#elric kids

[cocoabell]

The snail in my ear whispered something to me and I listened

Just started watching fma:b and I'm having the best and worst time simultaneously

[weatheringtea]

An Elric family Halloween 🎃

[Archived on AO3]

[spoopy-sloth]

Ofc I had to do one for edling :V

Reference underneath :)

[sailforvalinor]

I…please excuse me while I sob???

[polls4funds]

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[smalltowncryptidfucker]

Eepy……….

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

Been rewatching fma with the fam and I love this gremlin child

[tsukinoshinjiu]

Pt. 8 - A Short Lived Victory

More sketches inspired by Kastaborous' FMA x LU fanfic Of Alchemy and Timeline Spaghetti

Parts 1-4, Parts 5-6, Part 7

[sidewalk-cracks]

okay everybody, listen up, because I need to talk about Edward Elric. I've started watching fmab and I am losing my mind over this boy. There's so many incredible things about this kid; he's such an incredible protagonist.

the realism of Ed is so painfully wonderful- this is a fifteen year old child. Remember what you were like when you were fifteen? Yeah? Fifteen is so young. This is a child who's had to grow up WAY too fast and has been through so many unspeakable things, but he's still a kid and he actually ACTS like it. He gets irritable over small things and acts "childish" when he's excited and has that touch of arrogance a teen gets when they know they're important.

Ed gets scared. He's not like a lot of your "unshakable" shounen protagonists, who, when faced with something shocking in a fight, eyes only widen and mouth only frowns and they only worry a little and maybe ask for an explanation. No, Ed is a kid and he gets scared. Sometimes he handles fights well, but sometimes he freezes. When Scar found him and Al, when he hurt Al and tore out Ed's arm and pursued relentlessly in the rain, standing over Ed as Ed writhed on the ground, Ed screamed for his brother and froze in his fear and thought he was about to die then.

He's so fifteen in everything- in his anger and his arrogance, in his fear, in his trauma, in his reverence of life. Ed is at the age when your eyes truly start to open to reality and society, though given his past he probably started earlier. But he holds life so preciously, so closely, cradles it in his arms and declares over and over again that it is one thing he will not trample, will not hurt. That fifteen-year-old conviction and the leftover naivety from childhood, paired with the newer discovery of just how sacred, how beautiful and important life is.

He's fifteen in his love. You ever been around teenagers, especially today's teenagers, and you know they do everything fiercely, most things boldly, and Ed screams it in his love. In his protection of Al, his absolute dedication and protection to the one person he has left, can hold close. He's a teenager in their banter but such an eldest sibling in every way- in his drive to protect Al from anything, everything he can, in his leadership, in his fear of losing his sibling.

Ed is such a real person, such a real kid. He's incredibly mortal, unlike a lot of op shounen protagonists. He hits his head and it bleeds. He gets impaled and struggles to stand at all. Every time he's injured we see him recovering in the hospital after. He has nightmares from his fear of failure, about Al and his mother and Nina. He's smart but not indestructible. He's incredibly earnest about his convictions, earnest about the beauty of life, just like a teen.

Edward Elric is probably the most realistic anime teen I've ever seen, and I love him SO much

[crystalrainfall]

Among the many beautiful 2003 scenes, this one stood out.

In brotherhood and in the Manga, if Ed isn't around other children we rarely see him ever play with toys or just behave like a 12 or 11 year old, because yes, kids at that age still play or use something to entertain themselves, and just seeing Ed, this super genius prodigy, buy like one of those fidget bendy snakes is so bizarre, like it's wholesome, but something you just wouldn't expect.

Him reading comics instead of just text books or alchemy books also adds alot of charm to his character, because he could've researched something related to alchemy or figure out a new way to break the laws of nature...but no this kid, this child, decided to read comics and play around with toys to pass his time in the hospital after a super traumatic event.....

He even went as far as to buy them, and not transmute something quickly to pass the time...

[elric-art]

He getting ready for school

[westywallowing]

customer service rants

[ekanatsume]

This scene made me cry, throw up and eat my own vomit and wail, and then vomit back my own vomit again 🙏

I love how in fma you see the two siblings try to be strong, and suddenly you see them break down, and all of the facade they tried so hard to build up to motivate them suddenly collapses and you can def see how they are just kids.

This scene tho. Ed went from having a lead to philosopher's stone to realizing the pay to create one is to use living human beings. This guy is like 15-16 yrs old. He is considering what he should do and then Lt Ross motivating him to not give up and he then pursues the philosopher stone regardless bc he can't give up yet. Then he fights people who are similar to his brother, who destroyed themselves right in front of him bc they dont consider themselves humans. Then what does it make his brother? He goes through all these things only to realize that people used him to create the philosopher stone, all the leads he found up to now were fake, and he has to either sacrifice tons of people to create the philosopher stone or otherwise his brother will be killed by them. AND HE DECIDES TO SACRIFICE TONS OF PEOPLE BC THATS HIS BROTHER AND HE HESITATES BC THATS LIVING PEOPLE. and then HE GETS ELECTROCUTED. my guy suffered not only stab wounds, his arm went dysfunctional, he is almost on the verge of insanity and then he gets electrocuted. L i k e. Bro does not get ONE MOMENT OF PEACE. And then lt Ross hugs him, and he thinks it's his mother. Like his one moment of weakness, one moment of being warmly hugged, he thinks of his mother.

This scene speaks to me in so many levels.

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BIGGEST RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY BRACKET ROUND 4

Aang- 12 year old sleeps for 100 years and comes back to end imperialist empire

Ed Elric- child soldier uncovers national conspiracy and aids rebellion/government takeover

[saturnaous]

omg my god. Alphonse is literally the gooberist little goofy fella ever and I love him so much.

LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIS SILLY LITTLE ASS. HE"S JSUT A LITTLE GUY. AUAWGUH

[yainedraws]

"Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path."

100 days of fanart, day 2: Edward Elric!