[ the past few days have been overly eventful for those he's traveling with, and with some downtime, he's at least able to catch his breath a moment. the video flickers on, showing nothing more than a red faced, rather flustered looking young man. ]

Okay, so let's get this straight.

[ unfortunately, the people of Norfinbury are about to get an earful from one Edward Elric. ] So I'm sure most of you know Al. Alphonse Elric. About a hundred feet tall, shiny and metal, he's really hard to miss.

[ seriously, how do you even miss a suit of freaking armor? ] That's my younger brother, do you hear me? Alphonse is my little brother. Got that? I'm the older one, I'm the rule maker, the elder, the wiser!

I. Am. Not. The. Little. Brother.

[ he takes big, heaping breaths between each word, his face only seeming to grow more flushed with each passing second, his voice rising near to the point of yelling. ] So if anyone of you calls me little, younger, small, tiny, pipsqueak, nosmallerthanacrumb one more time--!

[ he lets out a wail, a sort of frustrated cry that really does not work in his favor. only younger brothers cried like this, right? ]

That's all.