#The only (1) time the Elric telepathy worked

[conspiracy-frog]

Edward two days before the promised day brainstorming with team greed : Ok So what if I kill myself ? I mean they need me alive if i were to die their plan would be all messed up. Maybe they ought to try human transmutation to bring me back and God can take all THEIR limbs instead

Darius & Heinkel : no

Alphonse miles away sensing a disturbance in the force : Brother this is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard

Greedling : wait a minute let him cook

[presumenothing]

fmab (+03) fic masterlist

because even i’m starting to lose track of what i’ve posted so far. all writing is eventually crossposted to ao3, individual tumblr posts linked below the cut because it’s lengthy as hell 

(this is like 85% post-promised day fic with the occasional canon-divergence au for flavour, ft lots of resembool kids, riza, and roy. basically gen with near-zero ship content because that’s how i roll)

update: total wordcount has now broken 20k 25k 30k 35k 40k 45k(!!!!) 

update 2: now with crumbs of 03 content because yeehaw

april

“Actually, Winry – can you do something for me?” 

“Lieutenant. Would you ever consider learning alchemy?”

“I guess I just – want to figure out who I am. Me, not the Fullmetal Alchemist.”

Besides, the scars on his palms have been – pardon his language – hurting like a bitch ever since he woke to this gloomy weather this morning.

Ishval had given him plenty of practice at that soldier’s art of taking even the lightest of naps whenever circumstances permitted.

[au] Ed has never had reason to hate how swiftly his mind works, not until now.

It’s just simple clerical error that leads to Edward Elric retaining his title and pay as a State Alchemist, even after the Promised Day. No, really.

may

He’s just tired, not about to collapse.

These days Ed’s journals are actual proper travelogues, no coded shit or anything.

[au] It doesn’t even start until after they arrive in Resembool. 

(can’t have been the more socially-adjusted brother, obviously.)

[au] “I don’t,” Ed bites out, “know any damn alchemists.”

Maes raises an eyebrow and sloshes his near-empty cup pointedly. 

august

[wip] “Is this about Al, or you?”

“–of course I know these aren’t the most efficient routes!”

Ed seriously considers dyeing his hair more than once, in the After.

Winry only needs a glimpse of red to know what it must be.

Rush Valley talks. Winry listens.

Much as Al loves his brother to itty-bitty-and-very-shouty pieces,

The first time someone mistakes Al for the Fullmetal Alchemist, 

+ The thing is, Al gets it.  

“Brother told me that you told him about Ishval,” Alphonse says.

It’s an honest observation – as honest as he can ever get, at least –

[au] In another world, she is never named the Hawk’s Eye.

“Somehow I doubt your place is much better, sir.”

would it be the most impossible thing to have happened to the Elrics?

“I can’t believe he didn’t tell us,” Ed growls,

a minimum age limit on all candidates for the State Alchemist exam.

“There’s gotta be a shark somewhere around.”

The Elrics make transmuting without circles look easy.

The problem, if Riza is to put it into words,

Al completely botches the first dozen or so transmutations

(Ed? Talking about automail? Over food?)

[au] in the end it’s Al who really takes after their father.

“Fullmetal realising his celebrity status? Woe betide us,”

The tea is actually well-made, first of all, not burnt 

“Not like– I mean, personal about me, not you!” 

[au] “Huh,” Al says.

Still less work than getting entropy-murdered by Olivier, he decides.

[au] It’s not every dead person that he sees.

[au] They weren’t even meant to stop in Resembool.

Jean just wants to make one thing – okay, a few things – very clear.

Ed knows this firsthand from too much Winry exposure.

The lump on the couch lets out a string of wholly intelligible noises.

september

“Take me out to dinner,” Riza says.

“We’re not even in Amestris, though.”

[au] Riza had been angry too, when she had let herself be, but hers is a cold ire, locked beneath glaciers and the burn of frostbite. Wrath makes no such pretences.

[outline] But in the case of Fullmetal – more specifically in the case of Fullmetal and Youswell – Roy mostly wishes he could unknow things.

[au] Roy forces enough air into his lungs to get the words out. “You’re dead.”

[outline…?] winry’s gonna like this, al says.

Alphonse flaps a hand. “Oh, because it’s complete bullshit.”

“Y’know, you really aren’t that tall, Brother.”

getting to finally keep a cat hadn’t been very high on his list of priorities.

[au] “Edward. Get out of here, take Envy with you.”

[wtnv au] “Welcome to Resembool.” 

october

just because you’re immortal doesn’t mean you can’t die from food poisoning, young man.

[au snippet] It’s sort of a belief, in the eastern parts of Amestris,

[03] Al’s hug is the first real thing he’s felt in years.

[03] Never thought you were, Ed retorts lightly, and lets Alfons turn away with a huff.

“When you said to come visit you in Rush Valley this is not what I was expecting!”

(and jeez, only Ed would manage to make it necessary to keep a kit on hand for actual minor-to-major catastrophes during a semi-honeymoon trip)

november

[03] Except the sight of his brother only serves to make everything worse, for once.

[au] The worst thing about this is that it’s not even equivalent. 

[au] “You wanna know why? The real reason, not the quantum bullshit I fed Mustang.” (+ more in the tag)

[snippet] And just for that I won’t be leaving Wrath any.

“I shall finally exact the decisive vengeance that I have always dreamed of,” Scar booms right back before Armstrong can even ask, 

Al knows from the moment he wakes up that it’s going to be a good day.

[snippets] The real disaster comes when Ed learns how to weaponise his height.

[03 au] The man in the brown overcoat. That’s all anyone ever seems able to recall of Edward.

[au] They say the Elric house is haunted. Of course. Empty houses are always haunted.

Of course, this assumes that said person is an alchemist of some ability, and that said life has been one of some loss and strife. 

“Are you alright? Nod for yes, swear at me for no.”

from the intervening pause he surmises Riza is jotting something down on the notepad she keeps by the phone.

She’s been looking forward to the day when her hair finally gets long enough to – well, no longer be short.

“Remind me of this the next time I decide to trust Ling any further than I can throw him.” ( + xing tag)

december

Ed’s almost twenty when he realises that Hawkeye must’ve been around his age when she was deployed to Ishval.

[au] At least this far out from Amestris Ed could mostly brush the first one off as an interplanetary translation fuckup.

bonus textposts and assorted nonsense

the Better Alchemist™️

on the topic of ed’s scrawl

al, defender of cat

*csi miami theme but with cats*

on the topic of flat affect + 200000% turbo by default

on the topic of pain tolerance + further thoughts

ed @ mustang’s problem solving skills

ok but about liore…

terrible TERRIBLE ideas (three of them)

putting the SHORT in SHORT-TEMPERED

clap reflex

you’re retired, ed, r e t i r e d

and by “ambidextrous” i mean “confused”

protip: you can’t

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH (aka csi miami theme, riza redux)

feral ducklings, the continuation(??)

does THIS count as elric telepathy

honestly, y’all

too much fire?? sounds fake

on the topic of academia

sometimes the stars align

on the topic of riza hawkeye

terrible idea, berthold version

immortal troubles

THE CHURCH OF EDWARD ELRIC

PRIDE (& WRATH): one, two, three (4koma)

objectively the worst post-cos timeline

serious stuff: fma drama cd, daughter of dusk

asks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 aka izumi pwns roy, 9 aka not coffeeshop au, 10 aka legalities, 11 aka autograph woes

[r95irth]

Here is the comic i was working during january. It was supposed to be published in february but since we’re still waiting 5 stories from other artists (it was a 8 stories magazine) and they kind of give no news about their work...i’m posting it here. (Without text because i still want to publish it one day xD in the future...) 

Since i’m posting it, i will try to ask for advices. I’m wondering if i should add a page between the moment the little witch falls from the sky screaming, and the next page where she’s at the festival with her family.  What do you think ? 

And maybe i should not be so lazy with the crowd in the festival and actually draw people....(*look away*) again what do you think ? 

For those who follow me, you might recognize my OC Satoru and Maho (here they’re named Samhain and Maggie) and designs of Samhain’s parent are a miw of my otps Roy/Riza and Shouto/Momo...Maggie’s family has a mix of Howl (From the ghibli movie)  and Akira Toya (Hikaru no Go) for the twins brothers, Phichit (Yuri on ice) / Kageyama (Haikyuu!!) for the young one, and for the mother is a lot like Trisha Elric, even though it was not on purpose this time (i don’t kill Maggie’s mom xD) 

As always it was supposed to be a short story but the universe got out of hand and i want to write a lot of stuff about it. Here are some thoughts : 

1) Magic is common here, all people are born with one kind of magic in them. Some are Elementalist (master elements) some are alchemist (potions, and transmutation of reality) some are summoner (of demons, fae or spirits), even medium !  

Maggie is an enchanter (she can enchant objects). In this world it’s a power that put one into the low class (enchanters work in usines so they can enchant objects of everyday life) but she wants to become an Archimage and travels the whole world fighting bad sorcerers. 

(Those are the guards of the world, they’re two kind of them, the Dawn brigade who keeps the royal family safe, and the Twilight birgade, those who keeps civilians safe. Obviously she wants to be the later, she doesn’t give a shit about royal family >>) 

Samhain is the son of summoners and hates magic. He got adopted into a noble family (The woman is an Elementalist and the dad is an Alchimist - Yes i’m recycling my fanfiction)

2) There’s a spell that can help people finds their soulmate, but it’s not an obligation for most of people. (Most of them don’t do it, because it’s dangerous for the body if you don’t find your soulmate in a year span of time after the spell) Only royal heir had to go through it, to find his/her compagnon who will rule with them. (Rulers have to be soulmates, since they got to rule together. One of them will be the King/Queen of the Sun court, the other will be the King/Queen of the Moon court) Soulmate can be of the same sex (in this world history they’re even synonym of prosperity when it happens) There is no problem of heir in these cases because soulmate can have lovechildren via a spell again.  

I gave a lot of thoughts about soulmate in this story :  

-When one of a soulmate pair dies, the other dies in the following minutes. 

-They share a bond that’s close to telepathy (can sense the others feelings, find them in a crowd, shares the same dreams) and magic power is shared between soulmates (Samhain’s adoptive parents are soulmate and they can use Alchemy and Elemental power; both of them, thanks to that) 

I don’t know what i wanna do with this story / world yet. I was thinking about making a 3 pairs of narrators. Samhain/Maggie (who are soulmates but doesn’t want to be involved in romance stuff) Philibert/Cassandra (two nobles who aren’t soulmates but are married in a political marriage and close to the royal family)  I know that Cassandra (magic : shaman) is happy with the arranged marriage, and doesn’t want to free herself from it, because she feels better when she doesn’t make a choice (too scared of making the wrong one) Phil (magic : contractor) puts reason above all and think a marriage is like a contract. and the heir of the throne who wants to fight the systeme of soulmates because they’re already in love with someone else. And i know i don’t want an antagonist in this story. But so far no idea of adventures, i’m still thinking about it. (And fun fact, the soulmate things is born from this idea : “i could do a world with soulmates as royaltie/rulers, and then the name of their reign would be the name of the ship. I would put all my otp in there! Like “Viktuuri time is synonym of prosperity, Naruhina time is the time of the great war, Royai time is civil war, ect...ect... THIS WOULD BE SO FUN”)