Author's Note

This is my second fanfiction. It is loosely based on the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Here are the roles of the FMA characters according to the novel:

Fuhrer King Bradley – Marquise Martueil

Roy Mustang – Viscount Valmont

Winry Rockbell – Madame Tourvel/Cecile de Volonge

Ed Elric – M. Danceny/M. Tourvel

Originally, I planned to write a Royai fiction and a slight Ed/Winry. The plot was: Fuhrer King Bradley gave Roy a chance to promote by seducing Winry. But Roy had his eyes on Riza, a new military personnel who just transferred to Central Headquarter. Riza would be a woman who would stick by the military rules, such as never get involved with her commanding officer in a personal relationship. Roy later decided to seduce Winry after he learned that Ed had been bad-mouthed him behind his back. He pretended to help Winry to contact Ed and took a chance to seduce her. And Riza fell in love with Roy and Roy fell in love with her. The story would end just like how the novel ended. Then, I thought that the novel was just too complicated and the fanfic story would be too long. So I combined the roles of Madame Tourvel and Cecile de Volonge as one and made this story a Roy/Winry/Ed triangle. I like this triangle and I have not seen much of Roy/Winry/Ed fanfic. Sorry to you all Roy/Riza fans. I'll write a good Royai fic in the future.

The novel vs. FMA

I wrote this fanfic based on the book. I chose the role for each character based on their personality and background. Roy obviously had the role of Valmont, for he was good-looking as well as a player or womanizer. Winry had the role of Cecile/Madame Tourvel because 1) she was a young virgin, 2) her original love interest, Ed was long absent, 3) she wanted to find ways to contact Ed, which was why she agreed to let Roy write to her. Ed had the role of M. Danceny/M. Tourvel because of his long-distance relationship with Winry. As for the role of the scheming Marquise, I gave that to the Fuhrer or Pride because only he could give Roy an offer that he couldn't turn down: a promotion. Although in the novel the story basically centered around the Marquise, Valmont and Madame Tourvel, my fanfic centered around Roy and Winry, because I don't want to make the story too complicated. The theme of my fanfic is just like the theme of the novel: humans are selfish, they would choose the benefits for themselves. People's lives are chained to each other by their liaisons. One goes down, others would go down as well.

I read the novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses for my French class and I saw the film (Glenn Close version). The film was great. Although the novel itself had been censored for a long time since it was written, this novel is a masterpiece. If you have seen the film, you may say that it contains a lot of sex. Actually, there is not a single sex scene in the book. The director only had the explicit sex scenes just to fit in with the popularity of Hollywood.

Sorry that I killed Roy and Winry in the end, but that was how the story goes. That was the point of the story. It was meant to be a tragedy.

My next work: The Breakup.

This would be an Ed/Winry fic. General Hakuro's son, George, had an eye on Winry, who was engaged to Ed. Always spoiling his son, General Hakuro gave the Central HQ military staff a great offer: split the couple up, and the whole staff would get a month of vacation at the beach. Roy Mustang, sly as ever, came up with a little plan of his own. Yet, sometimes, people can see that morality is more important than some personal benefits. This will be a comedy. I assure you, it will be a happy ending.

Thanks to all of you of your support and reviews!