Fanfiction: Wildered With Reading (FMA)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: Wildered With Reading
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry
Pairing(s): None. For reasons that will become obvious ...
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: The title for this one comes from Henry Augustin Beers's sappy poem, "On a Miniature" and the inspiration from rereading the slightly overwrought prose of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel (though the heroine thereof is less inclined to faint than rush off to save the hero, thank goodness). Concrit welcomed with vouchers for Almack's. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fma_gen, fma_writers and fma_fiction).

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      "You actually read that stuff?" Ed asks, noticing the dime romance peeking out of Winry's bag. "It's so ... girly."

      "I'm a girl," Winry reminds him. (Sometimes she has to.)

      "Yeah, but those girls are all helpless and frilly." He pokes the frilly, willowy figure illustrated on the cover and grimaces. "Screaming 'Unhand me!' at the villain and fainting onto the hero -- you wonder why anyone wants 'em." Looking Winry up and down, he adds, "Not like you. You'd throw wrenches."

      And he wonders why she reads romances. "How do you know so much about these things, Edward?" she inquires sweetly.

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[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and was 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.]

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Pffffft. You go, Winry. XD

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ed only reads the romance novels he finds left behind in station waiting rooms! And only out of desperation! Because sometimes there are no newspapers and the layovers are interminable!

[sagesoren.livejournal.com]

Pfff, Ed. "There were no other books and then next train wasn't for two hours! Two!" He should have tacked a "...or so I've heard" onto his comment about what the novels are typically like. :9

So short and sweet, haha.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ed's rather upset with me -- if this weren't a drabble, there would have been room for that "or so I've heard," but with the 100-word limit ...

[fractured-chaos.livejournal.com]

Ed only reads the romance novels he finds left behind in station waiting rooms! And only out of desperation! Because sometimes there are no newspapers and the layovers are interminable!


Excuses, excuses, Ed! I'm thinking Winry doesn't buy that. XD

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

She's smirking at him while he sputters. (This must be post-manga somewhere, because he'd never dare read a romance novel in front of Al ...)

[sagesoren.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I actually didn't even notice. That's sort of awesome. Well, not for him, of course.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Winry, on the other hand, is always pleased to get the last word. :-)

[leorising1959.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh. Ed knows whereof he speaks. ;D

[a-big-apple.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ed. He doth protest too much. Or he would, if the wordcount was higher. XD

[secondafterpass.livejournal.com]

Ha, caught! Very nice. (Now here's a double chinned smiley: :))

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

It's not like the dam' things aren't all over the place in bookshops! And they all have the same plot anyway, right? Right?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

How unfortunate for him that a drabble is a story in 100 words, no more, no less -- and that I'm INTJ enough to hew to such standards. Heh.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

What's kind of funny is that I had Winry's spoken zinger from the get-go, but the sentence that precedes it only popped up as I was writing -- I had planned to go with some variation on her deciding not to thank him for the backhanded compliment. I think this works better (it certainly helped me hew to the word limit!).

[absolutefiction.livejournal.com]

Pfft HAHAHAHAHA.

[alchemyotaku75.livejournal.com]

Touche', Ed... *grins*

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

And - and for making fun of! Because no one could believe that kind of tripe!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Winry: "Tripe?"

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I love a good "gotcha!" moment in my drabbles. Winry seems to get most of them, somehow ...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Love the icon. *grins back*

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*Backpedals* Uh - uh - not tripe - I mean -

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Winry: *lifts eyebrow and waits for him to go on*

[seawasp]

The only things other than romances are shelved too high for him to reach?

:)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Zing! :-)

(I'm just going to stand back and watch him try to break out of the literary frame now.)

[seawasp]

Before you beat me up, Ed, remember that I could just encourage my wife to do MORE things to you in her fanfics. So far she's had you drugged and brainwashed by fringe Nazis and rescued by Captain Jack Harkness, thrown into the future to become part of a CSI:Miami mystery, and she's put you and your brother into the middle of a cross-dimensional Torchwood plot.

It could get worse.