[Envy tenses noticeably when Joker mentions the part about families. Where had he heard that? Wrath, probably. Damn it.]

No, we're not supposed to be able to have emotions, much less make connections with people. We're not even supposed to be people. I believed that until I came here.

[He lets out a short, self-deprecating laugh.]

We're the dead brought back to life. Except that's not really possible, not even by the best alchemists around, so we're just the flawed results. We're born with a few memories and once we get ourselves put together all the way, we look like who we were supposed to be. Ages and all.

Wrath's a special case, but he's...he hasn't spent much more than a year in the world, I think.