Comments | bob_fish: Fic: The Compass Rose, Chapter 6/9

bob_fish

Fic: The Compass Rose, Chapter 6/9

Oct 26, 2013 00:01

Title: The Compass Rose: Chapter Six
Characters/Pairings: Roy/Ed, Riza/Miles, Havoc/Rebecca, Al, Winry, Team Mustang, Ling, Ran Fan, and more
Rating: R for swears, violence and horror at about the same level as in the manga itself. Mistreatment of a child.
Word Count: 8960
Summary: An infant Homunculus under the command of an idiot ruler: this can' ( Read more... )

[fandom] fullmetal alchemist, [pairing] havoc/rebecca, [chapterfic] the compass rose, [pairing] roy/ed, [fanworks] fic, [fic series] wrong turn 'verse, [pairing] riza/miles, [fanworks] art

Comments 34

amethyst_koneko October 26 2013, 00:22:02 UTC

Just thought you should know that the links you have up there for chapters 3, 4, and 5 don't work. I was going to go back and reread chapter 5 to refresh my memory but no can do. :(

orion117 October 26 2013, 02:35:56 UTC

Here's Chapter Five.

bob_fish October 26 2013, 09:20:35 UTC

Thank you! <3 There was some codemess stopping the links from working; I fixed it all up now.

bob_fish October 26 2013, 09:20:58 UTC

Sorry about that: there was some codemess stopping the links from working; I fixed it all up now.

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orion117 October 26 2013, 02:33:22 UTC

OMG OMG OMG Bless you, my dear! Looking forward to reading this after work Saturday.

bob_fish October 26 2013, 11:43:24 UTC

Ah, thank you! Hope you like it!

sky_dark October 26 2013, 02:52:26 UTC

baby homoculus so creepy ;;_;; Also, distracted by art 0_0

bob_fish October 26 2013, 10:26:32 UTC

Of course the art distracted you. <3

Thanks SO MUCH again for your help with this one. Your input into the Roy/Ed scenes was awesome.

(Look at us talking FMA on LJ, it's like it's 2010 again and SPN is just that show with the ghosts and the car and the doom that people talk of. XD)

skelody October 26 2013, 04:23:45 UTC

I always forget how fraught this fic is until a new chapter goes up and it punches me in the face.

bob_fish October 26 2013, 11:43:07 UTC

Ahhhh, thank you!

Maintaining the tension and pace while handling a multi-stranded plot with the cast scattered across different locations is pretty challenging sometimes! So it is super-lovely to hear when people are still enjoying the fic! <3 <3

lunaria_kitty October 28 2013, 06:11:25 UTC

This is the perfect analogy.

bob_fish October 28 2013, 07:42:05 UTC

Lol, punched in the face in a good way, I hope? XD XD

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!!! lunaria_kitty October 26 2013, 09:18:23 UTC

I HAVE SO MUCH FLAIL FOR YOU AND MUCH MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS ENTIRE THING BUT I WILL SHORTEN IT TO GLOMPY HUGS AND LOVE AND THANKYOUS UNTIL I HAVE A CHANCE TO COLLAPSE INTO BED AND REREAD THIS AMAZING THING IN THE MORNING. ♥♥♥

Re: !!! bob_fish October 26 2013, 11:43:45 UTC

Ah, thank you! Hope you enjoy the chapter! <3 <3 <3

And flailing is a go lunaria_kitty October 27 2013, 04:08:53 UTC

So I will try to refrain from quoting half the chapter back at you. *laughs* But there is one spot that got me, even on the second go-through and I have to mention it.

“Two days,” Roy says. “We agreed this thing was real, and we had two days together before the coup. And I have thought about you, I have thought you here with me every day and every night. Your breath in my ear and your hand on my chest. In the dark … I was on the run for weeks. I tried to hold onto you, to the memory of you.”

“Me too,” Ed says. “Every fucking day. More than that, like every fucking hour of every fucking day. I'm surprised I'm halfway functional.”

They kiss.

This is so feelingy for both of them and a declaration of love that I just burst into tears reading it. Cause they don't do mushy much, but this, it's painful and perfect and I just... ♥ So many feels!

I have been anticipating this reunion for a while and even thought up a few scenarios of how it might go down. (The one where they kiss in front of Briggs was totes one of them too.) But guh, I ( ... )

Re: And flailing is a go bob_fish October 27 2013, 11:57:29 UTC

Ah, wow, thank you! I love those long happy reviews, and miss them from LJ's heyday, so it's really nice to get one!

Sky_dark helped me beat that Roy/Ed reunion scene into shape, so a big chunk of the credit for it working goes to her! I've gone and written a Roy/Ed fic where the two of them are separated until nearly 3/4 of the way through, so I knew there was a lot riding emotionally on that scene. It's exactly because they don't do mushy that much and tend to express themselves indirectly that there's the opportunity to make those bursts of uncontainable high emotion carry a lot of weight and also imply still more by leaving some things unsaid. I have a lot of fun with all the ways I can make them say I love you without ever uttering that exact phrase. So I'm so so glad that worked for you and you dug it! <3 Um, have a hankie ( ... )