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phantomrose96 · 6 months

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Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

#fma #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood #fma:b #literally anything about the dynamic between edward and the amestrian government is so so so funny to me #im begging you to come pick up your alchemist he keeps committing treason #Roy: absolute perfect ass-kisser and career-man playing the part 24/7 to disguise his treasonous ambitions and still #not flying under the radar #Edward on his public Twitter: bored. might tear down the Amestrian government for fun.

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oatmealaddiction · 11 days

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

#Fma 03 #FMA #fullmetal alchemist #Fma:b #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fma brotherhood #Legitimately though the original is so fucking good #The music alone makes it worth the watch #Also the art direction is better fight me #mild spoilers

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sinqie · 9 months

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[FMAB] The moment before, or after

#royai #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood #fma:b #royai fanart #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #art #artists on tumblr #fma #fma brotherhood

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dyingroses · 7 months

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Don't forget October 3rd !

(even if you're really busy and stress with grad school/nursing school and thus didn't have much time to make edits)

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brobiwan-kenobi-412 · 1 year

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Rereading the manga, I think my favorite thing ever is that Edward looks like he’s a feral animal Mustang just kinda found out back one day. He looks like if he bites you you’re going to get a disease, and he looks like he absolutely would bite a person. They really toned down how feral he is in Brotherhood.

Brotherhood Ed is like some poor cat you found in the alley, Manga Ed is the rabid raccoon you’ve been trying to pull put of your trash since 2013 that Will Not Leave

Like look at him and tell me he doesn’t remind you of some raccoon

#and mustang took one look at him and went #alright youre comin’ home with me #he adopted this child On Site and i respect him for that #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #edward elric #ed elric #fullmetal alchemist manga #fma manga #fma:b #fma: brotherhood #he so fucking cute #in the most feral way #i love him

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snail-studios · 3 months

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afterparty 🥂

#snailsstuff #art #fanart #fma:b #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #royai #riza hawkeye #roy mustang #fma fanart #fma #fma brotherhood #artists on tumblr

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fizzyjacuzzi · 8 months

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"Thanks."

#alphonse elric #al elric #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma #fmab #FMA:B #fma art #fma fanart #my arts

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dedicatedfollower467 · 9 months

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ed the shrimpede

#edward elric #fullmetal alchemist #trigun #vash the stampede #my art #my fanart #fma:b #shitpost #i made myself laugh at this concept so many times #i love making fun of ed i'm only like 157cm tall i can't talk i'm definitely shorter than he is by the end

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inadequate-nefelibata · 2 years

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Happy October 3rd to those who celebrate!

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD (2009) | Episode 58: 'Sacrifices' MEAN GIRLS (2004)

#mean girls #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fma:b #fma #fmab #dailyflicks #dailyanimatedgifs #animationsource #filmtvdaily #cinematv #filmedit #meangirlsedit #fmabedit #my gifs #FUCKING FINALLY i've had this in my drafts since july

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baambastic · 6 months

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The most recent pumpkin I’ve carved, which I take great Pride in.

#fma pride #pumpkins #pumpkin #pumpkin carving #jack o lantern #jack o’lantern #fma:b #fma: brotherhood #selim bradley #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma brotherhood #fma #pride fma #halloween #carving pumpkins #🐍

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soufflegirl · 1 year

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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"

#fma:b #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fma #edward elric #alphonse elric #wrath #king bradley

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novstie · 7 months

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