30 Day SongFic Drabble Challenge: Day 2

Fandom: FullMetal Alchemist
Pairing/Character(s): Edward Elric and Hohenheim Elric.
Song: "Overachiever," by Louden Swain

Song Excerpt:
Ask my Mom and believe her
When she says I was an overachiever
A cool demeanor
In its place there's a fever
There's a boy he's alive
He's a little eager beaver

Ask my Mom and believe her
When she says I was an overachiever
Why did he leave her
In his place there's a fever
There's a boy he's alive
He's alive he's a leader

Drabble:
When his father left for good, Edward was still a young boy, who up until that point had been full of optimism, hope, and joy. He was a young boy who idolized Hohenheim Elric and wanted to be just like him, in every way possible. So the day he packed up and walked away from his family, Ed felt his whole world come undone.

Where his youthful enthusiasm for life and simple pleasures had once lain, a new hunger rose up, one which lusted for power and knowledge and a way to prove himself. The carefree boy of those years passed was gone, replaced by one who couldn't seem to do anything but study, and who absorbed every word of his alchemy texts like they were his Bible.

Even though Trisha, his mother, spent most of her time with her head in the clouds, dreaming about her long gone husband, she did manage to notice how driven her oldest son had become, realizing more and more with every day that passed that he was almost desperate to impress her with his alchemy, desperate to upstage the father that left him alone.

Trisha had to sigh, her eyes sad behind the smile that masked them, as the little blond haired boy drew another transmutation circle before her; he really had become such an overachiever.


This is the first FullMetal Alchemist story in my song-themed 30 Day Drabble Challenge, which, unsurprisingly enough, was a drabble a day for thirty days. Not all 30 Days were FullMetal Alchemist stories, which is why the numbering on the drabbles isn't consecutive. But, please, just take them all as individual stories, enjoy them, and let me know what you think!