Goals and golems (not really but I like alliterations)
Last year it took me until the second to last hockey practice to score a goal, this year I got one the first day! Seems like I actually learned something :) (I could have had two more if the best player on our team was more interested in passing than in trying to score pretty goals himself, but whatever.) The one I got was pretty: I chased the puck into the offensive zone after a D-man, stole the puck from him, forehand, backhand, goal.
We played for a little over two hours today. The last hour or so my team only had four forwards that rotated, that was exhausting. I'm sore today, but it was worth it.
I watched FMA episodes 18-24.
The homunculi trying to force Ed to kill the prisoners to create a philosopher's stone to save Al's life: poor Ed :(
Right after he fought with souls trapped in armor who asked him to kill them and he refused, neat way to emphasize how much he'll consider doing for Al. Consider, not actually do, well done.
(But seriously, whose smart idea was it to include an alchemist among the prisoners they were planning to sacrifice, and then not even check him for tattoos etc. first? Their plan likely would have worked if not for that.)
Barry messing with Al's mind and making him think that he's "fake" and created by Ed, ouch. Reminds me of what Loki did to Teddy in Young Avengers v2. When Al finally confronts Ed and calls him not his real brother, poor Ed. At least I'm pretty sure Al never doubted that Ed cares about him.
Now after that Ed knows that Al doesn't hate him for what happened, that's good. Ed himself feels so guilty about it, no wonder he thought that. Ed even thought Al was angry at him because Ed hesitated to kill more than a dozen people to restore Al's body - Ed, didn't you listen to Al telling you not to do it? He probably put it out of his mind because he felt guilty.
I love that Al won all their fights as kids.
Winry! I understand her frustration at the Elrics never telling her anything very well. Hughes is right they need her to be there as the older sister when they finally get to a point where they need to talk to someone, and that they want to protect her, but they also should take into account that she worries, and probably comes up with far worse scenarios than what actually happened. …well, maybe not quite.
Hughes is great. He can be ridiculous about his daughter, but he also does that tactically, and he's serious when it counts. Armstrong means well but he's a bit… much. I like Lt. Maria Ross, she seems one of the few people who remembers that the Elric brothers are kids. Ed just became sixteen! She's also competent, which is always nice.
Scar is still a religious fanatic and mass murderer, but at least he has a reason for his murders, I guess. Now he can tell himself he kills State Alchemists to protect what's left of the Ishbalan people from future attacks, instead of just for revenge. I'm really not a fan of religious fanatics.
I like that he stopped trying to kill Al, and that in lab 5 he told Ed to take Al and run after seeing Ed refuse to kill the prisoners. He didn't even attack Ed when Ed joined Al to rescue the Ishbalan boy from the mercenaries.
I'm intrigued by Ed and Al's fight styles. Al is very good, but very defensive minded. I wonder if he accidentally injured someone during sparring one time and is therefore very conscious of how much a giant suit of armor can hurt a flesh-and-blood human. In the fight against the mercenaries he also used alchemy when they were up against a larger force, which makes sense.
Ed, on the other hand, from what I remember rarely uses alchemy during fights (except to create weapons for himself), which I find strange. He doesn't have Al's armor, so I'd guess it would be even more of an advantage for him. Sure, as guard 48 said he won't always have time for it, but definitely more often than he used it, and from what I can recall we haven't seen any indication that using alchemy is a limited resource. Ed transfigures his arm into a blade, but it's a pretty short blade, wouldn't a longer one be more useful? He looks like he's so used to hand-to-hand sparring he doesn't think of alternatives enough.
Even if I hadn't known in advance, by this point I would have figured out that the Fuhrer is evil. So his assistant is a homunculus too, interesting. I wonder what their next plans are? Just follow Ed around because he won't give up and will try to find a stone without having to kill people?
I'll probably switch over to FMA:B now, I'm very curious how that will go.
Best part comes last: I actually managed to study and make good progress yesterday, go me :) Hopefully that continues today. These past few days I'm really not in the mood for cooking, but if I get work done I can just buy myself a pizza or something.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth.
comments there.
We played for a little over two hours today. The last hour or so my team only had four forwards that rotated, that was exhausting. I'm sore today, but it was worth it.
I watched FMA episodes 18-24.
The homunculi trying to force Ed to kill the prisoners to create a philosopher's stone to save Al's life: poor Ed :(
Right after he fought with souls trapped in armor who asked him to kill them and he refused, neat way to emphasize how much he'll consider doing for Al. Consider, not actually do, well done.
(But seriously, whose smart idea was it to include an alchemist among the prisoners they were planning to sacrifice, and then not even check him for tattoos etc. first? Their plan likely would have worked if not for that.)
Barry messing with Al's mind and making him think that he's "fake" and created by Ed, ouch. Reminds me of what Loki did to Teddy in Young Avengers v2. When Al finally confronts Ed and calls him not his real brother, poor Ed. At least I'm pretty sure Al never doubted that Ed cares about him.
Now after that Ed knows that Al doesn't hate him for what happened, that's good. Ed himself feels so guilty about it, no wonder he thought that. Ed even thought Al was angry at him because Ed hesitated to kill more than a dozen people to restore Al's body - Ed, didn't you listen to Al telling you not to do it? He probably put it out of his mind because he felt guilty.
I love that Al won all their fights as kids.
Winry! I understand her frustration at the Elrics never telling her anything very well. Hughes is right they need her to be there as the older sister when they finally get to a point where they need to talk to someone, and that they want to protect her, but they also should take into account that she worries, and probably comes up with far worse scenarios than what actually happened. …well, maybe not quite.
Hughes is great. He can be ridiculous about his daughter, but he also does that tactically, and he's serious when it counts. Armstrong means well but he's a bit… much. I like Lt. Maria Ross, she seems one of the few people who remembers that the Elric brothers are kids. Ed just became sixteen! She's also competent, which is always nice.
Scar is still a religious fanatic and mass murderer, but at least he has a reason for his murders, I guess. Now he can tell himself he kills State Alchemists to protect what's left of the Ishbalan people from future attacks, instead of just for revenge. I'm really not a fan of religious fanatics.
I like that he stopped trying to kill Al, and that in lab 5 he told Ed to take Al and run after seeing Ed refuse to kill the prisoners. He didn't even attack Ed when Ed joined Al to rescue the Ishbalan boy from the mercenaries.
I'm intrigued by Ed and Al's fight styles. Al is very good, but very defensive minded. I wonder if he accidentally injured someone during sparring one time and is therefore very conscious of how much a giant suit of armor can hurt a flesh-and-blood human. In the fight against the mercenaries he also used alchemy when they were up against a larger force, which makes sense.
Ed, on the other hand, from what I remember rarely uses alchemy during fights (except to create weapons for himself), which I find strange. He doesn't have Al's armor, so I'd guess it would be even more of an advantage for him. Sure, as guard 48 said he won't always have time for it, but definitely more often than he used it, and from what I can recall we haven't seen any indication that using alchemy is a limited resource. Ed transfigures his arm into a blade, but it's a pretty short blade, wouldn't a longer one be more useful? He looks like he's so used to hand-to-hand sparring he doesn't think of alternatives enough.
Even if I hadn't known in advance, by this point I would have figured out that the Fuhrer is evil. So his assistant is a homunculus too, interesting. I wonder what their next plans are? Just follow Ed around because he won't give up and will try to find a stone without having to kill people?
I'll probably switch over to FMA:B now, I'm very curious how that will go.
Best part comes last: I actually managed to study and make good progress yesterday, go me :) Hopefully that continues today. These past few days I'm really not in the mood for cooking, but if I get work done I can just buy myself a pizza or something.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth.
comments there.