Ficlet prompts?

[harmonyangel]

I promise I will make a real life update soon. I had a bit of a depressive spell, but I seem to be pulling out of it, and that's good. And it's Mabon/Fall Equinox, so yay for that. I can feel my creativity returning, and it's a Friday night, and life is pretty ok

Comments

[likeadeuce]

Oh, GOD, I should have some Springsteen on tap for Roy or Hughes, shouldn't I??

How about "Gettin' up the nerve is a man's man's job"?

[harmonyangel]

Before this year, the last huge, life-changing decision Hughes had faced had come when he was thirteen years old and staring at two different boarding school acceptance envelopes. One was for the Ostenberg-Miller Preparatory Academy, his father’s alma mater, the premier military prep school in all of Amestris. Enrollment would guarantee a spot in the Amestrian Military Academy and, from there, a cushy commission as far from the front lines as possible. The other was from the Shanecrest Institute, a respected academic boarding school with high placement rates for the best Amestrian colleges, particularly in engineering departments. Hughes had applied to the latter on the sly, bolstered by his primary school guidance counselor’s encouragement and his unexpectedly high scores on the placement tests. And now he had a choice: the life of the soldier, or the life of the scholar

[likeadeuce]

YESSS!!!! This is perfect.

You know that I'm going to demand wedding-fic now, right?

[harmonyangel]

:D They will have the MOST ridiculous wedding, in some ways.

I mostly want to cuddle Hughes forever.

[likeadeuce]

Is there a way for Armstrong to be in it? He and Hughes could have known each other in prep school, right?

[harmonyangel]

Man, I'd kind of like it if Armstrong heard about Roy and Hughes and realized he had options other than going to war and wound up deserting...

[likeadeuce]

Olivier never forgives Roy for disgracing her baby brother.

(Fun fact: regardless of the AU, Olivier finds something to be pissed at Roy about.)

[harmonyangel]

Hahahaha, it's true. But Roy doesn't have to deal with her! Except on the rare occasions she deigns to visit her brother in Aerugo.

I really want this to be a wacky comedy where Armstrong is their next-door neighbor and regular babysitter.

[likeadeuce]

\o/

[harmonyangel]

Now I'm writing the Hughes and Madame Christmas conversation that follows the above ficlet

[likeadeuce]

*wibbles*

[harmonyangel]

EVEN THEIR HAPPY IS SAD.