Subject: Badfic
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Posted on: 2012-08-06 20:27:00 UTC
Since the badfic thread fell off the first page, I'm creating this new one, because I chanced upon this horror while browsing the Pit's FMA section.
Take me Back to the Start (Hebrew version here) by Tamyou
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rated: M (NSFW, Slash. NSFB if you know FMA).
Length: 4 chapters. The English version is 11,454 words, the Hebrew one is 8,873 words.
Summary: When the enemy inviding Central, Roy have to protect his blond lover. But what's happened when Edward can't handle the guilty? YAOI. M\M. character death. a lot of angst. RoyEd. R&R, please! full summery and warning inside...
What is this I don't even... augh. Edward and Roy are massively, massively OOC – they're suddenly lovers with no explanation, Ed is behaving like a jealous idiot, everyone else in Mustang's team are Unrealistically Tolerant Pillocks, Al has his body back (and yet Ed can still practice alchemy), Ed Wangsts, logic's being thrown out of the window, Riza Hawkeye fires at Mustang, the author's sockpuppeting Ed in her A/Ns, said author notices that Ed isn't that angsty and yet continues to write the story...
It seems that the author didn't watch FMA, or read the manga. Just... augh.
Grammar-wise, there are some errors in the English version. The Hebrew version hasn't any that I can find, but is just as bad characterisation-wise.
So: should this be killed with fire?
Oh, and it's a songfic, to boot.