Fanfiction: With Weeping and With Laughter (Fullmetal Alchemist)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: With Weeping and With Laughter
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Ed
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: Written in response to evil_little_dog's Don't Forget Challenge. Unbeta'd and likely to mutate in small ways before it goes to archive. Concrit welcomed with scenes from my anecdotage!

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When young and old in circle around the firebrands close;
When the girls are weaving baskets and the lads are shaping bows ...
With weeping and with laughter still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old.

-- Macaulay, Horatius
      Forget homunculi -- these days, when Ed visits Central, children ten times more persistent hound him. Tell us about the monster on the island! Tell how you lost your watch in Rush Valley! Tell about the battle on the train! Reticence fires their imaginations; rebuffs fall on selectively deaf ears. Ask your father. Ask your mother (and I didn't lose it -- it was stolen). Ask your uncle -- no, not your Uncle Roy! All right, listen, here's what really happened ...

      Time has already cast its glamor over his youth; his best hope for theirs is to transmute legend into wisdom. Listen. Listen.

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[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix); two anime of the same title were produced by Studio Bones. Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu, Square Enix, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Aniplex, Bones, and dentsu. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, but we wanted them to scandalize the children Ed and Ran Fan (Ling, Winry and Al would be far too understanding, one thinks).

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Drat. Another brilliant idea brought to wrack on boundary conditions.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Surely there's an A.R. somewhere I can use....