#sloth fma

[akai-shuchichi]

All characters I could do 🫰🏻

[aether-friskets]

This is how fullmetal alchemist was, right

(based off this image, idk where it came from because a friend sent it to me, so if anyone knows lemme know so I can like. Give credit)

[derseprinceoftbd]

Hear me out (something you probably hear a lot of with her):

I think Olivier should have been a villain.

Her philosophy of the survival of the strongest never seems *honest*, and that seems like it's kind of a waste of screentime. Like she's basically just a tsundere.

We never actually get characterization for the military high command in an individual capacity besides brief glimpses; this would allow an actual characterized corrupt military leader going along with the scheme, letting us put a face to their callousness (possibly with the plan of slaughtering the rest and being the sole human to receive the supposed immortality benefits of the scheme). It lines up with her philosophy, and, I think, helps move some stuff around in the Plot.

Sloth is... more could definitely have been done with him. I believe Olivier would have been a better final opponent for Armstrong; the courage thing seems pretty easy and obvious against a giant basically pure evil monster, but having to take a stand against both the leadership of your country directly and your own blood seems like a more complete way to bring him finally fighting back full circle.

I think I'll discuss my thoughts on the new Sloth, and various other plot elements I would move around, when I finish the series, but that's a thought I've had so far.

[auxwired]

I just need to tell someone how hilariously stupid Sloth is

Does he know what's going on? Did anyone bother telling him? Would he have been awake to hear it if they tried? Who knows, all that matters is that that man's brain has been on standby for the last 200 years

HEHHEHE YEAH

i seriously doubt sloth has seen the light of day other than when he emerged from briggs. only god knows how long he was under there, his dad tells him to dig a tunnel surrounding amestris for like a few decades and he doesnt have the energy to ask why; his character is so funny to me. hes the #1 idgaf soldier of all time

[memesmadefullmetal]

💤 for the superlatives!

Honestly? Sloth 🦥

He’s just not that compelling compared to everyone else 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏼‍♀️

We also think 03’s version of Sloth is far more fascinating…so it’s a stark comparison

Perhaps rather more controversially, we find 03’s version of Wrath really boring too 😶

We don’t find his story that interesting and he’s actually a lil annoying…

Sorry 😅

- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅

[arsonamiright]

😬 and 😮

[jewishrizahawkeye]

1. ivy

2. i forgot that you existed

3. dear reader

for the fma ask! i couldn’t decide on one song so chose three

i may have taken months to answer this, but i finally figured out what each song is!!!!!!!

1. ivy - van hohenheim (@roberrtphilip i will get you to listen to evermore because it’s so hohenheim coded if it’s the last thing i do!)

2. dear reader - roy mustang (the least surprising result from me let’s be honest. also this ties into my taylor swift as fma albums series asdfghjkl)

3. i forgot that you existed - sloth. only cause father ditches him up north and we only hear him mentioned once prior to that and we literally don’t see him again until the promised day after that

send me taylor swift songs and i’ll tell you which fma character it reminds me of

[one-mouldy-lime]

First drafts of seven deadly sins (fmab) redesign, just for funsies, there are also some headcannons in the corner but they'll be hard to see so lmk if you want to see those properly!

[pubbyboards]

[rnisa]

How difficult do you think it would have been to befriend Sloth? What can I say, I'm a sucker for giants.

This ask is literally from April 3rd 2019. I remember saying "hey! hey tumblr! im open for FMA requests!" and I didn't get anything for like a month so I took a hiatus, then when I came back to write for another fandom, I had loads of FMA stuff in my inbox... :,( Sorry, anon.

Anyways now I am feeling my love for FMA reigniting so I'm digging at the very bottom of my inbox for these. Wherever you are I hope life has been good to you the past four years.

...

Anyways to answer the question - Honestly, not too hard. He doesn't seem to like doing fuck all so I believe if you, in fact, do not make him do fuck all, he would be perfectly fine. Provide him with a place to stay, some snacks and maybe some form of entertainment (the laziest activity I can think of is probably watching TV?) so give'im that and he'd be pretty content. He doesn't necessarily seem to like the Homunculi at all seeing as how the only thing they make him do is work and then he dies working, so. He'd be the best couch potato friend. But a real shitty roomate. Would contribute nothing to society.

[raven-fanboy]

you welcome mwah <3

excellent names on the enemy team tonight

[derseprinceoftbd]

Okay so here's my big FMA rewrite take:

*Pride* should have been *Sloth*. *Father* should have been *Pride*.

I think it fits; the only genuinely prideful things about Selim, who I always found underwhelming, were his extra levels of loyalty and his belief in the superiority of his species-and not only were both of those not unique among the Homunculi, Sloth would have been an interesting way to view the first.

(Sloth's removal is easy enough; Gluttony can take his place in the Briggs fight, and a military general or, heck, a *resolution* to the horde of zombies *or* chimeras (you know, those ones in like the sewers that May fought like three times) (mini sub-rant; those two should def have been combined into giving the chimera horde Philosopher's Stones, like the zombies were ugly ass MFs in a bad way) could take the place of the Armstrong-Curtis fight. I'm not even entirely talked out of my Olivier idea (that I'm too bad at mobile to link to rn, uh, search the fma tag on my blog IG), she could fight him and Izumi... I'm getting off track.)

(Look; the point is, big guy Sloth is as boring and basic as they come. Even Gluttony says something with his innocence, this guy is just blargh.)

It also fits his sedentary lifestyle, living the simple, un-troubling life of a human, as well as his fighting style and design (he stands there and lets his tentacles do the work, and the shadow seems kind of cribbed, almost lazily (this is not a criticism of the Author/his design, I'm just adding some context behind a hypothetical Selim-Sloth), from his creator).

And let's talk about the creator;

First, it always felt weird that he was called "Father" more than anything else, like he was defined by a set of relationships that he never cared for, instead of anything about him.

Second, that guy was *Prideful as balls*. His actions are like 60% Pride 20% Sloth 20% Lust. I've seen people say that he embodies all the sins, like it's a point that he only pretended to purge them, but some are *demonstrably* bigger motivators for him than others.

And I feel like, honestly, he *straddles the line of being interesting*; if you go into it viewing the story as a philosophical masterpiece, you'll like him a lot, but you can easily hate him. This may be my Menardist "you can literally apply any lens to anything as a positive constructive measure, up to and including false information, as long as you can string together an argument about why it becomes interesting in a new way with that lens" perspective talking (actually, that's easy to say for both of these guys given how their very names are lenses), but I think having that central idea would really push him over the edge and define him.

So... yeah. Selim should have been Sloth, Father should have been Pride, the big guy should have been erased, and the zombies and chimeras should both have been wrapped up at some point.

Interested to hear your thoughts; please comment and RB!

[tokkimins]

I’m chemical, that’s all, that is all

[serafimkrex]

[as-warm-as-choco]

was talking w/ my fav tattoo artist about this omake & they sent it immediately 😭💀