#scar fmab

[razables]

just give him back

(closeups under the cut)

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

one thing ive always loved about fullmetal alchemist brotherhood is that it never begrudges a person their revenge. it never paints them as evil or worse than the object of their outrage. fullmetal alchemist will never tell a victim they have not earned their anger, or that it is not right. it does not speak against revenge because your anger is wrong. it only says that you must be careful - that vengeance may destroy you and the ones you care for if you let it consume you.

when mustang hears that scar is ishvalan, he says that, in many ways, his killing of state alchemists is justified, although he's still not keen to become a victim of it. when scar is faced with the daughter of the doctors he killed, he bows his head and tells her that justice is hers to deliver, and that he will not fight if she chooses to bestow it. roy is never told that he must forgive envy, or that hes wrong to want them dead; only that, should he choose to kill them, he will no longer be the kind of man he wants to be. the kind of man he can be. they all agree that envy must die - ed never says that roys anger or grief is unjustified, that his vengeance wouldnt be deserved. instead, he asks "is that the face you plan to wear when you lead this country?" he says your anger is earned, your violence is justified. if you burned them to death like you wanted to, no one would say they did not do it to themself. but is a man who burns a defeated enemy to death the kind of man you want to be?

when scar finally decides to stop killing state alchemists, he doesnt do it because he has learned to forgive, or because they do not deserve it. there is no forgiveness for the things amestris has done to his people, and arakawa never suggests that there could be. rather, he stops killing state alchemists because he cannot build a better world on top of more corpses. his anger is justified, but his violence will breed more violence, his hatred more hatred. it will kill him if he does not stop it first, and it will lead his people to even further ruin if he cannot escape it.

fullmetal alchemist never says that revenge is evil, or that your anger is not reasonable. it only asks, do you know the cost of taking that vengeance? is that the kind of man you want to be?

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and stuff

[angel-eyes05]

lawd my ass wants to write a scar fmab x reader fanfic so bad even though NO ONE wants to read that shit cause 1) pretty dead fandom lowkey especially fanfic wise and 2) people seem to thirst over him the least which is kinda crazy cause brooding angsty traumatized anti hero isnt that your whole thing tumblr

but the demons are taking over i might just have to the wheels are turning GAWD

[old-skyguy]

Thoughts on episode 54 because I am very normal about the character development of this show.

Spoilers for FMA Brotherhood. Up to episode 54, at least.

The parallels between Mustang and Scar.

The fact Scar had his whole family, his nation, his culture, taken away from him and he chose violence and retribution and destruction over trying to help what remained of his community.

The fact Mustang had his friend taken away, had to watch this man who cared so deeply get killed and see the aftermath for his family. How it must've felt to slowly realize that he did that same thing to scar and so many other innocent people to further fuel a corrupt web of lies that benefits no one but the ones weaving it. The guilt. The anger. How he wanted so badly to take it out on something, on someone, just like Scar did.

Except Scar had been changed too. Riza sees this. Riza has had to live with this guilt for a fucking *while* and I mean they all have to an extent, but none of the other military understand the gravity of the situation like she does. They can all tune it out, believe that they're doing this for their country or for the greater good, but she doesn't have that luxury . Her tattoo directly resulted in the sheer power used as violence against so many innocent people.

You know who ELSE has a tattoo that represents the hard work of a family member in the name of innovation that ultimately became a weapon never meant to be wielded?

SCAR. SCAR DOES.

He resorted to blind carnage as well. He killed off good men, people with families, with deeper aspects to them besides their part in the war, and ultimately many, many innocent people, whose deaths impacted the lives of those around them and devastated them as much as his own family's. And you know what??

He was RIGHT to be angry at the government.

He was RIGHT to be angry at the military.

That doesn't mean he had the right to blindly kill anyone in uniform. It's an absolutely brilliant juxtaposition between two extreme sides of the same coin. Such a poignant commentary on military vs terrorist ideals and how they're both just inherently wrong and dehumanizing to the very people they stand for, but both refusing to take responsibility for their wrongdoings.

Until Scar realizes how his idea of revenge affected other people, innocent people just like him, just like his family, just like the life of the child that sparked the fucking war. And he steps back. Slowly, he becomes more willing to work together, more aware of what is actually behind this, more patient with the people he once swore revenge on. Because with military, even in real life, there's always like sever and a ton degrees of separation between the people who control the narrative and control the war from the conference rooms and the people who are ordered to pull the trigger. That doesn't mean he isn't allowed to be angry at the ones behind the gun, it's just that he should be more worried about the people behind the battlefield. God, this show's politics and depictions of war are so realistic and just dead on. I could talk about it for hours.

Mustang almost went down that same path of misdirected retribution. He was so close it was literally UNDER HIS FOOT. But seeing how this affected Scar, how it affected Hughes and his fellow soldiers and Al and Ed and how it affected RIZA. Seeing how she was willing to kill herself just so *his own* destructive powers could die with her.

How Envy was just a byproduct. He was always depicted as this scary, blood-shedding, horrific creature of carnage, which *is* what he's supposed to represent, but I feel like in the moment he realized just how small Envy really was, he feels for a brief moment what it was like for Scar to learn that. It was pointless to take all his anger out on the person who was created specifically to BE a weapon - just a weapon - and nothing more. Who was created to act as a blind, uncaring soldier in a war that they don't even really have the ability to comprehend. That he should save his anger for the system that created him, the system that blinded him to the truth and never let him learn empathy. Never let him be a person Just like the dehumanization of war.

It doesn't help anyone to withhold mercy from the one who executed another's will. It would be just like Scar killing soldiers, it does NOTHING about the real issue and so he'll save it for the real man behind the slaughter.

And Jesus envy as a deconstruction of that system. Brilliant. I love it. Being so confused by the mindset of the people on the opposing side and rather than confronting the fact that maybe he was on the wrong side this whole time and confronting his humanity (philosopher's stone) and trying to remedy himself like Scar and all the other State Alchemists that fought the Ishvalan War he kills himself (also with the philosopher's stone) out of fear and a warped sense of honor and loyalty to a cause he doesn't even grasp.

That could've been Riza. That would've been her if Mustang decided to go through with killing Envy himself. If he chose selfish retribution over those affected by tragedy and government corruption. But it wasn't.

He chose to focus on the bigger picture of who's at fault instead of blindly killing out of rage.

And that is the ideal leader.

Because a tyrannical, angry leader stuck in the past is a horrible leader. It's just as bad as a cold blooded murderer, and eventually, they'll become the very thing that broke them.

He would've perpetuated the cycle.

He came **so close** to perpetuating the cycle that it's honestly terrifying.

But he didn't.

The character growth showcased here is *masterful.*

I could go on but I'd just repeat myself, I'm like a dog chasing it's tail.

Inject it into my ***veins***.

[madamesmoke]

I don't know how to describe it, but seeing very large, buff men care for vulnerable beings (be that children or animals) wakes something incredibly primal in me.

No, I didn't mean anyone specific. What gave you that idea?

[phoenixremix69]

I know it's important for Scar's character arc and mental health to go back to Ishval to rebuild Ishval but it'd be so funny for him to go Xing with Mei

Imagine being Mei's mom and your daughter left like 6 months ago to go across the desert with her tiny panda for company, and not only does she return unharmed and with an extremely lucrative trade alliance with the soon to be emperor, but also an absolute hunk of an Ishvalen with a deep voice and really sexy alkahestry tattoos

"Mom, this is my new best friend and kinda dad Mr Scar, can he stay with us for a while?"

Mei's mom looking at a pair of biceps that look like they can crush her head like a melon "Yes. Yes he can"

[thelordofshrimp]

i finished the fma manga last night (just in time! also what a bedtime story) and for a split second the robot logic part of my brain said "well it's not fair that Al got his whole body back but Ed is still missing a leg, and on top of that he gave up his alchemy. he really got the short (haha) end of the stick here"

and then the rest of my brain kicked in and of course Ed would sacrifice anything, that's his brother. That's his little brother. Of course he'd give up his leg, his arm, his heart, his alchemy (the skill that has kept him alive for years, the thing he learned to make his mom happy). of course he'd give it up.

in the same vein, of course scar's brother would save him, give his own arm to keep his little brother going even though he knew his brother wouldn't be able to understand his research notes alone.

of course you'd do anything for him. "he's my little brother, he's all I have [left]."

[earmo-imni]

Man, I know I’ve got it bad when I’m reacting like this:

To this:

[submitwittyblognamehere]

I will never tire of the intense and poetic drama of Fullmetal Alchemist. Currently, I'm obsessed with the arcs mid-series which involve the very prevalent themes of how individuals are effected by cycles of violence and the consequences of vengeance.

Take, for example, the sequence of events that follow Kimblee's attempts to track down Scar via train en route to the northern region of Amestris. How during their confrontation, Scar deviates from his previously established pattern of action. This specific fight directly follows a short dialogue between the two characters in which Scar asks Kimblee if he remembers killing his brother and family in Ishval during the state sponsored genocide. Kimblee does, and so begins to gloat. Instead of using his characteristic alchemical attack to end Kimblee, Scar---clearly effected with grief and rage at seeing his brother's murderer---takes Kimblee by surprise and launches a weapon. Kimblee is impaled and left near death.

Kimblee escapes by destroying the latch between the carriages separating them, and in doing so both of their personal quests for vengeance against the other are delayed. Scar is left stranded and unable to finish the fight, and Kimblee is defeated by the same individual he "let" escape during the war.

Of course, at this point in the narrative we as the audience are already well acquainted with Arakawa's messages about the consequences of engaging with the perpetuation of violence as a cycle, and how "hatred breeds more hatred." Scar is one of several key characters who's actions are condemned by the narrative and the other characters who surround them. Within Scar's personal sphere of influence, the most obviously communicated example of this comes from the surviving Ishvalan religious leader who helps to heal him from his wounds early on in the series and encourages him to seek transformative justice in lieu of violent revenge.

Scar is confronted with this sentiment again when Edward picks a fight with him intentionally as a way to lure out the Homonculi, when Winry, the child of two of his victims, stumbles upon their confrontation and learns the truth about what happened to her parents and who killed them. She picks up a gun near hysterics, and the two of them are only stopped from engaging in their own combat by Edward when he launches himself physically between them to shield Winry from Scar.

After the combat on the train ride north, Scar and Edward are forced to work together to evade Kimblee's surveillance and escape from a hostage situation which evolved by taking advantage of Winry's presence there with them. Winry's actions in the north directly lead to Scar's life being spared by the group's allies, and she is thusly rewarded by the narrative as she and Scar are able to leave successfully. Edward, on the other hand, becomes engaged in combat with Kimblee after their plan is discovered, and during the fight he is dealt a mortal wound due to Kimblee's destructive alchemy.

It is the specific nature of the wound that Edward receives which interests me now. Though I've seen the show several times over in full and read the parts of the manga available to me, it was not until recently that I noticed the full extent of its significance.

Like Kimblee on the train, Ed is impaled in the abdomen on his left side. The placement is almost exactly the same, though the severity is increased in Edward's case.

By giving Ed and Kimblee the same wound, Arakawa literally illustrates the impact of cycles of violence and the harm they create. Kimblee triggers violence in Scar, the conflict is reinforced when Scar retaliates against Kimblee, Scar targets Ed as a state alchemist which draws the teen into forwarding the cycle for a time as Edward then intentionally manipulates Scar's quest to forward his own schemes against the conspirators in Central... finally, Ed and Kimblee are pitted against each other and Ed is forced to break the cycle by refusing to use the Philosopher's stone to heal himself.

As Kimblee says to the train engineers which discover him injured at the back of the cars: What could be more beautiful than doing work that puts your soul at risk?

This is not to say that the intent of the violence is equivocal in the slightest. Of course, the actions of a fascist, genocidal super soldier should not be judged in the same way as those of a grief stricken victim of that same violence who is in want of retribution. FMA does provide, however, a very adequate conduit for inviting conversations regarding these exact subjects which are prevalent not only in fiction but throughout reality, as well.

FMA consistently rewards characters who seek reconciliation and transformation, and punishes those that seek to use others for their own gain (whether that be emotional or physical). That is the core of the show, and that is why I will always enjoy it. This show never fails to entertain, surprise, and reassure me with its aims of mercy, humanity, and justice. Its nice to watch something so clearly dedicated to seeing the dismantlement of corrupt and unjust systems at a time like this.

[yeet-wolf-in-the-stars]

Can we talk about the fact that the actor playing Zoro is also the guy who played Scar?

PLEASE

I'm dying

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

the way fullmetal alchemist brotherhood thinks about god is so interesting to me and its the only representation of religion ive ever seen in fiction that reflects my own very specific beliefs on it. like. god is the world, the universe, the truth, but god is also you. it takes your form when it speaks to you. and subsequently it is whatever you make of it. bradley mocks scars belief, asking how he can still have faith in a higher power that cares for him when the world has been so cruel to him and his people. but he is blinded by the light of the eclipse at the fatal moment in their fight, what some might call an act of god. bradley believes in no god, so one does not serve him. god is a thing of his own creation, a reflection of his actions, his beliefs, the things he puts out into the world. for scar, he believed himself to be serving god most when he was killing state alchemists, seeking vengeance, figuratively and literally only able to destroy because of the trauma surviving the extermination had left him with. he destroyed and so god was a destruction, a force that tore things apart, whether that was scar or his enemies. it is only after he grows and begins to heal as a person that he tattoos his brothers symbols of reconstruction onto his other arm and finally gains the ability to create, reflecting his new self forged motivation. it is only then, in that moment right after using constructive alchemy for the first time, that his god works in his favour, blinding his enemy at the exact right moment in order to let him win the battle against the physical embodiment of wrath. every time we see the truth, it takes the form of the person it speaks to. it reflects the person they are, the things they put out into the world. the manifestation of god is not just the things around you, it is you yourself. “i am all, i am one, and so i am also you.”

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + AO3 tags pt4

[angel-eyes05]

I also do not understand the lack of Scar x reader fics! He’s a tall, hot man with a strict moral code and tortured past. Like I want to comfort him and then get choked during sex after.

If you wrote a Scar fic I would eat that shit up is what I’m saying ig 😂

ugh the strict moral code and tortured past is kinda real i might have to get on writing this fic LOL

[obiwhat]

Other than roy and riza, are there any other characters/ships you like from fmab? I'm curious!

yes!! i’m obsessing over those two currently ofc but my favorite character when watching was actually scar loll. i thought he was a compelling character to see change throughout the show, with such a rewarding ending. he was given so much potential for growth, not only for himself but for everyone around him.

although i must say, i feel like every single character was written so wonderfully i could gush about all of them. (and write another long winded post) there isn’t a single character i didn’t enjoy, even the villains were perfectly developed start to finish. overall the show was one that i learned a lot from, as a brother myself i related closely with ed so it felt like i was growing with him while watching, if that makes sense.

as for ships: i think winry and ed are cute of course and i’m even a little intrigued by ed and ling loll, but really royai was the main ship to change my brain chemistry 🫶

[madamesmoke]

I have a Type

I don't know how to describe it, but I have a feeling my preferences are going to be my downfall.

I want to climb every single one of these fuckers like a tree.