#tw; amputation

[tallest-bathwater]

When you become untouchable, you're unable to touch...

[squishe-pie]

No I won't use anesthesia :)

[alchemic-elric]

Trigger Warnings:  Car accident, Graphic Detail, Blood, Death, Injury, Panic, Depression, Anger, Therapy, Amputation, needles, hospitals 

Mun Notes: These posts were written months apart from each other and are both part of another scene as a flashback. Al’s POV goes in a little into the future (but not present day) because of this. 

Edward’s POV: 

November 14th 2014

There had been another altercation at school today. A student got into Edward’s face and pushed him around a little so Edward pushed back and as such since Edward was getting pushed around Alphonse got involved to help him.  The two boys always told Winry she didn’t understand this kind of stuff when she asked them why do they both have to fight?

A bond between brothers, they’d said. It was always because of ‘a bond between brothers’. 

Resembool’s two resident geniuses / troublemakers were currently being escorted home by a very angry Mr and Mrs Rockbell - because they’d told these boys a thousand times there would be no fighting as long as they lived under their roof and apparently they needed to be told one thousand and one.

But as it were in Resembool, drawing into the coming winter months the roads were in poor shape. Black ice and shush was more than apparent all over the trek from the school back to their shared home when a large truck slipped as it passed the couple’s much smaller car and as such both vehicles were turned to skid sideways.  They skidded right into oncoming traffic and in a split second decision, Edward unclicked his seat belt and threw himself over his brother. Alphonse wrapped his arms around his sibling and both boys held onto each other as tight as they possibly could - two sets of gold eyes going closed when their car was struck on the board side.

The sound of the impact is buried deep in their minds but the worst of it was waking to the sight of so much blood. Metal was twisted and mangled - two bodies sat slump in the front seat with life long since they left them. Edward was in so much pain, feeling himself stuck underneath strips of twisted metal. All the boy could do was cry - scream for his brother and beg the heavens for someone to save him.  The child was awake long enough to see the dark sky to fill with flashing lights. Blues and Reds spun and illuminated the space around them as the pair of brothers for the first time in their lives - prayed to God to make it through this.

Edward could remember looking down, seeing his brother beneath him - covered in red and unconscious. He seemed otherwise uninjured - but was that blood his or was it Alphonse’s? He didn’t know. The child started screaming but while sirens blared and his voice sounded out in a relentless beg, he heard the world go silent. Like a rubber band snapped all the sound around him and it was gone from existence - everything just gone. Even the sound of his own voice; of his own breath.  He panicked, screaming louder hoping it would make his ears pick up the pleas that were resounding within him but that wasn’t how it happened.

The world turned itself back on with the sense starting in a soft buzzing hum until it was screaming in his ears and with another snap of the rubber band everything returned to normal. It returned to normal in time to hear the sound of a deep male voice call this a ‘black tape crash’ and Edward could only find himself wondering what that meant.

The boy tried to move but he couldn’t. He only found himself in more pain as he thrashed around with a mess of blood and flashing lights flooding his vision. The rubber band snapped again and his sight was gone. There were no flashing lights, there was no car, and there was no Alphonse. Everything around him just gone. A world of nothing but black.  Edward’s breath hitched in his throat as he felt himself grow cold but this time the rubber band didn’t snap back.

The boy had woke in an unfamiliar room, at least relieved to be able to see once more. Panic raced through his veins like a fiery poison and Edward was screaming for his brother with a mess of tears streaming down his face. This outburst, of course, brought in nurses and aids rushing to the child’s side and they guided him gently to look to the side to see his brother laying quiet in the bed next to him. It was then that a doctor came into the room with a grim look on his face, and pulled up a chair only to drop his eyes for a moment. That was when he explained to the child what happened.

He explained that the younger had suffered some broken bones and had some cuts and bruising but was otherwise largely uninjured.  Edward sighed in relief but the man’s face grew dark.

“We did everything we could to save as much of you as possible, son.”  

Alphonse’s POV:

He'll never forget it. He'll never forget waking up to the sound of small evenly timed beeps with a needle stuck in his arm and bandages all over his body. Cuts and bruises - a few broken bones.  Small splashes of the accident's residue left on his skin. He'd fallen unconscious. The force the impact left him out cold. He didn't know what happened. He didn't know where his family was. He didn't know where Aunt Sarah or Uncle Yuriy were  and worst of all - his brother.

He woke up in a hospital with no one around. No family. No sibling. No smiling faces. He knew he was in the hospital from the pastel mint that covered the walls but that was as far as his memory reached. So he screamed. He was ten years old then, so he screamed and  he cried and the only thing he could say was "Brother I'm scared! Where is my brother?! I'm scared!!"

Why was he here? The last thing he could remember was Ed throwing himself over him. The last thing he could remember was Ed whispering "I love you I'm here." and then that awful deafening sound.

His screaming was met with nurses rushing to his aid and a doctor walking in behind them. They did their best to calm him, but the child would not stop. He screamed through his tears over and over again. 

"Where is my brother?!"  "In surgery."  They said.  “We're doing everything we can."  They said.

Well they didn't do enough. 

 He's been angry about it even since. He's been furious about it ever since but yet he speaks these emotions to no one. He's only ever spoken them in private to a man by the name of Knox.  Alphonse's personal therapist.  He's the only one who knows how deep the younger of the Elric pair is drowning in his rage. His rage for that accident. His rage for that car. His rage for those doctors. His rage for that day. 

 His has control issues, or at least that's what he's been told. He's made mention many times to Dr. Knox that he doesn't like anyone else driving Edward anywhere. He hates the bus system and wishes that he wouldn't take it...and for a while he hated every moment Edward got into Ling's car. He never hated Ling, no never - but the fact that Ling held his brother's life in his hands by setting behind that wheel - sometimes he still hates that.

There's a reason why he's always the one behind the wheel. At least that way, he knows it's safe.

 It wasn't until he watched once. Watched Ling almost run to get to Ed's side of the car, and carefully help him up and out. How gentle he saw Ling handle his brother. How carefully he watched Ling back out of their driveway and drive down Wayward as it stretches up to their property.  It was when he observed that he calmed a little. 

They got assigned to be lab partners in science class. Alphonse was forced to spend more time with him now and they decided to go to the library after class one day in order to work on a project...and Ling insisted that he drove.  Alphonse's skin crawled at the implication that he would be lacking in that sense of security but a sick sense of curiosity made him agree.  He took the other's driving in for himself and it was then that he decided that Ling finally truly passed the sibling test and he gave him a gold star of approval.

He felt safe in letting Ling drive his brother,  and he can give someone no greater honor than that.

[alchemic-elric]

Are the modern Elrics as close as the canon Elrics?

TW: Car Accidents, PTSD, Mental Illness, Terminal Illness, Amputation, Death, Bullying, Adoption, The Foster Care system, 

||  You mean inseparable? You mean with each other all the time? 

Yes of course. That was a big part of their core personalities I wanted to keep in tact the best I could was that closeness. 

The car accident that took Edwards limbs left effects on Alphonse as well.  

Their mother died when Edward was 7 when she passed away after losing her battle with cancer.  So with Hohenheim leaving out of the blue one night two years prior, the boys were left with no where to go. They were taken in by family friends, The Rockbells - later becoming Yuriy and Sarah Rockbell’s foster sons.  This is why I always refer to their family as “The Rockbell-Elrics.” because even though they were fosters to Winry’s parents they retained their last name. Edward fought hard for it and honestly no one really saw the harm in it. 

However then car accident happened when Edward was 11 and in a split second decision when the car was skidding out of control into on coming traffic Edward threw himself over his brother and the two held onto each other for dear life. They managed to survive the accident but Yuriy and Sarah did not. Edward lost both, his right arm and his left leg in that accident but in turn he saved his brother’s life.  Alphonse was banged up and was still laid up for a while but he personally feels he didn’t suffer as badly as his brother did. Edward feels like he made the right choice, and would do it all over again even knowing he’d lose his limbs. His brother is worth that to him. 

They both started therapy / psychiatry the following year.  

Alphonse sees Dr. Elliot Knox and Edward sees Dr. Roy Mustang to work through their trauma and mental illness related issues.  Edward started seeing Dr. Mustang when he was just twelve. 

Now with their legal guardians passed on due to the car accident, Pinako fought for custody of the boys so that Ed and Al wouldn’t be swept up into the system and separated. After jumping through many legal hoops, Pinako Rockbell finally succeeded and gained custody of the Elric Brothers making them legally her foster (grand)sons. 

Due to the nature of everything that’s happened between them and surrounding their family, Edward and Alphonse are exceptionally close and they are also very close with their foster sister, Winry. The three of them are known for being a trio.  The school bullies turned Edward into a target once the accident happened and he returned to school with his limbs. There are people at school who accept him and most people know Elric is just the way he is, but there are of course assholes.  Due to this Al is crazy protective of his brother but Ed is just the same way over Al. It’s almost an unspoken rule within the halls of Resembool High that if you fuck with one Elric Brother the other will soon be behind them. Any time any of the school bullies have raised fist to Edward more often then not, Alphonse has laid them out for it. The same thing applies vice versa though. Edward’s not afraid to throw hands in general, but especially if you’re fool enough to fuck with his family. 

Alphonse carries a lot of guilt surrounding the accident and blames himself for what happened to Edward. He carries a lot of guilt towards a lot of things surrounding his brother but it comes to the forefront quickly when Edward’s PTSD is triggered (Al has his own but hides it better) and when Ed’s thrown into a panic attack. Sometimes people tease them that Alphonse is Edward’s “caretaker” due to the way his brother cares for him, when the reality of the situation is that Alphonse is horrified over the concept that he could have just as easily woken up in that hospital alone and without his brother. 

For a while, he did as Edward was in surgery when Alphonse woke. The car accident was highly traumatic to both of them in a number of differing ways. Edward psychically more so than his brother, and Alphonse mentally in differing ways. 

Alphonse does things now, since getting his license - like refusing to allow anyone other than Pinako herself to drive when Edward’s in the car. He’s control obsessive when it comes to motorized vehicles and the idea of Edward setting in a car with someone else driving, makes him go crazy.  He absolutely hates that Edward relies heavily on the public transit routes to get around, but he can’t demand his brother stay in one place so there’s little he can do about it. 

It doesn’t stop the fretful conversations though. 

They’ve always been close and when their mother passed they got closer and then their foster parents passed and the accident happened and they got even closer. When High School hit for them, (Al skipped a grade btw) they bonded over music. Edward was given his guitar and dove into it head first and Alphonse picked up drumming as a form of therapy to vent his anger.  They write music together, lyrics and the like even if it’s just venting their frustrations.  

But they are close enough in Modern Verse (and honestly I write this in canon too) that they can finish each other’s sentences and have a strange “twin” thing they do sometimes where they will talk at the same time - same words - same sentence - same tone - near same voice. It really weirds people out. They get asked if they’re twins a lot and they always just smile and laugh it off but never actually give a straight answer. 

Of everyone in the world, easily they are each other’s best friend. 

My Gallery Tag for the Modern Elrics is “g! We survived hell; We’ll survive this too.” 

[alchemic-elric]

Modern Verse Information Log

Information and Aesthetics 

Triggers:  tw; car accident,  tw; abuse, tw; blood,  tw; fighting, tw; amputation,  tw; mental illness

Information: 

Verse Overview 

Key Relationships || Part 1 || Part 2 ||

Headcanons || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 ||

Resembool Town Map 

Resembool Town Map - The Division 

Rockbell-Elric Home Blueprint 

Rockbell-Elric Home - Backyard 

Rockbell-Elric Home - Detailed Layout

Ed’s Nicknames

Profiles

Rockbell- Elrics

Aesthetics

Ed’s Sarcastic Shirt Collection

Jewelry

Accessories

Edward’s Acoustic

Bag / Pin collection 

Tattoos

Playlists  ||  #1 

Moodboards

The Elric Brothers

Edward Elric 

Edward & Wu Yao

Edward & Ling  X || X ||  X 

Ling Yao

Art

Edward Elric

Ling Yao 

[parcxysme]

/(OwO)/ I can't wait for human!lulu to lose his arm in this plot. It's gonna be epic.

[chaosthxory]

//I swear to god I'm just going to have my arm amputated one of these days. It would hurt less