[Fic] "At the Very Ports We Blow" (Premovie, 4/5)

[cryogenia]

Title: At the very ports we blow (Part 4 of 5)
Author: cryogenia
Pairing: None (gen)
Rating: R (rating has increased)
Prompt: For 7stages, set 3, #4: "draw a line in the sand"
Spoiler level: Post-series, pre-movie
Warnings for this fic: References to ethnic tensions, both fictional and historical

A/N: Huge chapter is huuuuge D: One more to go (I hope)! (And

Comments

[cryogenia]

Yeah >.> I mean, to be perfectly honest, the first thing I thought when I saw that Ed was pursuing *rocketry* at EoS was a great big WTF. It just...didn't make sense. I hope later in this series to have further addressed this issue, and in particular, the reason Ed drops out of the aeronautical program. I think he does at some point have to face the reality that physics is just different here, the laws of the natural world around him are different. Laws of conservation, hello! I have some geeky theories that Ed *could* use -- in fact, I kind of want to write a fic in which Ed and Al do have a final fight with the Gate, and win -- but for now, Ed is solidly focusing on rocketry because it's canon and because I'm trying like hell to explain canon :F

And yeah, I dunno if Jean was coming on too strongly, but at this point, I think he's pretty upset. He's a guy, he doesn't really talk about feelings much or whatever...he is also kind of pissed cause you know, he had TRIED to tell Ed to stop being such a little dick. At the time, he hadn't been explicit enough, and er - chickens happened. Now he's stressed and pissed off, and you know, this isn't just Alfons and Ed's project here. The rest of the team is suffering cause the two of them can't get their heads out of their asses. Jean has been wanting to fix this for the past week and hasn't been able to.

[hieronymousb]

Yeah, the rocketry thing always struck me as one of the WTF elements of the movie, and I can see why you're exploring it here both because of the canon and because rocketry = Heiderichgasm, but this has gotten me thinking it might be interesting if someday someone wrote a fic wherein Ed tries (and perhaps succeeds) to get home via some other means. Or for that matter, it'd be interesting if this came up at some point during the sequel to this fic series.

Only thing there is, my mind keeps looping around the fact that while rocketry won't help Ed, it IS still Heiderich's dream -- but hey, there's a whole 'nother can of worms/conflict for your OTP if these characters ever do reconcile. That's something they could have more fighting/angst over: the fact that one day, Ed might realize he's been barking up the wrong tree all along, maybe even once he's close to helping Alfons realize *HIS* dream. *g* You know me. I do so love a good, interesting conflict.