The Alchemist, The Plant, and The Detective

Original Fanfiction Soundtrack

Compiled by: Legato Deathscythe

Main Title – Shirley Walker – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

The Promise – Shirley Walker – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

First Love – Shirley Walker – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Rewrite - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION – Fullmetal Alchemist OST 3

Inside The Fire – Disturbed – Indestructible

Deep Forest - Ooshima Michiru - Fullmetal Alchemist OST 2

A Trap for Time – Kristopher Carter – Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Brothers (Vocal Version) - Ooshima Michiru - Fullmetal Alchemist OST 1

Arkham Mayhem - Kristopher Carter - Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Enough – Disturbed – Indestructible

If Today Was Your Last Day – Nickelback – Dark Horse

Darkness – Disturbed – Believe

What Would Happen – Meredith Brooks – Blurring the Edges

Counter Clockwise - Kuniaki Haijima - Macross Zero OST 1

Broken (feat. Amy Lee) – Seether – Disclaimer II

Invasion of the Intruders - Ooshima Michiru - Full Metal Alchemist The Conqueror of Shamballa OST

Guardian of the Motherland - Ooshima Michiru - Full Metal Alchemist The Conqueror of Shamballa OST

Destruction of Shangri-La - Ooshima Michiru - Full Metal Alchemist The Conqueror of Shamballa OST

Sad Resolution ~ Separation - Ooshima Michiru - Full Metal Alchemist The Conqueror of Shamballa OST

Batman's Destiny - Shirley Walker – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

When I'm Gone – 3 Doors Down – Away From The Sun

I Will Remember You – Amy Grant – Heart in Motion

I Never Even Told You – Tia Carrere – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Author's Notes: When I first started this fic I didn't expect it to be finished so quickly. Check with the Evangelion section. I got fics been rotting for years I'm still working on. Yet this one seemed to come easily and quickly. I couldn't help the ideas just flowing and I'm not going to bitch about them. Also I have a decent soundtrack for this so you all might enjoy it if you can get the more hard to get tracks. I really think this goes well with the story as I wrote it.

I'm not sure if anyone really cares about why I decided on certain aspects. I chose to go strictly from the Batman: The Animated Series continuity mostly because it is the Batman most true to the original comics. The continuity is sound and has no major issues to deal with. It also let me get away without having to do some of the more weird stuff from the DCU. It also allowed me to set things up for further stories in this universe should I decide to go further.

Poison Ivy seemed the best Batman Character to partner up with Ed. Unlike the rest of the Rouge gallery she's brilliant, dedicated to her cause, and isn't motivated by just greed. Granted, she's still a psychotic, but she's a psychotic with a cause. She's also capable of some very interesting botanical science when push comes to shove, and since Ed is a scientist he'd be interested. Personally I went with the season four redraw of Ivy for how I was thinking about her through the story.

Since it was Batman and not a full on COS repeat I had to get rid of the Nazi's and the Thule society. Frankly though that didn't impede things. The choice of the big end fight being with Ra's al Ghul was decided easily, and as I've told folk before if they wanted a clue they could look at the title of the fic for it. Ra's ALWAYS refers to Batman as "The Detective" so the other names were pretty obvious.

I also shied away from Ed being as... gregarious as he is in the anime. Fact is, after 6 months of psychotherapy, he'd have calmed down a shit load. Especially when he's in a spot without a lot of support. At the End of the Anime and into the start of CoS he's still driven, but a hell of a lot calmer. I felt that had to be the way he was at the start of this.

Pairing wise I went from the fact that Ivy is a seductress as much as she is anything else. And I don't care who you are, at seventeen if you are a guy and a girl like that starts making out with you then it's game over, you lost... but not really. Another reason to stick with the animated series continuity over the comic. In the series they didn't do as much with Ivy's physiology being toxic as they did in the comic. Her poison kisses were done using lipstick.

Also, fact is if your sleeping with someone and living with them for four years straight then one of two things will happen. You will hate the other and wish to kill them! Or you fall for them Hard. That is of course my opinion.

Hope you enjoyed the story. Be sure to tip your waitress!