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Title: Strike True
Author: [livejournal.com profile] tiamatschild
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: K
Characters: Ran Fan, Ling
Summary: Ran Fan’s always had a place in the world.
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] cornerofmadness’s prompt: “Ran Fan, the edge of a blade”.

Strike True

Ran Fan didn’t know when the thought first occurred to her. It must have been when she was very young and her master was still younger, a shining child with a wicked smile and a knack for trouble, begging her to run so that he could chase her, unsteady on toddler legs. Then he would dart off, in a feint he was only beginning to develop, and vanish, so that she’d panic and search for him in frenzied worry, until his laughter gave his hiding place away. It must have been. Yes, she must have been very young, because she could not recall the first moment when she held a knife and thought, “Ah, here: this is what we are – he is the flat, the core, the solid slope that gives the blade its strength and direction and I – I am the cutting edge,” and shivered with bright, blossoming pleasure, low and cold in her belly, and smiled.

Date: 2010-02-05 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
Ooh, nice.

Date: 2010-02-06 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cornerofmadness.livejournal.com
oh very nicely done. i love it

Date: 2010-02-06 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com
that's a gorgeous look at Ran Fan.

Date: 2010-02-06 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evil-little-dog.livejournal.com
She's very cool.

Date: 2010-02-06 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bob_fish.livejournal.com
Ooh, Ran Fan! I do like this. You always give her a lot of love. She needs more love!

And I love little Ling failing to hide because he's too busy giggling.

Date: 2010-02-06 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bob_fish.livejournal.com
Hee, me too. Pre-emptive pimpage: my buddy [livejournal.com profile] enemytosleep is currently just finishing off a chapter fic for Big Bang which involves some Ling and Ran Fan flashbackery, and yeah, little Ling is like that. XD

Date: 2010-02-06 09:40 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Little Ran Fan is much the same, though in her own, angry way. XD Thanks for the pimpage. Hopefully I'll be able to deliver.

Date: 2010-02-06 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bob_fish.livejournal.com
You certainly will be able to deliver! *waves pom poms*

Date: 2010-02-06 09:38 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (RanFan)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Yay Ran fan. I absolutely love the imagery of both their game of chase and the metaphor with the blade. I love these two. ^_^

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