#hiccup has a small amount of alchemy experience looking at valka's notes but berk is pretty anti alchemy

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forbidden from practicing alchemy after the death of his mother, hiccup haddock is the promising apprentice to gobber the belch, one of rush valley's best automail mechanics. but hiccup has his eye on building more than just automail: namely, a machine that can fly. out of the eye of his father, hiccup might finally be able to combine his inventions with the science he’s always wanted the freedom to explore.

enter jackson overland, an independent contractor dodging the courtings of the military. while his free spirited wanderings have taken him across amestris and beyond, it might just be a mechanic from a backwater town with an idea others have only dreamed of to make him settle down for a while.

… but what about the rumours of scaled creatures spotted in central's underground?

hijack week day 3: FMA AUUUU didn't finish before midnight :( oh well. almost didn't give jack long hair but then i saw @alkalinefrog's fma au and it needed to be done. for the good of us all

expect more fma au in different iterations because when homunculus!jack drops i will be inconsolable and incapacitated