She’d also make him a cold night leg which is his Automail covered in warm fuzzy fabric so it’s not cold on her or his skin when they sleep together during the night (and so he can’t put his cold foot on her back as a joke anymore)
1. The plot moves a million miles per hour and has like, a minimum of two plot twists an episode. It’s super serialized and feels like a novel.
2. Answers that most series would drag out until the end are answered super quickly to keep the story moving.
3. The protagonists’ plight is really sad/interesting and you actually feel invested in their story and how it ends right from the first episode.
4. The protagonists have lots of agency and drive the story forwards, and there are multiple protagonists with their own plotlines.
5. Multiple interesting antagonists with intriguing worldviews.
6. The antagonists are super intimidating, not just to the characters but to the audience. Every scene one of them is in is extremely tense.
7. Unique setting that isn’t exactly fantasy and isn’t sci-fi.
8. The world’s “magic” has all of it’s rules explained so characters can’t manifest abilities you’ve never seen before without it being logical or foreshadowed.
9. Lots of tragic backstories, but the story has a light tone, and doesn’t try to be dark for no reason.
10. Never afraid to kill off characters, no matter how important, but gives lots of importance to every death that does happen so none of them feel “cheap”.
12. Romantic plotlines that don’t feel forced or boring. No love triangle nonsense to be seen.
13. Side characters that are actually given importance to the overall plot and are given their own characterizations and motivations.
14. Multiple badass female characters.
15. Midwifery being presented as awesome.
16. Gender norms being subverted left and right. Giant, muscly men full of emotions and tears. Women with majestic, long hair that have killed before and will kill again.
17. Deals with race, genocide and the aftermath of war, showing both sides of the conflict.
18. Doesn’t take itself too seriously. Contains the most masterful humorous to emotional tone shifts I have ever seen. They feel seamless.
19. Well choreographed combat scenes with innovative tactics abound.
20. This is subjective, but there are many, many scenes that are sad, or thought provoking, or spine-chilling. It’s a series that constantly shocks and amazes, even on rewatches.
21. AMAZING ending. You’ve heard of 2 episode climaxes. You’ve heard of 4 episode climaxes (hello, Avatar the Last Airbender). Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has a 15 EPISODE CLIMAX. That’s 5 straight hours of finale that literally NEVER GETS BORING.
ed at 15: yo FUCK crying! tears are out, emotional suppression is IN ed at 16: maybe i’ll cry a little bit ed at 18: i cried last friday because alphonse was crying about getting a cat ed at his wedding:
Winry: I think I’m in love with you.
Edward: Oh my god, that’s great news because I’m in love with you too.
Winry: What?
Edward: What?
Alphonse has definitely invited both Ed and Winry to a nice dinner somewhere, then about 10 minutes in, said he was going to the bathroom but really just went home and tricked the other two into going to a nice restaurant together. Ed and Winry fell for this about 5 times before they banned Al from ever getting up from the table alone. When Ed went with him and stood outside of the bathroom door to make sure his brother came back, Al climbed out of the bathroom window and ran. Ed waited for ten minutes before kicking down the door and realizing he’d been tricked into yet another date with his crush.
Listen I love royai but edwin is by far the cutest couple in fma. Like I can’t look at a picture of them without getting a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest knowing that they’re very much happy and in love and it’s perfect
you know what i love about edwin? that despite the fact that they technically “get together” at the end of the series, it wasn’t a will-they-or-won’t-they sort of back and forth between them. they were just waiting for the right time. even when they realized they loved each other, it was kind of an “oh….!” moment instead of a big dawning revelation (even if ed didn’t handle it as well as winry did lmao). and the only thing it changed about them was that they were more aware of their own feelings towards each other and themselves. loving each other made them better, and kept them moving forward, and the narrative never wasted any time leaving their interactions at an awkward place with cheesy unresolved tension.
AND IT WAS SO GOOD. IT’S STILL SO GOOD. AND THEY GOT MARRIED AND HAD LOTSA CUTE BABIES AND THEY’RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE THERE FOR EACH OTHER AND NOW I GO LIE DOWN AND DIE
there’s a scene in the manga in which ed gently tugs on winry’s hair to get her attention and it kills me softly every time i had to draw him doing it again. i hope he keeps doing that even when they’re married. GOD
FMA appreciation life 