Fanfic: The Sneeze (Fullmetal Alchemist)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: The Sneeze
Fandom: FMA (manga or anime version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry
Pairing: None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Exchange of bodily fluids!
A/N: There's really no excuse for this, except that we were all children once. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fullservicefma, fma_gen, fma_writers, fma_fiction, and ed_winry).
Dedication: For Lucy and Noel, who might actually get this one.

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      The tickle in his nose is driving him crazy. Al suggested looking at the sky, but left when nothing happened, bored by his brother's complaints. Stretched out under the maple, Ed wriggles impatiently and squints again at the sun through the leaves.

      Winry skips by, then backtracks and leans over him. "What'cha doing?"

      "I'm -- " he says, and the sneeze explodes right into her face.

      "Eww!" She recoils, arms flailing; he rolls over and prudently turtles. "Edward Elric, that's GROSS!"

      Scrubbing at her mouth, she runs off. He scrambles up and follows, sniffling thoughtfully, wondering if he can do it again.

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[Disclaimers: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix); the anime of the same title was directed by Mizushima Seiji and story-edited by Aikawa Sho. Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu, Square Enix, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Aniplex, Bones, and dentsu. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[ankhutenshi.livejournal.com]

Cute! Poor Winry.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

She's got a lot to put up with.

[arantzain.livejournal.com]

Such a Calvin and Hobbes moment, my god.

<3 for this.

-Rantza

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ah, the genius that is Calvin and Hobbes. I am unworthy to unscrew the caps on Bill Watterson's markers, but I have occasionally wondered what he and Arakawa-sensei might have to say to each other ... :-)

[lyricnonsense.livejournal.com]

*bursts out laughing*

That's just great. I can't stop grinning. Or laughing.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Heh. My deep, dark fanfic secret: all the serious, writerly, angsty pieces are a front designed to increase my FMA street cred to the point that people will read my jokes.

[noob-alchemist.livejournal.com]

LOL! I love this! *adds to mems*

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! [wanders off, humming Shel Silverstein's poem about the dangerous sneeze to herself]

[terracottabones.livejournal.com]

LOL. That's so cute! Perfect young Ed/Al/Winry. I like the verbization of "turtle" especially.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Can't claim credit for "to turtle" -- at the very least, it's a local phrase for the curled-up posture small babies tend to slide into when you hold them on your shoulder (due to what the locals further call "a lack of truncal tone", i.e. a lack of muscle tone in the torso/neck. Why, yes, most of my friends are geeks. How did you guess?).

[terracottabones.livejournal.com]

*laughs!* It must be my internal geek-seeking meter. At least I got to make up the word "verbization."

*...still laughing*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ewww and yes I can most definitely see Ed wondering if he can do it again. Boys

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

The Y-chromosome truly does imbue its possessors with mysterious traits.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* "Mysterious traits" indeed.

Ed, Ed, Ed. You know, she'll get back at you someday when you least expect it...by making you buy her tampons.

*giggles*

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ed, Ed, Ed. You know, she'll get back at you someday when you least expect it...by making you buy her tampons.

At the little corner pharmacy with the near-deaf shop assistant: "FEMININE PRODUCTS ARE DOWN THE LAST AISLE ON THE RIGHT. I SUGGEST YOU STICK WITH MODESS -- THOSE NEWFANGLED BRANDS AREN'T HALF AS ABSORBENT AS THEY CLAIM TO BE. WHAT? THERE'S NO CALL FOR THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE IN HERE, YOUNG MAN!"

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

There you go. Write it. *grins in wicked anticipation*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

indeed it does. I've often marveled how any of them survive to adulthood

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm told they have a few redeeming virtues. My nephew, for example, likes FMA, which makes up for a lot.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ha!

[lil-missb.livejournal.com]

Hah, I love the last line!

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

[snicker] Ah, the fascination of the young with gross-out jokes: another human universal. :-)

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Silly little Edward.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Al decamped just in time, I think. :-)

[c-b-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Ornery!Ed is adorable at any age, IMO. Probably because I can identify with him so well.

I can't imagine why, since I'm so sweet and innocent, and never, ever, EVER play practical jokes or anything like that. >.>

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course not. [checks chair nervously before sitting, just in case]

[orion117.livejournal.com]

Boys! Who can explain their fascination with basic bodily functions? This was cute.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Occasions like this probably explain why Winry's so accurate with a wrench, too.

[militsa.livejournal.com]

Just a few days ago I caught my own two little boys trying to projectile-spit chewed-up gummy bears into eachother's mouths from a distance of about three feet apart, so I can only agree: boys are gross.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Just don't let them find out about cricket-spitting (http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/bugbowl/bugbowl.index.html).

[dreamer1789.livejournal.com]

Lol. Cute (in a gross way.) I loved that last line! :D

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Boys: he'll keep doing it until she puts the fear of a wrench into him. Or something.