[Fullmetal Alchemist] Absolution

[scratchmist]

Title: Absolution
Rating: T
Character/Pairing: mostly gen with hints of Ed/Al, if you wanted to read it that way
Word Count: 2500+
Summary: Post-series, Brotherhood canon. Al regains his weight, his strength, his coordination. Ed watches.
Warnings: Spoilers through the ending of the series.

Comments

[azure15]

Aww that's so cute! I love it! This is exactly what the manga/Brotherhood ending was missing.

The brothers didn't get nearly as much love as they did in the first anime. ♥

You've got both of their voices down so well.

[scratchmist]

Thank you for the kind comment! I didn't finish the first FMA anime either (although I got really close...now I'm having trouble finding the final episodes), but I did hear that it gave the Elrics a lot more love. Their relationship is probably one of the things I like best in this show.

[evil_little_dog]

This is amazingly sweet. I love how we follow Ed through all of it.

[scratchmist]

Thank you for reading! :) Ed is a lot of fun to write.

[amethyst_koneko]

[I] watched bits and pieces of Brotherhood, including the episodes leading up to the ending.

Ah. That explains why you wrote that Roy was still blind. Marcoh to the rescue on that one. :)

Ed and Al are very sweet here. <3 As far as Ed goes tho, IMO, the angst of losing his alchemy which you've hinted at here, regardless of how justified it may or may not have been, will only continue to grow. You don't lose something so integral to your entire being that it was practically a part of your soul without it haunting you for the rest of your life. That Ed is able to feel the hum of latent energy in everything he touches will always be there to tease and tempt him and his inability to act on it, to use it, will slowly begin to eat at him. Ed probably won't ever say anything about this to anyone but that siren's call of what was will be there to whisper its sweet nothings in his ear on quiet nights when he's alone. This, among other reasons, is why I can never forgive Arakawa for ending FMA the way she did.

[scratchmist]

Thank you for your comment! I did think that the ending of FMA glossed over the gravity of Ed's sacrifice - I'm sure it tore him up a lot more than we saw. I wanted to draw some attention to it in this story, and I'm glad if it did. Still, it seemed to me that Ed's acceptance was an important part of the series ending, and very deliberate on the author's part. Of course, fandom (and fic!) is here so that the debate can continue! :)