Sorry it took so long with this. My modem got fried in a storm, and I haven't been able to get online for a while.
I still do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the associated characters and situations. I'm not Hiromu Arakawa, people.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you my next pairing, and, oddly enough, they're really only one of the two canon couples I'm dealing with here.
Reviews and comments are, of course, appreciated, and flames will be directed to the appropriate alchemists.
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Hohenheim and Trisha Elric
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#01 – Motion
He was going through the motions of being the good father and loving husband, but she knew something was seriously wrong, even though he wouldn't tell her what.
#02 – Cool
He was usually so calm and collected no matter what happened, but when her water broke and labor started, he went into a panic.
#03 – Young
He was too old for her, she knew that, but he was so charming that she couldn't help but fall for him.
#04 – Last
He'd hoped that this time, his body would last for more than a few short years, but when the signs of decay showed up, he had no choice but to leave.
#05 – Wrong
Why was it that Edward and Alphonse were always his children when they did something wrong?
#06 – Gentle
Noa's impression of Edward's father, even under the shading of years of anger, was of a soft-spoken man who never raised his hand or voice to his wife or children, but though she understood his reasons, she still thought what he did was inexcusable.
#07 – One
When she came down the stairs with the baby in her arms, he saw not a homonculous, but the one woman he'd loved in all his long lifetime, and it was no wonder he was struck speechless.
#08 – Thousand
He could have lived for a milennium, but could never have found someone he loved as dearly as he did her.
#09 – King
He was a king among alchemists, but she and their sons loved him for who, rather than what, he was.
#10 – Learn
She had always hoped that Edward and Alphonse would become alchemists and follow in their father's footsteps someday; he had always prayed that they wouldn't.
#11 – Blur
The centuries had passed so solowly for him, but the few short years he'd spent with her passed so slowly he almost didn't notice.
#12 – Wait
When he left, he told her he didn't know how long he'd be gone; she promised to wait for him until he returned.
#13 – Change
"Edward, I'd like you to meet your little brother Alphonse," he said as he boosted the toddler up to see the baby in his mother's arms.
#14 – Command
When they took their vows, he asked the minister not to use the word "obey;" he would never ask her to make a promise she wouldn't necessarily be able to keep.
#15 – Hold
What she missed most about him was the way he would hold her close at night.
#16 – Need
Neither Winry nor Alphonse ever told Edward that during the worst of his fevers after he lost his limbs, he called out for both his mother and father.
#17 – Vision
Edward and Alphonse learned to read his alchemy books at a very young age, and he was willing to bet every sen he had in the bank that at least one of them would end up needing glasses.
#18 – Attention
His attention to detail permeated every aspect of his life – a fact for which she was always grateful.
#19 – Soul
There was nothing left of Alphonse except a soul bound to the suit of armor that had once been in his workshop, but he would have known his youngest son anywhere.
#20 – Picture
The photographs on Pinako's wall told the story of the diminishment of their little family; he walked out, she died, and finally, not even the boys were left.
#21 – Fool
Winry privately thought her friends' mother was something of a fool waiting all those years for him to return; as she grew up, though, she came to understand why she had done what she did.
#22 – Mad
He knew it was crazy to try to build a life with her, but it didn't stop him from trying.
#23 – Child
"We'll call him Edward," he said, cradling his newborn son in his arms for the first time.
#24 – Now
Sloth had shadows of memories of having loved and been loved by him, but now, he was just one more human to be disposed of.
#25 – Shadow
Alphonse only remembered him as a tall dark shape with a gentle voice; everything else he knew, his mother and brother had told him.
#26 – Goodbye
Edward and Alphonse had already buried their mother, but somehow, losing him was worse; she had gotten sick and died, but he was murdered right in front of Ed's eyes.
#27 – Hide
The first signs of decay appeared on his shoulder; he knew he could hide them for a while, but if his wife and children saw them, they would start asking questions he didn't want to answer.
#28 – Fortune
He left behind a small fortune for her and the boys, but she never touched it; she knew they'd need it when she was gone.
#29 – Safe
As brilliant as Edward was, he couldn't understand the paradox of a man that would abandon his family, then turn around and sacrifice his own life to protect two worlds.
#30 – Ghost
As they grew older, Alphonse came to resemble him more and more, until it seemed to Edward that he was looking at their father's ghost.
#31 – Book
She was sure of the change in her boys' relationship when she saw the two of them looking at a book together instead of fighting, and blessed her husband for having spoken to Edward about his brother.
#32 – Eye
All three of his sons strongly resembled their father, but only Envy and Edward had inherited his eyes.
#33 – Never
Though he never had and never would meet her, Roy Mustang had to wonder what kind of woman their mother had been, to produce two such extraordinary sons.
#34 – Sing
Edward remembered that his mother had sung all the time before his father left; after he'd gone, she never sang unless he or Alphonse asked her to.
#35 – Sudden
Her illness had not come on as suddenly as she'd led her boys to think; even if he'd been there, all he'd have been able to do was mourn her.
#36 – Stop
Edward had stopped hating his father once he learned the truth, but the two years he had before the old man died weren't nearly long enough to make up for lost time.
#37 – Time
There were pictures of him in Pinako's picture albums; she'd never noticed it before, but in the fifty years since those were taken, he hadn't changed a bit.
#38 – Wash
The first time he gave the baby a bath, he and Edward, the entire bathroom, and most of the hall ended up soaked.
#39 – Torn
"I've never met a man who knew how to sew," she said as she watched him mend the tears in the lining of his jacket.
#40 – History
Alphonse didn't think Edward had ever taken time to mourn their mother or the loss of their home; it was like he was trying to ignore everything that had happened to them before they tried human transmutation.
#41 – Power
She knew that Edward would never forgive his father for leaving them, but the force of his anger scared her sometimes.
#42 – Bother
He knew that Dante and her twisted offspring were still lurking out there; the possibility that she might come after his wife and children someday scared him more than he was willing to admit.
#43 – God
Whenever he left to do research, she always prayed to whatever gods watched over alchemists that he would come home safe.
#44 – Wall
She tried to explain to the boys that their father still loved them, but getting through to Edward was like talking to a brick wall.
#45 – Naked
"Edward Elric, you get back here this instant!" she yelled as the toddler ran out of the bathroom without a stitch of clothes on.
#46 – Drive
Maes Hughes had been the one to explain to Ed about girls, and Roy Mustang had taught him how to drive a car; his mother's husband may have been the one to sire him, but he hadn't been there when it really mattered until almost the end.
#47 – Harm
If he had known what kind of harm his leaving would do to her and their boys, he might have reconsidered his plan.
#48 – Precious
The sight of her husband and sons curled up asleep on the sofa together was just too cute for words; she couldn't resist taking a picture.
#49 – Hunger
Edward had been crying for two hours despite everything he'd tried to calm him down, and he was afraid he'd broken the baby; it was a relief to find out Edward was just hungry.
#50 – Believe
He had believed in alchemy and its underlying principles for the entire four hundred-plus years he'd been alive, but she and their boys gave him something to live for he'd never thought could be out there.