Prose Alchemist

Title: No Frills
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Winry, Pinako, Winry’s parents.
Setting: Pre-canon.
Summary: The biggest influence in Winry’s life was apparent early on.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for leni as a fandom_stocking gift. It also fills the prompt of “Bows/Frills/Lace” at genprompt_bingo.

( The morning of Winry Rockbell’s fifth birthday, her parents presented her with a new dress. )

Title: Wardrobe Adjustment
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Yukio, Rin, Shiemi.
Setting: Post-anime.
Summary: Yukio returns home from a trip to find something alarmingly absent.
Disclaimer: They belong to Kazue Kato. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: A fandom_stocking gift for the awesome kristensk. This is another installment in my post-anime “Demon Yukio” series, taking place after the pivotal events of “Crutch”.

( Even with keys that allowed for instantaneous transportation, travel could be a tiring business. )

Title: Literary Torture
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Edward, Winry, Alphonse.
Setting: General.
Summary: When a visit to Winry for repairs is poorly timed, Edward does not go unpunished.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This story is purely silliness (with a dash of contempt for certain persons who have corrupted the modern image of classic monsters). I’ve been thinking about this scenario for a long time, and even hinted at it in my story “Night-Riders”. Now, I’m finally writing it as a fandom_stocking gift for evil_little_dog.

( ‘Winry’s going to kill us,’ Edward groaned. )

Title: Plaything
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for implied adult situations.
Characters: Mikaela and Krul.
Setting: General.
Summary: Mikaela never slept easily when Krul lay beside him.
Disclaimer: They belong to Takaya Kagami. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: My first “Seraph of the End” fic. A fandom_stocking gift for evilmuffins. I’m drawn to the pairing of Mikaela/Krul, but I’m still not sure of how to handle it, so I hope this works.

( It helped a little to imagine, if only for a while, that she had wanted him this way from the start. )

Title: Tangled
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Edward and Pinako.
Setting: Between the Elrics’ human transmutation and their departure from Resembool. (Also shortly after my story “Appearance”, and during the events of my post-transmutation study “From Ashes”.)
Summary: Ed finds one task his metal fingers are particularly ill-suited for.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This fic is a fandom_stocking gift for halcyonskies, and it also fills the prompt of grooming at genprompt_bingo. I wanted to write an interaction between Edward and Pinako, who tends to be rather underused.
(For the record, my reference to Winry’s uncle in this story is based on a statement made by Pinako. In the first-anime episode “Mother”, she declares that State Alchemists were involved in the attacks that cost the lives of her sons, plural—meaning at least one other besides Winry’s father. My proposal is that the other son was not in Ishbal as merely a civilian.)

( He was becoming tempted to reach for the scissors and be done with the whole thing. )

Title: Interior Designs
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Kirito and Asuna.
Setting: Just after Kirito and Asuna bought their house in Aincrad.
Summary: It wasn’t their first argument, but it was the first one about something normal.
Disclaimer: They belong to Reki Kawahara. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written as a fandom_stocking gift for amaresu. One of the expressed likes was curtainfic, so I thought it would be fun to delve a little deeper into the intricacies of creating a home in Aincrad.

( What do you think of this one, Kirito? )

Title: Un-Growing Pains
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Hughes, Edward, Alphonse.
Setting: Any.
Summary: Beware of the size tantrum that was never fully vented the first time around.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written as a fandom_stocking gift for moriu. It also fills the prompt “teenagers” on my genprompt_bingo card.

( It had seemed like a good plan at the time. )

Title: The Broken Vessel
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Fuery and Izumi, with Sig and Mason in the background.
Setting: General.
Summary: Kain Fuery seeks teaching from Izumi Curtis, but the lesson learned is not what he expects.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Presented as a Fandom Stocking gift for leni_ba. This is a sequel to my ficlet “That Which Doesn’t Kill You…”, but the brief backstory is provided, so it can be fully understood on its own.

( Kain Fuery frowned and scratched his head, squinting down at the envelope in his hand. )

Title: Life of the Party
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Primarily Roy and Edward, with brief glimpses of Alphonse and Hughes.
Setting: First anime, but fairly general. Takes place while eleven-year-old Ed is studying for the State Alchemy Exam.
Summary: Mustang learns that getting what he wants from Ed isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Just a bit of humorous fluff. Presented as a Fandom Stocking gift for cornerofmadness.

( On a late afternoon, Mustang found the Elric brothers in Shou Tucker’s library. )

Title: Slow Down
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Alphonse and Edward.
Setting: General.
Summary: Al wishes Ed would just slow down once in a while.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written as a fandom_stocking gift for yhlee. It’s very, very loosely inspired by the shot of Ed and Al fishing in one of the FMA anime’s opening sequences.

( Really, the thing that bothered Alphonse more than being a giant metal freak was the guilt. )