lord el melloi ii

well.

the game gave me iskandar during thanksgiving.

and on my very next pull, waver came home.

heads up, life is Happen so right now all my time and brain  power is currently dedicated to house hunting 

           “PROFESSOR!!! PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!”

Goodbye, peaceful afternoon.

   “No idea, I literally come out of my room and BAM those two are cursing at each other wishing to murder the opposing force. Think it was something about Red Archer calling Blue Lancer a dog? It’s quite entertaining I don’t think even they remember why they are fighting.”

“Good morning, Red Archer and Blue Lancer are trying to murder each other. It’s amusing.”

more fma au thoughts:

i want to say that he met iskandar in the military, as a state alchemist, when he was still young and recently recovered from Waver’s Dumbest Idea Ever. even if that humbled him a little, he was still very much his fate/zero self. bossy, whiny, and more than a touch entitled, living only for the approval of other people.

iskandar probably thought he was a goddamn riot and took a shine to him immediately, dragging him all around and onto the front lines -- and waver let him, pretty much up until he over exerted himself and coughed blood all over him. there was a very serious conversaton wheren waver said that he doubted he’d live very long and he wanted to leave a legacy, and iskandar flicked him on the forehead and told him that was stupid because what was the point of leaving a legacy if he wasn’t enjoying living at all?

thus started a change for the better.

they stayed in the military for a while. and then things started to take a turn neither of them much liked: waver saw some of the insanely inhumane things his fellow state alchemists were doing, and iskandar decided that the people up top were so corrupt that he would be wholly unable to fix anything from the inside.

deciding they had other goals, other means to fix things, they ended up quietly disappearing one day. which, y’know, the military lets them so long as they’re sent regular reminders that there’s no way to totally escape. but they probably bank on waver keeling over before too long and iskandar hatching some bold plan that will get him killed long before they’re any real trouble.

Waver, about to drink some chemistry shit:

Diarmuid: master???? what are you doing

Waver, locking eyes with Diarmuid before swallowing the entire thing: trying to prove that smart people do stupid things

also while im thinking about the fma au still, waver’s specialty eventually shifts to trying to find the origin of alchemy and also doing everything he can to learn alkahestry to see if he can use it to reverse the damage to his body (so far, no success) and idly researching the philosopher’s stone.

he and iskandar probably live out in the friggin sticks and started in a small house and had to move in to a much larger one because he just ended up with a bunch of lost children.