#almay

Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Rating: Teen (occasional language) Ship: Alphonse x Mei, Ed x Winry (side pairing) Status: Oneshot Tags: Worldbuilding, but for alkahestry, pining, Al’s a little slow, and a lot oblivious, letters, western vs eastern philosophies, individualism vs collectivism, traditional Chinese views, period appropriate imo, this kind of turned into a love letter to being chinese lol AO3

How’s the miniature brat? -Ed Taller. -Al Two years after everything that’s happened, Al travels to Xing to study alkahestry. What follows is a series of epiphanies.

US Vogue May 1974

Beska Sorensen wears classic white linen trousers and a cotton bandana print jacket. By Anne Klein. Trousers, viscose rayon, blouse. Makeup: Strawberry Lipstick, Creme Rich-Creme Blush and Crimsonberry d'Almay. Hairstyle by Rick Gillette.

Beska Sorensen porte un pantalon en lin blanc classique et un blouson en coton à imprimé bandana. Par Anne Klein. Pantalon, de viscose rayonne, chemisier. Makeup: Strawberry Lipstick, Creme Rich-Creme Blush and Crimsonberry d'Almay. Hairstyle by Rick Gillette.

Lucy Hale x almay

Modern-ish setting (probably)

Ed and Al as celebrity teen alchemists (Ed moreso than Al)

They have a larger age gap than in canon-- Al is thirteen or fourteen, and Ed's in his early twenties (and is Al's legal guardian).

Ed tries to resurrect their mom on his own. (I suspect he loses more than just his leg in the process.)

He becomes a recluse who never leaves the house (and is also super over-protective of Al).

He wants to fix himself, and he also hasn't given up on bringing back Trisha.

While researching, Ed is approached by a mysterious figure who refers to himself only as "Father."

'Father' tells him about the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculouses, which can grant any wish, and gives him the Butterfly Miraculous (which allows him to give ordinary people the superhuman abilities of homunculi).

Elsewhere, a wandering Guardian named Hohenheim (who's been hiding in hiding to make sure 'Father' couldn't get his hands on the miraculous or target his kids (whoops)) senses the activation of the Butterfly Miraculous and knows what he needs to do.

He gives the Ladybug Miraculous (which boosts the power of the purification arts) to a young Asian immigrant named May, who's been struggling to get used to her new home (and with the fact that alchemy, which was always her best subject, is now one of her worst, because western alchemy is totally different from the eastern alchemy she's used to). (She also has a big fat celebrity crush on Ed.)