Prose Alchemist

Title: Better Left Unsaid
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Winry, Edward, Alphonse.
Setting: General.
Summary: Winry stops arguing with things she can’t change.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word “Shoulder” at fan_flashworks. It was written on a very tight deadline, so it’s rather rough, but here it is.

( As usual, when Winry found the Elrics on the doorstep, it was only because Ed needed something fixed. )

Title: Form Follows Function
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse, Winry, Edward.
Setting: Sometime not long before 3 October.
Summary: Before they leave Resembool, Ed offers Al a surprising choice.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Since FMA canon shows us repeatedly that Ed can repair damage to Al’s armor, I have long wondered whether he might be able to modify it in other ways as well. This story is a speculative take on how that subject might have gone.

( The water is just about boiling. )

Title: Applesauce
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Edward, Alphonse, and Trisha Elric.
Setting: Early in the boys’ childhood.
Summary: Ed has always wanted to have things his way.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Elric-brothers kidfic, written for the prompt word “Apple” at fan_flashworks.

( I don’t like mushy applesauce. )

Title: Hero Worship
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Ed, Al, Hughes, and an original character.
Setting: General.
Summary: Ed is skeptical of the shocking claim made by an eccentric young alchemist.
Disclaimer: Kestra Wachter is mine, but all other characters belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This very unexpected exercise in trope inversion was written for the prompt word “Lever” at fan_flashworks. Since knowledge of DNA is referenced in FMA canon in relation to chimeras, I take the liberty of assuming that Amestrian genetic science is far enough advanced that the test proposed in this story would be possible. (And a trivia note for those with 1990s cartoon nostalgia: Kestra completely insisted on my imagining her as a human version of Gosalyn Mallard from “DarkWing Duck”. Brace yourselves.)

( I hope you realize we were in the middle of something on the other side of the country. )

Title: When Fishing For A Whale…
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse and Edward.
Setting: Shortly after Ed’s commissioning as a State Alchemist.
Summary: Al finds something curious in Ed’s suitcase.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word “Naked” at fan_flashworks. I was not thrilled with that prompt, but in the middle of a bad day, an idea for squishy Elric brotherly love sprang forth spontaneously.

( Alphonse Elric was bored. )

Title: Helping Hand
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Edward, Alphonse, and an alternate-world double.
Setting: First anime. Roughly five years after Conqueror of Shamballa.
Summary: The Elrics meet another familiar face on the other side of the Gate.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the awesome kristensk, as a combination birthday fic and 2016 genex exchange treat. This follows my story “More”—and by way of a very obscure crossover reference, it also throws a hint toward my story “Ironmongers and Alchemists”, which takes place decades later in the same timeline.

( Ed, I don’t think we should be doing this. )

Title: A Sign
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Edward and Alphonse.
Setting: First anime. Set two months after my story “Blood Ties”.
Summary: The Elric brothers go house-hunting.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word “House” at fan_flashworks. A house acquired by the Elrics features prominently in my forthcoming sequel to “Blood Ties”, as well as in a few other post-canon works of mine, so I thought I’d have some brotherly fun with a story of how they came to choose it.

( So what do you think? )

Title:Occupational Therapy
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Winry, Edward, Alphonse.
Setting: A few days after the Elrics’ human transmutation.
Summary: After the transmutation, Winry helps Al overcome a new fear.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word “Egg” at fan_flashworks. …Naturally, this story features another cameo by Buck, the nefarious rooster who figured into a few of my previous stories.

( We can live with a few less eggs—but Ed can’t live without you. )

Title: Substitution
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse and Elicia.
Setting: General.
Summary: Alphonse reinterprets a game with Elicia.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt “Hide And Seek” at fan_flashworks.

( Truth be told, Elicia Hughes wasn’t very good at the game of hide-and-seek yet. )

Title: Birthday Wish
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse, Edward, Hughes, Nina.
Setting: During the Elrics’ time studying with Shou Tucker.
Summary: Ed finds a creative interpretation for Al’s birthday wish.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompt word “Wish” at fan_flashworks. This story is notable for being my one hundredth “Fullmetal Alchemist” fic.

( So what do you want for your birthday, Al? )