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emptiness to fill by blackout_writer
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
15 Sep 2024
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Known as the Mad Puppy of the Military, Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, was not someone one would want to associate with. According to the general consensus, one word fit back to describe him best – "unhinged".
Favoured by the Führer himself, ignorant of others' opinions, accused of his brother's murder by none other than himself... truly a mad dog. But for whatever reason, a more childlish moniker stuck.
All in all, Roy was not looking forward to his newly assigned mission that involved none other than the notorious Fullmetal.
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07 Nov 2025
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Subordinate (familial) by BeyondTheClouds777
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
22 Sep 2025
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Parental RoyEd one-shots and short stories.
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12 Oct 2025
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For Better Or For Worse (We Are Are A Family) by Joewue
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
02 May 2023
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A bunch of interconnected stories following Ed, Al and the family they found feat. The Elric Bullshit™
Alternatively, an excuse for me to write character studies on half the supporting cast of Brotherhood, add a whole lot of angst, hurt/comfort and found family.
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09 Oct 2025
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Natura Umbilicus by liketolaugh
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
22 Jan 2022
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People always assume that because Ed isn't religious, he doesn't believe in a higher power. He supposes it's a fair assumption, because that's how it goes with most alchemists; scientific minds don't usually like the wishy-washy nature of miracles and faith and unseen beings. They believe in atoms and molecules and the ever-elusive natural providence.
But Ed does believe in a higher power; he's met it, and its name is equivalent exchange. Nothing wishy-washy about that.
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07 Oct 2025
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Ed and his relationship with religion
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songs of war-torn lands by asthmaticbee
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
15 Sep 2025
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Do you hear the people sing
Of bloodshed, war and conquest?
Do you hear the drums in your bones
Of death and life and eternity?
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Series of AUs dealing with war and/or alternate backstories for the Elric brothers.
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what he did last year by nuube
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
02 Sep 2025
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Like tonight, a year ago, Ed was visited by his dead mother.
The dream has always been the accident. Of Edward, strapped to a seatbelt in the passenger seat of their vehicle, and, over and over, being unable to dredge himself out. Neither Trisha nor Al responded to his thrashing, screaming, pleading. The truck always hit.
A year ago, it was different.
Edward stood on the outside, in the grass on the corner of the intersection. The sky was bright blue, clouds corralled around the circle of deadly space made up by two crossing roads. He watched his mother inch into the clearing, watched his own face trapped in the cherubic naivety of childhood, enraptured by the front window. Watched him spot the barreling truck, and, for the first time, witnessed the accident from the exterior.
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When Edward was a child, a car accident took the life of his mother and put his brother in a coma. Plagued with nightmares for his entire life, nothing makes anything better. A year after a suicide attempt, Ed is involved in an online friend group who plays a dnd-style RPG together. They convince him to try and come to Xing to play the new regional update: and Edward, believing he outgrew his place in his family, agrees.Bookmarked by caffeinated_mumbles0
31 Aug 2025
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Alternate Universe-Modern Setting. Ed runs away to xing.
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revocetur by makiswirl
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
31 Aug 2022
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"Don't you ever feel homesick?" Ed asked, genuinely curious. "And I know you're not the kind of guy to talk about his feelings or whatever, but it wouldn't hurt to at least talk."
--A collection of (mostly Ed/Ling) Post-Promised Day oneshots that don't really feel right to post on their own. Most are reposts of older since-deleted ficlets as per request.
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The Briefcase by boredom
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
07 Jun 2024
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It was a stupid mistake. A silly, stupid mistake. It was never supposed to escalate this much. It was never supposed to cause this much trouble.
He grabbed the wrong briefcase. That was it. That was all.
He didn't know it would be this dangerous.
And now, one by one, his entire team is going to fall. All because of one stupid, silly, little mistake.
(Or the one where Havoc goes straight up Rambo, Hawkeye gets a taste for human flesh, Fuery uses his Fuery-ness to get himself out of this situation, Falman stabs a man or two, Mustang learns a new use for flame alchemy, Ed learns about the wonderful world of torture and espionage, and Breda just wants a nap)
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08 Aug 2025
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And Everything Comes Crashing Down (it falls to pieces in your mind) by CatchMeInADaydream
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
29 Jun 2021
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Edward Elric is eleven years old when the Gate cracks his mind open like an egg and pours the universe into the shell that’s left behind. He screams as he stands in front of the Gate and the thing with the too-white smile.
The Gate opens, and pressure builds in his skull. Images speed past faster than he can process them, but somehow he knows what each of them are, what they mean, how to use them. They’re formulas and facts and faces that he’s never seen before, but he Knows them. Ed Knows many things, now, and it hurts.
The Gate spits him out as someone new with pieces of Everything lodged in his skull, but he goes back because for Alphonse, he would do anything. He would pay any price, would have the universe compressed into his skull if only he could still have his brother. The Truth grins and takes his arm, giving him more knowledge than he ever wanted to have as it rewrites parts of One with All and leaves him lying on the ground alone.
Edward Elric is eleven years old when he passes through the Gate a second time and learns that having done so before doesn’t make it hurt any less.
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02 Aug 2025
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a row of captured ghosts by astrolesbian
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
16 Jun 2018
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He has not seen Edward smile in such a long time, not since he was a child and wound his hand around the end of Hohenheim’s ponytail, laughing and pulling a little too hard. Hohenheim remembers that it did not hurt. He could only focus on his son’s laughter. His hands had started to shake, and Trisha had made a soft worried noise and taken Edward away, cooing to him and grinning back at Hohenheim.
He had ached for Edward to be back in his arms, but he had not known how to ask.
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Ling has gained immortality. Ed has not.
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- English
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17 Jul 2025
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I want more body (I want more soul) by aceofjapan
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
26 Apr 2024
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“No.”
“N—what do you mean, no?”
“I mean no. We don‘t have a deal.”
Edward took a deep breath, forcing himself to stay calm. He‘d just punched out one God, and this one was skirting the line. He was exhausted, his entire body hurt, he was dizzy with blood loss and he just wanted to take Al home.
“You‘re telling me my Gate isn‘t enough of a toll?”
Truth tilted its head, a thoughtful twist to its impression of a mouth. “It‘s enough”, it said, “but I don‘t want it.”
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Edward bargains something else for Alphonse's body, because there's nothing he wouldn't do for his brother.
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- 10/10
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08 Jul 2025
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Trisha sends her husband out to market, with Edward tagging along. The day is beautiful, the task is easy, but the constant weight in Van's chest will not leave. Time passes. Every second is an eternity, but eternity passes in a blink. This life is a curse, but Edward is watching him.
Or, little Edward and his father experiment with the concept of "quality time."
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freedom bound by flapkack
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
19 Jan 2024
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Perfect beings had no gender. They were God’s image, the embodiment of the Truth. This was a belief of the alchemists and, therefore, a belief of the people of Xerxes. The desert society was built on the values of alchemy, and their most central value was that of equivalent exchange.
This is what Ling was taught in his culture lessons. Well, “taught” is a loose word— more like he learned it by reading the encyclopedia volumes that Fu gruffly tossed his way every day. As a prince of Xing, he had to know as much as he possibly could about the countries that he would be dealing with when he became emperor- presuming, of course, that the twelfth in line for the throne would (could) ever secure it.
Ling could. He had a plan.
Xerxes had alchemy. Alchemy had— according to those books- Philosopher’s Stones. Philosopher’s Stones gave eternal life. Ling’s ailing father, the emperor of Xing, wanted life, more desperately than anything. And Ling? He wanted the throne.
Ling needed a Philosopher’s Stone. So, Ling needed Xerxes.
Simple.
Of course, nothing ever turns out quite so simply, does it?
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When Ling offers Ed his philosopher's stone as the toll to bring Al's body back, Ed accepts out of desperation, and does something he promised he would never do.
Two and a half months later, the effects of that decision are becoming increasingly obvious when Ling and Co. show up unannounced in Resembool.
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Ling unwraps his left wrist and almost forgets how to breathe. Edward Elric. He’s not perfectly literate in Amestrian, but recognizes the name automatically. And, stupidly, his first thought is, His name is Edward?
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Everyone has at least one platonic soulmate. Ed has Winry and Al. Ling has Lan Fan. That is simple and easy for them to understand, but being soulmates with each other and possibly romantic ones is something neither of them are ready for.
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sugar and honey by Night_watcheer for lesbian_xion
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
10 May 2025
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Edward and his crush on Ling Yao through the eyes of the people who love him the most.
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Of Danger, Diplomats, and Dress Blues by boredom
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
25 Dec 2021
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After years of alternating between war and uneasy peace, the Cretans have finally extended an olive branch. They want to end the bloodshed and forge a bright future between them and Amestris.
It should be a joyous event. It should be a peaceful weekend. There should be nothing to worry about.
So why does Colonel Roy Mustang get the feeling the Cretans are up to something? Why wasn't Edward Elric invited to the event? Can Mustang figure out what's going on before he loses a member of his team?
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- 14/14
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04 Jun 2025
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The Root of All Heartache by Thornback for User_needs_a_Username
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
15 Sep 2024
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Edward was a danger magnet. A major chink in Roy's neatly dressed armor. A root to all his heartache...
And that is never going to change.
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“People always talk about how bad the surgery is,” Ed told Hawkeye, “but you never hear people mention how much it sucks to have fifty pounds of metal hanging off your body. Bolts in your bones.”
“What’s happening?” Mustang asked sharply, turning toward them with his clouded eyes still lingering a few feet over their heads. “Hawkeye? What’s Fullmetal doing? Is there something wrong with his automail?”
Ed flicked the lighter again, waited a little more patiently this time, and inhaled. Then he gave Hawkeye a nod, giving in to the inevitable. The only reason Mustang hadn’t figured it out already was probably because Ed didn’t do a lot of... this sort of thing. The comfort thing. Mustang liked people to play into his expectations.
“Edward came out to smoke opium,” Hawkeye said at last. “He says it helps with the pain from his automail.”
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by caffeinated_mumbles0
18 May 2025