Work Text:
Tales from Amestris & Beyond
Table of Contents
- Amestris
- Rapunzel (Grimm)
- The Spirit in the Bottle (Grimm)
- Aerugo
- Selections from Aerugonian Fables (Aesop)
- Creta
- Beauty and the Beast (French folk tale, attributed to Beaumont)
- The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery)
- Drachma
- East o’ the Sun, West o’ the Moon (Norwegian folk tale)
- The Snow Queen (Anderson)
- Ishval
- The Angel and the Fool*
- The Writing on the Wall (Daniel)
- Xing
- The Ballad of Mulan (Chinese folk poem)
- The Great Bell (Chinese folk tale)
Story Adaptation Ideas
You, dear Readers, are more than welcome to contribute ideas and suggestions in the comments!
- Rapunzel
- Hawkeye as Rapunzel
- I’m thinking Disney-style Rapunzel, so that a rogue Roy can journey with alchemist!Riza, finding unlikely allies in Dublith and long-lost family in East City.
- The Spirit in the Bottle
- Hohenheim as the Student
- Aesop’s Fables
- There’s so many fables to choose from that I’ll probably wait until someone shares an idea for this category.
- Beauty and the Beast
- Sheska or Rose as Beauty
- One of the chimera soldiers as the Beast
- The Little Prince
- Hughes as the Pilot
- East o’ the Sun, West o’ the Moon
- Catherine Armstrong as the Lassie
- Buccaneer or Miles as the Bear
- The Snow Queen
- Al as Kay
- Winry as Gerda
- Villain!Olivier as the Snow Queen
- The Writing on the Wall
- The King of Xerxes as Belshazzar
- Who shall play the part of Daniel?
- The Ballad of Mulan
- Lan Fan as Mulan
- The Great Bell
- Mei’s cousin as Ko-ai
Story Links
The following websites were saved on 2/14/26. Please let me know if a link needs to be replaced.
Rapunzel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0017
The Spirit in the Bottle
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm099.html
Aesop’s Fables
https://read.gov/aesop/001.html
Beauty and the Beast
https://www.worldstoriesbank.org/story/beauty-the-beast/
The Little Prince
https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp508/files/2016/02/TheLittlePrince.pdf
(This one is better to borrow from a library for the effect of turning the much smaller pages at the proper times.)
East o’ the Sun, West o’ the Moon
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30973/30973-h/30973-h.htm#EAST_OF_THE_SUN_AND_WEST_OF_THE_MOON
The Snow Queen
http://hca.gilead.org.il/snow_que.html
(Fun fact: The Snow Queen is also cited as a source of inspiration for the movie Frozen.)
*The Angel and the Fool is an original faux-legend referenced in my (upcoming) fic “Alchemist’s Angel.”
The Writing on the Wall
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%205&version=ESV
The Ballad of Mulan
https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/mulan.pdf
The Great Bell
https://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Chinese_Folktale_2.html#gsc.tab=0