Coloured and fixed up versions of my previous FMA:B sketches that I’ll be having as miniprints for Sydney’s Smashcon 2018! (Table A18 with Bok and Lia)
It’s funny out of context but I am so fucking sad over this
He can’t feel the blanket he’s holding or the cold and he’s too big for his bed and he can’t fall asleep but he’s trying to do all those things anyway because he’s 10 years old and he’s just had his entire life and childhood ripped away from him in every way possible and all he can do is hold onto the tiniest pieces of normalcy because that is literally all he has left
This is kind of funny out of context too, but no !!!This is my favorite picture in the world, OK? Because Al doesn’t sleep. He doesn’t need the bed or the blanket, but I guarantee you Ed insisted Al share it with him. He wasn’t going to let Al lay on the floor or sit against a wall by himself all night. I can’t see Al just taking the blanket, not when Ed needs it more, so Ed must’ve tucked the blanket around him during the night, the way a good big brother does. He never treats Al any differently than he would if Al had a flesh and blood body. He always tries to preserve that normalcy, to make Al feel as human as possible.
And they’re sleeping back-to-back. Al’s body is cold and hard. He could’ve gotten up or Ed could’ve moved away, but no. They’re snuggled against each other. If you’ve ever slept back-to-back with someone before you know there’s something comforting about feeling the other person’s body heat, knowing they’re right there. Al doesn’t have body heat and he can’t feel Ed’s, but they still take comfort in each other’s presence, in knowing the other’s close beside them. They’re laying beside each other like nothing’s strange about it. Ed’s body is actually angled so that he’s pressed against Al as he sleeps. He wants to be there.
It’s kind of the antithesis of the above picture. In that one, Al’s alone with a blanket that’s too small for him, looking (and probably feeling) very out of place. Here, the blanket’s big enough to wrap him in a comfy burrito, and he’s not alone. He’s got Ed, and he looks (and probably feels) much more in place.
So with all the ish that Edward Elric goes through, did anyone else realize that a rock
is the thing that leaves a scar
FOR 21 EPISODES.
That’s a third of the series. For a third of the series- with every fight and battle that the Fullmetal Alchemist is in, it’s a ROCK that marks him for a third of the series.
Actually !! The scar that ed has during the rest of the series isn’t from a rock. He first gets it in his fight with the Slicer brothers in Episode 8:
and then we see him bleeding on his forehead:
Episode 9 we see him with the bandages:
Episode 10 when travelling to Rush Valley and Dublith, the bandages are gone:
AND THEN in episode 13 we see him reopen it in his fight with Greed:
More bandages in Episode 14 and 15:
episode 16 - 20 no bandages:
and then in episode 21 he reopens the scar AGAIN when the rock hits him
episode 22:
again with them bandages: episode 23 - 31
episode 32 he has the scar now:
and then its finally healed in episode 44!!
it healed along with his wound from getting impaled
both brotherhood and arakawa are amazing at adding in details like this its amazing tbh
arakawa actually mentions it in a manga extra that the reason he keeps getting cut there is because the skin is thin from the first blade cut so its really easy for him to reopen it while fighting.
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