Fic: Curtain Call

[bob_fish]

Title: Curtain Call
Characters: Olivia Armstrong, King Bradley, Scar, Ran Fan, Roy
Setting: mangaverse, on the Promised Day, during Chapter 105. AU - see notes - but you should still consider this spoilerrific for 105
Rating: R for blood and guts, warning for character death. And melodrama, of course: check out the character list.
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Comments

[bob_fish]

Poor Wrong Turn 'verse Olivia. I think she was pleased with how she went out, though.

[a_big_apple]

That was lovely. You win everything forever.

Why don't I have an Olivia icon??

[bob_fish]

Oh yay, I like winning things. Thanks!

I don't know? Your Ran Fan icon is very cool, though.

[evil_little_dog]

Excellent excellent story. What a way for Olivia to go.

[bob_fish]

Thanks so much! This idea has been buzzing around my head for like a year, but I waited patiently for the manga to wrap before writing it.

I love Olivia but once I'd had the idea that she might be in for some kind of heroic death, I was actually kind of disappointed it didn't happen. She's so hardcore. I want to draw a fake manga spine of her and Scar flitting up through the clouds with little halos while Wrath gets dragged to hell, a la the Shou and Nina manga spine. Or is that too mean? Wrath is a nasty bastard but I do think he cared for the Mrs.

[evil_little_dog]

Heh, I don't think it's toooo mean. Sort of amusing, to me.

I figured Olivia would make it to the end. I wouldn't have been surprised if she'd died, but Arakawa likes her hard core women. I was far less worried about any of them than I was Ed, despite him being the Hero of the story. Then I decided Arakawa wouldn't do that to Winry...because she's not quite as mean as I am.

[havocmangawip]

Olivia was just perfect. Absolutely perfect. The sword fighting was absolutely excellent! Her thoughts on Mustang, spot on.

The Ice Queen would approve of how you wrote her death scene. Excellent use of the Marx quote!

[bob_fish]

I fail so hard at fencing! It was all made up with the help of watching bits of fighting from various movies (including The Princess Bride, of course). I nerded this a lot but I'm waiting for someone who actually fences to come on here and point out. The funny thing was I looked back at The Three Musketeers to see how to write it properly, and found that Dumas actually totally fudges his swordfight descriptions. They all go: "The fight began, and Aramis' opponent soon fell with a sabre thrust to the torso." No fancy Errol Flynn stuff there!

Thanks so much. I'm glad you feel Olivia would approve! The Marx quote feels very her. I feel rather sorry for poor Armstrong and how she just brushes him off.

[havocmangawip]

When I made predictions re the manga ending I so thought Olivia would bite it too... and she was always terse with her brother, she was actually "human" when they fought together... well as caring as she gets.

I am very bad at fencing. I used to get thrashed by a 9 year old... though he had been taking private lessons and would fence with us at free practice at my uni. I may have to look into it again. My bum and legs were AMAZING after that class.

The good news on skating, the place changed managers... 36 USD per month for POOL, Fitness, YOGA CLASSES and skating! AND I'm dragging my Mom for "old lady water fitness" in the therapy pool. (I WIN!)

And more shooting I hope now that it's not going to be so hot... we'll have at least through November. XD

[dassouchuu]

.......YES!
I was actually hoping you'd touch on Olivier's undoubtedly epic exit in the sequel to NSI, but it looks like I won't have to wait after all! ヽ(゜∀゜)ノ
Still busy with today's doujinshi release, but I'll be scurrying back to read this when I'm done☆

[bob_fish]

Yay! I was looking forward to writing this, so I'm glad you're looking forward to reading. Hope you like it!

I'm also looking forward to today's doujin. ♥

[dassouchuu]

I just read it and OMG. (；ω；)
It's sad, but very fitting at the same time, it's totally the way she would've gone and I wouldn't have it end any other way.
Same with Scar!

Also loved that little flashback with Roy, she had him pinned so well.
Kind of makes me wonder what might've happened if she'd survived to make it a competitive and UST-charged Mustang & Armstrong alliance against Hakuro later on in NSI, they seem to complement each other perfectly in a strange sort of way XD

Oh and her POV is just so wry, I laughed at quite a few bits, but this is probably my favorite line (゜∀゜)↓
Arguing during a duel, typical men, what a waste of energy -

[bob_fish]

Yay, I'm glad you liked it and felt like it was fitting for her. Thanks!

She and Roy do play off each other really well. A competitive and UST-charged Mustang/Armstrong alliance in NSI would have been amazing, but between that and Ed I think Mustang's head would fall off from all the UST.

Hee hee, Olivia is fun like that.