Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) recs (original) (raw)

I should have started a rec page for this series a long time ago. Now it's going to be much harder going through the backlog of fics to find the ones I know everyone should read so there might be a few FMA posts in the next couple of days.

What is FMA you ask? Fullmetal Alchemist is the story of Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse's search for the Philosopher's Stone. With this stone, the two will be able to successfully perform human transmutation to restore Al back to his human body after he lost it in an a human transmutation gone wrong. This series has everything: drama, action, humor, bishounen, and a good plot. The anime has already been licensed but is still being fansubbed by spoon and sonchou. The best place to get the episodes are on boxtorrents for episodes 1-26, and temporarily at supernova for torrent links to AKeep's episodes 27-31 and spoon fansubs of episodes 32-41. If you happen to be at an i2hub supported college or university, I'm on constantly, so you can leech off me at any time. The manga has not been licensed so is much easier to find. Toriyama's World has the first four volumes scanlated. More recent scans can be found at fullmetal-alchemist.com.

As you can tell from the recs, I have certain pairings that I ship more than others. I am primarily an Ed/Roy, Al/Winry girl and will occasionally rec some gen in there too. Be wary of spoilers if you haven't seen the series yet. But in this post at least they should all be safe if you've seen up to episode 25 of the anime as I have only seen up to 30 at this point.

Matchmaker by harukami (shounen-ai, one-shot)
Control by harukami (Roy/Ed, yaoi, one-shot)
The Altered States series: Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo by ciceqi (WIP, yaoi, Roy/Ed)
Empress by lazulisong (gen, one-shot)
Untitled by lazulisong (gen, complete)
Change the World by lazulisong (gen, one-shot)

Matchmaker harukami (shounen-ai, one-shot) Matchmaker is a cute fic that also has good character insights. harukami sure knows her/his characters. Hughes decides that Edward need companionship and goes out to find him a suitable match.

"It's not so much anything definite," Hughes admitted. "It may not be an issue at all, but then again, it might be. It's about Ed."

Roy leaned his cheek on his hand and twitched one corner of his lips up in a smirk. "Ah. Why am I not surprised? Go on."

Hughes dipped his head, a faint nod. "Well, he's fifteen, and youngest in the military."

"Mm."

Wryly, Hughes looked at Roy, shrugging. "Do you remember being fifteen? Because I do, and I remember what was first on my mind pretty much all the time, then."

Control by harukami (Roy/Ed, yaoi, one-shot) In Control, it's insightful Roy/Ed smut. Good smut, so go read.
Edward pushes at his shoulder and Roy turns over, rests his forehead on the mattress, lets out a shuddering sigh. Edward kisses each knob of his spine, lets teeth graze, slow, steady, as if there's a rhythm to that, a pattern that must be obeyed. Edward makes love as if it's alchemy, but Edward's form of alchemy - he violates all the rules, he always has. He doesn't need an alchemy symbol, just both hands and intent.

And after you read these two fics, go to harukami's Memories to devour the rest of her/his fics.

The Altered States series: Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo by ciceqi (WIP, yaoi, Roy/Ed) A future-fic where Roy and Ed are in a sexual relationship and are now attempting try to create the philosopher's stone. Beautiful writing. The voices for the all of the characters shine through the way the story progresses is fascinating. This is a Fullmetal Alchemist fic, not just a fic featuring Roy and Ed.

It was the most complicated Array he'd drawn since he and Al had tried to resurrect their mother, and it was, in a word, perfect. The design had five colors and five Seals, one for each section of the process, and the entire circle covered the basement floor almost completely. Hearing footsteps coming down the stairs behind him, Ed examined the Array again with a critical eye, but there were no flaws, nothing for the Colonel to call him on. It was perfect.

Such solid writing with a feel for the series. And did I mention long? You can get a solid bite out of it.

Empress by lazulisong (gen, one-shot)
Good Ed voice, Lazuli's Ed really speaks to the reader and you can understand his reasoning and what he is saying. Also, great punch. I am a sucker for a good punch. No quote, as the fic is not long enough to quote without spoiling.
Untitled by lazulisong (gen, complete)
Snarky Ed and Roy. Squee, feel the love. No quotes, here either kids, go read!
Change the World by lazulisong (gen, one-shot) Not so much with the snark and the funny, but still an incredible ficlet. Roy sends a letter to Edward and you can hear Roy so well. Lazuli just...you can feel the love for FMA.