Biting The Hand That Made You {Private: Dai and Pockeh}

Edward Elric
Mood: Pissed Off
Song: Lullaby of Resembool
Artist: Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood OST

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It all started with a blast of fire.

Edward had long forgotten the exact year of the event that had changed his life. Permanently. Was it fifty years ago, or five hundred? Ten or a thousand? It no longer mattered. The day in question? He remembered perfectly.

A sight clouded by tears, a bond broken... A brother missing his arm... that fatal, earth-shattering snap. And fire... He remembered the fire...

That was all it took. Just the fire. And his brother was gone from his life. Kane.. was gone.

He wouldn't have been. He wouldn't have died if it hadn't been for Edward. It was all... all HIS fault. If Kane hadn't sacrificed his arm.. then...

No, Ed thought to himself. You can't afford to think like that. It wasn't your fault. It was *his*. The mysterious man. The harbinger of the end of Ed's happy existence. The flame that snuffed out the light in his life. HE was to blame. For everything. Every single goddamned thing that had happened since Kane's death. Every negative emotion, every pang of regret. It was all HIS fault..

So why not seek revenge? Why not be DRIVEN by every OUNCE of your being to want to make things... even? That was the question. And here Ed was, seeking the answer.

All it really took were a couple of winter modifications for his outfit. A hood on his cloak, some padding in his leggings... And the Russian cold was nothing.

As he trudged through the snow, the sky expelling all manner of ice and sleet, matching Ed's mood perfectly, He slipped his hands into his pockets, long blonde hair covered by a red hood, blue eyes glaring straight ahead as he walked into the desolate ice plain.

Leaning his torso back, Edward yelled. One loud, definitive yell, that would make what he was aiming to accomplish here very clear. It would make his presence known, and, with luck, it would bring forth the man he so desired to be even with. No.. the man he NEEDED to get even with.

"WHERE ARE YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH?!"

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