(Sees Reblog) *happy Noises* I'm So Glad You Liked My Silly Little Thing To Do A Redraw Of It!

(Sees reblog) 😄😁😸😄😁😸 *happy noises* I'm so glad you liked my silly little thing to do a redraw of it!

I'm glad you're glad! It's a cool AU tbh, if you sketches of what the other characters look like; Expect more fanart/redraws from me!

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okay everybody, listen up, because I need to talk about Edward Elric. I've started watching fmab and I am losing my mind over this boy. There's so many incredible things about this kid; he's such an incredible protagonist.

the realism of Ed is so painfully wonderful- this is a fifteen year old child. Remember what you were like when you were fifteen? Yeah? Fifteen is so young. This is a child who's had to grow up WAY too fast and has been through so many unspeakable things, but he's still a kid and he actually ACTS like it. He gets irritable over small things and acts "childish" when he's excited and has that touch of arrogance a teen gets when they know they're important.

Ed gets scared. He's not like a lot of your "unshakable" shounen protagonists, who, when faced with something shocking in a fight, eyes only widen and mouth only frowns and they only worry a little and maybe ask for an explanation. No, Ed is a kid and he gets scared. Sometimes he handles fights well, but sometimes he freezes. When Scar found him and Al, when he hurt Al and tore out Ed's arm and pursued relentlessly in the rain, standing over Ed as Ed writhed on the ground, Ed screamed for his brother and froze in his fear and thought he was about to die then.

He's so fifteen in everything- in his anger and his arrogance, in his fear, in his trauma, in his reverence of life. Ed is at the age when your eyes truly start to open to reality and society, though given his past he probably started earlier. But he holds life so preciously, so closely, cradles it in his arms and declares over and over again that it is one thing he will not trample, will not hurt. That fifteen-year-old conviction and the leftover naivety from childhood, paired with the newer discovery of just how sacred, how beautiful and important life is.

He's fifteen in his love. You ever been around teenagers, especially today's teenagers, and you know they do everything fiercely, most things boldly, and Ed screams it in his love. In his protection of Al, his absolute dedication and protection to the one person he has left, can hold close. He's a teenager in their banter but such an eldest sibling in every way- in his drive to protect Al from anything, everything he can, in his leadership, in his fear of losing his sibling.

Ed is such a real person, such a real kid. He's incredibly mortal, unlike a lot of op shounen protagonists. He hits his head and it bleeds. He gets impaled and struggles to stand at all. Every time he's injured we see him recovering in the hospital after. He has nightmares from his fear of failure, about Al and his mother and Nina. He's smart but not indestructible. He's incredibly earnest about his convictions, earnest about the beauty of life, just like a teen.

Edward Elric is probably the most realistic anime teen I've ever seen, and I love him SO much

Is this insinuating that Ed's gonna take a battery like it's medicine??

If it's to prove a point I can see him doing that now that I think about it.

"Dammit Fullmetal! You don't have to live with the pain, take something to make it easier on yourself."

"Don't tell me what to do."

Fr especially when the term schizo is being used in a derogatory manner to express a momentary break in sanity. (E.g. a person snaping for a moment, extreme momentary aggression or paranoia, etc.) It makes me so fucking mad but also so tired. I hate it.

also friendly reminder that there are FAR more schizophrenic people online than you could ever imagine, INCLUDING IN FANDOM SPACES!!!! please for the fucking love of god do not go around calling characters schizo!! we see you!! and we fucking hate you!!

you ever think about how ed and ling were eachothers first normal dumb teen friend because ed had only had al and winry but that was all tainted by trauma so he never really got to be a dumb teen and ling was presumably raised mostly isolated with bodyguards around and the closest thing to a friend he had was lan fan who still like worked for him and stuff and then they meet eachother and they have petty arguments like teens do and suddenly theyre stuck in gluttony and are trying to survive and they eat a boot together and ed carries ling and tells him not to give up and then suddenly ling has greed in him because he thought giving up his identity and his body for immortality was the bets thing to do for his people and he leaves his first real friend behind and ed sees him consumed by a homunculus but doesnt stop believing in ling and way later they meet again and they go on a camping trip in the woods for a few months and sometimes ling is there but its mostly greed but the short moments are nice enough and they get to be stupid teens doing stupid stuff for a bit and maybe have their first kiss because thats just part of being a dumb teen and then the promised day happens and suddenly its all over and greed is gone but ling is willing to give up the philosophers stone for ed and al but they dont even need it and ling goes back to xing and becomes emperor and does what is best for his people but he isnt smiling anymore

I hate this. There’s no salad in sight. Which means he’s eating the fucking garnish. Why’d he do that