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kristensk ([personal profile] kristensk) wrote2011-10-31 11:44 pm

Drabble Post - Appreciation (FMA)

Just a silly short written after a conversation with [livejournal.com profile] mintysage where it came up that Ed, with his skull-bedecked taste in art, would probably be a fan of Halloween décor. Leans mangaverse as anime!Ed doesn't seem to be such a fan of skulls and snakes.

Title: Appreciation
Author: Kristen Sharpe
Date: October 31, 2011
Rating: K
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: "Fullmetal Alchemist" belongs to Hiromu Arakawa, Square ENIX, Studio BONES and various other parties.
Author's Note: Pre-series.

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“They loved it.”

“Yes, they did.”

Al was starting to wonder how many times they were going to have this conversation.

“The fangs, the snakes, the skulls. They loved it.”

Al glanced at his brother. The dazed, starry-eyed expression was still there.

“The entire main entryway leading into town,” Ed breathed, “and they loved it.”

“They thought you were helping to decorate for the festival while making repairs,” said Al.

A harvest festival that mingled winter preparations with stories of the restless dead walking the earth. Ed’s freakish taste in alchemic creations just happened to complement the festival’s traditional macabre décor.

“Why did we have to leave early?” Ed’s face drew down in a pout. “Some people were asking me about decorating the main inn. We could have caught a morning train.”

No, Al thought, they could not. By morning, someone might have realized that Ed’s alchemic handiwork was permanent.

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Author's Note: Whatever local festival Ed and Al stumbled across is completely fictional and not intended to exactly reference Halloween or the like.
jordannamorgan: Edward Elric, "Fullmetal Alchemist". For my "Blood Ties" fanfiction novel. (FMA Blood Ties)

[personal profile] jordannamorgan 2011-11-01 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
*snork* Skulls? Okay, that's *one* manga element I wouldn't have minded seeing in the anime... ;D

[identity profile] kristensk.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Skulls. (http://www.fyresight.com/fma/ed_art.jpg) Ed does still get his bat-winged spear in Liore. But, I don't think the majority of his "creations" had been introduced when they made the anime.
jordannamorgan: Alphonse and Edward Elric, "Fullmetal Alchemist". (FMA Al & Ed)

[personal profile] jordannamorgan 2011-11-02 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
*cackle*

[identity profile] r-kimono.livejournal.com 2011-11-01 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha, oh, Ed. Finally some appreciation for his art! (However short-lived it might have been.)

[identity profile] kristensk.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, Ed needed to find someone somewhere who liked his work... and Al's fervently hoping they can leave on that happy note.

[identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com 2011-11-01 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Ed, your gothy nature, it's just TAKING OVER.

[identity profile] kristensk.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
*laughs! icon* I imagine Ed like this guy in my Portfolio class, who made the fluffiest, most cheerful image anyone had seen from him all year for a children's poster assignment... and was still told that it looked like his "friendly" bird meant to eat the child it was circling.

[identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
My ex-husband was the same way - if it didn't have skulls on it, he didn't really see much point to it. I think the best gift I ever got him was of a weasel skull cast in pewter he could wear as a necklace.

Seriously.

[identity profile] dreamer1789.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*snigger* Ed would love the free reign & attention, and trust Al to be the common sense.

[identity profile] kristensk.livejournal.com 2011-11-02 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, very yes! I sometimes wonder if Mustang secretly pays Al to be the common sense. Not that he wouldn't anyway, but...

Al: The Colonel insisted. Officially, I'm Brother's "handler."
Mustang: I suggested "trainer," but Alphonse thought that was demeaning. And, "babysitter" just wouldn't look right on the official documentation.

[identity profile] driftwoodwings.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I out right cackled out loud at the last line XD...

[identity profile] kristensk.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins* Glad you got a laugh! I suspect Al has practice in knowing when to get out of town.