I am hoping it will help me to break my cursed meme streak! o/
FMA:
1. My favorite character.
Ed. PROBABLY THIS ISN'T MUCH OF A SURPRISE, given that he is yet another one of Gokudera's personality twins! What's this? A teenage genius with a tsundere personality and heaps and buckets of angst? WHY YES, I WILL SIGN UP FOR THIS NEWSLETTER. I am so weak for this kind of character, it's not even funny. XD
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
Alphonse! I love how sweet Al is, and yet how underneath that he is just amazingly rock-solid strong to the core. It's like. GEE WHIZ THIS KID SURE IS SURPRISINGLY WELL-ADJUSTED FOR HAVING HAD HIS BODY ALCHEMIED AWAY AND REPLACED BY A GIANT SUIT OF ARMOR. He's just like, yeah btw I have angst and a guilt complex too, it's only natural really seeing as my bro and I fucked with things that should not be fucked with and ended up bringing our mom back to life as a zombie body parts gorefest, and then on top of that my brother sacrificed two of his limbs and almost died just so he could save little old me, and now I am stuck in this giant suit of armor and I can't eat or sleep or do any of those normal things people take for granted, and also I kind of have my hands full taking care of my idiot brother who cares and feels way too much, BUT YOU KNOW. I'm not complaining or anything! Just. GOSH, AL. Of all the Jesuses out there he is ONE OF THE JESUSIEST, for sure.
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
In canon, it's Ed and Al, hands down. But in fandom I have a giant weakness for Parental!Roy/Ed, like to a really embarrassing extent. Because it is a fact that I will leap over metaphorical cliffs and swim across oceans to get my hands on some good, satisfying H/C fic, and if there is any relationship out there that delivers on this in spades, IT'S THIS ONE. Even if like 90% of it is OOC. That made-up statistic probably holds true for pretty much any pairing/relationship in any fandom, anyway.
When it is IC, though, let me tell you, it hits my kinks HARD. Because Ed has daddy issues to begin with, and for all his genius and bravado, he's still just a kid, and is ridiculously young to have been tossed into these circumstances where he and his brother are basically on their own and dealing with war and fucked-up alchemy experiments and batshit bloodthirsty maniacs and all sorts of other things that are bound to fuck up a pair of kids real nice. And while he does have other adults there who do help keep an eye on him (Hughes, Havoc, Izumi... sort of XD), his relationship with Roy is my favorite because Roy of course has a massive pile of issues himself. Plus they also have that awesome snarky this-is-how-we-express-our-feelings-for-each-other-BECAUSE-WE'RE-WINNERS bantering relationship with each other as well, which is also awesome. So yeah, I love it.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
The Tucker storyline. To this day, what happened to Nina Tucker remains one of if not THE single most fucked-up thing I've ever seen in a manga or anime. And it happened pretty early on in the series, too, like only a few episodes in. It was just like, WHAM. FMA: WE KNOW DRAMA, and it was just unbelievably horrifying and yet at the same time I was completely engrossed in everything that was happening. So that was the moment that really cemented it for me that holy shit this series is hardcore. Short of anything Clamp does ever, this is just about as angsty as anime/manga gets.
AND I FUCKING LOST THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST BECAUSE LJ DECIDED TO BE A GIANT WHORE, so I'll be back to finish up again tomorrow. XD
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FMA:
1. My favorite character.
Ed. PROBABLY THIS ISN'T MUCH OF A SURPRISE, given that he is yet another one of Gokudera's personality twins! What's this? A teenage genius with a tsundere personality and heaps and buckets of angst? WHY YES, I WILL SIGN UP FOR THIS NEWSLETTER. I am so weak for this kind of character, it's not even funny. XD
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
Alphonse! I love how sweet Al is, and yet how underneath that he is just amazingly rock-solid strong to the core. It's like. GEE WHIZ THIS KID SURE IS SURPRISINGLY WELL-ADJUSTED FOR HAVING HAD HIS BODY ALCHEMIED AWAY AND REPLACED BY A GIANT SUIT OF ARMOR. He's just like, yeah btw I have angst and a guilt complex too, it's only natural really seeing as my bro and I fucked with things that should not be fucked with and ended up bringing our mom back to life as a zombie body parts gorefest, and then on top of that my brother sacrificed two of his limbs and almost died just so he could save little old me, and now I am stuck in this giant suit of armor and I can't eat or sleep or do any of those normal things people take for granted, and also I kind of have my hands full taking care of my idiot brother who cares and feels way too much, BUT YOU KNOW. I'm not complaining or anything! Just. GOSH, AL. Of all the Jesuses out there he is ONE OF THE JESUSIEST, for sure.
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
In canon, it's Ed and Al, hands down. But in fandom I have a giant weakness for Parental!Roy/Ed, like to a really embarrassing extent. Because it is a fact that I will leap over metaphorical cliffs and swim across oceans to get my hands on some good, satisfying H/C fic, and if there is any relationship out there that delivers on this in spades, IT'S THIS ONE. Even if like 90% of it is OOC. That made-up statistic probably holds true for pretty much any pairing/relationship in any fandom, anyway.
When it is IC, though, let me tell you, it hits my kinks HARD. Because Ed has daddy issues to begin with, and for all his genius and bravado, he's still just a kid, and is ridiculously young to have been tossed into these circumstances where he and his brother are basically on their own and dealing with war and fucked-up alchemy experiments and batshit bloodthirsty maniacs and all sorts of other things that are bound to fuck up a pair of kids real nice. And while he does have other adults there who do help keep an eye on him (Hughes, Havoc, Izumi... sort of XD), his relationship with Roy is my favorite because Roy of course has a massive pile of issues himself. Plus they also have that awesome snarky this-is-how-we-express-our-feelings-for-each-other-BECAUSE-WE'RE-WINNERS bantering relationship with each other as well, which is also awesome. So yeah, I love it.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
The Tucker storyline. To this day, what happened to Nina Tucker remains one of if not THE single most fucked-up thing I've ever seen in a manga or anime. And it happened pretty early on in the series, too, like only a few episodes in. It was just like, WHAM. FMA: WE KNOW DRAMA, and it was just unbelievably horrifying and yet at the same time I was completely engrossed in everything that was happening. So that was the moment that really cemented it for me that holy shit this series is hardcore. Short of anything Clamp does ever, this is just about as angsty as anime/manga gets.
AND I FUCKING LOST THE SECOND HALF OF THIS POST BECAUSE LJ DECIDED TO BE A GIANT WHORE, so I'll be back to finish up again tomorrow. XD