5 Parter-SPOILERS- Set as canonically as I could make it (with definite detail changes)
You are a child of Ishval, passing through the system as a refugee, having inherited extraordinary alchemical power from your mixed raced mother you grow up under the care of a Amestrian solider and you go through intense training, becoming the second youngest State Alchemist.. second to Edward Elric. The Fullmetal Alchemist!
You have sauntered through your alchemical career with relative ease, runnings errands for the State, fighting small fights and doing your best for the fairness of all in Amestris and the surrounding lands. Until the Fullmetal Alchemist and his dashing suit of armour brother show up. You are assigned together to investigate shady goings on in Central City and deaths under the hands of a rogue Ishvallan called "Scar" .. the rest is history.
Following the events you know of, you go through the entire saga of the Fullmetal Alchemist alongside the Elric brothers as a close friend and comrade. You form a particular bond with Alphonse Elric. Your trauma and insomnia keeps you up at night, and one night you find out Alphonse cannot sleep, so you decide to experience most sleepless nights together. You play chess, study alchemy, do puzzles, read and write together. You grow closer and find your heart and mind easing around Al. Even though you're older, he teaches you to be softer, kinder, more patient.
It's a bond you share with him leading up to the events before the battle for Amestris, you and Al are separated from Ed. You hold down the front line in Central while Al rushes off to find Ed, under your insistence.
You plan to end your life, using a strain of your mother's alchemical power she taught you to only use when you have no other way out, it comes at the cost of your life. The only thing you remember is Al's goodbye. A flash of red. Then darkness.
Nixon is the 3rd book in the Broken Series. (Ryan is the 1st, Brynn is the 2nd)
Nixon leaves rehab early because he can't deal with being there anymore. His sister Kelis finds someone in need of a roommate so he moves in with the girl and gives her his middle name, Lucas. He quickly becomes addicted to the girl and once he gets one taste he's done for. He warns her about his past, about his name, but she ignores all the red flags, not realizing exactly how intertwined she is with the people from his past. He becomes enamored with her, feels like she was made for him while still battling the demons of his past and soon it all becomes too much for him to handle. He makes a heartbreaking decision, thinking it's what's best for both of them and everything changes.
Trigger/Content Warning: this book contains mature content, talks of suicide, mental and physical abuse, selfharm, drug use, and addiction
Cover designed by Anastasia Wright