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Title: Revolt of the Flesh
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Al, Winry and a lot of dead people
Pairing(s): None. (Ewww ... )
Rating: R (for, well, flesh-eating zombies)
Word Count: 2300 (my zombies come in drabbles)
Warnings: Um, zombies? Beware, beware?
A/N: Revised version of my entry for the 2007 FMA Zombie Apocalypse Challenge, written because I'd never tried horror before and rewritten for the sake of eliminating, or at least mitigating, a weak transition, some unhappy word-repetitions and the inevitable typos. Not sure I'll ever do something like this again; I'm not fond of the headspace I have to enter to attempt it. And, yes, it's arguable that I cheated by using [spoiler] to explain the situation, but I kept tripping over one of the fundamental principles of the FMAverse (coincidentally also the punchline to a family story about the hazing of the undertaker's newest apprentice, which makes it really hard to ignore). Besides, this way I got to play with narrative logic and Jungian archetypes. The Brothers Grimm ate my brain long ago. Concrit welcomed with steak tartare. Crossposted from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fullservicefma, fma_gen, fma_writers, and fma_fiction).
Dedication: Fornateprentice, who intones the word BRAAAAINS with more relish than anyone I know.
It's been a long time since the East saw a drought as bad as this. ( Read more... )
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Al, Winry and a lot of dead people
Pairing(s): None. (Ewww ... )
Rating: R (for, well, flesh-eating zombies)
Word Count: 2300 (my zombies come in drabbles)
Warnings: Um, zombies? Beware, beware?
A/N: Revised version of my entry for the 2007 FMA Zombie Apocalypse Challenge, written because I'd never tried horror before and rewritten for the sake of eliminating, or at least mitigating, a weak transition, some unhappy word-repetitions and the inevitable typos. Not sure I'll ever do something like this again; I'm not fond of the headspace I have to enter to attempt it. And, yes, it's arguable that I cheated by using [spoiler] to explain the situation, but I kept tripping over one of the fundamental principles of the FMAverse (coincidentally also the punchline to a family story about the hazing of the undertaker's newest apprentice, which makes it really hard to ignore). Besides, this way I got to play with narrative logic and Jungian archetypes. The Brothers Grimm ate my brain long ago. Concrit welcomed with steak tartare. Crossposted from
nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fullservicefma, fma_gen, fma_writers, and fma_fiction).Dedication: For
nateprentice, who intones the word BRAAAAINS with more relish than anyone I know.It's been a long time since the East saw a drought as bad as this. ( Read more... )