Royed Week 2023

Summary: Roy’s hands have been hurting for the better part of the day.

At first, it wasn’t even that bothersome. When he woke up in the morning, there was only this peculiar, strange feeling of buzzing numbness. It was easy to think that he simply slept on his arms and now was suffering the consequences. He even laughed along with Ed, when his mug slipped from his hands. Only Ed’s reflexes saved it from getting smashed to pieces. “Damn, you’re really getting old,” Ed muttered, chuckling.

Then, he went to the headquarters, where the exhausting heat made every second spent in his office more insufferable than it already was. It didn’t help that Riza had declared that he had been falling behind for far too long and he should focus more on his paperwork. So he was reading. And writing. All day.

That turned the numb buzzing into an ache.

However, that was still manageable. It was still dull. Roy could push it to the back of his mind, ignore it as long as he needed to.

And then it started to rain.

I had an idea for the ‘prophet’ prompt, but I didn’t have the time to write a fic for it (and neither do I really want to), so… as per usual, all you get is this long summary of the story: 

Summary: It’s strange how instincts work. One second you’re feeling all right, the other you’re filled with an overwhelming dread. One second you hear a booming noise of a wall being busted, but you turn around, because you thought you heard a slightly quieter noise of a body falling behind you.

For Royed week, day 4: Injury

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang Characters: Edward Elric, Roy Mustang Additional Tags: Ed has a daughter, She plots with Al and Gracia, Children who know better than their parents, Icing - it’s not just for cookies anymore, This is not smutty even if that last tag sounds like it should be, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, RoyEd Week 2023 Summary:

Roy watched as a perfectly miniature version of Ed Elric pushed past her father and gave him the once over. Her hands were noticeably not covered in pink but an apron hung fashionably over her clothes. At four years old, Maize Elric was a precocious child and she seemed to approve of whatever she saw in Roy.

Podfic of Icing by hunters_retreat

RoyEd Week 2023 - Day 2: Child Acquisition

Al looked out to the sky, watching a pair of birds drift around each other, following each other.

"I don't think the Colonel would cry turning someone down. I think he would have to care a great deal about the person he let see him cry."

Ed scuffed his foot against the dusty floor of the platform. What he had Seen in the vision had certainly been different from the arrogant man, the elegant, controlled man Ed knew in the present. It was hard not to suspect some sort of manipulation from him, but it had seemed so genuine.

Ed remembered the taste of Mustang's tears. He remembered the man's uncaring voice on the phone that morning.

Rules for Writers: Post (approximately) six sentences from something you’re working on. If you aren’t ready to do that, add six sentences to your WIP.

From the Seer universe:

Ed feels the tension on his scalp as Mustang grips the man’s hair and the feeling of it runs down his spine. Mustang’s voice is rough and deep and— Ed loses his grip on the vision, It’s absorbed back into the eternity of possibilities. 

Ed was left laying there on the roof, different futures sliding past his mind, barely leaving an awareness of them. He was breathing heavily. His body reacted.

Ed sat up, left hand balled up in the fabric of his shirt, staring at nothing. That had been…intense.

The nightmares had been happening for a while, getting more intense since he'd moved to central, more clear. They weren't Ed's nightmares, not the cellar on that dark night, or Mom laying still in her bed, or terrible, shapeless aloneness. They were nightmares of drowning, of watching his own hands do horrible things, of quiet, lifeless ash. The nightmares came from somewhere, from someone. He was sure they weren't from his mind in any way.

It wasn't until Ed met the man the nightmares came from that they both realized they could share dreams as well. Strangely echoing dreams of their own faces across the room. Desire multiplied by two experiences. Traitorous futures. Pulling something back from God.

They could share dreams. And neither Ed nor Roy are people who can see a dream and do nothing.

“Behave yourself, Dog” 

Royed Week Day 1: Immortality

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Elric/Roy Mustang Characters: Roy Mustang, Edward Elric Additional Tags: Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Post-Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Background Relationships, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Humor, Innuendo, Pet Names, Established Relationship, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, RoyEd Week 2023 Summary:

Christmas at the Rockbell-Elrics’ winds down, but not without a few more lousy jokes.

Podfic of Later On by Tierfal

RoyEd Week 2023 - Day 1: Found Family

Royed Week Day 1: Immortality

Rules for Writers: Post (approximately) six sentences from something you’re working on. If you aren’t ready to do that, add six sentences to your WIP.

From the Seer universe:

Ed feels the tension on his scalp as Mustang grips the man’s hair and the feeling of it runs down his spine. Mustang’s voice is rough and deep and— Ed loses his grip on the vision, It’s absorbed back into the eternity of possibilities. 

Ed was left laying there on the roof, different futures sliding past his mind, barely leaving an awareness of them. He was breathing heavily. His body reacted.

Ed sat up, left hand balled up in the fabric of his shirt, staring at nothing. That had been…intense.