FMA: Angst Themes, #11-15
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laneroseI'm really enjoying writing these. Maybe because they're the only challenge I'm willing to write drabbles for, and it's so satisfying to see the number of them steadily creep upward? ::shrug::
Anyway, here's the next five drabbles, including two Alphonse pieces, one Pinako piece, one Royai drabble, and one unusual FMA het pairing.
11. Bitter Cry
Ed thinks that he doesn’t know about the nights when it finally becomes too much, about the nights when his older brother can’t control the misery that wells up inside him and it breaks free. Then again, Ed still doesn’t know that he has not slept since the night they attempted to bring their mother back. For a genius, Ed isn’t always very bright.
So Ed cries, and Alphonse lets him. It’s not that he pities his brother. No, Alphonse doesn’t have any pity to spare.
After all, the most bitter tears are the ones he is incapable of crying.
12. “Goodbye”
Pinako doesn’t say goodbye to Ed and Al when they leave. Nor does she ever say it to Winry as the girl comes and goes from visiting those two. In fact, the old woman can only remember two times that she has ever used that word.
“Goodbye, Mother.” her children had said, rushing off to save lives.
“Goodbye, take care!” she had replied.
“Goodbye, Pinako.” the tall blond man had said.
“Goodbye, Hohenheim.” she had answered.
Pinako didn’t want to know what would happen if she ever uttered that word for a third time. Twice had been more than enough.
13. Hand in Hand
Al remembers little of the time following their failed transmutation. Only a few impressions linger. Ed’s presence is the clearest – always beside him, ready to stand before him and protect him.
Beginning his journey anew, Al raises his arm out the window of the train. The invisible hand of the wind wraps itself tightly around his own flesh and blood hand as he makes himself a promise that the next time they meet, they will not leave one after another, but side by side.
Until that day comes, the ghostly touch of the wind is all that he will know.
14. The Courage to Shake off That Hand
When he wakes up in her room, he knows immediately that he should not be there. It’s not that he hasn’t woken up in a woman’s room before (he has) or that he doesn’t want to be there (he does, more than anything), but that he knows it isn’t safe. They will hurt her because of him.
“Colonel! Be still!” Her voice commands him sternly when he tries to sit up, but he can hear the tenderness in it. Her hand is warm as she pushes him flat.
Cursing the consequences of his weakness, Roy drifts slowly back to sleep.
15. Beloved
Loving a sibling has always been taboo. In Ishbala, those who married a man’s brothers became that man’s sisters, and to that man it forever became taboo to want more than a fraternal relationship with that woman.
Scar sometimes thinks having already committed one taboo is the only thing that kept him sane when he realized he must commit more and greater atrocities. He knew even as he committed greater atrocities that some day he must face his crimes.
Having to watch the creature that wears his sister-lover’s skin work evil, however, is almost too great a price to pay.
Anyway, here's the next five drabbles, including two Alphonse pieces, one Pinako piece, one Royai drabble, and one unusual FMA het pairing.
11. Bitter Cry
Ed thinks that he doesn’t know about the nights when it finally becomes too much, about the nights when his older brother can’t control the misery that wells up inside him and it breaks free. Then again, Ed still doesn’t know that he has not slept since the night they attempted to bring their mother back. For a genius, Ed isn’t always very bright.
So Ed cries, and Alphonse lets him. It’s not that he pities his brother. No, Alphonse doesn’t have any pity to spare.
After all, the most bitter tears are the ones he is incapable of crying.
12. “Goodbye”
Pinako doesn’t say goodbye to Ed and Al when they leave. Nor does she ever say it to Winry as the girl comes and goes from visiting those two. In fact, the old woman can only remember two times that she has ever used that word.
“Goodbye, Mother.” her children had said, rushing off to save lives.
“Goodbye, take care!” she had replied.
“Goodbye, Pinako.” the tall blond man had said.
“Goodbye, Hohenheim.” she had answered.
Pinako didn’t want to know what would happen if she ever uttered that word for a third time. Twice had been more than enough.
13. Hand in Hand
Al remembers little of the time following their failed transmutation. Only a few impressions linger. Ed’s presence is the clearest – always beside him, ready to stand before him and protect him.
Beginning his journey anew, Al raises his arm out the window of the train. The invisible hand of the wind wraps itself tightly around his own flesh and blood hand as he makes himself a promise that the next time they meet, they will not leave one after another, but side by side.
Until that day comes, the ghostly touch of the wind is all that he will know.
14. The Courage to Shake off That Hand
When he wakes up in her room, he knows immediately that he should not be there. It’s not that he hasn’t woken up in a woman’s room before (he has) or that he doesn’t want to be there (he does, more than anything), but that he knows it isn’t safe. They will hurt her because of him.
“Colonel! Be still!” Her voice commands him sternly when he tries to sit up, but he can hear the tenderness in it. Her hand is warm as she pushes him flat.
Cursing the consequences of his weakness, Roy drifts slowly back to sleep.
15. Beloved
Loving a sibling has always been taboo. In Ishbala, those who married a man’s brothers became that man’s sisters, and to that man it forever became taboo to want more than a fraternal relationship with that woman.
Scar sometimes thinks having already committed one taboo is the only thing that kept him sane when he realized he must commit more and greater atrocities. He knew even as he committed greater atrocities that some day he must face his crimes.
Having to watch the creature that wears his sister-lover’s skin work evil, however, is almost too great a price to pay.
