FMA -- Leading the Blind II: Blindsided

[tierfal]

Title: Leading the Blind
Chapter: 2. Blindsided
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Roy/Ed, with bonus Havoc/Rebecca, Hawkeye/Awesome, and Al/Cats
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,490
Warnings: language, MAJOR spoilers for Brotherhood, blind jokes are not very PC are they, eventual explicit sex
Summary: Roy adjusts to a life of legal blindness, and Edward

Comments

[hiza_chan]

HAVE NOT READ THIS YET. LIKE. I'M UP TO ED FUCKING ROY. I MEAN NOT FUCKING HIM. But have you ever read the "Sex Ed" fic? If not, this needs to be rectified. The Adventures of Roy Mustang: Sex-Ed Teacher and its sequel Better Living Through Alchemy. They were the highlight of my Roy/Ed obsession. I like the first one better than the second, but when you're not TOTALLY BUSY you should read it.

Speaking of you being totally busy, Faor is giving my siren-fic a final pass-through now. SO. If you have a not busy day, give it a quick once over? I REPEAT. ONLY IF YOU CAN. I am confident enough in it that I don't think it needs too many corrections, but your eyes are far better than mine. And you tend to be a little bit more thorough, because one of my lovely betas think that there isn't ANYTHING wrong with it, and I love her, I really do, but there HAS to be something wrong with it somewhere.

Now I am going to go flail over your lovely fic.

[tierfal]

I think I've seen the latter's name get tossed around, but haven't read, so will have to do that one of these… somedays. XD

Uhhhhmmmmmm I'll have to see, at least as far as this weekend goes - there's the memorial thing on Saturday, and I really need to get new shoes for work, esp. since there's a huge event on Monday that I need to rest up for. *stares at calendar* …but I think like everyone in the office is going to be out next Friday, so maybe I'll just READ IT THEN, AT WORK, LIKE A BOSS idek. XD'

Have you considered the possibility that it's just perfect? ;3

♥

[hiza_chan]

They're pretty fantastic.

Eh, if you don't have time it's no biggie. Technically I could have Nick look over it if I want him giving me the side-eye for a few days, wondering if I'm gonna murder him in his sleep. He's looked over my stuff before, but usually his only comments are "huh, that sex was sudden," so I'm not all that confident. AGAIN, DO NOT STRESS OVER IT. You really don't have to.

...nothing I write is perfection, even if they do grow on me in time.

♥

[tierfal]

Ahahahaaaa... don't risk that unless you have to, dearie; boys don't understand amirite. XD

Yeah, I was thinking this morning like, "Uh, Tierfal, if you get it to her THE DAY BEFORE HER DEADLINE, you are part of the problem, k?", so I'll see if I can find a couple hours this weekend at least to get started. :) If nothing else, Thursday should be really quiet here at TEH OFFICE as well, and I can jump into it then. I would right this second except that I am trying to meet my Mandatory Dissertation Quota for today, as with less than a month left and jackshit finished, I'm starting to get spooked.

That's your inner editor talking. BALL GAG THAT BITCH. Works like a charm.

♥

This comment has been brought to you by the Hershey's Hugs I had for lunch and then for a snack and then for another snack.

[hiza_chan]

Gooooooooooooooooooooood, I love these two so damn much. So. Damn. Much. Roy, sweetie, you are the most adorable, heartbreaking thing in the whole wide world. On second thought, no, Ed's got you beat. BUT YOU ARE THE SECOND MOST ADORABLE, HEARTBREAKING THING IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. ...are you doing the thing where you update every day? Because I totally hope you do, because I want moooooooooore.

[tierfal]

THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS LITTLE BBS, ngl. I had such a nice time torturing them with this fic. ♥

I'm gonna try! Might flake out on Monday, since I may not get back from work until 8 or 8:30, and I may just pass out at that point. XD Otherwise, that's the plan! \o/

[ca_te]

Brillant, bb, really!! Your Ed is perfect as always and I love Roy in this story! I can't wait to see where this goes!

[tierfal]

Thank youuuuuu, ahhhh, I'm so glad you're enjoying it, bb! :3 I can't wait to see what you think of the rest! :D

[bob_fish]

Oh my! I love the sexual-tension laden alchemy lesson (perhaps unsurprisingly), and I love Ed struggling and flailing over his attraction and how it's slowly but inevitably overpowering the part of his brain that thinks this is a terrible idea. And I love Roy working it out first, and then being doubtful and vulnerable. I have such a thing for Roy's moments of vulnerability, especially when he's not woobified so those moments come in contrast to all his charisma and smarts and competence.

I also like how he's noticeably starting to adjust and how his new skills are actually pretty impressive already. Roy does pretty well blindfold on the Promised Day (how I love that scene where Riza is just pointing him around like a gun), so.

Oh, and I am on tenterhooks to see these two crazy kids work it out. :3

OH, AND the Havoc/Rebecca. I love how shameless they are and that there is TMI within five seconds.

[tierfal]

I noted to someone recently that I should really just tag EVERYTHING on this comm with "genre: UST"; the first time I tried it, I was hooked. XD

especially when he's not woobified so those moments come in contrast to all his charisma and smarts and competence.
I am a bit of a sucker for the whole strong-front-breaking-down trope, and… Roy really lends himself. I am terribly pleased you liked this iteration. ♥

Somehow it just felt right to play it in this fic that he's figured out how much weakness he's obligated to show, and he refuses to cede another inch. In my head, the first time-skipped portion (which I think I wishy-washily set at a week or two, in typical "what's a timeline" fashion XD) consisted almost entirely of him moving around his house practicing all of the little tasks with Riza standing by giving commentary. /more than you could ever possibly have needed to know, but-!

I haven't the faintest idea why I don't write them more often, because they are fabulous. :D

[bob_fish]

UST is addictive!

Roy does really lend himself to that sort of thing. I really like that description - he's figured out how much weakness he's obligated to show, and he refuses to cede another inch - because that really fits the way I see him both canonically and in terms of how I try to write him. He's stubborn and tough in some ways and he has his shit together, so faced with something like this he would so have a short interlude of OH SHIT THIS SUCKS, then set his jaw, crack his knuckles and get to work (like about fifty FMA characters before him after they've received a disabling injury XD). But Roy's idealism, which is keeps him going in some ways and seems to have a sort of core that doesn't succumb to realism or experience, gives him this edge of vulnerability. And more to the point, despite his job, he's not really hardened to losing people he loves or seeing them hurt and he has quite intense, unfiltered reactions to even the threat of that happening. Sky_dark once commented that if someone (in my head of course it would be

[tierfal]

*flails everywhere* 8D

a short interlude of OH SHIT THIS SUCKS, then set his jaw, crack his knuckles and get to work
Yes!! I really love the idea that he'd kick his own ass out of the Self-Pity Zone before Riza even got a chance.

(like about fifty FMA characters before him after they've received a disabling injury XD)
I would be here for the rest of my life if I tried to list all of the reasons I love FMA and all of the ways it inspires me, but this is a big one. ♥

Roy's idealism… gives him this edge of vulnerability. And more to the point, despite his job, he's not really hardened to losing people he loves or seeing them hurt and he has quite intense, unfiltered reactions to even the threat of that happening
DYING because this is so spot-on, yes, all of it, ahhhhhh. I think that's part of why Roy will not leave me alone, period, these days - characters who seem contradictory until you figure them out are a drug for me, and it's the playing-tough ones that get me the most. (If you're familiar with Death Note, just, Mello, omg,

[ambitiousgeek]

I love how Edward is the only one with enough sensitivity to crack jokes about Roy's blindness at every turn. XD It's really endearing and breaks the whole elephant in the room mode that Roy's probably used to. Love the story so far! It's just endlessly witty!