(Untitled)

[bookelfe]

It's Saturday! I am in my office doing work! The reason for this is that this upcoming week is the Big Conference of Epicness that my entire job revolves around, which means that today I am frantically printing out all the lists of Things I Need to Do And Places I Need To Be. In other words, this is basically a notice of absence - I may be

Comments

[futuresoon]

I have not seen the past more than a few episodes of FMA, not read the relevant portions of the manga, but from what I remember of the first anime his brother only gave him the tattoos? Or possibly I am completely wrong about that! I really should catch up.

[bookelfe]

You should! I kind of loved the most recent episodes. But finish Princess Tutu first *cough*

I don't know, man, all I saw was Scar lying there on the battlefield MINUS AN ARM, and then the brother was all, "I WILL SACRIFICE TO SAVE MY BROTHER!" and then next thing Scar is waking up in the hospital all "Oh hey, there's my brother, I see his arm - WAIT THIS ARM IS ATTACHED TO ME WHAT THE HELL!!!!"

[futuresoon]

I knowwww, I knowwww...and I will, I promise!

...that is pretty believable for this series actually. I once tried to make a count of every limb lost, but I think that is a futile exercise. There is an episode in the original series, not the second or the manga, where after Ed's automail arm is destroyed and he's going to get it fixed a little girl steals his leg. (Al, sans all his limbs, was stolen by someone else.) Seriously, you kind of have to wonder if the manga-ka has something against appendages...

[bookelfe]

:D!

I like to imagine there is just a pile of limbs somewhere backstage and the mangaka sits atop it cackling to herself. THAT IS AMAZING. *cracking up* They did the episode where the little girl stole his emo locket, but the leg is something else again!

[futuresoon]

It was a different little girl--this one wanted to get a prosthetic for her dad, who was, of course, also missing a leg. SO SHE STOLE ONE OFF A KID IN THE STREET. I honestly forget how Ed managed to find her again, but it was hilarious (in a horrible sort of way) seeing just how incredibly pathetic he looked lying in the street with two limbs missing. FMA is not a series that is kind to its main characters.

[bookelfe]

I believe the motto of FMA is, WHO NEEDS LIMBS TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.