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quinloki · 4 months

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Birthday Request Event v2024

Alright let's start off with the primary points:

1 - You do NOT have to give to get.

2 - You do not have to get to give.

3 - Read everything, there's quite a few moving parts =D

Things You Can Do During This Event:

1 - Request a story from me (see the end of the post for the format!)

2 - You can give me a gift! (see "Gifting Quin" below!)

3 - Reblog this post to be entered into a raffle!

Details below the cut!

Raffle Prizes!

-:- 1,000 words of anything you want (within reason) - can be a one-shot, can be a demand for a specific title (make me work on that title you've been dying to read more of). Just has to be One Piece related.

-:- OC Cameo - I'll plunk your OC/self-insert into a story (that is not the Host Club AU ^^; )

-:- I'll draw something for you \o/ I'm not great, but hey, free art xD

Gifting Quin!

❤️ - Pin 5$ to my shirt - it's a local-ish birthday tradition.

❤️ - Share one of my stories and leave a comment \o/ You can do this whenever, but it really makes my day, so have at!

❤️ - Gift me a story, or some art 😳🥰

Ideas (please do NOT send me saucy stuff on anon or if you're under 18):

1 - Draw a scene from any of the stories you've liked! 2 - Draw Quill - by themself, or with you and/or your OC, or a One Piece character \o/ Quill can be a boy, girl, or whatever mix tickles your fancy. Have fun =D 3 - Draw what you see when you think of "Reader" for any given story. 4 - Re-write a scene for a story =O How would you tell me that scene? 5 - Write me a one-shot using the prompts below 😇 6 - Free form a ficlet, drabble, head canon, series of bullet points with ANY anime character and either a "Reader" or Quill =3 Spread your wings beyond One Piece (Wind Breaker, YYH, FMA, MHA, Habin hotel, etc - go wild 🥰)

Feel free to ask me ANYTHING if you're unsure of something

Birthday Bash Requests \o/

Finally, the part you've all been waiting for XD

*** Anon Requests Will be SFW only ***

-:- Give me some reader vibes as applicable (gender/height vibes) -:- Give me a blorbo (or blorbos) - One Piece only please ❤️ -:- Pick something from each of the lists below and then submit your ask! (any items not specified in the ask will be my choice 😇 cause it's my birthday celebration XD )

Pick 1 Vibe: SFW SFW dark SFW Yandere Blorbo NSFW Consensual NSFW dubcon/dark NSFW Yandere Blorbo NSFW noncon Writer's Choice (please include squicks if you pick dark or dub/non con options)

Pick 1 AU: Canon Universe Mafia AU Fantasy AU Cowboy AU Government Mandated Marriage AU Soul Mates AU Modern AU Hallmark AU Mythical Creatures AU Vampire AU Coffee Shop AU A/B/O AU Monster AU (you can say what kind of monster you prefer) BDSM AU Host Club AU Grandline Metro AU (Quicksand, A Light Touch, Heart of Gold, Thrice Prophesized are set in this AU) Writer's Choice (spin that wheel!)

Pick 1 Prompt: Angst / Bad End Aphrodisiac - sex pollen, drugged food, struck by needle, devil fruit Bath/Shower/hotspring Body writing (icing, ink, blood, etc.) Caught in the Act Contractually Obligated Creature x Human Date / First date Dungeon Erotically charged fight Experienced w/virgin Forced Proximity - box, flight, cell, bondage, get-a-long shirt Friend’s hot older sibling Fuck or die Lazy morning sex Long-Term Established Relationship Only One Bed Outside Pliant When Horny Role-play Roughed Up Size Difference (I write this a lot, but I do love it.) Soft/Comfort Sugar daddy/mama The hat rule They were… coworkers/neighbors/etc. Trapped in a Room Trying Again (exes getting back together) Unresolved sexual tension Wounded Writer's Choice

***Requests will be accepted from 6/1 - 7/10 - and posted from 6/1 - 7/31***

Gifts are accepted from 6/1 until whenever \o/ Don't feel pressured to get them in by 7/20 🥰

#birthday request event 2024 #june-july event

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bythepen98 · 2 years

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[Long || Pinned]

I typically draw whatever interests me depending on the day, but I probably should've made a list first to make it clear what those interests are.

Note: I'm very fic reliant. I could like a show but what REALLY gets me into them is the fan content bc they tend to flesh things out more, in a way that I can understand, and make me appreciate characters/events that were not properly explored in canon. Idk if that's gonna be an issue but I'm sure there are elitist people out there who only claim canon content while bashing everyone else for enjoying fan theories and aus.

🚫Oh and some proship warning, I guess? (I've seen other artists include it so..) Excluding my notps, I'd read any story with ships I probably didn't know existed so long as: I already like one or two of the characters in the ship, the thought of them together makes me curious instead of repulsed, and if the story itself looked too interesting for me to ignore.🚫

Shows/Series I'd make or already made FA for:

MHA

Haven't caught up to the manga yet but loosely following the anime. Read quite a bit of lengthy Deku centric fics, and that + what I've gotten so far from the show are what fuels my headcanon aus when I draw them.

Naruto

Tbh I only watched the og kids Naruto when I was young and any shippuden knowledge I have is a mix of posts from other fans, Google, and fics. Already said this before in an older post but I read a lot of time travel/fix its so I just assume that when similar events are included in more than 2 timetravel fics (if it's still set in naruto's timeline and not like, minato's or pre konoha), then that's probably what happened in canon. I also just Google any shippuden powers or characters I'm not familiar with, which is quite a lot but it works for me.

ATLA

Finished it years ago. Memories are vague but posts from other fans and canon adjacent fics help me remember.

Finished the books years ago, probably before or around the same time as ATLA. Only properly watched 5/8 of the movies. Heavily read a lot of fics. Memories of the og content is vague and sometimes I'm not sure if what I know is canon or just widely loved fanon (like the Black library).

SVSS

A MESS.....I loved it. I love the fancontent more though ngl.

Mob Psycho

Haven't seen season 3 yet but I highly enjoyed the previous seasons. I actually first watched Mob and MHA around the same time so I have a soft spot for them.

Demon Slayer

Enjoyed it. Gotta finish season 2 first

JJk

Loved season 1. Planning to watch the movie soon.

FMA

Finished it. GOAT anime.

Basically I just want to draw all my fav shonen boys (eventually). My fav action manhwa boys too. Dk when it'll happen so we'll have to see.

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🩷 Ships

Deku ships, though my main ones are:

Bakugo x Deku

Todoroki x Deku

Shinsou x Deku

Shigaraki x Deku

Dabi x Hawks

Todoroki x Bakugo

Kaminari x Jirou

Shinsou x Kaminari

Toga x Ochaco

Unironically, dfo x Inko

Naruto ships

Shikamaru x Naruto

Kakashi x Naruto

Gaara x Naruto

Naruto x Hinata

Sasuke x Naruto

Sakura ships

Sasuke x Sakura

Kakashi x Sakura

....let's just include the important uchiha characters x Sakura

Shikamaru x Sakura

Sasori x Sakura

Ino x Sakura

Kakashi x Obito

Shikamaru x Temari

Sai x Ino

Lee x Gaara

Jiraiya x Oro

Minato x Kushina

Hashirama x Madara

Tobirama x Madara

Zuko x Katara

Sokka x Zuko

Zuko x Mai

Harry Ships

Tom x Harry

Harry x Draco

*insert slytherin here* x Harry

Weasley twins x Harry

Harry x Luna

Harry x Hermione

Hermione Ships

Draco x Hermione

Tom x Hermione

*Insert slytherin here* x Hermione

Weasley twins x Hermione

Harry x Hermione

Unironically, Viktor x Ron, Ron x Pansy, *insert Slytherin here* x Ron

Harry x Pansy

Blaise x Ginny

Ginny x Luna

James x Regulus

James x Snape

Snape x Lily

🚫remember me liking time travel aus? Make of that what you will//Marauders Era🚫

Luo Binghe x Shen Yuan

Luo Bingge x Shen Jiu

Mobei Jun x Shang Qinghua

Teru x Mob

Demon Slayer canon ships

Tanjiro x Inosuke

ot3

Sukuna x Megumi

Maki x Nobara

FMA canon ships

....these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head. Will just make edits in the future if I want to add more.

#pinned intro #pinned tweet #interests #long read

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chibivesicle · 1 year

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Hey!

I know I’ve already left a few asks here(I just love your meta okay?) and I had an idea- I saw a comment on the r/Trigun subreddit that Stampede should have picked up where the 98 anime left off, and after reading your thoughts on how you would fix Stampede, here’s my idea; Trigun Stampede but instead of a “reimagining” it’s a direct sequel to the 98 series but pulls from Maximum and instead of just picking and choosing stuff it keeps MOSTLY faithful but reworks and maybe streamlines different parts so it fits in with the timeline of the 98 anime and where it ended, picking up where the last episode of the anime left off.

I just wanted to know your thoughts and how you would make it work?

Hello there,

Thanks for another question! I honestly, would have preferred a full redo of the manga, but maybe keeping the first 5 episodes of the '98 with world building "filler" episodes and then dove into a more manga accurate story. The beauty of those first 5 were it takes him until that 5th episode to draw his gun and fire. The build up and tension was perfect and matched the side story in the manga where Vash uses a target to perfectly hit people so they don't die. I however, would add in more non-canon plot points with Meryl and Milly to keep the magic sauce that was Vash, Wolfwood, Meryl and Milly. These are easy tweaks that could have been added into a refreshed version. Honestly, the quartet character dynamics was great.

The '98 anime did the best with what it could do, but a more streamlined less wandering version of Trigun Maximum would likely have resonated well with older fans. For example there were some random chapters that were action packed but really didn't serve the plot (especially around the Eye of Michael) and Wolfwood got some side chapters which did flesh out his character more but lead to further wandering. I think a major problem with this was the fact they either had to make a 12 episode series or 24 to match current broadcasting 'standards' which was not the case with the '98 anime operating on the considerably older model of the 26 episode season. Though in that case they were animating with cels and Studio Orange is 3D CG. I have no idea how the time/effort per episode compares.

With how long the manga was, I think Stampede needed at least 2 or 3 seasons (say minimum of the 12 episodes per season) or 2 seasons with the (12 + 12 combo like for Spy x Family etc. giving a total of 48 which, damn would likely get the job done).

It got the 'Cliff Notes' version of events and the weird pacing shows. The major problem is that the story never had time to breathe and it just needed to be longer so it could have a more natural progression. Too many things were blink and miss it or sure you totally got X b/c if you squint you'll understand a complex concept.

It is clear that the predominantly (American) English language fandom was expecting the FMA Brotherhood treatment. That was not this and I can honestly see how disappointing it was. For me, I rewatched it back in December and was pleasantly surprised at how well it held up and fun it was. Reading the manga filled in some gaps a but also left me confused and finding a more manga accurate anime would have made my happy. We all know this is not what happened. They went in a sci fi direction (confirmed by more than one interview of staff on the project) created a whole new world and concept. I have also really noticed but will have no stats to back this up; but there is a clear demographic divide on how Stampede was received. I hate to generalize, but it seems dudes who are mainly straight cis-het men, who watched the anime a long time ago (and are super anime watchers consuming way more than I do in short periods) seem to give it the most positive reviews. They say it seems the same, sure it looks different and they kinda sorta miss Milly but its fine otherwise. Maybe I'm wrong since those are also the people who - not surprisingly - have the loudest voices on the internet be it Youtube channels and general prominence. However, as soon as you shift to other viewers there is a lot more concern. Many women are upset at the poor female characterization across the board in Trigun where all of the women were made shadows of their former selves. None of my female friends who watched the original enjoyed what happened to the women in Stampede. Queer fans also seem to have a more negative view with so many of the gay, trans, non-binary aspects of the original cast now gone. [Legato, Elendira, Zazie] 'Cause Legato barely appeared and his huge crush on Knives is not the same as in the manga. Elendira - gone and Zazie hasn't gotten good characterization as well. I'm not saying all people of one demographic can be correlated with their feelings towards it, but it does seem to have general vibes. And it is hard to tell something like this without a statistically robust analysis but it is what I've noticed. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm toodling around in my small patch of the web but that's what I've observed. Not many straight cis het men are like, "Oh yeah, I really noticed how the female characters are either dead mother figures or cute uwu waifus or literal children. I wonder how other viewers who miss strong female representation now feel?"

I'm not here to stoke a culture war and virtue signal or anything like that. Nor am I falling into the woke SJW whatever you call it. I've sat through enough actual [and incredibly depressing] seminars about studies on the role of diversity and representation in fields (mine specifically being STEM) and when I learned that for women to have proper representation in biology textbooks, it would take another 100 years, I cringed. When you learned at the current rate it would take 500 years for black scientists to be properly represented - it - just - well, fuck. Feel free to think about this for any group that are not cis-het white men. And then feel icky and sad.

Now, is this fair to place such high standards on a product made in a specific cultural context for entertainment? I mean, likely not, the whole point is to have fun and make money through merch.

Buuuuuuuttttt . . . .

I know that diversity in media has a long way to go and it was sad to see a diverse manga lose that diversity in the more recent version. Until media companies and production studios and teams 'get it' they won't realize that there is a market for it. Which is hilarious since the original was way more diverse and interesting than Stampede. Seriously, why are there no black people in Stampede? This leaves me scratching my head in confusion since Kekkai Sensen has an even more diverse cast! Nightow clearly writes these types of characters on purpose. It didn't get lost when Bones did the first two seasons of Kekkai Sensen. Hell, the inherent diversity of Kekkai Sensen is literally written into actual dialogue in the chapter/OVA King of the King of the Restaurants.

I didn't mean to fall into a rabbit hole, but I'm really thinking there are going to be very different responses and 'fix-it' solutions for what fans had wanted to see or hoped they'd see with this. Okay, I'm going to shut up now. But yeah, I'd do a early '98 anime with manga hybrid as my reboot for Trigun.

#trigun stampede #trigun anime #trigun maximum #ask #answered ask

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milekael · 5 months

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Some OC yapping and opinions about AUs about to go down

The other day I found my 3DS and one of the games I had is this RPG called Fantasy Life which I played the hell out of when I was a kid and I been thinking about replaying it.

So anyway I am doing that and for RPGs I like to make/adapt OCs into them than just make myself. SO late in Street Cats another main character is introduced called Trigal who I am obsessed with yet can share so little about sobs. But anyway because I like him and I don't like to separate Laurel and Olive from each other, I decided to make him in the game!!

And man looking at my usually furry characters as humans makes me go teehee is fun :3 So between that and the game really making me visualiza his storyline as a Paladin who then finds a new path I decided to draw my boy in some fantasy/medieval AU

(For reference I also added his usual design lol)

And made me think about like... I do like to have some sort of human AU with these characters is just that everything I can think of is kind of boring LOL

LIKE OKEY SO THIS IS THE THING ABOUT STREET CATS RIGHT?? They are basically humans, their anatomy is overall very human and their cat behaviors are mostly for gags. They are for all intents and purposes humans that just look like that because is both more visually interesting to the reader (Furry cats Vs the 10000th Detective series with normal humans) and is more fun for me to draw and design for lol Cats are cool!!!

Also, important to note, their setting is basically LATAM in the 80's so is not even a fantasy world lmao

Which made me realize huuh most human AUs are interesting because it puts the characters in real situations and most commonly in the modern day!!

But then in a case like this is kinda... idunno, senseless. I didn't set up Street Cats in the modern day because I thought that would be kinda boring! I like the conflict that comes out of them not having access to mobile phones let alone the internet. So if I try to think of a modern AU is not like their roles change significantly enough to be fun and instead it just adds the "This is the reason why the story isn't here lol". Same with medieval AU, if they are practically humans anyway then there is no reason why to make them furries be here or in medieval Europe lol

And is fun to think about because when I think "Well, DnD AU" then I realize that what makes it interesting is making characters anything else BUT humans!! Or if you have a human, is in contrast to the rest being non-humans.

And to further proof, I realize the one Human!AU of my characters I really really like is the one that makes The Most Changes Possible which is passing Venture to be a human agsgsg

I am very attached to human Venture agsgshd in part because thinking of her in the modern day is fun no matter what!! Do they have super powers here too or not?? What form does the Guild take??

And anyway all of this is to say that my take on AUs is that I only really find them appealing if there is some big change but it manages to keep the essence of the characters... SO TALKING ABOUT ROYAI-

Basically thats why while I thought about Royai in One Piece, it actually doesn't appeal to me agsgsv. Like if its them doing the same as in FMA canon but with the World Government thats...... thats just SWORD lol which is a canon group in One Piece, and to write something like that I might as well just do it about Koby and Tashigi lol.

Then there is the option of making Royai pirates.... but then I lose the actual bits that make me like Royai anyways so eeeehhh whatever, is not that interesting to me anymore agsgsgshdh

Thats also why putting my OCs in FMA is also not very fun for me because at that point I might as well just write about Royai lol

I like the Beastars!AU because even if I keep Amestris and Alchemy as it is in FMA, adding the social complexities of that world of animal people to the wiwis makes them extremely interesting to me because it creates a new way to communicate stuff and Situations (tm) to put them through...

And I believe at the end of the day the point is those Situations (tm). Is there new situations where you can put them that will make them react in new, interesting ways while not changing their fundamental character??? Then if the answer is yes sign me up agdhshhs

Anyway please no one take this too seriously this is one guy's opinion over why I feel sad I can't motivate myself to draw my furries as humans from time to time lol

#yapping a lot #again don't take this too seriously #i will most likely draw my characters as humans at some point for the sake of doing it lol #is just nnnn I really like creating AUs to motivate me to be weird about it #so when it isn't giving I just go..... alright and move on #*clicking noices*#also at some point I might just post the human vers of Trigal and Venture in their own posts #because I realized this is the only time I shown them here

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the-nysh · 1 year

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... alright! i'm tired! tired of 90% of your blog being blacked out to me because i censored 'trigun' 😭 tell me, where do i begin? where do i start... consuming, this story? there's like, an anime, i know, and the... rewrite of said anime?? all based on a manga i assume??? where do i start. what do i see. what do i skip. tell me i cannot live with this hamster drip of nysh content 😭😭

...?! HOLD UP also rip to your blacklist omfg I was totally under the impression you already knew, since you were the very first to notice a while back and ask me opinionated stuff about it! x'D Fortunately I've answered a similar ask relating to your current predicament~

As you can probably guess, each 'version' of Trigun essentially has its own separate canon (the 98 anime, the manga, and the new Stampede anime; there's 3 whole cakes to enjoy here~) as different tellings of the story + characters that diverge to explore the core themes and messages in their own ways. I do not recommend skipping anything, as it all builds to the lore, world, and characters! :O (Yes, even the silly 'filler' breather eps in the 98 anime's first half all build towards the whole picture, slowly revealing bits and pieces along the way. Even the 'recap' ep at midway pieces everything about Vash's character together thru Meryl's perspective, then introduces more to reframe what's known about him in new complexity.)

But if you're familiar with the old 98 anime (as I've been since 20+yrs ago) I'd recommend a rewatch just to freshen your memory of what happens. JYB's iconic voice work for the dub makes it worth (re)watching alone. Note the anime was created before the manga was even finished, so it draws from the first few early volumes then essentially becomes its own anime-original plotline with different lore akin to how the first fma anime went for example. :O Which upon rewatching recently myself, while it def has some dated 90s bits/gags you can safely ignore, the writing's core messages, themes, intent, and character-driven growth are still very solid and satisfying, with plenty of room left open for more. The strong emotional beats hit very hard for some unsuspecting watchers - going from a seemingly silly lighthearted episodic slapstick comedy at first, to transitioning thru the tragedies of some very heavy/difficult topics later. But worth it for the hopeful, healing process of living through major loss and trauma, and recovering from suffering emotional breakdowns and depressive spirals. :') So fair warning to pace yourself with breaks if needed, without speeding/binge-watching through that kind of content (eps23-25 are where it Hurts the hardest)!

...Cause then the manga takes all those emotional beats (+ the plot & characters) even further and harder than the old anime ever could!!! 8'D That coming out of that will probably make you question your whole existence worldview. Yes, the story's one of those gems that'll probably change your life~ In ways you simply have to experience for yourself to decide what meaning/interpretation/value it holds for you.

But Stampede is completely different from the old anime, since it draws its lore from the completed manga! :O While restructuring and exploring things in a whole new way. As long as you realize that - to not compare it to the old anime (since it's not a 'rewrite' of that story at all) and see it with open eyes as its own independent artform, then you'll have a much better time. Since I'd read the manga beforehand, I really enjoyed seeing the many endgame plot elements Stampede mixed in to set up and enrich what happens. You can of course choose to go in watching blind without that manga knowledge--it's up to you, but imo there's many more layers of appreciation once you realize how much they happened to rearrange and spin into their own thing. (So personally, I'd check out the manga first so you aren't spoiled with sudden endgame elements introduced early here.) BECAUSE, the biggest telling hint is seeing the whole season's timeline as an establishing 'prelude' of sorts before one of the major story events [July City] even happens (cause in the original story--for both the manga & old anime, that incident happens before the story begins, but here it's all different lead up with modified character backstories) with plenty more to continue the manga's (Trimax's) unadapted plot later in s2. Where of course you can have preferences to how it's done, but the overall lesson here is to have patience and let Studio Orange cook, because they knew exactly what they were doing--they did their homework on many meticulous fields of Interest, with everything done with care and purpose (yes, all those conspicuous 'odd' details like the reason why Milly's not here yet- it's explained!) with genuine love for the source material. :'D

The source material which--yes, begins as the Trigun manga (2 vols) and continues renamed as Trigun Maximum (14vols) under a new publisher as a hard seinen. Which currently! The fandom's having a whole bookclub (re)reading event, so it's the perfect time to join in if you feel so inclined! 8'D For enjoying maximum emotional damage and suffering, but easier to cope, navigate, and process among a friendly and supportive group environment~ I've already read the official Dark Horse translation (easily found on most manga sites, but thankfully there's a new hardcover reprint incoming!) but currently I'm trying a reread of the overhaul fan translation instead, as I hear it's more accurate overall. :'3 Hopefully all this info helps, as I bet there's plenty of overwhelming content you may have missed out on!

#trigun #umnokorito #replies #whoa that got to be much longer than i planned #but i Understand there's a Lot!!! to be confused with so here you go #at this rate i'll be behind on the bookclub schedule but i'll manage~

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lorebird · 2 years

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hi lore hi hi hi you said hisui headcanon lore???? 👀👀👀 hisui hc lore please 👀 ty

HIIIII I was gonna draw some stuff for this but. Alas it is 6 am and god has seen fit to punish me for my hubris (cramps) so I’m just gonna distract myself writing this while I wait for the ibuprofen to kick in

So this is like. Completely out there bc it’s just me cherry-picking the series’ worldbuilding that I enjoy (and also completely changing it) for the sake of self indulgence <3

The Celestica people lived in ancient Hisui and were part of a trade network with the other regions. 3000 years ago, there was a war between Galar and Kalos that resulted in the darkest day and the ultimate weapon, and the news spread all over. A few centuries later, a traveller from Hisui came across the decimated weapon and its story. Idk who this character’s gonna be, probably a new OC bc I can't think of a canon character to throw this backstory onto

A bit of hc lore regarding how the ultimate weapon works: it's powered by infinity energy, the life force of pokemon, which is canon. I elaborate on that by having all infinity energy sourced from Arceus. Every pokemon is tied to it through the infinity energy necessary to live and exist (oh my god I just thought of the implications of this for manmade pokemon holy shit that's so cool I gotta think about this more), but some have more power than others. Legendaries (and maybe some mythicals?? I can't remember them all rn), which have power over nature/reality, have some of Arceus' own creation power tied into their infinity energy. All those mons are some of Arceus' thousand arms. This power can be harnessed by the ultimate weapon, which is how Lysandre intends to make the player immortal by powering it with Xerneas (so if someone powered an ultimate weapon with Kyogre, it could manipulate the oceans; if someone powered it with necrozma, it could manipulate light; etc etc)

So anyways -- the Hisuian came back and began building a new weapon, this time with the intent to create an entirely new world, just like Cyrus and Volo. Instead of a singular body like in Kalos, the three "petals" were placed around the region, equidistant from the temple of Sinnoh in the center. Each third was powered by one of the creation trio's orbs.

But tracking down those orbs was tough work -- the weapon-builder, who I'm just gonna call ZA for ease, reached out to historians and merchants to try and locate them (no one knew what they were up to at this point and what the orbs were intended for). Once all 3 had been found, the finders were told to bring them to a certain location at a specific time. At this point, ZA was at the temple of Sinnoh in the center of a region-wide weapon, and they fired.

Each third of the weapon created a crater, the three lakes. I made this shitty little representation like 3 weeks ago DHFJDKFK it's based off my vague memories of the nationwide transmutation circle from watching fma like 6 years ago

The weapon tore open a massive rift that kinda threw everything to shit, like having a spacetime distortion covering all of Hisui. This is the threat that the ancient hero mentioned in-game solved (I like the theory that the hero is Alder <3 so he was dragged in by the distortion like Ingo was, just. A couple thousand years earlier)

As for the people who delivered the orbs and were caught up in the blast -- idk who the lustrous globe holder was tbh, maybe I'll make them another oc if I don't find a character to chuck that lore onto. The one who had the griseous core was Volo; Cogita had the adamant crystal. Like AZ, they gained immortality from proximity to the weapon, but also inherited other elements of their respective pokemon's infinity energy. Cogita can see the past and future; Volo can access the distortion world. The theoretical third character could warp space or teleport.

The weapon firing and ensuing chaos killed off a lot of the Celestica people, and the remaining few had no stability in Hisui and so left for other regions. A few centuries before pla, the diamond and pearl clans' ancestors arrived, taking up the title of Celestica and upkeep of the temple of Sinnoh. I'd like to think that Cogita had passed on some of the ancient stories to them, which is how they know about the rift and hero from the past, as well as Dialga and Palkia (even though things got. A little misconstrued there)

#THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK IVE BEEN WRITING FOR UM. 2 HOURS #rambles #this stupidly convoluted lore is what made volo one of my fav pokemon characters ever #because he lost Everything to someone trying to create a new reality. he was cursed to wander a world where everyone he loved was killed #and everyone he came to love would die before him too #cogita knew what he'd become and wouldn't give him the time of day: she thought her visions of the future were absolute #so he became. very bitter and very good with people #using others to get what he wanted where his own strength failed (although he had plenty of time to become a very formidable trainer)#and not letting himself get attached to them #(he does still get attached to his pokemon though. he's lost a lot throughout the centuries)#eventually he becomes the thing he hates and starts seeking to create his own new reality where everything can just start over #and he can have a home again #he's SO SURE that the plates are the answer!! ZA failed bg using the power of creation by proxy -- he had a direct tie to arceus itself #but the player beats him and so he smokes some weed realizes he's a woman and then she chills out /j #pla #pokemon legends arceus #<- hopefully those wont show up in the main tags after a dozen tags of rambling I just wanna keep track of my own worldbuilding

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chrimsonfoxdon · 2 years

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Hello hello lovely <3

First of all how are you?

I have a question about your latest post specifically Team 2 (Team Anko)

I would like to know if you have a specific process on landing on the designs for those particular OCs? Did you imagine particular colours for them? Vibes? Did you do different sketches before you landed on THE design? Were you like this one HAS to have this coloured hair etc Or was it in your head and you just needed to get it down? I'm very curious about the process.

(You know already I love Chihiro's red gloves haha)

I just really like their colour palettes and it got me wondering! Also I saw you hope to put them into a comic one day. I think that would be so cool!

Hi hi!!

I’m doing alright haha! Life do be tough but yea. Let’s talk OCs!!

I feel like my design method is different for every character (especially Chihiro I’m gonna do her last lol), but for the most part I often think of a concept or base skill and then build off from there. Sometimes I think of stuff like “this character HAS TO HAVE this color hair” but for the most part I kinda just let the characters grow themselves in my head!

For Kaori, my original concept was to have a ninja who solely specializes in genjutsu. Mainly cuz I feel like I hardly ever see OCs like that. And then I thought, mixing poison somehow in would be cool! For her design I was actually messing around on picrew and found that hair color on one and just fell in love with it~ I kinda developed her personality to be kinda “likes to be seen as cute but also will fight”, so I decided to try and use poisonous plants as kind of an inspiration for her design! I also tend to take characteristics from different characters I like as well (for Kaori Edward from FMA really helped inspire me).

For Akua, I kinda struggled with her overall. I ended up starting with a giant koi fish as a summoning animal, and then just kinda went from there! She’s a lot more laid back and go with the flow~ it took me FOREVER to decide on a hair color for her lol! But I like the sea foam green. Her main outfit and build is inspired by professional swimmers and divers, as well as taking some cues from shinobi from the hidden mist village.

Chihiro is harder to pin down cuz I made her originally when I was in elementary school, but I did give her an outfit redesign in 2020! For her Shippuden outfit, I mixed white and red as kind of a reference to her family’s high status and her Fire nature.

When I’m picking out colors and outfit designs, I try to reference what canon characters wear a bit. But I also really like to reference real outfits and they can help with colors too!! I typically try to pick a color that compliments the character’s personality or interests, and then harmonize colors. But I also like to add in complimentary colors for a nice pop and to help draw the eye.

This was a lot longer than I thought it was going to be LOL but I hope I at least kinda answered your question!!

#OCs #oc talk #naruto ocs

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charliethemanticore · 1 year

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Hi! I watch/read a lot of anime/manga, so I figured I'd discuss the filler thing with you! Hope that's ok!

That's actually a very good point, I never thought about it that way! I think people disregard filler and don't consider it a regular addition to an adaptation, like it happens in other movies or shows, because in most cases its point is not to add anything worthwhile to the story, but to gain some time to not catch up to the manga.

So then, particularly in longer anime such as Naruto or Bleach, there are these entire arcs that completely deviate from the story and are ultimately pointless and stick out like a sore thumb. Whatever happened there is never brought back again, and its characters are promptly discarded as soon as the arc ends. This is something that doesn't happen in adaptations in other media (as far as I know), and what makes filler such an unique thing to anime.

Then there are cases where from some point on the anime completely deviates from its source material, such as Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 or Soul Eater. People don't refer to its original content as filler anymore because there's an understanding that they're doing their own thing.

I think what ultimately draws the line on what's filler or not it's its purpose and of course this is not a black or white thing, or matter of quality. Most people would agree that FMA 2003's ending is garbage, and the episode in DBZ where Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive is incredible. But then in cases where filler adds to and elevates the source material, can we still refer to it as such? That's a more difficult question! But I think we can all agree that Naruto's filler is pretty pointless, it made the show near unwatchable, and it's as fillery as filler can get. It's there to fill time and nothing else, no one's happy that it exists but alas it's there.

Sorry this got so long haha

Disclaimer: I have a migraine so this is very rambly and not the response such a well thought-out explanation deserves.

Thank you so much for your perspective I really appreciate it. (Also I feel like my tags were misleading. I watch a lot of anime I'm just like... Sitting in the corner doing my own thing bc I find active participation in fandom tends to be bad for my specific combination of issues)

But my biggest toxic trait is I fucking love like... 60% of the Naruto filler arcs (they're the only time my most beloved shino gets any real airtime and he DESERVES IT)

BUT based on every conversation I've had with my friends about this, this is because I have very different... Requirements when it comes to the stuff I like. The filler arcs are silly and fun and I enjoy them immensely (the only one I couldn't watch to completion was the robot Naruto one). Have a lot of complicated feelings about them though. Like The Three-Tails' Appearance is great because shino gets to be competent and Lee is a sweetheart and Sakura and Ino get to work together... But if that adorable child plays that leaf whistle one more time I may cry (guess where I'm up to in my rewatch)

Bleach filler is so much worse. Bount arc wasn't even enjoyable 0/10 couldn't even be saved by hot villains. I watched all but one arc of Naruto. I did not grant the same to bleach, it burned me too many times.

DBZ filler is complicated though because a lot of the filler has canon stuff sprinkled in which I think is a more seamless way to buy time - sprinkling filler into existing arcs rather than having just... 76 episodes of near continuous filler NARUTO. I understand the constraints were different though.

(fma:b is one of my favourites and I sort of just pretend 2003 didn't happen. It has some good points but I just can't. The author told them to go with their hearts and I respect that they committed but results were questionable)

Point is I think it's really interesting to see how other people interact with media because I'm mostly just sitting here like "are my favourite little guys talking? Brilliant. 10/10 you're doing great sweetie etc" im stressed out by literally everything else, a few episodes of some kids trying to unmask their teacher is enrichment in my enclosure

#asks #thank you for such a well thiught out response

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decoloraa · 9 months

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Happy new year!

With another year filled with oc art and brainrot, I wanted to share this little overview here and say thank you <3

It still amazes me that people are interested in my characters and their story and I feel truly lucky to have found friends through them. A big thanks to everyone who listens to my oc rambles and engages with my art. Every single one of you makes my day and motivates me to improve my storytelling and art. I mostly do all this for myself but having people react with the things I create makes a shit ton of fun.

I‘m sorry for being kinda silent here recently, it‘s because uni life is very busy at the moment. But as always I‘m motivated to create and share!

It‘s also crazy what my characters did for me in the last two years. They brought me back into drawing and now I‘m having more fun with it than I ever have. Casther and Val started of as background characters I created for a very old self-insert oc. Wishing the matter of weeks they took so much shape and felt more alive each day.

For the next year I want to keep on making art and sharing lore. My biggest goal for 2024 is to finally start writing my lore and story down (yes so far it‘s mostly in my head, I know how problematic that is sdjhasf). I still dream of properly sharing Casther‘s and Val‘s story through a comic one day, even if only three people end up reading it. So with that in mind I hope I can offer you more story and even more characters next year!

Also I came to the conclusion that I should and want to draw my ocs with canon fma characters more. I somehow rarely did that last year, so I‘ll give that a go again! (Gotta lure people in the fma fandom into my ocs some way)

I wish y‘all an amazing year!

And lastly, special thanks to Jem, Bard, Tea, Mewi, Sam and Al for listening to my oc rambling!

#I’m proud that I can look at art from the beginning of the year and not cringe at it #I‘m really proud of the pieces I made this year and I feel like I came out of my comfort zone even more #art summary #art summary 2023 #art improvement #I could‘ve sworn I already posted this here but aparently not??#my art #oc art #fma oc

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musing-and-music · 2 years

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Sending an obvious choice, Royai for 002

Thanks for the ask!! 💖

So...

Royai

When I started shipping them:

I was in my first year in high-school in 2010 when I finally went further than the first pages of FMA, and Royai became obvious to me around the time I read the events of 3rd Lab

My thoughts:

They're the ship that made me discover fanfiction, browse the Internet for fanarts of them and even discover tumblr! (though I didn't create my blog back then but much more recently) So I'm emotionally attached to them, and I really love their dynamic, the way they work with each other, the way they make the other better by working to make the world a better place. And they're beautiful

What makes me happy about them:

The glances they give each other! The fact they have their secret language! The way they tease the other! (or how Riza knows how to roast Roy Mustang 😂)

The touches

What makes me sad about them:

We don't have enough of them in canon 😭

And there's always something tragic happening in their relationship: Ishval, the military rules, the fact they know they might die for what they did...

Things done in fanfic that annoys me:

When Riza doesn't know that Roy's "dates" aren't real. I mean, they know each other, they trust each other, and they work together to bring Roy to the top, so why writing a jealous Riza? If they're not together (and even if they are), she can yearn for something like that with him, but I don't think Roy would keep that a secret

Things I look for in fanfic:

The hurt/comfort, the happy ending, the mutual pining!

A good characterization (I just realized there's Riza in this word: characte'riza'tion 👀), plenty of good headcanons

My wishlist:

A spinoff with them in the future

Just one drawing of them kissing (I know you don't know how to draw kisses, Arakawa, but you can do it!!!)

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

Ehhhh... no one? It's so hard to see them apart when they can't be together, and it's even harder when one of them is in a relationship with another 😭

IF they are only friends, that could work, but I don't read a lot of fics where they are with someone else. There's a lovely Roy/Gracia (post-canon) fic that I loved though: A Promise Kept by @waddiwasiwitch and @snowdog49

My happily ever after for them:

Happy together and alive

From this fandom/ship/character ask!

#ask game #royai #magipies

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envythepalmtree · 3 years

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do you think there’s a problem in the fma fandom with drawing east asian skintones really weirdly, especially with ling? i constantly see fanart of him with some dull ashy skintone, when chinese people especially have warmer and more yellow undertones. meanwhile, roy is constantly whitewashed, which becomes very apparent when drawn next to riza. this has been bothering me (as a chinese person myself) and i was wondering if anyone has been thinking the same :’)

(note for any people that just followed me: I'm speaking from the perspective of a Han Chinese person born in the US)

Hmm I didn't really notice that before with Ling, but I searched around and I kind of see what you mean! Although it's a pretty common misconception in makeup theory that East Asian skin is always warm toned - yellow can have cool undertones too.

Also for any artists reading this! You might have seen this already, but here's a pretty good resource on Asian features. It's not comprehensive but hopefully it's helpful.

My biggest issue with how Ling is drawn, both in canon and in fanart, is his eyes always being closed. Like yes, Arakawa is East Asian, but I don't think she considered harassment of East Asian children in the West when she made the decision for Ling to walk around with his eyes shut. Also, the fact that he's called "squinty eyes" in canon? Bleh. I've seen people incorporate nicknames like that into their art, which just. please don't do that.

Since Roy isn't actually coded in canon as Xingese, him being drawn without East Asian features doesn't really bother me. It's my favorite headcanon and I'm writing a very detailed fic about it, but I wouldn't want it to be canon for reasons I explain here. But I LOVE it when people draw him (or Ling or Mei or Lanfan) with a wider, flatter nose! I grew up thinking my nose was ugly so it's nice to have a little representation :')

Another thing I'd really like to see is the Xingese characters with darker skin. It bothers me how most characters in anime and manga, especially those that are clearly Japanese, are very light-skinned. Yes, East Asia has a lot of light-skinned people. It also has a lot of dark-skinned people. There's so much colorism, too. And yes, part of the reason is probably because it saves ink to print panels where none of the characters need shading, but sometimes I'll be reading a manga like:

[Image description: Edited Mean Girls meme that reads, "if you're from Japan, why are you white?" end ID]

Especially when the characters in question have like. blonde hair and blue eyes.

#ask #anon #aure speaks #xing #fma crit #fma fandom crit #xingese roy #image described

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kenrik · 3 years

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My ships. Eheh. (among several, severalll more)

If you want to read my loonggg crazy shipper rant, keep reading below. XD

While my friends fell in love with the guy anime characters, I fell in love with shipping!! (I can never tell them I’m a crazy shipper! They’ll understand crushing over a character, but not obsessing over getting two fictional characters together!!! HAHAHA)

I’ve been shipping since I was a kid. The will they, won’t they aspect is just arrhhgghh!!!! Watching FMA 1 - with EdWin, I know they’re canon now. BUT the pain. THE PAIN. Of that first FMA series. You. Don’t. KNOW. HAHAHAH. Then, to see that they’re actually canon in manga; then in FMA Bro. The betrayal! I was in pain for so many years!!! HAHAHA.

Shipping made me want to learn how to draw. Made me want to learn Japanese. Made me creative. I’m ancient now, doing boring adult things. But I still ship, it’s just become something I do to pass the time HAHAHA!

And still, for over a decade now, it’s the same headache with shipping. So much unnecessary vitriol from people with too much free time on their hands.

Firstly, who the fuck cares if you ship a gay or straight pairing? Good if canon shows us what their preference is. But, come on! Who are we kidding? You think a Japanese shounen manga will ever make their characters gay??? If you think your enemy is some innocent shipper riding on their own delusions on the internet during their free time, maybe while drinking their morning coffee before getting stressed with work, omg you may just be the dumbest person alive. HAHAHA.

Secondly, these poor fem characters!!! The first ship I was ever invested in was 1 x R. And holy cow! The hate on Relena back then. I couldn’t understand it at all. She was annoying sometimes. But, come on! She’s a kid. I thought she was cool honestly. She wasn’t afraid of Heero’s threats. She stood her ground. She fought for peace, for her kingdom. She was so OG.

Then, I realized that the hate was just really from simps of these bishounens. My brain went haywire then. Like - wtf.

It never occurred to me that people could go batshit crazy over a fictional male character. >.<”

Shipping is a fun pastime! It’s a bias! Specific to your tastes! You’ll never be wrong or right, because of the million headcanons that could fill up someone’s imagination. So, just ship and let ship. Haha~!

Do you think I like the thought that in some universe, my ship is actually destined for another??!!!! I. DON’T!!! But, I won’t go bitching about it on your tag and stay in my deluded world hahahah. Unless it’s the Naruto shipping wars. That’s just - it’s just too late for that mess. HAHAHA!

I can’t believe how I would just draw sketches on the back of my scratch papers, as a poor kid. Now, look at me, I bought a tablet with my own money. I’m so proud of myself for not giving up on my dreams. HAHAHA. *pats myself in, you still have a long way ahead of you*

*ends rant in, I just really ranted*

HAHHAA

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alchemic-elric · 3 years

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Let’s Talk about Edward’s Mindset

Living as prey

A few things to consider when reading this post.

1. This applies only to my version of Edward, as the muse for Alchemic-Elric 2. This is headcanon for a roleplay muse, said muse just happens to be based on a canon character

3. I tend to draw from all forms of FMA when writing Edward, so no surprise, this post will too.

4. Please know this is not the be all end all of answers. It’s just things that apply to my muse and will help you better understand him as a person if you know them.

5. Please know, that with all my write ups in this series of headcanons / break downs - they are picture heavy and very long. This post will be placed under a read more cut for this reason.

Do Not Reblog this post without asking for permission. Thank you.

This write up is going to be heavy to talk about and I personally don’t like that he deals with this but he does. So unfortunately, we need to talk about it so it’s easier to understand him as person and why he does the things he does. Edward lives in a constant state of Prey Mentality.

I often refer to Edward in posts as a rabbit when he feels stressed or threatened in certain situations and there’s a reason for that. The first, being that it’s always felt right for him. I’ve been doing this for almost a year now, and that animal has always just felt right. It’s always what came to my mind first when I write him in stressful situations, and well the more I dug into his mindset and how he processes the world around him, the more that choice made sense. I’ve briefly discussed this mindset of his in the post I wrote about his combat ability.

This mindset started very young when his mother died and he was thrust into the world without parents. The Elric Brothers were a hiccup in the system, their ages somehow getting fucked up and as such when their mother died, by the state’s records they were twenty five and twenty four years old. Far as the state was concerned, they were full grown adults not in need of any form of assistance from the state. Far as the state was concerned, there was no need to send any help to these orphaned children because they were already men in the eyes of the state.

The State thought that the Elrics Brothers were twenty years older than their actual ages. As such they were left to fend for themselves when their mother passed away and their father abandoned them. It wasn’t until Roy Mustang’s intervention that they became Wards of the State.

So until this intervention, it was up to the town of Resembool to raise them. Pinako was currently raising her granddaughter, living with her son and daughter in law, and managing a business. She could only do so much. Pinako couldn’t be expected to raise these children on top of everything she had going on in her life, and if she did she wouldn’t have let them continue to live in their home on the hill unsupervised but yet we see this:

They continued to live in their family home until the day they burned it to the ground. That’s how they got away with the taboo in the first place. The Elric Brothers were basically raising themselves. It’s my personal belief, and makes sense to me with the time frame, that they were passed around town. Trisha died in 1904 meaning from 1904 - 1911 the Elric Brothers lived in that giant house on the hill all by themselves unsupervised. From 5 - 11 years old (Edward) // 4-10 years old (Alphonse).

They were passed around town. They were raised by the city. I have said this many times throughout my posts and threads. This is where Edward’s mindset started to mold it’s self. He needed to figure out how to survive in a small town and an era where it was socially acceptable to beat a child or example: “That boy just needs a firm hand”. but also that children are seen not heard. This was set in a time frame where women couldn’t even vote yet. While I like to believe that Amestris was a little ahead of it’s time by allowing women into the military, that’s still just the way things were. (I don’t agree with them; this is just a factual stand point.)

To the town of Resembool, Edward was a good kid - wild but a good kid regardless. They proceed to tease him about his height just as everyone else in the series does. They’re a different kind of friendly with him though because of his relation to the town.

Hohenheim for the longest while was the only alchemist in the area, so once he left they didn’t have access to anyone with alchemy - or so they thought. Then the Elric Brothers end up being accomplished little alchemists and that opened up possibilities to them again. So when the boys leave the train with Izumi, they come back to opening up scenes like this:

I’m bringing this all up because it is my personal headcanon / opinion that the Elric Brothers (mostly Edward) used said alchemy around town to fix all kinds of things for the town, before and after Izumi. Resembool had no issues asking the boys to do favors for them in exchange for food and money. They’re alchemists they have operated on Equivalent Exchange since they were very young.

But how does this play into his mindset? Like I said before Edward was a good kid, wild but a good kid and I can’t imagine him just being able to get away with whatever the hell he wanted without drawing the attention of someone and pulling punishment. This was a day in age when, as I said before, “That boy just needs a firm hand.” was considered acceptable. (It’s not it’s really not.) I have no doubt in my mind that backwater little do nothing town like Resembool? Someone provided it.

I have mentioned two NPC families in my writing. The Sullivans -> Pitt’s family. (Pitt is Edward’s Best Friend growing up; he appears in the light novels.) The Fenmonts -> NPC family that appears in Camping Trip from Hell Along with The Rockbells -> these three family were Edward and Alphonse’s safe people within the town.

They didn’t have much by way of people they could go to and not have to take some form of psychical or verbal abuse. They didn’t say or do anything about it though because do to the time period this kind of thing was considered normal. They didn’t know what to do.

This way of life put them in scavenger mode. They had to scrape by to survive because the money in the house that Hohenheim left them, when to Pinako so she could pay their bills and keep the lights on. Everything else? Sometimes they slipped between the cracks and had to fend for themselves.

So Edward got loud. It’s all a survival tactic. Honestly? He doesn’t like being a loud kid but it’s hard to ignore one when they’re making a fuss, and remember this a time period of children are seen not heard - so even if he was gunna take punishment for it - he did it anyway. All of these years that only started to build his mentality and how he saw himself in the world. It all lead into how to survive.

But why prey mentality? Why do I say that’s what it is? Because of scenes like this:

Ed and Al just watched Scar kill a man, and like reasonable human beings they felt instant fear. This is logical and normal. They should have felt fear. The thing I’m getting at is Ed’s instant jump straight from “Oh no this is bad” to “I’m going to die.”

He found himself coming to that conclusion when he was fighting Slicer too. Back to the wall, lost too much blood and when push came to shove his mind thought this:

Straight back to death. His mind hits that a lot. Fear drives him and Yock Island helped solidify that mindset. To live in constant fear.

The boys spent an entire month on an island without the use of alchemy or really anything but their own bodies and a single hunting knife to protect themselves. They were taught to run and hide and do whatever it took to live through that nightmare. Edward was nine. He lives through that nightmare at nine years old and those lessons stuck with him.

On top of it, he lived with Izumi for three months who trained the boys in such a way that they feared the psychical repercussions of returning to her. They knew that she wouldn’t just yell at them but she would get psychical with them, and to make matters worse, she’s been seen throwing knives at them.

They care for her, yes. They are also genuinely afraid of her. And those three months they spent with her, two really because one of them was Yock Island, they learned how to survive her and her lessons. She has the “take no shit” attitude but she’s also a source of fear for the boys because of the time they spent with her. She’s someone that Edward won’t argue with. Even when she compliments him, he drops his head and dismisses his own talents.

Edward won’t argue with her. Alphonse was the one who went to argue with her when she expelled them not Edward. In fact, Edward shut his brother down in attempt to keep the peace.

Izumi taught Edward both alchemy and fear. It grounded his mindset of prey mentality in even more so then just when he was scourging around trying to survive in Resembool. All these lessons were in his head before Scar happened. Before lab five happened. So when we get to those scenes it makes more sense that we see the faces we do that comes out of this boy.

Edward is caught by an MP to inform him that there’s a serial killer in the area and this is the face Ed makes when someone he doesn’t know appears and knows his name and title.

He’s Hero of the People by now. People know who he is. He’s used to people knowing his name and his title by now. He’s used to “Mr. Fullmetal.” Or “You’re Edward Elric, aren’t you?” “You’re the Fullmetal Alchemist, right?” He’s used to people in the Eastern Sector of Amestris, knowing who he is. He’s made a name for himself in this reason, at this point, for the last three years. Someone knowing his name and title shouldn’t have produced that face even if it was said in a low grumbly tone like Scar’s voice is.

He’s used to being approached by people who know him. Liore knew him out in the desert. A place he’d never been before, and when they simply introduced themselves as The Elric Brothers they were known instantly. Edward didn’t react in fear then. No, we got this smug ass face:

It’s because of his prey mentality that his mind knows it must stay on alarm that we got the face we did when Scar was present, because Scar is dangerous; a predator and he felt threatened. So he reacted as such:

And he ran. Edward bring the war to your doorstep Elric fucking ran. I don’t blame Ed for this at all, fuck I would have run too, but what I’m getting at is by this point of the story - this is not the Edward we’ve been introduced to. The narrative has presented Edward as a take no shit badass and when he’s presented with this threat on his life, instead of facing it head on and fighting, he simply throws does the only thing his mind tells him is the best course of action. Running for his life.

Hell when this scene is played out in Brotherhood, Edward is so fucking out of it Alphonse has to pull in out of the way of his own death.

And then he proceeds to sit there for several seconds downright terrified.

This is not the Edward Elric the narrative introduces us to. We meet a pair of take-no-shit badass alchemist brothers who take down corrupt individual after individual thus earning Edward’s Hero of the People title for the beginning of the series and the chapter/ episode before we are presented with Edward’s rage running so hot he nearly beats a man to death.

We are introduced to an Edward Elric that runs on rage and is fierce. Someone who screams at his problems and meets everything head on and doesn’t flinch when there’s gun pointed at his face.

But when Scar comes onto the scene - a real predator - his true mindset presents. He’s lived his whole life with masks and fronts to make himself appear bigger and appear stronger. He needs to appear louder and more all around badass to survive life. He’s not a large person and he knows it. Whether or not he admits it is a whole different story - but he fucking knows it. So he functions in a way to mask how he really feels and 9 times out of 10 that mask is rage.

And as I’ve been told a thousand times by my therapists / psychirasist anger is a masking emotion.

second image from here.

Edward lives his life in fear and he masks his vulnerabilities through the use of intense rage. He masks to survive. The people and possible predators around him cannot know how scared he is or even see him for what he is. He lives in prey mentality and he has learned how to hide that identity he holds on himself through the use of rage and other masks.

So this swings all the way back to Scar. When he’s backed in a corner and forced to fight. The true predator has revealed it’s self to him, and now he knows for a fact he’s being hunted. He’s done this before back on Yock Island. He knows how it feels to be hunted.

He’s backed into a corner, and he’s forced to fight. His brother is injured, he’s forced to defend and when that all goes to hell and he loses his automail for the first time since he got it when he was eleven. We see this:

It’s a complete and utter shock to the senses (both mentally and literally; because massive sudden disconnect to his nerves -> fucking OW) and he doesn’t know how to compute what just happened. He’s NEVER had someone take his arm from him and it’s solid steel. He never in his wildest dreams expected someone to just blow it up into a million pieces.

Even in Brotherhood it’s almost worse. Even with Alphonse screaming at him to run, he doesn’t. He very well could have - he only lose his arm, he didn’t lose his leg. He could have gotten up and ran. But he doesn’t because he’s terrified. He’s so scared, because this predator he’s been running from caught him.

This is what happens when Scar tells him he “no longer has his heretics alchemy” to defend himself.

Look at how fucking scared he is. He’s so scared that he forgets for a split second that he just lost his damn automail, and he expects it to be there to catch his weight as he backs away, but it’s not so he falls, and hits the ground and then proceeds to just lay there for the rest of the scene, bartering his own life away for his brother’s instead of running because the predator has caught him so he might as well have some say in his own death.

At the end of the day, Edward Elric is a teenager kid doing everything he can to survive in a world of adults with little to no guidance of others or people to lean on.

This is why Mustang adopting the boys in the “Where do you run? I run to you.” Arc is so important.

He’s had no grounding blocks so he just does whatever he thinks will help him survive. It’s the only thing he’s been running with since he was five.

The Lab Five problem only compounds this problem because a knew title gets thrust upon him and it only cranks the volume on his prey mentality up to 10.

Sacrifice.

Lab five is when Edward is labeled sacrifice and told that he’s only being allowed to live because they’re allowing it. This is how he meets Envy and Lust. (It’s the only time he meets Lust)

He watches Envy kill a man by stabbing through his blood seal multiple times (the same way it would kill his own little brother) and then is asked I guess I should kill you too? Edward thought he just escaped death by getting by Slicer and now here are two new people - two new threats - two new predators - and he’s already on the verge of passing out from blood loss. He’s once again, terrified for his life.

Mind you, his prey mentality was already going crazy when Slicer outright called him as such during their own fight.

From the start, Edward was in survival mode because he knew if he fucked around, Slicer was going to kill him. Being a child meant nothing, it wasn’t going to save his ass. No amount of tough talk, or being loud, or putting up a front was going to stop the man in front of him from seeing him for what he was. Prey. He needed to survive him. That’s most of Edward’s life -> survive the person / events in front of him. Just survive it.

So let’s swing this back to Envy.

So after taking a knee to the stomach, he’s dropped in a puddle of his own blood, that’s when he’s informed of his place in the world. He’s told that he’s a sacrifice for who knows what, and that he’s being allowed to live. He’s on their time not his own. He’s a teenager and he’s being told that he’s a sacrifice for whatever plans these predators have in place. They stalk him. They hunt him. They herd and wrangle him. He’s literally just being kept in line until they need to pull the collar that serves as his State Certification for when the time to sacrifice him has come.

He doesn’t know when that is. He doesn’t know what it’s for. He doesn’t know if it’s just him or if anyone else has been given this terrible title but he knows there are predators out there now that see him as nothing more than a resource and on top of that Scar is still out there hunting for him to.

Once these two pieces get thrown in to the mix, Edward knows for a fact that he is being hunted and it turns that dial up to 10 and fucking beyond. He’s always got an eye over his shoulder even when it seems like he doesn’t. He’s always on guard, and ready to defend himself / his family at the drop of a hat. He’s ready to fight or run at a moment’s notice.

Because when Scar gets thrown back in his face later in the series:

It’s not a good reaction.

(Are you joking don’t you remember how he tore us apart in East City?!”)

He knows, straight up that it’s a full possibility that his arm might get blown off again or worse, but he’s not about to tell Winry that.

He’s constantly being cornered by the homunculi all the way to the end of the series. That’s why Ed knows he can use himself as bait so much. He uses himself as bait because he knows if he lays out the prey the predator will come.

It works on Scar. It works on the homunculi too. He’s so used to just surviving shit that he knows how to function well enough to bait out the things he needs at possible cost of his own life. He’s been hunted, drugged*, kidnapped* and constantly pushed in to situation after situation where his fight or flight is triggered. He’s just used to living this way.

(( * =Light novel 2: The abducted Alchemist ))

Long story short here, Edward hides a lot of how he thinks and how he handles things through the heavy use of masks. It’s part of his prey mentality. He makes himself appear bigger, stronger, louder, meaner and deadlier than he actually is. it’s how he’s learned to survive the world he’s been presented.

If Edward is yelling, there’s probably another reason for it. He doesn’t show his true self to many people because he has major trust issues, but while that’s part of this, that’s a whole different post.

#Let's talk about series #topic: edward's mindsets #headcanon #about the muse #tw; prey mentality #tw; abuse #tw; abuse mention #tw; blood #tw; death mention #tw; death #tw; murder #tw; injury #tw; depression #tw; mental health

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