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[FMA Chronicle] Don’t forget - Homonculus

It seems the Homonculus are popular for their human side and frankness. Envy has always been really popular since his first appearance. Envy*? Everyone had sympathy for Envy*?! So, when I read the readers’ messages for him, flames of jealousy started to burn in me. One addressed to Greed even said “his spirit is handsome”! Thank you very much!

(Arakawa)

*(Here Arakawa is talking about the Sin, not the character like in the previous sentence)

(Messages sent by fans to characters. Those in bold are bigger than the others on the pages. Please notify me if you find a mistake or bad spelling!)

Envy

“I was jealous of you: you were the most diabolic!”

“Big, average or small, I love Envy!” (It refers to his 3 forms)

“I discovered FMA thanks to you *music key*”

Lust

“The most gorgeous big sister! If only I could see her stunning body one last time!”

“The Homonculus’ pride! A beauty!”

“A charming woman. I want to be like her when I grow up”

Wrath/Bradley

“To me, you were the final big boss!”

“ “This woman, I am the one who choose her” I would like to say this too”

“A charisma worthy of a king”

Gluttony

“Eat the whole world!”

“The Homonculus’ mascot!”

“I give you all my supplies!”

“I want to touch his belly!”

Pride/Selim Bradley

“A kind child who likes his family!!”

“I have the habit to look for you in the dark”

“Grow up and become as strong as your father”

Greed-Lin

“Yay Avarice! The strongest is you, Greed-Lin!” (“Vive l’avarice!” → none of the traductions I used for the other cases felt right so I went with “Yay” to keep the enthusiasm)

“You had in your hands what you desired the most: friendship!”

“He is so cool! And his spirit is handsome”

Sloth

“Sloth* is now a beauty” *(it refers to the Sin, not the character here)

“Congratulation for keeping digging for 100 years!”

Father

“The strongest father of History”

“The final boss!”

“I shed a tear for you who [just] wanted a family”

“Take Ed’s determination with his fist!” (“fist” or “punch”)

Riza: No, I don’t have a boyfriend.

Elicia: Then who do you live with?

Riza: Well, actually, I’ve got a dog.

Elicia: Don’t you get lonely?

Here’s my contribution to the Fullmetal Alchemist fandom this Oct 3!

A little warning for prospective viewers: FMAB has some very dark scenes (both blood-and-gore dark and conceptually dark). Although it’s not too bad, I thought I might add a warning since I’ve mostly recommended TV-Y7 shows.

Do you want to try that kiss again? Fuck yeah.

Whether for time or pacing or some other reason, this small moment never made it into the FMA:Brotherhood finale. It’s so small, but it speaks volumes, so I think it deserves some recognition.

This whole series has been big on the theme of “there are worse things than dying”. Death itself is natural, and trying to defy it–trying to not be the person left behind–is selfish arrogance; it’s punished continually. Hohenheim faced what may be considered a fate worth than death via immortality. Ed, Al, and Izumi were punished for trying to undo death. Roy, Riza, and Scar were haunted, possessed, driven to despair by being the survivors in a death-laden atrocity.

Convention states that the “selfless” thing to do is to sacrifice oneself for another. And Ed would do ANYTHING for Al. You’d think it’s logical, that Ed would just sacrifice himself to bring Al back and be done with it.

But THAT is not the philosophy of Fullmetal Alchemist. The SURVIVORS suffer. The ones left behind are left to deal with the grief and loss and loneliness. Ed knows that. He knows that all too well, to the point that even Roy is aware.

And Ed would much rather bear the burden of loss and hurt and grief himself. He’d rather shoulder the worse fate. He’d rather live in a world without his brother. Because the alternative would mean putting Alphonse through that survivor’s life, 

I rewatched both shows at the same time, of course this was gonna happen