#heart made fullmetal

[cadriox]

He is gold but I’ll always be flesh

Inspired by Six Letters written by @lalazeewrites

[qtipkyutip]

Finished watching FMAB lately and frankly, erm, obsessed? Uhhh anyways have the Elric brothers……. UH, I might have a crush on both of them both at once lols….

[tobys-multiverse-official]

Mothra was surrounded by her usual bodyguards, looking as regal as ever. She stood heads above them at 7 feet tall.

((For Edward.))

...Unfortunately, an injured blonde teenager would find his way into Mothra's domain, being carried by a rather large suit of sentient armor.

"Please help us...! Brother's injured!"

The teenager groaned, coughing up blood as he held a bloodsoaked metal arm against his chest. A massive slash wound ran from left shoulder to right hip, and it looked pretty deep.

[anichibicore]

unfading sin

[intcritus]

edward elric. age is verse dependent ( but rn he's 24 ). alchemist.

the icarus -- edward's tale is one of reaching for the stars, a study of equivalent exchange and just what it means to be human. in the heart of grief, he and his brother sought to bring back their mom after her passing but instead, they met truth ( god ) and in doing so, they lost parts of themself, or in alphonse case, all of him except his soul. a harrowing tale of losing, of fear, of learning to trust but ultimately, to never covet what it's not his to reach for.

and though in the end, edward loses his ability to insta-transmute, his ability to still do alchemy, to learn xingese alkahestry, and other types, he set off to explore, to broaden his horizons so to speak. it feels a little surreal to be away from home, but this isn't the first time and it'd hardly be the last.

tdlr; this is post everything, but i totally write ed during the events of fmab.

[fullmetall]

@feuhrer said: i'll never be a parent, i don't think.

' WELL, YOU COULD'A FOOLED ME, ' young alchemist scoffs, ' since you're always actin' like you're ours. '

ed thinks of his own father hohenheim, of the exhausted expression before he'd turned and walked out the door. he'd always been like that, which is to say that he'd always been distant. try as he might've, fatherhood hung off of him the way his coats hung off of his sons. ed hadn't known that was going to be the last time he'd see hohenheim. ever trusting, he'd readily believed that hohenheim would return in a matter of days.

days turned to weeks, which turned to months, and then years. mom gets sick. the word 'father' grows sour on ed's tongue.

ed looks up into tired eyes colored with amusement despite the tension around them. ' for what it's worth, i think you'd be decent, if you changed your mind. ' a rare softness from eldest elric. he looks away, immediately harshening sentiment with ' don't get a big head about it, though. - i said decent, not good. '

[astrxealis]

hi i'm trying to be normal but it's so hard when you're so crazy over evangelion... and kawoshin.....

[matsubrokq]

i love fma so fucking mych everytime i rewatch it i feel like swallowing a lit cigarette

[redspaceangst]

omw to start crying in the work bathroom because i finished brotherhood (again) and it still just keeps stamping me down like the first time (im actually crying this isnt just an "IM CRYINGGGG" no im literally sobbing typing this)

[fatexchanged]

tag dump (ic edition) !

[bardkin]

super late & i have work tomorrow, but like. i am not over how i was (poorly, at first) exploring plurality in my characters & writings Years before i even considered it in myself. about how a lot of it came kinda naturally, the idea of a character being more-than-one.

i've been exploring this way longer than i thought.

[heartinhands]

dont text im thinking about the last monologue in fmab now.

[choochooboss]

Happy Tumbrl anniversary to me ahah! This is an old WIP from July 2022 i never finished because the 4th page punchline didn't work out and lost motivation. I gave it a little glow up and decided to post it at last! I hope you enjoy it!

This comic was inspired by this fun and cute Emmet vs Elesa comic @spectra-bear did! This could serve as a silly prelude to it ahah!

[ohhhhbito]

a heart made fullmetal(wip)

[shadysadie]

I love that Raine got to be part of the final battle.

With as many people as Belos hurt, pretty much all the characters deserved to be there to help deliver the final blow (or final *stompstompstomp*) but short of doing a giant Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood style showdown in the middle of the castle (which would not suit this show like it did FMAB) there was just no way that everyone who deserved to see Belos destroyed was going to get that satisfaction. 

I really love that the one extra person that got to join the Owl Family for this was Raine. 

Because Raine has given absolutely everything to the revolution. Idle Scree has a fantastic video on the subject, but to sum it up, Raine went into the bard coven with the explicit goal of working their way up through the ranks and uncovering the truth behind Belos’ plans. It has taken them decades of espionage to get where they are. They cut themself off from all of their relationships, crossed moral boundaries, and even asked the woman they love to give up her life in order to take Belos down. 

So when Belos takes control of them they fight back.

While Hunter’s possession is a lot more brutal, simply because Belos specifically wanted to make Hunter suffer as much as possible, while mocking Luz and friends, Raine’s struggle is almost harder to watch.

They’re getting tossed around, their arms are getting dislocated at the very least, they’ve vomiting Belos goop, but they are still fighting with everything they have to regain control because they did not spend their life trying to take Belos down just to end up his play thing. 

Hunter had to crush his best friend with his own hand in order to break free of Belos, Raine is fighting with indignation and fury alone.

And they keep fighting.

Even without their weapon, as soon as they have enough control to get their fingers to their mouth, they cast Belos out. And after that, they could have given up. They were free. They must have been exhausted, but they are clever, probably the most clever person on the Boiling Isles, so they realize exactly what’s going to happen and they can not let that happen.

The way they fall up the stairs here shows just how hurt and tired they are. Think of what their timeline has looked like from their perspective: the Day of Unity happened, they nearly died from the draining spell, they fought through excruciating pain to save Eda as what they thought was their final act, then the eclipse ends and they are still alive, but suddenly these evil stars are attacking them, then they spend months “sequestered in a darkness like onto death” only to be awoken and have their most hated enemy take over their body. 

And through all that THEY KEEP GOING.

And again, this fight is brutal, they are basically suffocating in Belos’s flesh towards the end, and they still don’t give up.

They shatter their weapon in one last ditch effort to stop Belos, but it doesn’t work.

They lost. They were a second too late and now everything they fought for is for nothing. Belos made it to the heart. He can take control of the very Titan itself, and there is nothing Raine can do to stop him.

But even then, they don’t give up. They keep whistling, even if it’s weak, even if it doesn’t do much, they whistle to keep themself alive, because they are going to keep fighting until their very last breath.

So after all of that, the fact that they get to be one of the people who actively take Belos down…well, I think they say it best for themself…