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[Jan. 31] [Fullmetal Alchemist] The Alchemist's Daughter
Title: The Alchemist's Daughter
Day/Theme: Jan. 31, 2011 "The sciences sing a lullaby"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Riza Hawkeye
Rating: PG
An alchemist's child was raised in the midst of facts and formulas. Science was a lullaby, mathematics were a fairy tale. To one so small as Riza, fact and fancy appeared nigh unto interchangeable in this context. She'd barely come face to face with the world outside her home. She didn't know that other children's fathers couldn't boil water with the help of a strange and specific chalk drawing.
It wasn't until her mother died and she went away to school that Riza realized her father was special. When she visited the homes of her few friends on those lucky occasions that her father granted her permission to do so, she was initially disappointed to see that no other mothers or fathers or even older brothers or sisters were alchemists. Who wouldn't want to harness the energy of the earth to shape their world as they chose? Was alchemy really so odd?
Unique, she thought, was positive though. Her father was special, and that was good. Perhaps not just anyone could be an alchemist. Perhaps it was even important that there weren't too many alchemists. Father, after all, did not seem to want her to learn.
...But as she grew older still- the more she learned and aged, it seemed- her feelings toward her father's alchemy shifted and changed. There was nothing good about it. It wasn't magic that could bring them together. Every time, it seemed to her to create more problems than it solved. Her father was an alchemist, but she would build a separate identity for herself. She couldn't bear any longer to be remembered as "the alchemist's daughter."
Day/Theme: Jan. 31, 2011 "The sciences sing a lullaby"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Riza Hawkeye
Rating: PG
An alchemist's child was raised in the midst of facts and formulas. Science was a lullaby, mathematics were a fairy tale. To one so small as Riza, fact and fancy appeared nigh unto interchangeable in this context. She'd barely come face to face with the world outside her home. She didn't know that other children's fathers couldn't boil water with the help of a strange and specific chalk drawing.
It wasn't until her mother died and she went away to school that Riza realized her father was special. When she visited the homes of her few friends on those lucky occasions that her father granted her permission to do so, she was initially disappointed to see that no other mothers or fathers or even older brothers or sisters were alchemists. Who wouldn't want to harness the energy of the earth to shape their world as they chose? Was alchemy really so odd?
Unique, she thought, was positive though. Her father was special, and that was good. Perhaps not just anyone could be an alchemist. Perhaps it was even important that there weren't too many alchemists. Father, after all, did not seem to want her to learn.
...But as she grew older still- the more she learned and aged, it seemed- her feelings toward her father's alchemy shifted and changed. There was nothing good about it. It wasn't magic that could bring them together. Every time, it seemed to her to create more problems than it solved. Her father was an alchemist, but she would build a separate identity for herself. She couldn't bear any longer to be remembered as "the alchemist's daughter."