He had only meant to pass through the town; it wasn't like much would have changed anyway.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Van Hohenheim | drama | introspective
Car broke down again, couple kilometers out of the city, so they had to walk for a while, until Alfons couldn't speak for the coughing.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | post-series | SP: movie | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | angst | introspective
If Ed had his way, his allowance (and all of Roy's salary) would be spent entirely on the most expensive brand of dog food to have ever existed.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | DF: ep 01 | Edward Elric | Nina Tucker | Roy Mustang | angst | humor
Faith, he'd thought, was something he'd learned as a child, squirming on the hard wooden pews.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Van Hohenheim | drama | introspective
"If you hadn't messed in the mud to get the cat," he pointed out, "your hands wouldn't be so cold. Give me your other."
I didn't know on the phone. I didn't know on the train.
rated:G | GEN | Maes Hughes | Roy Mustang | angst | redux
Could I burn like that - would the lick of flames on my skin wipe me clean?
rated:M-L-V | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | SP: ep 40 | Roy Mustang | angst | drama
Hope was a stone around the lonely young brother's neck, one that broke his back and ironed out his heart, smoothing the wrinkles of time and pain.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | SP: ep 51 |
"You could have roped in the typing pool instead, they moon over the Colonel all the time."
Very few alchemists believed in God, but all of them believed in books.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | TWT | Edward Elric | drama | introspective
Edward Elric was in an exceedingly bad mood.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Edward Elric | Jean Havoc | humor
It was so easy to forget how uneven alchemy made a fight. No ordinary guy ever had a chance.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Heymans Breda | action | drama
It was only after the sheer sensation had abated — only when he felt on solid enough ground to focus on the subtleties of life once more — that the habit began to catch his attention.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | general | introspective | sweet
Sergeant Broche smiled in frozen panic at the miniature devil that had cornered him in the officer's mess.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Alicia Hughes | humor | 354th FG HQ
Not a fairy, then, Alfons thought in disappointment. The fairies in stories weren't usually so foul-mouthed and excitable, anyway.
rated:G-L | GEN | Alt Universe | post-series | DF: ep. 51 | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | crack | humor
Were Riza to choose, she would be the shield rather than the sword.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Riza Hawkeye | drama
"...That is an order, Fullmetal, and I will have you court-martialed if you refuse."
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | drama | humor
Envy had to admit, Edward Elric's body was convenient for maneuvering around the people in a crowd.
He remembered finding himself asking why the Fullmetal Alchemist would be the one to patch his own clothes.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | angst | drama
She remembers the dreamlike way the pieces seemed to sit on the board—on account of the light, maybe, or perhaps her own faltering memory.
rated:G | GEN | Mangaverse | Riza Hawkeye | introspective
"Honestly, Fullmetal, I'm beginning to think that you're more trouble than you're worth."
rated:K | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | angst | drama
Besides, no one ever said that tumultuous times had to begin with a fanfare.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | TWT | drama | 354th FG HQ | politics
It was a big world out there, full of more possibilities than either of them could dream of.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Alphonse Elric | Edward Elric | drama | sweet
Even though she wasn’t an alchemist, alchemy tended to stake a claim on all who were associated with it.
rated:G | GEN | Mangaverse | pre-series | SP: ch 60 | Riza Hawkeye | Roy Mustang | drama | introspective
Al decided he didn't like that particular grin on his brother's face.
Alphonse worried, but was rapidly won over by his brother's promises.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | post-series | SP: movie | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | angst
He tilted his jaw and the kid struck the match, lit it, lifted it to his cigarette.
He was, to sum up, a pretty unpleasant guy to have at the head of your department in the holiday season.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | drama | fusion | humor | romance
"Pretty!" she says, and kneels to press her palms to the curls and knots chalked on the stones. "Papa! Did you drawed this? What's it for?"
rated:M-L | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | SP: ep 8 | Nina Tucker | drama | horror
Death overtook Hohenheim unexpectedly on the road to knowledge.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | Van Hohenheim
The kid is easily recognizable by his golden hair and eyes, his automail arm and leg, and the obvious chip on the shoulder.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | DF: ep 01 | sidestory: The Path Not Taken | humor
"What do you mean, you're PREGNANT?" Ed yelled through the door.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | SP: ep 28 | Izumi Curtis | humor | parody | Elric Kyoudai | mpreg
Words entrance her: the workaday prose of school texts as much as the skylark flights of lyric or the measured music of story.
The pretenses stopped midway through the second cigarette.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Jean Havoc | Zolf J. Kimblee | drama
There is grass growing on the cinders, ivy covers the old stones.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | Alphonse Elric | angst
"Now, Earth-type world, yes? Spoken language identified as late pre-Galactic English."
rated:M-L | GEN | Alt Universe | TWT | First Place (popular); Second Place (juried) | Green Lion Winner | Alfons Heiderich | Edward Elric | crack | drama | fusion | introspective | 2009 Brave New Worlds, Original
...The world is saved. You two can just gnaw on each other for the rest of your lives.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | SP: ep 25 | Alphonse Elric | Roy Mustang
The staff look at each other, look at their automail bottle-opener, and prepare to duck.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | post-series | Edward Elric | Roy Mustang | humor | 354th FG HQ
"Oh yeah... Huh!" Ed looked around, brightening. "Wow, it looks a lot different upright and not burning."
"For only one arm..." Ed rasped out, gritting his teeth against the pain.
rated:M-L | GEN | pre-series | SP: ep 03 | gore | humor | redux | Elric Kyoudai
Greed has one, fundamental, flaw.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | SP: ep 34 | Greed | introspective
A spark of interest lifted his pale eyebrows, and he set down his fork.
rated:G | GEN | Shambhala | Alfons Heiderich | drama
The cheap ink has blurred and run, but Ed's memorized the gist: Riesenbul needs help; come sort things out.
"We'll have you patched up in no time." Edward announced, slicing the leather into short, precise strips. It was irrational, but somehow Alphonse hated those words.
rated:K | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | general | introspective | Elric Kyoudai
She hated being idle; it ranked far above the petty pain of a mere gunshot-wound in her personal list of annoyances.
rated:G | GEN | Fullmetal | mid-series | Riza Hawkeye | drama | 354th FG HQ
She moves the king again, to its last optional safe square and murmurs, "I'll admit this is not how I envisioned my first night on the battlefield."
rated:K | GEN | Mangaverse | pre-series | Riza Hawkeye | Roy Mustang | drama | introspective
If there was something Al still deeply enjoyed about his illness, it was seeing Ed play a sort of housewife.
rated:G | GEN | sap | Elric Kyoudai