These are both old asks, for which I am so sorry!!, but. Like. I promised myself I wasn’t going to think about it any more, or at least not until I was done with lots of things, but I LIED.
(Also, @ first anon, in my brain, it would be the other way around – Ed would do everything in his power to deter Al from enlisting, because he’d be so terrified that even if Al didn’t face brushes with death every other day in the military, the whole ideology might poison everything that makes him so very Al. I think Ed thinks he’s too cynical to be bothered by it, at least at the start, but he’d be SO worried that the guard dog gig would tear Al apart.
…but ofc Al is the only person on the planet more stubborn than he is, so even attempts to openly sabotage Al joining up would fail. XD
He would 150% try to put himself between Al and every possible source of danger, though, omfg. The armor would be beat to shit in this AU.)
ANYHOO, I have no idea how long it’s going to take me to get to writing this properly, if I ever do, so here’s a 1,400-word scene I banged out one random day in January because I just couldn’t help myself. :’|
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