#edward Elric

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Baby's 🥺

Since it's already oct 3rd in japan, happy fma day 🌸

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🎃 I've been wanting to redraw this official art since halloween last year! (Had it in my tabs for over a year to boot) and I finally did it. A few days late but there you go. I've obviously taken some liberties but ya know if I'm gonna redraw it I get to do it how I want.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and tweets

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The Elric family had the best time Trick or Treating 🎃

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What do y’all think of my Ed cosplay ? 🙏 those are the only "good" pictures I have cause my mom wouldn’t stop taking silly photos 😔

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FMA Babies!

[rene-of-the-blackouts]

So well-written!!

No, but you don't understand! It is so important that (one of) the last pictures we see of Ed is him holding his son with the biggest fucking smile in the entire world on his face!

Because Ed is Hohenheim's mirror!

Ed's narrative parallel is his own father (oh, how he would hate knowing that - how he fights against that realization) - Ed is the one who leaves Winry behind, just as Hohenheim left Trisha and the kids. Ed is the one who burns their childhood home down, just as Xerxes is destroyed in the wake of Hohenheim's naiveté. Ed is the one who commits an unforgivable sin and seeks atonement following his own shortcomings, just as Hohenheim unknowingly helps the Dwarf in a Flask destroy an entire civilization and carries that responsibility with him for the rest of his (long, long) life.

Hell, Hohenheim telling Ed that him burning the house down because he is running away from his past - while horribly cruel - is really just Hohenheim talking to himself. He wasn't lying when he said that Ed reminded him an awful lot of himself at that age!

And in every choice Ed makes throughout the show, he's always trying to be unlike his father, while unwillingly playing into the same pattern. Ed's complete disregard for Hohenheim, his hurt in the face of the father that left, is what ultimately pushes Ed to make similar choices - he doesn't want to see himself in his father, so he doesn't see the similarities of leaving Winry behind to Hohenheim walking out the door without ever looking back. There's a reason Winry has a thing about "backs in the distance" - and there's a reason why the Openings and Endings of fma Brotherhood often position the boys as walking away, only showing the audience their backs as they walk off.

But in the end?

Ed mirrors Hohenheim. Hell, they even stand in the same spot in the two family pictures. Hohenheim and Ed, both on the left side, both holding the oldest of their two kids, both- well, Hohenheim is crying, while Ed is the happiest he's ever been.

And that's only because Ed stopped running from his past - Ed found happiness in the end, and part of that was accepting Hohenheim as his father. It's not a story about forgiveness, but acknowledgement. Just Edward calling Hohenheim "his rotten father" in the end is enough for him to move past his refusal to engage with the realities of Hohenheim. The realities of his own father leaving in relation to him growing up.

By the end of the story, Ed dresses more conservatively and still travels - he looks more like Hohenheim than ever. But unlike before in the story, when Ed was fighting this relation, he is now happier than ever before. Happier than Hohenheim ever was. Because with Ed accepting all the qualities he shares with the man, he can also embrace all the differences between them.

Ed managed to grow alongside his guilt. He found happiness in his family, a loving wife, children, research and travel, philosophy and friendship. Edward gets to be happy. He gets to learn from his mistakes (from Hohenheim's mistakes) and return home.

And that's where the mirror breaks.

As all mirrors are wont to do.

[sassydefendorflower]

I think applying the term "fix-it fic" to fics in which Ed gets his alchemy back is somewhat amusingly misleading. Because what are you fixing? He gave it up willingly and with a smile on his face.

Edward Elric recognized that his arrogance as an alchemist brought him down this path, and that his humility as a simple human being was going to save his brother, and smiled as he chose Alphonse over everything else.

Ed is whole at the end.

That's the point.

He's only human, all he's ever been. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Not being an alchemist has never made you weak, hell, most of the most badass characters in the show don't even know the basics of alchemy.

There's nothing to fix, except maybe the roof and his horrible awkwardness when it comes to confessing his feelings. There's nothing to fix because Edward Elric is happy.

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"Psychologists HATE Him!"

(above a picture of Ed) He gives FREE therapy sessions & comfort to Millions a day

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Learn the truth now

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らくがき. . . Do i continue?

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scary rare fma post warning (cause literally all I’ve been posting about it my hero lately ☹️)

oh my god i so hate when people in fanfics misconstrue ed and roy’s relationship to be this like openly loving communication is key father son relationship cause it’s so wrong!!! like that’s not how they are!!!

do NOT get me wrong they are still 100% father and son like that’s literally his dad??? but i think seeing the way they interact with each other it’s definitely more of an unspoken thing than anything else. like it’s the type of thing where i’ll see Roy in a fic saying something like “i love you so much ed you’re literally like a son to me” which is very sweet!!! but is it something roy would say? hell no!

i think if anything roy’s form of “i love you” would be something snarky like “stay safe, fullmetal, don’t cause anybody too much trouble like usual” with some kind of teasing smile, and ed’s way of saying “i love you too” would be something like “shut up bastard! yea, yea, i’ll be careful”

idk am i too nit picky about this? like i can get used to a LOT of ooc stuff, especially cause i feel like their characters are both kind of hard to get tight but it annoys me when fics have them saying shit that they would never say to each otherrr 😭😭😭

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For your fate was never written here —

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Bonus:

The fact that this is canon is wild

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Hi @rayshippouuchiha! I drew a few Eds from your Full Metal Sky au

Hope you enjoy it!

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Edward Eric doodle ☆