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🜘 —Whiskers twitch, the eyes shut, it’s too much. ; Chapter 3

Ross stood now in front of the land-line, looking down at it nervously. She had just woken up Sergeant Brosh, who simply hummed and went to sleep on the couch without question, promptly going to sleep as soon as he made himself comfortable on the couch. Havoc had already taken Ed out of the bathroom, presumably after cleaning him in some way given how he had tracked water leading all the way from the bathroom up the steps. So now, Ross found herself there. Standing, her fingers unconsciously thrumming against the side table she stood next to, her forefinger pressing then retracting against the wood, then her middle finger, ring finger, pinky, all pulling back before starting up again.

Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump–

She paused, her fingers twitching momentarily as to continue the steady rhythm, before sighing; Shifting her weight from one foot to the other, her left hip moving down more whereas her right moved upward, one hand grasping the handset while the other moved to begin dialing the numbers. Ross had gotten the number to Izumi and Sig Curtis’ meat shoppe in Dublith back when Edward first went missing, having been told to call if anything about Ed was found out. The same thing was told to Edward’s commanding officer, major Armstrong, and lieutenant colonel Hughes. The phone rang softly, and she thankfully didn’t have to wait long before a voice picked up on the other side.

— “Call again in the morning, the shop's closed for the night.”

A deep voice answered the phone, though it wasn’t clear if he was annoyed or upset. His voice was monotone, gruff sounding, belonging to none other than Sig Curtis himself. Ross was quick to answer, before he could hang up on her. 

“I need to talk to Alphonse, uh, sir.” She said, earning a small hum on the other end; The man, although not visible to her, seemed surprised by her interjection. There was silence for a good few moments, before the same voice spoke again.

—  “Who is this?” 

Ross swallowed slightly nervously, before letting out a small chuckle. Weak sounding, but as to show she wasn’t a threat of any kind. In a sense, at least. 

“Second Lieutenant Maria Ross, sir, I apologize for not introducing myself at first.” Her voice was slightly weary for already messing up, her gut shifting uncomfortably as silence, again, came from the other side of the line. She didn’t hear the dial tone, but for a few moments she thought he had hung up on her; Or, that was before a young, tinny voice emitted from the phone. 

— “Lieutenant Ross? Why are you calling? Did you find brother?”

Alphonse asked from the line, sounding anxious and confused. But at the same time he sounded excited at the prospect of his older brother being found at last. Ross couldn’t help the small smile on her face that blossomed from his voice, a sweet one. 

“I can say for certain that Havoc found him, we have him at my house, Al, but–” Ross started, only to be cut off by a gasp on the other end. Clearly from Alphonse, as she could hear his armor shifting against itself with his movements on the other end. 

— “You did?! I’ll book a train right away, how is he? Is he ok? Does he know that I’m ok?”

Al interrupted, frantically, the questions almost all coming out as gibberish due to how fast he was spewing them. He sounded happy, excited and grateful, but at the same time there was a lingering nervousness. He was a child, yes, but that didn’t mean he was spared from knowing the horrors of what could happen to just about anyone. — That would include his brother, but that was only a small part of him that thought of that. His brother couldn’t die after all, he would never let that happen! And if he was found, then that meant he was safe. He was safe and he wouldn’t be able to get hurt. Especially once he got there. — Ross made a weary sound, akin to a soft sigh, deciding to change up what she was going to originally say. 

“He’s.. Well, he’s alive. I haven’t gotten the best look at him but he didn’t look injured. Havoc’s taking care of him now, we still have to notify everyone else that he’s here.” She admitted calmly, her voice firm enough to keep Alphonse from interrupting her again; Almost like a stern parent in a sense. Ross had, of course, lied about not getting a good look at Ed. She had seen his new.. Animalistic appearance, deeming that it was a conversation to have with Alphonse once he was there, in person — in soul, in his case — and able to see Ed for himself. 

— “I could probably do those calls for you second lieutenant, you’re probably getting tired.”

A kind offer, not an odd suggestion coming from the younger Elric. So, she sighed. As much as she wanted to refute, he was a kid who needed not to deal with such adult things, Ross couldn’t deny the exhaustion she felt in her bones from simply looking at Edward. In his new being. With his fur, and claws, and scutes, and ears, and snout.

“Very well, just tell colonel Mustang and his team to come to my home tomorrow when you’ll be here. Maybe not major Armstrong.. I’ll get a hold of lieutenant colonel Hughes on my end.” Ross said, a compromise really as Alphonse wouldn’t be held up calling so many people. Though she was sure that he’d only call colonel Mustang, maybe Lieutenant Hawkeye. To her suggestion, Alphonse hummed through the line, the creaking of metal could be heard so Ross assumed that he was nodding. 

— “Ok! Is there anything else I should know? Or tell should I tell colonel Mustang specifically?” 

Alphonse sounded slightly impatient, though nevertheless excited at the mere idea he would be able to see his older brother. He failed to mention how he was most definitely going to be taking a train to Central as soon as he was off the phone with the colonel. Ross didn’t need to know after all. 

The two only spoke for a few moments longer, exchanging their farewells, and then hanging up simply. All the way in Dublith, on the other side of the now hung up line, Alphonse’s gauntlet gripped the receiver somewhat tightly as he set it down, the soft glow emitting from the sockets of his helmet watching his glove for only a moment, only to raise the gauntlet holding the handset up to his helmet again. Pausing as though to take a non-existent breath before beginning to dial colonel Mustang’s home phone. He hesitated halfway through, as though to figure out if he should even involve the colonel.

Roy Mustang was kind to him and his brother, even if he did constantly get into childish arguments with Ed, and act snarky in multiple ways. And make Ed dread coming to report back to him on the missions he assigned him. Colonel Mustang helped him when it came to supposed leads on not only the Philosopher's Stone, but also on Edward’s disappearance. He was one of the few, including his team, Alphonse himself, Armstrong, Ross, Brosh, and Hughes, who believed Ed to still be alive. Even after weeks turned into months. Several long months, months that Alphonse searched through. Day and night, his armored vessel didn’t need to rest. So he didn’t rest. Even after his armor began to rust uncomfortably and grime began to build up and up. 

He only stopped when he came across his Teacher and her husband, who had been looking for him and his brother after hearing that Ed became a damned dog of the military, after hearing about the accident in Lab 5. After hearing about his brother’s disappearance. Izumi had taken him in, or rather forced him to stay at the meat shoppe and argued or fought with him whenever he insisted he had to go, and let him take some time to reevaluate the situation. To comprehend a course of action or a plan on how to find Ed. Alphonse felt guilt for not being the one to have found Ed, but he was really relieved that he was found at all. 

Alphonse sighed, the sound soft but with a light echo inside of his armor. Emitting from the blood written array that bonded his soul to the armor. He finished clicking the numbers, drawing his gauntlet back as he waited for Mustang to hopefully pick up. It took a moment, his armor shifting uncomfortably as he waited, before a tired, exasperated but familiar voice came through the other side of the line.

— “Hello? Who is this?”

Mustang asked with an impatient tone, Alphonse could practically see the way his face would show only the slightest bit of irritation. It didn’t calm his non-existent nerves.

“Ah, hello colonel Mustang! It’s me, Alphonse. I, uh. Lieutenant Ross called me just a few minutes ago and, uh, I was wondering..” He trailed off nervously, shifting his weight from one armored leg to the other, the metal groaning softly as he stood there. Mustang didn’t speak just yet, waiting for Al to go on. Say what he needed to. 

“She told me Havoc found Ed. Earlier, she said he and Lieutenant Havoc are at her house, she said he was fine. But I didn’t speak to him myself, and I didn’t talk to Lieutenant Havoc either.” Al continued, rambling, his words coming out much quicker than he intended them to, causing them to overlap slightly. He didn’t have vocal cords, nor did he have lips that could trip up and ruin his speech or slow his words; So they came out quick and jumbled, like a stampede of sorts. Thankfully, though, the colonel seemed to have caught everything he said.

— “Havoc? But he– Oh that bastard..”

Mustang grumbled, sighed through the phone, sounding confused at first before it led way to exasperation. 

— “You said they’re at her house? I’m guessing you’ll be coming, are the Curtis’ coming with you?”

Mustang eventually asked in a more calculating tone; Alphonse hummed and nodded, though Mustang couldn’t see. His armor creaked with the movement, not too obnoxiously but loud enough to be heard through the phone. 

“Yeah, I’ll be there in the afternoon at the latest with teacher and Sig. I’ll call you from a payphone when I get to Central.” Alphonse said, earning a hum of acknowledgement. The two exchanged a few more words before the colonel hung up, stating he needed to call and inform the rest of his team and wished Al a safe trip. Alphonse hung up, another sigh escaping him; He set down the phone against the receiver and went to tell Izumi and Sig the news. That Ed was safe and alive, and that they needed to get on the next train that went into the Central city.

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THIS IS SO CUTE IM CRYING

That’s his little brother.

Another drawing produced by smth @f15hyw15hy said

Idk what else to say with this

I just saw a post and it made me think. Y'know what fuck y'all I think Ed should've lost more in fmab when he gave up his Gate.

He had to get Al's *mind, body, and soul* out of Truth's domain. Basically all Ed gave up was knowledge, was fucking *mind*. WHERE THE HELL IS THE SOUL AND BODY??

I think Ed should've lost another limb, I would've laughed. Either that orrrr smth idk. Memories? Of the past 5-6 years he was traveling around Armestris with Al (CoS Al-ified fr)? Mayybbbeee idk. I just feel like him loosing only that and then getting his brother out of Truth's domain completely fine is bullshit. (Albeit, Al's severely malnourished and all but he almost immediately gets bodily strength back)

Holy shit I just thought of a funny idea. Not gonna say it though bc I need to roll it in my brain like a rotisserie chicken first.

Idk I'm tired as hell, you all get yo be subjected to my random thoughts.

Man I'm imagining 2003/CoS Al meeting the Brotherhood Elrics and being like what the FUCK do you mean you just gave up alchemy and everything was fine??

HE'D PROBABLY BE FUCKING LIVID ; CoS/2003 Ed would just be so done, not angry just - fuck hold on let me draw it.

Shinji posed. Ft. Alcohol for my favorite lil alcoholic.

But oh yeah CoS/2003 Al would probably react either verbally or physically violent. I don't hold that above him.

Chimera Ed doodles that totally didn't take me like 3 days bc I was procrastinating

I really like the one with Havoc braiding Ed's hair (A scene drawing from the fic ch 4, which I did post I wanted to announce that when I finished this)

Biblically accurate design lmao

YEAHHJ THE FUCKING FLASHBACK THAT MAKES ME CRY

elric brothers + cats

Some doodles

It's 3 AM I've been doodling for 7 hours straight.

thinking about how wrath's arc in 03 ends with him begging for a way to do human transmutation so he can bring his mother (sloth, trisha) back and then losing his arm and leg to the gate; and ed—who had insisted that homonculi weren't people, who originally wanted wrath to give him back his limbs and insisted that wrath didn't have a mother, who got hit with wrath screaming at him "she was your mother too!"—ed's last act before he sacrifices himself to get al back, is to ask rose to take care of wrath and bring him to resenbool where ed knows wrath will be cared for. ed's eldest half brother is gone, he is about to sacrifice his existence to give his younger brother a chance to live, and i think that by sending wrath to resenbool he is in effect acknowledging wrath as a brother as well. he can no longer call wrath (or envy for that matter) an interloper or fake, and i think that by extension he is accepting that when he killed sloth, he killed a person; he killed his mother again. wrath himself called her their mother—after accepting that he doesnt want to be human, ironically, he also recognizes ed as a person now, instead of a body to steal! and he does so because of the agony ed has chosen to inflict on both of them! recognition of the other through the ability to inflict and share pain.

full circle for both! they are both their mother's child, they are both cognizant of the other's personhood and struggle, they share the same pain and love and agony. all is one, one is all.

Ed will genuinely do anything for Al, and somewhat vice versa. (Al would do anything for Ed, but he'd be much less able to kill a human for him - the two did rationalize killing homunculi though, with Ed coming to terms that the homunculi were just as much people as he was and idk about Al)

They're just, the brothers ever.

I have to go to work and now I'm buzzing with excitement over fma 03 again.

first he was going to jump off a train with one arm for his brother now he was going to jump off a roof while injured i cant handle this boy

Since I'm posting some art, let me post the rest.

My most recent doodles I finisheddd yesterday. Two au ideas are present - fma 03 sonic au (Wrath as a mobian!!!!! He's not a bunny or a fox. He's a lynx, Ed's limbs are fox limbs.) And the second is an au with a different outcome of ep 51, where Ed and Wrath share Wrath's body Greedling style. Will I elaborate? ... Not for the time being.

Major spoilers for CoS below the cut.

I was high af when I was making this; But, Wrath survives au! Yes I know he's a homunculus so i shouldn't have to gague his injuries in order to see how more messed up his body would be, but he also doesn't have access to a lot of red stones - which Lust states is what enduces the regenerative processes, as if they are torn out of your stomach or they're thrown up you're weakened and won't be able to regenerate. It also is shown that it takes a decent amount of time for Wrath to regenerate, after Lust stabs him in the head and then runs off with Ed. I think that has something to do with how his original human body (bones, hair, skin, and all) were used in the human transmutation to bring him back, which canonically does make him weaker. I say it makes him hav3 scars left over from his fights and stuff, but that's also bc I like it when scars show up and STAY.

But yeah anyway uhh, Wrath's kinda fucked. Especially if he truly does have to eat (which homunculi dont have to but, again, Wrath is different from them - even if we dont know just how different, it is clear he does need to sleep and had eaten like a starving boy when Izumi and Sig fed him.) and therefore use his digestive system.

He did eat stones, he ate uhh. Around 9 red stones, give or take, before fighting with Gluttony. So that *could* give him the opportunity to heal the major damage - the airways, maybe the organs, and some of the broken bones or broken parts of his nervous system. But I doubt he'd of been able to heal everything, and I doubt his body would've healed correctly when it comes to his bones. They most likely healed in the wrong places, giving him a crooked spine or something of the sort. (Fucked up my boy :( )

As I wrote in big letters, I don't know enough about homunculi to decipher what would harm him that badly, let alone homunculi like Wrath, who is clearly a bit different than the others. Which is why I'm stating that he'd have some more humanic injuries for my piece of mind.

And I know what you're probably wondering, "But Giovi!!!!!!! Wrath was used, along with Gluttony, to open the Gate on the Armestrian side with Alphonse!!! How the hell are you making him survive with that still in mind!?", and to that I say, my friend, I know. I have that scene memorized in my head, but that's not the point.

I was thinking that when Wrath goes to the Gate, sees Izumi, supposed to be heartbreaking reunion, BUT BAM! Wrath gets a bit fearful, or something of the sort as it is Wrath, due to it being Izumi, he's scared of how she'll perceive him due to how many times he's turned her away, how they spent literal years leading up to her death dancing around each other and the trauma of it all - so he goes through the Gate like Envy did, avoiding death because he can't accept Izumi just yet. He rather embrace the Gate, something he is completely terrified of, than embrace Izumi just yet. Despite longing got it so bad to the point of wanting death, he couldn't do it. So he ends up innn "our world", probably comes through the Gate on the "our world" side and they're like 'oh shit a dead body, anyway' after Ed leaves.

Again, I'm still thinking this au, as well as the other two aus I've brought up, over because they're work in progresses. I'm insane, yes I know.

Someone told me to draw Wrath eating a fonut, so animation practice??

Plus random doodles. I need to draw more bsndnsnsm.

What if.

Listen, I see Ed and Al as trans in anyway (though my preferred hcs as of current are transfem Al and Transmale Ed).

But what if, WHAT IF transfem Ed?

What if, double hear me out, transfem Wrath(03)?

.... Yes, I'll see myself out, thank you for listening.

I have realized that I don't know how to draw gender. I've actually known this for a bit but when I go to draw the transfem Ed and Wrath they just. Look the exact same plus a skirt or whatever outfit I can think of (not saying men can't wear skirts, but that's part of the things too).

I guess the reason why Al looks kinda feminine, to me at least as this has been engraved in my brain, is the fact I draw eyelashes on Al - but I do that bc her design has very very very noticeable eyelashes and would be weird if I didn't draw them. Again, this is to me.

Also, I dunno how to draw ship art. Been struggling since drawing Edling (holy SHIT I need to draw more Edling, but Wrath and Ed have been consuming my mind lately) for Edling week bc I dunno any romance stuff except kissing. And biting too ig.

What if I dressed up as Sloth from fma 03 for Halloween and carried around a lil wrath?

This was honestly the idea I came up with last night, but now it gives me a deadline for when to have the creature finished by.

Anyway, have all of my recent sketches! I need to draw more djfncnbcc:

Including a bunch of Wrath sketches (ofc). TPN AU design concepts and sketches that I just doodled aimlessly. Sonic FMA AU stuff, including the answer to smth I remember someone asking - about how Ed gets the fox bite; Al bit him when on the island, and since they're both foxes... Boom, fox bite. Brother bite. Oh, and a doodle for the Wrath survives thing.

I haven't had motivation to draw recently, bit8i wanna draw more soon bcjjdndsyjx.

Bonus ship art under the cut:

Wrathfull doodles?? Kinda. They're the ones with the trans girl Ed and Wrath, bit they don't look all that different.

Also plus the head shapes and eye placements in the corner bc my bf was confused on who was who.

I will figure out how to draw this somewhat platonic but also possibly not platonic ship one day, I promise.

my version of self care

happyyy oct. 3 😼

Inktober day 3: Path

been fuckn around n redrawing memes