He'd updated his form again.

Perhaps Greed should have been more surprised, Envy had taken to adding or changing bits to his preferred form every half a century or so. It had proved somewhat jarring the first time he had done so a few decades ago, but the mind beneath invariably stayed the same. Perhaps that was the thought that usually stopped the avaricious sin from being so amazed.

He'd really gone all out this time though. Like an adult painter redoing a picture they had drawn in their childhood – the subject matter was the same, the arrangement was the same, but the style, the colors, the detailing of the anatomy and perfection of the proportions that come with years of built up artistic experience separated it completely from its juvenile predecessor. Why Envy had taken to making all these changes at once rather than simply adding them in as he went along was lost on Greed, but it did make for some interesting bodily comparisons.

Envy's first form had been boyish in every sense. Perfectly suited to the mind-set of the young jovial homunculi. Like a child, knowing the shape of something but with no patience for details his form had been simple – soft shapely limbs, rounded cheeks, a simple pointy nose and chin and the barest dusting of additional details like a navel, nostrils, fingernails. Not really sculpted or refined, a wholly smooth an toneless affair with eyes a clear copy of Lust's own and a sort of shaggy mop of dark plum colored hair spilling over his self-made headband in a waterfall of long spikey locks. A strange combination of soft shapes and harsh lines and angles, the sparse clothing clearing designed simply to cover up the areas of the body little Envy either had no knowledge of or no interest in researching in order to allow him to breeze further into the bits of the design he thought were … cool. It was simple. Almost cute in its reflection of it's creators naivety. Greed often wondered why Envy had kept it this way so long after Father had 'remade' him. Perhaps the newer Envy had simply accepted it, like a human accepts the body they have been born into… without knowing of course that the form he had been reborn into was the result of his predecessors hard work and months of observation.

His second rendition wasn't until a few decades later, and while it wasn't as simplistic as his first form, this one showed off if anything the art of a painter who had tried to put too many new techniques down on a single canvas, the end result becoming a rather complicated ordeal to look at.

The most immediate change perhaps was the hair… the weedy purple boyish style replaced with thick leafy-green locks that extended much further down his back towards his ass. It wasn't… a particularly pleasant color that was for sure, curiously it did rather make him resemble some sort of wilted shrubbery though. Hardly the effect it turned out Envy was going for, but good material to tease him with nevertheless.

As age had no bearing on Envy's body Greed supposed he thought of that new form as the herald of his 'teen' years, the younger homunculi taking on a particularly bitchy streak after breaking away from the company of Lust and sometimes himself to go and be brainwashed by Pride, who at this point in his life Envy seemed to have taken to idol worshiping. It was also in this version of himself that gender really became a question of debate for the homunculi, the previous all over slenderness of a boyish youth replaced with additional height and discordantly toned legs that gave his thighs a curvy thick look in comparison to his still slender and flat stomach that without bothering to compensate for by expanding his chest or shoulders eluded to previous nonexistent femininity yet he'd made the bottom of his face wider and given it a somewhat masculine jaw… it didn't help the already staggering degree of androgyny..

Well it was a step in the right direction Greed supposed. Envy's concept of human anatomy had evolved from 'barely existent' to 'just confused'. He seemed to have made his flat belly longer, or his chest shorter… it was hard to tell, but it resulted in his now slightly-articulated pectoral muscles being just a little too pronounced and high-up, like a teenage girl with a training bra. Greed got a hell of a lot of mileage out of that.

Now this new form though… this was something else.

It was poised, calculated, well put together and appeared surprisingly well researched for something of Envy's creation. The hair had gone full circle, neither as thick as its previous version nor a spindly as it's original but a tendril-like mix of both. He'd kept the length, but darkened it again, and though it still shone in the light with a green gleam it was a different shade, a royal green over the color of well… snot perhaps.

The traces of the androgyny of the past form had also been dialed back by the general addition of muscle mass and masculine proportions across the whole of his body; his previously flat stomach now awash with visible abdominal muscles, his previous slender arms swollen with biceps to match and counter act the previous version's toned thighs. Even his chest was made masculine… despite being clothed still in a skintight half-top. His shoulders were now a great deal wider, ribcage larger and hips made narrower to accentuate a classically masculine silhouette. He'd even gone to the trouble to change up his face a little, the wide feminine eyes of his pervious two forms narrowed a little into shrewd slits, his face less rounded and thinner, even his nose had been improved – the pointed peak of his last form rounded off into a more realistic –albeit somewhat out of place- button nose that was somehow both alien and fitting at the same time. He looked a good deal older, maybe 16 now, a definite upgrade from the 13ish year old body he had first wrestled his monstrous green self into so many years ago… Greed had to admit, on closer examination this new Envy looked –

"Not bad." He wolf whistled, knowing how much Envy had come to despise the sound during his more feminine version.

Envy glanced around, scowling as his eyes searched for Greed in the shadows of their subterranean homunculi stronghold. Catching sight of him he vaulted from the sturdy pipe he'd been perched on, striding towards the elder sin who's teasing yesterday had finally prompted him to refresh his form once more. And man had he gone all out.

Greed cocked an eyebrow immediately as Envy began to approach him. Now this was interesting. Envy had had the same walk for over a century, naturally he noticed instantly when it now appeared to be a little off. A distinct swagger had entered his step, a little awkward even compared to the usual tight-thighed slinkiness he strolled around with. A massive sharkish smile pulled across Greed's face. Oh how he recognized that walk all to well. That was the somewhat wide-set march of someone with a few extra nuts and bolts handing between their legs.

"Finally got around to giving yourself junk then?" He teased, peering over his sunglasses with a degree of ferocious curiosity. Never before had Envy ever been gendered, the loose concealing loincloth and feminine gait an easy give away of the fact. What had he made it like, giant to overcompensate for his tiny ego? Or maybe itty bitty so it would still be hidden in his shorts? Did Envy even know what a dick looked like? God… this had the potential to be hilarious.

"Pft" Envy hissed through his teeth, a defensive note coming into his wide-set stance "Like hell I'd tell you about it even if I had"

Oh how he loved to watch Envy get his shorts into a bunch "Its kinda obvious" Greed grinned, his eyes flashing once over Envy before coming back to rest on him. He'd done a good job on this one, like the previous two where just practice runs. The level of detailing was almost human. The thin lines detailing his soft new lips, his skin no longer sickly pale, but with a distinct peachy tint; he'd even gone so far as to give himself nipples this time, the hard masculine pectoral muscles and smaller circular additions adorning obvious at all times now that he was close enough through the skin-tight rubbery fabric of his top. He wasn't using clothing to skimp over details anymore – that was obvious.

"So, do they work?" He questioned, a malicious grin spreading across the avaricious sin's face. Clearly Envy was going to a lot of trouble to impress someone, the new hints of masculinity and sexuality as obvious as if he'd painted his lips red and shoveled on turquoise hooker eye shadow with a garden trowel.

"Do what work?" Envy questioned testily, grimacing at Greed with the usual jeering expression he adopted when being made fun of.

"These" Greed laughed, amused at how easily Envy had fallen into his conversational trap as he grazed a knuckle over the fabric above Envy's nipple, the owner of said nipple flinching and jumping backwards before shouting at the top of his lungs

"WHAT THE HELL!"

Greed guffawed boisterously; his asexual sibling's new genitalia not making up for over a lifetime of sexual inexperience. He'd leapt back and shrieked like a teenage virgin, just as he'd expected Envy to.

His little brother took another step back at the chortling laughter, sneering to himself as Greed cried himself to tears. Greed always looked so fucking good when he laughed. Hell, that was probably why everyone tried to get him to laugh in the first place, those nasty little humans up above crawling and simpering around him like love-struck morons. Envy glanced down forlorn at the floor as the jealousy at his core swam up his veins to drown him once more, a familiar and totally unwelcome feeling.

"HAHAHAHAH!" Greed laughed himself silent, noticing Envy staring obliviously into the floor the same way he did every time his sin got the better of him, a disturbing blankness falling over his usually bright eyes. "Hey! Ya'alright?"

"hum?" Envy hummed vacantly, glancing back up at Greed with a hollow gaze. These weird turns had been happening a lot more recently when the usually thoughtless younger sin seemed totally trapped within his own head. Perhaps like Gluttony's claims of hunger and Sloth's perpetual exhaustion, this too was Envy's imbalance. When humans where about it turned into a murderous rage that recently only Lust had been able to calm him out of – fortunate in its own way as it had led to Envy being reassigned to Lust's side and out of the way of Pride's manipulative bullying for the most part – but when it was only him and other homunculi where senseless fighting would go punished by father his rage seemed to turn inwards, drowning out the younger sin's attitude until all that seemed to remain was a bleak shell.

Thankfully, Greed had developed a cure: distraction.

"You know their not supposed to do that right" The elder sin settled on, pointing towards Envy's chest "Was a good try, but the details are still a bit off"

"Huh?" Envy muttered, like a hypnotists-victim rousing slowly from a trance "What?" He glanced down at his chest as indicated.

"Its hot in here-" Greed explained, the underground labyrinth waiting to swallow up Central always warming to levels far beyond the outside temperature as the metal pipes heated in the hot air and water on hot summer days such at this "- There only supposed to go like that if you freezing cold or-" Greed trailed off, the hard pinpricks of Envy's new nipples distracting him momentarily.

"Or?" Envy placidly prompted more awake now - still cantankerous- but also still lacking bite and his usual conviction between his words as he raised a hand thoughtlessly to rub against the new nipple Greed was pointing at as if to calm it back into softness.

"-Or when you're turned on" Greed smirked, Envy's clouded gaze finally brightening with indignation and leered sharply at him.

"I ain't turned on! It just feels weird since you had to go and fucking poke it! They're new ya' know!" Envy snapped

"…This is by far the strangest conversation I've ever had with you" Greed muttered to himself, rubbing the back of his head with amused awkwardness "I really didn't need to know how your new nipples feel…"

"Tingly" Envy added with a snide grin, liveliness sneaking back into his demeanor as the challenge of filling Greed's head with unnecessary and undesired information coaxed him into the first stirrings of sadistic joy

"Ha! Then you are turned on!" Greed returned with vitality. Now that Envy's mood had taken an upturn it was officially open season on teasing once more.

"Wha?" A hilariously dumbstruck expression splattering across the younger homunculi's face "AM NOT!"

Grinning like a cobra Greed slipped like a snake back into Envy's personal space, an experienced finger flicking at the bud Envy had been rubbing rather alluringly now that he came to think about it for the last minute or so, the still hard nub apparently having not receded in the least.

"Hey!" Envy shouted as he flinched again, his words chastising and his arms grabbing at Greed's own but not actually going so far as to exert the force that might suggest he wanted Greed to stop, his expression one of surprise more than anything else.

"Yeah?" Greed questioned casually, his nonchalance taunting Envy's jumpiness as a second hand raised its thumb-pad to brush against the Envy's other unattended nipple, the two thumbs moving in unison to stroke at the tight black-clothed peaks in small slow circles.

"Ah! Greed!" the smaller sin hissed through clenched teeth, beginning to breath deeply through his nose which in turn made his chest heave, adding a second wave of motion as his traitorous new human milk-nozzles tried to push themselves further into Greed's obliging hands.

"Why do human men even have these anyway! So useless!" The younger growled, unwilling to show either enjoyment or agony, as both would serve to make him appear weaker… and he wasn't quite sure what he really thought of all this. The sensation was… different, certainly. He'd never felt anything quite like it. That didn't necessarily make it a good thing though.

"Cos-" Greed chuckled into Envy's ear, the effect stirring a completely different and also totally unknown feeling in the smaller homunculus "-Some guys are really sensitive there, just like you seem to have made yourself"

"I didn't make myself sensitive to anything!" Envy hissed though his teeth once more, the experience starting to become a bit too much.

"hahaha" Greed laughed good naturedly, amused by Envy's clear indecision of whether to fight off the strange new experience or be drawn into it by curiosity. Not to mention if he could get a good look at Envy's new form first and point out all the bits he got wrong before Envy could compare and change them it would be something he'd never let the younger sin live down, and without amusements like that, the life of a homunculi would indeed be a very boring immortality.

"So here's the thing" He chanced, grinning at the slight haphazard flush perking across Envy's cheeks, "I'm curious, you're curious and you've got a whole new body to play about with. Lots of new bells and whistles and all that. You want to experiment?"

"Experiment?" Envy questioned, managing to still sound dubious even with the thick overtone of budding arousal clear in his voice. Holy hell, he'd made himself sensitive.

"Yeah" Greed breathed into Envy's ear, his hands snaking one around Envy's back to hold him in place and the other down to cup whatever mysterious malformed object was now hidden beneath his loincloth.

The effect was instantaneous, Envy both nearly leaping out of his skin at the totally unknown contact and growling out a stifled moan. "So?" Greed prompted, loving the slight resistance of the organ pressed against his hand that told him Envy had already begun to grow a little hard on him. He'd have to use that nipple massage thing on some of the ladies topside if this was the reaction he'd get.

Envy bit his lip, struggling against a good many things he'd never have dreamed of feeling before. He had no idea what Greed was thinking with his hand down 'there', but it was making him feel weird all over – this new traitorous body tense and tingly and almost feeling a little uncomfortable all at the same time. Greed probably just wanted to strip him so that he could laugh at him anyway. He was always the first one to jump on anything he got wrong when he made a body-update.

"Only if" Envy replied through gritted teeth, grinning a little as he considered a way to get what he wanted (whatever that currently was) without being made a fool "This says on the whole time" he finished, tugging at the bottom left hand corner of the part of his loincloth Greed had not captured in his wayward hand in explanation.

"Heh, so you know nudities involved? Well that's a start I guess." Greed was temporarily taken aback, staring at the body he now held closer to his own than he had done in years as Envy's vivid purple eyes gazed up at him, cat-like, searching for signed of deceit or betrayal. "Sure". He finished, unused to being so well examined by the small sin. He really was a bit creepy sometimes.

"Ya gotta promise" Envy barked, pulling himself a bit firmer towards Greed, the extra pressure coming from the heel of Greed's cupped hand making him hiss once more as he did so.

"Yeah, Yeah, I promise" Scowled Greed, unhappy his plan had been thwarted… Unless he got Envy so tightly wrapped around his thumb that he could persuade the smaller sin to unveil himself in the heat of the moment, or the mindless cool down of an orgasm.

"Com'on then"

Shoed feet strolled slowly down the corridors of Father's underground realm with feigned casualness as bear-footed ones trotted easily behind, the door to Greed's bedroom thrown open and locked closed as Envy circled around the cluttered space. All manner of items were thrown on the floor, the room even smelt like Greed, like cigarettes, leather and old bottles of liquor. He'd never been in here before – by Greed choice that was, he'd snooped about in all his siblings rooms before but never invited – it struck Envy as being sort of homey, peaceful in its messy chaos.

"So" Greed prompted, gesturing with his thumb towards the bed. Romance would be lost on Envy, and why waste it on someone who wouldn't appreciate it when it could be saved for all the pretty little surface-dwelling morsels instead.

Envy peered at him, seeming a little dazed and confused for a moment before following Greed's direction and slowly nearing the stained navy blue bedspread. Approaching furniture was something Envy now did with great trepidation, the challenge of managing to safely sit on anything terrifying him more than running headfirst into a war. Tentatively he placed on one knee, the wooden frame of the bed creaking eerily like a ship at sea under the suddenly massive weight applied. Envy scowled at it murderously as he settled his other knee onto the bed, the frame protesting, but holding up. The mattress seemed to be having a harder time though, dipping so far down on Envy's side he looked like a lonely kid on a see-saw.

Greed approached him slowly, his eyes fixed on his bed – his possession – waiting to see if it was indeed capable of holding up Envy's heavy weight while reminding himself that was a mistake he would have to make sure not to make. For all his wise-suggestion, Envy could easily crush him. Sure, he'd regenerate, but it would still hurt and probably spoil the mood. Or maybe not, Pride had taught Envy to be a sadistic little shit. Maybe he'd get off on that.

Envy was still staring in a somewhat overly fascinated manner around the room. It seemed so totally different with Greed occupying it at the same time he did.

"Greed" he murmured before he thought to stop it "Lets go somewhere else."

"Huh? Why? Where?"

"Sloth's got a stronger bed and he's out digging, and this place smells like ass" Envy replied carefully. In truth he couldn't place why he didn't want to do this here… something just didn't seem right about it.

Greed shrugged but acquiesced. Hell, the less stuff of his Envy breaks the better.


This drabble is a re-upload of a much longer lemon (originally named Vanillia). The full version can be found by following the link on my profile page!