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As a sort of corollary to my last top fives post, I guess,

evil_little_dog asked me for the top five AUs I would like to see for FMA. Which seems a little redundant, but I have valiantly tried to think of new ones!

1. The Musical AU

This one is pretty much a gimme. It is a belief I hold strongly that every show should have a musical episode, or it is failing in its duties. It could be just a matter of giving Greedling a chance to sing Lady Gaga or it could be a full-fledged Broadway AU in which leading man Mustang is secretly plotting to topple the tyrannical diva Bradley in a singing-and-dancing revolution, OR BOTH, as long as there's a back-up chorus!

2. The Terrible Fantasy Cliches AU

ELVES. WIZARDS. ANCIENT PROPHECIES. I can see two ways to do this: either you use the thoughtfulness and story excellence that characterizes FMA to do a really nuanced exploration and deconstruction of the standard Eurofantasy setting, or you just full-on embrace the ridiculousness and give everyone +10 POWERS OF MAGIC MISSILE AND A DRAGON.

3. The Historical Revolution AU

I am not limiting this to the French revolution, it is just that Enjolras is pretty iconic. Any historical revolution would do, really! I love revolutions and am not picky. :D

4. The Wacky Office Hijinks AU

This is sort of cheating because it's basically what Team Mustang does on all their off-days anyway, but I never, ever get tired of stories about Breda cunningly stealing Falman's stapler and could read Murder Must Advertise-ish office hijinks ALL DAY LONG.

5. The AU Where Everyone Is Lions

Basically my feelings are that if it exists for Hamlet, there is absolutely no reason that it shouldn't exist for everything else as well. (I can't decide whether we call him the Hohenhlion, or MUFASENHEIM.)

If anyone is inspired by this to write snippets, I, um . . . will be happy? Will write a snippet back perhaps? SOMETHING.

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This is probably an appropriate moment to mention that if I ever have the time/vidding skillz I fully intend to make a 100% lip-synced vid of the Promised Day arc to "One Day More" (Hoenheim is Valjean, Roy is Enjolras, Bradley is Javert, Envy is the Thernardiers...).

I would also like to fund the "everyone is lions" AU, just for the perfection that is MUFASENHEIM.

js;kdjfsI SUPPORT THIS VID 110%. *____* Envy as the Thenardiers! That is kind of ridiculously perfect. (But who is the Marius/Cosette/Eponine love triangle? It is tricky because FMA is amazingly 100% love triangle free! Although I guess if Valjean is Hohenheim then Cosette could be Ed, which: LOL.)

One is all, all is one! IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.

Possibly Mei would stage this musical.

But who is the Marius/Cosette/Eponine love triangle?

THIS IS MY ONE ISSUE. I am kind of tempted to make it Ling/Lanfan/Greed, because the thought of Greed as Eponine makes me want to fall over laughing.

*_____________________* BEST.

SHE WOULD. She would totally talk Scar into participating, too, which is about the only way I can see him being convinced to take part at all.

HAHAHAHAHAHA I CAN SEE IT. Lan Fan even signs up for the battle, sort of! (Because obvs. Lan Fan is Marius, and Ling is Cosette. That is not even in issue.)

Alternately, if you do the Cosette and Marius bits as Ed and Al being brotherly, then Eponine could be Mei swooning about with romantic drama . . .

(also, BECAUSE THE MUSICAL MAKES ME THINK OF IT, i'm making a greed!mix that has eminem's cinderella man on it 'yeah, you know technically, i'm not even really supposed to be here right now, so fuck it, might as well make the most of it. yeah, haha, feels good! whooo, guess im lucky, some of us don't get a second chance. but i aint blowing this one. naw man, haha, shit i feel like i can do anything now. who can catch lightning in a bottle? set fire to water? rewound the future to the present, paused it don't ask how, he's the shit right now, he's cinderella man.')

BUT ANYWAY POINT IS I REALLY WANT THIS MUSICAL TO BE A REAL THING lmao

this is totally true o: and really fascinating, huh, /has to think on it.

and lmfao, HE WOULD.

(. . . . that is really, bizarrely fitting.

And, related, I have to ask now if you've seen

doxorz's thoroughly fabulous all-pop Greed fanmix. SO DELIGHTFUL AND APROPOS.)

...lmfao, SUPER FITTING TIMING BECAUSE I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COME BACK and add that my prerogative, britney-style, totally makes me think of kimblee : |

omg darren hayes's pop!ular. gaga! win.

Thank you. I have been having Lousy Day for the past week, and this is a wonderful pick me up.

Particularly love the idea of Greelin belting out...c'mon, ELVIS. He'd do the lip curl so very well.

MUFASENHEIM may have to be the name of my next pet.

I am glad it was well-timed, then! :D

TOTALLY the best name for a pet.

Becca, I always love your manips, but that last one made me hyperventilate.

>:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

It so was!

Of course, I usually collect dogs...I may have to foist that name of on one of my cat-collecting friends. :D

This is probably a slightly less apropos place to mention it than the other post, but. I've managed to come up with another AU that every fandom needs.

Piano Man. Yes, the Billy Joel song. You can fit just about any combination of characters into the available roles, and there are very few fandoms that manage to completely exclude the possibility of bars with pianos in them.

I gtuess that is sort of similar to the coffee shop AU in spirit! Although it's also less an AU per se than a potential songfic, I suppose . . . .

It could be both! Or just an AU - years ago I encountered a PM-based fic that was entirely prose, incorporating the sense of the song into a larger story of, if I recall aright, discrimination against mages in the Great Depression. And shipping, of course. As far as I recall, it didn't have any lines from the song after about the second paragraph, although there were still parallels.

Of course, the problem is that she will insist on Alphonse-sama being the star.

Alternately, this is the most glorious part.

He wants ALL THE SEQUINS. EVER! And don't forget the BOAS. If any FMA could rock a boa, it would be Greed.

Alex Armstrong has received SO MANY reprimands for stripping shirtless at work. No one is quite sure what's going on with that. (Ahahaha, oh man Becca, if I write this - or at least the closet makeouts - it's going to be all your fault.)

Does he live in you... or do you live in him? A RELEVANT QUESTION.

I think our Alphonse might have a secret talent for showmanship! Look at his great performances with Selim. :D

OF COURSE HE COULD. In fact I'm fairly sure Greed 1.0 did, regularly, just like in canon. Because WHY NOT.

Olivier is the manager of a different branch who occasionally comes in to TERRIFY EVERYBODY! (I will GLADLY ACCEPT BLAME for this. >:D >:D >:D)

. . . . . I - that question sounds vaguely wrong in ways I'm not sure I'm comfortable with *dying*

HAHAHA YOU CANNOT DENY THE TRUTH. Greed is clearly the most fashionable, ever.

Ling is an assistant manager of a competing company who comes to hang out and try and acquire their upcoming products so that he can get a promotion. Lan Fan tries to keep him out of legal trouble for this but there was that one time he did get sent to jail... (MY FRIENDS ARE SUCH ENABLERS)

That won't stop it from haunting you in the quiet hours of the night. BWAHAHAHA. >:D

He steals suits from Se Gi! OTHERS ONLY DREAM OF EQUALING HIS SARTORIAL GLORY.

Mei, meanwhile, is the overenthusiastic intern who gets way into the rivalry with the competing company! (BECAUSE WE'RE AWESOME. AND SO ARE YOU. >:D)

@_________________________@

But can he sing?

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