#marelle fma

[eelektrossfan]

doodle page of a lot of things. yea

[spectra-bear]

Ladies and gentlemen, Marelle @liathgray

[magmatickobaian]

For @liathgray‘s FMA fic, Marelle, chapter 4.

All it takes is a slip of the hand. A hand slip. A slipping hand.

Please stop. I don’t want to see this.

(”You good?”)

There are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt in your philosophy.

(“Just spaced out for a second.” )

[musingsofthesky]

@liathgray this is how the beginning of chapter 3 went right?

credit for the reference image goes to @mugges

[envythepalmtree]

Have a blackout poem!! Passage is from chapter 1 of Marelle by @liathgray 💚

[Text:

this wasn't his.

feeling betrayal

alive

among the dead,

The moon warped,

overwhelming

and nothing else

Atlas

was struggling to keep the sky from drowning

him roared up

enough to make his

breath fight

demons were wide awake.

cold

numb distant.

he wove between himself

like a waterfall. Eventually he wouldn't be able to

Would that be so bad?

Half of him whispered yes. The other half screamed no.

End text]

Also on AO3 here!

[csealia]

“Exhaustion ringed him like a painful halo.”

Sketch from @liathgray’s incredible fic Marelle!

Image ID under cut!

[Image ID: A black and white, mostly midtone gray, Edward Elric inside a train, the gradient down from his head implies distress. He’s leaned over, elbow on his leg and with his right hand in his hair and his left holds his glasses. End ID]

Reference from @/jookpubstock on deviantart!

[aureshadow]

Hi!!

I'm Aure (she/her) and this is my main! I'm Asian, neurodivergent, and bi :) I do image descriptions and try reblog other people's IDs whenever possible!

(here's why image descriptions are important for accessibility.)

I spend more effort on my sideblogs:

My mental health/positivity sideblog: @you-deserve-to-love-yourself

My FMA sideblog: @envythepalmtree

I'm aureshadow on AO3.

My fics:

'Cause I could never set you free (complete)

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Words: 1,692

And suddenly Ty Lee was clinging to her and Mai held her as her sobs slowly subsisted. Mother wouldn’t like this, Mai thought. At least for this moment, Ty Lee has fallen out of favor. The smart thing would be to side with the Princess, to take advantage of my competitor’s misfortune and help the Princess against her.

(Mai was eight.)

~~~

Princess Azula chooses Mai and Ty Lee as her friends when they're six. They're not supposed to like each other - they're supposed to compete. Mai's family is new money, and competes with Ty Lee's family for the Fire Lord's favor. Ty Lee's father distrusts Mai's father, descended from the Saowon clan which fell from grace many years ago.

Written for Winter ATLA Femslash Week Day 4 - Childhood Friends

caught in the undertow (complete)

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Words: 816

“For me, Azula will always be both a friend and the Fire Princess,” Mai said. “But Zuko isn’t the prince to me. He’s that clumsy boy who confides in me about how hard he tries, how he feels like he’ll never be good enough. He’s the one person other than you that I can trust.”

Written for Maiko Week Day 1: Childhood

Fires and Fountains (complete)

Fandoms: Avatar, The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra

Words: 394

A boy and a girl grew up with a fountain and fell in love. They had a daughter and named her after the fountain, a source of water. They were scarred, but water heals.

Dumplings (complete)

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Kyoshi Novels

Words: 500

"Koko would have better. Koko had two mothers who loved her, who cared about her, who would protect her from anything. Koko had two mothers who loved each other. Koko would grow up happy and safe and cared for. Kyoshi and Rangi would make sure of it." ~~~ Kyoshi and Rangi teach their five-year-old daughter Koko how to make dumplings.

wove between himself like a waterfall (complete)

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types

Blackout poem from Marelle by SiryyGray!

so I throw stones at walls I'll never climb (complete)

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood & Manga

Words: 2,553

Envy used to have debates like that with Lust. An absurd picture popped into Envy’s head of having a pseudo-angry conversation like that with someone who wasn’t a sibling. A human. Having someone look at them like that couple looked at each other. Something in their chest contracted. “Pride’s really driving me crazy now, huh,” they muttered. “Imagine me, Envy, stooping down to the level of those worms.” Their eyes watered a little - they hadn’t slept too much. ~~~ Mrs. Bradley wants her son to make friends, and Pride enlists Envy to be a fake friend. Envy isn’t good at acting - not like Pride is. Not like Lust was. But they’ll try their best, and they’ll make Father happy. If it’s unpleasant, they’ll use memories of inflicting horrors of humans to cheer themself up. An exploration of Envy’s relationship with Pride, grief over Lust, and resentment towards humans for the unconditional love that Envy never had.

(ok to rb!)

[edisacornball]

Ignore the previous one!

I meant to ask 1, 14, and 27 😅

1. favorite fic you wrote this year

Labyrinth of Shadows, hands down, without a doubt. For mutltiple reasons, really. I'm super proud of how it turned out, I think it really shows how I've grown as a writer that I was able to actually write something that had some good mystery plot elements to it. When I was first starting writing, I was... not good at that. And it also had so many chances for world and character building, which gave me a lot of room to play and have fun, which I loved. It has one of my absolute favorite OCs ever and some of my favorite relationship dynamics. And participating in the event was a lot of fun, working with artists was super fun, and overall it was just... my love letter to this story that's been part of my life since I was 15.

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

Oh, this one is totally A Former Alchemist's Guide to Dating! My spouse had been asking me to write a thing based on how I proposed for years now, and I kept putting it off because I just... I dunno, it didn't seem super interesting to me? 😂 But close to our anniversary, I randomly got inspired to write what I thought would be a quick oneshot, then it evolved and got longer, and then Guide happened. It's not really like stuff I normally write these days. I don't really write pure romance, I don't really write stuff over 10k but under 50k, and I don't usually churn it out that quickly. But I had inspiration, an anniversary, and a spouse I wanted to surprise.

27. favorite fanfic author of the year

Ahhh I'm going to end up mentioning them so often at this rate, but @liathgray! I read so many of their stories this year (and still have several to catch up on AGH) and they were just such a huge inspiration to me this year. Just poetic and lovely, and absolute delight just to hear their words in my head, honestly. And combined with dark and deep plots that really get the characters and also just... are impactful. It's not often that I run into fanfics that make me weep so hard I can't hide it from my spouse. I had so many wonderful afternoons this year where I would see Marelle had updated and I would just get some snacks, make a blanket fort, put on the Hopscotch playlist and just... get lost. It was wonderful.

Also, in a completely different way, @envythepalmtree. Admittedly, I've got this little comfort zone within FMA fics, and that comfort zone is known as Ed and Al. I don't usually read stuff outside of that unless I'm consciously trying to stretch and challenge myself. But don't you dare look away? The instant I heard that summary I just immediately had to read it. And I wasn't disappointed at all, even though before then I hadn't really thought I wanted to know more about Mustang's background. There are just some fics that can just totally shift how you look at a character, and it's one of those.

fanfic end of the year asks

[eelektrossfan]

finished my fma 03 rewatch my god this show has a tight grip on me jsjs

[spectra-bear]

Eat your heart out, La Bohème. @liathgray

[liathgray]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34399285

A happy beginning

[liathgray]

idk if you're still doing the fake fic title but:

now you're gone, gone, gone away (i wish you'd disappear)

first off, anon. Is this... from Little Talks or am I clowning? gone gone gone... YEAH THATS FROM LITTLE TALKS!!! good song.

anyways, for the fic... maybe a piece to go with the A Hop Skip and a Jump series.

A second epilogue, but this time its for the Brotherhood side of things. Everyone trying to go back to their lives as normal, but being in a slight state of... grief. Of mourning. They're missing the friend that they knew would only ever be temporary. They're hoping all the work paid off and that he isn't just dead at the gate or something like that, praying that wherever he ended up was where home was. They're missing their friend who will never be back for a visit. A friend who is perpetually and forever alive, but entirely out of reach.

It's a strange thing to mourn.

[liathgray]

I'm re-reading Capra and tbh since I first read it I've been wondering, why Rostock? Just seems like a pretty obscure/random German city (though it also turns up in my favorite alt-history story so maybe not), so curious if there was a reason you set Ed & Noah there. (Also, sorry to hear you're going through it, hope things get better <3)

There were a few reasons, actually.

First off, it was physically far enough away from Munich, where CoS takes place, that the geography and culture of the city would be different. It’s a seaport city, with a 16km river running into the baltic going right down the centre. I didn’t want to accidentally get tied down by what happened in CoS by setting it closer.

Second was historical stuff: Rostock, for a time, was massive for new art, especially on the stage. They had these massive, beautiful theatres and ran hundreds of operas, operettas, and ballets per season. It was a place where young artists used to go because it was such a musical place like, street performers and gigs at every local place—they could springboard pretty easily from smalltime stuff to the stage.

I knew early into writing that I wanted theatre, particularly tragic theatre. And to have theatre, you kinda need a place to preform it. So I looked into places that had a history in theatre and Rostock has been going strong since the 1700s. There’s the Rostock People's Theatre, or Volkstheater Rostock. It was a series of venues that were all run by the same company, and one of those venues is what I based the theatre Ed lives in off of.

This is the Rostock Stadttheater.

[ID: two images of a large, very ornate theatre. The first image is from the outside and the architect is almost church-like. The second image is from inside, looking down from a balcony to the stage. End ID]

This place was struggling during the actual uh. war. Because no one really wanted to go see shows anymore, but of course all these freshly hired and trained performers kept going in the hopes that interest would be sparks again. The success was middling.

Another reason was the Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company. It started business in Rostock around 1942 and was used for, you guessed it, weapons and aircraft manufacturing. Its existence gave reason for there to be attacks on the city with the goal of stopping the production and whatnot. Again, middling success.

From June 1940 to April 1943, 21 air raids were carried out in Rostock. The Rostock Stadttheater did not survive this. It fell in 1942 and was not reconstructed. The company moved to another venue, farther away from where the raids typically were. So it no longer exists.

Because of all the bombings and the fact that the city was right against the baltic, people did evacuate by boat. Some of them were official evacuations when the fires were spreading too much, and some of them were for people wanting to escape. A lot of them ended up going to Sweden, starting in (again) 1942, when the country started to receive refugees. Some sought refuge through legal channels, but a lot didn’t.

The research I did for that singular chapter was insane. Especially because a lot of the articles about the Rostock People’s Theatre were in german. I don’t know any german, so I spent hours translating and double checking. I’m glad I did, though.

[liathgray]

It's you and me and we're hand holding singin' on down the street

Making up a song we simply stroll along, our footsteps keep the beat

[ID: Pencil sketches of Edward Elric and Noah on paper.

First image: Ed and Noah laying beside one another, half covered in a blanket. Both of them are asleep, heads nearly touching. Noah is on her side with an arm draped across Ed.

Second image: Another sketch of Ed and Noah cuddling. Noah has her head resting on Ed's shoulder, hugging him around the middle. His arm is curled around her, coming through her hair. Ed's eyes are closed, Noah's are open and she'd smiling faintly.

Third image: Ed, laying on his stomach, being squished by Noah, using him as a pillow, stretched out with her hands behind her head. Ed looks annoyed.

Fourth image: Ed and Noah mid-dance, spinning. Noah's dress flares out at her waist, her hair moving with their momentum. She's having a blast and Ed is smiling fondly.

Fifth image: Noah hugging Ed from behind, grinning while he rolls his eyes.

Sixth image: Ed and Noah, drawn from the side with their foreheads touching. Noah's eyes are closed as she cries.

Seventh image: Noah giving Ed a kiss on the cheek, his face squished a little. Ed has one eye closed, smiling and looking a little exasperated.

Eighth image: Ed leaning against Noah while she hugged him. he looks angry and upset, shoulders hunched. She just looks sad, trying to comfort him.

Ninth image: Ed looking up at Noah as she leans over him, expression curious. They're both smiling. End ID]

[liathgray]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34399285/chapters/86366851#workskin

Something about getting lost

[liathgray]

Don’t be shy let us see the masterpiece 👀

They hit it off pretty quick :)