Authoresses note:
Hey guys (and girls)! Here's something special for you guys (And Gals)! An interview with our favorite FMA character Edward Elric! Here he will be asking me questions about the Caught in the Act series and myself. Here it goes!
Ed: So… Kate… how did this whole thing start?
Me: Well, Ed, to be honest… I got a mental image of Roy cleaning my house while I did chores…
Ed: Wow, awesome… so how did you come up with the ideas?
Me: Well… that's tough… Roys came from chores… yours came from a bag of cookies I refused to eat… Winry's came from Tara who suggested a shaman king fic where Hao was muttering about dancing cupcakes in his sleep.
Ed: and the others?
Me: Wait… the bell rang I've got to go for now….
NEXT DAY…
Me: The others? Scar was a suggestion I got from my friend Jimmy saying it was funny if he dressed in Winry's clothes. The Al section was an Idea tara and I came up with, it was almost a colab. The Riza section was a request and I fulfilled it to that person's heart's desire - not to mention it was a GREAT idea!
Ed: I'm curious Kate… how did you come up with the Maes Section?
Me: AHHHH! A person died at our school. It reminded me of Hughes. And Tara and I got to go to my house early and she spent the whole day with me and I wrote the Hughes section with her laughing her ass off in the background…
Ed: Makes sense… but you dedicated some section ideas to someone named Kaylee, what does she have to do with anything?
Me: Keria-Chan was my best friend, she still is… she and I talk rarely but she gives me the craziest ideas… God damn bell… Bell rings
Skip forward a few weeks to summer school
Ed: Anyway… now that you're back in school… I've got several people asking how old are you?
Me: He, He… I'm sixteen (at the time I wrote this) Ed… I'm a Junior in high school…
Ed: Alright… I've heard a rumor that your FMA made up is being changed and used in an OEL (Original English Language) Manga… is that true?
Me: Grins Yah… it is… I can't tell you who the made up is though…
Ed: Wow… so are you really going to make a section on Tara's character Moddy?
Me: Yah… the real Moddy (Tara) is really annoyed by me… so there's going to be another extra bonus… actually Counts silently there's going to be three character extras… Moddy, Keria, and one of my favorite made ups ever Rena Mustang.
Ed: Rena Mustang?
Me: My made up biological little sister to Roy… she's a regular pain in the ass…
Ed: You like to make fun of people a lot… have you been teased in class a lot?
Me: Yah I'm the really unpopular chick who has an affinity with anime and Manga…
Ed: Why do you like FMA so much?
Me: The morals! The authoress! Mrs. Hiromu Arakawa is SO awesome! She's my idol… and my mom loves her cow… (Mom's obsessed with cows and likes the fact Arakawa-Sensei likes cows too )
Ed: Will you do a section on my creator?
Me: You mean her cow? Maybe… I don't know… I like her too much… I don't want to diss her and then get to meet her and she goes off on me…
Ed: We're off topic… so what's the list of character's your going to/ have already dissed?
Me: Roy, You, Winry, Scar, Al, Riza, Envy, Psiren, Greed, Russell, Fletcher, Alex Armstrong, Lust, Maes, Schescia, Hoenhime, and Trisha… give or take a few.
Ed: Counts names that's quite a few… will you do more?
Me: nods Yes. As long as I keep getting reviews with suggestions I'm happy.
Ed: another question about you, if I may. I heard a rumor you dress like you just came out of an anime or a Manga… is this true?
Me: Grins Yes, it's true… Laughs I'm dressed in a Japanese School uniform like Ginta from MÄR's only with a tie and a skirt. I guess I'm guilty of cursing myself out for living in boring America…
Ed: more about you. What do you like the most about "Caught in the Act"?
Me: Ummm…. Coming up with what happens to who… it's fun! I'm having a field day with the Envy section that won't be up for a while… (I'm shooting for a few more pages than normal…)
Ed: you've written A LOT of fan fics… what's your favorite in-story random comment?
Me: "Alright… as the Authoress why do I get a mental image of Al's helm being used as a doorstop while Al's in the background fuming at Roy about why he has his head…" it's similar to the original quote I wrote…
Ed: where did that some from?
Me: Roy's sister and Al are a couple and they both go to Ishbal and Roy gets a bad letter from Al saying Roy's sister has been kidnapped and Roy (The narrator) says he wanted to rip off Al's head and use it for a door stop… yah… I was RRREEEAAALLLYYY freeking board when I wrote that comment… the mental image IS funny though…
Ed: Is it true you get annoyed easily?
Me: I'm annoyed right now… how ironic… yah… I just didn't get anything to eat and I'm starving…
Ed: Back to talking about the series. Who came up with the Maes central Idea, and who picked the songs?
Me: Tara gave me the idea when I dressed gothic for a while, but I came up with the central plot. The songs were by Greenday, Fall Out Boy, and O-Town, I picked them… you can tell because I go "FOB!" when I'm talking about Fall Out Boy. It's funny… those songs actually have significance in my life… part of "Dance, Dance" goes: "These words are all I have, so I write them, I need them just to get by." And St. Jimmy has an excerpt I sent to my "Ex-Father". "I'm the patron saint of the denial." And the song "Every Six Seconds" that's a song my cousin used to sing to me. Lets see… and I think "Grand Theft Autumn" says "Where is you're boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman." That song reminds me of when I first met Brandon.
Ed: what's with Greenday?
Me: I liked songs from Greenday LONG before I knew what the hell Greenday was… in fact my older half brother is best described by "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Ed: Before we go back to the Series a few more personal questions?
Me: Shoot I don't think I've got anything to hide…
Ed: first off… Do you EVER not do your work in class?
Me: If you're referring to my "Of Mice and Men" essay… then yah… I'm just getting fustrated with it because it's not what I'm shooting for but I've got to get it done…
Ed: why do you write most of this at school?
Me: School is like a safe deposit box… parent's can't get to it… Grins so what if the principal reads it? I'm not worried… I tell everyone I write my notes in the guise of a story so nobody knows what the dickens I'm writing.
Ed: What's with you and the phrase "What the Dickens?"
Me: It's a cool phrase… it's kina cool…
Ed: Back to the series… I seriously want to know… WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING WHEN YOU CAME UP WITH THE WINRY SECTION!
Me: Calm down Ed… I was bored and I wanted to take a nap… but I had to go somewhere and I couldn't sleep… there fore I humiliated Winry.
Ed: what's with the songs in the Riza section… and how did you come up with the one about me?
Me: Ummm…. I borrowed a friend's CD's and the "Barbie Girl" song was on one of the CD's in German so I had to use it! I was bored! And well… to tell the truth on the one about you my mom had taken all my CD's for a week and gave me a tape of kid songs… "I'm a little Teapot" had your name written on it when I listened to it…
Ed: Do you hate Roy? You seem to like messing with him.
Me: As does Hiromu Arakawa… he's fun to mess with… I mean it's really fun to piss him off and stuff… and the dog crap thing in the Riza section has a picture I hope to add as a special Fanfic gallery section to my website… it's really funny… Jannee-Sama did the pile of crap… and no… I don't hate Roy, I could never hate Roy…
Ed: What's everyone's favorite section?
Me: Well… Tara's is the R and F section. Hillary's is the Scar section. Jimmy's is unknown. Kaylee's is yours. And mine is…. Ummm… uhh.. I'd have to say…. The… ummm… Maes section… it's just really funny and you get a funny mental picture of Gracia acting like Maes….
Ed: Do you use refrences to some of the things you write?
Me: Ahhhh… you noticed the Winry quote about milk? Yes… I saw the Ep clip of Ed in the hospital, and Kaylee constantly uses that quote.
Ed: Does the writing of this help you do anything?
Me: Laughs type faster? Actually it does! It tests my summary skills. I could take so many of these stories further…
Ed: Do you plan on mocking Pride? (Aka Fuehrer President King Bradley)
Me: OH YAH! In fact I totally plan to diss him… I REALLY hate how he almost kills Roy in the end of the 51 episodes of the Anime…
Ed: Wait… this is based on the Manga?
Me: It's half and half… Mainly the anime… I'm still pissed at the fourth volume of the Manga… Hughes is murdered by Envy… ERRG! But I like the crappy sketch You come up with for Envy while in the hospital… and Envy saved you! That supprised me!
Ed: Do you have any words of wisdom for those who read this?
Me: Don't mix Crack and Mt. Dew?
Ed: Seriously?
Me: No… my advice is to shut up and think! Use all one of your brain cells! And drugs play no part in a writers life!
Ed: Alright… anyone you want to thank?
Me: Yah… A lot of people…
Special thanks to:
My Mom for making me do chores…
My friends for being crazy…
My dad for always yelling at me to make deadlines…
And to all my people in Redding California you guys rule!
And last but not least…. Manga-Ka Hiromu Arakawa!
Ed: Wow… that's a lot… so any reviewers you want to thank in the making of this?
Me: Yah, all of them… particularly Redd Dawn and Mimiru
Ed: cool… another question though… why did you decide to keep going after you said it was only supposed to be three sections long?
Me: Because… I got a lot of reviews… I have about fifty something on it… I lost track after 44…
Ed: Wow… is it your most popular series?
Me: Yes it is! I'm so happy everyone likes it!
Ed: after the Psiren section, who do you plan to humiliate?
Me: Pride… I just got a really funny suggestion from my summer school teacher.
Ed: Where did you get the idea of the Kimbly section?
Me: Kimbly? De-Na-Me-Tay fun…. Things go boom… yah… I like explody things… I'm almost a junior arsonist… I like to make things burst into flame… someone gave me the idea of humiliating Kimbly after I swore to god that the movie "Hoodwinked" needs to seriously go to hell…
Ed: So, what's with the Russell and Fletcher section?
Me: Ohhhh… I could ramble all day on that one… someone reviewed me to quickly post the R and F section and I did only because they were so nice… I gave them a spoiler…
Ed: How did you get the idea?
Me: Other brothers Elric: Part Two, and To Challenge the Sun… the whole thing on posing as You and Al and the whole bit on rebounds got my mind whirling… I also had a science test on plants the day I did that… my teacher read it over my shoulder after I had finished my test and he started cracking up!
Ed: do you let ALL your teachers read your stories?
Me: No… sadly only two of my teachers showed a tiny inkling of enthusiasm when I spoke of them…
Ed: well thank you very much Miss. Kate-the-crazy-authoress-who-needs-to-do-homework-rather-than-type-stories!
Me: No problem! And to my wonderful reviewers. Thanks they mean a lot to me… and if you have any questions about the series review them to me and I'll update this interview!