Fic: No Small Injury, Chapter Five of Nine

[bob_fish]

No Small Injury, Chapter Five: The Buddy System
Setting: Fullmetal Alchemist, mangaverse, post-series so potential spoilers right up to Chapter 100. Will totally get jossed and end up AU, but it hasn't happened yet.
Characters/pairings: Roy/Ed (UST and subtext), Havoc/Rebecca Catalina, Al, Hawkeye, ensemble.
Warnings: R for sweary mouths, and a bit

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

haven't had a chance to read it yet but i was copying it to print (while hiding from grading exams) and had to say the picture of Rebecca and Jean is so sweet and lovely

[bob_fish]

Hoorah, thanks, glad you like it! It gave me a bit of trouble - guys are so much more difficult to draw than girls! - but I was keen to do a good job as a lot of my readers are big-time Havoc fans and need their fanservice. XD

[cornerofmadness]

hahah, I can't draw period, even before I busted up my hand so I'm always thrilled to see people who can

[became_fire]

Another fantastic chapter! I can't tell you how eagerly I await your updates :D Love the mix of plottiness and also relationships, the Ed and Al interaction in particular was great. I completely love the Jean and Rebecca drawing too, so cute together!

And as a random aside, I recently went to a gig featuring a theremin player, how odd to find someone writing about one so soon afterwards, not like it's a common thing!

[bob_fish]

I didn't answer this yet - so bad of me! Thanks for lovely comments.

The theremin girl was actually vaguely inspired by a real musician. You're a fellow Brit so it could even have been the same one you saw ... if she played the theremin with her hair, that's the one. sara_rojo persuaded me that the electric guitar would have hit Amestris early, so I should return Ed to his punk/goth roots. I did my best, but the band ended up quite New Wave 'cause that's how I roll (and they're kind of the missing link between 70s punk and 80s Goth) and 'cause New Wave bands were often pretty fascinated by the 1920s/30s (e.g. Cabaret Voltaire). Theremins were crazy popular in the 30s and some New Wave bands used them, so I figured it was a good fit!

I'm tempted to write a fic about Ed's very ill-advised attempt to pull the theremin girl, which means I'd have to be super-careful to make sure she totally didn't resemble the real musician who vaguely inspired her!

[became_fire]

The player I saw was a lady with a slightly unusual name and long hair - perhaps the same then! She was certainly pretty fascinating to watch.

And I would love to see a fic about Ed trying to pull the theremin player, I'm trying to imagine what sort of cheesy chat up lines he would use - 'Hey babe, I think the two of us could create an alchemic reaction'... Or perhaps he'd try to dazzle her with knowledge. However he does it I can't imagine it going smoothly!

[bob_fish]

Obviously not her real name? Surname was a single letter? Played the theremin with her hair? That would be her, then.

Hee hee. I always imagine that Ed's chat-up technique in this 'verse, post-Winry (pre-Winry he would have been nervous as hell and I imagine she had to jump him) is just acting the way he does before a fight, all crazy confident front (probably covering a bit of nerves and . I think he'd show off a lot, and geek out a fair amount too. He might succeed, but if he did it wouldn't be his amazing chat up lines, it'd be because theremin girl decided she needed to jump his bones. Either way, this situation will not go smoothly and will end with Al laughing at him a lot the next day. XD

[havocmangawip]

This made me extremely happy. I love the drawing and the fun that Catalina and Havoc have messing with everyone. Whee for fake sex noises leading to real ones. :D

[bob_fish]

Yay! (and yay for the Rebecca icon)

I figured that since everyone expects them to bring the TMI while they're manning the phones, they would pretend to do it just to mess with their friends. And then get into it too much. Seriously, I love these guys. XD

[enemytosleep]

:D Havoc/Rebecca are stealing the show this chapter! You know I loved this (and the FREAKING HOT rendering of Jean). I think some of my favorite details were: Ed cracking beer bottles open on his arm, Roy tilting his head as he tries to plot something cheeky, Havoc stroking Catalina's hair on the couch, Ed bristling at Mustang's touch.

[bob_fish]

Thanks! You bear some credit both for helping me increase the Jean hotness and making sure this sucker wasn't 20000 words long and full of huge-ass plot holes. XD

I loved Ed cracking open beer bottles on his arm too! So much that I wrote it as a random fragment a while ago and was looking for somewhere to jam it in. He's so going to catch it from Winry. XD

He bristles 'cause he doesn't know he's so into it. XD

[seaweed_fma]

I dont suppose we will ever get a nice hot and head side story for Havoc and Rebecca, eh?

A gal can dream, I suppose.

But seriously, I am really loving this, and I cant wait to see what is going on!

[enemytosleep]

I'll go ahead and pimp for bob: Fight On, Second Lieutenant is the bob_fish piece on how Jean and Rebbecca got together.

[bob_fish]

Thanks for pimpage! I should say this was my first NC-17 smut so it's unbelievably mild! But it is indeed the story of how they got together. I've got a couple of side stories about them in my head at the moment which I'm letting percolate. In between No Small Injury and the sequel I'd really like to do a few side stories exploring characters and relationships without a big plotty plot pushing them out of the way.