A/n: I'm not sure what to think of this drabble, the idea was good, and I think it turned out pretty good…maybe it's the ending, you be the judge. I wanted to have a more reliable source for what makes up the human body, however I couldn't find it, so I had to stick with what FMA says. :)


Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

#2 Body of Taboo

Water: 35 liters

Carbon: 20 kilograms

Ammonia: 4 liters

Lime: 1.5 kilograms

Phosphorous: 800 grams

Salt: 250 grams

Saltpeter: 100 grams

Fluorine: 7.5 grams

Iron: 5 grams

Silicon: 3 grams

And trace amounts of 15 other elements.

That was the basic makeup of the average adult. No where in those calculations were 'a few pounds of automail'.

And yet, for him it was. For him, cold lifeless steel was a part his body, a part of him.

But it wasn't right.

Metal for flesh…oil for blood…bolts for bone…that wasn't how it was supposed to be.

But it was. It was always there, a constant reminder of what he'd done, what he'd lost, and how little he gained.

He was a living example of taboo.

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