coming back

She tries not to talk about it like Jean can’t see the memories himself when she gets them, she’d rather pretend she doesn’t remember him or their time together or anything that led to her actively choosing to save his life that night

Jean doesn’t confront her about it really, but he’s going to get answers out of her eventually

He never asks why she saved him, but he thinks he knows. He knows that she’s not as much as a monster as she’s been acting since they merged, he knows that somewhere in her she actually cares and she doesn’t hate humans as much as she says

He makes a lot of jokes as well of course, mostly bad puns or cheesy pickup lines. He claims it’s just his way of keeping himself from dying of boredom, but eventually Lust can’t help it and she laughs and he knows he’s broken through to her, even just a little crack

Havoc has no sense of style and Lust is not about to stand for that, when he’s released from the hospital and they’re living in his hometown, one of the first things she does it make him clean out all of his wardrobe and go buy new clothes

Lust pretends to turn a blind-eye to Havoc passing notes to Team Mustang and helping them

She can’t have failed to stop them if she never noticed

Jean pretends not to notice, but he’s not stupid, he knows damn well that she could stop him and ruin the communications if she wanted

Havoc’s also got a surprisingly tight knit family and Lust really doesn’t know how to handle that obstacle

The closest to a sense of family she’s ever had was Gluttony and maybe Envy, neither of which really prepared her for being involved with a real human family

She draws similarities between Gluttony and the Havoc family dog though, the comparison makes both herself and Jean laugh

Jean chalks that up to another breakthrough

He tries to use the window to get Lust to open up and talk about the other homunculi

Surprisingly she does, though it’s mostly just stories about Gluttony, she wonders idly about how he’s doing and whether he knows she’s back or not

Jean feels bad momentarily for planning to use what Lust told him about the other homunculi against them, but he tells himself that if Lust can be redeemed, then there’s no reason that they need to kill the others either

He doesn’t want to be responsible for killing Lust’s family

Spending so much time with humans, in a human body, and with Jean sharing space in her head, Lust is forced to reevaluate how she views humans

She still thinks they’re foolish and reckless, but she’s begun to admire them. It starts just as admiration for sticking to their principals and willingness to fight to the end if they thought it was worth it (even if she didn’t understand that or agree.)

But as time goes on, she finds it harder to hate them, whereas her entire purpose to being has been to serve Father and help him achieve his master plan, humans don’t have any one singular purpose, they do whatever they want for however they want, and even the ones who are supposed to follow orders, go out of their way not to if circumstances call for it to them

She unintentionally wakes Jean up one night in the middle of the night when she’s having a bit of a crisis when she realizes that helping Father might not be in her best interests

Without thinking she apologizes for waking him (woo more cracks) but he shrugs it off

Jean stays up with her, mostly just listening to her list off all of her thoughts and realizations and whatever else information she deems is relevant

She admits to being conflicted on whether to continue how she’s always gone, helping Father, or to turn around and do “something drastic” that he wouldn’t approve of

Jean’s just like “Listen, do whatever makes you happy, fuck your dad if he has a problem with it, yunno? It’s your life, not his”

Lust doesn’t mention how she’s literally part of Father and in turn doesn’t especially believe in the last bit of Jean’s advice

However the first bit sticks with her, do what makes her happy

A few days after their chat in the middle of the night, Lust tells Jean they need to see Mustang, that specifically she needs to talk to him

Jean’s a little unsure, but he decides to trust her. If he wants to prove to her that humans aren’t all bad and that she’s not all bad, then he needs to trust her

It’s a hassle and a half but eventually they find a chance to meet with Havoc privately, under the guise of making deliveries from his family store

Needless to say, Roy kind of freaks out when he learns that Lust, the homunculus he burned to death with a gash in his side has been living alongside one of his best friends for months

He’s incredibly reluctant to listen to what she says, but complies when Havoc insists he at least try to. It’s not like he has to use the information she gives him after all

Most of what Lust tells him is just the strengths and weaknesses of the other homunculi, which frankly most of that knowledge does little to help him, but it’s good information regardless

She also refuses to go into detail, but she tries to stress to Roy how important it is to stop Father before “the promised day” and how she’s not sure of the details of his plan, but that Roy is an important target and that the entire country is at risk from the plan

Roy takes it all with a grain of salt, but he thanks her for her help anyways, he asks why she’s suddenly “helping” them but she refuses to answer him, dodging the question and claiming that stopping Father helps her just as much as it helps him

Jean thinks he’s being slick and asks Roy to try not to completely up and off the other homunculi, more specifically Gluttony

Roy doesn’t tell him that he has no intention on sparing them if he’s faced against them, he just nods

After everything settles, since Havoc wasn’t in present in the battle itself on the promised day (and because I refuse to kill Lust I’m sorry I just cannot do it I refuse to make an entire AU only to kill her off in the end,) Lust winds up surviving, much to her shock

They go with Alphonse, Zampano, and Jerso to Xing and wherever else they travel to try and find a way to allow Lust to live outside of Havoc and have her own body again finally

For simplicity’s sake, Havoc and Lust finally get a singular name, courtesy of Zampano and Jerso; Larivoc (from Solaris, which is the name Lust was introduced from and has taken to using more than Lust after everything, and Havoc)