Title: Manifest
Author: Kristen Sharpe
Date: November 16, 2010
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: "Fullmetal Alchemist" belongs to Hiromu Arakawa, Square ENIX, Studio BONES and various other parties.
Author's Note: No particular continuity.

Edward Elric wore his sins. He wore his sins in livid scars and cold steel. He wore his sins in the very colors inscribed upon that forbidden circle and the symbol forever at his back. He wore his sins in the silver watch at his waist and the words carved within it.

Edward Elric wore his sins on display for all the world to see.

Though the world did not know what it saw.

He knew. And, he would never, could never forget.

Because the greatest reminder of his sins could not be worn but walked always at his side.

Notes: Yes, not humor for once. This began after realizing that the first colors in the text on the human transmutation circle are all colors incorporated in Ed's design: "Pale white and black with false citrine, imperfect white and red". Then, it morphed into something else. I may try to get back to the color theme.