FMA(B) Confessions

Full Metal Alchemist (03 & Brotherhood) confession space!! This is where YOU talk about FMA to your hearts content. (Confessions will not always be answered the day they are received, apologies in advance!)

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Blog Rules:

I will take almost any confessions (with or without judgement in some cases), but there are some exceptions to this:

Pedophilic ones: Discussing any of the underaged characters in a sexual manner.

Proshipping ones: ships like Royed, Greedling (not the character), Edvy, Elricest or any minorxadult & incestual relationships will not be publicized.

Racist ones: I can't believe I have to say this but please refrain from making racist confessions about any of the characters. It's unlikely but I much rather not take any chances so I'll be putting this for future warning.

Other than that, confess anything you want. Whether it be analysis, personal experiences with the series, ships, or lusting over one of the characters (again, the adult ones). Have fun!!

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This is genuinely so random but the manga, brotherhood and 03 have different logos and it irks me when people mix up the logos when talking about one

Often times when people make comparison videos on them, you can tell their research was given to them by ai or they didn’t even bother to double check.

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I don’t care about the scare factor (it’s not scary imo) but I’ve always liked how the gate in 03 was based on the gates of hell sculpture, I managed to snag the box set based off it. I didn’t like the parallel world stuff though, that took me out.

It’s cool to see outside inspiration in media like this! I actually kinda like how the gate’s design varies between adaptations tbh

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Fma decided to have me in a chokehold… It’s all I think about..

Yeah…the byproduct of a good series 🤔….

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We all gay for Scar🤤

That’s nice anon let’s get you to bed

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i refuse to believe roy and riza are not fucking it crazy style behind closed doors. yeah they probably wouldn’t get married but there’s no way what they have is just platonic

This is the first thing I come back to in my inbox and wow 🥹

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Hello Blog!

I'd like to put something out there for the time being.

As of late, I've been super occupied with life outside of this blog. I'd just like to put out a notice that confessions will be a lot less frequent than my former schedule (what's left of it, at least). Please understand I won't be as active, but I'll try to get through my inbox soon. I hope you all understand.

-Elle

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I'm a massive metroid fan, so when watching I noticed that Winry looks a lot like Samus. Winry ended up as one of my favorites so it worked out nicely :) There's no greater point I just felt like sharing

Awww that’s cute, I love when my favorites look like each other!

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Genuinely exhausted by people trying to pit 03 against BH and vice versa, whereas the best way to appreciate both series is to analyze them individually since they have both evolved to become different pieces of media and battle-bracking them isn’t going to improve the way we explore the depth of what these two have to offer. Call me boring or what-not at least I’m not looking to pick up a fight.

And that’s completely valid. Comparisons don’t always have to devalue something else when discussing something. Not to say that’s bad, but that doesn’t always have to be done!

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I flip flop between loving edwin and hating it. The blond x blond in a simple art style gives aesthetically siblings. Again, it does change a lot. Maybe 70/30 with the majority being positive. NOT an edwin hater overall pls don't think that. I fight the negativity every time it tries to creep up since I genuinely do think they are very good together.

I think I’ve talked about how at times they look related which deterred someone from shipping it at first. I think they’re a well-written pairing— compared a lot of other shonen media that toss in a love interest without any chemistry. She does her job very well as a supporting cast and she’s very well written. Then again, it does get confusing at times. I wish people drew them with more differences in designs (like freckles or varying skin/hair color) because it does get confusing at times.

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I have such mixed feelings about 03. On the one hand, it holds a special place in my heart because it's what I watched first and there are lots of aspects I like, especially aesthetically. On the other hand, from a storytelling perspective, I have a hard time viewing it as legitimate since it's not actually the intended story? Like I do enjoy it don't get me wrong, but to me it feels sort of like when a fandom constructs a fanon so elaborate that it's basically divorced from the source material lol

I feel the same way too at times. As I’m currently on a rewatch (Albeit, a very slow and irregularly paced), there’s a lot of things that stuck out as fairly bizarre. Like the additional content of side characters that extended past their original arcs in the manga, additional characters, and even the story dramatically changed. It does feel abundantly fanfiction-y at times (which it kind of is, in a sense) but that doesn’t make it a bad story by any means. Just often times it does feel like a twisted au you’d see back in the 2000s, which in all honesty —that’s what it is.

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I've never cared for Ed and Al. At all. Even when I was a teenager, I thought Ed was annoying asf. As an adult, it's even harder for me to like him. As for Al, I've nothing against him in particular, but I always thought he was kinda boring. The secondary characters are so so so much better.

I guess they’re not for everyone? Can’t say I see eye to eye with you here anon but you know what you do you.

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metal af

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A while ago I realised I genuienly don't care about any ships at all... Ed x Winry? Okay cool Roy and Hawkeye? Sure! Mei x Alphonse? Cool! I think fma is just one of those animes where I don't think about shipping at all. Seeing Eds proposal to Winry at the end was just alright for me🤷‍♀️

That’s valid, I feel that way about fma sometimes too. Like yeah, the ships exist but I barely think about them unless it’s addressed in canon. Like Edward/Winry is cute and all but if I’m being honest — I wouldn’t really care if it didn’t become canon. I know why people like the ship and it can be cute don’t get me wrong but also…eh, fma wouldn’t change for me if they didn’t get together.

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The Gateway of Truth was a lot more scary and mysterious in 03, and I prefer that over Brotherhood. It really gives off the feeling that this gate is another entity or something beyond explanation, it never had a form/avatar (like the Truth in BH) and it being the borderline between the FMA Universe and the Real World universe is an interesting concept.

I kinda get where you’re coming from anon. There’s more mystery surrounding the gate and not having a personified entity really sells that for you. In that way, it really is just the boundaries between universes. That’s the unknown factor.

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I just convinced my brother to watch fmab with me wish us luck 🥹

I’m sure he’ll love it, anon 🥹

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I HATE fmab dudebros and pretentious 03 fans. Not saying everybody gotta like em equally, I have my own preference, but I swear its possible not to be insufferable about it.

Much love to you and your respect for both versions.

Absolutely, like you’re allowed to be biased and prefer which one you like more. But there’s also a line you have to stop at. The last thing I want in fandoms is more petty debates, honestly it’s so easy to agree to disagree.