Alfyel

FMA03 lover [he/they]

[alfyel]

If more experienced artist have any suggestions, I am open to feedbacks ! I’m opening commissions not only because I need money but also because I need practice ! Just know that this is my first time offering my services and I still don’t fully know how this works but I’ll try my best ! 🙌 (also english isn’t my first language so I am sorry for any mistakes I may have made)

[jenanigans1207]

I’m sorry, but Katsuki almost solo-funding Izuku’s support suit so they can officially be pro heroes together and Izuku can have his dream back is peak romance and nobody can change my mind.

[alfyel]

WHY IS BRO’S HERO COSTUME SO HARD TO DRAW FOR NO REASON

[alfyel]

Chat is this worth turning into an actual drawing ? (This is how I cope with the epilogue as a bakugo and bkdk fan)

[alfyel]

I’ve been stuck in artblock for a while now and I don’t have time to draw with school and stuff, so in the meantime take this cute bkdk doodle I made today cause I’m back in my mha phase 🫡 (I can’t draw Izuku’s hair bear with me)

[yango86]

a young Edward Elric

[alfyel]

I don’t know what to draw anymore so I just draw Ed all day cause he’s my baby

[livuvur]

Genuinely nothing in fma will ever be funnier than when Russell, not knowing the elric brothers were on the military's top public enemies list, pretended to be Ed so he could get some books for free and the librarian called the cops on him and Fletcher

[alfyel]

I always forget about this

[saphkick]

what do you mean my favorite manga has not one but two amazing adaptations that both have amazing stories characters and underlying philosophies and messages about the human experience and I can watch my favorite characters of all times evolve and grow in TWO different ways?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!??!????????????!!!! being an FMA fan is great

[alfyel]

What do y’all think of my Ed cosplay ? 🙏 those are the only "good" pictures I have cause my mom wouldn’t stop taking silly photos 😔

[radibe5]

babie. smalest. i will hold him softly in my hands and love with every ounce of my being. i will cherish him

[alfyel]

Whenever I come across RoyEd or Elricest (or whatever it’s called) content on social media I always ask myself how did people came up with this. Who, in their right mind would put a 15yo with a 30yo or two brothers together and think that it’s ok ??? We're in 2024 guys this need to go. And I am so serious about this, it is shoking to me how many people like these.

[alfyel]

Some lazy Ed sketches cause I think he looks cute :3

[alfyel]

Resembool trio’s Pumkin carving contest !! Who won ?

[oatmealaddiction]

Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

[madootles]

there’s just something about a good superior-subordinate professional relationship built upon mutual hate…

[alfyel]

Who was gonna tell me the Fma live action was this bad ? I’ve been refusing to watch it for the past 7 years and decided to give it a try today, the actors are good and all but the plot is so bad I gave up half way through the first movie 😭🙏