Post-Canon Selim AU
CW: Cannibalism, Fabricated Life
Technically just a speculation?? I dunno
This AU takes place 15 years after The Promised Day, and mainly focuses on Selim, Elicia, and the Edwin Kids. Mustang’s Fuhrer and him and Hawkeye are married. The four initially met when they were 11/8/6/4. Gracia and Winry often visit Mrs. Bradley for chats, and they bring their kids with them to play with Selim. Gracia is aware, Roy felt she needed to before she left her daughter alone with Selim, but both her and Winry believe that treating Selim like a regular child (as best they can with the fact he’s not allowed to leave the house) will prevent Pride from coming back.
SELIM BRADLEY - 15 YEARS OLD
Selim is still a homunculus, of course, he just ages like normal and his bangs hide the node on his head (which he never questions because he stopped questioning things like that ages ago). He’s incredibly sheltered, not being allowed to go outside or interact with anyone outside certain trusted people. This results in him being very blunt, and coming off as pretty uninformed about… anything, really. Mrs. Bradley was allowed to teach him stuff, but it was very bare bones and more about nature, if anything. He does know a few things about The Promised Day, if only from eavesdropping
His shadows don’t have faces, but they basically function the same as before - they can come off the floor, grab things, cut through/eat almost anything. Eating with the shadows has the same effect if Selim himself ate said item, including non food items and humans (which he has eaten twice now). Selim was reborn with his ravenous hunger (and sense of smell), so that combined with his general lack of knowledge leads to Mrs. Bradley having to have more lectures about what’s food and what isn’t than she’d like. When Selim uses his shadows, his eyes change from black to red (right) and purple (left), and when he gets annoyed (or just for no reason) his voice will gain the hollow, echo effect that Pride’s has. Selim is unaware of when these things happen, and only knows about it due to Elicia pointing it out to him. He is also unaware of his eyes glowing red in the dark.
Since Selim is so sheltered, he doesn’t have a very good frame of reference to what humans are capable of, though after a certain points stops questioning why his friends aren’t like him (his numbness to pain/faster healing, his shadows, the mark on his head, etc) and why he can’t leave the house, though he does believe that the world is dangerous and that’s why his mom won’t let him go anywhere (it’s not actually her choice, it’s Roy’s). His body does heal itself, taking energy he absorbs from things he consumes, live things are better but it’s not like he would know that
He does eventually regain Pride’s memories after finding out who he is, but only tells Elicia because he trusts her not to tell anyone. It’s painful to not be able to tell his Mother what's going on because he knows she’ll have to tell Mustang, or anything else because they’ll kill him. He also hates not being able to apologize to people like Al or Winry for Pride’s actions.
The only time Selim (legally) left his house was when Mrs. Bradley finally convinced Roy to let him out, if only under the watch of Winry and Al, who had to make sure he wouldn’t interact with anyone there. Winry gave him the coat Ed initially gave to Mrs. Bradley 15 years prior, as Selim no longer used it like a baby blanket, so she had given it back.
Selim refuses to call Bradley “Dad” or “Father” after finding out Pride and Wrath were brothers, referring to him instead by “Bradley,” “King,” “Wrath,” or just using pronouns.
ELICIA HUGHES - 18 YEARS OLD
Elicia is the oldest and most mature of the group, which isn’t… really saying much considering who her friends are, but still. She picks up on Selim’s inhumane nature earlier than the siblings + Selim himself, and is the one who initially plans the group breaking into Roy’s office to find out once and for all. She refers to Roy and Riza as “Uncle Roy” and “Aunt Riza,” likely doing the same for the rest of Roy’s group. Elicia tends to be there for Selim to help him through his spirals and dislikes when he thinks of himself as Pride. In fact, she views the homunculus as a younger brother. She also never calls Maes by name, always calling him “Golden Boy” or “Elric” instead.
MAES ELRIC - 13 YEARS OLD
Maes is often bickering with Trisha like siblings do, it’s just their play fighting can get aggressive when Trisha uses alchemy and launches him into the air. He likes doing his own thing, and spends time with friends from school.
TRISHA ROCKBELL - 11 YEARS OLD
Learning mechanics from her mom and alchemy from her uncle, Trisha is having lots of fun despite not really having time for social activities. It’s not really a problem though, she’s… pretty terrible at social situations due to her shyness. Maybe that’s why she was able to befriend Selim so easily; he also does not know what the hell he’s doing.
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