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sam evergardenwall's fma sideblog. '03 enthusiast. royai lover. edling enjoyer. sheska kinnie. also occasionally reblogs content about other hiromu arakawa works :-) || ⚠️ please, note that i almost never tag spoilers here, so tread carefully if you haven't finished reading/watching fma!

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grand-line-shenanigans

That damn vanilla extract...

#beware of the vanilla extract!#shitpost #favorite #fma heritage post

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shiorianma

roy mustang and maes hughes

itszygoart

side profiles and doodles bc i have free will

galileosballs

You know, one of the interesting things about Fullmetal Alchemist in the wider world of shonen storytelling is that (aside from flashbacks) Ed essentially stays at the same 'power level' the whole time. He learns one or two new tricks, and Al certainly gets more powerful, but mostly he can do all the same stuff at the end that he could at the start. All the gains Ed makes in how much impact he can have on the world are made by gaining allies.

And I really like that as a choice. It's fundamentally a worldbuilding choice, really - alchemy is not something you can 'level up' in. You can't 'unlock' new abilities. The only way to get better is to do a whole bunch of research. And I mean a whole bunch. This stuff is measured on the scale of years. There's no time in the story to do an amount of research sufficient to increase Ed's skills, so they don't increase. In a knowledge-based power system, that's the only sensible way to do it.

It's the sort of structural detail that gets effaced in all stories inspired by Dungeons and Dragons or its video game implementations (that is to say, quite a lot of fantasy overall). Because there, you have characters whose skills are physical and characters whose skills are mental, and they need to be getting better at basically the same rate under basically the same circumstances. Nobody wants to play a D&D game where the only way the wizard can level up is by spending three years getting their Master's Degree. But connecting knowledge-based power progression to battle experience is always going to sit weirdly. And it's cool to see stories that don't do that.

sygni

royai..

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lanfansmask

fmamangacaps

phantomrose96

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

phantomrose96

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

phantomrose96

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

aka-blaa

You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.

phantomrose96

Official addition to this post.

fullmetal-menace

he tries so hard to look cool and stuff

aizushii

I love my smug duos also their opposing colours got me believing in myself again anyway Hawkeye and Jin next ;DDDDD

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lmermerl

🌱🍃🌿🍃

lucxxio

Let’s pretend it’s still the 3rd

greelin

the weight this image holds

greelin

happy pride month everybody

#happy pride month <3

lesbianroyai

#so true

domesticatedshrimp

super farted out sketch. genuinely been unwell about them for 15 years

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akitosmitosisfather

World's Best Older Brother

annaleigh

I love my Fullmetal miis

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