Hi! :) From the FMA asks, if you'd like to answer them at all: 2. All time favorite character? Why? 3. Least favorite character? Why? 19. You wake up in their universe somewhere in Central. What’s the first thing you do?
Hi!! oh lots of questions!
2. All time fave?
This actually fluctuates depending on my mood. my absolute top three are Roy, Olivier, and Kimblee. I love all three of them because they’re very complex and fascinating charters who play off of each other in really neat ways.
Roy is actually the character that got me into FMA, my dearest @callibop wanted me to try writing him with her, so learning about him is what got me wanting more He’s very grey, which I find interesting as a protagonist and hero type character. He wants to be a good man, biut he has done, and continues to do fucked up things to get his way. At the core he has good intentions, but he has many layers and its very fun to dig through them.
Its very similar in ways, to Olivier. Olivier is i think one of the most ruthless characters, I mean... she murders like, 3 people on screen and is totally badass. She has no compunctions about doing what must be done, and is definitely hardened steel. Unlike Roy, she’s not really a dreamer, and is more a pragmatist. At the same time she has a lot of layers herself. she’s a very guarded person, so most of what she says has some sort of double meaning, while also being absolutely true in some sense or another. She’s The wall, and the ice queen, but she has a big ol’ heart and it’s Good Shit. She is a lot of fun to do close readings for. Plus, shes in some ways the sort of person I aspire to be, tough, strong, determined, fair. I’ve been in a major mood with her of late.
Kimblee is kind of the odd one out. He’s an antagonist and he’s a creep, and hoo boy has he done some messed up shit. But he is also very, very interesting in that he’s really only on his side, and some of what he says has merit that even our heroes recognize the validity of. So yes, he’s a mass muderer in essence, but he was doing as ordered... just like Roy, Riza, Hughes and all the others in Ishval. Plus he is a fantastic chaos man and used excellently in narrative. He’s a very fun character to play with as a writer because he’s just... interesting, and can be used in s many different ways.
3. Least favourite Character?
This isnt as in depth lol, because i can’t think of characters from my preferred version that I just don’t like? I mean, maybe Shou Tucker because wow, fuck him. Gluttony and Sloth are boring, but do have some cool fight scenes so.
I have... issues with Pride. I can’t say i dislike him, because he’s very interesting, and would be fun to look a more deeply, however, he makes my skin crawl and gives me the heebie jeebies so. there’s that, I guess?
19. You wake up in their universe somewhere in Central. What’s the first thing you do?
oh oof this is hard >.> I think it would depend on what i knew at the time, and the circumstances of it? f i knew where I was, and context.... hmm, perhaps I’d simply try to explore the city some. Honestly, walking around new places is something I love to do so as long as I wasn’t tied down or hospitalized or something, I’d love to see the city where my faves do their stuff. I’d definitely try to find a bookstore of some kind, and a fabric store. Maybe I’d try to lurk past Armstrong Manor and see how grand it actually is, hah!
These were fin to think about, thanks!