roy mustang being a dad for 35 minutes straight 

LOL. To think I forgot about that line.

Ed and Al needed Roy. Hard. Family is what you make of it; and love is what it is.

My mum's new husband fr (hes actually a good person)

Really???? Where can I order it?

I second the above comment. What’s the name of the novel?!?! I gotta get my hands on that thing

Okay we NEED to know what that book is called.

​@@janusnightshade9848 must be the abducted alchemist

Awwww

Plus Ed is a minor 😭

@@hellom3laniehereeven Travis Willingham (Roy’s English VA) said it was just wrong since Ed was 15.

@@khfan4life365Exactly

Well tbh if they ship the brothers, shipping them is nothing 😅😅😅

Yesh I never understood the ship. Like you said ed is a miner and roy is like 30.

Wait. W h a t

@@bluemilo7531Ed and Al were on a train, returning home from a mission, and bumped into Mustang on the train. Mustang was flirting with a few women while Ed tried to get his attention to talk about the mission. Mustang kept waving him away until Ed decided to say “hey, dad!” and ran to him like they were long lost family. The women left Roy because they heard Ed and thought Roy was married. All in all, it’s pretty funny. Then, the two teamed up in a fight and Roy called Ed “son” and Ed called Roy “dad” to rib at each other. Later, Ed got kidnapped (hence the title) and the kidnapper called Roy’s office for a ransom. Roy’s team heard the kidnapper say something along the lines of “we have your son” and started teasing him for supposedly having an illegitimate child.

@@khfan4life365 thank you sm- i needed more son and father moments between them.

​@@khfan4life365That's a bit disturbing if you think about the age difference. Roy is 29/30 years old in the series and Edward is 15/16 years old. Ed is literally half Roy's age. So that's implying Roy would of been a teen dad if Ed really was his son.

@@TimberlakeTigerGirl it is, but since Roy acts more mature than he is and Ed is so short, it’s easy to assume that either Roy is older than he is or Ed is younger than he is.

And also it illustrates Ed's acceptance of what he'd done. On some level he always knew that they'd deserved the price they paid for partaking in human transmutation. They'd made their choice. But Mustang didn't choose to participate. And it's why I like that in the anime he gets his eyesight back

Hilarious with 17's Hero's Frontier Step...

No but Armstrong is

Yeah, it’s sorta similar to the trope where a teacher sees something g in a student and realizes that they have something special and talk with them outside of class to see how they are doing. Roy knows Ed is very gifted and knows he’s an orphan, and understands he can’t come across as a parental character or else Ed will get mad.

The way I see it, Roy is Ed if he were given responsibility and forced to obey authority figures instead of giving into his natural disdain for them. So he indulges Ed and presents himself as an authority figure that Ed can actually act out and rebel against a little without consequence. Roy also knows what happens when children and military mix. So he's giving Ed and Al as much semblance of normality as they can get.

Sounds like Kagura's relationship with Gintoki in Gintama

Yeah this is accurate. I’ve worked at summer camps that catered to kids who grew up without fathers (mostly incarcerated, if their fathers are in a certain reform program in the prison system). The boys were much more likely to be angry and all the kids, boys and girls, were unreceptive to the male staff of the camp. The younger boys with older brothers tended to be more receptive to male authority and not nearly as angry. Very similar to Ed vs. Al

⁠​⁠@@justsomeguywithabeardx Yeah, I think it's easy to forget that Ed and Al are technically child soliders!

Crippled kids? Into the army with you!

​@@thatguy8711 crippled orphans

@@thatguy8711 LOL

ur right, he's absolutely uncle-coded

Nah he is definitely a dad, just a dad who is a bit too young to have a kid Ed's age, which brings out the immature side of him that makes him SEEM like a smug older brother.😂

@@Sakachi18yeah a dad that skipped the infant and toddler stage of parenting so hasn’t matured with the kids yet

@@OctagonalSquare nah based uncle

Uncle mustang

They the parents who stepped up

So that's where they get their blonde hair from

Yeah without context you would think Roy and Riza are eds and Al’s parents even if you don’t see Al’s face a weird family but eh every family has their quirks

Izumi and Sid are. Roy is Ed's older half-brother who moved out ten years ago and loves to give him guff while his wife (Riza) is nothing but nice to both of them.

@@Clepto_and_CoHoenheim is blonde though? 😂😂😂

he’s such a dad i love him

THATS IT IM READING THE MANGA

​@@zaytaz9331oh bro... It's absolutely incredible.

One of the few times it becomes painfully clear that despite Ed and Al's cunning, genius, perseverance and bravery, at the end of the day? They're still two kids who shouldn't have had to experience hell like their encounters with the Truth, Shou Tucker's sins against nature itself for the sake of his title, or the revelation that the Philosipher's Stone they "need" to repair their bodies was made of countless human souls trapped with a confined space. Yeah, it sucks that there's never enough discussion about that scene. But it kinda helps preserve the impact of Izumi comforting the two as they repeatedly apologize for breaking the one main rule she warned them to never break. There's just something about moments like that in anime and manga that shouldn't be gossiped about, but just experienced personally. Edit: Wait, you were talking about when Roy first met them?! Shit, that moment should've lasted longer!

Honestly, I have a very robust stomach when it comes to horror and messed up stuff, but Nina scared me for life, I still get the creeps when I see long furred dogs with wigs....... I crie so hard at those points in the story, every time in every version We're sorry we're sorry hits very hard as well though...

that scene has never failed to make my stomach turn and my eyes water. they were just babies.

My thoughts as well, and imo it's extra haunting because Al was around 10 or 11 at the time! I wouldn't be surprised that most people who think being soul-bound to a suit of armor would not realize it'd be extra hard on a kid, where his whole development could have been stunted and left in existential dread (like Al went through most of his late childhood/teens the equivalent of having his nerves cut off to ruin his sense of touch, and being able to not sleep longer than any human should be). It's not only amazing Al was able to be mentally sound for so long - but also able to still develop into a healthy adult!

​@@Scarshadow666Al is underappreciated. He's stronger than Ed in a lot of ways, and his empathy is his best trait. The Elric brothers are some of the best characters in any media

I cry over this scene every single time

If I remember well, Al was something like 5 or 6 when he lost his body ... and Ed 8. It's damn too young to loose a mom and suffer that much

@@Ludep every time I remember just how tiny they were it genuinely makes me feel ill. they were just babies.

Me too now I'm an adult and I still haven't ran through this anime. It might be time

Yeah, plus there's a lot of YA fiction that involves teens being child soldiers or struggling for survival in so post-apocalyptic future/dystopian world or something (Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if some of the dark implications of Ed and Al being child soldiers hadn't really set in since it's kinda been a trope in a lot of stories lately.

​@@HollowNoFacethis is your sign to watch or read it

Yeah.

Just gonna leave Izumi out of it, huh?

@@hinata1ize I forgor

That’s really one of the reasons my heart broke so hard when Hughes passes away. There was a brief moment where it looked like they were normal kids in a happy home, and that was when they went for dinner at the Hughes residence. I could almost picture the Sunday dinners, you know? I’m literally getting choked up just thinking about it. The writers really are amazing

FMA's honestly one of the few series where the adults make sure they don't fail the kids. "It takes a village to raise a child" is its core tenet. The Elrics' may have lost their mom but at no point in their lives were they without a guardian.

It's awesome too because it also ensures more of a finality to the ending than if the Elric's and Winry's traumas affected them into adulthood. Most other series would probably have a sequel series showing the MC's kids/successors having to confront any leftover issues that could still exist long after the previous series ended (whether it's the previous bad guy secretly having a continuum set up that the MC's kids/successors have to fight, and/or the MCs still carry issues/traumas that help create conflict later on). The Elrics looking happy and healthy with their SOs and kids helps end the series in a way that makes things seem like they won't have issues anymore, and probably just wholesome shenanigans.

Nobody gives any fucks

I know, right. I didn't quite understand why the anime cut that part out, but to be fair, they sort of cropped a lot of it out. The 2003 version almost amplified it at times, Brotherhood showed it very few times before immediately getting into the plot, and the manga was in between the two.

@@varkrowt was unnecessary, that’s why

No he says that in Brotherhood as well they just cut it off in this video.

​@@varkrow No he says in in Brotherhood they youtuber just cut it out of this video.

Wait, seriously?

Update: I read it. Love it

@@plasmasnow22 wait what’s the name i need to read this so bad

Yeah in the original he tried to arrest him and everything 😟

One of mustangs main plot points in 03 is that he wants to show he cared about Ed and Al, but fights himself to not. Despite that there are many moments in 03 that shows his care towards Ed is the his priority.

@@akirachaossuta I'd say that's true in Brotherhood too

@@justsheska1718 "I didn't chase after you because I was ordered to, I'm doing it because I'm *pissed*. Now why the hell did you two run away without asking for my help first!?" Yeah, I know, right.

Really I found in the original Mustang treated Edward like shit compared to Botherhood. Especially in the scene where they find Nina corspe on the wall, Mustang literally throws Ed on the ground and tells him to grow up, vs in Brotherhood he gives them there space and protects them from scar. I know in the original he also does the same but it came across as he was doing it out of obligation.

ayo

You mean our children? I'm willing to share

​@@arrielradja5522 Jokes on you. Riza wont share

So real for that

Yes, Lt. Riza, these posts over here.

but an irreplaceable one nonetheless

scratch that, reverse it

fr, down to sharing personal traumas of their past

💀💀💀

Forgive him, he is only 14 😅

That's mighty rich of him to say that considering what Alchemy is capable of in warfare.

@@TimberlakeTigerGirla gun is only meant to harm and destroy. Alchemy can by used create

@abaddon5759 Tell that to all the Ishvalans killed by alchemists during the war. And guns do, in fact, save lives if used under the right circumstances.

Teamfourstar reference ? Lol

@@superdrifter-1773 yes

I thought Ace was voiced by Johnny Young Bosch (Ichigo's VA)

@@detectivemememachin5011 look it up on the "One Piece" Wikipedia page

@@detectivemememachin5011no that’s Sabo

Literally ahaha

that's so sweet omg you actually made my day

@@amerelle Oh you're so welcome!!! If it makes you even happier I actually sent this to my best friend who also loves FMAB who had a bad day and it says it made her laugh!!!

@@amerelle did you really try to give your brother a cupcake made of toothpaste?

Depends on which kind of blind you have. Certainly with Glaucoma, you see black.

@@MaryLuCrafts Black is absence.

This is "No cones and rods in his eyeballs" blind. True Black is interpreted by the brain as the absence of input data, normally it's the lack of light bounce to receive, now there are cases where eyes were removed, damaged, or lost "incorrectly" according to the nervous system, leading to occular nerve ending shorts that are interpreted as colors, but that's not what happened in Mustang's case. In Mustang's case he saw black, the most absolute black possible, there were no nerve shorts to produce color patterns, nor rebound pattern from functional but incorrectly located cones, the cones and rods seemingly were evaporated from existence, leaving the ball itself intact if a little more structurally fragile.