#fullmetal alchemist father

[sassydefendorflower]

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.

[aauugghhhh]

Like father like son.

[serafimkrex]

[frankly-ludicrous]

There's a lot of great things about FMA:B's final fight. It's the perfect culmination of all the hardships the protagonists had to go through to get to the end. It is a visceral expression of grief against the one responsible for all their sorrow.

It's also a teenager beating the everloving shit out of God with his bare hands while all his weird adult friends cheer him on.

And that makes it even better.

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and stuff

[animepopheart]

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[fma-merchandise]

A new Fullmetal Alchemist Ichiban Kuji is being held!

New figures have been revealed by Bandai as part of their "Fullmetal Alchemist: Those Who Opened the Door" Ichiban Kuji event to celebrate 20 years of Ichiban Kuji and 15 years of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

Ed, Roy, and Father will all be available to win as lottery prizes in participating Ichiban Kuji locations in Japan!

There will also be other prizes including towels, tumblers, and coasters (designs yet to be revealed).

Release date: December 2024

[halloweencatsart]

one-eyed dudes who are completely trustworthy i promise

[cruisercrusher]

Thongvy

Thongvy 2

Thongvy 3

Welcome to Car’s fma fanomakes first up we have the Thongvy saga. Envy is sensitive...

[shima-draws]

I’ve watched FMAB a thousand times but Greed’s death STILL gets me every fucking time. 1. Him realizing that Ling is going to get hurt and possibly killed by Father if Greed doesn’t leave his body, 2. Greed coming to terms with the fact that he’s definitely going to get killed by Father but he’s willing to make the sacrifice for Ling, and 3. Greed discovering that what he wanted was what he had the entire time, and that was true friends who would stick with him through thick and thin, who would share the same experiences and failures and triumphs and still love him despite his homunculus status. I’m so.

Also I’m SO pissed at the fact that Pride got to live but Greed didn’t. In my brain I kept saying “Well yeah I guess it makes sense for all of the homunculi to die bc they came from Father and HE has to die” but then I remembered that Pride LIVES and that makes me so salty. Out of all the homunculi Greed deserved to live the MOST AND I JUST. FUCKIGN.

[sassydefendorflower]

If you give Roy Mustang a child, I need you to realize that on the eve of that child's twelfth birthday (at the latest), Roy is going to call up Edward Elric, sobbing, begging for forgiveness after conscribing a traumatized child to Amestris' military service. Because nothing is gonna suckerpunch this sinner harder than the realization that twelve year olds are supposed to complain about homework and strict parents, instead of having metal grafted to their skin and guilt weighing them down. Roy Mustang as a father would see every order he gave to Fullmetal and realize that he was turning a child into a dog.

And by the time Roy was ready to apologize? Well, Ed might no longer be an alchemist but he has no time for sentimental bullshit and useless confessions of guild while traveling the world. And he can still fight with the best of them. Ed doesn't need Roy's guilt - but you know Roy would soak it up and internalize it.

[okaytokay369]

is this anything

[polypolyanna]

A little alchemy lesson

[spidermanifested]

a day late for october 3rd: more greeds moving castle concept art for your consideration

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and stuff

[livestock-and-bibles]

the homunculi can have a normal family dynamic.... as a treat