Riona Obsesses Over Fullmetal Alchemist (So What Else Is New?)

[rionaleonhart]

reipan came over today to watch FMA, with the result that today I’ve moved forward in my watching it by three episodes (reasonable), but have also rewatched episodes one to fourteen (completely insane). Seventeen episodes in one day. I feel as if someone is transmutating my mind. Rei is now well and truly hooked, which is wonderful, because now I have someone in real life with whom I can obsess.

I've been able to understand so many more references on the Internet since I started watching it. It's like a superpower, albeit not a very good one.

And Fullmetal Alchemist continues to rip my heart out of my chest and dance upon it. I swear, I’ve never been in such an abusive relationship before.



That scene in which Ed had to choose between killing the prisoners and letting Al die - wow. A serious moral dilemma! Only twenty-two episodes in, and already Fullmetal Alchemist has provided me with everything I could possibly ask for. I seriously thought that he was going to do it for a moment – at first I thought ‘no, that would never happen’, but then I remembered that this is Fullmetal Alchemist, and Fullmetal Alchemist takes your expectations and twists them around and beats you half to death with them.

I’ve been trying to work out whether my view of Ed would have been changed if he actually had sacrificed the prisoners. It’s horrible to think of a character you love doing something like that, but there was no right answer. It reminds me of something that I think draegonhawke might have posted a long time ago – something along the lines of ‘think of your favourite character, think of the most terrible thing he could do while still remaining in character, the thing that would seriously damage your perception of him, the thing that the thought of makes you feel physically ill – and write it’. draegonhawke posts these things because she loves to torment us.

I wonder whether I would have been prepared to do that in order to save my brothers.

And yes, the Elric brothers did fall out, and I did become incredibly distressed, and I did find myself utterly unable to stop grinning when they were reunited. YAY.

...I love this anime so much.

Regarding Episode 25: why must everyone I love die? I loved Hughes! I loved him and his obsession with his family (I would like to make a public proclamation of love for savifa’s ‘obvious exits: none’ icon) and his grin and he shouldn’t have died, dammit, why did he die?

FMA, I love you. Why do you want to hurt me?

(Rule One of Fullmetal Alchemist: Getting attached to characters is dangerous, because chances are they’re going to die horribly a few episodes later. Also, Roy/Hughes is very, very high on the List Of Pairings That I Really Shouldn’t Be Thinking About, Dammit. That's not a Rule of Fullmetal Alchemist, although it probably should be; it's just a fact. So why am I thinking about it?)

The preview for Episode 26 makes it look as if Winry/Ed may become canonical. I really hope not. Platonic love seems to be an important theme in this series – between parent and child, between siblings. I want Ed to stay as he is, driven by his love for his mother and his brother, with Winry as a friend. I want a protagonist who doesn’t need love beyond the platonic. Just once.

Please, FMA, you’ve already broken my heart repeatedly. Don’t shatter my dreams as well. All I’m asking is that Ed doesn’t fall in love. Please.

(My right leg really hurts today. Am I annoyed because it hurts? No, I’m annoyed because it’s not the left leg, so that, in the very unlikely event that it should fall off or something, the wound would match Ed’s. What the hell is wrong with me?)

Comments

[savifa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Hughes thing? It killed me. I cried when he died 'cause he was like...my favourite FMA character in the show and everytime he came on screen I'd be like "YEI HUGHES! :D" but...then...he... T_T


And I don't know if Winry/Ed is gonna be canonical. So far, from what I've seen, it hasn't really gone past them just being friends. Or maybe I'm blind. I don't tend to notice things that much XD;

[reipan.livejournal.com]

I promise I didn't read the spoilerified part.

In other news, I HATE YOU SO MUCH.
(Savifa, I want to marry your icon and bear its children and - WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE DIES?!)

[mewteos.livejournal.com]

Winry's more like Ed's sister than a love interest. Don't worry, it'll never go that way. =)

Roy/Hughes doujinshi = <3...

[mewteos.livejournal.com]

My heart got cut off, so, uh...<3

There. =D

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

...Hughs made me SAD ;_;

Oh, and don't worry! In the actual FMA, Winry/Ed stays platonic ^_^ They're basically like brother and sister and that's it.

XD in the manga, when Ed and Al are reminiscing, they talk about how they once fought over who would marry Winry. I believe Al won XD

I don't see much wrong with Roy/Hughes, but I just love Hughes and his family so much that I prefer to stay away from it myself. Doujinshis are abundant though, I promise.

...and if you really want, name a pairing and I'll see what I can do.