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Shout out to Greed for maintaining being a sassy teenage shit even as he’s being burned alive by lava.

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hi i’m Greed and you’re watching jackass *burns alive in a pool of lava*

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some greeds from last night (and the infamous “tag yourself” chart)

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ling is just. what a fucking icon. what a man. gets caught by some mysterious evil organisation to be used as a vessel for one of their vaguely demonic buddies and he’s like “great, hit me the fuck up with those vaguely demonic powers”. disappears for several episodes only to yell at the vaguely demonic entity possessing his body about the power of friendship on his return. forms such a strong bond with said vaguely demonic entity that they smoothly pass around control of the body in the middle of combat for maximum asskicking potential. i love ling yao.

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an AU of an AU? or something? i dunno. 

what happens during the final battle in the Soul Eater anime fascinates me, so i had the idea that Ed discovers he also has weapon powers, but keeps it a secret until the Stomach arc, when he and Ling are alone and have to fend for themselves. he has no choice but to let his secret out, and Ling (also a meister and separated from his weapons, Lan Fan and Fuu) helps him awaken fully into a Sword. its helpful for the fight against Envy, and later when Ed ends up on the run with a Greed-possessed Ling.

Ling was supposed to be the Black*Star equivalent in this AU but i never got around to drawing it. these were quick doodles, so hes in his canon outfit here.

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I bet that after years of reading Ed’s messy handwriting in half-assed reports, Roy is so shocked when he receives a letter from Resembool after the Promised Day, and it’s the nicest, neatest cursive handwriting he’s ever seen before, yet the letter says it’s from Ed. It’s even addressed “Dear Colonel Jackass”. He’s convinced Ed got Winry to write the letter for him. But then, next time they meet up and Roy brings it up, Ed confirms that the letter really was from him, and notes how he’s so happy to finally be able to write with his dominant hand. Roy wishes he’d gotten the kid his arm back while he was still obligated to fill out military reports. 

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I have an idea for the next Disney movie. It’s about a young Chinese princess who falls in love with an enchanted talking suit of armor.  Are all of the supporting characters talking cats and a tiny, sassy panda? Why yes, yes they are.  Do the talking cats have multiple musical numbers? Um…duh. Is the villain a dark sorcerer who uses his wicked alchemic arts to disguise himself as a tall, handsome prince to trick the young princess into thinking she might really be in love with him, even though he’s actually a two-foot-tall blond gremlin? Seems likely.  In the end, does the princess find a way to break the spell and turn the armor back into a real boy? Well, it is a Disney movie.

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I had to do this (x). 

*please dont repost my works on other sites~!*

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* Seeing the two brothers fills you with determination.

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it was time to finally learn how to draw leather pants. 

even ed is pleased!

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aaa so many new followers! hello! welcome! thanks!! 

i wish i had more to show but after the drag show i went to on friday ive been sick… working on a bunch of drawings tho! 

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no but vine famous alphonse elric who has a popular series of vines of ‘a day in the life of my brother ed’

discreetly holding his phone so ed doesn’t see it as theyre walking down the street and a guy walks past them and al says “ed i heard that guy call you short” “WHAT COME BACK YOU HERE YOU PRICK IM GONNA RIP YOUR HEAD OFF” there’s a lot of shuffling, a man screaming in the background and al crying ‘brother no!’

“ed do it for the vine” “no al” “do it for the vine” “i said no” “do it for the vine” ed does a triple backflip on a railing. al adds dubstep music.

al whispering to the camera “ed really hates milk”. cuts to ed reading, super focused. al hands him a cup “here have some water” “thanks al” ed takes a sip without looking, spits milk all over his book. cuts to al running and screaming with ed chasing him and shouting in the background

“SMACK CAM” ed punches al in the face on instinct. last three seconds are ed apologizing over and over

“hey ed can you eat that hot dog in three seconds? “FUCK YEAH WATCH THIS”

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i cant be the only one who thought of this

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what she says: I’m fine

What she actually means: It fucking sucks that Greed was the only good Homunculus and was an absolute pure cinnamon roll too good for this world who only wanted friends and the moment he makes some he sacrifices himself to save them but that little shit stain Pride gets to technically be reborn as a child while Greed turn to dust,I pray he’s in heaven with all his friends who were killed by Wrath.

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Okay here’s the reasons why i also ship greed/ling romantically: it’s fuckin’ hilarious Hear me out please

 I only ship them like that in the situation that they still have a body together and that means super weird interactions, otherwise I don’t feel for it (amsorry)

 like showing romantic affection 

So that means kissy-kiss and “I love you"s with the other person. But you know….they don’t really and can’t….they have 1 body…. 

 This means they’ll need to opt for some strange form of narcissism 

 They’re just caressing their own face and hugging their own bodies and saying that they love themselves 

Best of all: The reaction to all of this from other characters 

 Greedling does PDA. Characters are weirded out, they try to hush them down so they won’t attract unwanted attention. Too late, a person saw and they’re deeply disturbed.

Here’s some super hasty doodles to demonstrate this:

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Are Homunculus Years Like Dog Years?

OK so I was thinking…

For being over 100 years old, you would think the homunculi would be really wise, sage-like and emotionally mature. Collected and calm, like Hoenheim and Father. But for having lived for literally hundreds of years, they still largely act emotional, immature, and somewhat ridiculously. 

This makes me think that maybe homunculi age and mature differently from humans, given their philosopher’s stones and near-immortality. Perhaps they age on a longer timeline like the Asari from the Mass Effect series, if you’ve seen it: for the first few hundred years they are still in their “maiden phase” where they like to party and be wild, etc, only settling down around 500-600 yrs old, and becoming wise matriarchs even later. Or you could think of it like dog years, but longer instead of shorter. 

And if you think about it, the older homunculi DO seem more mature than the younger ones.

From oldest to youngest:

1. Pride

2. Lust

3. Greed

4. Envy

5. Sloth

6. Gluttony

7. Wrath ***Note on Wrath: Because Wrath started out as a human, remembers his upbringing, doesn’t regenerate and essentially ages and lives like a normal human, it seems possible that he could be exempt from the pattern. Maybe it’s mostly driven by the pseduo-immortality.

Sloth and lust are rather serious characters; Greed less so, but he’s clearly more emotionally mature than Envy the Jealous, and Sloth and Gluttony are so undeveloped that they seem simpler and more childlike than the others. 

SO, there seems to be a linear relationship between the ages of the homunculi and their level of psychological maturity.

So let’s look at a possible ratio. The EXACT ratio isn’t important, so long as it’s a believable approximation of their maturity in human years. For example, a pretty clean ratio is 10:1, where 10 homunculi years is about the equivalent of 1 human year. 

To illustrate, let’s take Gluttony. He’s a little over 100 years old, but let’s call him 100 to make it easy. If 10 homunculus years = 1 human year, that would make Gluttony a little over 10 years old in terms of his psychological maturity in human terms. This actually matches up pretty well with his behavior, which is very innocent, childlike, obedient, and emotional. 

That would make the others…

1. Pride (>300) = >30 yrs old

2. Lust (~250) = 25 yrs old

3. Greed (<200) = <20 yrs old

4. Envy (~175) = ~17.5 yrs old

5. Sloth (~150) = ~15 yrs old

6. Gluttony (>100) = >10 yrs old

The exact ratio may not be spot-on, and people would still mature at different rates, but on the whole, it holds up somewhat well. Gluttony is as innocent as they come, Sloth acts hilariously like a lazy teenager who doesn’t want to do anything but sleep all day, Envy is immature and self-centered, Greed is full of cockiness and over-confidence/arrogance, Lust, in what little time she gets, seems calmer than her younger siblings, and Pride by far comes off as the most serious and mature.

Riding the theory out, this ratio would give homunculi the psychological maturity of those in middle age around 400-600 years old, and they’d be “elderly” and wiser after that. Of course, this isn’t a lifespan per se, because they won’t die from old age, they would theoretically just get increasingly older and wiser!

Anyway, this brings up another question: What are the homunculi like when they are first created? Perhaps they are unintelligent, feral and purely instinctual versions of their sins. 

Another possible pattern is that the older they are, the more human their appearance. Gluttony and Sloth are both the youngest, and they both have bodies that are obviously inhuman. Maybe they are beastly when first created, and slowly come to look more human with age. 

TO SUMMARIZE THE HEADCANNONS DISCUSSED:

A. Homunculi mentally age more slowly than humans, so that 10 homunculi years = 1 human year, or something close to that

B. The older homunculi are, the more they come to physically resemble humans

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I;M DYING

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