FMA: Success: The Road

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

The Road

Ed thinks over what he knows about Roy. Drama, I-3.

"Bradley's office was buried in the middle of this building," Mustang pointed out. "Mine faces out over the city. And by standing at these windows, and being seen here, I say that I trust the loyalty of the people around me. Soldiers and civilians both."

Comments

[written-in-blue.livejournal.com]

The idea of a motherhen!Ed is cracking me up. ^_______________________^

Three fics all in one afternoon. What did we do to deserve such bounty?

[branchandroot]

*giggles* I don't think Ed will go quite that far, but you never know. He does have one heck of a protective streak, himself.

What did we do to deserve such bounty?

Er... waited a week? ^_^; I am so sadly obsessed...

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

I'm running out of coherent things to say here. I think you did a great job showing how the characters have grown, over time, without compromising the core of their personalities. Both Roy and Ed are visibly more mature, but they've still got the same drive and fire, as Ed notices. You may really be onto something in your analysis of Roy's personality, when you say that:

Mustang's control was considerably less than perfect if you knew what to look for: the times when he baited dangerous people, the moments when he walked head-on into death and never seemed to notice. It was enough to convince anyone that man was an adrenaline addict, if they didn't know that it was just his drive breaking loose for a moment.

There are several times in the series when his behavior can almost be classified as suicidal (ex: confronting Scar in the rain, in episode 15). Your idea as to why he acts that way seems like the most plausible explanation I've gotten yet.

And that concludes my babbling. ^_^;

[branchandroot]

*nodnod* I have a hard time believing that Roy really would act like that just for the thrill, and the manga style certianly emphasizes that he has quite a few moments of very sharp temper. And he and Ed strike me as so alike...

Glad you liked these!

[naanima.livejournal.com]

I like how you cover a few things about Ed's reasoning, his obsession, his drive, and his now need for an adranaline rush. What made the great stories good wasn't that the heroes beat the bad guys, rather it was the heroes themselves. The changes they go through, the maturity they gain, the pain exchanged for wisdom. That's what made the stories for me, that what the were had changed, though fundamentally they were still who they always had been, but wiser and older.

While Ed might not be as obsessive, he now needs an edge in his life. In other words, he can't go back to what he was, and I doubt deep down he truly does. And I like how you bring up Roy's drive, and his journey, and how now the job is eating Roy whole, and MotherHen Ed is going to be interesting.

[branchandroot]

*snickers* Ed's method of motherhenning is... um... interesting. But, yeah, there's no way he could go back. It'll also be interesting, I think, when Success!Roy realizes that, cause I'm not sure he has yet...

*snuggles*

[naanima.livejournal.com]

Definitely not. As Hughes says what Roy does without realising it is so irritating, but so terribly amusing as well ^^