Someone else has got to have done this I swear
[ID: Art of Hohenheim when he was a slave looking with a disbelieving frown at the Dwarf in the Flask, who says: “It’s me boy! I’m the PS5 Speaking to you inside your brain… Listen to me, boy… Leave the girl, we don’t need her! Come with me and play my games! We’ll have cowboy times in space! Doo doo do doo yeah! You need me boy. Your free will is an illusion–” End ID]
Hologram ☼
[image description: digital drawing of Edward Elric and Van Hohenheim based on the second Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood opening. It shows the two standing in a field, Edward on the left, facing towards us; Hohenheim on the right, with us looking at his back, hair flowing in the wind. The two look towards each other. Edward’s hair flies in front of his face, so we can only see one of his eyes, with his eyebrow pulled in. Behind them is a sunset, with the sky a gradient of purple-orange-yellow, with many long clouds. End ID]
it’s Oct. 3rd
[image description: digital drawing of young and older hohenheim from fullmetal alchemist. young hohenheim is positioned upside down at the top left, a determined look upon his face. Older Hohenheim is the right way up, at the bottom right, a slight frown on his face. The background is black, and where their heads meet hear the centre, a bunch of red eyes emerge. Both the line art and the lighting is in red. End ID]
Ok so maybe you already know but I rewatched FMAB this year, and once more I realized that it is and it will always be one of my favorite shows of all time. And I can’t begin to explain how much Arakawa’s creation means to me. Like I really can’t, but I’ll try
It’s filled by amazing, diverse and complex and lovable characters, and I love each one of them (yes Kimblee, you too); it has an excelent and well-carried plot, it made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me feel intrigued and all sort of things. But in the end, the thing that clicked for me was its core message, one that speaks about connection. The people we meet along the way and the true reason of our existence on this world, the things that really matter
I think that when Ed and Al burned their house, that October the 3rd, they were beginning a journey that, ironically, would lead them back to where they started: home, family, friends. Connection.
Like Josh Ritter says in one of my favorite songs: “Only a full house’s gonna make a home“
I think of that song and that line in particular when I think of FMA
I tried to portrait that connection in this piece, I hope that gets through~
Happy October 3rd, everyone 😊💖
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[image description: digital drawing showing a huge group hug with Alphonse at the centre after his body was returned. The first uses warm colours and the light on their faces. The second is edited to look like a sepia photograph.
Closest to Alphonse is Izumi, resting her cheek on his head; Edward with a huge grin; and Mei Chang. Around them, from left to right: Lan Fan, who also has a hand on Mei’s shoulder; Ling Yao, an arm around Lan Fan; Van Hohenheim; Riza Hawkeye looking at the kids tenderly; Roy Mustang. On the outside of the hug are Sig, looking in with a huge smile, and a sparkling Alex Louis Armstrong. End ID.]
Crying is how your body speaks when your mouth can’t explain the pain you feel.
[image description: gifset showing various black silhouettes of fullmetal alchemist characters, with white tears falling down their faces, a compilation of manga panels as backgrounds.
1. Edward Elric, his elbows can be seen shaking as he sobs. Manga panels include: young Edward facing the ‘eye’ of truth, him telling Winry not to shoot scar, the failed transmutation, Truth walking, Nina’s chimera saying his name, inside his pocket watch, his widened eyes, Mei standing besides’ Alphonse’s battered armour after Al gave his soul for Edward’s arm, his bloodied hands, a woman lying on the floor.
2. Winry Rockbell, facing forward. Behind her: crying as she asks Al: “isn’t he your only brother?”, her holding Elicia, her holding up a gun to scar, an injured Edward falling on her, Edward saying “I’m too scared to ask” in his sleep, Alphonse hunched in a corner, Winry screaming ‘Give me back my mom and dad!’ to Scar, Edward and Alphonse standing in front of their burning house.
3. Riza Hawkeye, slowly lifting her face before tears start tricking down. Manga panels: several of lust, several of Gluttony surviving her shots, several of Pride looking at her with dots for eyes, her widened eyes, her grimacing, her with vacant eyes saying ‘And don’t forget them. Don’t forget.’ , lying in the floor heavily wounded but saying ‘been ordered not to die you see’, Envy’s evil grin, Mustang ordering her to put down her gun, Mustang when blind, her when heavily injured, her crouching on the floor hopelessly.
4. Mustang tilting his head up and crying—from after Hughes’ funeral. Manga panels: Riza raising a gun to his head, Eliza saying ‘don’t bury him’ at Hughes’ funeral, several of him getting stabbed by lust, Riza saying ‘Don’t go where I can’t follow!’, Hughes’ body in the telephone booth, Truth smiling, him blinded, Havok stabbed by Lust.
5. Ling Yao, facing forward and sobbing heavily. Panels behind him include: Greed saying ‘this is where we part ways’, dying Old Man Fu saying: “your highness! Be a good king!”, Lan Fan crying, when he was given the philosopher’s stone, memories of the original Greed, him standing before the moon alone, Greed reflecting on the gift of friends, him saying “a king should be there for his people. Without his people there is no king.”, Greed crying in pain, Lan Fan’s arm tied onto a dog, Greedling held down.
6. Hohenheim, seen from side, quivering as he cries. Manga panels: Alphonse’s empty armour, Edward crying, Father saying “blood kin. Hohenheim.” while they overlook the dead bodies around Xeres, him and the dwarf in the flask talking, Hohenheim screaming in pain, Xeres’ king’s soulless face, Hohenheim wondering where to go without a gone, standing as a shield before Edward, “I’ve given you immortality”, his wife and kids happy, ‘Homonculus’ introducing himself to Hohenheim. End ID]
“How could a civilization that advanced be destroyed in a single night?” “Perhaps it is just a myth after all.”
[image description: paralleled digital drawings of Father and Van Hohenheim, both looking determined, with dark lighting.
On the left is father, the left side of his face merging into the dwarf in the flask form, with four red eyes and a big, toothy grin extending from his mouth. Red streaks and sparks are around him.
On the right is Van Hohenheim, with large, red philosopher stones emerging like crystals from the right side of his face, with the black hands of Truth or the homunculus swirling around him. End ID.]
Volume 23 - Extra
[Image description: 2 panel omake.
1: Hohenheim family tree. Shows Hohenheim and Trisha as parents to Ed and Al, while Hohenheim is the sole parent to Father, whose kids are the homunculi.
2: The homunculi siblings yell, “Uncle Ed, Uncle Al, give us some pocket money!!” Wrath holds out his hand demandingly, while Gluttony and Pride look like little kids excited for money.
Ed and Al sweat, looking mad, and respond “Hey!!”
At the bottom, text reads “Is this how things could be?” End ID]
The Five Human Sacrifices
[Image description: Poster-like drawing of the Promised Day sacrifices. The doors of the Gate of Truth and vertical snapshots of the sacrifices meet at a vanishing point in the center. Truth stands above the vanishing point, with the Eye of Truth behind them.
Shadow hands weave around: Izumi, with a white circle on her stomach to show her internal organs taken, Ed, with a blinding white right arm to show it was taken, Al's entire body, and Roy's eyes. Hohenheim is drawn on top of the shadow hands' almost chandelier-like pattern, with a philosopher's stone. End ID]
