cornerofmadness

Title -- Failed Symphony
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- manga/FMA:B
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, implied Royai
Timeline/Spoilers -- barely post Ishval
Word Count -- 676
Warning -- angst
Summary -- The music failed him tonight
Author’s Note -- Written for fma_fic_contest for the prompt ‘skip.’. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta and for poking me with a stick to make me write something.

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( Sleep was a joke )

Title - Dark Night of the Soul
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist
H/C: ‘forced to participate in illegal/hurtful activity.’
Medium: fiction
Rating: teen
Warnings: attempted suicide
Summary: Roy needs to find a reason to live
Word Count -- 1,046
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Notes: First anime, which is unusual for me nowadays. Written for hc_bingo
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Marcoh
Timeline/Spoilers -- set during the Ishbalan war, first anime
( I’ll be punished for this )

Title -- The Scholars
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy
Word Count -- 274
Warning -- none
Summary -- Scholarship bound them together.
Author’s Note -- written for bob_fish's birthday. Happy Birthday. Also written for fanfic_bakeoff's 'affinity prompt.

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( All three of them had an affinity for alchemy )

Title -- Explosive Combination
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- not mine
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Berthold & Riza Hawkeye
Timeline/Spoilers -- set during Roy’s apprenticeship
Word Count -- 250
Summary -- Roy was certain he had mixed the chemicals right.
Author’s Note -- This was going to be about Kimbley (as he’s a natural) then Roy just wanted to hog the limelight. This was written for fma_fic_contest for their ‘boom’ prompt (which was a blind prompt and I even won for guessing. I’m stunned.) and I took first place. sonjajade made the two lovely banners.





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( What went wrong )

Title --Coded
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- manga
Disclaimer -- Arakwa owns all
Rating -- PG13
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Maes, Riza
Timeline/Spoilers -- pre-series, nothing spoilery
Word Count -- 1,138
Warning -- none
Summary -- They talked in code
Author’s Note -- I guess I know I’ve done too many abused Roy stories when this bit of silliness is what came to mind for this prompt. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. This was written for fma_fic_contest’s prompt of ‘abuse,’ and tied for third. Thanks to bay115 for the lovely banner.

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( It’s the most amazing thing, Roy )

Title -- The Little Alchemist and the Great Coffee Experiment
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- manga/FMA:B
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them.
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Chris
Timeline/Spoilers -- Roy is 6, spoilers only if you don’t know who raised him.
Word Count -- 249
Warning -- silliness ahead
Summary -- Roy sees the chance for experimentation.
Author’s Note -- Roy just wanted to be silly this week. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. Written for fma_fic_contest’s prompt of ‘coffee’ and took second place. Thanks to sonjajade for the lovely banner.

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( They all loved it. Why wouldn’t he? )

Title -- A Night Out
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Winry, Ed
Timeline/Spoilers -- post 108 but no spoilers
Word Count -- 276
Warning -- none
Summary -- Winry is treated to a night out.
Author’s Note -- Happy Birthday evil_little_dog

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( Night Out )

Title -- Things to do in a Blizzard
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Winry, Ed
Timeline/Spoilers -- post 108 but no spoilers
Word Count -- 300
Warning -- none
Summary -- Sometimes Ed just needs blatant clues to figure things out.
Author’s Note -- Happy Birthday evil_little_dog

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( Things to Do in a Blizzard )

Title -- Official Commands
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Ed
Timeline/Spoilers -- soon after Ed joins the military
Word Count -- 300
Warning -- none
Summary -- Edward only thinks he’s got Roy over a barrel.
Author’s Note -- Happy Birthday evil_little_dog

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( Official Commands )

Title -- Girl Food
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns all
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Al, Ling, Lan Fan
Timeline/Spoilers -- post 108 but no spoilers
Word Count -- 300
Warning -- none
Summary -- Al rather regrets being adventuresome some days.
Author’s Note -- Happy Birthday evil_little_dog. Some foods in China are considered strictly a female or male dietary component. I’ve carried that over to Xing.

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( Girl Food )

Title -- Disapproval
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- manga/Brotherhood
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them, I’m just playing
Rating -- PG-13
Characters/Pairing -- Roy Mustang, Chris Mustang, Grumman
Timeline/Spoilers -- mostly set when Roy is seven
Word Count -- 281
Warning -- none
Summary -- Roy doesn’t approve.
Author’s Note -- -- The word count murdered me on this. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. This is a slightly expanded version. The original can be found on fma_fic_contest for their prompt ‘grope.’ It tied for third. sonjajade made the very nice banner for me


( Roy knew he shouldn’t be here )

Title -- Daydreaming
Author-- cornerofmadness
Fandom -- Fullmetal Alchemist
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Olivia, Haruko
Word Count -- 265
Warning -- Roy's dirty mind
Summary -- He knows what he likes
Author’s Note -- written for day 6 of 12_daysofficmas and for fanfic_bakeoff

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( She was beautiful )

Title -- Tincture of Madness
Author-- cornerofmadness
series -- First anime
Disclaimer -- Arakawa owns them
Rating -- PG-13
Characters/Pairing -- Roy pov
Timeline/Spoilers -- set during the flashback to Roy working with taboo transmutation circles
Word Count -- 787
Warning -- Roy's bad frame of mind and the suggestion of something rather disgusting in the buckets in his home.
Summary -- He's just a little bit mad at this point
Author’s Note -- I had figured to do something with Al then I thought, no there are one or two things in the first anime that captured my imagination, and this is one of those scenes. I haven't really done much with first anime in a long time. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta and to bay115 for finding the screen caps of the room for me (I'll be using them in fmabigbang as well. Written for fma_fic_contest's 'failed transmutation' prompt and it won second place. The banner is by sonjajade

( there was a debt he still needed to pay )