LET ALPHONSE SAY FUCK

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when i tell u to watch fma because it’ll change ur life and u don’t listen, do u think i’m kidding? i’m just clowning? just haha heehooing? he gave up his fucking arm and leg

Ling and May will learn to love each other sO MUCH OKAY they had to grow up too fast let them be silly siblings (they will support each other through everything I just know that okay they make me cry)

+ some Greed angst 'cause I wanted to cry a little 😎

cursed-child-autumncookie

One thing I will always appreciate Fullmetal Alchemist for is the fact that they let Roy Mustang be complicit in genocide.

Mustang is an Atoner figure. Something that plagues Atoner figures is when writers are too precious about the characters we're meant to like to actually let them be guilty of something serious.

The Atoner might be trying to make amends for their involvement in the Great '87 Hotel Massacre, and then three seasons in you find out what happened. And it's like, "I drove a taxi to the hotel, and the KILLER was in it! I ferried the killer to the hotel! That makes me responsible, and now I must atone for being nearby while the killings took place! And also vanquish the real killer who is the villain for this season."

Or maybe the Atoner did do the killings but they were under mind control the whole time and would never, ever have done it in their right mind.

But FMA said no. Mustang, Hawkeye, Hughes, even Armstrong to an extent though he suffered a breakdown and fled during it. They did that shit. They followed their orders and they did that shit. And it haunts them.

Roy did that shit. And his atonement, his grand ambition, is to see everyone responsible for that shit brought to justice for their crimes. Including himself.

That is how you write an atonement plot.

t-rexseesyoursins

Still never gonna be over the fact that it took Maes Hughes one night to figure out the truth about Amestris when it took the rest of the cast half the series

Most of the mischaracterization Riza suffers from wouldn’t be nearly as popular if people actually understood why she follows Roy and it isn’t just love and loyalty.

One of the main reasons she stays by his side is because she sees herself as the guardian of flame alchemy. She’s trying to make sure of two things: 1. no one ever gets their hands on it again. and 2. the only person who can use it never misuses it again. That’s why she follows him. She has to. She’s watching the weapon she helped create.

And she has to keep him alive not only because he’s the one with the political power (meaning he’s her only real way to make sure the trials happen), but because he has to live long enough to atone for what he did with flame alchemy. The power SHE gave him.

From Riza’s point of view, every crime Mustang commits is hers too. Every time flame alchemy is used to kill that blood is on her hands too. Every person he killed is someone she killed by proxy.

She’s not just guarding him. She’s sharing his guilt. It’s like she’s trying to atone for her own sins, but he has to atone too so she can atone through him.

I think this Hannibal quote fits them really well: “You and I have begun to blur. Every crime of yours feels like one I’m guilty of.” Like yeah she obviously loves him. But reducing their relationship to just that completely flattens what’s actually going on.

i keep forgetting mustang is like 10 yrs younger than basically everyone else colonel or above. no wonder olivier hates his guts he’s fucking 12 years old

this is an old post but im rewatching and people keep saying it!!! roy’s a fucking child and everyone hates him its hilarious

hellenhighwater

Roy hires Ed specifically to have someone even younger than him running around being a problem.

lostindarkplaces

I went out to the country! And you know what I found! An Even Younger Asshole!!! He’s like half my age and twice the trouble!!! I HIRED HIM IMMEDIATELY!!!!! YOU CAN THANK ME WHENEVER!!!!

ruby-white-rabbit

And then he finds ed annoying as shit and he finally Gets It.

But it doesn’t stop him

And then he finds ed

annoying as shit and he

finally Gets It.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

the-shrimp-alchemist

Something about how Alphonse was the rightest person to fight using a Philosopher's Stone, because he, like the souls in the stone, is separated from his body and most strongly recognizes their experience and humanity and helplessness. He said, "We'll fight together."

Something about how when they commit the taboo, though both brothers had an equal part in it, it was Ed's idea. Ed signed off their research. Al was helping his brother.

Something about how Al sacrifices himself to contain Pride, and how in the end he uses Alkahestry, the healing art, to sacrifice his soul to save his brother's life, giving up everything, using alchemy for a good and selfless end.

Something about what Al says in the epilogue about breaking Equivalent Exchange to give more back, because he's ultimately come to the conclusion that the only thing he wants to do with alchemy is help people. How in his humility he has given himself up for the sake of others, and he would do it again in a heartbeat.

He doesn't lose his alchemy to complete his character arc because alchemy isn't a source of pride for him. It's an amazing tool and philosophy that saved his life, and that's exactly the kind of thing he wants to use it for.

blind mustang brainrot

He’s just too cool to not draw him, okay?…

hello royai nation

litera1lywhat3ver

theyre so stupid

FMAbruary Day 13: Soul

Or maybe this is more like Souls

number1greedlingfan

Mustang was very brave to build his team with a chronically-single french man, a guy who was born for IT in a world without, a guy who's definitely from their equivalent of New York, two orphans that are homeless by choice, his not-wife that he has a suicide pact with, and Vato Falman

let's not forget his other allies in the military: his best friend, who is made entirely out of death flags but so skillfully that no one saw it coming, a conscientious objector from old money, the conscientious objector's older sister who is the biggest war monger in the country that isn't working on the mass murder of the entire citizenry, his not-wife's grandfather who missed his calling as a wacky inventor in an '80's movie, Ed and Al's useless older cousin who is saved from being completely useless by the fact that Amestris doesn't have weed, and a stage 4 terminal Older Sister(tm)

theyre just so silly :')

theblueeyedfirebender

“I hope she plays Hot To Go.”

This is a military coup and you’re in the back of Colonel Mustang’s armored ice cream truck. He’s definitely going to play Hot To Go.

thenerdyalchemist

Recovery after the promised day

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