buggyness101:

holioc:

If there’s a headcanon I’m not fond of, it’s the one about Winry always waiting for Ed (and Al) to return, even after the end of the manga. For me, it looks more like she’s used to not having them around and, while yes, she’s happy when they come back, she likes being on her own, independent and free to go to Rush Valley, Central, Resembol or other locations according to her own schedule.
I doubt she stays in Resembol a lot, having most of her clients in Rush Valley and being used to the agitation of the town. She’d miss her colleagues, the discussions about automails and the inspiration and motivation everyone gains from each other! (And I want her to keep in touch with the Briggs mechanics. I wanted a picture of them together at the end of the manga.)

I headcanon that the Rockbells
(because yes, living there, there’s no chance for anyone to call Ed anything other than “Mr. Rockbell”)

end up in Rush Valley and that Ed’s the stay at home dad — who keeps studying alchemy and eventually goes on a short trip from time to time. He probably happens to give a hand at Winry’s shop too, or work with Paninya to repair things in town. Heck yeah, I could see them working on the rooftops together and bickering with each other. But yeah, mostly, he’s a dad with too much books.

Maybe they move to a big city a few years later. Winry opens a bigger business — maybe an automail clinic with people working with/for her? — while Ed becomes an university lecturer in theorical alchemy. Or ethics in alchemy. People happen to lack that.

100% approved!   I pains me to read fics in a manga/brotherhood timeline where Ed’s gone like five years at a time and Winry waits and waits.  Or they’re married and have children and he’s gone months to a year at a time.   I think he’d still love to travel, but would limit it because if anything he learned from Van Hohenheim is that he doesn’t want to be absent from his own kids like Hoho was to him and Al.   

I also think they settle (for a while at least) in Rush Valley because that’s where Winry would get all her work until Granny retired.   

It would be difficult, at first with Ed not having anything to do and Winry busy – some arguments would ensue, but Ed would find his talents in writing about his and Al’s research and traveling in spurts to learn more about other types of alchemy so he could write about it and publish and even teach.   

Forget about calling him “Mr. Elric” in the presence of Winry while they’re in Rush Valley.   He’s called Mr. Rockbell and he couldn’t care less because he’s super proud of Winry’s success (and he quit trying to correct people after the first 100 times.) 

loves it!