Fanfiction: Overqualified (Fullmetal Alchemist)

[nebroadwe]

Title: Drabble: Overqualified
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Winry
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: Bets on whether post-homunculus-conspiracy Amestris isn't going to have some problems re-adjusting to a peacetime economy? Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, winrylovers, fma_gen, fma_writers and fma_fiction). Concrit welcomed with a spared dime.
Dedication: For evil_little_dog. Knock 'em dead on Thursday! (Er ... you know what I mean.)

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      Job-hunting during a recession makes most people desperate; Winry Rockbell just gets cranky. So it's inevitable that when yet another sweaty-palmed male chauvinist leers at her and suggests he might be able to find her an opening, if she proves ... qualified ... she pulls a wrench on him.

      "How about this?" she asks sweetly. "You give me the job because I'm a qualified engineer, and I won't crush your ugly supraorbital foramen."

      Fortunately Granny wires the bail money without question, so Ed and Al need never hear about Mr. Sweaty Palms. One attempt at human transmutation is enough for a lifetime.

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[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix). Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu and Square Enix. All rights reserved.]

Comments

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I had no idea this was going to resonate with so many people. The new feminism: know your stuff and carry a big wrench. :-)

[star-x-faery.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Just keep a wrench in your purse, and you're totally covered. :)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I've got a Swiss Army knife and a Leatherman pocket tool -- does that count?

[star-x-faery.livejournal.com]

LOL I think it does, though it doesn't have quite the comedic effect of a big, metal wrench, you know?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Sadly, size does matter.

[star-x-faery.livejournal.com]

As does density and metal content.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed -- kanja177 insists that the 10-foot-long insulated fandom-poking stick I use on her behalf at the Pit of Voles (when she's in the mood for new 'fic but has run out of brain bleach) be made of titanium.

[star-x-faery.livejournal.com]

LMAO. Or coltan!

but what's it insulated with?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

She hasn't said. I'll have to ask, I guess. She's a scientist, so I just trusted that whatever it was insulated with would work. White coat hypnosis. :-)