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Sketch for something later #fullmetalalchemist #fma #elricbrothers #funimation

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Not really a redraw, more of an update of this old thing from 5 years ago. Happy October 3rd!

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If fmab ed and 03 ed were forced to fight to the death,

fmab ed would walk into the ring all cocky because he’s big and buff and sees this puny shrimp standing opposite him

and then 03 ed would turn his metal arm into a gun

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Resistance fighter [name unknown], ily

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Like Tinder For Ghosts

By wickedpistil - posted June 28, 2007 Live fic link Rating: Adult ++ Explicit Category: F/F Warnings: None Relationship(s): Lust/Sheska Character(s): Lust, Sheska Summary: Lust/Sheska Yuri

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April Fools might not be the best day to tell people about your new art-only blog, but eh.

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@rottenboystheoryoflove's tags need spotlighting:

#absolute amazing choice 10/10

#and also so interesting how he still regards her as HIS sin when it would have been easy to cast her as just Scarbro's sin (as he's the one#who did the transmutation.) I think part of this is absolutely guilt over the fact that iirc he had feelings for the woman she was when she

#and scarbro were still together (and views this 'coveting' as one of his sins even though he was at most a late teen judging from his

#appearance) but also i think this is also him doing the thing he does where he takes on the 'sins' of the many so that he's the only one who

#suffers. or maybe im completely wrong its been a while since i watched the show. if i am please tell me! i want to know and understand as #much about scar as physically possible

The way the conflict of 'lust' between Scar, his brother, and the woman they both cared for is so refreshing in that it manages to avoid falling into most of the major tropes that constrain this type of story. It's a love triangle without really embodying the cloying dilemmas and the ideas of ownership that the trope usually rots within. And it doesn't reach conclusions that posit The Woman (or Women) as passive prizes, for whose autonomy is superceded by a fate tethered to fulfilling what the men want of her.

That coveting Scar felt, in some ways still feels, forming a piece of this very personal sense of immense wrongdoing is key to how the show views the matter. Scar was a tween with a strong infatuation for this woman who was completely out of reach to him for perfectly mundane reasons (her, an adult, him, a kid), with the added heartbreak of her being in a relationship with his brother. He loves them both, and he appears to be happy for them, but we can infer that he may be unable to shake a desire to indulge in the impossible (she would never be with him, he could never hurt his brother that way, and he's a kid). When he reminisces about them both we see that Scar never fostered any hatred, jealousy, or misgivings towards either of them! He couldn't help wishing to be with her, but he knew it couldn't happen and he made no moves to disrupt their relationship. Best of all, he never once believes himself to have any entitlement over her or what his brother 'owed' him. Scar never thinks his brother shouldn't be with her just because of his own feelings. We know this because we watch him be surprised when Scar Bro reveals, in his dying moment, that he knew his little brother liked her too. Scar attempted, and failed, to keep his infatuation to himself.

What breaks Scar's trust and love for his brother wasn't this sorta-love-triangle, wasn't that his brother didn't forfeit his engagement to her so that Scar could have a shot with her: it was his brother's transgression against her body and thus god themself. Trying to revive her, turning her into a tortured mass of heaving flesh, defying Ishbala, and losing sight of the little sibling who relies on him in the process is what causes Scar to largely abandon Scar Bro to his own spiralling obsession. (I have a theory that this is what pushes Scar to delve deeper into his faith and meet his Master. A topic for another post.) Yet even then, we see Scar carry a sense of guilt over this too. He still tries to rescue his mad brother during the genocide, regardless of Scar Bro's exiled class AND what he had done. He won't leave him to the slaughter by the pigs.

Scar Bro's love (the other side of lust) and his inability to save her from a terminal condition; his failure to resurrect her, his failure to see her humanity in her most grotesque form that he made of her; his abandonment of her in pursuit of perfecting her in the image of his memories; and his subsequent pariah status all leads Scar Bro to attempt to create a philosopher's stone within himself, absorbing his own people and whatever fallen soldiers the resistance managed to take down. The sin of lust must truly fall on him, and still, Scar takes on that burden. It certainly appears to muddle him, the way he equivocates his adolescent coveting with his brother's immense transgressions, and I feel you're onto something when you connect that to the way Scar takes on greater burdens and the sins of others to fuel his actions.

Encountering chimera-Nina shakes him from his however-many-years-long stupor and drives him to take on the most direct actions he can against the State. He finally feels that his brother saved his life by bestowing him an accursed tool to serve Ishbala and to right the world's grievous wrongs. Arguably Nina's desecration reminded him of the seething mass in the shadows (Scar doesn't yet know that she now stalks Amestris, wearing a familiar face). After all both are evidence of the core sins of alchemy, the lust of his brother, and the echoes of Scar's personal weakness.

Frankly Scar was in the right to be hurt by the way his brother (seemingly his only living immediate family member) neglected to value those who are still alive, and respect the death of his fiancee. Scar Bro failed to love his own little brother while suffering this tragic loss. He failed to take care of Scar. He set his closest kin aside and then desecrated his beloved's post-mortem rights. After all:

And Scar Bro only did so when they had been hunted down by Kimbly. It was an immense sacrifice, but he honoured that kinship much too late and still he made it about Obtaining Her. Years later Scar would witness the brotherhood he wished he could have had. And only in his own dying moments, when he makes peace with lust, with Lust, with Her, does he finally declare his love for his brother without animosity.

Another facet to the theme of lust as Scar's burden: Scar may have interpreted the monstrosity made of Her body as evidence that her soul was robbed from Ishbala. So not only did Scar Bro's lust lead him to desecrate Her physically but he could be argued to have assaulted Her spiritually as well. Pair all of this with Scar Bro disregarding his duty and love for his little brother in the process and Scar has more than enough valid reasons to turn away from someone who couldn't see the harm he was causing, who wouldn't stop pursuing this impossible goal for anyone but himself. Scar Bro sought to quell his grief by defying death, in turn wishing to possess his love; Scar never did anything to claim ownership over her and he respected the sanctity of life and death.

Still, he sees the kernel of that sin within himself. He saw a version of lust steeped in sorrow does to someone. Perhaps witnessing his brother externalize that covetous sin retroactively made his secret past desires appear all the more dangerous. It's speculation but he may view himself as having some responsibility in this entire sorry state of affairs. Maybe it had been easier to turn away from his brother because he disfigured a mutual loved one. Maybe he felt as though he had been duplicitous towards them both. Maybe he felt he failed to be there for Scar Bro too, that abandoning him sealed their fates.

It's the kind of guilt-driving logic that people take on when they cannot pull someone they loved out of a spiralling situation.

When most fans think of Scar's 'sins' they just settle on the most bootlicking interpretation of the murders he commits. Nothing more to look into, he should have never killed those Nazis. It's dull, misinformed, and particularly in regards to the 2003 anime it's missing the forest for a crudely drawn interpretation of a tree. (The narrative does not condemn Scar for killing soldiers the way mangahood does.) I have seen little that explores the way lust can be a lens into his character and his idiosyncrasies. He is haunted by lust, denies lust, fears lust, recalls lust, protects lust, and makes peace with lust in order to embrace the other side of lust: love. And I marvel at the execution of this because it's not so noxiously spelled out. It doesn't bury his other concerns, traits, character arc or other narrative purposes under this one storyline but acts as a significant complement.

The staff behind this anime did a fantastic job writing Scar as more than just "Wrathful genocide victim". That's the easy way out. They instead ask of this character "how does he love, who are the people who mattered to him and why, and how does the complications of these different types of love help form and inform him. How does love lead him astray and simultaneously create his path forward."

That's that full spice rack that endows the his story with so much humanity that I'm so enamoured with.

Yeah yeah, Scar's 'sin' in mangahood is wrath, woo wow yeah cool, yup. Mega deep. Now fma 2003 though? Those fuckers were cooking with with a full spice rack, baby. Totally outside the box, doin' it like no other. They had the bravery, the panache, the inspiration that could only be derived from a deific muse, and the absolute balls for their bold choice of making Scar's 'sin' lust.

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[scrolling through a fandom tag] wrong. wrong. incomprehensibly wrong. wrong but harmless. nice style and color palette but I don't care about that ship. mildly entertaining liveblog update. they whitewashed my girl :( . good joke, reblog. wro--well that's my mutual so I will politely look away. fifteen posts in a row by an innocent rp blog that I don't have the heart to block. take I agree with but op was annoying about it. chapter twenty-eight of a longfic wip. !! GOOD POST !!, instafollowed. bot. technically correctly tagged but uses this acronym for something completely different. museum worthy art piece by a sixteen-year-old from the philippines. wrong. wrong but in a new and exciting way that provokes thought.

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The way Broho fans will stubbornly take everything 03 and shove it under the Broho tag, even when there are blatantly 03 details staring them in the eye...

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I mentioned this before, but one way the original FMA 03 is undeniably stronger than Brotherhood is how it handled Dr. Marcoh. Brotherhood is faithful to the manga version, but the manga version is… kinda dumb. Armstrong literally just sees him out the train window, and suddenly the pathway to the entire rest of the plot is opened by sheer coincidence. In 03, meanwhile, Ed and Al have to actively track him down after hearing rumors of his whereabouts, which leads them not just to Marcoh but their first big confrontation with Scar, trying these two story threads together and making for a much more effective situation in which we can first learn about the horrors of Ishval, since Marcoh’s whole deal is that he’s been running from the atrocities he had to commit there ever since the war ended. It’s thematically, dramatically, and structurally much more impactful in every conceivable way.

I’ve got a couple more nitpicks about Brotherhood’s story, but I’ll get to those in time.

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One of my favorite character. Lust 💖