FMA snippet
Apr. 1st, 2007 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onemuseleftIn which Roy Mustang (at Hawkeye's urging) attempts to discuss the facts of life with the somewhat naive Elric brothers:
"Sex," Roy said bluntly.
"Sex?" Ed echoed.
Al beamed. "Oh! We've read a book on that once, didn't we, niisan?"
Ed nodded. "Yeah. An Alchemist named Peter Van Holler once theorized that having sex in an active transmutation array was as good as offering a life, since hypothetically the act of procreation was being performed, and that you could therefor circumvent the equivalent trade in human transmutation."
Roy blinked. Hawkeye coughed firmly and kicked the back of his leg. "Oh! Um..." He paused, and the alchemist won out over the concerned superior. "Was his theory sound?"
"Well, he's impotent now. Something about needing a straw to go to the bathroom-"
"Sex," Roy said bluntly.
"Sex?" Ed echoed.
Al beamed. "Oh! We've read a book on that once, didn't we, niisan?"
Ed nodded. "Yeah. An Alchemist named Peter Van Holler once theorized that having sex in an active transmutation array was as good as offering a life, since hypothetically the act of procreation was being performed, and that you could therefor circumvent the equivalent trade in human transmutation."
Roy blinked. Hawkeye coughed firmly and kicked the back of his leg. "Oh! Um..." He paused, and the alchemist won out over the concerned superior. "Was his theory sound?"
"Well, he's impotent now. Something about needing a straw to go to the bathroom-"
