Hello, people. I actually wrote this up pretty quickly, but it's not that bad considering...right? Right?
In any case, reviews, positive or negative, would be most appreciated. Pretty please?
Disclaimer-I don't own FMA, blahblahblah. And that should be pretty obvious-I mean, FMA is brilliant, and my writing skills are just not. FMA and the characters Edward and Alphonse Elric belong to Mrs. Arakwa, BONES, FUNinmation, etc.
"Do you realize what this means, Al?" Edward shouted gleefully as they exited the large building. "I'm free! No more midget Granny yelling at me about how I'll grow shorter if I don't drink it, no more Winry shoving it in my face every meal she happens to be present at, no more anyone shoving it in my face! I'm FREE!" he did a little dance at the last word.
The brothers had just exited the hospital, where, after much insistence on Alphonses' part, Ed had gone in to be seen about his recent digestive issues.
"All I have to do is say, 'No, thank you. I can't have milk because I'm lactose intolerant now.' And it won't even be a lie anymore!" he grabbed a lamppost in his automail hand and swung himself around it over and over, laughing jovially. People walking by stared at him, inching somewhat over to the other side of the street as they did so.
"You know, it also means you'll have to avoid any dairy products at all, Brother." the younger said matter-of-factly.
The teen kept up his twirling. "Yeah, so?"
"That means no ice cream, no cheese, no stew...well, at least none with milk in it."
The dance with the lamppost suddenly came to a stop and Edward stared at his brother blankly. "But...but..." Food was one of his favorite things in the world, and those in particular were some of his favorites. "Gah! I can never win!" He swore and kicked the lamppost roughly, suddenly grabbing his right foot in his hands and hissing at he tried to balance on his other foot. He then awkwardly dropped it back to the ground before he completely lost his balance.
"Maybe you should have used the automail foot, Brother?" Alphonse suggested, trying not to laugh.
"Shut up."
Okay, so a coupla notes here...I suppose Ed could opt to buy himself some lactaid pills, but I looked up when they were invented and apparently it wasn't until the 1980's. FMA is set in like 1914. So...yeah. (Granted, they aren't in our world, just based off our's, so things might be a little different there.) Hmm, did they even know about lactose intolerance in 1914...? Oh well, let's assume for the sake of the story that they did.
Anyways, I could see this happening to Ed...him developing lactose intolerance and at first he's all happy about it because he has an excuse to not drink milk.
I saw him eating ice cream in one of the OVAs. (Eating it really fast, too-how did he NOT get an icecream headache? o_O) Plus according to the anime he liked Pinako's stew even though it had milk in it. I think the manga mentioned something about cheese, too? So he's obviously not lactose intolerant in either of the animes or the manga. Just a milk hater. xD