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In the space between sleep and waking, they find each other — just for a moment, just long enough to remember what it feels like to be whole.
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- Part 4 of 503 Week 2025
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Ed thought fixing the roof would be simple. So did Winry, once, about baking apple pie. Turns out, love, homeownership, and pastry all have something in common: they take patience, swearing, and more than a few do-overs.
Or: Ed yells at roof shingles, Winry weaponizes metaphors, and somewhere between the nails and the cinnamon, they remember what they’re building together.
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- Part 3 of 503 Week 2025
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What starts as a fun volley of questions becomes an unexpectedly tender exchange of old memories, unspoken feelings, and the scars — both literal and not — that brought them here.
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- Part 2 of 503 Week 2025
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After saving a young farmhand's life in emergency surgery, Winry finds herself shaken by memories of the past. The ghosts of screams and desperation threaten to pull her under, but Edward is there to remind her of the healing power she holds, both in her work and in the love they’ve built.
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- Part 1 of 503 Week 2025
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Of Serpents and Spirits by mildlynerdy
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away
04 Aug 2022
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When Edward was a child, he sacrificed his own freedom to save his little brother from eternal imprisonment in a spiritual bathhouse knowing that he would never see him again.
Alphonse reappearing at its doorstep is a surprise.
And when he shares what’s happening beyond the realm of spirits and demons, they wonder if perhaps the bathhouse is more than what it seems.
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503 Week 2025 by mildlynerdy
Fandom Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
03 May 2025
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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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31 Mar 2026
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there is no peace here, war is never cheap dear by vilelac
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
04 Dec 2021
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They stay a few minutes in silence, staring at the city lights. They don't need to talk, and it's probably better they don't talk about this situation they are in. But still, Winry says "It's not fair."
Edward kisses her shoulder softly, pulling her tighter against him.
"Nothing ever is."
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Winry's the new doctor working for General Roy Mustang and Edward is the evil (?) enforcer employed by Father's crime syndicate.
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07 Mar 2026
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He’d been practicing. It took everything in Winry not to be nosy, to poke and prod and ask a zillion questions and give her own two cents. She wasn’t a bad cook. Neither was Ed, though he had a lot to learn after a childhood of rations and restaurant food.
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Edward learns to cook for Winry.
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when all the walls come tumbling down by vilelac
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
05 Apr 2023
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“Do you.. do you want to be my girlfriend?” Edward says, leaning against the wall next to her.
Winry snorts loudly. “Come on, we all know that Edward Elric doesn’t date. You’re nobody’s boyfriend.”
Edward stares deeply inside Winry’s eyes before saying, “I would be yours, If you asked me.”
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Edward is a bad boy who drives a motorcycle, Winry is the mechanic who works at the motorcycle club shop, they're academic rivals and have been in love since they were eleven. They just don't know that, yet.
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03 Apr 2022
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promises made, promises kept. by dojimasqueen
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
22 Nov 2021
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winry urges ed to stop second guessing himself and save amestris from father’s plan, but it isn’t that easy. not when the woman you love refuses to flee the country to keep herself safe.
or, ed leaves winry with a kiss and a promise on the eve of the promised day.
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22 Nov 2021