Prompt 33, Genderswitch - Assets
Title: Assets
Author: sky_dark
Series: Manga
Word Count: 1348
Rating: PG
Charaters: Girl!Ling and Boy!Ed
Summary: Features no girl should be without.
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Twenty three against two wasn't exactly fair odds, but then again, fair had never lent either of them a hand before. They stood back to back to face off their foes and the battle, while epic was thankfully brief; none of the opposition had the benefit of the training they'd gone through at an early age. Ed rolled his shoulders, flexed his automail arm and looked over at his battle partner. Her hair had come unbound in the excursion and she flipped it back over one shoulder, reaching up to rub the back of her hand across a small cut on her cheek. Then Ed noticed the state of her wardrobe.
“LING, your shirt, it's....it got ripped... you're showing,” and he waved frantically at the xingian princess' front while averting his eyes.
She raise her eyebrows and glanced down at herself, then back up a the blushing alchemist, letting a smirk play over her lips.
“You westerners are terrible prudes,” she said, “I don't see what the commotion is about, you can't even see any nipple; but maybe that is why you're upset? I've already told you that I don't mind showing you. In my country we appreciate the beauty of the human form...”
“Just...get a shirt from one of those guys you knocked out and let's get out of here,” Ed said, still not looking at her. “Your country is full of perverts. It's bad enough you thrust those things in my face every chance you get, but at least you're wearing a shirt when you do it! Now you're barely wearing anything! Are you listening to me? You can't be seen in public like that!”
“Why not? Oh wait! You would be jealous if any other man cast his gaze on my person, wouldn't you? That is terribly romantic. I was starting to wonder if any of my overtly aggressive displays of affection would take hold, but it looks like all that time invested is paying off. When you're madly in love with me of course you'll help me find the stone and as a reward I'll marry you and make you royalty...”
“Will you shut up already and just cover those up? We're gonna be in a world of hurt if these guys start waking up! Now get a move on,” Ed risked a glance in her direction and the princess grinned and put her hands on her hips and thrust her best assets forward, still mostly uncovered. “AH! What makes you think I want to see those?!” Ed shrieked, whipping around and presenting her with his back.
“Because every boy your age wants to see them,” Ling said behind him. “You know you're curious, I don't mind, go ahead and look, that way you'll burn any crush out of your system and get down to the business of falling for me for real. Besides, I won't tell anyone you got an eyeful. You should look, not ever commoner gets to eye royal cleavage.”
“You know, you got to get this notion out of your head that I want anything to do with you,” Ed snarled, back still turned. “You go on and on about stupid girl shit, like this romance bullshit and I'm not buying it. If I help you I help you, you sticking your...stuff in my face doesn't change it one way or another so you can quit trying to show off to me already! I know you're a girl, ok? It's hard to miss! You're typically girl illogical and your shrill and you got crazy ideas, all girl attributes, I get it! So stop trying to make me interested, I got things, big things to do and being interested in you isn't one of them! I help you, you help me, maybe we both get what we want in the end.”
“If you won't look for yourself then do this for me. Give me one good cruise and maybe it will burn my desire to have you feel me up with your eyes away. Come on, they don't bite,” Ling said.
“Oh for fuck's sake,” Ed growled, “fine! Then we can get the hell out of here!” And he steeled himself in more than his arm and turned slowly to look a the tall (damn her) xingian girl standing there with her hands on her hips and a slight scowl on her face. He concentrated on her fact to begin with. She had ok features he guessed, for a girl. She had two eyes, a nose and a mouth, that was acceptable. If he had to pick a feature he liked about it, it would be her mouth he guessed, she was always smiling or grinning at him and he kind of liked that...maybe. She had really black hair. She usually wore it in a high pony tail a the crown of her head, but it had come loose when they were fighting, some of it was hanging in her face and he guessed it was ok. It was really black, that was pretty cool. She had a long neck, longer than he thought a girl should have really. Almost like a giraffe neck on a human, but it didn't really look weird or anything, it was fine as far as necks went. He took a deep breath.
“I like how you're working up to the moment, sort of savoring the experience,” Ling grinned. “I know that it's all good, from head to toe, but you should really appreciate it, too, since I am royalty. It's a great honor for royalty to want you to oogle them.”
“Shut up,” Ed growled. “You know girls who aren't royalty got boobs, too. In fact, from what I've seen while they are clothed, Winry's is bigger.”
“But mine are shaped better,” Ling huffed. Ed raised his own eyebrows. So girls were like that, too, huh? Only about their boobs instead of their... yeah. He sucked his bottom lip a moment.
“I think I hear some of these guys waking up,” Ling prompted.
Ed dropped his gaze to her chest.
Now Edward was very familiar with the female form. Trying to create one sort of got him into this mess to begin with. He was very text book savvy on the whole human anatomy, male and female, so really these lumps of fat on her chest, called mammary glands, shouldn't be any big deal. Only these mammary glands weren't drawings of cut aways on flat white sheets bound in books. These were really, truly, flesh colored and live. Ling seemed to puff up a little as he looked and that both irritated and fascinated him because when she did they seemed to rise and swell, and well, they shouldn't do that, should they? It wasn't like they were balloons with internal pumps or anything. They were just these extra appendages girls had that boy's didn't. Ling sometimes used hers as a shelf for food crumbs that missed her mouth when she was stuffing her face. Sure they were for feeding babies and all and they made milk and that alone should make them nose wrinkling unappealing right off the bat. But somehow they weren't, and that was pretty puzzling, too.
“You can touch them if you want,” Ling offered.
“What?! Fuck no! Now you had your cruise, let's go!,” Ed snarled, turning away again. “I told you, you don't have to bribe me with your girl bits! Just do your share and it will be fine!”
Ling rolled one of the unconscious men over and worked his shirt off, shrugging it on herself and buttoning it up as she trotted to catch up to Ed who'd already started stomping away. In her country, in her court in the midst of all her siblings, any good quality would have to be played and bandy to the hilt just to get noticed. Her stature and shape had always been an advantage to her until now.
Somehow, as she trailed along behind the shorter boy in front of her, she liked this way better.