Open RP Post

[armoured]

If you would like to play with Alphonse, whether we have met or not, please feel free to respond to this post using any of options provided.

General/Fluff
1. First meetings
2. Both guests at a third person's party
3. Dinner date
4. Broken down train or bus
5. Lost and needing directions
6. Cake in the rain

Sad/Serious
1. Injured (either you or Al)
2. Nightmares
3. Remembering bad memories
4. Fighting overwhelming odds
5. Fighting each other
6. Confessing dark secrets

Random/Wildcard
Any other scenario is welcome, I will roll with it.

Comments

[armoured]

[He's relieved and pleased to see that spark. He would prove to Ed that he was still an alchemist even without alchemy, even if it took years to do so. His brother was gifted, and a brain that brilliant didn't cease being brilliant just because he could no longer practise the theory himself.]

Yeah?

[He can't help but chuckle.]

Are you really sure you'll want to come back to Central? Colonel Mustang is even more determined to become Führer, and I bet he'll give you more orders than before if he manages it.

[Not that Ed would have to take them now. Come to think of it, his brother would probably enjoy a friendly confrontation with Mustang now that the Colonel wasn't his superior any longer.]

[forfeits]

I could use their libraries, though. It's extensive, and only a little lacking.

[ he's sure if he asked, he could get access to any files he wanted. he saved Amestris, after all, and the colonel would surely monopolize on his work, he has no doubt. ]

But I don't have to listen to that bastard anymore now than I did then. Especially now, Al. [ he grins, quite amused even thinking about it. he sighs and crawls up to flop on the bed beside his brother, almost childish in a way, which is something Ed has not done in a very long while. ]

It's like we're starting over, huh, Al? Like when this all started. We really have no idea what we're doing.

[armoured]

[It's still nice, even after weeks, to feel the depression of the mattress and then the warmth of his brother by his side. It makes his heart twang to see Ed flopped out in a mirror of how he used to when they were kids.]

Yeah, it's kind of scary, huh?

[Scary in a good way, or that's what he thinks.]

We've been on the same path for such a long time, following any lead that could get us our bodies back, that it's weird now we've reached a crossroads. There's not just one path any more, there are so many branching out in front, and we can follow any one of them that we choose.

[forfeits]

[ he doesn't realize how tired he is until he's stretched out on the mattress, his body relaxing for the first time in hours now. he'd gotten so caught up with transmuting, with trying to stir his abilities back to life that he'd forgotten even he is still healing to a degree. ]

Yeah, I guess it can be pretty scary. But... but it's exciting, you're right. There's so much we can do now, so many places we can go.

[ he's smiling, looking at the wall opposite him, not at his brother, his mind spinning in a thousand different directions. ] Read whenever I want, stay up late, go wherever I want... [ he laughs. ] Sounds like a crazy life, huh?

[armoured]

It sounds great.

[His voice is warm and soft. He can't imagine a nicer life than to see Ed be able to rest finally, to have peace and normality. Perhaps that was an equivalent exchange of its own, a restfulness to counterpoint the pain.

He reaches out to rest a hand atop Ed's head, trying to soothe his tired dumb brother into sleep.]

We'll find our future tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after. It's out there, Brother, and we've got our whole lives left to experience it.

[forfeits]

[ the hand on his head only ruffles his feathers, his cheeks growing a touch red in embarrassment. ]

Hey, I'm the big brother here now, in every way, so no ordering me around you got that?

[ but when he looks back up at Al, there is a smile across his lips and warmth in his eyes. he looks exhausted, Ed does, but there is a quiet sort of satisfaction that is there, too. Al is safe -- his body is returned to normal, and for once they have nothing but a full happy life to look forward to. ]

But I guess you're right. You always are, Al. [ he shrugs, sleepy eyed, turning against his brother's side, and even though the elder Elric fights it, his eyes slip shut, cheek mashed up against Al's side, reminiscent of the days when their mother was alive. for the first time in years, Ed looks completely and utterly at peace. ]

[armoured]

[Oh Ed.

Al has so many hopes for the future, ones that he almost doesn't dare put into words yet because he's still reeling from finally being able to consider a future beyond getting his body back.

But his biggest hope for the future is that Ed gets to have one. That his brother can live a life of his choosing now, free from pain or obligation, free from the nightmares of the past.

He sets his hand on Ed's head again and just watches him sleep, smile at his lips.

It's finally done.]