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mikkenekoA couple fandom bunnies I don't think I'm likely to ever do, on the basis of them being LONG AND HARD, but are good ideas nonetheless, so I'll keep'em around.
-Crazy Ed AU bunny. Way back when I had a whole long bunny devoted to this, but: basically it was Mikke's way of studying schizophrenia by casting it in fanfic form. Modern AU focusing on Elric boys, wherein Ed and Al are living together in an inner-city apartment after their mother dies. Teachers begin to notice something's wrong, call in CPS to investigate, their living situation is discovered, and when the boys are psychologically evaluated Ed ends up diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and hospitalized. He insists that he actually has access to a rare, unknown form of magic he calls "alchemy," which he can activate by clapping his hands, and seems quite puzzled whenever he can't demonstrate this during therapy sessions. He's also convinced that an accident destroyed his arm and leg, and that his current ones are in fact cleverly designed machines, although there appears to be nothing abnormal about either.
He also has a full-blown paranoia that the adults are trying to seperate him from his younger brother, Alphonse; not unjustified, as it turns out, because as his condition deteriorates and he grows more violent, the two are cut off from seeing each other. This does not help Edward's state of mind any, and he grows (more) uncooperative with the doctors, and his prognosis is not considered good.
Meanwhile, although Alphonse tested out find, the younger brother has become steadily more preoccupied with his older brother's illness. He repeatedly asks whether he's going to get sick too, although the doctors assure him it's unlikely. After he's stopped from visiting his brother, Alphonse grows steadily more anxious and depressed, and within a few weeks he's reporting that he's crazy too. Although his therapists don't believe him at first, he fairly soon starts showing developments of catatonic schizophrenia, reporting loss of sensation, difficulty in movement, detatchment from his own body. He speaks slowly, without showing emotion in his face or voice, and has taken to repeating words spoken to or nearby to him.
The doctors eventually decide that it would be best for both boys' mental health if they were allowed contact with one another again, which occasion marks a dramatic upturn in both boys' health. Alphonse returns almost to normal, although he still has periods where he reports he can't feel anything from his body, and Edward becomes cooperative and starts taking his medication again, which effects a great improvement in his symptoms. The boys are eventually judged to be well enough that they can be released to foster care -- to the care of one Izumi Curtis, a loving but no-nonsense drill-sergeant of a foster mother who has no trouble at all containing Edward when he becomes difficult and stubborn and can make damn sure he continues his medication. La, happy ending.
-Tentacle plant bunny. I'm at work, so I can hardly detail a synopsis here. Besides, I'm sure any of you who care, have already heard it. *cough*
-Slave Elrics AU. I got inspired for this one when for a while it seemed to be a fandom trend -- between Pets and Rivers and Egypt, twas all the rage. However, I probably won't write it, because it would be LONG and HARD and have absolutely NO REDEEMING MERIT TO IT, and also because I don't actually have a plot, just a scenario. Typical, orphaned Elrics are picked up by slavers at a young age scenario. Slavery isn't encouraged in Amestris, but it's alive and well in some of the outside countries, and naturally being discouraged in Amestris simply means there's a thriving black market export. The Elrics are at first considered valuable property for their alchemical abilities, and treated relatively well. Nonetheless the boys are not satisfied with their lot in life and plot to escape.
When the boys are 11 and 10 respectively, they make their break for it. Unfortunately, although they come close, they don't quite get away. (Or else they do get away, but get picked up again fairly shortly.) Even more unfortunately, during their escape attempt, they damaged quite a lot of property and injured several of the guards. The slavers are Not Happy with this kind of behavior. Determining that Ed was the ringleader of the little group, they determine appropriate punishments for each of the boys.
Alphonse is beaten within an inch of his life. The experience leaves horrible scars pretty much all over his body aside from his face and hands. Edward, on the other hand, is left entirely unharmed -- except for having the tattoo of a sex slave put on him. On his face, so that no matter how many sets of hands he pases through, everyone who looks at him will immediately know what he is. Normally sex slaves aren't designated until they're older -- 16 or 17 rather than 11 -- but they were pretty upset with him. Ed still figures he got off easy in comparison to what happened to Al, and feels cripplingly guilty -- Al, on the other hand, observes that while he was only punished once, Edward continues to be punished over and over again for years, and feels much the same way as Edward does.
Four years pass, and the Elric boys pass from one set of owners and traders to another several times. They end up falling into the hands of Roy Mustang, newly promoted Colonel of the Amestris Military, when the Colonel is assigned to a command post in a newly-conquered Eastern region. Mustang is not exactly happy to have a pair of slave children dumped onto his hands, but considering their prodigious alchemical abilities, the military itself is not anxious to let them go. He ends up adopting them as wards, since he knows full well that if they're turned loose to wander around on their own, they'll just get picked up by slavers again. He also has a devil of a time convincing Edward that wards is not in fact a fancy word for slaves, and that he isn't just the latest in a series of disgusting old men who want to exploit them. There follow Hijinks and probably even Plot, but I lost interest around this point.
-Philosopher's Stone bunny. I actually got this one ages ago, but the lately talk in the manga about turning the entire country in a giant transmutation circle to make the giant Stone sort of revived it.
In this ficbunny, Roy Mustang is happily procrastinating away in East City, when he suddenly receives a phone call of earth-shattering news. Namely, that Central City has disappeared in a sphere of red light, which consumes everything living it touches. Sucks, doesn't it? What sucks even more is that the red light isn't going away; in fact, the bubble is expanding.
Roy then spends a chapter or so running around like a chicken with its head cut off, connecting with all the high-ranking military brass that aren't already dead, trying to organize a coherent leadership cabal out of what's left to try and respond to this. They set to work evacuating everyone from the danger zone of the city, and collecting any surviving Alchemists to tell them what the HELL just happened. Most likely, Marcoh will turn up at this point; dire need and all.
The committee they set upt o determine what happened to Central eventually tell Mustang and the other remaining leaders what the audience already knows: it's a Philosopher's Stone reaction, centered on the city, which uses human lives to create the Stone. He then goes on to add what we probably didn't already know unless we'd read the summary: that it seems to be caught in some kind of exponential growth which won't likely stop until it consumes the entire world.
Well.
The military committee scrambles around for possible solutions; unfortunately, they all seem to require getting into the city to stop whatever the reaction is, which is kind of difficult when the red light eats everything that touches it. Eventually they work out that the red light reaction does not in fact seem to extend underground. Research handily turns up record of a set of underground caves/passages that lead into the city. Most of the entrances are already covered by the influence of the red light, but there's still one or two accessible. The committee appoints Roy, as the senior surviving officer who is also an alchemist, to lead the investigation team/assault into the city. (They also send a squad of heavily armed men along with him, but thanks to some wincingly timed maneuvers to try and get to the cave before the way is blocked off, only Roy makes it to the actual tunnel.)
Now the actual plot begins! (Can you see why I dubbed this story too Long and Hard to actually do?)
So, over the course of a few days Roy makes his way to Central. Or rather, to the caves underground Central, which is just as well, cos there ain't much left in Central proper by this time. He has various ADVENTURES which involve him running into Scar, who's lurking about, and Al. Al is found disabled in a passageway, limbs missing courtesy of Gluttony. He tells Roy that he and his brother were investigating the underground complex, but the homunculi took Ed away and since then he doesn't know what's been happening.
Roy follows the trail of disasters happening back to its source; a large circular underground cavern from which the red light seems to be projecting. There's an array which covers the chamber floor and also the walls, with Edward in the middle of it. He seems, in fact, to be the focus of the entire reaction. The homunculi are standing around watching the reaction go on. They're just debating whether or not they should make the attempt to get some water into Edward, so that he doesn't die before the reaction is finished, when Roy shows up.
Alas, one alchemist is not a match for four of the seven assembled Sins, and Roy has to hold off on a frontal assault to strategize. He retreats and runs into Scar again, who apparently has been hanging around much like Roy has, waiting for an opportunity. They agree that while they may be enemies, Scar doesn't particularly want to see all his people and lands get blown up and die with the rest of the world, so they will coordinate an attack. Scar proposes that Roy draw the Sins away, while he walks in and blows Edward's head apart, thus stopping the reaction. Roy debunks that plan on the grounds that who knows what killing the focus will do to the reaction, implying that he knows all about this sort of thing, and anyway NO. Instead, they work out a plan to divide and conquer the homunculi one by one.
This seems to work well enough. They draw out and manage to dispatch Pride, which attracts the other Sins to the battlefield. Roy leaves Scar to deal with Lust and Gluttony (the rat) and circles back to the chamber to attempt to grab Edward. Unfortunately, Edward is more or less stapled to the array, and by the time he gets Ed worked even partly loose, Envy has turned up. The Sin taunts him, saying he should just fry Edward, since it's Ed's fault this whole thing happened and all of Roy's friends in Central are now dead. Roy attempts to make good on the threat, but can't go through with it; Envy gloats about how all the humans will be wiped out and only homunculi will be left. While he's gloating, however, he stood a little too close to Edward, who was just about free enough to reach out and grab him. Envy fries, the reaction collapses, so does the cavern, and Roy barely manages to grab Edward and get out in time.
The half-dead Edward then demands that Roy carry him back to where he left Al, and uses the partially formed Philosopher's Stone to restore him. That, alas, is the end of Edward, and Roy is left to contemplate the shambles of his victory, the nature of alchemy and of revenge, and whether or not his new status as a national hero can wrangle the Fuhrer's position out of all this. The end.
-Crazy Ed AU bunny. Way back when I had a whole long bunny devoted to this, but: basically it was Mikke's way of studying schizophrenia by casting it in fanfic form. Modern AU focusing on Elric boys, wherein Ed and Al are living together in an inner-city apartment after their mother dies. Teachers begin to notice something's wrong, call in CPS to investigate, their living situation is discovered, and when the boys are psychologically evaluated Ed ends up diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and hospitalized. He insists that he actually has access to a rare, unknown form of magic he calls "alchemy," which he can activate by clapping his hands, and seems quite puzzled whenever he can't demonstrate this during therapy sessions. He's also convinced that an accident destroyed his arm and leg, and that his current ones are in fact cleverly designed machines, although there appears to be nothing abnormal about either.
He also has a full-blown paranoia that the adults are trying to seperate him from his younger brother, Alphonse; not unjustified, as it turns out, because as his condition deteriorates and he grows more violent, the two are cut off from seeing each other. This does not help Edward's state of mind any, and he grows (more) uncooperative with the doctors, and his prognosis is not considered good.
Meanwhile, although Alphonse tested out find, the younger brother has become steadily more preoccupied with his older brother's illness. He repeatedly asks whether he's going to get sick too, although the doctors assure him it's unlikely. After he's stopped from visiting his brother, Alphonse grows steadily more anxious and depressed, and within a few weeks he's reporting that he's crazy too. Although his therapists don't believe him at first, he fairly soon starts showing developments of catatonic schizophrenia, reporting loss of sensation, difficulty in movement, detatchment from his own body. He speaks slowly, without showing emotion in his face or voice, and has taken to repeating words spoken to or nearby to him.
The doctors eventually decide that it would be best for both boys' mental health if they were allowed contact with one another again, which occasion marks a dramatic upturn in both boys' health. Alphonse returns almost to normal, although he still has periods where he reports he can't feel anything from his body, and Edward becomes cooperative and starts taking his medication again, which effects a great improvement in his symptoms. The boys are eventually judged to be well enough that they can be released to foster care -- to the care of one Izumi Curtis, a loving but no-nonsense drill-sergeant of a foster mother who has no trouble at all containing Edward when he becomes difficult and stubborn and can make damn sure he continues his medication. La, happy ending.
-Tentacle plant bunny. I'm at work, so I can hardly detail a synopsis here. Besides, I'm sure any of you who care, have already heard it. *cough*
-Slave Elrics AU. I got inspired for this one when for a while it seemed to be a fandom trend -- between Pets and Rivers and Egypt, twas all the rage. However, I probably won't write it, because it would be LONG and HARD and have absolutely NO REDEEMING MERIT TO IT, and also because I don't actually have a plot, just a scenario. Typical, orphaned Elrics are picked up by slavers at a young age scenario. Slavery isn't encouraged in Amestris, but it's alive and well in some of the outside countries, and naturally being discouraged in Amestris simply means there's a thriving black market export. The Elrics are at first considered valuable property for their alchemical abilities, and treated relatively well. Nonetheless the boys are not satisfied with their lot in life and plot to escape.
When the boys are 11 and 10 respectively, they make their break for it. Unfortunately, although they come close, they don't quite get away. (Or else they do get away, but get picked up again fairly shortly.) Even more unfortunately, during their escape attempt, they damaged quite a lot of property and injured several of the guards. The slavers are Not Happy with this kind of behavior. Determining that Ed was the ringleader of the little group, they determine appropriate punishments for each of the boys.
Alphonse is beaten within an inch of his life. The experience leaves horrible scars pretty much all over his body aside from his face and hands. Edward, on the other hand, is left entirely unharmed -- except for having the tattoo of a sex slave put on him. On his face, so that no matter how many sets of hands he pases through, everyone who looks at him will immediately know what he is. Normally sex slaves aren't designated until they're older -- 16 or 17 rather than 11 -- but they were pretty upset with him. Ed still figures he got off easy in comparison to what happened to Al, and feels cripplingly guilty -- Al, on the other hand, observes that while he was only punished once, Edward continues to be punished over and over again for years, and feels much the same way as Edward does.
Four years pass, and the Elric boys pass from one set of owners and traders to another several times. They end up falling into the hands of Roy Mustang, newly promoted Colonel of the Amestris Military, when the Colonel is assigned to a command post in a newly-conquered Eastern region. Mustang is not exactly happy to have a pair of slave children dumped onto his hands, but considering their prodigious alchemical abilities, the military itself is not anxious to let them go. He ends up adopting them as wards, since he knows full well that if they're turned loose to wander around on their own, they'll just get picked up by slavers again. He also has a devil of a time convincing Edward that wards is not in fact a fancy word for slaves, and that he isn't just the latest in a series of disgusting old men who want to exploit them. There follow Hijinks and probably even Plot, but I lost interest around this point.
-Philosopher's Stone bunny. I actually got this one ages ago, but the lately talk in the manga about turning the entire country in a giant transmutation circle to make the giant Stone sort of revived it.
In this ficbunny, Roy Mustang is happily procrastinating away in East City, when he suddenly receives a phone call of earth-shattering news. Namely, that Central City has disappeared in a sphere of red light, which consumes everything living it touches. Sucks, doesn't it? What sucks even more is that the red light isn't going away; in fact, the bubble is expanding.
Roy then spends a chapter or so running around like a chicken with its head cut off, connecting with all the high-ranking military brass that aren't already dead, trying to organize a coherent leadership cabal out of what's left to try and respond to this. They set to work evacuating everyone from the danger zone of the city, and collecting any surviving Alchemists to tell them what the HELL just happened. Most likely, Marcoh will turn up at this point; dire need and all.
The committee they set upt o determine what happened to Central eventually tell Mustang and the other remaining leaders what the audience already knows: it's a Philosopher's Stone reaction, centered on the city, which uses human lives to create the Stone. He then goes on to add what we probably didn't already know unless we'd read the summary: that it seems to be caught in some kind of exponential growth which won't likely stop until it consumes the entire world.
Well.
The military committee scrambles around for possible solutions; unfortunately, they all seem to require getting into the city to stop whatever the reaction is, which is kind of difficult when the red light eats everything that touches it. Eventually they work out that the red light reaction does not in fact seem to extend underground. Research handily turns up record of a set of underground caves/passages that lead into the city. Most of the entrances are already covered by the influence of the red light, but there's still one or two accessible. The committee appoints Roy, as the senior surviving officer who is also an alchemist, to lead the investigation team/assault into the city. (They also send a squad of heavily armed men along with him, but thanks to some wincingly timed maneuvers to try and get to the cave before the way is blocked off, only Roy makes it to the actual tunnel.)
Now the actual plot begins! (Can you see why I dubbed this story too Long and Hard to actually do?)
So, over the course of a few days Roy makes his way to Central. Or rather, to the caves underground Central, which is just as well, cos there ain't much left in Central proper by this time. He has various ADVENTURES which involve him running into Scar, who's lurking about, and Al. Al is found disabled in a passageway, limbs missing courtesy of Gluttony. He tells Roy that he and his brother were investigating the underground complex, but the homunculi took Ed away and since then he doesn't know what's been happening.
Roy follows the trail of disasters happening back to its source; a large circular underground cavern from which the red light seems to be projecting. There's an array which covers the chamber floor and also the walls, with Edward in the middle of it. He seems, in fact, to be the focus of the entire reaction. The homunculi are standing around watching the reaction go on. They're just debating whether or not they should make the attempt to get some water into Edward, so that he doesn't die before the reaction is finished, when Roy shows up.
Alas, one alchemist is not a match for four of the seven assembled Sins, and Roy has to hold off on a frontal assault to strategize. He retreats and runs into Scar again, who apparently has been hanging around much like Roy has, waiting for an opportunity. They agree that while they may be enemies, Scar doesn't particularly want to see all his people and lands get blown up and die with the rest of the world, so they will coordinate an attack. Scar proposes that Roy draw the Sins away, while he walks in and blows Edward's head apart, thus stopping the reaction. Roy debunks that plan on the grounds that who knows what killing the focus will do to the reaction, implying that he knows all about this sort of thing, and anyway NO. Instead, they work out a plan to divide and conquer the homunculi one by one.
This seems to work well enough. They draw out and manage to dispatch Pride, which attracts the other Sins to the battlefield. Roy leaves Scar to deal with Lust and Gluttony (the rat) and circles back to the chamber to attempt to grab Edward. Unfortunately, Edward is more or less stapled to the array, and by the time he gets Ed worked even partly loose, Envy has turned up. The Sin taunts him, saying he should just fry Edward, since it's Ed's fault this whole thing happened and all of Roy's friends in Central are now dead. Roy attempts to make good on the threat, but can't go through with it; Envy gloats about how all the humans will be wiped out and only homunculi will be left. While he's gloating, however, he stood a little too close to Edward, who was just about free enough to reach out and grab him. Envy fries, the reaction collapses, so does the cavern, and Roy barely manages to grab Edward and get out in time.
The half-dead Edward then demands that Roy carry him back to where he left Al, and uses the partially formed Philosopher's Stone to restore him. That, alas, is the end of Edward, and Roy is left to contemplate the shambles of his victory, the nature of alchemy and of revenge, and whether or not his new status as a national hero can wrangle the Fuhrer's position out of all this. The end.
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:42 pm (UTC)And then Roy and Al have healing h/c smex.
You know, you really should write at least ONE of these bunnies (I personaly vote for the slavery fic, but then... I'm just that way, you know.
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Date: 2005-09-16 01:53 pm (UTC)Somewhat unrelated...I wonder if the sins would ever be able to collab on one long fic. That'd be an insane round-robin game.
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Date: 2005-09-16 02:49 pm (UTC)I also like the sounds of the last one! Only is it AU or what? Unless this is a continuation of the bit in the ohhhhhhh. I get it. ^^;; I think you should go for that one. Especially since you've already got it mostly planned out.
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Date: 2005-09-16 03:35 pm (UTC)Except, you know, he would be.
Along with his wife and kid and Armstrong and Scieszka and everybody.
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Date: 2005-09-16 03:36 pm (UTC)Heeyy, I always thought the first one sounded cool, why don't you write the first one?
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Date: 2005-09-16 03:51 pm (UTC)Hey, 150 people can't be wrong. :)
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:10 pm (UTC)I really liked the idea.
*calls out*
SOmeone please write it!!!
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Date: 2005-09-29 02:09 pm (UTC)