Chimera Ed Au Thoughts:

Chimera Ed au thoughts:

- Ed's disguise (to not be seen as a chimera) might be comprised of the left over pieces of 48/the slicer brothers ; Because I think they would weigh on Ed's conscious like Nina and so he uses the remains of their armor to carry around like reminders (like his pocket watch!)

- Ed's automail arm is too big for him due to Winry only understanding how to make the design for humans and hasn't advanced to animals (I think Pinako did Den's automail, and she knows how important Ed's automail is to Winry due to it being her first design and all. Plus Ed would probably want some semblance of normalcy.)

- Ed isn't agressive in his chimera state, more skittish and protective of himself in a sense. He is reduced to a prey animal mindset, this can't be forgotten. So he sees humans as threats, front facing eyes and all are common traits of predatory animals, and is commonly skittish of them. Ed is also more dull in terms of emotion unless you count high feeling emotions (fear is a common one but overstimulation, sadness, and happiness are all there too.) Dull in the sense of he experiences less complex emotions, this is part of the reason why he won't be allowed to be shipped with other characters. In other words, his aggression is more fear than sass.

- Like Nina was thought to be, Ed is in constant pain; His bones aren't right and they feel wrong in his body, as does his organs, tongue, and certain nerves. So his senses in terms of touch is heightened and diluted in certain areas. His hips, left collarbone, left shoulder bone, and right femur are all fucked up due to having the ports still attached to his body during the transmutation. He walks funny, and speaking of walking he both can walk like a quadped and a biped; Both cause him some level of pain though, especially walking like a biped.

- While Ed has the appearance of an armadillo, he still has humanic or ape like attributes in term of bone structure and whatnot; I don't know how to better explain currently.

- Ed's eyes are still faintly golden, but they still have white cataracts like Nina's eyes. So his sight isn't that good; But his taste, smell, and somewhat hearing are what he has to go off of for the most part.

- Since Havoc is the one to find him, Ed sticks close to Havoc (As well as Al of course but Al causes him to get confused sometimes, he can't sense him that well if that makes sense.) but that being said, Havoc's cigarette smell makes him feel sick.

- Al, although he knows it's wrong, treats Ed more like a cat at first. Because he's a little kid, what do you expect the 13 or so year old to do?

- Greed, much like FMA 03 Greed, hears about Ed and tries to find him to have him join him; Not only to get him out of sight of the homunculi looking for him, but also to just have another team Greed (Devil's Nest) member.

- Ed has speech issues, and therefore typically is silent not only out of pride but also because he thinks he can be badass by just being quiet during fights. He learns certain, one handed signs; Mostly cussing, I wonder who taught him that.

That's it, that's all I got so far.

I'm working on Ed's ref sheet currently, I don't know when it'll be done but hopefully soon. As well as the comic.

I will be writing it out on AO3, I know I will, and once I do I'll be posting that here too.

Soon, I promise.

Yeah give Ed a lil snake!!! (might not be what I said but he deserves a lil friend)

I'm glad you like the eyes, I've never been good with eyelashes but they're a reoccurring theme I see in your art so I thought I'd do him justice by giving him eyelashes.

Also no problem! I'm happy you like it!:)

Did a lil lineart sketch of your lmk au Ed; Thought it'd be silly to add a lil python too

But here you go :)

HEJHVBWGNW I JUST GOT THIS NOTIFICATION HOLD ON. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD

MY BOY!!! IT'S MY BOY!!! The eyes turned out SO COOL and the snake!! You're absolutely right Ed should have a pet snake in this au (that's not what you said but it's canon now, thanks). God this is so. SO SD,VJNWJVN W. I LOVE IT DUDE THANK YOU

The garlic brothers bc @elricmetal said someone should draw it

I'll try to have the other drawing done tonight

I'm the opposite. I want my favorite characters to die. I want them to go through such heartbreak that they completely shut down. I want them to go through such horrendous things.

Just so I can go "awe look at that silly guy :3" and then it's just the most tragic character you've ever seen.

That and I want to fucking bawl my eyes out when they do die/go through shit

"are you okay?" no I got way too attached to a fictional character and now they're dead

I think about this but with Winry. If she saw modern technology today she'd have an aneurism and then try to take apart several shit only to reassemble it better

every time i see Ed im like wow... that's an early 20th century guy right there. that's a little man from the 1910s...

ed and alkahestry

okay so i've had this idea in my head for a while now and it's time to get it out maybe. so we know that alkahestry and alchemy are 2 different practices, one uses the energy from earthquakes and natural phenomena and the other uses the earth's energy flow. and when father blocks all alchemy, scar and mei can still use alkahestry. which poses the question: can ed learn alkahestry even though he gave up his alchemy?

cause i think he could. and he should. i love the whole giving up something to save someone you care about thing, but alchemy is something so personal to ed he doesn't deserve to have none of it, and he could go study it with al and have mei teach him it and become another one man army.

he returns to amestris and roy is like welcome back full metal what's new and ed says this and throws some knives and makes a model of his face in roy's office. and roy just sighs and is like okay guess who's back everyone

give ed alkahestry, let him cause more problems