light and darkness

Garden / Shanoa / Soluna | Late-20s | Millennial | Leo | She / They | Artist, Gamer, Graphic Designer and Photographer | Multifandom and Personal blog | Multishipper | Mainly fandoms in Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, RWBY, KNY, JJBA and BNHA. I'm also obsessed with aesthetics, animals, cute, foods, drinks and desserts, fashions, fantasy, histories, monsters and creatures, sci-fi and video game stuff. Whatever i want. Mainly Taglish speaking because i'm southeast asian. More info on my carrd.

[shanoas-artwork]

Tips for me

Ko-fi | Buy Me a Coffee

[daemonfish]

[polararts]

it's kinda a redraw

[kasuria]

roxas deserves to be spoiled

[hodinodi]

lets eat some ice cream. we’re best friends. u r right. ha ha ha

[karuwaa]

I could really use some advice from you right now.

[karuwaa]

I feel like I'm forgetting something. Something Important. Were you even real? Xion? 

[guessididntdie]

KEYBLADE NOW WITH MORE GUN

[heckboymoved-deactivated2016033]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[hineway]

Heeheehoo

*sets this loose in your house*

[titleknown]

This post has two very different energies dependent on whether you do or don’t know what the “this” in question is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness. 

[artifactoftoday-deactivated2018]

but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg

but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly

[fandomsandfeminism]

He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled

[ladyloveandjustice]

It should also be noted that Ed:

-had to undergo very painful and lengthy surgery to get automail 

-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of. 

-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)

-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working

-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned

-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail

- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.

-it requires really frequent maintenance or it will break down, as shown by how when he first moved out he forgot to do that and it…broke down.

-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).

-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)

So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with!  And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm). 

Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.

[biiigwinged]

Note that this stuff is admired and seen as a source of character development in fiction, but shamed in real life.

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[tiuco]

 roxas sitting on his skateboard and thinking about butts

[hatbabo]

what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger

[saltycatfish]