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On the topic of post-Promised Day Al thoughts:

It takes him a long time to get out of the habit of ducking/walking sideways through doorways

Getting used to feeling pain again must of course have been rough (I have to imagine building up his pain tolerance again must’ve been excruciating), but personally I headcanon that the experience of coming to terms with the fact that stubbing his toes actually hurt again was a nightmare. Almost nothing makes him angrier. Winry will hear a thud followed furious, inarticulate, banshee-like yelling from the other room and assume it must be Ed, only to find a red-faced Al hopping around on one foot having stubbed his toe on a chair leg

Al got so used to being able to drag and/or pick up Ed and remove him from any given situation where he was being difficult that it became a habit he was completely unable to break, and what’s more hilarious is that even though he’s no longer a suit of armor twice Ed’s size, and in the time he was recovering they’ve grown to be about the same height, he can still do it. They’ll be visiting Central and Ed will be getting a little too riled-up at Mustang (now the Fuhrer himself) and Al will just sigh, shoot Hawkeye an exasperated look, and then throw his entire adult brother over his shoulder mid-sentence, deposit him (shrieking, of course) in another room, and return with a polite smile and a “sorry, you were saying?”

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Drawing Ed in my lone-rider au fills my heart with joy<3

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✧ Edwin Week 2024 ✧

This year’s prompts are:

Wed May 1 – Bittersweet

Thu May 2 – Home

Fri May 3 – 503 Day! OP’s choice!

Sat May 4 – Heartbeat

Sun May 5 – Stay

Mon May 6 – Healing Hands

Tue May 7 – Grow

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The primary focus is EdWin, but other characters making an appearance is totally fine.

Prompts are open to interpretation and may be set in any FMA universe (manga, TV shows, movies, light novels, games, etc.). AU’s are always welcome.

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((Edit. Whoops made a mistake on the first one with the title. This is the real poll.

#03 was BUCKWILD fr

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happy FMA day! decided to paint one of my favorite scenes from the series :’)

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Alphonse sarcastically going *sigh* "boy oh boy" under his breath is so unreasonably funny to me. Four chapters in and he's already so done.

#we stan manga alphonse

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infuriating that it's been 15+ years and so many people still get Roy killing Lust wrong

"it's ironic that Lust was killed by a womanizer" "Lust was killed by a man who lusted after power" NO! Lust was killed by a man who did it because of love.

It's ironic that she was killed by a man who uses his (false!) public reputation as a womanizer to conceal the fact that he is one of the most steadfastly loyal people in Amestris. It's ironic she was killed by someone whose entire motivation revolved around gaining the power to help others. It's ironic that he killed her for threatening his people.

Lust was killed because Roy refused to let Havoc die, because he refused to let Riza throw away her life. He killed her because he refused to die without making sure the people he loved were safe. Lust was killed because of love. That was the point.

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reunited.

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guy who is seriously going through the horrors of being fifteen

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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos official artwork

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fma villains make me insane, they're like "no actually we can't kill the main characters because we need them alive for our mysterious evil plan" so they spare them EVERY TIME and even get to the point where they start getting in the way when Scar tries to kill them and then when Edward and Alphonse find out that King Bradley is an homunculus he's like "ah now that you discovered our secret, you better keep quiet or else" and Alphonse has the nerve to ask him "while we are waiting for the end of the world, can we PLEASE get on with our quest??" and Wrath is like "yeah sure why not, but stay out of trouble"

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Solar eclipse today, you know what that means

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hes so annoying

#obsessed

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April Fools might not be the best day to tell people about your new art-only blog, but eh.

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I like the "settle down, get married, have kids" ending for Ed in "Fullmetal Alchemist" because it suits the themes and the characters well. But also because there's still plenty of room for adventure beyond the joys of a simple life (it is fun to imagine Ed picking up a million homesteading-related hobbies with all his usual competitive spirit); Winry has a thriving career! She and Ed can travel around the country, visit people, and probably even visit Xing before kids or when their kids are old enough for travel.

But I also like it fine because I feel 100% certain that Edward Elric would not have children unless he was 100% certain that he wanted them and was ready to be a good dad. He would not bring life into this world recklessly. I feel like he would have asked himself, "Is there any chance I might be a deadbeat dad?" and that he was absolutely ruthless with his analysis of his character, like, to the degree that it quickly stopped being funny or embarrassing and started being sad. He'd try and get his own Riza Hawkeye about this: "If it ever looks like I'm being a shitty father or husband, I need you to kill me," he says, sleep-deprived and panicking, and Alphonse can only be like, "Brother... No..."

Also, I feel like we shouldn't leave Winry out of this. This woman is driven and successful and was orphaned because her parents left her for a good cause. She and Ed would sit their asses down and have an excruciatingly thorough and detailed conversation about parenthood and their future. I could buy an AU where they mutually decided to be childfree, sure, but I cannot be fully convinced that they as a team would be reckless about children and parenthood.

I'm sure they'd make mistakes, of course, as all parents do. (I also feel like they would try and make plans with the same focus as automail schematics and alchemic circles, which would often be immediately ruined upon contact with the "enemy". And that Uncle Alphonse would shamelessly and mischievously spoil his niblings against parental wishes whenever his brother's back was turned. Traitor.) But they're also one of those couples where I see them in the cliché "happily ever after" and I can genuinely be like, "Yeah, they're fine."

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Fullmetal Alchemist, but every time Ed talks to someone, Al lifts him up so he’s at eye level with them