Solving the Case

-had to undergo very painful and lengthy surgery to get automail 

-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of. 

-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)

-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working

-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned

-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail

- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.

-it requires really frequent maintenance or it will break down, as shown by how when he first moved out he forgot to do that and it…broke down.

-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).

-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)

So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with!  And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm). 

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hello….

my name’s dan! i make comics zines and other junk. aside from a week of work that wound up being not-so-secure, ive been unemployed since September. you may have seen a near-identical post last week, and I’m happy to say that I’ve since secured a temp gig! this is super cool and im excited about it, but it’s going to last two months at the longest and am a bit worse for the wear from living so leanly for so long. i gotta take my cat to the vet, build some kind of savings back up, get new glasses, and permanently fix a lot of stuff ive just been duct taping together as i hunted for work.

anyway. would anyone like a zine? i have, like, so many zines, i print and ship em myself, and theyre between 1-5$.

in order of appearance……….

Fond is a massive collaborative cookbook charity zine i organized last year, which raised over 200$ for Feedng America. All profits go there.

Soup Would Never Do This To Me is about a food blogger dropping his son off at a workshop. It includes a recipe!

Ten is brand spankin new and is a look at how the “no one dies” revival trope would feel to characters who died on purpose, featuring Chara and Asriel from Undertale.

Caiman is a bunch of personal comics about goodbyes, in a positive light, and also everyone is a lizard.

both/neither is about Laika, the first dog in space, but it’s mostly about dissonance, growing up, and identity.

Donut Hole is a tiny single page zinelet about deep trance and hypnosis

all this, as well as other goodies like prints and a brand new digital sketchbook, are available on my gumroad! however, if you’re looking for other ways to support me, i have a patreon with early updates to my webcomic and fun goodies, as well as a ko-fi

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