#the ambition

[maviyenot]

[phantomrose96]

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

[literaturereads]

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

[lingrimmart]

L: Smol Tilazis and the big World Serpent

[sisifroggy]

"Minthara? Are you encouraging everyone to go on power trip ascensions and be their worst selves?"

[starridge]

yeah

[pierppasolini]

Blonde Ambition (1981) // dir. John Amero, Lem Amero

[kiashieart]

my turn on the timeskip diego design machine ^_^

bonus drafts and a couple headcanons :) vvv

bonus colour drafting!!

a couple headcanons:

i'm still a little unsure on the direction i wanna go - the purple is a tribute to mia, but i also wonder if i shouldn't do that and instead go a more 'moving on from mia' direction. and also the other ideas are also just nice anyway.

he could also go purple as tribute to the feys in general, as i imagine he spends a lot of time in kurain with the feys, especially post getting out of prison and getting back on his feet; they've pretty much adopted him as family

with the tech that exists in this series by the time he gets out of prison i think he could get fancy contacts that replicate the effects of his old visor (phoenix and maybe maya probably helped him afford these). they have a fancy contact case that also servers as their charger. they still glow red and this serves for several gags.

the wrightdot agenda in me says phoenix took him in. something something slowburn healing etc. i'll do more w/ that another time tho. i want him to bond with the wrights :) i know trucy is smart they will get along swimmingly ^_^

unrelated to diego. knowing nick gets facial hair for Reasons i will take advantage of this for my personal homosexual reasons

[redysetdare]

enough stories about how someone learns to truely be happy through love. i want a story where someone is desperately seeking out love thinking it's the only way to be happy only for them to learn by the end that happiness is what they make of it and they don't need love at all to make it.

[kittykalliarts]

For decades, the blank vision that Iudex Neuvillette wears near his heart has been subject to much discussion in Fontaine. Nobody remembers who it had once belonged to or why the ancient dragon protected it so jealously. It is said that if the Chief Justice would to stare at it for a long while, it would be sure to rain right after. Oh, how beloved that person must've been.

[coffee-scrub]

So, won't you please spare me indignity?

And won't you please give me some decency?

And won't you please call it, if our time is through?

[shadydruid]

✨️Illusory magic has the power to conound the senses, to render the impossible into reality, and to allow expression of that most magical attribute of all: imagination ✨️

Gale Oracle Card is ready! 6/10-13 cards ready!

[shewolfofvilnius]

current brainrot: Origin Karlach romances Gale, who chooses the crown - and at the epilogue party, she chooses to ascend in order to cure her engine and be with Gale (playing origin Karlach or Astarion and romancing him are the only times he'll directly intervene to 'cure' them).

GUARANTEE that she would wind up becoming the Goddess of Gratitude. That's ultimately her entire personality arc in the game. And is the NATURAL counterpart to Gale's portfolio, ambition.

[taikova]

(work in progress) hippie activities

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Who else has also given him a strange bun only to find out it's a hated gift

[siphersaysstuff]

dumbest

motherfucker

on the goddamn planet