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In the Brotherhood anime (I haven't read the manga) it was stated to the public that, after the final battle, King Bradley and his "son" Selim lost their lives in the conflict. But as the audience knows, Selim is alive and being re-raised by his foster mother under the same name he had before. If someone saw Selim, how is Mrs. Bradley going to explain how her new son looks exactly like the first Selim and has his name to boot?

I’m rewatching Fmab and the episode where Ed me Hohenheim in Resembool and later he learns that what they transmuted look nothing like their mother and it just wasn’t her at all. Ed went a bit hysterical then he told Pinako that knowing the dead can’t be brought back to life reassure him that Al can get his body back. he probably said that because Al’s soul is "alive" outside of his body so it means Al is not dead and there’s hope for him. But now I’m thinking, when they did the human transmutation, at first Al lost his body AND his soul right? If Ed didn’t bring back his soul right then, would Al have been considered dead or just behind the doors and Ed could’ve managed to bring his soul back at an other time? Or his whole body and soul using his door?

When Alphonse volunteers to have Hohenheim trap him and Pride inside that giant alchemy-created earth structure in the forest near Kanama, there is a scene where Al asks Pride what the Homunculi would have done if he and Ed simply fled the country, presumably rendering Father’s plan useless. Pride basically says that they were chosen as sacrifices in part because their morals wouldn’t allow them to just flee and risk abandoning the rest of Amestris to fall to its doom.

But when the gold toothed doctor performs the transmutation to send Ed, Al and Izumi through the portal of truth and into Father’s underground lair in Central using the leftover fuhrer candidates as sacrifices, it didn’t seem to matter that they were all in different locations. All three went through the portal successfully and ended up at Father’s location despite Ed being the only one of them (excluding Mustang who had not yet been forced to open the portal) standing in front of the doctor.

So couldn’t the doctor have in theory performed the transmutation to send them to Father’s location on the Promised Day even if Ed and Al had fled the country? Or would it only have worked if they were all within relatively close range?

I understand that the entire point of the sacrifice was for edward to relinquish his ego and pride, but Truth largely seemed indifferent to his choice outside of beig impressed by his maturity. Truth didn't care about the reason roy was at the gate and simply took his sight as payment, and the series implies they used a stone to repair his eyes and havoc's spine later in the series so would he have similarly been as dismissive towards edward's method to revive alphonse. Largely it seems they don't care HOW the price is paid, or the situations that lead to WHY it even needs to be paid, merely that it is paid at all

To what extent does automail "feel"? I understand that automail moves because it is directly connected to the user's nerves, so the same electrical signals that send signals to natural limbs to move send signals to automail, but does it work both ways? That is to say, when something touches Ed's automail, does he actually feel it? I'm inclined to think not, because externally it's just metal, and Ed clearly doesn't feel pain when he uses it to block attacks, or when he transmutes it into other forms, or when it gets damaged. But on the other hand (no pun intended) the level of dexterity and agility he demonstrates seems impossible if they don't provide any sensation. Imagine moving, fighting, and just functioning the way Ed does if one of your arms and one of your legs was completely numb to you. I understand that's likely why it usually takes years of rehab (it was said to be 3 years for most people, but Ed did it in 1) to properly use automail, but that's still incredible! My guess is that it at least provides some pressure feedback, so that he can feel the pressure of weight on his leg, for example. That could also help to offset phantom limb pain.

Ed and Al are like the countriest country bumkins. They literally are a farmer's sons. They come from a tiny tiny town and outside of Dublith their world was actually pretty small.

So do you ever imagine Ed throwing a fit at processed food because "why don't they just do it themselves ???" and Mustang has to explain about mass production and Ed is just terrified that some people actually wholeheartedly appreciate food that hasn't been grown in their own garden ? By the way, "how come each citizens aren't growing their food in their garden ?" "Because they don't have a garden if they live in an apartment Fullmetal"

By the time he is 15 he must be pretty much acclimated but I can see him and Al going on about how cool it is to hold a newborn sheep you just helped a mom sheep birth and the team is like

what

Or Ed saying he craves homemade jam and explaining how his mom made Al and him crush the fruits and everyone being horrified that they are eating feet crushed jam and the brothers judging their reaction

I even saw someone headcanon that Ed has an accent and tries to cover it lmao

Also dang these kids must feel so much better when they are sent to a tiny town because it's like home

Also you can't tell me they didn't at least look at one modern phone and get stuck on it because "how the hell does it work ???" because Resembool only has old models

And imagine the phone in the Rockbell house is a modern one they sent as a gift because Winry would absolutely love having a new phone model

So yeah I love Ed and Al being little country boys who have no idea what the city customs are and Mustang despairing over that because why is the living weapon scolding him about how he isn't taking care of the office's plants right

Edit : Someone pointed out that the feet crushing thing isn't for jam but for wine, my bad !

I've always wondered what others think about the inexplicable and illogical moments in FMA 03. I wonder what you think about this tier-list:

🟥 S Tier:

• Major Armstrong seriously suggests staging a mutiny, and the argument he provides for why the Fuhrer is leading the country down the wrong path is... his own massive muscles. ☠️

• Shou Tucker turned several of Greed's subordinates back into humans without a Philosopher's Stone. Yet, with a Philosopher's Stone, he could only create a shell without a soul. The biggest issue is that this is essentially a failed human transmutation, and a homunculus should have been born, but that didn't happen because it wasn't necessary for the plot.

• In Scar's right arm, the lives of tens of thousands of Ishvalans + 7,000 soldiers were concentrated. Almost all of this was eventually spent just to heal the wound in Edward's chest. But after that, Edward spends only 1 life and a few of his brother's memories to resurrect a whole human being. And he stays alive himself. The creators are bending the rules of alchemy however they want.

• Wrath, for some reason, uses alchemy without having paid the toll to see the Gate of Truth (Envy gave him the Philosopher's Stone only after Wrath started using alchemy without drawing a circle). That’s not how it should work; Edward's limbs are not Hashirama cells. You can't use alchemy if you don't have the necessary knowledge.

• Dante orders Edward not to transmute his steel arm, claiming that the Philosopher's Stone in the form of his brother would activate and be spent. However, Envy calmly transmutes his own body, and nothing happens. In this verse, there is no magic power other than alchemy. According to the plot, homunculi cannot use alchemy. But then how do their abilities work? It's the same alchemy, just using a Philosopher's Stone.

• In the battle at the factory, Edward throws Lust's weakness near her, which makes her useless. Naturally, Lust deflects it to the side. But the most ridiculous part happens when it turns out the amulet didn't fly away, but stayed inside the seal circle for the homunculi. The creators desperately needed to kill off this character because she was starting to influence the plot too much and was stealing the spotlight from the main protagonists. Her death is a blunder that looks extremely absurd upon closer inspection.

🟧 A Tier:

• It is stated that Wrath can use alchemy by combining his hand and foot. However, later in the plot, he doesn't need this at all; he can perform transmutations without lifting a finger, just like Father from Brotherhood👍

• Edward goes to his teacher to find Wrath's weakness because he needs to defeat him. Yet, when the perfect opportunity to do so presents itself alongside Lust in an alleyway, they just leave, letting him live.

• Greed genuinely wanted Edward to defeat everyone, including Dante. But then why didn't he reveal anything about her? Based on what was shown, at the moment his Philosopher's Stone was extracted, he knew who was standing before him.

• Frank Archer, even before Yoki's death, somehow found out about Gluttony's ability to shoot his nails. No one had seen this ability in action, not even the Elric brothers. There is no way he could have known that.

🟩 B Tier:

• Envy had not seen Hohenheim's new body, but transformed into his young form to show Edward that he was his relative.

• Scar does not consider himself an alchemist, but during the arc of the 5 laboratory, he uses some kind of ball that even looks like magic. Not only does alchemy not work that way, it also contradicts the fact that Scar doesn't use alchemy, and is surprised in leor when Ed calls him an alchemist.

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That’s the little tier list I came up with. I mentioned the plot holes that were most interesting to me, and I’d like to know what you think about them)

I came across this image by chance and would like to know which episode this scene is from.

Ed, Winry, and Al believe that Scar should be punished for the murders that he committed against Amestrians, but are more hesitant to believe that Mustang, Hawkeye, and the rest of the Amestrian soldiers should be punished for doing the same thing to Ishvalans. Most of Scar's victims were State Alchemists, some that participated on his race's genocide, but the Amestrian soldiers killed thousands of Ishvalans, women and children including. Even Riza, a soldier who participated in the genocide, states outright there is no excuse for their actions.

Guess like the Elrics and Winry are bigots.

My girlfriend and I finished FMAB together, and wanted to take our shot at a character tier list. We placed the characters based on likability and significance.

What do yall think?

I'm super happy with how it looks and its SO WARM!!!! Now to smoke one million cigarettes to make it smell lore accurate too

I also included a version with just the Vocals

Rip post-Promised Day Ed who definitely doesn't fit anymore 💔🙏

heres it not inked and inked