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jojaydoodles · 5 months

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The adventure continues aith a hing of mystery. My stupid doujin entered the Briggs mountains.

--- find out more on ko-fi huge thanks to @fullmetaleditor for generously letting me use her Marcella OC in the story.

#manga #art #digital art #anime #fma #fma fanart #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #myart:fanart #fma brotherhood #fma doujinshi #doujinshi #manga art #anime fanart #fma briggs #fma military #fma fanfic #fma fanfiction

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fullmetalnihongostudy · 9 months

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why do shiba inus exist in amestris?

so, it's established in Canon that black hayate, riza hawkeye's dog, is a shiba inu, as proven by this screenshot on the fullmetal alchemist wiki

specifically, hayate looks like a black and tan shiba. however, this does raise an important question. the shiba is a specifically japanese dog, so what is one doing in Amestris, which canoninically seems to be modelled after Central Europe? This can only imply that Japan and Amestris have enough of a cultural connection that it's natural for the Amestris state military to casually have a Shiba on the premises.

Why is this? It's known that Xing (modelled on China) has somewhat of a connection, but it's not huge. We don't see a huge amount of Xingese characters walking around Amestris and it's specified that culture and knowledge systems are separate enough that Ed and Al don't know much about alkahestry so obviously there hasn't been much cultural exchange between East and West.

There are a few options:

• Amestris has been trading with Japan for a while. However if so, why do we not see more of this and how would Fuery, who originally owned Hayate, have had time to hunt down a presumably rare and expensive dog when his life is preoccupied by the military

• the Amestris military has actually had contact with Japan for a while, either as allies or enemies

• there are a few links with japan but not very many

What else does Black Hayate's presence imply?

If the events of Conqueror of Shamballa accurately indicate that Amestris exists in a parallel universe where alchemy developed instead of technology, it figures there are equivalents to many things in our world.

In fact, the time period is quite ambiguous. Canoninically it's 1800s BUT some of the tech we see in Father's lair is a lot more advanced. So is it possible there might also be more modern things from Japan?

If this technological blip is the case, and if a Shiba Inu is present in pretty much a similar form to those in our universe, does Amestris also have equivalents for the following?

• much doge, such wow

• dogecoin

• Mari the asshole shiba who keeps squirting random liquids on his owner?

• lovely muco? we see ed and al waving, of all things, the imperial japanese flag at the homunculi to bring them out of hiding. So does the empire of japan exist in canon? what's it's attitude to alchemy? were the homunculi responsible for it, as they were responsible for military activity in Ishval, and is this why the flag worked on them? why does Japan seem unchanged when every other location from our world has a vaguely different flag and culture?

• if Japan exists unchanged, do the Amestrians get any of their media the same way we do? Anime and manga didn't come to the west until the second half of the 20th century, but tbh, as time periods seem a little bit skewed in Amestris. Are there alchemists who sit listening to radio broadcast versions of say, something like death note, where alchemist!Light Yagami is bumping off anyone he sees guilty of misusing alchemy or something? Who knows!

And, if something like dogecoin does exist in the alchemical equivalent to cryptocurrency - say, a group of clandestine alchemists, whether decent (ish) like Doctor Marcoh or scum like Shou Tucker would be the ones who use it - are there rules on transmuting it? If Ed crossed to our world like he did in the WW2 era in Shamballa but ended up in the present day, could alchemy have contributed to the boom in dogecoin that happened?

Hiromu Arakawa, I want answers

#my brain #contents of my brain #fmab #fma brotherhood #fma fan theories #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fma brotherhood fan theories #fan theory #fan theories #riza hawkeye #kain fuery #fma military

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disposablepapercup · 6 months

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kind hands.

#fmab #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #riza hawkeye #riza fma #ed fma #fmab ep 5 #my second favorite scene in the entire series #riza is so kind n hot u cant deny #screenshot redraw #something something symbolism the military jacket is too big for ed #ignore the shit holster i havent figured out how to draw guns #my art #fanart

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waitineedaname · 8 months

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Al coming back from his travels: Xing was great! I've learned so much about alkahestry, and I think we're really making progress and getting Jerso and Zampano's bodies back! It was really nice to see Mei, and Ling is doing a great job as emperor, and I even got to visit some of Xing's neighbors to the east! I feel like I'm learning more about alchemy and alkahestry every day

Ed coming back from his travels: I Have Been Banned From Five Countries

#fma #blatantly stealing this joke from my sibling because it made me laugh so hard on our call #fmab #alphonse elric #edward elric #even without his alchemy and military rank ed still manages to cause trouble wherever he goes #roy calling on a private line: edward if you cause another international incident i swear to god I am putting you on house arrest #ed minutes away from breaking into a government building in creta: I'd like to see you try #al accomplishes so much and ed is very proud of him but unfortunately ed is fundamentally a gremlin that is a magnet for trouble #fma posting

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razables · 1 month

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“Maes Hughes is dead. that’s a fact.”

#razables #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #roy mustang #envy #envy fma #something abt the way he says that line in the dub GOT me last night okay. GRAHHHHGHHHHHH #also the flame alchemy symbol is fun to draw :) roy himself? not so much #as much as i like the military uniforms WHAT IS FOING ON WITG THEM. WHY THE SLUTTY HALF SKIRT AT THE WAIST? WHAT IS THE FLAP OF FABRIC AT-#THE TOP????? WHY DOES ROY ADD THAT STUPID ASS COAT ON TOP OF IT ALL😭😭#do i tag this as spoilers.. genuine question. bc Hughes dies what. ten eps in?#whatever.

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sassydefendorflower · 1 year

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I've just realized something about General Olivier Mira Armstrong.

Finally, I've come to understand the reason why she hates Mustang so much - and why she still respects his men.

Olivier Armstrong is a military woman down to her very core. In that she is an interesting character because she is in many ways complicit with the military dictatorship ruling Amestris while also condemning it. She's a political moderate, a mediocre politician, a fierce warrior, and a great leader.

We don't know much about General Armstrong outside of her military career - and her relationship to her brother. We know she's the only female general in the upper brass, we know she's been nicknamed "The Northern Wall Of Briggs" and "the Ice Queen", we know she cares greatly for her soldiers... and she despises cowards.

Now how does she define a coward?

That's were things are starting to get interesting. Because General Armstrong called her brother a coward multiple times because he failed to do what was right in Ishval - but, important to note, it wasn't the heinous acts themselves that she condemned (though it is implied that she does indeed condemn them) but the fact that her brother didn't follow his own principles. He didn't abandoned the Amestrian army to fight for the people he had sworn to protect even though he wanted to. He just went home. And that's what makes him a coward in her eyes.

This aligns with everything else we see about her. She calls Mustang a "sniveling coward" multiple times and notes his lack of a backbone. And yet her dislike of him doesn't seem to run as deep as her disappointment in her brother. Some of that might just be that Alex is family and that means personal relationships do indeed play a role... but some of it is probably the very simple truth that Mustang is trying his best to make up for what he did.

He also failed in her eyes, following orders he knew were wrong, but where her brother fled, Mustang had the strength to stay and look his victims in the eyes as he killed them.

Mustang's team on the other hand did something that General Armstrong very much appreciates: they chose Mustang and his goals the same way the men of Briggs chose her.

Mustang might be a coward and a fool in her eyes, but she can respect the choices his team made.

There is one scene near the end of the show that showcases that beautifully. In episode 58 (or 57) Izumi and General Armstrong get the general to confess the brass' plan to sacrifice the Amestrian people in front of a bunch of soldiers and - after hearing their own death sentence uttered by a commanding officer - the soldiers are unsure how to proceed.

And Armstrong gets angry at them.

Because they are simply following orders. They were killing her people and condemning her country - simply because of some orders that they never learned to question.

And in General Armstrong's eyes that's the actually unforgiving act. Killing and slaughtering for the army is not something she has any problem with (as evident by the Briggs soldiers bloody takeover during the Promised Day) but it needs to be an act of conviction. Looking away and hiding behind orders is what Armstrong sees as cowardly.

It's what Mustang did in Ishval and what his men failed to do when they followed him willingly. It's what Alex couldn't see through, but Olivier made sure her soldiers knew before joining her.

She wants to change Amestris and it's military, not because she's an idealist like Mustang, but because she wants a military in which each soldier is responsible for the people they kill.

It's fascinating because General Armstrong doesn't have the moral high ground - she doesn't see the military as rotten the same way Mustang does, and she doesn't see killing as wrong the way Edward does. She doesn't even contemplate her own kills with shame the way Hawkeye is prone to, or judge the system as harshly as Izumi does.

But she does have a strong moral core as a character, one that would perhaps even agree with Kimblee's famous quote: "Look straight at the people you kill; don’t take your eyes off them. Do not ever forget them because they won’t forget you." - and if you don't agree with an order given? It is your duty as a soldier to defy it.

That's why she can trust her men to plan a coup without her being there to lead them - because she knows every choice they make will be one they can live with. Just as every order they follow is one they can justify.

She is an interesting character because she questions the system while endorsing it - and that puts her at odds with both the military complex and Mustang and his team. It achieves complexity in what could very easily have been a simply narrative.

Olivier Mira Armstrong hates cowards - but she respects those who stand up for their believes, even if those believes defy her.

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chelseajackarmy · 2 months

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sydneighsays · 1 year

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Roy's his dad and he needs a drink

This vine just has their energy

It's a doodle, idk I'm supposed to be doing homework.

#dad roy mustang #roy mustang #edward elric #i miss vine #let me see what you have #a knife! no!#omg why does he have a knife #fanart #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #fma #fma 2003 #vine reference #roy: mama needs a drink #I bet he got a minivan after the elrics joined the military

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highabovethecloudssomewhere · 11 months

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If anything you’re like a ✨ bOTHer ✨ figure because you’re always ✨ bOTherinG ✨ me

#cloud draws #i refined this like twice but the sketch is way funnier #there is a TWELVE YEAR OLD #lOose in the MILITARY #edward elric #roy mustang #fma #Fullmetal alchemist #fanart

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clonerightsagenda · 9 months

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Honestly it's pretty wild that Ed was part of the military for 2 years without learning much about the genocide. It speaks to his privilege as a member of an ethnic group that can easily be mistaken for a white Amestrian, his laser focus on his personal goals at the beginning of the story, and the fact that since he was already sacrifice material the higher ups let him do whatever he wanted. This kid was not reading dossiers or sitting through briefings. He treats the military as his own personal piggy bank and that's valid of him, but given how bizarre the whole situation is, it's reasonable that Scar saw this famous alchemical prodigy and interpreted him as a potential threat. He joined up, which means he must be willing to do the job, right? I don't support exploding children's faces but I understand why Scar would look at him and see a bomb ready to go off.

#after all kimblee tried to detonate that bomb at briggs #imo Roy was INCREDIBLY negligent not explaining what Ed might be called on to do while recruiting him #especially since Roy learned it the hard way!!#roy mustang bad at things.... what else is new #gee it sure is a good thing that in real life military recruiters don't prey on desperate people with no other good options!#(this is sarcasm)#fma

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caesarinsalata · 5 months

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I've been itching to doodle up a uniform Ed

#fma #my doodles #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #my art #doodles #freckles #fma art #fmab #fmab art #fmab fanart #fma fanart #fullmetal alchemist fanart #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #military edward elric #uniform ed #because a tight black shirt is always needed

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meliake · 4 months

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I'm rewatching fma 2003 and they're just?? so young???

Like Ed is insecure about his height and everything but he's also literally 1/3 of the size as everybody cause he's literally 12. And Al love him to death is such a kid. Like yeah, his voice is really young, but also it feels like sometimes he just doesn't get the big picture in a way a lot of the people (adults) do.

Everyone flames on Ed for how immature he acts post Nina and it's like he's and actual baby!! He doesn't drink his milk! He yells at people for seemingly no reason!!

#edward elric #alphonse elric #fullmetal alchemist #fma #fma 03 #also watching that Barry the Chopper Episode is legit traumatizing #and afterwords when Al is like #'I wish I could feel the terror you feel #so you have to stay in the military :|#Im like #give him a day buddy #Love him though #Legit was me when I was younger

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18secondss-art · 2 months

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