[Just after this.]It's the door to her apartment building again this time. Hawkeye is sodden -- it's been raining all day, and an overcoat only helps so much, especially when you have a parking lot to cross -- and tired, but it still only takes one step in for her to notice. A dim and carpeted hallway is a lot different from Milliways's bright ( Read more... )

[OOM: Three days ago, the Elric brothers were introduced to Mr. Shou Tucker.

Today, there were some unwelcome developments.

Sometimes, you can't do much to help.]

[Contains spoilers for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 4 and the manga's chapter 5. Warning for non-graphic depiction of what I guess one would call child abuse.]

Honestly, he's been making every attempt to be respectable but the problem with that, as he sees it, is that he is in fact in no way respectable. That's not to say that marriage and the title of Royal Wizard don't suit him; they do. It only means that every now and again he needs to dust off that little-used dab of silver paint on the doorknob to ( Read more... )

Tonight's Specials
Captain Pepper
Captain Crunch
Captain Louie

Munch would rather not remember the biological father he'd had. So instead he chooses to honor the captain that more often than not acts as father to all of the squad at the 1-6.

It's Happy Hour, everybody!

Carl steps into the bar, unprepared for the assault the change in locale throws at his senses. He hesitates for a half-step, before he moves on through the room and heads for the counter -- no, the back door. He needs to get outside -- that was where he'd been trying to get, anyway, before the bar interrupted ( Read more... )

[OOM, just before: At home.]The Hawkeye who steps through the door today looks a little different than the last couple of times. Namely: she's in civvies. Her hair is loose around her shoulders, and she's wearing a khaki skirt and flats and a turquoise jacket over a white blouse ( Read more... )

Trudy never likes being grounded. She particularly dislikes being grounded on days when the whole damn base is grounded (goddamn Pandoran weather, although she shouldn't bitch too much, as storms on Earth in the 22nd century are all kinds of destructively interesting). Add in the fact that she's had a number of frustrating conversations in the past ( Read more... )

[OOM: East HQ gets some visiting friends.]

[Some dialogue and events taken from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 04. Thanks again to Becca for help NPCing.]

The front door clanks open, sounding for an instant like it's much heavier (and much more metallic) than it appears. It's not very different from how it opened the last time Gaeta came to Milliways ( Read more... )

[OOM: Just after this, Hawkeye tests a theory.]