mildlynerdy
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In the space between sleep and waking, they find each other — just for a moment, just long enough to remember what it feels like to be whole.
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- Part 4 of 503 Week 2025
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Ed thought fixing the roof would be simple. So did Winry, once, about baking apple pie. Turns out, love, homeownership, and pastry all have something in common: they take patience, swearing, and more than a few do-overs.
Or: Ed yells at roof shingles, Winry weaponizes metaphors, and somewhere between the nails and the cinnamon, they remember what they’re building together.
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- Part 3 of 503 Week 2025
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What starts as a fun volley of questions becomes an unexpectedly tender exchange of old memories, unspoken feelings, and the scars — both literal and not — that brought them here.
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- Part 2 of 503 Week 2025
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After saving a young farmhand's life in emergency surgery, Winry finds herself shaken by memories of the past. The ghosts of screams and desperation threaten to pull her under, but Edward is there to remind her of the healing power she holds, both in her work and in the love they’ve built.
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- Part 1 of 503 Week 2025
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Of Serpents and Spirits by mildlynerdy
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away
04 Aug 2022
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When Edward was a child, he sacrificed his own freedom to save his little brother from eternal imprisonment in a spiritual bathhouse knowing that he would never see him again.
Alphonse reappearing at its doorstep is a surprise.
And when he shares what’s happening beyond the realm of spirits and demons, they wonder if perhaps the bathhouse is more than what it seems.
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503 Week 2025 by mildlynerdy
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
03 May 2025
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He’d been practicing. It took everything in Winry not to be nosy, to poke and prod and ask a zillion questions and give her own two cents. She wasn’t a bad cook. Neither was Ed, though he had a lot to learn after a childhood of rations and restaurant food.
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Edward learns to cook for Winry.
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when all the walls come tumbling down by vilelac
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
05 Apr 2023
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“Do you.. do you want to be my girlfriend?” Edward says, leaning against the wall next to her.
Winry snorts loudly. “Come on, we all know that Edward Elric doesn’t date. You’re nobody’s boyfriend.”
Edward stares deeply inside Winry’s eyes before saying, “I would be yours, If you asked me.”
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Edward is a bad boy who drives a motorcycle, Winry is the mechanic who works at the motorcycle club shop, they're academic rivals and have been in love since they were eleven. They just don't know that, yet.
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03 Apr 2022
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promises made, promises kept. by dojimasqueen
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
22 Nov 2021
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winry urges ed to stop second guessing himself and save amestris from father’s plan, but it isn’t that easy. not when the woman you love refuses to flee the country to keep herself safe.
or, ed leaves winry with a kiss and a promise on the eve of the promised day.
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22 Nov 2021
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The first time she saw his ghost she wanted to beat him with her wrench, wanted to dig her fingernails into his chest like claws, wanted to see him bloody, wanted him to cry, because how fucking dare he come back.
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28 Oct 2021
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Work in progress. "Search for the value of that which you seek, for alchemy already knows." Alchemy knew what Edward wanted when his fingertips touched that circle, but Edward did not yet understand how value differs from price, how equivalent differs from equal. The Gate calculates with one small difference, and Trisha Elric lives - but the cost may be too high for Edward to afford.
[ Originally published on FFN 16 June 2009. A very detailed, very slow exploration of the creators' headcanon through Edward's eyes - and sometimes Roy's - with lengthy discourses on alchemical theory, juicy helpings of political intrigue, a few near-death experiences here and there, and maybe an assassination attempt or two. Explores in detail the political and social spheres of Amestris and beyond in the context of Roy's ladder-climbing, aided by Edward's presence as a researcher. You could consider this a fix-it, but it's more like a highly involved worldbuilding reboot. Long-running, takes time between updates, but chapters are 20-30k long. Be prepared to indulge and suspend your disbelief. Leave canon at the doorstep; this is something else entirely. ]
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- Part 1 of Catalysis 'verse