Thinking About Edward Elric And His Hair, Specifically His Braid.

Thinking about Edward Elric and his hair, specifically his braid.

Did he decide to learn how to braid it himself, post-arm loss? When he's missing that arm functionally, does he ask someone else to do it? The times that it's merely tied and not braided, is that something he knows how to do one-handed, or does he need help for even that much?

How much practice and effort has gone into maintaining his hair so it's not only braided/tied but Looks good while doing so, good enough that no one would ever think to ask? If Alphonse helps, the same question extends to him, with how big and clunky the armor's hands are compared to Ed's hair.

Idk if I have any particular direction with this but as someone who has to practice braiding hair with two abled arms I have a lot of thoughts and feelings on this concept exploration.

(Tbh I suspect I'm blanking on scenes/panels where he's seen tying it up which answers some of these thoughts but also I want to know More about it you know?)

I'm so mad about Alien 3. (Spoilers ahead)

In Alien and Aliens, they could have made Ripley the only survivor. But in a deliberate subversion of the genre, they don't. She saves the cat. Then Newt, and Hicks, and Bishop. It's not much - the vast majority of the characters are still dead - but it's symbolic. That there's more than just death and hopelessness in the world, and in the end life goes on.

And then Alien 3 throws it out the window. I don't mind Ripley's death. It's a heroic sacrifice, and that makes it satisfying in its own way. But I can't forgive killing off Newt and Hicks and Bishop in the very beginning.

Up until this point, as dark as the movies were, they always ended on a bittersweet note of hope. The cat lives. The girl lives. And then Alien 3 tells us we shouldn't have believed it. "How dare you care about these characters," it says. "This is a horror series. Everyone dies. You should've known that." It's just so... nihilistic. So needlessly bleak. And it spits in the face of the series' themes.

I will forever live in denial about this. Not just because I liked the characters, but because I can't accept such a sudden change of tone, can't accept that Aliens' ending was all for naught, that I shouldn't have been foolish enough to care in the first place.

I won't accept nihilism. I can accept a bleak story, even a tragic one, but not a story without hope.

This is what the Death of the Author is for. Why we write fanfiction.

They lived because I said so.

omg its him (again)

I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.