#now if claus (? idk her english name) lost her brother instead of her sister her tomboyishness might make sense as grieving him

[gayleviticus]

rewatched the majhal episode of fma 03 and 'gender nonconformity is a sign of grief, get well soon' is not just a bad but also incredibly weird take, BUT I don't think it's quite as random and arbitrary as I used to.

I feel the story is kindve alluding to Something re gender by having both 'old man who ignores the actual aging woman in love with him in favour of obsessing over ideal youthful feminine beauty that's nothing more than a lifeless doll created through violence' and 'girl who fervently rejects femininity and hides herself as a tomboy'

However these two things don't actually meaningfully connect/juxtapose/or comment on each other at all, as best as I can tell, AND it's already stemming from a 'haha tomboys are funny. girls should be feminine' place so it ends up just weird and annoying as hell