#post fma 03

[rene-of-the-blackouts]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alphonse Elric & Gracia Hughes, Alphonse Elric & Elicia Hughes, Izumi Curtis & Alphonse Elric Characters: Alphonse Elric, Elicia Hughes, Gracia Hughes Additional Tags: Alphonse Elric-Centric, Introspection, Post-Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Pre-Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, Missing scene (kinda), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hopeful Ending Summary:

Al was 11. Al was supposed to be 16, but he was 11. And his brother's coat was oh so big.

For @graphx💖 (Secret Santa gift)

[rhadamantthys]

happyyy oct. 3 😼

[azolitmin]

Started out as a redraw of this photoset and just so everyone knows it brings me so much joy when people re-reblog it and continue the lyrics in the tags!!

i'll be uploading the 20 something minute version of the speed paint on my patreon soon as well as some close ups and maybe the layered file after I clean up all the empty layers lmao

[slushglow]

where are my edward elric fans in the crowd tonight

[courtmartialme]

baby fever induced doodles from the past days.. wall of text context under the cut that i wrote in reply to people on twitter. about the general premise and riza's feelings towards her oldest before roy came back

^ basic, lamely summed up premise. i hate words

^ riza's feelings about being a mom

[random-in-a-crowd]

Rewatching fma, I think we should all take a moment to acknowledge how cute the images from the seconding ending of fma 03 are.

[aroace-edward-elric]

cos ed + text posts because he’s the pookiest of pookies 😤

image descriptions added! ☺️👍

part 2

[jackelopeshop]

day 5: halcyon

halcyon: denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.

nothing bad happened ever

[carnirat]

Saw the sketch for this and the only version I found of it finished was like 2 pixels so I decided to finish it myself.

Some process photos below the cut ✨ (including just the line art if you wanna color it yourself)

If you wanna color the line art digitally, if you are able to, just set the image to multiply and make sure the color layers are below the line art layer <3 if you have questions feel free to ask in replies

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Did I do a good job making it look official hehe I really tried

[peapodsinspace]

I was thinking about this earlier so,

* im not adding Roy or Riza to this, cus then it would sweep

FEEL FREE TO RB WITH PROPAGANDA!!!!!!

Also, just for funsies, I’ll put photos and a little blurb about each of them under the cut, in case anyone unfamiliar with fma wants to vote :]

Jean Havoc:

He’s probably most known for his terrible luck with women </3

(This is more of a hc I believe) but he’s also a country boy imo

Heymans Breda:

Breda is super funny, he’s a very chill guy!

He is also (according to some sources) very afraid of doggies

Vato Falman:

Falman is usually very serious, but he also ends up in quite a few dumb situations. Pathetic man <3333

Kain Fuery:

Fuery (I believe) is the newest of the group, so he tends to be “the only sane one” in some situations. Rather than being at the club, he should’ve been working in IT

I’m most curious who’s gonna loose honestly, cus I have a feeling I know the winner

[milalaralio-evart]

I NEED TO DRAW HIM MISERABLE !!!

[crows-murder]

to me fullmetal alchemist is just about cycles.

hohenheim, 400 years ago, created the first homunculus trying to bring back his dead son. izumi curtis tried to bring back her own child. ed and al followed both their father and their mentor's footsteps and tried to bring back their mother. time and time again, it is always about love and grief, and you can never learn, because you can never stop loving. you can never stop fully giving yourself to someone and being willing to do anything to bring them back. maybe ed and al didn't know their mother would have lost something important, being brought back to life after death, but izumi and hohenheim must have, in the back of their minds, known, lost as they were to grief and uncaring for the consequences.

this show, to me, is a tragedy because it is driven by love. love turned to grief led ed and al to try and bring back a version of their mother. ed's unwavering love for al leads him across the country, leads him to doing whatever it takes to bring his brother's body back. love drives al to the same goal. this is the price we pay to love, and fma makes sure we know this, over and over. grief is the price of love. playing god, thinking you could outsmart unmovable forces, is the price we pay to love, to grieve love lost. after all, what made orpheus walk for days in the underworld only to turn back when he was within the sun's reach to make sure his lover was still there? what made him turn back, if not love? what made them all sacrifice everything, every painful part of them they had to give, simply to be able to hold the person they love again?

[chirpingchorus]

I'm thinking about how Ed is absolutely terrified of death in several close fights throughout the series, the one with Barry being a prime example. He says in the same episode as that fight that his mind went "completely blank" when he felt he was about to die. He also dies not once, but TWICE before attempting to sacrifice himself so Al can live again. These ways are both incredibly violent--a beam falling on his head as fire burns around him, and getting stabbed and subsequently bleeding out.

And yet, when faced with the fact that Al has sacrificed himself to bring him back, Ed can't bring himself to do anything but (presumably) die a third and final time just for the CHANCE of letting Al live again. Perhaps a world without his brother would be more painful than anything the Gate could ever do to him. But that's what the Gate gives him in the end--not the death he thought was guaranteed, not the knowledge that his brother is alive again, just the worst result imaginable.

Ed knew very well by then what it was like to die, and he was willing to suffer however much he had to in order to bring his brother back. He just ended up suffering in a very different way from what he'd prepared himself for.

[mymindimpaired]

Ed and Al

Ep.3

[madootles]

Hullo Edward

[livuvur]

Commission for @wingsofescape for her (amazing) fic “in the cracks of light”.

If you like edwin, slowburns, murder mysteries, awesome writing and winry & ed trying their best to mend their relationship as they deal with mountains of trauma and grief, you should definitely go read it now 💛