Are you bored right now? Are you tired of seeing ridiculous pairings littering every page of your fanfic searches? Do you like reading stories that put your favourite characters into stupid, yet incredibly amusing situations? How about laughing at other characters' angst? Then this is the fanfiction for you! If you answered no to some or all of these, this is still the story for you!
Hello, readers. Welcome to my realm.
Right now, you're probably thinking, "Stupid author. I don't want to hear your stupid comments. I just want to read the bloody story!" If you're vaguely thinking this, THEN YOU FAILED.
Unlike most other stupid author's notes and comments, this one really matters. Had you just skipped this chapter, automatically disregarding it due to personal experiences in the past, you would find that you would be halfway through the fourth chapter and be thinking "Wait, what the hell? What's wrong with this author? Why is she butchering the series like this?! This is wrong! Hn… screw this…" or something along those lines, anyway.
You see, Christmas Cheer was originally just a spur of the moment story that was never supposed to be more that three or four chapters long. It wasn't a serious fanfiction at all back then. However, as you can plainly tell, it grew into much more than that. So henceforth, the story has certain blemishes. One of these blemishes is that some characters have been "cut and pasted" from other parts of the original storyline, while others remain to be from the same point in time.
This brings me to the next point, darlings: IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE ENTIRE FIRST SERIES AS WELL AS THE MOVIE, DON'T READ THIS. I mean, unless you want horribly huge spoilers. I'm cool with that. It's your decision, I mean, and I know some people are just like that, right? So go ahead if you want to.
On a more specific note, it is Ed and Al who have been "brought back from the future" per se. Everyone else is just as they were at the beginning of the series. I decided this when I started writing because (MORE HUGE SPOILERS AFTER THESE BRACKETS) Roy's eye-patch ANNOYS THE HELL OUT OF ME and nobody wanted Hughes to die. Nobody. As in at all. Am I right?
Anyway, please be warned, I admit: I have butchered the story. But I butchered it for the pure purpose of pleasantness. We all wish that FMA had a happier ending, and that, my friend, is and always will be the purpose of fanfiction.
The final warning I give is that there is EdxOC and RoyxOC. But even if you don't like either of those, sometimes it doesn't matter. In fanfiction that's aimed at making its readers laugh, pairings are just a nice sort of side-bonus for those that do like the pairing. If the story itself is written well enough, the pairings won't always matter. A decent example would be that the story that inspired me to start this in the first place was a AlxOC fanfic, yet I still read it until the end, despite the fact that I'm not an Alphonse fangirl. I read it months before I started Christmas Cheer, so I sadly can't link anyone. (Sorry about that.) But seriously, please just give us a chance if you don't read those. We promise to send you bunnies if we waste your time. I mean that, too. I WILL SEND YOU A BUNNY.
And my last, final (No, I'm for cereal this time!) very last note is that Christmas Cheer is technically "done", but each week I have to get around to going through and intensely editing everything and fleshing it out so that not every single paragraph comes out as nothing more than a single line under the format. I apologize for being a slack-ass in advance. Please attack me for that. (No, really. I mean that, too. You also get a kitten if you send me mail that kicks me up the ass.) Christmas Cheer is set to be uploaded at a regular interval (once a week, during any given day of the week), just so that you in advance.
On that note, I leave you.
Enjoy, my highly esteemed guests.
xx S I (N)
