Repost Of An Ed/Alfons Conquerer Of Shamballa AU Oneshot:

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I think there's probably a period during Al's travels where he gets so excited about getting to experience new things and make up for his time in the armor, that he starts getting really bad at staying in contact with Ed.

It's not that he doesn't want to talk to Ed - in fact, he's taking careful notes of his entire journey with the intention to one day let Ed read all of it - but he's just so enamored with experiencing LIFE that he just. Forgets to call. Forgets to send a letter.

The gaps in between their conversations get longer and longer and Al doesn't even realize it because he's filling his time with so many new things - food and dating and friends and clothes and seasons and hot springs and snow-capped, chilly mountains, etc, etc, etc.

And Ed starts panicking, because maybe Al's going to end up like their dad - just disappear one day on travels he doesn't take the time to explain. Maybe in giving Al his life back, Ed needs to be content with not holding him down.

He refuses to tell Al any of that, though. He wants his brother to be free to do whatever he wants. He doesn't want to hold him back from that.

It takes Winry taking over the phone during one of their rare phone calls and yelling some sense into Al's ear for him to realize just how bad he's gotten about messaging home.

He immediately makes plans to head back to Resembool for a long, extended stay with his family, where he can finally hand his journals over to Ed in person and let him see all the amazing things he's been up to.

He never goes longer than a week without checking in again.

Rewatching yuri on ice instead of coping with my depression

Could Be the One - Mixed Feelings

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leo de la Iglesia/Ji Guang-Hong, Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Leo de la Iglesia, Ji Guang-Hong, Otabek Altin, Yuri Plisetsky, Emil Nekola, Michele Crispino, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri, Phichit Chulanont, Christophe Giacometti, Lee Seung Gil Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Sexual Frustration, Drunkenness, Hangover, Slow Build, Crushes, Mutual Pining, Separations, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Homophobic Language, Budding Love, Domestic Violence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Masturbation, Sexual Harassment, First Dates, First Christmas, Opportunities Series: Part 5 of Met by Accident Summary:

Guang-Hong’s parents visit him in the States, the trip testing everything that Guang-Hong has.

He was caught in mixed feelings, ecstatic to see his mother since he had missed her but dreading his father’s company for the next six days. He and Leo had a conversation days before about disclosing their relationship to Guang-Hong’s parents, both deciding to keep it to themselves to keep strife at bay. Following a hug from Leo after their talk, Guang-Hong was feeling marginally better about the trip.

He smiled when he saw his mother round the jetway and take several steps into the gate. His father followed soon after, his typical dour expression on his face. Guang-Hong gulped and hesitantly walked toward them. Plastering a smile onto his face, he called out to his mother and basked in her warm and loving grin.

“My dearest Guang-Hong, I’ve missed you so much,” his mother said, enfolding her son into an embrace.

“Father,” Guang-Hong said once his mother released him and held out his hand.

“Son,” his father said disdainfully, “I am tired from the flight. I want to be taken to the hotel.”

“Of course,” Guang-Hong said, his spirits drooping.

"I do" 💜💍💙

My favorite shipp

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

There is something so funny about how Yuder introduces you to the novel telling you he didn't gaf that much about Kishiar, actually. Successfully made me think that they didn't gaf about e/o like that, and that must be why its a slow burn? They weren't all that close, Yuder was just his subordinate, then his successor, and had to kill him at some point. Sure.

And then.

Like 40 chapters in, 2nd TL Kishiar drops this insane ass "how about we share a bed sometime?" question, which is outrageous in its own right.

But then Yuder manages to say something even crazier. Drops this fucking bombshell of a "I never thought I'd hear this question twice in my life..." followed up with "we fucked in my past life pretty often actually" and I'm like HOLD ONNN???? DID U NOT FORGET TO MENTION THIS AS A PRETTY IMPORTANT PART OF IT WHEN TALKING ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM???