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FMA: Angst Themes, #6-10
Continuation of a previously started 30 themes challenge for FMA. If you click the tags, you can find the previous ones. ::too lazy to link right now:: ^.^
6. Cold Chain
Alchemists originally intended to work for the public good. At least, that’s what they liked to tell themselves. How being able to turn lead into gold, or to bring back the dead and cause suffering through overpopulation was supposed to do anyone any good, no one had ever explained to her. Still, she had believed in that code – had taught them to believe it.
Staring at his watch, his leash, Izumi wanted to be angry with him. She couldn’t, though. It was a pity, she thought, that she understood what it was to forsake the world for a loved one.
7. Memory
In a far off place, in a distant time, he was sure he had been happy. In his dreams, he could see a beautiful woman with light brown hair wrap her arms around him and tell him that she loved him. He would smile, and kiss her.
He remembered that happiness. Remembered it with a sharpness and clarity which should have faded but somehow never had, even in all this time.
Standing on the far side of the Gate, certain he would never return home again, Hohenheim couldn’t help but wonder what had happened to the Dante he had known.
8. Unfulfilled Heart
“You better not break it again!” She yells at him as he walks into the distance, leaving her alone again. Nothing new there, they always left her in the end. Knowing that they just as invariably returned to her was cold comfort.
They always came back, it was true. Just like it was true that they always came back with new scars.
Winry could only wonder when the day that the latest addition to their scars would return them to her in wooden boxes would come. Given their reckless behaviour, she was bitterly sure it would arrive entirely too soon.
9. Hourglass
In this empty place between, he has nothing but time. She has locked him here, trapped without any of the things to which he has become accustomed. There is nothing to eat, no one to talk to; it cannot even be said to be hot or cold, merely the absence of both. His more fatalistic side acknowledges that at least she gave him the good weather he’d been bugging her to create.
He does have time, though. As Greed feels the seconds slip away, hording the sensation as best he can, he creates a second possession: his plans for revenge.
10. Not Knowing
She knows that she is dying. The memory of her mother’s illness remains too clear in her mind even after all this time for her not to know. The slight cough, the days when she can’t breathe freely, the steadily increasing pain; it all points to one inevitable conclusion. She knows it down to her bones.
She doesn’t know what will happen afterward, though. She at least had her father; her children are not so lucky. He was a good man, she told herself, and would return once he knew. They would have him then.
Until then?
Trisha didn’t know.
6. Cold Chain
Alchemists originally intended to work for the public good. At least, that’s what they liked to tell themselves. How being able to turn lead into gold, or to bring back the dead and cause suffering through overpopulation was supposed to do anyone any good, no one had ever explained to her. Still, she had believed in that code – had taught them to believe it.
Staring at his watch, his leash, Izumi wanted to be angry with him. She couldn’t, though. It was a pity, she thought, that she understood what it was to forsake the world for a loved one.
7. Memory
In a far off place, in a distant time, he was sure he had been happy. In his dreams, he could see a beautiful woman with light brown hair wrap her arms around him and tell him that she loved him. He would smile, and kiss her.
He remembered that happiness. Remembered it with a sharpness and clarity which should have faded but somehow never had, even in all this time.
Standing on the far side of the Gate, certain he would never return home again, Hohenheim couldn’t help but wonder what had happened to the Dante he had known.
8. Unfulfilled Heart
“You better not break it again!” She yells at him as he walks into the distance, leaving her alone again. Nothing new there, they always left her in the end. Knowing that they just as invariably returned to her was cold comfort.
They always came back, it was true. Just like it was true that they always came back with new scars.
Winry could only wonder when the day that the latest addition to their scars would return them to her in wooden boxes would come. Given their reckless behaviour, she was bitterly sure it would arrive entirely too soon.
9. Hourglass
In this empty place between, he has nothing but time. She has locked him here, trapped without any of the things to which he has become accustomed. There is nothing to eat, no one to talk to; it cannot even be said to be hot or cold, merely the absence of both. His more fatalistic side acknowledges that at least she gave him the good weather he’d been bugging her to create.
He does have time, though. As Greed feels the seconds slip away, hording the sensation as best he can, he creates a second possession: his plans for revenge.
10. Not Knowing
She knows that she is dying. The memory of her mother’s illness remains too clear in her mind even after all this time for her not to know. The slight cough, the days when she can’t breathe freely, the steadily increasing pain; it all points to one inevitable conclusion. She knows it down to her bones.
She doesn’t know what will happen afterward, though. She at least had her father; her children are not so lucky. He was a good man, she told herself, and would return once he knew. They would have him then.
Until then?
Trisha didn’t know.