Synopsis: Pandora's Box

Edward and Alphonse Elric. The Elric brothers. Hardly can one be found without the other close by, and hardly can the deeds of one not be credited to them both.

Their story is tragic and beautiful, a brotherly bond that far surpasses even the most intense of familial connections, primal and dark and written in a blood seal, love given shape in the form of a simple eight-pointed star and hook.

Where one went, the other followed. When one fell, the other held him up. When one cried, the other gave his shoulder. Both so uniquely different and yet so deeply connected that it was sometimes hard to see where one ended and the other began. Yin and yang. Superman and Kryptonite.

They made a long and painful journey together, met many people, saw many things, and shared every step, every tear and every smile, and pulled each other through the hard and good times.

But what if...?

What if?

What if.

What if Edward did not succeed that desperate transmutation so many years ago, that plea written in blood on an empty suit of armor?

What if that suit of armor stayed empty?

What if Edward was left completely and utterly alone in his sins?

What if.

What if Hope were left trapped in the Box.

What if Edward had nothing to lose.

And everything to gain.