Full Metal Alchemist, "Letting Go," Al/Danny, Ed/Russel, R

[mistr3ssquickly]

Oh finals-week!induced writers' block, how I hate thee!

Here's fic I wrote after pulling an all-nighter, and you know? My work's still not done. *sobs*

Comments

[faerie_speak]

I especially like the ending, "Not my style to meddle in my brother's business, anyway." because one is of two minds about this statement. You just KNOW he's thinking "...even though I want to." And the reader, if they know Ed at all, is thinking, "Uh-huh, yeah. Right. And if you believe that, I have a sandbox in Ishbal to sell you

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I have a sandbox in Ishbal to sell you. WIN. And it's so true ... Ed's full of shit. He loves to meddle in his brother's life, but you're right, he's learning slowly how to back off and only meddle as much as poor Al can stomach it.

Regarding the why for Ed's psychotic overprotectiveness ... yes, absolutely to everything you said. He and Al were all each other had for so long, it's to be expected. Also, though, consider Broche in this: he's from the Military, which Edward absolutely doesn't trust, and because Al can't remember the past, Ed's exceptionally suspicious about what kind of memories Broche may have given his brother. Now you and I may know that Danny would never intentionally do anything to separate Al from his big brother, but as you pointed out, Ed knows that there are people out there who would, and that scares him to death.

I like your prattling. It makes me all leapy and excited (which makes Mr. Quickly throw stuff at me, but it's so worth it anyway!) Thank you so much for reading and commenting hon! ♥

~m

[faerie_speak]

Exactly! Even scarier: Ed knows there are people in the world who would do that sort of thing to Al, and he's RIGHT! It stands to reason that there's a thin line between crazy-paranoia and truth

[mistr3ssquickly]

Hmm. I agree that Hoenheim leaving them had a lot to do with Ed's mistrust, but I think that it was the other things on top of that that pushed Ed over the edge. Parents do, unfortunately, abandon their children or die, sometimes, but the other things are just unnatural, like having the leader of the country trying to kill you, your supervisor--and now foster father, essentially--trying to set you on fire, your mentor turning his kid into an animal and allowing her to be killed, a famous assassin coming after you to blow your head up ...

Which would explain why Ed's got the massive paranoia going on and Al's just mildly clingy. He misses his parents, while Ed's scared to death of the entire world.

This is why I didn't like FMA, it's just so horrible to make a series about a kid going through all that stuff. Oh and I forgot all the shit with Envy and the other sins, toss that into the list, too.

Prattle away in my journal! Or IM me sometime (RussTringham) and prattle at me there! It makes the bunnies hop.

Regarding Danny, if you

[faerie_speak]

Just be glad Ed and Russel didn't show up. Those two think libraries are perfectly acceptable places to have noisy sex. *sigh*

As do many, MANY other people in the great state of Florida. I've walked into so many people doing just that, or about to do just that, in our study rooms, it's unbelievable. Which I actually prefer to the other things we get: bomb threats, someone actually trying to light the floor on fire, streakers, angry drunken homeless men, professors who tell me I have killed the music... all sorts of things. ^^ In a library (whoever said it'd be boring here!).

But, squee! I'd be happy to prattle with you on AIM. Mine is Ravenclawchickee; I shall add you and all that special stuff. Thank you!

[mistr3ssquickly]

Your libraries sound ... ah, interesting. Especially compared to ours.

We had a shooter; he didn't shoot anything and it took the cops four hours to get him to leave, because our cops blow THAT HARD.

I'll send you my Russ and Ed muses. They'll happily destroy any semblance of peace & quiet your library's got ... XD

~m

[faerie_speak]

Score! Send 'em on over. At the very least, it'll be a nice sort of interesting. We love the half-way decent and polite patrons, even in muse form, and many hugs will be given. "You said 'please'? Holy cow!" O.O *clings* "Thank you!" *cuddle*

Poor muse. A very tired-looking, odd librarian latching on; no doubt Ed-muse would be less than pleased. ^^

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Well. Here's the plotbunny your comment gave me! Don't take offense at the librarian character ... she's not meant to be "you." ^_~

♥♥♥

~m