#fma03

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tw: blood

Perdón

It is utterly wild to me that Amestris doesn't have planes. In our world, the Wright Brothers' first flight was on December 17, 1903. If Amestris et al were direct cognates of Earth, Ed would have been four. Mustang would have been 18-19. Their technology is almost hovering between steampunk and dieselpunk. Other than the automail, the tech in FMA stays mostly in the background. But its really interesting to play Spot The Difference between what they have and what Earth had at that time.

They have mechanical automata for prosthetics - ones that connect directly to the nervous system - but trains still run on coal. They have military tanks and automobiles that are a decade or more advanced to 1910's Earth but they don't planes and the only other flying machine I remember them having is Mustang's hot air balloon in COS. There is full color photography that is easy enough to access that an amateur/hobby photographer could fill his house with photos but books seem to be made on old-style printing presses and hand bound.

And in the more fantastic aspects: At least with FMA'03 there's all those weird cloning tubes in lab 5 and whatever Father was doing in Brotherhood required a goodly amount of piping and wires, which reads as more advanced than where they ought to be. They understand biology and genetics enough to make chimera but, again, they don't have planes. Transportation technology seems to have been entirely dismissed past the car and train.

It's weird!

I keep thinking about the implications of her backstory being a devoted mother/wife who desired to resurrect her son from the dead having to devote herself towards saving her husband no matter how many lives they ended up sacrificing at the cost an entire civilization being erased. I keep thinking about her as an immortal figure whose existence is built on the murder and bodily violation of young women, whose fractured picture of her ideal family has made her into this bitter and spiteful individual that parallels the homunculi in many ways, as boogeymen of the past haunting the narrative. I keep thinking about how she was as a young woman, that her once undying devotion towards her husband who ended up abandoning her now fills her with resentment and rage with the memory of it persisting and only growing stronger centuries after.

She's a character who, in her choice to be this immortal being whose immortal existence is built on top of genocide, chooses to position herself in the role of this benevolent mother, to the homonculi, to rose, and the world at large, believing herself to be its sole protector and guardian, and this sole figure who is alone deserving of all its power and the use of the stone to keep the world from doing anything "foolish". She sees others and, especially those dehumanized and marginalized by the state as subhuman and her responsibility to control over almost as if she sees herself as this religious figure or maternal figure, proclaiming herself to be some sort of a "shepherd of sins". There is so many motifs that pertain to the idea of motherhood when it comes to her relationship with the homonculi, izumi, rose, and etc. it makes me sick and i dont know where I'm going with this post.

I haven’t rlly heard of this rare pair before lol but I prefer ed and winry imo. Also ur the first wrath fan I’ve seen on tumblr he’s very underrated 🥲🥲