Another Fullmetal Alchemist manifesto.

[hieronymousb]

Title: The Flipped Tide
Author: Ambre [hieronymousb]
E-mail: perjautse@gmail.com
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Ed x Envy.
Spoilers: End of series, series, movie.
Special Thanks: Thank you to cryogenia for looking over this essay and giving me a critical, unbiased opinion from a non-shipper; thank you to everyone who helped make this manifesto possible, and thank

Comments

[hieronymousb]

I think, if it counts, it's possible to have softer Ed/Envy moments. Myself, I like to write the pairing as a mixture. Yes, I like to write them venting their frustrations and what not onto one another, but I do like to write moments where they're tired and curl up together because they're too spent to be irritable, too. I'm not sure that is 'fluff' per se, but I guess for Ed/Envy, that's the other end of the spectrum to me.

I think it's possible that Envy could grow to care about Ed or to even become freakishly dependent on him. I think Ed caring for Envy is also possible. What is more difficult for me to swallow is the notion that either would be very...expressive about this. In fact, I think they'd both be in denial, largely, and that denial is something I have a lot of fun with, since it produces a fuckload of UST.

So I guess in answer to your question, I think Ed and Envy could have their own sort of fluff, but I think fluff for the two of them is atypical. Edvy fluff, to me, would be like, I don't know, Ed hugging Envy and Envy grr-ing, or Envy clinging to Ed but all the while insisting that it meant nothing and that he hated Ed.