#Fullmetal alchemist perfect

[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.

[hyolks]

smug bastard

[madootles]

fma fma fma

[blueskittlesart]

very quick edward bc i got my dad to start watching fmab with me :)))

[cadriox]

He is gold but I’ll always be flesh

Inspired by Six Letters written by @lalazeewrites

[ahbogman]

stay.

edwin week day 5!!!

a manga panel redraw for this one. yes I’m a day behind,, no I’m not freaking out about it,,,,

@503week

[fmae]

Nendoroid Edward Elric: Final Episode Ver. Figure

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

Hi me again *hands this to you and scuttles back to my corner* I love your ageswap AU it hits just right.

hey op how does it feel to be owed my ENTIRE LIFE

[astraskylark]

Some moments in television just stick with you forever cause why am I thinking of the scene where the ending song seamlessly starts playing as Winry cries her heart out after Ed tells her that her hands are meant to save people's lives???

[just-trying-my-best-everyday]

Top 10 FMA manga pages.

[eldrigeonsss]

in reality shrimp aren't really that different from god

I Know What You Are

[yay-kimblee]

[alchemyagain]

dare i say the only thing that could improve fullmetal alchemist would be (vaguely) historically accurate costuming

[girls-with-boys-names]

More FMAB oc doodles featuring Casther who belongs to @decoloraa and Sev who belongs to @jemwolf ✨

[nihidea-art]

The first of my Sins series: Envy!

Keep an eye out for the other ones 👀 Or, if you enjoy my art, join my Patreon!

[Greed] [Pride]

[autistic-rizz-king]

it's been a little over a day since I've finished Fullmetal Alchemist: brotherhood and I think all the adrenaline dopamine and serotonin from finishing the last episode has worn off. beacause no. I do not think I need to watch the entirety of the 2003 show to then watch a movie ab Ed traveling to an alternate reality just to see more Ed and Al. nor do I think I want to watch a completely random side quest movie they go on in the middle of brotherhood that isn't even considered cannon just to see more Ed and Al. and I definitely don't need to watch the three live action remake movies. Ed, Al and their friends brought me so much joy and I am content with ending my journey with them here.