royedismyaesthetic:

It’s raining here in North Carolina, and it will continue to rain for quite a while. So here are some fics for us all to sit down and read for a couple of hours. There are two more lists after this one, because there are a lot of fics to go through. Putting this together took longer than I wanted it to. But these authors right here most likely spent way longer than they wanted to writing these fics, because these fics are long…

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ashes to ashes by unscriptedemily

“I haven’t seen you around here before,” says the man. Fuck off, thinks Ed, I bet you say that to all the strange, heavily armed sorcerers that come wandering past your doorway in the middle of the night.

Or, Ed is a travelling mage with a mysterious past, and Roy is the sorcerer that falls in love with him.

A Wicked Game by Tierfal

Roy has lucked into the all-expenses-paid vacation of his dreams – all he has to do is convince a bunch of happy couples that he’s head-over-heels in love with Ed Elric. What could possibly go wrong? [Modern!AU.]

Babylon by BeautifulFiction_FMA

Two years after retrieving his brother’s body from the Gate of Truth Edward Elric is still paying the price. Will his debt ever be repaid, or will it finally cost him everything? 

Breathless by WinterIsobel

Through the threads of time
A scarlet promise forged in gold
The forgotten desert flower
Which never whithers
I bring it to you

(Soulbond!AU Xerxes had soul marks and Edward finds out)

build your wings on the way down by ShanaStoryteller

Where the loss of ignorance is more valuable than the knowledge gained, and Edward figures out the source of alchemy a lot sooner than before.

“Edward has cockroaches under his skin and leeches in his veins. He’s vibrating and bursting and his body is too small, too big, doesn’t fit quite right. He needs Al to know – needs to tell someone, anyone, but he will cut out his own tongue before he burdens anyone else with this knowledge.”

But Not Buried This Time by Tierfal

Once Ed decides that he is categorically not going to rot on the Drachman tundra, dragging his ass out of the jaws of death is actually pretty easy.  …except when it’s not.  At all.  Which is most of the time. (AU from end of Brotherhood.)

Button Up Your Overcoat by Skinner (psiten)

Ed could untie knots in the fifth and sixth dimensions – blindfolded. He could convince the military he fell through a rabbit-hole, and he could even shut down a Drachman invasion (with a little help), but he can’t seem to avoid dating Roy Mustang (and maybe is kind of okay with that). But here’s hoping they can collar a General trying to trigger a three-way war, and that they can stop him before he destroys the world.

Making himself walk instead of run took every ounce of composure he had, especially when he got far enough to see the city blanketed in a strange layer of dust and dark thunderclouds. The weather had been clear for miles around. Those clouds had the smack of weather alchemy about them.

He had to find his brother.

Clerical Errors by roymustang (SpicyReyes)

“We’re chasing rumors of skilled alchemists,” Mustang said. “Your name came up, several times. Thirty-one-year-old alchemic genius Edward Elric, from Risembool, living with a family friend and his younger brother.”

“Check your sources, bastard,” Ed told him. “I’m twenty-six. Al’s twenty-five.”

(‘What if Ed was an adult the whole time’ AU)

Colours in Your Eyes by Batsutousai

Everyone is born with the ability to only see the colour of their soulmate’s eyes. Only upon touching their soulmate, can people see the rest of the world’s colours.
Edward Elric will do whatever it takes to get his brother’s body back and ensure he can have his happily ever after with his soulmate, even if it means never finding his own soulmate.

Cyclamen by CatieBrie

Edward violently denies the existence of magic. Roy is a State recognized Mage. Alphonse is sick and all research into the cause–both mundane and alchemical–has turned up nothing.

Yet, despite Edward’s protests that magic is nothing more than a flashy form of alchemy (expletives excluded), it exists and it’s coming for him in a very real way.

Dead Ringer by Xyriath 

Love, as fleeting as it is sweet.

After a single date, Roy Mustang is left with only funeral flowers and the memory of a guy who could have been The One. A few months later, he finds himself introduced to a friend of a friend who looks eerily familiar.

Second chances come from unexpected places, he knows, but—Ed’s cousin?

Diplomatic Excursions and Other Ways to Die by Tierfal

Conceptually, attending Emperor Ling’s coronation celebration is simple enough. In practice, it involves far too much trekking, yearning, bleeding, burning, hoping, running, and dodging of diplomatic catastrophes for Roy’s tastes.

Disinclined to Acquiesce by Xyriath

There’s little more that Edward dreams of than freedom: freedom to travel to new places, to learn anything within reach, to explore and sail across the waves. But as an omega in a wealthy, high-class household, he’s expected to do one thing: marry well. He thinks his close friend, Roy Mustang, newly-appointed Commodore to the Amestrian Navy, understands his disdain at this prospect, but a surprise announcement by Ed’s father strikes a blow not just at Ed, but at his and Roy’s friendship.

Ed, of course, has never been one to conform to expectations, and he’ll fight against this one just like any other. Bigger trouble, however, is brewing on the horizon, and when Ed finds himself the sudden captive of a murderous crew of pirates, he must rely on all his skill and wit to survive.

Across the sea, Roy has been forbidden from sailing to Ed’s rescue. But he’s never been one to give up either, and a ragged pirate might just be his and Ed’s key to escape—and to earthshattering knowledge lost for centuries.

Dragon’s Gold by Batsutousai

Prince Edward is a pain in his parents’ behinds, and they eventually resort to locking him up in a tower with a dragon in hopes that some enforced solitude will help him sort out his priorities. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t quite work out the way they’d hoped.

Dreaming in Red and Gold by Batsutousai

When Drachma agrees to meet for peace talks at Briggs Fortress, General Roy Mustang is the one sent to represent Amestris. It just so happens that the Drachmans have their own Amestrisan, who is far too skilled at turning the most tedious of discussions into an exciting time.