#fma is good i'm just not as attached to it as the other fans

[lollytea]

Given that Hunter was introduced to anime in the Human Realm (canon), what do you think some of his favourites would be? Any he wouldn't like as much?

Astro Boy

Voltron Defender of the Universe (the 80s one. He eats it up. Its his cocomelon)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Gus also enjoys Sci-fi type stuff so this is what they watch together <333

Sailor Moon/Cardcaptor Sakura/Whatever other cute wholesome power of friendship magical girl animes that you can think of. I just believe he loves Magical Girls. That is a headcanon that is attached to my brain like a leech.

Pokemon. He loves cute little creechurs, they're silly and they remind him of palismen <33

I imagine that he really enjoys sports anime. Especially the ones with intense homoerotic friendships. He loves Haikyu and Free, god bless. If you dare to open your mouth during Yuri on Ice, he will kill you.

As a guy who is a bit awkward, passionate about his interests, a little bit on the gnc side, and into making clothes, I think he'd like Princess Jellyfish.

I think when it comes to anime he WOULDN'T like, I think maybe....slice of life shojo high school stuff. Ones that are deeply rooted in experiences that Hunter cannot connect to. Not that he hates that stuff. He just struggles to relate. Also, as introspective, sensitive and emotionally mature as I imagine Hunter to be, I also think that his attention span cannot be held by a show that focuses on feelings/romance alone. Bro is like "I want SPACESHIPS!! I want SPORT!!! I want POKEMON!!!" There's gotta be some exciting angle to keep him entertained.

Something I'm a little unsure of is what Hunter's relationship is with gore/horror/edgy type stuff. Because we know he was a fan of Ruler's Reach, which was written by an edgelord 8 year old and was packed with gratuitous violence. Considering he was not only a teenage boy (who tend to gravitate towards depictions violence because of societal influence) but a child soldier who was unnervingly desensitized to brutality, it does make a lot of sense. Ruler's Reach also seemed to be something of a masculine power fantasy written by one boy who felt small and powerless in his own life, which connected with a boy who felt similarly. King wanted to be feared, Hunter wanted to be respected.

However, this was during the time that Hunter was trapped in a very bleak situation, one that he didn't even fully understand was bleak. And he coped by hyperfixating on a book that normalized the cruelty.

But what I wonder is, would he still feel the same way about that book now, after everything? He's been woken up to how horrific his life was until this point. He's aware of the atrocities and he's deeply uncomfortable with all of it. Things are drastically different now. Hunter is drastically different.

Personally, I think Ruler's Reach was something that comforted him when he needed it. But as he changes as a person, its just not his taste anymore.

Hunter can certainly stomach gore and violence. He's seen more disturbing sights than anything an anime can show him. But I don't think he actively seeks it out. I imagine that he prefers stuff that's lighthearted. Not that he doesn't enjoy tension/excitement/high stakes. Just not the kind of stuff that will make him extremely upset.

Like Fullmetal Alchemist for example. Absolutely amazing anime, but not something Hunter would enjoy sitting through. It's good to have fiction that makes you feel something deep in your core, the way FMA does to people. But Hunter has experienced enough real life trauma and existential horror for a lifetime. He's felt enough!!! He doesn't need to see that weird fucking dog!!!!! Leave him alone!!!!!

So ya in summary, I think he likes fun, semi-lighthearted stuff. But he doesn't really wanna watch anything that's gonna make him sit in the shower for over an hour and rethink everything. He is already mentally exhausted. He once learned made of a dead guy's bones, that's enough for him.

[midnight-rice]

@alltheoutsinfreeeee thank you for tagging me, i love talking about whatever media i'm currently obsessed with! (and may i just say you also have very good taste ^^ FMA and FFXV are both on my list of media to try out)

i uh, can't find the post of the actual prompts, but i'll follow your lead 😅

Last song: Been jumping back and forth between my own playlist of faves and Pav's, so my most recent songs were "On the Other Side of the Mirage" from Tales of Vesperia (it's so relaxing, puts me to sleep every time) and "......" from Fire Emblem Awakening (half of the YouTube comments section was people cursing the songwriters for naming the song only ellipses lol)

Last movie: It's been a hot minute since I've watched an actual movie all the way through, maybe Turning Red or one of the more recent Star Trek movies? It was probably before Christmas, at least. I started watching one of the Hobbit movies too but I fell asleep 😅

Currently watching: The Legend of Vox Machina S2!!!! My sister got me into Critical Role last year by showing me the first season, and this second season has been even better in terms of overall quality! We've also been watching campaign 2, so you can imagine how excited we were to hear that they'll be animating The Mighty Nein 😄

Currently playing: Ok this is going to be a long list, I have a habit of juggling lots of games at once. Currently my longplay game is my very first playthrough of Persona 4, accompanied by my good friends @one-bit-oat @askr (feel free to answer this prompt too guys!!!) It's been very fun so far as my introduction to the series, though I'm really slow and kinda bad at it 😅 Meanwhile my sister and I have been alternating between playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Sengoku Basara 3 in couch co-op, I'm more of a fan of the latter since I've gotten really attached to these goofy samurai. Lastly, I've been trying to catch up on some good 3DS RPG titles so I'm working on 100%ing (or close enough) Rune Factory 4 and Miitopia. RF4 has been especially fun, I love repeatedly confessing my love to pretty boys who keep turning me down because I chose to be male 😅

Current obsession: This changes constantly, like two weeks ago it would have been RF4 and one week ago it would have been pokemon TCG, but after watching Pav stream Tales of Graces f, I got nostalgic for it and have been working on my old long fic amidst some sickness. It got me out of my writer's block at least, which I'm very grateful for, now I just need to get out of my art block 😔

thanks again for the tags, other followers feel free to share your own!

[happycricketbox]

I'm not a big fan of FMA but every now and then i am reminded of this particular panel of alphonse

this is the most expression ever

[mandrake-arya]

Okay so I've never spoken about FMA in this account, not on first person, I'm always kinda shy but I think I made a quite interesting thought: at the sixth year in the fandom and the third time I fall back into the rabbit hole after having left it as a dormant fandom for a while, I finally noticed something I really, really should have noticed sooner: the parallels between my probably favorite FMA villain -I hate him but he's WONDERFULLY written- and my favorite character(s): Bradley/Wrath, and Greed and Ling, so I'm gonna share it and then disappear into the void.

Let's start.

Wrath/Bradley says he doesn't even know who is he now, if the human soul is somehow still alive or not, if Wrath is Bradley or Bradley is Wrath. Instead, Greed and Ling keep different personalities and instead of suffocating each other they learn to cohoperate and respect each other, rubbing off on each other in a good way, learning and becoming better, especially Greed (an homunculus learning so much from a human, something the other homunculi greatly despite, especially Bradley himself, even though he's the only other human based homunculus.)

Bradley says he doesn't know which soul suffocated which, if the human soul was strong, if it was suffocated, he knows he was just as angry as Wrath and so they fought, and this is similar to how Ling always was greedy just like Greed (Greed himself called him that,,,), but that drew them close and helped them respect each other, instead of fighting, and so Ling managed to survive and to talk with Greed; plus, Wrath never chose anything, not really, he always was in the facility and/or with the homunculi, while Ling and Greed are all about free will??? Ling freely accepted Greed, and Greed always stood up to the Father, refusing to follow him, while Wrath never chose anything, he just followed orders.

The only thing Wrath ever chose was his wife, that made up "family", and this is maybe the only real similarity between the two human based homunculi: Greed openly chose his family, the Devil's Nest first and then Ling, Ed and the other chimeras, they were /his/ and he always was attached to them, and this put them apart again, because Wrath always refused to actually consider Mrs Bradley his real family, staying true to the homunculi, while Greed totally refused the homunculi, always staying true to his real family, his chosen family, when he had free will and memories.

And so did Ling, he always fought for his people, his country, his dreams, wanting to change things, not to stay tied to the old ways.

Wrath always despised humans despite being their leader, he always looked down on them. Greed never despised them, he respected them and he had real friends in the chimeras, he came to respect and befriend Ling, admiring humans, even while working with the homunculi, and Ling always fiercely defended them, while Wrath considered them useless despite having been one??

Ling always fought for the humanity, and Greed even let him speak back to Wrath, admiring him and the humans, and... desperately wanting to be their friend, despite his pretending, he wanted a place among them, unlike Bradley who had a place among them but despised it, seeing them only as a mean to an end.

And then there's the leadership thing, and we're talking more about Bradley and Ling here, the ruthless Fuhrer and the young prince ready to give up everything to become Emperor and protect everyone. Wrath thought that a leader should think for himself and not for the people, for the "greater purpose", seeing his people only as pawns, while Ling always firmly believed that a leader exist for his people and owns them everything, he always saw his people as people, more than worthy, he never left them behind, not when Lan Fan was hurt, not even when Foo was dying. He always fought for them and though that a ruler should be devoted to his people, he wanted to become Emperor for his people, to help them and protect them, at the point that he decided to protect /everyone/, not only his clan, in a way that Bradley would only think of as weakening -and this is the beauty of Ling's character, he instead always thought this was a strenght, the power of protecting others, instead of a weakness. He despised Bradley and his way of ruling, because a ruler so selfish and who looks down at his people isn't worthy. He sees the ruler as the protector of the people, not the people as a mean to an end for the ruler.

And then let's think about the physical confrontations of the two homunculi: in the end, they always were opposite, they fought lots of times. Bradley killed the first Greed's family, even making fun of him caring for them. He always despised

his "humanity" and his care for the chimeras, bc he saw through Greed's bullshit act of "I don't care" and considered him weak because of that, even if instead Greed was /strong/ because of his relationships, even if even he didn't saw it, they gave him the strenght to cut off the ties with the homunculi, not just once but twice, and to stand up.

He despised Bradley and his arrogance, and moreover his servility to the Father, and stood up against him even in the brief period in which they were on the same side.

And then we go to Ling. I already talked about his first confrontation with Bradley, his hate for his way to rule, the way the two leaders despite each other and consider each other weak -Bradley is selfish, Ling wants to protect everyone and hates Bradley thinking about the people as a burden-, but I think it's still super interesting their fight and their confrontation, because Ling actually manages to stand up to him and prove that he's not weakened by his people, even though he has to learn about sacrifice -that leading to him accepting to become an homunculus, but that's another story-.

The next time Bradley and Ling/Greed confront each other Greed and Ling are already one, and Bradley despise humans, and Ling talks back to him, and Greed lets him, actually showing to respect him and the human, at the point of giving Ling more freedom than expected by an homunculus, despising Bradley's arrogance instead.

And then, Greed regains his memories, and who does he goes to fight? Exactly, Bradley. Because he killed his family and he didn't give any explanation and he's hurting and he's angry because he barely remembers them but he lost them because of Braley and he hates him. And then it's both Greed and Ling against Wrath, because he actually recognizes Ling's skills as well as Greed's, and they manage to escape.

And then we go to their last fight: Greed and Ling and Foo against Wrath, and Wrath kills Foo, and both of them suffer, bc the man was Ling's family and Greed admired him, as he does with humans, and so they fight together, Greed lets Ling use all of his power and protects him, and they both fight and tell the people to go away, they both /protect the humans/, they both care.

But this is excalating in one of my usual rants about Greed so let's skip to the last thing: the death of the two homunculi.

Wrath dies in a long fight, it takes lots of them to take him down (and even if I love his last confrontation with Scar, the fight between the two nameless men, I kinda think Greed and Ling had the right to deal the final blow), but he dies peacefully, thinking about his wife, his only choice, and maybe, only maybe, regretting that illusion of a family. He dies accepting, finally, that there's something beautiful, in the human life he could've had.

Greed dies for the others, for his family, accepting them and the idea of belonging to them, the only thing he ever wanted. He dies peacefully as well, saying goodbye to his friends, who will now have a chance: Ling will become Emperor, Ed will defeat the Father. He dies knowing himself and what he wanted, he dies whole, without regretting the life he's had, just happy that he's had it and that he can call them his friends. Both the homunculi die peacefully, but while Bradley kinda remains detached from humans, even accepting the idea that his human life wasn't so bad (because he never fully embraced it), Greed gives himself totally to his friends, sacrificing himself and dying satisfied, happy. In the end, almost human.

Also I don't know how to end rants but Bradley was number 12 at the facility and Ling is the 12 prince of Xing and this isn't actually something but I still think it's kinda interesting so if you're still here at the end of this rant CONGRATS

[sirenascales]

Hello friend!! I'm so very sorry for the late answer; I went to sleep yesterday after sending my message and was very busy all day long 🥲. Really wanted to asnwer this before going to sleep again though because talking to you about FMAB induced some serious brainrot 😭😭.

For me it was the same, I first watched FMA, then FMAB 🤩. I am kind of emotionally attached to FMA since it was the first of the two I knew, but in the way you may be attached to some very weird AU 😂✌🏼. I also watched like??? the latter half, then FMAB and then the first half of FMA?? Don't ask hahaha.

Oh yeeeeah, another RoyxRiza fan 😭💕. Those two left a permanent mark on me, they are 1) goals and 2) what I wished my parents to be if I were an anime character 🤧.

Oooh, very good choices! 😌 My irl bestie that watched FMAB with me back then is also a huge Greeling fan (that's what she calls him, hehe; I agree, they count as one 😙).

I also also love all of them dearly 🥰, but as the true emo teen I was evolving into back then, my all time love is Envy 🙂❤️ (I'm sorry). But also Greeling, Lust, Roy and Winry in no specific order 🥰.

Sorry for writing so much, tell me if it is too much! 😖

No, you're fine, babe, I promise! I understand we all get busy AND i don't mind long asks in my inbox ok 🥺

And ugh!! The amount of trust and loyalty that riza and roy have for each other is just *chefs kiss* like... truly goals

And please... i definitely see envy's appeal like hes a hottie? And i definitely love all the humunculi because they were designed so great but i have to say, after greed, wrath is a close second likeeee (him taking down that tank had me screaming honestly lmfao)

You are making me wanna watch it AGAIN like i dont have any other animes on my list to watch 😭