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What’s the difference?

Summary:

“A girl? A dog?
What’s the difference?”

OR

Canon divergence from episode 7 of the brotherhood anime.

OR OR

My (cool) brother got me to watch full metal alchemist and I nearly started crying and wrote fan fiction using the power of denial. The first chapter is told as a poem. The second and third are less so.

Notes:

Words: ~142

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: What’s the difference?

Chapter Text

What’s the difference?

 

A girl? A dog? 

What’s the difference?

A boy? A knight?

What’s the difference?

 

An experiment? A monster?

What’s the difference?

A kid? A monster?

What’s the difference?

 

A new body? One body?

Was it worth the price?

A metal body? One forged with blood?

Was it worth the price?

 

Your father? Your mother?

Does he regret it?

Your brother? Your mother?

Does he regret it?

 

An old family? A new one?

Was it worth the price?

A family? Your brother?

Was it worth the price?

 

The three of you? Sitting in the rain?

Are those tears in his eyes?

Her? Following you two in the rain?

Are those tears in his eyes?

 

A monster here? Not you of course,

Are those tears in your eyes?

A monster here? Why you of course,

Are those tears in your eyes?