#partingwayssoon

-ezra

Ooh let me take this opportunity to gush about a few AUs that may or may not even exist in the space outside my head…

Okay so vampire!Al has to be high up on the list, because what’s not to love about Elrics engaging in parasitism? Knitting them even more closely in codependency, forcing them to literally consume parts of each other to survive? Not to mention any AU where Al is human-shaped during canon events is an automatic yes from me. My libido can only go so far with a giant suit of armor.

Then there’s the lovely modern AU brought to life by my partner in crime @konekowrites, which I kind of consider the default modern AU—the More Than Words ‘verse, where Ed and Al attend college with Winry, Ling, Lan Fan, and May, navigating adulthood and incestuous feelings. It is also the college we decided, as a joke, the Attack on Titan characters attend while a wholly different kind of brother-romance takes place. Incest University! (This story, unlike mtw, has not been posted anywhere public, because writing is hard.)

There have been posts made about this next AU, and not just by us nasty incest freaks—the AU in which Ed and Al share a body! Instead of the armor, Ed panics a little harder than he does in canon and bonds Al’s soul to himself, leaving the two of them stuck together, forced to pretend to be one person to the rest of the world. Who would believe otherwise? But since I am a nasty little incest gremlin, I also headcanon that this shared headspace allows for them to dream together—making all their fantasies come to life! After all, it’s gotta be pretty hard hiding your crush from your brother when you literally share brain space, am I right? Plus, they’d get to explore their arousal together, both awake and asleep! I’ve written dreamscape sex for this AU, and Ko has written a lovely post-restoration piece where the boys aren’t quite…accustomed to not sharing anymore.

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BLORBO ASKS GAME

🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 it’s so sweet that you wanna participate!! Thank you!  I chose a few random questions that weren’t asked yet~

3. was there any specific point / any specific moment that suddenly made this character your Blorbo, or did you slowly grow to love them more and more until they became a Blorbo to you?

I liked Gojou from the start but both the scene in the morgue and later the Shibuya incident reaffirmed that he’s my babygirl

4. what’s the thing you love the most about your Blorbo?

I love his silliness and his competence when he’s doing a violence UwU + i love that he’s selfish and callous but also kind and sweet in his own way

6. if you could talk to your Blorbo, what would you say to them?

Just kill the higher ups lmao! also go get better friends

7. what’s the one thing the fandom gets wrong about your Blorbo?

He’s not a dad but he’s also not a heartless bastard incapable of thinking with more than his jujutsu cock. There’s nuance here. Also it annoys me when people blame him for not taking Hana as a ward. There was literally somebody else helping her already. We don’t know enough about the situation and to use it as another condemnation of Gojou is just purposefully looking for flaws.

13. is there any crime, any wrongdoing your Blorbo could commit that would make you stop loving them and remove them from your hyperfixation entirely?

In canon? Being a lolicon i guess

18. do you ship your Blorbo with any character?

Yuuji! And only Yuuji~ all other Gojou ships i have on my blocklist. Those ships do nothing for me except make me extremely irritated.

20. if you have more than one Blorbo, do you love them all equally?

I’m not sure about love because i never stopped loving all these characters but my passion has gone down for them a lot. But like with Kageyama my special interest in him has returned a fair bit.

30. do you think this character will still be your Blorbo three years from now on?

Yeah he’ll always be special to me! Tho in three years my main fandom could be different. Jjk is over and Modulo has some really stupid bullshit going on sometimes besides all the interesting bits

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-ezra

Oh, Titanic for sure! @konekowrites is a genius and came up with most of the ideas I have rotating for it. I love the boys finding each other despite living wildly different lives. I adore the way they so easily and immediately connect and fall for each other. I love them defying the odds, being brave and taking the first steps to be together, and I love it happening on the most doomed-from-the-start ship in modern history!

As a treat, have some mostly never-before-seen art I made for this crossover back in the big year of 2021, featuring Winry, Father, and the most iconic poster pose of all time!

Favorite color: blue! Sky blue specifically

Last song listened to: Anything Else by biz barclay

Currently watching: the One Piece live action! I also started watching Frieren recently.

Currently reading: Deadline by Mira Grant. I’m being continually, pleasantly surprised by the level of codependency the two main characters (a brother and sister) have.

Current obsession: um. Omegaverse? I guess? It’s weird, I’ve never been a huge omegaverse person—I’ve definitely enjoyed it in the past, but not to this degree. I guess it took thinking about legal fraud, financial vouchers, and immunity in the eyes of the law to get me really obsessed? Who knew! (Shoutout to @tiny-ss for listening to all my unhinged ramblings about it ♥️)

Currently working on: Next to Normal elricest. And the new Trigun finale has catapulted me back into plantcest, so I’m rotating some missing scenes (as well as complete AU scenes) in my mind. Am I working on them yet? Well…in spirit.

Last google search: c. Cop—mmm. “Copy-paste omega symbol.” Dear god.

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Hmm so I have multiple answers to this, because I ascribe to the Schrödinger’s headcanon rule—whichever fits your mental narrative best at the moment is the most true! I like to imagine there’s a universe where the boys have been together since childhood. Since they lost their mother, they’ve fallen into this strange role in society between “children” and “adults.” They may need someone to care for them/teach them sometimes (Pinako, Izumi) but they still mainly are alone in the world. I always think of that one ending sequence in Brotherhood where they’re grocery shopping and walking home, Al following behind Ed dutifully. They had to look after themselves! I imagine in those years alone in their mother’s house, taking care of it even though they planned to bring Trisha back, they fell into some…habits while they played house. People who live together like this are usually married, and married people share a bed…sometimes more…they can be like that too…

This is how I think when I hear lines like “I want to touch you again, brother” from Al. What a normal, platonic, brotherly thing to say! How can you not hear that and think “oh, they’re weird-weird.” They’re already dedicated to each other in every way possible—physically and emotionally. And who doesn’t love a good armorsex aside? Al bending his much-smaller brother in half and reducing him to a boneless lump? Yes please.

Likewise, though, there is a part of me that wants to think they’ve spent all those years of canon in deep, repressed denial and longing. That their relationship doesn’t stray into romantic or physical until after Al gets his body back, and Ed just can’t help himself anymore. (Al can’t either—experiencing arousal for the first time in his adolescent years? How insanely fun—and frustrating—for him!) It’s fun to imagine either brother making the first move—Al, slick and sly, easing Ed into the concept, trying to soothe his guilt, assuring him of how much he wants whatever Ed’s about to do. Or Ed, beet red and blushing, disheveled from how much he’s worked himself up over his feelings, blurting out how he feels or what he wants. Unable to meet Al’s eyes, of course, whether or not he’s actually touching Al. It’s fun to imagine it with the guilt or without, depending on my mood. If I want angst, I ramp up the guilt. If I want them shameless, then it’s them against the world! Just the two of them, however they decide! 😤

-ezra

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