Alphonse Elric Stan Blog

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I love Greed’s introduction in Beasts of Dublith because he’s like. my name is Greed, yes like the sin, welcome to my evil lair. I am the monster who lurks in the shadows and my ultimate plan is world domination. I care for no one but myself. what am I doing in this basement, you ask? well mostly steering clear of my psycho family and hanging out with my small ragtag army of outcasts who would all die for each other and me. If you touch any of them I will kill you… because I own them and I don’t like it when people steal my things. what is a “friend”. wanna trade spooky secrets

I only just now realized what a shame it is we never got to see Al and Greedling really interacting

happy fma day

Father, son and holy spirit

im constantly dying over the thought that ed is always seen as a kid but wants to be seen as an adult and al is the exact opposite, everyone sees him as an adult but he just wants to be a kid again, they both want what the other has and blame themselves for what happened even though they were both just kids who didn’t know any better.

Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye are the most ridiculous people of all time. She asks him to sear her back to remove the information tattooed there, and he is burdened by the weight of wounding her for years after. He goes on a suicide mission to take power in defiance of the most fearsome monsters the world has ever known, and and she follows him. She gets corralled into the service of their worst enemy, and he trusts her to carry on, unsaved. He finally hounds down the creature that killed his best friend, and she holds him back so that his hatred does not consume him. And then she's like, "also I think after this I am going to kill myself btw, for the good of the world" and he's like "could you NOT" and she's like "listen man. There's a lot going on right now" and then Mustang has to contend with the fact that he's just been bullied into getting in touch with his humanity by a teenager, his enemy, and his soul mate. Envy is right. What the fuck is going on here

It's a date! 🍔✨

oct. 3 pt 2.

also:

Ok so Christianity doesn't seem to be a thing in FMA but we know that Christmas is a word in the language used in Amestris so maybe it's a holiday celebrating Madame Christmas

Christmas Day is just what Roy calls Madame Christmas' birthday, and she begrudgingly puts up with him decorating the entire bar to celebrate

I actually don't remember how it was portrayed in the comics, but it seems that the FMA equivalent of Christmas is the Sheep Festival? It's at least the case in the FMA offical mobile game, the December "Xmas" themed event was said to be celebrating sheep festival.

It was like super hilarious in the game, like they basically just slapped "HAPPY SHEEP" on top of Christmas decorations. It was also really cute though.

As you can see, it's snowing and it's got sheep xD

According to Ed in the mobile game it's to celebrate the end of the year and thanking the sheep (even though according to FMA wiki it's for the beginning of spring?? I'm confused)

Look at how cute they are in Chrismas clothes!!

As for why Madame Chrismas is called Christmas, I have absolutely NO idea xD

Scars — Part 1

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We all deserved to see Al’s reaction to what Ed did in Baschool 😤

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FMA comic time! I have a few parts done, a few others planned, and literally 0 free time lol so who knows when I’ll update but it’s a work in progress

(like literally I worked almost 80 hours this week)

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Also, you know what’s fun? I no longer have the friends I had to justify FMAB to constantly all the time and that’s actually kinda nice

one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that

I really wanted to do a big FMA Brotherhood poster because it is one of my all time favorite manga/anime ever!

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

sorry i saw this and had to

Thinking about that time Hawkeye spent with the Bradley's as hostage for months(!) :]

You ever think about how tragically flawed all the homonculus from fmab are? They all have their special abilities but when it came right down to it their abilities failed them.

Like specifically Greed. He had his ultimate shield and for 99% of the show it did exactly what it was supposed to. Or at least it looked like it did. But then in his final moments this bastard gives his life to protect Ling and by extension literally everything and everyone else. Something very telling about this is that he's finally satisfied. That single act reframes everything.

At Greed's introduction we're given the impression that Greed is selfish, that his shield is there to protect himself. But when you reframe this with his reaction to Wrath killing the chimeras and his final act, you get a very different picture. Greed valued his possessions above anything else. He wanted to protect them at any cost, including himself.

So with that knowledge, his ultimate shield becomes a goddamn tragedy. This man just wanted to protect those he cared for but was given a shield that could only protect himself.

By extension this also reframes his line to Ed about being the type to brush off a threat until the threat was to a loved one. In this context it suddenly seems a whole hell of a lot more likely that he was speaking from personal experience.

Why else would he leave his body exposed for his first fight with Wrath? It seems to me that he didn’t want Wrath going anywhere near the chimeras and so he made himself a target. He could have just thrown up his ultimate shield (up to his neck, wouldn't want to cover up that face) and fought Wrath a way more effectively. Instead this self sacrificing piece of shit keeps the attention on himself until he physically can't anymore. This guy couldn't bear the idea of losing his loved ones possessions so badly that he was willing to die for them. He literally would prefer death to watching his friends die.

And then the cherry on top is that despite trying to fight to the death with Wrath, Wrath intentionally leaves him alive.

Tldr

The curse of Greed's ultimate shield is that he is forced to survive when others do not. He can only truly protect himself, the last possession he would consider protecting.

There's still time to grab a copy of Hearth & Home, a Fullmetal Alchemist fanzine focused on the Resembool Trio!! Preorders open until July 17th!! -> @fmatriozine