[FMA] Drabbles - Religious, Fatal Flaw, Birth of a Sin, Equivalent Trade
Title: Religious
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Roy, mentions of Hawkeye, Fury and Havoc
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers for... ep 3?
Misc. Information: Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Roy is not religious.
He won't say why, leaving his subordinates to speculate. Maybe his parents weren't either, Fury ponders. Maybe he's just too cynical, Havoc smirks. He's a scientist, Riza points out. They only believe in what can be proven.
Roy leaves them to their speculation and does not mention how wrong they are. It is only sometimes, when the nightmares come and oh fuck, he's just recruited an eleven year old kid into the military - that he will even think about the real reason.
Any god that would accept the likes of him is not worthy of worship.
*****
Title: Fatal Flaw
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Greed, mention of Envy
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers for ep 34
Misc. Information: Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Greed has one, fundamental, flaw. It is a tragic flaw that eclipses all his other attributes. It is the flaw that ultimately led him to defy his creator, his master, and betray his brethren. It is the flaw that caused him to be sealed for over a hundred years.
Now he is free of the seal, but not of his one, fatal flaw. And as he looks into the face of the child that will be his murderer, Greed realises that this one flaw will kill him.
Envy was right. He really is far too nice for his own good.
*****
Title: Birth of a Sin
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Envy, Dante, Hohenheim
Series: None
Warnings: Creeepiness and very very nasty implications if you get them. Plus, spoilers for end of series.
Misc. Information: Because I read something far more disturbing into Envy's last transformation than mind games! Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Once he was a child, a human child.
Now his name is Envy and he wants.
Once he was young and innocent and ignorant. He lived with his mother all alone and was happy.
Then that man came home, and did something, so that the child couldn't protest. Couldn't even scream.
And when he came to...
His skin was pale and his hair was dark and he was neither a child nor human.
And he looked up and saw that man.
In his body.
Once he was a child, a human child.
Now his name is Envy and he hates.
*****
Title: Equivalent Trade
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Ed, Dante
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers up to ep 49 or 50! Although not really.
Misc. Information: Double-drabble; 200 words.
*****
When he was eight, equivalent trade was his world. His toys were formulae and circle equations, his friends books, his games complex transmutations. He drew arrays in the dust and laughed in the golden light.
When he was ten, equivalent trade was his hope. He measured elements and sketched circles; he calculated and theorised. Equivalent trade should do anything, could do anything, would do anything. So he believed.
When he was eleven, equivalent trade was the cruellest thing imaginable. He stood in front of a dark gate and watched himself dissolve - an arm for a soul, a leg for his hubris; for in equivalent trade, everything has value and therefore everything can be taken away.
When he was twelve, equivalent trade was his job. He used it to fight, mechanically, unthinkingly, and smiled a bitter smile at other alchemists's dreams.
When he was thirteen, equivalent trade was his bane. He tried to escape it, chasing a fairy-tale, desperately seeking a myth in hope of banishing it. And he failed.
Now he is sixteen, and a woman tells him that there is no such thing as equivalent trade.
And all he can do is lean his head back and laugh.
*****
Originally posted here.
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Roy, mentions of Hawkeye, Fury and Havoc
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers for... ep 3?
Misc. Information: Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Roy is not religious.
He won't say why, leaving his subordinates to speculate. Maybe his parents weren't either, Fury ponders. Maybe he's just too cynical, Havoc smirks. He's a scientist, Riza points out. They only believe in what can be proven.
Roy leaves them to their speculation and does not mention how wrong they are. It is only sometimes, when the nightmares come and oh fuck, he's just recruited an eleven year old kid into the military - that he will even think about the real reason.
Any god that would accept the likes of him is not worthy of worship.
*****
Title: Fatal Flaw
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Greed, mention of Envy
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers for ep 34
Misc. Information: Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Greed has one, fundamental, flaw. It is a tragic flaw that eclipses all his other attributes. It is the flaw that ultimately led him to defy his creator, his master, and betray his brethren. It is the flaw that caused him to be sealed for over a hundred years.
Now he is free of the seal, but not of his one, fatal flaw. And as he looks into the face of the child that will be his murderer, Greed realises that this one flaw will kill him.
Envy was right. He really is far too nice for his own good.
*****
Title: Birth of a Sin
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Envy, Dante, Hohenheim
Series: None
Warnings: Creeepiness and very very nasty implications if you get them. Plus, spoilers for end of series.
Misc. Information: Because I read something far more disturbing into Envy's last transformation than mind games! Drabble; 100 words exactly.
*****
Once he was a child, a human child.
Now his name is Envy and he wants.
Once he was young and innocent and ignorant. He lived with his mother all alone and was happy.
Then that man came home, and did something, so that the child couldn't protest. Couldn't even scream.
And when he came to...
His skin was pale and his hair was dark and he was neither a child nor human.
And he looked up and saw that man.
In his body.
Once he was a child, a human child.
Now his name is Envy and he hates.
*****
Title: Equivalent Trade
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters: Ed, Dante
Series: None
Warnings: Spoilers up to ep 49 or 50! Although not really.
Misc. Information: Double-drabble; 200 words.
*****
When he was eight, equivalent trade was his world. His toys were formulae and circle equations, his friends books, his games complex transmutations. He drew arrays in the dust and laughed in the golden light.
When he was ten, equivalent trade was his hope. He measured elements and sketched circles; he calculated and theorised. Equivalent trade should do anything, could do anything, would do anything. So he believed.
When he was eleven, equivalent trade was the cruellest thing imaginable. He stood in front of a dark gate and watched himself dissolve - an arm for a soul, a leg for his hubris; for in equivalent trade, everything has value and therefore everything can be taken away.
When he was twelve, equivalent trade was his job. He used it to fight, mechanically, unthinkingly, and smiled a bitter smile at other alchemists's dreams.
When he was thirteen, equivalent trade was his bane. He tried to escape it, chasing a fairy-tale, desperately seeking a myth in hope of banishing it. And he failed.
Now he is sixteen, and a woman tells him that there is no such thing as equivalent trade.
And all he can do is lean his head back and laugh.
*****
Originally posted here.