#Ishvalan au

[aliumartifexscribre]

A Book cover for Sins of the Father by ShanaStoryteller on Ao3.

[kattythingz]

Yet another hot take but. To all the Ishvalan Elric aus out there, or anyone using Arabic for Ishvalan. Please, for the love of god.

STOP romanizing the Arabic you use in dialogue!!

Just say they're speaking in Arabic (or Ishvalan in this case)!! 9/10 times the written Arabic is damn near illegible to me. AND I'M FLUENT IN READING AND WRITING!!! It's not even properly researched half the time, just taken straight from google translate, and I can fucking tell, every time.

PLEASE I understand wanting that inclusivity and diversity but just say they're speaking Ishvalan. I'm tired of getting headaches trying to read Ishvalan dialogue please.

[sometimesiwritetoo]

I'm trying not to flood the tag but considering I don't post anything until I'm either finished or close enough I need to post or else I lose motivation.

Anyway here's some of my Ishvalan AU where Ishvalan refugees set up what we're loosely calling bars. Roy is confused by the concept of bellydancing as many people irl are and Ed's question is a little on the nose.

[olvitier]

did some doodles of ishvalan ed for an au i have in my brain it was fun

[harpers-tartarus]

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS FOLKS

[green-character]

Imagine a love confession so good, so great, truly amazing. So beautiful in fact, that even in fanfic, even in an alternate universe it happen.

Isn't it the proof that's the best one out there ?

[glitter-gummy-bears]

[tiny-knife-friend]

This would be amazing

I love Ishvalan Ed & Al, but consider, Ishvalan Mustang.

Mustang, a half Ishvalan, half Xingese boy who was raised with the knowledge of Ishvala. Who went to live with his Xingese aunt when his parents died, and his entire world was turned upside down. 

Mustang, who decides he wants to learn alchemy because why would Ishvala give them that power if it wasn’t meant to be used? If it wasn’t meant to help people. Who goes to the door of Bertholdt Hawkeye and convinces this Amesterian man to teach him alchemy. Mustang who eagerly learned everything because he’s seen the worst of the world and wants to change it.

He joins the military for the same reason as Heathcliff. He wants to make a difference, he wants to end the systematic prejudice against Ishvalan people within the military.

Mustang, who becomes the very first Ishvalan State Alchemist in history  He is the Flame Alchemist. The fire of the desert, the heat of the sun, the determination in the heart of every Ishvalan. 

And then the war getd worse. And then more people die. And then there is talk of stripping soldiers of their rank, of how they’re traitors. And Mustang looks at one of his friends, the only other Ishvalan he knows, and they run.

He runs before order 3066 comes along, before Ishvalan soldiers are arrested for treason, before State Alchemsits, Mustang’s friends, are sent to murder his people. 

So him, hiding in his aunt’s bar, follows.

In this universe, Mustang still fights under the heat of the desert sun. He still listens to the screams of dying men as he snaps his fingers, only this time, its Amestrian’s he’s sending home in coffins. He is the Flame Alchemist, the heart of all Ishval. He is a sinner, but people look up to him because they’re desperate.

He meets Hughes on the battlefield, and both of them just… stop. They were best friends once, but now Hughes is an Amesterian Soldier and Mustang is a terrorist, a traitor, the reason so many men will never see their families again. They don’t kill each other. They talk. Even on the battle field with the sound of bullets ringing through the air, they find the way to share words. It’s a risk, but eventually they smuggle letters. Mustang learns of Gracia, of Hawkeye. How his masters daughter followed him into a war he’s now fighting on the opposite side of.

In the end, they send Kimblee after him. It’s a brutal fight, with bullets and fire and explosions. Kimblee ends up with burns coating his body, Mustang ends with a useless arm, laying on his back in the hot sand. He would have died, if not for the sniper who was supposed to kill him.

Hawkeye takes a shot at Kimblee. She takes Mustang and runs, because her father is dead, she has nothing left but this boy barely older than her. Hawkeye, who stands against her country to fight alongside her friend. Hughes, who commits treason quietly by letting them go, by smuggling letters and supplies, who works alongside Madam Christmas to protect her boy. 

Mustang, who tracks down Ed & Al to protect them, because he knows that the military will come for them sooner rather than later, who looks at Winry and knows who she is, because he knew her parents. He had the utmost respect for the doctors who risked their lives (and paid with them) to keep his people alive.

Just. Ishvalan Mustang. Born from two countries, and Amestris hating both sides of him. The way that would change the world, his character, and his story.

[sleeps-au-bag]

hhhh, i'm just gonna go ahead and make the fma x prsk au. welcome to fullmetal alchemist: SEKAI, where i decided that team mustang should deal with one half of the weirdo wombo combo from kamiyama and that resembool is too quiet and should experience the sekai event stories. took some advice and decided that some characters are replaced while others are spared. of course everyone else in prsk gets added too, how else are the event stories gonna happen? let's go.

everyone replaced:

ed - tsukasa

al - saki

winry - rui

trisha - tenmama

sheska - mafuyu

paninya - akito

pride - riliane "sudou"

lust - sateriasis venomania

greed - gallerian marlon

sloth - margarita blankenheim

envy - kayo sudou

gluttony - banica conchita

wrath - nemesis sudou

[salvidida]

Having perused fma fics recently, I have to ask. Why the preponderance of Ishvalan Elric AUs?

[aliumartifexscribre]

A book cover for Son of the Desert by ShanaStoryteller on Ao3.

[lanfan01]

This was based on a fanfic i made before but i couldn't remember where i published it 😭

The story goes like

Riza's hiding spot was compromised when a female ishvalan saw her. She immediately shot the person's chest. The woman started wailing and crying her lungs out so Riza tried to shot her again thinking she just missed, only to find out that there was no bullet and she needed to reload.

Something something yada yada

A different sniper shot the woman in the head killing her

Then followed next day, she went back to the place where the woman's body is only to find out that there was a dead baby covered in cloth on top of her chest.

Riza realized that all the wailing and crying that the ishvalan did was because it was her baby that was shot.

I forgot the other details, but yeah something like that

[sometimesiwritetoo]

Back to working on my Ishvalan AU (very intermittently) and as I'm going through it reminded about how much I liked the world building I did for this AU. For reference it vaguely Christian/Jewish/Muslim but also not at all those things bc it's a queer/sex positive society with Amestris being closer to culturally Catholic.

Like I didn't think about how fun it is to write a character who cannot fathom a strict gender binary. Or how fun it is to assign different parts of Ishval different traditions. It's fun.

[heinkelfingerguns]

Aww my favorite Ishvalan AU got deleted from AO3 :(

It’s By Only a Flicker by isnt_it_pretty, and thank god for the Wayback Machine

[storm-ismyusername]

Ishvalan Weiss AU

This idea popped into my head and I had to draw it.(In case you’re wondering, the black hair’s a reference to the 03 anime)