Title: Sepia
Summary: Edward Elric has always hated the color brown.
Pairings: Mother/Son pairing between Trisha and Ed
Category: Family Angst; Hurt
Edward Elric hated the color brown. He had no idea why, but ever since he was little he hated it.
Perhaps it was because that was the color everything turned when his town was destroyed by the war. It was the color the sky turned to when everything thing that could go wrong had happened.
Most of Ed's life was tinted in brown. The memories of looking at his father's back were hidden beneath dark shades of mud; the time that he and Al made Winry cry had a light milk chocolate color glossed entirely over it. All of his work under the military had the darkest shades of brown ever known to Edward.
But Edward could never forget the light that always shined in his mother's hazel-brown eyes. It was the same color as the hot chocolate that she would always give him, Al and Winry in winter time. The light never dimmed; it never dulled out, even when his father walked out on the three of them. Those eyes were what kept Edward going when he was little. He thought that they would never fade.
Then Trisha fell ill. The light started to disappear from her eyes. As Edward watched his mother die, he witnessed the darkest hues of sepia ever seen by a human eye. They shouldn't even have been in the category of being brown. They looked more like perfect orbs of coal. At least, to Ed they did.
When Trisha died, Ed wouldn't even look at the color brown. He took on black—the color last seen in Trisha's eyes—and red—the color of her death—after the day in Hell when his brother and he tried to bring her back.
And ever since then, he's never touched the color brown.
What amazes me the most is that I originally started this to add it to Her Tears, His Nightmares... oh well! I seem to be making it a habit to upload in the middle of the night/early morning now don't I? I like the way this worked out. You never see Ed wearing anything other than his black clothes and red jacket, but the other colors (which I seem to be obsessed with observing this and chapter three in Her Tears, His Nightmares) are always used. Except for brown. The only time you see brown is the color of the dirt on the ground of the battle field and the dried blood in the flash backs to the Ishballan War (I think that's how you spell it. I don't have my manga for reference right now).
Edward was the one who decided to make me write about Mommy Trisha, isn't that right Ed?
Edward: --no comment—
Well, thank you for reading!
Jillian