Fic: No Small Injury, Chapter Eight of Nine

[bob_fish]

Title:No Small Injury, Chapter Eight: Some Things Never Change
Setting: Fullmetal Alchemist, mangaverse, post-series, yet plotted out way last year, so potential spoilers only up to around Ch 100. Hence: contains NO 108 spoilers, and potentially AU.
Characters: Roy/Ed (UST and subtext), Havoc/Rebecca, Al, Hawkeye, ensemble.
Warnings: R for sweary

Comments

[bob_fish]

Hoorah, glad you enjoyed. I like writing their banter and snark.

[slinkysoul]

I think Roy being too old to immediately recognise a fistbump offer is one of the greatest things I've read in a while. (Along with the gross-awesome wee lamp in one of your previous fics I only just got around to reading. XD)

Way to make my day. :D Totally agreeing that Roy and Ed being all bantery is absolutely adorable. <3

[bob_fish]

I'm really glad you liked it! I don't think I'm ever going to be able to top the wee lamp. I love how Roy is old, and I loved writing the banter. I see these guys' relationship as getting warmer and more comradely in the latter half of the manga, so it's fun to take that further and have them bantering the way Ed does with Ling in canon.

[havocmangawip]

Oh this was a WONDERFUL surprise to wake up to... in the glorious house that I'm sitting... on a rainy morning in a BIG chenille chaise. I so so want one of these, always did, but now it is decided, it'll be my first "big girl" furniture purchase in the last 10 years. :)

I LOVE Ed's filthy mouth. I have a filthy mouth too if I'm "unchecked"... this took the cake...

"Yes, that's what I was going to call the Bill when I draft it. The Douchebag Asswipe - what was the other thing?

"Fuckwad."

"- Fuckwad Shit Taboo Alchemy Containment Bill. That'll sell it to Parliament, thank you, Fullmetal."

SCARY GOLEMS! You are BRILLIANT woman! Fucking BRILLIANT! Sorry... Fullmetal has put me in an F bomb mood. ;)

I can hardly wait to see the conclusion! Katzenklavier is BRILLIANT and NUTS and SCARY. Evil EVIL bastard...

[bob_fish]

That house sounds amazing! Buying sofas makes me feel like a grown-up. One day I will have the sofa of my dreams! Uh, possibly from eBay.

I have a terrible potty mouth too. When I'm ranting to Dr H in private, it's not unknown for me to string a bunch of swears together like Ed here.

I'm glad the golems were scary! Enemytosleep helped a lot, my first try looked like those artists' anatomy dolls and were more goofy than scary. And I'm glad you love/hate Katzenklavier. He's really horrible, and FMA has so many great villains it's difficult to write a new one without making them Kimbley/Wrath II.

[a_big_apple]

HAHAHAHAHA, oh lord. I have so many favorite parts in this chapter. The fist bump thing had me howling, and this buddy thing at the end is adorable, and Al's preppy clothes just made me love him and you with undying love. Oh, and that moment when he realizes he's shielding Riza with his body, and how that would work a lot better if he were armor--I think about that all the time, about how it must be hard to suddenly start remembering that if he blocks his brother from gunfire, it means he himself will get shot. I'm pleased that it came up here, to such cute effect.

I CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE!!

[bob_fish]

Thanks so much! The fist bump fail was far too amusing to write. And so was the idea of Al trying to do his big bad shield thing when he's 1/3 of his previous width and made of squishy, squishy meat.

[a_big_apple]

Al is so precious. Just the fact that he adjusted to throwing his huge self between people and danger in the first place is a testament to his personality.

I'm still laughing about the fist bump fail.

[bob_fish]

Al is so lovely. Yet so evil. I just re-read Ch 23, and Al was already doing that whole "ooooh, you fancy her" thing to Ed about Winry when he was eleven.

[enemytosleep]

So much love for this chapter. Let me start with some quotes:

You know, Fullmetal, I'd agree with you, but the way you're putting it is so obnoxiously intolerant I don't want to be on your side any more." Aw, Roy wants to be on Ed's side. ^_^

I still think this qi stuff is suspect, I reckon Ling used to just make it up half the time to get his own way -"

Al whistled. Ed tutted, and smacked him on the back of the head lightly. What was that about? Wouldn't you like to know, Roy? Heh.

"They're in pain," said Al. "Like, if a cat's hurt and it'll go crazy if you go near it?" Oh Al and his expertise on approaching injured cats on the street XD

"I thought I heard a noise upstairs!" [Katezenklavier] waved his fork upwards. Then he carved off a bit of chicken, dipped it in mustard and popped it in his mouth. What a bastard! And Poor Roy - his sudden intrusion is hardly noteworthy to this guy - he's not even getting up or moving to protect himself from the Hero of Ishbal!

"Wood? Nice choice, you dick." I love you, Ed

"I know, but I

[bob_fish]

Roy will work out the Ling thing eventually. And Ed is going to run out of world leaders to get jiggy with at this rate. XD

Al must have found approaching cats on the street way easier when he had big leather gauntlets with no sensation in them. I love his Nausicaa moment with Xiao Mei biting his finger. He's plainly had that happen before. I want to write a drabble where a grouchy cat goes nuts on his flesh-covered ass. XD

I'm glad there was wit. I likes wit. Roy and Riza are so dorky yet badass. They looked so damn cute when she was aiming him like a gun, and they did this awesome back to back thing in Brotherhood a few weeks ago (while fighting Goldtooth's minions) that wasn't in the manga.

Take two

[enemytosleep]

Roy will work out the Ling thing eventually.

:D

Haha, yeah, I imagine picking up stray cats is a lot easier when you are 100% impervious to their attacks. XD Ed will like you for writing that drabble - it'll be a nice break form you writing all his awkward sex adventures.

They are cute in their badassery. Can't blame Ed for snorting at all. XD

Re: Take two

[bob_fish]

Haha, but I did enjoy the humungous text.

I have not forgotten the drabbles about Ed's awkward sex adventures. I need to finish Al v. Sook Joo too - I didn't manage to get it in for 'wilful' and couldn't make it fit 'token'. It's basically 200 words of him emitting pwned squeaking noises while she does nice/nasty things to him with pinwheels and clamps.