#03 sloth

[tetitous]

Looking back on it, I believe Psyren in FMA 2003 is a narrative foil to 2 characters : Roy and Sloth. I'll mostly focus on Roy because that's really the parallel that talked to me the most.

I mean, once you think back on it, Psyren being a narrative foil to Sloth almost feels obvious : Alphonse immediately compares her to his mom, and immediately assumes she can do no wrong based on that first impression. That, plus her alchemy is heavily water-based.

But speaking of water, now onto fire: why Roy?

Well, Roy appears to the Elric brothers as an adult who is always one step above them. Almost immediately Edward shifts from admirative and respectful of him to doubtful and hostile after feeling like he was used once. A sort of rivalry gets established between the two. What's more, both Roy and Psyren are heavily associated with seductiveness, which in the 2003 version, is as much of a truth as it is a mask they wield to fool the people who underestimate them.

Most importantly though, is their goal: they both play cat and mouse with Edward, but also genuinely seem to want to help him. They both treat him half like a child, half like an adult, and tend to leave him extremely confused. Ed doesn't really seem to know for sure what to do with either of them.

But then, what does that parallel serve? Well I think Psyren makes it pretty clear: "what you think to be true of this character isn't necessarily so."

What is Psyren's goal? It is not to steal to gain money for herself, or to steal just to save a few establishment who might collapse in a few months. It's never made perfectly clear if her goal is actually the one stated, but it seems that she wants to give her dying city a few last moments of glory before it completely sinks into oblivion. The city WILL die, mind you, there is no stopping that, but she makes it go like a dying star : like a bright light everyone can see rather than a dull flicker no one noticed. She makes her city something to be remembered.

And accordingly, Roy's goal is not as obvious as it seems at first. He definetly tries to gain rank and power in the military, but why does it do it? To change the female uniform? That's obviously a stupid reason to want to go to the top. And why does he help Ed and Al ? Is it just for personal game? To be able to use them in need?

No. All he does, he does because of what happened in Ishbal. He wants to make sure something like it never happen again. Or does he? No, what he does is to give himself a justification for still being alive, to give meaning to the meaningless deaths he caused. It's both completely selfish and selfless at once. And the reason he helps Ed and Al? It's not about them, it's about the Rockbells, it's about Winry who he made an orphan. By helping the brothers he tries to correct that injustice he's responsible for. Or is it? Isn't it just because once he got to the door of their house, ready to take the blow of anything that gets thrown back at him, he instead faltered ? And that he still needed an excuse to be there?

[randombook4idk]

03 edward:

03 sloth:

[frank-archer-is-my-beloved]

Sloth and Greed

[monsterluvgirl]

Sloth (Sketched & Colored)

FMA ‘03’s version of Sloth was pretty simple enough because she represented the deceased mother of the Elric Brothers, Trisha Elric. Completely the opposite of her canon counterpart but rather apathetic and manipulates water.

Now with Brotherhood’s version of Sloth was pretty much A PAIN in the ass to draw because of his big muscles. I have to look up some Hulk references to help me a little but turned out just pretty fine in the end. Eh… I tried my best. *Shrugs.*

Fullmetal Alchemist/ Trisha & Sloth (c) Hiromu Arakawa

Art owned by me

Hope U enjoy~

[eelektrossfan]

Big shoutout to nightcore songs from 2007

[lotusthekat]

[ID: A digital cover art called "What I've Done", inspired by Linkin Park's song of the same name. This cover refers to a Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 AU where Al is the homunculus Wrath, created in the same night as Sloth. Here, Ed stares at the viewer with a tired frown, hands curling into fists. He's mostly colored white with the exception of his red coat. Behind him, Sloth and Wrath are drawn with white ink against the black background, the only colors being Sloth's purple eye and the homunculi's Ouroboros marks. Sloth is on the left, also staring at the viewer with an indifferent expression, even if only her eye and eyebrow are seen. Wrath is on the right and he's turned around entirely, only his back seen. That exposes his Ouroboros, located on the back of his neck. His right arm, which has transformed into a blade, also shows a red scar; that's Ed's lost arm. Finally, the title distributes itself above each character, from left to right: What (Sloth) I've (Ed) Done (Wrath). Only "I've" is colored red. /End ID]

I do not guarantee an official final product out of this AU, but I would love to write a complete story one day. Maybe I'll just post the concepts on their own for now, though.

If you're curious about the AU, feel free to check the #homunculus al tag on my blog :) some posts are kind of outdated but it's still the same premise for the most part.

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[ghostcorner3amedition]

You will all come to understand my vision

[aubodied]

rewatching fmab with a friend and they only just then realized that hohenheim and paracelsus are based on the Same fucking guy. anyways i found that hilarious and decided to draw the ugly motherfucker (03 hohenheim) as a broom and it spiraled from there

[argon000]

[deithe]

nothing will ever hit as hard as ed causing a civil uprising in liore in 03, and coming back to the city towards the end of the series to see how many people died and suffered because of his pride and arrogance believing he was saving the people of liore through "liberation". 03 fucks so hard in showing ed fucking up unbelievably bad while in the military, and being forced to confront that

[coockie8]

Why can Roy not transmute the water that gets onto his gloves into Oxygen and Hydrogen gas? Two substances that are highly flammable? Does his Alchemy just not work like that, because it sure sounds like that's how it's supposed to work; like his flame alchemy literally works by him sky rocketing the oxygen in the air, so why can he not transmute water into Hydrogen and Oxygen? :/

I am aware that the reason the water is his "weakness" is because it gets his gloves wet, and you can't make a spark with wet gloves, but Ed is literally shown evaporating water off his clothes using Alchemy at one point, so it makes no sense that Roy wouldn't be able to do the exact same thing and just turn the water on his gloves into Hydrogen and Oxygen, which he could then ignite, since he gloves would then be dry.

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[randombook4idk]

rip sloth and lust you would've loved mitski😔

[auxwired]

fma 03 spoilers

the contrast between wrath and sloth between their brotherhood counterparts is SO funny to me. in 03 sloth is a beautiful woman who works a secretary job, and wrath is a little kid who was forced into joining his siblings. in comparison we have a giant dude who slept under the earth for like the last 17 years or so like a cicada and the literal Fucking president. then again, i guess bradley is still a homunculus, just not the one we thought of, and PRIDE in comparison to 03 and brotherhood is literally just a monarchial status i GUESS

[zetalial]

Sloth and Edward are quite alike really.

Both of them decided to join the military in order to obtain the philosopher's stone.

[lotusthekat]

[IDs: 1) A digital drawing, colored with black and purple tones, of Dante with two homunculi. To her right is Sloth, as of FMA 2003, so she resembles Trisha, only she wears a long dress and her hair is black. She's holding a baby in her arms. To Dante's left is a boy whose face is hidden in what is originally Al's helmet, which Dante lifts. He wears similar clothes to Ed, consisting of a black tank top and dark pants, except the homunculus also wears black fingerless gloves. There's a red scar on his right arm, which is originally Ed's.

2) A mostly colorless sketch of Ed hugging the same boy, whose face is not seen. Notably, Ed's right arm is restored, and the homunculus' is gone, as we see him bleeding out. His Ouroboros mark is located in the back of his neck. Ed, with tears in his eyes, buries most of his face in the boy's shoulder. He begs, "Please... stay with me. I can't lose another little brother." /End ID]

No sir, not over this AU :)

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