I know this is very traumatic and they’re all gonna have so much PTSD but kids often cope through humor so I have to imagine this would become a running family gag that Ed absolutely hates.
Al: *stubs his toe for the first time since getting his body back, lies down, and claps his hands together* Fight on, brother. Ed: You are an awful sibling. You know you’re killing me. You’re killing your brother Al.
I like that Lan Fan is the one who brings up sparing the other clans, because she’s the one who lost the most to this conflict (who’s still alive, anyway. Fu’s dead and can’t ask favors. Lan Fan lost her grandfather, we don’t hear anything about her parents so we can assume they died in the line of duty since it’s stated their whole family has been serving the clan, and ofc she cut off her arm and went through painful surgery). Compared to her, Ling almost coasted into success – in most cases being possessed for five months would be a harrowing ordeal, but it worked out for him, and if anything he seemed most upset about getting un-possessed.
She’s the one who secured their clan’s victory… by being in the right place at the right time to pick up a vial, not because they did anything better. It might be different if she’d accomplished some feat to ‘earn’ it, but she just took it out of the pocket of a dead man. It’s hard to feel like your clan is superior or the process is fair when you ‘win’ like that.
Plus, in her role, she’s been on the front lines of dealing damage in this fight too. She was so deeply embedded in the rivalry mindset she was willing to murder a 10-year-old. Knox told her about Ishval, and she’s just lived through a coup where most of the soldiers fighting each other didn’t even know the real reason why. The battle for the throne is mostly cast as a competition between the heirs of each clan, but it’s the regular people like her and her family who are going to suffer most. So it makes sense for someone who’s not one of the heirs to make that request, to set up a dynamic of the ruler actually listening to the people rather than making decrees and forcing them to live with it.
Bradley’s taunting might also have prompted her to speak her mind, but anyway, at least if he gets too cocky she can take off her arm and whack him with it.
ok but why did any villain who saw eds automail automatically assume that he committed human transmutation..like was that old bitch cornello just? unaware that people could lose limbs outside of god physically ripping them from you? did it not occur to anyone that ed couldve lost limbs from any accident infinitely more likely than necromancy gone wrong
ed…..is a fucking nerd
he’s a studious little shit that spent so much time in a library that he became a state alchemist when he was 11
like if you saw hermione granger missing a limb would you think it’s because someone chopped it off? no, obviously not. only someone more powerful than her (literally god) could do something like that to her
i think it was lost in the anime adaptation how genuinely confused hohenheim was when he came back. like in brotherhood he seems so stoic and All Knowing but in the manga he’s just like i dont get it….wheres my house…last time i was here i had a wife and a house where are they…….
Manga Hohenheim was a glorious dork, and as much as I love FMAB, one of my few gripes with it is that as much as we got cool stoic Hohenheim, we didn’t get much of
*wakes up in a cold sweat* edward elric’s fear of needles is treated as a side joke but it’s actually pretty fucked up to think about why is he so afraid is it a result of his intense automail surgery or did he always have this fear did he willingly subject himself to a whole year of automail surgery and needles to get al his body back i have so many questions and no answers i’m so fucked up rn
y’all. she’s a mechanic. she’s considered one of the best automail mechanics in Rush Valley – THE place for automail mechanics – at age 15
like trust me I could go off about how great Winry Rockbell is and there’s way more reasons than that but literally on just the surface level she is a female mechanic kicking ass in what’s usually considered a male-dominated field and she doesn’t have to be a tomboy or masculine to do so. she works with machines and grease and tools all day and then wears pretty dresses and skirts and likes jewelry and cute things and that’s fantastic because hell yeah women can work in male-dominated fields and still be feminine! and there’s no typical “oh yeah I learned bc I have five older brothers” bullshit, either, like she learned from her grandmother who is ALSO a badass female mechanic
I mean there’s so much more too, but like. that alone guys.
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