dragonimp

I didn't realise this until after I'd written it, but "Emperor" here makes a nice flip side to "High Priestess" from the last set.
Author:

dragonimp
Rating: Individually rated, G-PG
Genre: Fluff, reflective, UST
Pairing: Roy/Ed
Warnings: None.

0) Fool: Beginning, spontaneity, faith, apparent folly

"He told me not to get too used to him, because he doesn't plan to be in the military long," the newly promoted colonel told his friend over a glass of whiskey. "Can you believe it? Even after what he's been through, that kid still thinks the world can be set to rights, just like that."

"You might take a lesson from him, Roy."

"He's a fool."

"So were you, not so long ago." When he was met with silence, he added, "I can't help but think that the world would be better off with a few more such fools."

1) Magician: Action, conscious awareness, concentration, power

"So he can transmute without a circle," was what he said. But he was thinking, that idiot kid actually ran into danger.

And it worked. He must have been going on instinct alone—and it worked.

Because power and skill meant nothing without the will to use it, but a selfish will could lead, if the rest of the world was lucky, to self-destruction and ruin. But this kid. . . .

Roy watched as the boy stared at his own hands as if in amazement, and thought, he might actually do it. Heaven help us all, but he just might make it.

4) Emperor: Fatherhood, structure, authority, regulation

Right now, the thing that annoyed Ed the most about the military was all the goddamn rules. Rules that meant he couldn't go anywhere without having to turn in a report. Rules that meant he couldn't read certain documents without signing at least three forms. Rules about how to properly greet someone with higher rank, how to properly return a greeting from someone with lower rank, even who he could talk to and when.

But mostly, rules that meant he had to sit across a desk and pretend his heart didn't thump every time his superior officer said his name.

6) Lovers: Relationship, sexuality, personal beliefs, values

Roy watched his lover gaze out the window, beautiful with the sun in his hair and shining off the automail. He walked up behind him and put his hands on the mismatched shoulders. "How did you do it?"

"Hm?"

"I've always had four hard and fast rules for dating, and you've made me break them all."

"Oh yeah? What are they?"

"'No more than a five year age difference. No men, no matter how tempting. And no subordinates'."

"That's only three."

He settled his arms around the young man and kissed his ear. "The fourth one was, 'no getting involved'."