wolfsbane for the wip game, please!!! *grabby hands*
(Tag game) Yesss, Pursuing Wolfsbane!! I lowk originally wanted to change the name, but I got really into Werewolf Gimmick by the Mountain Goats around that time of starting it, and Wolfsbane is a beautiful-looking, fragile-looking bell-shaped purple flower that will kill you mega dead. So, kind of fitting given the characters?
Wolfsbane is a fic set pre-Our Most Unbecoming Natures, when Ed travels with Greedling after Briggs when he's a fugitive. When finished, it'll be a oneshot, likely around 8-10k in total, covering Ed's time in establishing dominance with Greedling, but specifically Greed at the time.
As I'm writing the omegaverse series out of order, and this is the middlest fic (so first it's w/ Kimblee, then Greed, then finally the one I've published) this needs to both set up how Ed came to be in Natures without fully being established in his knowledge on himself. So it is both set-up and reveal. Really interesting to try to do!
Here's a snippet:
Mustang had described Ed’s scent as old books. Greed was trying to fuck with him and it was working. “I’m not built wrong, thanks, it’s some—” Ed shook out his hands loosely to try and gesticulated loosely, signaling his lack of information as well, “—bullshit about my heritage. I destroyed books with some information about it a long time ago. Can’t check now.”
“You destroyed books? Wow, they must have pissed you off bad. It’s a good thing you’re in my pack; I like the limited editions.”
“I’m not in your pack,” Ed said gruffly. “I brought you two new guys and myself. You’d be going insane having nothing. I’m in charge. I’m the Alpha here.”
“You’re kidding,” Greed said lightly, his eyebrows raised. “You don’t seriously think that do you? You’re not even an alpha. You’re some kinda super mutant omega. Not the same.”