#major general olivier armstrong

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + textposts

[poetryincostume]

On October 3rd, Elric asked me what day it was.

I said, ‘How dare you to talk to me, you coward.’

Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong

Traditionally tailored uniform, 2019

Japanese twill, canvas, grosgrain, leather, gilt braid

[patron-saints]

the official beginner's guide to olizumi

so! you're a fan of fma or maybe a friend of mine, and you're interested in learning more about the relationship between olivier mira armstrong and izumi curtis! great, you've come to exactly the right place.

if it's been a while since you've seen fma:b, or if you've never seen it and don't mind watching some scenes from the final arc, i recommend getting started with my compilation:

(original video post here)

when i first watched fma:b back in march 2023, i thought i would manage to watch the entire thing without getting obsessed with a wlw ship. i was wrong. the second these two started interacting i immediately became enamored with the trust, respect, and intimacy that they share, and with the way they seemed to find in each other the same steely spirit, grit, and inner sense of self. their ability to communicate their philosophies, despite their differences, and listen to each other with ease and tenderness just. GOT ME. they got me.

get ready for SO MUCH MORE under the cut:

(i was lucky enough to have a chance to draw up a little list of most of my headcanons about them, which can be found here! the most important of which i'd say are that i write them as t4t, and olivier as a stone top!)

if you're convinced of their chemistry just from that, great, my job here is done! but if you don't believe me yet, or you want a little more, it would be my honor to point you in the direction of the first ever fic i wrote for them, "recognition." (tumblr post for chapter 1 here!)

"recognition" can best be described as a 4 chapter old woman yaoi where (almost) nothing happens and two milves fall in love. or if you like, sorry izumi, two very young women navigate the beginnings of a long distance relationship, polyamory, workaholism, and chronic illness. it is sickeningly fluffy, and to date the longest thing i've ever published.

it even comes with an illustration! @wlwsakura did THIS for me:

(original post here) which i will never be over not in one million years!

AND it also comes with a whole entire soundtrack, made by myself and my dearest friend @summerwoodsmoke! kinda a folksy gentle, very sappy vibe. i still listen to it all the time! alex picked some bangers tbh.

for the very first @fma-rareships event, i wrote two little ficlets set in the world of "recognition," which are here and here!

if you're keeping track so far, that's a compilation, a headcanon list, a fic(+ficlets), a commission, and a playlist. but wait, there's more!

so, okay, maybe 23k is too long for you. or maybe fluff isn't your thing. or maybe, somehow, you've made it through all that and you want more. not to worry. i have more.

just this week, i posted "bone deep" (tumblr post here), which is a 5k E rated omegaverse fic that's kind of like recognition on fastforward and if i didn't cut out the sex scenes. and if it was omegaverse. it's the first omega thing i've ever written, but i really wanted a chance to write more in depth about how i see olivier's stone identity, and weirdly this setting gave me the chance to do that!

and now we've covered everything i've made for them...so far. but i want to give a shout out to some others in the rarepairs mines with me, because i'm not the only one who care them!

@machinerismsx's fic "An Open Invitation" is genuinely incredible. it's hilariously funny (there's lines in there i still think about and giggle), and also like. super hot. we didn't know anything about each other's fic projects til after i posted "recognition," but we were stunned to realize we'd written a lot of the exact same plot points, including what i refer to as The Curtis-Armstrong Alliance.

you may have noticed that in my compilation, sig and alex also had like, off the charts chemistry. m and i noticed that too! so in both of our fics, while sig and izumi are still married, they are also each get an armstrong all to themselves, lol.

which brings me to @eggos-esper! my brother-in-arms who is out here as the reigning champ of sigalex! (& you can read the sigalex fic i wrote for him on ao3 here ((or see the tumblr post here!)))

but maybe you're nostalgic for youth. or you like epistolary fics. or maybe you, like me, are deeply obsessed with the miniep "tale of the teacher." if that's you, PLEASE PLEASE check out @baudleaires's fic "Notes from Briggs" it is the cutest thing on planet earth and it had me kicking and squealing the entire time.

maybe you want more art! there's more art!

@iztopher did this one for my birthday and it made me actually scream and then weep:

and @wlwsakura's first piece of them is what made me commission her in the first place:

it's still the photo for one of the groupchats i'm in. it rules.

also, while they're not on tumblr atm, i could not bear to make this list without acknowledging @chillingoose, who is one of my dearest friends and who has come up with some truly stunning things for olizumi as well.

and! and! also @littlebear1537! who loves briggs more than anyone else in the universe!

if i managed to miss anything, my olizumi tag is here! there's not a ton in it at the moment, but there are some jokes, like this one by @heavenlyshadowhunter:

:D

i would LOVE to add more to that tag by any means possible, so if you make anything for olizumi, PLEASE tag me in it! i am also going to work on setting up @olizumi as more of a proper archive too! (edit: i did it! it’s a real blog now!)

thank you so much for reading this incredibly long post, and for giving my girls a chance! <3!

[emmikay]

Olivier Armstrong: So after I yell at them, then I’ll be nice again. Y'know good cop, bad cop.

Miles: But that’s a two man job.

Olivier Armstrong: I’m a woman of many talents.

[walkietalkiemaniac]

lmao sorry

[loudestcloud]

Happy birthday, Olivier Mira Armstrong!!!

[opoki]

I bet an arm and leg that Olivier makes fun of Roy's size.

Also, why does Selim's face looks exactly like Mei's lol?

[girls-with-boys-names]

Tawny’s first day at Fort Briggs 😂

I can’t believe I forgot to post this here but this audio from the Try Guys was too good not to use for my chaos child

[mystrixstory]

I just thought of possibly the cutest/coolest au idea for Fmab: after their mom died, instead of Ed and Al being raised by Granny, the military move them all the way up north to Fort Briggs where they are trained and raised by the Major General Armstrong herself. She takes them under her wing and makes them into the strongest Briggs soldiers anyone has seen yet, and just maybe getting attached to them along the way, though you’d only ever hear her speak of them proudly to those closest to her.

[14geckosinatree]

Listen…

(short hair Olivier is awesome btw)

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and stuff

[ghost-foxx-goddess]

[patron-saints]

bone deep

written coincidentally to a prompt for @fma-rareships's proganda event! i just so happened to have an nsfw omegaverse fic to post today, so i'm more than excited to submit it as part of the event!

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fandom: fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood words: 5,167 chapter: 1/1 rating: E relationship: olivier mira armstrong x izumi curtis content: olivier mira armstrong, known stone top, has been on heat suppressant medication for the past ten years. her meds have always worked just fine. now, as she sits across from the ever-so-lovely izumi curtis on their second date, they are decidedly…not working.

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“did you know,” she says, as casually as she can, “when i was fighting in the south. i was taken prisoner for a short while.”

izumi’s jaw drops. “i did not.”

“yes. there’s a—a sort of militia? in creta. secret.” she swallows. she’s trying to be funny, but some part of her brain registers that this is only funny to her. “they torture prisoners there, in fact.” she laughs, in anticipation of her own terrible punchline. “this is worse.”

continue on ao3!

[emmikay]

Buccaneer: The General is going to greet them.

Miles: What’s her plan for that?

Buccaneer: Be herself.

Miles: Poor son of a bitch.

[abby-meal]

Olivier Mira Armstrong.

2 hours, 32 minutes.

first coloring of the year 2023. one of my absolute favorites! ♡

[styx-doesnt-do-art]