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Prompt 164, Pills, "Reality is a State of Mind"

Apr 25, 2012 19:37

Title: Reality is a State of Mind
Series: First Anime
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Edward Elric plus a familiar looking OC
Summary: Clarity or sanity? Each day Ed is faced with making that one choice.
Warnings: Illusions to possible disturbing situations.
Notes: This was a hard one to get into 500 words and I hope it still works. Basically ( Read more... )

prompt 164, catw00man, blind challenge

Comments 5

tirinkadink April 26 2012, 06:59:25 UTC

Eep. Poor Edward. This is a pretty good argument for why he shouldn't tell all those dang stories about his world -- but then, I guess, bottling them up would be more difficult...? This fic might be a bit difficult to follow, but I like it (even if it's kinda disturbing). It's an interesting, believable twist on things.

baroqueangel April 26 2012, 07:41:02 UTC

I love the question this evokes, was any of it real or was it all a delusion in Ed's head?

Really like this :)

lunaria_kitty April 27 2012, 01:23:44 UTC

Oh wow, a different take on how things could have gone for Edward. He did talk about it quite a bit, I'm surprised more people didn't think he was off. Sad that he has to take something to suppress who he really is, though. :( But at least he's found alt!Winry to be with. Which I guess is good in that she doesn't think he's crazy, but bad for the reminder of his home.

Well done!

ssadropout April 27 2012, 15:51:25 UTC

Come to think of it, what normal (non-dark arts practicing) person would have thought that anything Ed told them about his world was true? This scenario could easily have been the way the story went.

raceulfson April 29 2012, 15:39:35 UTC

Wow. I don't know what's more sad, that they convinced Ed he was mad or that he will eventually be forced to leave yet another Winry waiting at home...