Beauty and the Beast: Edvy 100 Themes

by rokosourobouros

Enemies, nothing more, nothing less, but neither Ed nor Envy are known for being particularly honest with themselves. Sometimes about Ed, sometimes about Envy, sometimes about both of them, sometimes about them kissing. 100 Themes of Edvy, because we didn't have any yet. Now complete.

7. Alchemy

Kat Shadow: Aw, thank you! I love them so much – just a peek at my profile will tell you how madly I ship them _. As for Pride!Ed/Envy, I may be writing more – I don't know. I have the themes already written out (I don't just make up the themes themselves as I go, that would be cheating) but I can see a few where Pride would work well.

7. Alchemy

It was like alchemy when they moved together, the salt and heat of their bodies and the pale moonlight that illuminated their trysts like the glow of a circle under his fingertips. The white of the homunculus's skin was like chalk –

-calcium carbonate –

- and the markings and lines that crossed his shoulders and legs, they were ley lines and runes in blood-stain pigment. Sometimes when he let his fingers trace idle patterns onto the blank, unstained canvas of the sin's back, he'd recognize the runes he was etching in feathery touches. Simple transmutations – water to steam, dust into stone, sand into glass. Changes of state, but not matter.

When they arched their backs, it almost made a perfect circle, the electricity from their desperate longing sending a charge along their enmeshed bodies – together and separate all at once, conjoined at the hips, their mouths and sometimes their hands, but the rest of them was kept apart.

And in the moments just after, when he buried his face in the tangled nest of hair splayed across the pillow, he could smell faint hints of things that didn't belong. Ammonia. Mercury. Sulphur. They were acidic, stinging smells, bitter and sharp, but they were part of the man that he loved, a reminder that he was a creature born of chemicals.

NH3 – trihydrogen nitride, azane.

Hg – quicksilver, hydrargyrum.

S – brimstone.

It was like alchemy when they moved together, alchemy and chemistry and electricity, all the things that made sense in the logical world and mind of Edward Elric. When he took everything about them, their relationship and reduced it to its most basic elements, it was so much easier to understand.

He analyzed the way he loved Envy in clinical, scientific terms, because it didn't make sense any other way.