drabble for starsandtildes -- the Devil guards his own

[incandescens]

Title: the Devil guards his own
Requester: starsandtildes
Series: Full Metal Alchemist
Requested Topic: Pride and Wrath: Mrs Bradley
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/788099.html


Wrath's position is that nobody touches what is his. Nobody crosses him. Nobody irritates him. Nobody speaks too loudly in his presence. Nobody threatens his wife.

Pride's position is that his is the best. Who else should he have for mother but the wife of the leader of the country? Her behaviour is perfect. She is an ornament to the Presidency.

Mrs Bradley walks between the two of them, smiles at them, cares for them, and thinks that the burning shadows behind their eyes are love for each other, and faith in their family, and hope for the future.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Creepycreepycreepy. Poor Mrs Bradley. O:(

[incandescens]

Thank you. :)

(I really must get hold of the new FMA anime series before visiting you, FMA:Brotherhood -- they've actually stuck close to the manga storyline while making it.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

OOooooo... I've been watching the old one and admiring and sometimes appalled at the differences...

[incandescens]

While the old anime series is certainly not bad at all, I do look forward to seeing some of the more recent manga events in correct anime form.

[archangelbeth]

*nod* I've been treating them as two different things, too. The whole yaoi-UST thing is entirely in the anime alone, and is so very much there. I was reading the manga and going, "I don't really see this pairing, though the authors who do it are pretty fun about it," and then I watch the anime and... start nodding my head.

I need to watch the whole thing in the anime... I didn't manage to finish it. O:/

[incandescens]

Definitely you do. Even if it diverges from the manga (and I do think the manga is better), it's still fun stuff.

But oh, the recent manga stuff. Armstrong's sister! Pride! Wrath!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yes! IT IS! Especially all around Mustang. Goodness...

Yeah... exactly that. I didn't see ANY of it in the manga, but whoooie.

I'm just halfway through. It's WHY I ride my exercise bike. *laughs*

[starsandtildes.livejournal.com]

Oh yessssss. It's the best kind of wrong.

The friend who wanted this (a Wrath roleplayer in my current game) is very pleased.

[incandescens]

Excellent! I'm delighted that it suited. ;)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

MMmmm... I love her blindness, in a way. It fits the whole series so well.

[incandescens]

Things have changed a little in the most recent manga chapters, but ... oh, I love this series. :)

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee. *___*

[incandescens]

Thank you!

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Mrs. Bradley is such a tragic figure, isn't she?

[incandescens]

She is. I'd like to hope she gets a happy ending, but . . .