FMA: 52 Flavours, Prompt 33

[artemisrae]

Title: Dreamt in Your Philosophy
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Theme no.: 33. This is how your desire/tangles with a desired one
Pairing: Ed/Winry
Rating: K
Summary: There aren’t many people Ed would be willing to put aside his principles for, even for a short while.
Notes: Part three of a three part update for

Comments

[grass_angel]

It is a very cute fic, but I was left with a rather uncomfortable feeling of having religious values put on show. Not to criticise you as a writer, but I thought I would leave you with the response the fic elicited from me.

[artemisrae]

I appreciate the comment! Out of curiosity, would you care to go more into detail about it? I didn't mean it as anything against or about religion itself - it's a known fact that Ed's an atheist, and I don't believe the show or the manga goes into details about Winry's beliefs, though really I meant for the church to be more sentimental that religious, because of Winry's parents.

[grass_angel]

I think it was the feeling that Ed was bowing to expectations; the perceived ones of Winry and that of Rismbool's populace (although, in the case of the latter, it was somewhat bowing against as well as to).
So, maybe not so much the feeling of religious values being displayed, but more of 'normal' values based on religious ones.

It's possibly just because of my personal philosophy I don't particularly like things being 'normal' though.

[artemisrae]

Ah - well they're certainly fair feelings, and I'm not at all insulted, honest. If it makes you feel better, Ed's sure to do or say something to wreck up the whole thing and take it out of the 'normal' range.

(And god, do I ever know about 'normal' values based upon religious ones: Mom: "You're getting married in a Catholic Church, right?" Me: "Uhm, let's go back to that part where you said I'm getting married.")

[kashicat]

Actually, what would raise my eyebrows would be that at least in the anime (I'm not completely up-to-date in the manga), Christianity is a religion that pretty much failed and vanished 400 years ago in that world. So...do churches as we know them even exist?

[artemisrae]

You know... that's a good question. I'm going to have to be straight up honest and admit that I hadn't thought of such a thing when I thought of this fic, but I think you're right - religion, outside of Ishbal and Lior in the first two chapters, is really not talked about in the manga, and I seem to vaguely recall Arakawa saying somewhere that they don't celebrate religious holidays (or maybe she was specifying Christmas? I wish I could track that quote down).