Title: Catalysis (click for full details & chapter index, also available on FF.N)
Writer: iluxia
Editor: aventria
Words: For this chapter, ~7500
Genre: General, Drama, Romance, Action-Adventure, Political Intrigue, Mild Angst
Rating(s): PG-13 to NC-17 (chapters will be marked accordingly)
Warning(s): YAOI (slash). Blood and gore, violence, possible future mature content, language.
Pair(s): Roy Mustang / Edward Elric (eventual); Roy Mustang / Maes Hughes (past); Envy / Edward Elric; no other pairs established as of yet.

Summary: We have all watched Edward's struggle to regain his brother's body and undo the past. We have read stories in which he succeeds to do so, and some in which he does not. Now let's try for something different.
This time, let's ask: what if, ultimately, Trisha Elric never died?
Watch as Edward Elric walks a path markedly different from the old, meeting the people who will help shape his perspective, challenge his beliefs, further his science -- all the while getting himself entangled in a momentous mess that began centuries even before he was born.
Because after all, though a path might be deviant, no path is wrong.

( Chapter 03: We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for us or spare us." In Central, Edward finds a willing mentor -- now all that is missing is a willing apprentice. )

Crossposted, original on catalisis.

Title: Catalysis (click for full details & chapter index, also available on FF.N)
Writer: iluxia
Editor: aventria
Words: For this chapter, ~10700
Genre: General, Drama, Romance, Action-Adventure, Political Intrigue, Mild Angst
Rating(s): PG-13 to NC-17 (chapters will be marked accordingly)
Warning(s): YAOI (slash). Blood and gore, violence, possible future mature content, language.
Pair(s): Roy Mustang / Edward Elric (eventual); Roy Mustang / Maes Hughes (past); Envy / Edward Elric; no other pairs established as of yet.

Summary: We have all watched Edward's struggle to regain his brother's body and undo the past. We have read stories in which he succeeds to do so, and some in which he does not. Now let's try for something different.
This time, let's ask: what if, ultimately, Trisha Elric never died?
Watch as Edward Elric walks a path markedly different from the old, meeting the people who will help shape his perspective, challenge his beliefs, further his science -- all the while getting himself entangled in a momentous mess that began centuries even before he was born.
Because after all, though a path might be deviant, no path is wrong.

( Chapter 02: "Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it." Edward takkes his first step into the world and away from the only home he has ever known. )

Crossposted, original on catalisis.

Title: Apollo
Writer: iluxia
Editor: aventria
Dedicated to: jusrecht for being shiny and nice and HAPPY BIRTHDAY~! Here's the second part of your gift~
Words: ~7500
Setting: Medieval Italy, fairy tale.
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Some angst. Mild.
Inspirations: The Age of Orphans by Laleh Khadivi, first of a brilliant and painfully organic trilogy of the telling of the story of three generations of Kurdish men, their lives, and how their blood forever twines with their land no matter where the rest of the world might pull them.
Prompt: Well, jusrecht posted an FST for Hibari wherein she used Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum-Fairy, and while it led to my cracktastic image of Hibari in a tutu, this fic somehow was born from it, and it's not very... crack.

Notes: Some of the details might be fuzzy because of the style. Feel free to comment and ask whenever you're unclear on anything.

( Soon the human in the bright one will fully vanish and leave behind only the magic pure as white snow. The human villagers will notice, and when they do... )

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I just couldn't hold back.
Check this out for some real and substantial photography of what exactly is happening on the streets of Tehran. (Warning: some images might be graphic. Contains blood.)

I know for sure I wouldn't want to be in that city right now. It somewhat reminds me of a larger-scale much-more-violent Mendiola rally.