Toby ([info]t3h_toby_chan) wrote in [info]fma_gen,
2006-05-29 11:31:00

More Hoho and Ed

(Because I love them.)-- No spoilers

The World from Daddy's Shoulders.

In his earliest years, Edward loved playing with Daddy. Having been so young, he could only remember vaguely the time they shared together; how much he loved holding on to daddy's leg and seeing how far he could travel before the man tired, yanking on his beard until Trisha had to interfere for fear that her husband might become seriously injured at the toddler's hands, sitting at the pondside together with makeshift rods to little avail, there being no fish in that shallow puddle in the first place. 

His favorite part of playing with Daddy, though, was when the man would lift his tiny son with large strong hands and hoist him onto his shoulders. The world was amazing from there; Edward was thoroughly convinced that heights such as these were a special view reserved for only the luckiest most special of people. Momma would look up from nursing baby Alphonse, see the two of them strolling towards her as one great mammoth of a combined creature, a chimera of father and son, and she would giggle in the way that made them both feel safer than they ever had, and comment on how very quickly little Ed seemed to be growing. From Daddy's shoulders, Edward felt indomitable, invincible, as if the whole world was his to conquer, and all was good and right under his knowing watch.


When Daddy left, Edward didn't feel so tall anymore.


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[info]donkey

May 29 2006, 16:54:55 UTC 6 years ago

So.. Cute *_* And sad... Poor little Ed. ♥

[info]lilfmagurl

May 29 2006, 16:56:06 UTC 6 years ago

aww! :( poor ed!
XD
"..Edward didn't feel so tall anymore"
sad, yet funny at the same time.....

[info]magical_poof

June 3 2006, 03:09:57 UTC 5 years ago

ZOMG! Someone using an icon I made... -has a connitption-

[info]lilfmagurl

June 3 2006, 14:57:21 UTC 5 years ago

lol yup! ^^ I luffles that icon <33

[info]pharetra

May 29 2006, 17:03:11 UTC 6 years ago

Awww...this is so sweet and terribly heartbreaking.
Nicely done!

[info]box_of_doom

May 29 2006, 17:10:58 UTC 6 years ago

That was so cute. And very well-written.

Go baby!Ed!

[info]chrstphrl

May 29 2006, 17:48:02 UTC 6 years ago

So very sweet with just a little sadness thrown in. I always imagined Ed was Daddy's Boy and that's why he took Hohenheim's leaving so hard so this really works for me. Lovely.

[info]t3h_toby_chan

May 29 2006, 21:49:01 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, I get that a lot from him too, Ed being a Daddy's boy; the sad part being that he doesn't really even remember it too well, so all he retains is the emotional memory of being hurt after Hoho left. Even when Al asks him "Do you hate father?" "It's not... 'hate'... I just can't remember him."

[info]threeonetwo

May 29 2006, 18:29:10 UTC 6 years ago

...Aww. That was sad. That last line was just. Poor Ed. Very beautifully written, and sweet.

[info]magical_poof

May 29 2006, 19:25:12 UTC 6 years ago

Aww... So... Touching... -sniffle- Poor short Ed ;_;

He could sit on Al's shoulders now, though... XD

[info]su_dama

May 29 2006, 19:54:27 UTC 6 years ago

You shot me down with the last line....aww.....I feel bad for Edo now! And I'm supposed to like Alphonse the most!

[info]t3h_toby_chan

May 29 2006, 21:52:28 UTC 6 years ago

Honestly, it was only the last line that made me want to write this; it had been pestering me since I got a wallpaper of Edward on Hohenheim's shoulders, and it all really just clicked from that one image; Ed being tall and on top of the world with Daddy's help. It would make sense that Ed's touchy about being called short; in a way, it's like being called incomplete or weak, and without his dad, he probably felt that way for a while.

[info]su_dama

May 29 2006, 22:30:02 UTC 6 years ago

Hai! That's most likely the case, because it fits in nicely. Funny...I hated it whenever my dad lifed me up high when I was young, since he's 6'5" and heights have always scared the crap out of me. Hmm.....I can so feel the emotion behind it all. I always found it odd that Ed grew to be short...when his father was so tall, but that happens...because I'm 5'4"....but average^^....but my mum calls me a midget, because she's two inches taller than me....*rolls eyes*

[info]keishiko

May 29 2006, 20:03:09 UTC 6 years ago

whooa. T.T LOVE it. makes me all sniffly~

i especially love the idea (better articulated in an above comment) that Edward took Hoho-papa's leaving extra hard precisely because he was such a Daddy's boy. @.@ that is just... so insightful. wahh. am enthralled.

[info]t3h_toby_chan

May 29 2006, 21:57:57 UTC 6 years ago

I'm glad people also share this interpretation. As I mentioned before, it only really took one picture to make me realize that a lot of Ed's insecurities, probably primarily those tied up in the paranoia of being thought of as small or inadequate, stem from feeling that empty space. He was such a bright loving kid, and Hohenheim leaving probably planted the first small seeds of mistrust and self doubt in his little mind. :(

[info]jadella

May 29 2006, 21:24:06 UTC 6 years ago

Amazingly done. Really cute, and just... *isn't coherant* Why can't there be more wonderful gen fic like this! :D

[info]t3h_toby_chan

May 29 2006, 21:53:10 UTC 6 years ago

I'll try to make a habit of it. Gen is love.

[info]sliefoxx

May 30 2006, 00:49:14 UTC 6 years ago

::Wibble::

._.

The last line just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Good job ♥

[info]hime1999

May 30 2006, 14:57:15 UTC 6 years ago

So much love.

[info]maxxim_huzzah

May 30 2006, 15:37:39 UTC 6 years ago

'Chimera' in any FMA fic will always remind me of Nina and Alexander. ;_; The image of them fishing with no fish, of just being loved comes through so strongly.

The way the last line twists the knife against Ed's height and Hoho's absence really nailed the fic for me. ;_;

[info]cofie

May 30 2006, 19:09:23 UTC 6 years ago

awww <3 <3

much love for this. It is the awwwness. ;_; feels sorry for Edo now.

[info]hagane_no

May 30 2006, 20:17:20 UTC 6 years ago

Awwww ;O; This is exactly how I see Ed and Hohenheim's relationship before Hoho up and left.

[info]kesenaixtsumi

June 4 2006, 18:39:34 UTC 5 years ago

;____; ♥ Amazing job.
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