#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood: Role Exchange Au

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FMAB Role Exchange AU :

Nina + Alexander as Mei + Xiao May, respectively.

DISCLAIMER: I AM SO SORRY.

I know what you're going to say and yes... This MAY be jarring. Just know that, in this AU, Nina and Alexander's chimera transformation is a little bit different than Canon. A little less... y'know.

In this AU, Nina and Alexander can fuse and defuse at will. Also, the chimera form is not a painful experience like it is in Canon. So there.

Some day, I'll go into more detail about it.

Their relationship in this AU is basically the same as Mei and Xiao May's. They're practically siblings who would do anything in the world for each other.

May I just point out that I can't draw dogs to save my life? These drawings are the result of literally a full day of painstaking sketches. One to make it look convincingly like a dog and the other to make it as non-creepy as I could.

Also, Ling plays Gluttony.

I hope that's obvious.

Love it or hate it, I'm glad to have gotten these drawings out of my system, at long last.

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I saw an ask game about WIPs and I wanted to do it so I’m doing it. Feel free to do the same, who’s stopping you?

Here are the names of a bunch of WIPs I have in my Docs that haven’t been posted yet, as well as the fandom they relate to! Send an Ask regarding any that catch your eye and I’ll either post a snippet or ramble about it!

- A Minute, A Month (ROTTMNT Post-Movie With A Twist AU)

- Follow The Leo-der (Get It?) (ROTTMNT Leo Vs Leadership Canon Divergence AU)

- Emergency Signal (TMNT 2007 Donnie Gives Leo A Panic Button Before His Trip AU)

- Teenage Rebellion, Or Something Like That (TMNT 2012 Casey And Leo Become Close Buddies AU)

- Runaway Joke Gone Right (ROTTMNT How The Disaster Twins Become ‘Twins’ AU)

- Chasing Blue Streaks (TMNT 2012 Caseynardo Vigilantes AU)

- Not-Brothers And Hidden Cities (Rise-TMNT 2012 Crossover, 2012!Raph Gets Lost In The Hidden City AU)

- Equivalent Exchange And The Hamatos (ROTTMNT Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood AU; Draxum Meets Leo)

- Turtles All The Way Down (Rise!Leo ends up in Yuichi Usagi’s universe AU)

- Repetition As A Lifeboat (Marble Hornets Brian Starts To Forget AU)

- Unravel The Static (Marble Hornets Cyberpunk AU)

- Broken Toy Soldier (Marble Hornets The Operator Abandons Alex AU)

- Pay The Price (Marble Hornets Brian Gets Jay-In-Season-Twoed But Worse AU)

- Alone, Yet Not (Marble Hornets Brian Is Haunted By His Friends AU)

- A Fire You Can’t Put Out (Marble Hornets Brian-Tim Sort-Of-Role-Swapped AU)

- My Director Is A Vampire (Marble Hornets Except The Operator Is A Vampire And Turns Alex AU)

- Dead Men Can’t Give Answers (Marble Hornets Jessica Demands Answers From Hoody In The Tunnel AU)

Man I had a lot of WIPs. This isn’t even all of them, these are just the stuff I think is developed enough to either talk about or has enough to post a snippet of.

Anyways, ask away? I wanna talk about my WIPs so this is my excuse to!

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FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: ROLE EXCHANGE AU - (WRATH vs GREED 2.0)

Wrath (played by Riza Hawkeye) vs Greed (played by Edward Elric)

There we are. I hope this is all the context you need.

As for the outfit Greed's wearing, I think he probably found an old nation's military jacket while at Hohenheim's lair and yoinked it. Edward is always given grief for his tacky sense of style, so this AU's Greed should be no different. He deserves to have a bright red coat. Although, I'm worried he just looks like a pirate now.

As you can see, Wrath's (Riza) modus operanti is simple: > Say nothing; pull out a GUN.

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Conceptual Design for a Fullmetal Alchemist Role Reversal AU.

With all the characters being exchanged, Edward plays the role of the original Greed. In this AU, the main villain is Hohenheim; there's no better character to turn against him than Ed. He also has a habit of collecting allies, which ties into a secret desire for friends and a real family to belong to.

When he is caught by the other homunculi and assimilated back into Hohenheim, he is out of the story until he finds a new host body. Basil Midason (OG Greed), who is playing the role of Ling. Even in a new body which is about 6 feet tall, he still gets outraged, if anyone even says "shrimp" or "midget" anywhere near his vicinity, much to the confusion of his host.

This is for:- Fullmetal Alchemist: Role Exchange - Brandon_Reed - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga [Archive of Our Own]

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Role Exchange AU Resembool - Chapter Five Family Picture

The family got into position. Dante holding Selim and Theo holding William.

Theo had been keeping a stone-face, which wasn't surprising for him. He wondered whether he should smile, to be more in-line with most family pictures. However, he also worried that he wouldn't give a convincing enough smile and it would end up looking weird. This photograph was important to him: it was documented proof of his achievement. Proof of his family. Proof of a normal, human life.

Proof that he was more than a monstrous dwarf in a flask. That he had done it; he had grown into something new. That he could create life. Real life.

Proof that... This photo was going to be proof that he once had a family.

Proof that, for a short time, he was just like every other human.

He wasn't. He knew he was never going to be just like them.

This short little reprieve will pass before the homunculus knows it. As quick as a camera's flash, he will be staring over each and every one of their graves and he will be the same lone homunculus, once more, roaming the world with no purpose.

The homunculus had never once considered his immortality a blessing. However, it had never felt like such a curse as it did now. The connections that he's made with the humans in Resembool, to Holly, to Dante and their sons. He could not bare to part with any one of them. He didn't want to watch his wife and sons die and be forgotten about, as though they weren't even there to begin with. That would tear away whatever little spirit the homunculus had.

It almost feels like Hohe... like he had planned for this, all those years ago, just to add to his cruelty.

He had no desire to keep living any further. If only he could age and die alongside his wife and children, he would do so happily.

"Theo, are you okay?" He heard Dante's voice and was suddenly back in the room.

She sounded concerned. He did a quick scan across the room. William was still in his arms, craning his neck to look up at his father, frowning up at him. The photographer was in the process of packing the equipment away.

Had... had he already taken the photo?

"I apologise. I must have been lost in thought," Theo said, regaining his composure and placing his son down.

Turning to Dante, he saw that her worry hadn't subsided.

"What is it, Dante?"

"You've never... I've never seen you cry before," she said.

Cry?

Sure enough, Theo discovered that two streaks of tears were running down his cheeks.

I wanted to add a little more onto the AU. https://archiveofourown.org/works/10605651/chapters/109986238

The Dwarf in the Flask takes Hohenheim's position, of course. Dante (the "original" Dante from the flashback segment) plays Trisha. Envy is William, playing Edward, and Selim plays Alphonse.

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FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST BROTHERHOOD: ROLE EXCHANGE AU

Meeting Greed

It turns out that one of the seven homunculi was none other than William's automail mechanic's boss. A small world, after all.

I thought the Rush Valley crew would be a fitting gang for Ed!Greed. I won't go into detail but Greed is the 4' nothin' mafia don of Rush Valley. He and his gang front as an automail shop, while constructing weapons and trading secrets behind the scenes.

Rose is an interesting case but that should be expanded on elsewhere, sometime.

Anyway, now. They're at an stalemate: Bill wants his brother back; Greed wants Rose safe. Equivalent Exchange, right?

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An illustration for a Role Reversal Fullmetal Alchemist plot.

Solaris Laroux (Lust) is the first lieutenant under Kimblee. She replaces Hawkeye. She's just as efficient but not always as stone-faced. In fact, she's somewhat of a flirt. She may have had a few relationships that may have not worked out. The latest of which is right about to kill her.

Lust (Roy Mustang) began to date Lieutenant Laroux, pretending to be the innocent Roy Mustang, to get information out of her. However, when the soldiers burst into the Fifth Laboratory, Lust reveals that he had to kill off the two men that Solaris is closest to: her childhood friend and fellow soldier, Perry (Gluttony) and her beloved Colonel, Zolf J. Kimblee. He takes delight in her fruitless outburst.

This is for:- Fullmetal Alchemist: Role Exchange - Brandon_Reed - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga [Archive of Our Own]

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Here's an expansion on the Greed situation for the Fullmetal Alchemist Role Exchange concept.

As previously mentioned, the original Greed in this version is played by Edward, while the "Ling" equivalent is played by Canon Greed (I called him "Basil" for this AU).

I just drew a few conceptual doodles and a little comic.

For context, while Ed!Greed is still a homunculus, his character is the same and he is still just as sensitive about his height. William (Envy) found this out and used it relentlessly when they first fought. Anyway, it turns out that getting a body that's far taller did not erase Greed's kneejerk reaction to William's taunts.

This is for:- Fullmetal Alchemist: Role Exchange - Brandon_Reed - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga [Archive of Our Own]

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Gotta give you kudos for the role swaps in Ishval. Even if I had read the role exchange blurb in the description, I still went Oh Shit when I realized that Maes Hughes had swapped with Kimblee. You had told me at the start, yet I was still completely caught off guard with that. And the brothers. I honestly can't tell if Two Arm is meant to be Tim Marco, or the Gold Toothed Doctor, though I feel as if that is an obvious role exchange to make, as they are very much equivalent to each other, but that still makes it impossible for me to think of who Scar and his brothers are swapped with unless Miles is now in Scar's place.

I don't know whether I should spoil it by telling you here, but I hope Scar and his brother's new roles are acceptable. Honestly, there are a lot of choices I made that I feared would be too far.

I love the engagement, though. Keep it up.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Role Exchange AU | BASIL MIDASON

Further expansion on the Role Reversal concept, with Greed playing the role of Ling. Basil (or just 'Bas' for short) is a disgraced, exiled prince from a far off kingdom (not Xing, unfortunately). He wants to discover the secret to eternal life to restore his honour and retake the throne.

On his journey into Amestris, he just so happened to come across the Military's experimental chimeras - Dolcetto and Martel - and recued them. In exchange, they agree to work for him as loyal bodyguards.

Martel and Dolcetto play Lan Fan and Fu's roles, respectively.

While his and the Bradley Brother's relationship started out standoffishly, they'll be as thick as thieves by the end.

This is for:- Fullmetal Alchemist: Role Exchange - Brandon_Reed - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga [Archive of Our Own]

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Role Exchange AU - Jonah Berg (AKA: HUMAN SLOTH)

"I won't let... anybody catch me..." said the giant man as he lumbered through the streets of Dublith. Before breaking back into a sprint, he found himself being jostled backward by his right hand. "Gotcha!" said Catherine, as cheerful ever, "That wasn't too hard." "...Strong..." was all her new prisoner uttered in response.

Jonah Berg - this AU's name for the human Sloth - is this story's Paninya.

Since Catherine doesn't have any interest in Automail, Rush Valley would not impress her at all. However, meeting a Herculean Strongman in Dublith would certainly peak her interest. After all, Catherine finds super strong men with huge muscles really attractive. I wonder why...

This AU keeps being explored very randomly. Sorry about that. I'm very distractable.

Honestly, I didn't expect to ever illustrate this, because, as it turns out, Sloth is really difficult to draw. No reference photos have him at good angles and his hunched posture was hard to pose out, especially with his muscles. I'm happy with how he turned out here.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10605651