"The easiest way to destroy an enemy is to destroy those he depends upon."

   [ Archer and Kimberly, messing with Mustang and Havoc ]

  For - hallidae, by LJ ficlet request

"Kimberly, it turned out, was a strange drunk, a ranting drunk, hunched over the table in the empty cantina muttering under his breath..."

   [ Mustang and Kimberly, one dark night in Ishbal ]

  Spoilers - general series backstory

"It would figure, Ed thought, that he'd lose his virginity in the middle of a half-Ishbalan array for the Stone, to an ancient homunculus, still bloodstained and stinking from a pitched battle, with dead bodies in the corner of the room."

   [ Ed and Greed do weird sex alchemy ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 34
  Canon - AU from ep. 34
  For - lykomancer, by LJ ficlet request

"They kissed only once. She tasted like ashes and brine."

   [ Roy and Sloth, though he did not know it ]

  For - forgottenlover, by LJ ficlet request

"Roy leaned back against the headboard with a deep sigh at the beautiful, hard, flailing naked boy in his bed."

   [ my take on the old 'fighting over who's on top' spiel ]

"Cranking the barred iron gate takes all the strength in his narrow back, one long strain with the mask clinging tight about his mouth as he sucks air."

   [ Lucius, in Azkaban, has a visitor ]

  For - Cassie, who wanted Lucius in a straitjacket

"He has a terrifying amount of control over my body. It took him weeks to insinuate himself, to force my surrender into a habit."

   [ a brief look at Quirrell ]

  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"The locket's hinge is broken and the painting is empty. Tom Marvolo Riddle throws it into the lake without a backwards glance as he leaves Hogwarts."

   [ Tom, finding inspiration of sorts in Dumbledore ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6

"For any number, divided by a solitary one, remains itself."

   [ a hexadrabble on Nemuro and the hundred boys ]

  Ref. - author's notes

"It would be cruel, he thought, to speak when she couldn't. No words, no reasoning, no hesitation."

   [ Scar and Roze; my first het PWP ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 39

"This is the time of the uncanny, the inverted. The time of impossible things."

   [ in the time of the Black Rose, Touga wants Juri ]

  For - seitokaichou, during a challenge on utenadrabble

"Angels that are forced from heaven have to become demons. Isn't that right, Spike?"

   [ an experiment in explaining that line ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 5

"Wordlessly, Auron unhooked the bottle again, uncapped it, held it out to the boy. Tidus looked down at it for a long, long time before he took it."

   [ Tidus has emo at Auron ]

  Spoilers - through Zanarkand
  For - bard_linn, by LJ ficlet request

"Auron gritted his teeth, hard, and pried his bottle out of Jecht's hand--and he was far gone not to protest, too far gone."

   [ preslash on the pilgramage ]

  For - delerone, by LJ ficlet request

"Sometimes, even, they both dared to strip away their gloves."

   [ Roy is never without an Elric ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Canon - movie canon included only by what's common knowledge, as I have not seen it
  For - devils_devotion, by LJ ficlet request

"I mean--it's big. Bigger than you can possibly imagine. What we're making..."

   [ Obadiah Stane, and Howard Stark, and the Manhattan Project ]

  Canon - movie-verse
  For - [for] nevacaruso and cahalith, by LJ ficlet request

"He didn't mind it; he loved it, loved losing control and himself and everything to the boy--and, now, to Havoc, whom Ed had dragged into all this."

   [ Roy has fun ]

  For - subtle_dusk, by LJ ficlet request

"Magic runs in wizarding veins. It is not a mere by-product; it suffuses a wizard's life, plays a role in everything he does, from the mundane to the sublime, from the pedantic to the erotic."

   [ Snape/Harry surreality ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5 and assuming Snarry-tinted lenses
  For - Icarus' ficdrive for Cybele

"His mother drops by for afternoon tea and asks him why that awful girl is still here, and Tom snarls that she's his wife and doesn't answer when she asks why."

   [ Merope, sometime in 1926 ]

"This was his life, in five digits and a silver palm."

   [ Peter and his hand ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"They weren't supposed to do it, but they did."

   [ a brief glimpse of a different Roze ]

  Canon - AU from before beginning of series

"Envy stood barenaked in the window like the pillar of salt..."

   [ abstract Envy/Roy ]

  For - morningxstorm, by LJ ficlet request
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"There is a part of me, a terribly small part of me, that loves to see you in pain."

   [ Mikage, on Mamiya ]

  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"They walk on. Gellert kicks stones with his pointed German shoes; Albus is chewing on a blade of grass. The sun is blood-red between the hills."

   [ concerning the fear of death ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7

"There's a chain of leaves round her neck, green and black, dangling from a golden vine."

   [ years after Ohtori, two of the Black Roses find each other ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 20
  For - shellsong, by LJ ficlet request

"I think we have a new favorite word, dear."

   [ of course Tony Stark had a lab bench when he was two ]

  Canon - movie-verse
  For - neotoma, by LJ ficlet request

"Pride hadn't moved--he liked to freeze after a decisive blow, sometimes too still to be human, perfect deadly sculpture of a man."

   [ homunculi playing in the parlor ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 40
  For - mikkeneko, by LJ ficlet request

"Cold Juri she still was, cold and uncertain, because none of his touches had ever stirred her; something was missing, something had not yet awoken."

   [ an exercise in imagination - what happens if you remove one character from canon? ]

  Canon - AU from before series
  For - the body-snatchers challenge on utenadrabble

"She was a shadow and a whisper in his mind, chitter-sharp spine and red lights in the green steaming dark, promising the impossible, the unthinkable, what he had shied away from all his life--unity."

   [ angsty cyborg trippiness ]

  Spoilers - Best of Both Worlds, First Contact
  For - ursule, by LJ ficlet request

"Trying to keep the most idiotic scientists I've ever met--right, well, second most idiotic, nobody can quite top Big D--from creating a miniature black hole in the core, that's what."

   [ Jack finds the Doctor, again, and it's pretty much the usual ]

  For - taffimai, by LJ ficlet request