saintslaika
https://archiveofourown.org/works/84622966
by saintslaika
Ling had been working towards his goals for so long, years, but now, sitting in the not-silence of ambient sound, leaves rustling and twigs swaying with the wind, he was wracked with a desperate urge to just… give up.
Leave it all behind, stop working towards something that despite so much belief, he knew might never happen.
An untenable fantasy, one where they both just gave up and left, kept wandering through the backwoods together and forgot about their troubles, almost comforted Ling when this feeling made him too overwrought to bear.
It hurt, when he thought about it too much, but when the only other thing that would keep steady in his mind was the desperation to just lay down and stop, the fiction gave him a feeling not unlike hope. Not something that would ever happen, but would be such a relief if it did.
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Ling Yao thinks about birds, emotions, and ambitions. And Edward Elric.
Maybe he doesn't want to keep trying forever.
Maybe he's going to anyways.
Words: 949, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 1 of i know it's a lie, i want it to be true
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Edward Elric, Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist), not tagging for greed bc he doesn't show up at all but this is during the greedling era so he might later
Relationships: Edward Elric/Ling Yao, Edward Elric & Ling Yao, technically preslash but it is 80 percent romantic musings
Additional Tags: Pining, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, but ling is very much treating it as such and as of yet i haven't written otherwise so, bird metaphors, (i started writing this while watching a goldfinch out my window and going 'that bird is fucking yellow'. ling yao you and i are the same.), Angst, is this angst. it feels angsty to me, its also just how i feel rn but i do have clinical depression so that's not helping the not-angst argument tbh, Light Angst, Angst and Feels, Introspection, Feels, i havent posted on ao3 since i was like 12 and i wrote this in a couple hours okay its barely even edited in the first place., if i reread this too much i Will scare myself out of posting it. i am Not asking one of my friends to beta for me, i like to say i write for fun but really i roleplay sometimes and that's IT so please let me know if i fucked something up, all titles are from collect call by metric, also:, aroace author, i have no perspective and no idea what im writing about im just sad and longing and i want ling to be sad and longing too okay, One Shot, Short One Shot, if i'm bad at tagging. no i'm not fuck you, no beta we die like trisha elric
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