#ishvalan

[fmamangacaps]

[ouctan-tsuvai]

I rewatched Fullmetal Alchemist again (It's been nine years since watched it last time lol). For some reason, Ishvalans seem quite attractive to me now... I didn't find any art with Ishvalans (Scar doesn't count), so I decided to draw these sweet boys myself

[asexxxualauthor]

The Dwendalian Empire is Amestris

A German/West European-coded fantasy kingdom that is extremely militant but rather benign to the average citizen (Dwendalian Empire/Amestris).

The strong arm of the kingdom’s military might are the mage-soldiers that are specifically trained to be the attack dogs (Volstrucker/State Alchemists).

They are constantly having border conflicts, especially with the dark-skinned, fair-haired, red-eyed monotheistic denizens of the wasteland to their east (Xhorasians/Ishvalans).

These conflicts are used as an excuse to facilitate the creation of magic weapons capable of incredible power (Dunamis/Philosopher Stones).

And unbeknownst to the civilians, their leader is actually a puppet, and the true master pulling the strings is unfathomably old and a survivor of one of the worst cataclysms known in modern times (Ludinus Daleth/Father)—

—whose lone goal in life is to attack and dethrone god.

[dahlia-draw]

Drew my best friend's oc, Yunalesca/Luna. She's an Ishavalan woman made for Fullmetal Alchemist. I did a little experiment in the last pic with changing the line art color.

[nuswodahs]

Isaiah 41:10

So do not fear, for I am with you;

do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you and help you;

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

© Nuswodahs/Tora

[cool-loser]

I rewatched fma brotherhood and I had a idea

After Mustang gets his sight back from the philosophers stone, what if he got ishvalan eyes

The stone was made from ishvalan, so I think it would make sense, and I think it'd be cool as hell

[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

[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)

[gghero]

the way the dialogue bubbles switch between the usual vertical orientation to a horizontal shape to telegraph that they are speaking in a foreign language? thats some next level stuff

[riza-hawks-eye]

"Don't talk to them when they are wearing their SadWarCriminalBlankets™"

[fmamangacaps]

[aliumartifexscribre]

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

[waitineedaname]

"Amestris is an allegory for nazi Germany" you fool. Amestris is not an allegory for just nazi Germany -- it's an allegory for genocidal, fascist, militaristic governments as a whole. Yes, it has parallels to fascist Europe, but it also has parallels to xenophobic militaristic US and imperialist Japan. The point is not "look at this outlier of a country committing atrocities," the point is that the country committing atrocities might be your country and you might be complicit in it no matter how morally upstanding you might think you are. To act like only one government is capable of committing genocide blinds you to the potential that any other government might commit genocide too.

[fullmetal-scar-simping]

That's... Still using the stone. That's still one genocider using the souls of the people he murder-transmuted to heal a different genocider and his cronies so that they could attain the class positions they desired. Whether the energy of the stone is what healed Musked-Stank or whether it was a bargaining chip is irrelevant to the point of absurdity.

A lot of mangahood fans just stubbornly refuse to see the actions of their beloved blorbos as the racist, fascist bullshit it is.

[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.