Estvarya Chapter 9

[mfelizandy]

Title: Estvarya
Author: mfelizandyGenre: Drama. Written for the 2010-2011 FMA Big Bang Challenge

Comments

If it was easy, we wouldn't need Roy!

[mfelizandy]

Thank you for the comment and the compliments! They're making it easier to get through a scene that's proving as difficult for me as for Roy. His blindness, the cultural and linguistic divide (which I do love building--part of the difficulty in the scene I'm working on involves my wanting to show off a cultural detail without letting it take over and ruin the scene), and the suspicion and fear don't make socializing with the locals easy.

Heh--working from the canon, just about every named character in the manga could plausibly suffer PTSD flashbacks of multiple events. Roy seems to handle it by driving himself all the harder toward whatever his next goal is. Working little bits of how he copes with his wounds and the loss of his sight is a good way to keep him true to character (at least I think he is) and tie the large-scale plot elements into the more relatable story of Roy, Scar, and the people they're dealing with.

What Olivia and Grumman are up to--suffice to say that the intrigue and infighting didn't stop when Roy left Central. It's going to make Roy's mission much more difficult. How much more difficult is yet to be seen. Stay tuned!