A minor FMA shipper rant

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I've got this urge to write a really angsty Ed/Winry fic where Ed leaves and comes back and BOOM! Winry has gotten married and lived happily in the interim. To someone else.

Because I really hate all those Ed/Winry fics where Ed turns into his father and Winry waits on and off for years like a "patient little wife." Let's get real here, people. Winry would get tired of waiting as she grows up because we know she's not that passive a person, and the last thing Ed wants to to treat Winry the way his father treated his mother. He wouldn't allow them to have a relationship like that.

So either Winry would leave her business and her home and follow him around like a partner, which I don't see happening (Winry is not Hawkeye) or Ed would simply tell her not to wait for him.

Which, now that I think about it, makes that whole fic idea of him waiting for her and coming back to find her gone to be unnecessary. Also? I'm thinking Ed's not really into Winry seriously.

Maybe I'm just a closet Al/Winry shipper. Because I really see Al as more the settle-down type.

Gah... when will episode 50 be subbed already? I'm trying so hard to avoid spoilers but they're all around me!

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

He would. He would be a total sweetie. Not that Ed also wouldn't be sweet with children (I think he would, based on how strongly he felt for Nina and his reactions to Rose's baby), I think Al just seems more the type to be happy with a stationary family life. I think he also likes adventuring around with Edward and seeing other places and people (he always gets along with the locals better than Ed), but he could be equally happy with either life-- the road or the home. Edward might settle, but methinks he'd settle at 35, not 25.

[crossouttheeyes.livejournal.com]

he always gets along with the locals better than Ed

That's because Ed tends to be a bit spazzy and Al, totally contrasting his brother, is very calm and polite. *g*

Ed is way too focused on the mission to even think about a family life.