FMA -- Pretty Good Company (Part II)

[tierfal]

Title: Pretty Good Company
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Roy/Ed
Rating: R
Word Count: 14,730
Warnings: language, explicit sex, major spoilers for Brotherhood
Summary: “You haven’t changed. Things have changed around you. I assume that’s what you’re running from.”
Author's Note: This is Partie Deux! Partie Un est ici.

Comments

[richelle2972]

Hold on, failing too much to comment....

[tierfal]

*spins you around* 8D

[hiza_chan]

My god, Cici, I love you. You are perfection.

[tierfal]

YOU ARE A TERRIBLE FLATTERER. ♥

[zippitgood]

I love this fic too. It's a perfect blend of angst and hope and wonderful, wonderful characterizations. How Roy is so able to compartmentalize his life so well that it comes back to bite him in the ass and how fragile and hurting Ed is under all the brash bravado as he struggles to find a purpose now that he hasn't had a purpose for the first time in a long time. I love how they come together and how it all crashes apart when it should be so perfect and how they manage to fix it. And awww, poor Roy for waking up and thinking Ed left again. I love how they still fit into each other's lives even though it's been years and a lot of time and everything in between. I adore the fact that Ed can make Roy blush just as much as Roy can to him and that the whole team misses Ed too and is happy for them.

♥♥♥

[tierfal]

This one weirdly ended up becoming an experiment in how much pain I could bury under the surface for both of them and then slowly draw out. And it didn't hurt that I was feeling pretty adrift and purposeless in my own life at the time (…I have been writing fics with this basic theme for years and continue to do so; I think I'm trying to tell myself something XD), which made this a nice dumping ground for all of those emotions.

I think what draws me to this pairing most is exactly what you've mentioned - the way they fit, which is a function of the way they challenge and keep up with each other. Sparks fly, appropriately enough. :D

Thank you so much for reading! ♥

[bob_fish]

↑ I agree with all this!

[tierfal]

Aaaaaaaah-!

[amethyst_koneko]

Everthing zippitgood said times 10! Man I wish I could write comments that good. :) You, wow, there are no words! There is so much emotion in the way you write. You can feel everything the characters are feeling. The best I can come up with in my own inarticulate way is - You Rock! *^_^*

[tierfal]

Aaaaugh, *scuffs feet and blushes some more* x3

So glad you enjoyed it! ♥

[bob_fish]

Okay, so I just had to put an arrow by zippitgood's review because she said it all better than I did.

Poor guys! Especially Roy, who compartmentalises his life far too much. I imagine him much like you do, using casual relationships (ethically conducted - he's really not a cad) as a way of relieving stress but avoiding intimacy and anything that might impinge on the Grand Plan. I always wonder whether deep down, Roy feels like he's allowed private happiness.

Also, I love the hints of politics stuff going on in the background (boo hiss Hakuro!) and that Roy has to work out how to balance this stuff with the beginnings of a relationship. And I love that Ed pushes at Roy to test the limits of his patience and see if it's safe to be with him. And the sex scene was super-hot.

In conclusion, ♥

[tierfal]

using casual relationships (ethically conducted - he's really not a cad) as a way of relieving stress but avoiding intimacy and anything that might impinge on the Grand Plan. I always wonder whether deep down, Roy feels like he's allowed private happiness.
This, right here, is my entire headcanon for that man. And I think that's part of why the more I pick at him, the more invested I become in Roy as a character - just the idea of being so calculated all the time kind of exhausts me, but it also makes so much sense given his position and his aspirations. I think that's also a lot of why I'm addicted to Team Mustang banter; I love the thought that they're the ones who know him and have seen him at his worst and have already accepted him, so he's safe with them. Which I think sort of segues into the motivation for almost all of my Roy/Ed being two people who are scared of being vulnerable finding that they can when they're together.

OMG, Hakuro. I love so much that FMA gave me minor character who makes such a perfect straw-man plot