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Fullmetal Alchemist 2003EP45 - A Rotted Heart

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thinking about how wrath's arc in 03 ends with him begging for a way to do human transmutation so he can bring his mother (sloth, trisha) back and then losing his arm and leg to the gate; and ed—who had insisted that homonculi weren't people, who originally wanted wrath to give him back his limbs and insisted that wrath didn't have a mother, who got hit with wrath screaming at him "she was your mother too!"—ed's last act before he sacrifices himself to get al back, is to ask rose to take care of wrath and bring him to resenbool where ed knows wrath will be cared for. ed's eldest half brother is gone, he is about to sacrifice his existence to give his younger brother a chance to live, and i think that by sending wrath to resenbool he is in effect acknowledging wrath as a brother as well. he can no longer call wrath (or envy for that matter) an interloper or fake, and i think that by extension he is accepting that when he killed sloth, he killed a person; he killed his mother again. wrath himself called her their mother—after accepting that he doesnt want to be human, ironically, he also recognizes ed as a person now, instead of a body to steal! and he does so because of the agony ed has chosen to inflict on both of them! recognition of the other through the ability to inflict and share pain.

full circle for both! they are both their mother's child, they are both cognizant of the other's personhood and struggle, they share the same pain and love and agony. all is one, one is all.

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a quick doodle of ed and rosa. someone reminded me how much i love the 2003 series. again. 

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I’m not really into ranking the homunculi in terms of strongest but I’m just going to put it out there that I think that Sloth is the most dangerous. 

Her watery body is just as effective as Greed’s ultimate shield because pretty much any attack will do nothing, it basically through her. It’s actually really cool, because attempting to attack her will just wear you out, as each strike will go through water and slow you down, not even displacing her whereas with Greed at least you can restrain him, even if it does no damage. I love the idea that confronting Sloth literally saps your energy. And she’s willing to sap your will to fight as well through emotional manipulation. 

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Homonculi art drafts

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i really applaud fma 03 for not making sloth "lazy" but instead the embodiment of apathy

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Thinking about the homunculi and the potential for their appearances to be more in-line with the uncanny valley than with actual human appearance.

Like, the uncanny valley describes the aesthetic of anything that is humanoid but not quite human. And I feel like it would have been really cool to lean into this more with the homunculi. Obviously this wouldn’t work with human-based homunculi (like Wrath and Greedling), but the other ones?

I’m talking Sloth and Gluttony falling into the uncanny valley because they have innately monstrous features and real humans don’t look like that. I’m talking Lust and Greed falling into the uncanny valley because they’re too pretty in a way that’s absolutely not human. If you were a teacher at Pride’s school, you might think that Selim is an adorable, perfect little child. Almost too adorable and perfect. And we already know that Envy’s humanoid form is an illusion, so there’s no way they could look like an authentic human.

What I’m saying is, if an ordinary human stared at a homunculus for too long, they should be able to know that something is terribly wrong. They’d feel uneasy; by focusing too pointedly, the human could see through the homunculus’s disguise and notice the parts of them that are not human—whether it be because the homunculus is too grotesque or too beautiful.

Either way, it leaves the human terrified.

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the day lan fan’s character songs are translated to english i will die peacefully

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