FMA: 52 Flavours, Prompt 47

[artemisrae]

Title: Stepping Forward
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Theme no.: 47. Bitterness doesn’t stand a chance with those two.
Pairing: Ed, Winry, Al (Gen, my goodness!)
Rating: K+
Summary: Sometimes Ed can only watch them and wonder how they can look at him without fear in their eyes.
Notes: Second of a three part update for

Comments

[evil_little_dog]

*whimper* Awwww.

[artemisrae]

I know, this one made me sad, especially when I originally had a much more uplifting idea for it. But ah, sometimes the angst must be written.

[lyricnonsense]

*beats Ed with stick*

Screw waiting for him to grow out of it. Sometimes I want to just beat the angst out of the boy.

Still, very bittersweet. I love that haunting guilt that runs through this, intertwining with the sweet, homey feeling. It's such a great blend. Much much love.

And now I want cinnamon rolls *frown*.

[artemisrae]

Screw waiting for him to grow out of it. Sometimes I want to just beat the angst out of the boy.

SO HEY HOWS DIVERGENCE GOING? LOL. 'Tis a familiar feeling of frustration. I can only imagine how Al and Winry deal with it - I actually kinda want to write another one from Al's POV, just because it's not entirely Ed's sin, honestly, even if he blames himself.

GOD CINNAMON ROLLS SO GOOD. This was actually another little piece from my original entry to the fireandice fic that I scrapped like my previous update with Ed in the snow.

[lyricnonsense]

I have a file titled fma_scraps just so I can have somewhere to put the particularly pretty but useless bits of prose when I trim fics. It may come in handy one of these days...

Re: Div - *snort* He's getting slowly better. I think my threatening to hit him with a train is getting through his thick skull.

Much love, and by all means do one from Al's POV! He's GOT to have his own turn at the angsting chair. I personally want to write one where Ed and Al have a long loud argument about whose fault it is, and Winry walks in and smacks the hell out of them both for being idiots.

Hm.... *runs off*

[artemisrae]

UHHHHM YES PLEASE.

In all honesty, I struggle with these kind of character sketch fics. Most of what I tend to write - most of my ideas are along the lines of, "HEY, Wouldn't it be funny if *blank* happened to *blank*?" But I really WOULD like to attempt something more Al centric. We'll have to see what occurs to me.

[fairy_dogma]

I didn't really feel a ton of angst from this one. I was more wrapped up in the cute homey scene than Ed's slump. Then again, trying to top FMA on angst is like trying to beat evil_little_dog to post the first comment on your stories. ;)

[artemisrae]

This is absolutely true - and I'm kinda glad, honestly. I wanted to show that Ed was angsting needlessly because... Al and Winry are trying to get him to move on. Poor Ed. I just want to hug him and not let anyone hurt him ever, and then he goes and hurts himself. *sigh*

[kashicat]

I, too, didn't really regard this as "angsty." Actually, I see it more as healing. They've all been traumatized, and even when things are fixed, the internal healing always lags behind. So I could imagine Ed's guilt taking a little while to dissipate, if it ever does.

I could also see Al's preoccupation with tastes and sensations become an obsession -- and that's where he needs to heal and find balance.

So they all have their particular needs, healing-wise. This was just a glimpse at Ed's.

[artemisrae]

You know, I actually think I prefer you're summation of it to my own. And man, I was just expressing the desire to write something Al-centric, and you might have just given me something to work with, as a sort of follow up to it. Thank you!

[kashicat]

:-) I admit that I did wonder, as I was musing through writing my comment, whether you might find that question about Al interesting enough to pursue it.

[cornerofmadness]

awww poor Ed

[artemisrae]

I know, I just want to hug him and not let anyone hurt him anymore. Why do we feel the need to do that?

[cornerofmadness]

it's fun torturing Ed

[artemisrae]

Oh right, the fun. I forgot about the fun.