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1. You can't save me like that, for there is no me without you by Coldwintersnight

   Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   20 Jul 2021

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Edward Elric/Greed
   • Edward Elric
   • GreedLing (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
   • Father (Fullmetal Alchemist)
   • Angst
   • no happy ending
   • seriously this is sad as hell for absolutely no reason
   • possibly too sad to actually be taken seriously
   • why did I write this
   • Sacrifice
   • Self Sacrifice
   • Ed is very ooc
   • like the choices he makes are stuff he said explicitly he wouldn't do lmao
   • character development? who's that?
   • all I know is my inability to accept Greed's death
   • "i can fix canon" yeah well I can make it worse
   • Idk what to tag this as tbh
   • Pain
   • that's definitely a big one
   • inappropriate use of the Philosopher's Stone
   • Oh wait
   • Resurrection
   • Alive Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)
   • torturing Edward Elric is my favourite perhaps my only hobby
   • I have no idea if this fits with fma lore btw
   • Sorry for the vague tags I'm trying to avoid spoilers
   • Just take the warnings seriously ig

   Summary

   The shield - Greed's shield - cracks beneath his fist, flaking off Father like dust; like ash; like the soul of a dying Homunculus. Frenzied despair breaks open the creature's carbonised ribcage, and Ed's fingers splay outwards to shred the heart within.

   But there is no heart - only a stone, only a hundred thousand sacrifices, and Ed thinks: what's one more?

   Or: Ed resorts to unethical means to get his lover back, and - in theory - it goes according to plan.

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