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23 Jun 2026
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second star from the right (straight on 'til morning) by writing_addict
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
19 Sep 2020
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He expects something other than lost, frightened brown eyes flicking over him for a moment, or tiny bronze fingers curling into metal. He expects something other than thin, trembling shoulders wrapped loosely in torn, stained fabric or hollow cheeks. He expects something other than tears sliding down that tiny face and matted dark hair tossed in torn, snarled little curls, expects something other than soft little whimpers and a hoarse, pitiful cry of fright.
He expects something, anything other than a tiny, terrified child.
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Roy Mustang ventures into the vents to exterminate a mouse. Instead he finds a small, frightened, very hurt child--a child banished from his home and forced to search for the very thing he's helping Edward Elric look for if he wants even a chance at returning. Instead, he finds himself with the sudden urge to cause a diplomatic incident with the emperor of Xing, and very little desire to let the desperate, lonely kid return somewhere that's only brought him pain and fear.
Instead, he finds himself adopting (another, some part of him mutters) the child, and can't bring himself to mind at all.
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16 Jun 2026
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They broke up five years ago. Amy thought she had moved on, but it was always easier said than done. Especially with her old and newfound feelings in the way. [Hiatus]
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16 Jun 2026
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There was something they weren’t telling him. It wasn’t inconsequential, either, like the Colonel not telling him about an upcoming meeting or Al conveniently forgetting to tell him about the thirteenth kitten in his armour.
No, this was something distinctly different.OR
Ed gets injured on what was supposed to be a routine mission, but nobody's telling him anything, and people are being a little *too* kind to him. As he navigates his recovery- and discovering what happened- he might find something he's had all along: family.
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11 Jun 2026
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"In retrospect, it would have been so much better if Ed had simply been his usual obnoxious and recalcitrant self just then."
After a long and tiresome evening of paperwork, Roy offers his youngest subordinate a ride home. All seems well, until they are captured by a man neither recognizes. Who is this person, and why does he claim to know Roy? Ed is thirteen in this. Plenty of Hurt!Ed and Parental!Roy.
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10 Jun 2026
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The Bonding of Team Mustang and Edward Elric (even if the little gremlin child lies and says he doesn't want it) by boredom
Fandom Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
07 May 2022
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10 Jun 2026
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Don’t Look by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
05 Aug 2022
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Edward WISHED he could remember what had happened to them. The last clear memory he had was of him trudging after Mustang as he strode into their shared hotel room, documents in hand and trying to tempt Edward with the idea of a spaghetti dinner at the nearby dinner with the promise of letting him have whatever dessert he wanted when his memory grew hazy, like a dream he was trying too hard to remember.
Mustang was still breathing, deep, regular breaths, which was the only solace that Edward could take that he wasn’t near death because he wouldn’t freaking wake up. He really hoped that whatever they had been given, liquid or otherwise, wasn’t fatal, because with his automail out of commission, Edward depended on the bastard to escape their makeshift prison.
And maybe because he was just a little bit worried about him. Just a little. The tiniest, smallest amount of worry.
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10 Jun 2026
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Did You Get Enough Love? by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
21 Jun 2022
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Mustang flayed out his stiff fingers as best as he could, keeping his head down and tone soft as Al pondered what he said. See him the way he knew how? What exactly did that mean? The Colonel was blind, so he had to depend on other ways to get around, like seeing, hearing, feeling-but he wasn’t sure how any of that would help him.
Of course Al was more than willing to let the Colonel get an idea of how he looked, but he didn’t know what he was asking.
Then the realization hit him like a ton of bricks, and Al had to resist the urge to smack his face out of sheer frustration for not realizing it earlier.“You want to feel my face?”
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10 Jun 2026
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Family Ties by MissTinfoilHat
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
17 Oct 2021
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On his 16th birthday, Edward Elric leaves the orphanage that has been his home for the last 12 years. With only one arm, one leg and a wooden crutch, he makes his way to Central, the only place he could think of going. There, his distrust in the people around him gets challenged, and he realizes that he might not be as thick-skinned as he thinks he is. (First chapters are currently getting revisited.)
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08 Jun 2026
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Deep Water by Thornback
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
10 Mar 2026
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For an articulate man, Roy Mustang suddenly struggled to find the correct words.
Every variation the Colonel concocted within his head sounded flimsy, harsh, or downright wrong. Unsettled and sick, the silence stretched between them for a handful of heart-clenching beats as suspicious golden eyes narrowed, continuing to sear into Roy’s soul. Realization reared its ugly head and delved a hand right into his chest, poisonous claws digging deep as it whispered odious remarks. He stared at the boy before him, feeling as if he was seeing him for the first time, an entire week’s worth of denial crumbling away.
This couldn’t be happening, but it was.
It was happening and he had been willfully blind to it like a pathetic coward. He’d chalked the flush of fever as something as simple as a cold. The same applied to the presumption of mood swings linked to age. Even the odd habits Roy had brushed off as quirks or stress...
Never once did Roy think something more malicious had been at play, until now.
"Edward… I don’t think you are very well right now.’’
[Or, the one where Edward takes a little splash and everyone suffers]
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08 Jun 2026
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Limbo by BreesWishingWell
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
20 Feb 2026
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“You need to relax, Knuckie. An army is only as good as its commander.”
Feeling no physical protest, she pulled him in close, letting his face rest within the crook of her neck. Again, he made no move to pull away, and some of the butterflies she’d failed to squash long ago were back to dancing in her stomach. He groaned, letting his eyes fall closed.
“Is that supposed to be an insult, Theif?”
During the Resistance, Rouge takes comfort in her daydreams, while Knuckles takes comfort in her.
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05 Jun 2026
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Control by BreesWishingWell
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
20 Mar 2026
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“You just, seem distracted…”
In an act that he didn't even seem fully aware he was doing, Knuckles’s hand- ungloved as well, which wasn't a pleasure she got to feel often- slipped under the hem of the simple undershirt she was wearing. His worn and rough claw smoothed out over her midriff, and for a moment, she wondered why they were even still talking when he was this close to pulling her shirt off.
Rouge's mind cant stop turning
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05 Jun 2026
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cataclysms and catalysts by writing_addict
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
12 Jun 2020
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In a world where humanity is Gifted with powers, the government sanctioned heroes known as the Nefas--Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy, Greed, and Lust--are beloved by civilians across the nation of Amestris. Unfortunately, the Nefas are more like bright, shiny distractions than heroes, keeping Amestrians from thinking too much about the strange disappearances of people with dangerously strong powers or the Amestrian military's steady provocation of all its former allies. The dangerous vigilantes called the Cabal, however, are all-too aware of the truth--and all-too determined to stop them.
So when the Flame breaks into a government research facility to find and destroy a weapon purportedly capable of crushing entire countries, he expects lasers, maybe serums.
He doesn't expect Project Catalyst to be a scared, broken-spirited child locked in a cage.
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15 May 2026
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Checkmate by edxwin_elric
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
18 Feb 2024
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Royai Modern AU where Riza, a cautious submissive, met Roy, an experienced Dom, through a friend, who travels in such circles, after she expressed an interest in BDSM.
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- Part 2 of Royai Smut Week 18
- Part 1 of Checkmate AU
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14 May 2026
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Edward guts him with his eyes, with his glare. He looks distressingly close to tears.
“I’m not letting go of you.” Edward squeezes Roy’s wrist until it hurts. Until Edward’s adrenaline and fear shake down Roy’s skin and sink into his bones. “S-So stop—stop being a dumbass and help me—”
The kid’s voice finally breaks open, raw and wet and scared. It strikes Roy’s core deeper than any bullet. Any knife.
Any impact.
Ed’s glare comes down on him fiercely. Roy is about to earn it.
A mission goes very, very wrong.
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- Part 2 of Subordinate (familial)
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27 Apr 2026
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Everything changes between Roy and Riza after the Promised Day.
Their feelings aren't their focus, as they work to rebuild Ishval. But they're there, under cover of night.
Everything changes again, when an unexpected surprise brings the reality of their time together to the surface, intertwining love and duty in a way that will change their lives forever.
A royai kidfic, including a new threat in the military, 18 years of child-raising, and two war criminals who love each other very, very much!
(Now with smut! Skippable if that's not your thing)
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19 Apr 2026
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Valleys of the Young by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
19 Feb 2022
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Roy Mustang and Edward Elric's relationship had always been complicated. Roy wasn't sure why the boy resented him so much, but he was fine with it as long as Edward listened enough to keep himself safe.
However, when Edward makes a careless decision after being injured on an inspection that results in him developing pneumonia, Mustang offers him a spot in his apartment in place of going to a hospital out of fear of the kid taking a potentially fatal dive over the weekend.
To top it all off, East City is freezing in one of the coldest winters to date.
Time will tell if the brief stay will break down their walls and allow them to bond, or if will make things between them even worse.
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16 Apr 2026
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Full of Mettle by Thornback
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
25 Sep 2025
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‘‘I used to think Fullmetal was a crude nod at your prosthetics…’’
Roy Mustang’s words were laced with a thoughtful hum, and Edward tried not to feel hurt by the misassumption. Many heard his title and assumed it came down to his automail arm and leg. Ed had just hoped the Colonel – after everything – would’ve been different; that Mustang would’ve looked past Edward’s ill-fitting uniform and cripplingly-heavy automail and only see him as a person.
‘‘But,’’ Mustang continued, pensive, ‘‘I think they spelled your title wrong. You’re not Fullmetal, you should be Fullmettle. As in, you are full of mettle.’’
Edward blinked, utterly baffled.
‘‘Mettle, kid. M-E-T-T-L-E.’’
Mustang spelled it out for him. Literally. A genuine smile tugged at the Colonel’s lips as he rumbled out a fleeting chuckle, affectionately sweeping a hand over the top of Edward's golden crown. The boy's throat constricted as an annoying warm blur suddenly invaded his vision. He had experienced more kind words and actions under this man’s brief command than he had experienced in a long, long time.
It was just a shame that it was only a temporary arrangement.
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15 Apr 2026
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“Are you sure he’s not just run off on his own?” Havoc could tell from his superior’s tone, even over the radio, that he was trying to calm himself down.
“Fullmetal is down, 451 East Street, I need an ambulance, oh God please no….”
“Is that… is that Edward?” Roy couldn’t keep the disbelief from his voice. How could he? He’d ridden in the ambulance with Edward a handful of times before, but the sight of the body bag was so foreign and ridiculous, it didn’t even register in his mind….
And thus began the nightmarish incident that would take years off team Mustang's life.
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15 Apr 2026
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The men pulled, and something came free- with a splash and a clank, something metal fell out of the end of the pipe and landed in the drainage ditch at their feet.
It was about three feet long, and made of metal.
“What the fuck is that?” one of the men on the line asked, voice hushed.
One of them picked it up- it was an arm, an automail arm- not attached to anything, only the rope still firmly tied around the wrist.
Roy felt nausea bubble up in him like regret, and turned to the nearest soldier.
“Get me a damn light- I’m going in after him!”
Something was terribly wrong.
Edward Elric tries to avoid giving his report and do a good deed. Roy Mustang tries to avoid pondering his role in Edward's life. Both fail miserably. And it's all because of the damn rain.
A slow burn of excitement, angst, drama, trauma, hurt/comfort, and found family. Maybe in that order.
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14 Apr 2026