Roy/Ed fluff drabble

[mikkeneko]

Title: Expressions
Rating: PG, worksafe
Word count: 100


Edward Elric is quite attractive, but that's no novelty. Roy knows many beautiful people, including the one in his mirror, but he's long since learned that this beauty is as shallow as the skin it's built on.

It's only Edward who's stopped him, held his attention. Because every time he thinks he's memorized every facet of Edward's beauty, his mood changes, and there's another one to study. It seems there's no end of them.

Edward Elric has many expressions, and Roy's made it his goal in life to learn every. Last. One.



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Was thinking tonight how sometimes in my writing I have to catch myself, thinking "Whoa there, tone it down. Ed isn't THAT attractive."

Then I look at a screencap, or a piece of official art, and I'm reminded that YES. HE. IS. HE REALLY IS THAT ATTRACTIVE.

And a large part of the attraction lies in his expressiveness. He has a truly amazing range of emotion and he shows each one acutely -- and they're ALL attractive. X3 Ed has the unique ability to look good in every situation, every pose, every emotion, and every outfit.

(Well, I may be a bit unfair in his favor, because those poses where he DOESN'T look beautiful, I find him appealing and cute. Yes, including the afro. I guess it's just love-colored glasses.)

This may be one of the first anime fave-chars for which this is true. I loved Yohji as much for his snark and angst as for his whorishness, but he was actually surprisingly HARD to get looking good. When he DID look good, he looked VERY very good, but in most lighting he looked pretty awful. Ah, that's what you get with cheap art.

And for Duo -- well, my Duo love will never fully die, but I admitted long ago that he was not half so attractive in official art as he was made in fanart in doujin. Ed, surprisingly, usually looks as good or better in his official style as he does in fanworks. Not that the fanart isn't wonderful or gorgeous or very, very fun to look at -- but it's hard to get the right mix of sturdily handsome, childishly cute, and ethereally beautiful.

Comments

[kytyngurl2.livejournal.com]

*points to icon* Look, you got Ed all blushing!

That's an incredibly sweet and cute little drabble. ^_^
And, wow, Roy sounds smitten there too. <3 <3 <3 Complete love.




As for the fan-ing part, I am in total agreement... Ed is expressive and he is really damn attractive.

I also have to admit agreement on the Duo thing, as much as I adore the guy. Fanart Duo is a lot different than official art Duo. Sad, really. T_T

*melts*

You are up early today! :o

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

I had to go to work. ^_^; I don't normally post before work, but I'm usually up around that time.

Glad you liked the drabble! :) I really had equal option to go Roy/Ed or Elricest, but I decided on Roy/Ed for my poor neglected half.

[kytyngurl2.livejournal.com]

Figured as much.... :o

Yay for the poor neglected half!

And besides, it gave you a chance to have Roy be a bit egotistical. :D

[feast.livejournal.com]

I love the drabble. Especially the little bit of Roy narcissism. XD

Yes, Ed's character design is love on so many levels. I think another part is the eyes. It goes along with the expressiveness. For some anime characters, their eyes can show about five emotions, but Ed's adapt with pretty much all of his moods. And the face...*fangirl-ish swoon*

Ah, Duo. ^^; Duo was an attractive character, but the official art just didn't do a lot of justice to as what the fanart did. I've seen that with lots of anime, but FMA is pretty equal with Ed's attractiveness.

*__*

[kaitou-marina.livejournal.com]

Ed is a psychotically charismatic individual. I don't know how Arakawa came up with that character, or how she and the animators always manage to make him attractive, but I wish I god I could come up with a character like that. Ed's just the sort to draw people to him, I think...

Mmm... Hoho-papa and Trisha genes XD

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Ed is a psychotically charismatic individual.

Hey, that's a good way to describe it. ^_^

I want to find me an Elric to marry so I can have cute Elric babies. ;_;

[tir-synni.livejournal.com]

Ed's attractive, but his expressiveness gives him a uniqueness that makes him beautiful. I think that's what makes him such an interesting character. ^_^

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's a real nice change over series where the main character's expressions consist of stoic, stoic, stoic, and occasionally grim rage.

[asidian.livejournal.com]

Sweet, pretty little drabble- and the rant that follows had me cracking up. Because it's so -true-. XD

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the drabble! Know Roy/Ed isn't your primary interest. :)

[gwyneda.livejournal.com]

The drabble was cute =D and the rant...AMEN to that! o_O; Now I feel better over obsessing with Ed >.>;

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

I ♥ the drabble. And I agree about Ed always looking good.

You may be surprised, but I'll agree about Duo, too. I think in the series he was partly there for comic relief, so he has some very weird expressions. He looks excellent in EW, though. My love for him is based more on his personality than his looks. ^_~

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

I am a little surprised, but I'm glad that you think so too. Means I can't be imagining it. :)

The amazing thing about Duo was what the fans who fell in love with him made of him, really. His part in the original series wasn't all that big.

EW art was prettier than series art just overall.

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

I agree, not only is he physically attractive, but he has such an attractive PRESENCE as well. Like watching fireworks. You kind of have to sit back and go oooh.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

His liveliness is half the attraction. He wouldn't look half so attractive if he were comatose or otherwise unaffective. She lies smoothly, knowing damn well that Ed would look gorgeous in a coma and, um, spoilers so she'll shut up now.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Ed is one of those people you either love or hate (sometimes both) simply because he does have that particular combination of physical beauty and powerful personality that he's just impossible not to react strongly to. Not surprising that he's managed to catch Roy's eye, despite the fact that Roy's got his own measure of the same qualities to help him resist.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

True. Note that I stopped short of demanding that everyone love him, although I can't fathom why anyone wouldn't. ^_^

[tavella.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite examples of his expressivity is from the (2nd) OP, where he's drifting on screen with a rose blossoming behind his head, looking utterly angelic, and then he opens his eyes and gives one of his devil-grins and the rose explodes.

The combination of extraordinarily pretty character design and charismatic character writing is really something.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

...

Excuse me, I just had a fangasm. Back in five.

[tyrusia.livejournal.com]

you know, if edward actually existed, we'd all be arrested, right?
still wish he was real. anyway, i wanted to say something to mikkeneko. in your series of fics(the ones where you are extraordinarily cruel to edward, more so even than me, and that's saying something),since he's lost all his limbs, then can't he at least be made TALLER?
i mean,with both legs gone, winry can add a few inches, right? it's only fair.please?
anyway, i still think it's odd that i came up with a lot of the same situations with no prior knowlege of your fic in the first place. and i've since found others that follow the same guidelines as well. what is it about this fandom that makes us torure hagane no in the same way, over and over?
the case in point usually has something to do with both envy and the gate...er...having their way with him...

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

...I really do think that in that fic, Ed has other things on his mind. ^_^; And prior to Blue Skies, at least, he either could not see the height difference or wasn't standing up to appreciate it. Heck, maybe he'd start to fuss now that that's changed.

Also, you came up with the same scenario? Where was that?

[tyrusia.livejournal.com]

yeah, i know he has bigger concerns, i just feel so bad for him that i'd like you to throw him a bone, that's all.poor ed...
mine is on adultfanfiction.net.
it's called 'hagaren:pain and pleasure' by elriconeechan. you'll see what i mean.but i really did come up with it independantly of any other fic...i still can't understand why that happens to me so often.i think i mention it in the final disclaimer.however...
after i wrote it, i've been too embarrased to look at it much...

[devils-devotion.livejournal.com]

This may be one of the first anime fave-chars for which this is true. I loved Yohji as much for his snark and angst as for his whorishness, but he was actually surprisingly HARD to get looking good. When he DID look good, he looked VERY very good, but in most lighting he looked pretty awful. Ah, that's what you get with cheap art.

*SNORT!* Finally, someone other than android_meike who's seen Weiss Kruez and admits that the art is absolutely too shoddy for any of them to be considered especially attractive.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

...I actually haven't seen the whole series, but enough clips of it to tell. Even Koyasu's Gary Stu character, who was obviously intended to be THE prettiest char on the show, wasn't all that attractive most of the time.

[devils-devotion.livejournal.com]

...Schuldig? Or whatever?

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Aya, of course. :)

[devils-devotion.livejournal.com]

Aya was, of course, not that pretty.

(I was always an Omi fan. But apparently no one else thinks the way I do.)

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, of the four... Yohji was the Sex God, Aya was obviously meant to be the Pretty Ice Queen, and Omi was The Shotaconners Fantasy -- but of them all, Ken was the nicest looking in a "Yeah, I'd date him" sorta way. In a "if I saw him walking down the street, I'd think he was hot" sorta way. :)

[devils-devotion.livejournal.com]

Heh...? *shotacon?* Mmm, Ken was nice-looking, but his wangst made me want to hurt people. It seemed almost put-upon. XD;;

[kawaiimae.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, Gundam Wing brings back memories.

I was flipping through one of the art books recently, and I was thinking - hey! They're not...they're not what I fantasized them to be when I was younger! OMG! But then I calmed down and realized that I had been looking at the characters (Wufei in particular, which surprises many, but hell, I obsessed over Episode Zero like squee and thus had my reasons) through fandom-shaded glasses; fandom thoroughly prettified (and distorted) them.

Fullmetal Alchemist is interesting in that I don't think that canon and fanon are that far - there is a distance, there is one in every fandom (series that have little to no fandom [*cough*ghostintheshell*cough*] notwithstanding), but nevertheless, much less than say GW.

*shrug* What does it matter? It's all good stuff we get out of it, na? :D