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I just thought of possibly the cutest/coolest au idea for Fmab: after their mom died, instead of Ed and Al being raised by Granny, the military move them all the way up north to Fort Briggs where they are trained and raised by the Major General Armstrong herself. She takes them under her wing and makes them into the strongest Briggs soldiers anyone has seen yet, and just maybe getting attached to them along the way, though you’d only ever hear her speak of them proudly to those closest to her.
Lil warm up sketches I did today, I will probably draw more later or tomorrow!
(The creature is the Chimera! Ed AU I was procrastinating on lol.)
I should probably work on the FMA/B AUs I was working on last month. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Old screenshots of an AU concept I was working on. I don't remember the specifics?? But it's like one of those AUs where Ed ends up in a different universe as a toll from Truth. But in this AU it's Ed going into a modern setting, it's got all the stuff from the modern AU I was working on (I'm altering the stuff I got for that so that'll be fun.), with no concept of anything and having the knowledge of "his world". Kinda like COS/FMA 2003 but I can't say for certain bc I need to rewatch 2003 and watch COS.
EDIT (just before I post): I ALMOST FORGOT; I remember that I said it's FMA Ed going into said modern AU so he'll know certain characters (e.g. Al, Winry, Roy, Riza, etc.) But in the modern AU that he ends up in there's now the addition of characters he never met (e.g. Ling, Lanfan, etc.). There's also no homunculi, this au is kinda chill? It's just Ed trying to, at the very minimum, gain a sort of contact with the Al of "his world" and to gain knowledge of this "new world" he's in. (Approaching it from a scientific standpoint and all that bc there's things that are completely advanced for his time period, which is the early 1900's and so he wouldn't know what a cellular mobile phone is and that's funny to me.)
Uhhh Ed's age hasn't been thought of but he's probably 14-15. Maybe?? I'll tell y'all when I make more mental notes.
These were made before my phone reset completely so I will be redrawing these sketches and working more on the concept today.
Idk, but I thought it was silly.
More of the "MAUBWAT" (Modern AU but with a twist), as I've dubbed it, AU I posted about last night.
I think it'd be clear to certain characters, like Roy, that this "new" Ed isn't the Ed they know. Also I'm gonna probably write out something within the next few days for this. Probably gonna split chapters by post and whatnot since I don't have an AO3 acc. So, expect that in the near future! Maybe. Idk yet.
Also yes the bottom left corner doodle is Ed chewing on a mobile phone. Why? Idk it popped up in my head.
The characters shown are Ed, Al, Roy, Black hayate, and Truth just so that's clear.
I slept and dreamt of a new AU I'm gonna work on. I'm gonna be swimming in AUs before I even finish writing one out istg.
I'm working on an AU comic as we speak; Finally being productive (idk what I'm doing its gonna be so shit).
If you guys like it I'll keep making the comic, I'm probably gonna post like a page or two at a time.
Have this sketch of Roy looking so done even though nothing happened
Would you look at that? I finally finished the comic in a good amount of time. It took me 14 hours and 20 some minutes but I did it!!!
Press the pic to get a better look, bc tumblr makes the quality shit when you don't.
If you guys like the comic then I'll continue it; If not then I'll just write out the story with little to no pics.
FMA/B AU but it's just Sally Face;
Might draw that later actually.
Have this tiny, old sketch of Ed I did a week ago, or smth like that.
To clarify; These are the AUs I have scattered in my brain:
- Fear&Hunger AU
- Chimera! Ed AU
- Modern AU
- Modern AU but with a twist AU (MAUBWAT AU)
- Sally Face AU
- Sbilanciato! Ed AU
- Role shift AU
- [Idk what to call this AU] AU
- Ed, Ed n' Ed AU
There's probably more that I'm not thinking of rn. But the reason I made this post is to organize what I have thought of AU wise. If I make more AUs I'll reblog this and add more. I'm gonna be rebloging it on my page anyway for each of the lil details I have thought of regarding each AU.
The newer AU ideas are the Sally Face AU, Sbilanciato! Ed AU, Role Shift AU, Ed Ed n' Ed AU, and the last one idk what to name yet; But I have ideas for them all, just you wait and see:)
I'm not going to be explaining the F&H AU, I've kinda abandoned it and don't feel like explaining nor working on it. Everything else will be explained though.
Also yes, the AU called Ed, Ed n' Ed 's name is based off of Ed, Edd n' Eddy from the show with that name; I thought it'd be funny given that'd be the AU where I just have Ed interacting with other variants of himself. (It's not nessicarily an AU, but it's a concept. I'll explain more later.)
Some sketches of four of the AUs:)
This'll be for FMA/B AUs. The one with the most votes may get an established comic (One of them already will. But so will the most voted one if the one isn't picked.)
Giving this poll only a day, might redo it if I don't get any results.
The order of which is most votes to least will be how I go about it.
The winner of the FMA/B AU poll is..
CHIMERA ED! AU!!
Second place is Homunculus Swap AU, and third being Modern AU!
I'll be posting about the Chimera Ed AU soon then:) Either tonight or over the weekend, ut depends.
Here is the consensus of the Chimera! Ed AU;
Be warned there's spoilers I'm pretty sure.
This AU starts out just like the Canon sources: Ed and Al doing human transmutation, it leading to Ed loosing his leg and only moments later his arm due to bonding Al's soul to a suit of armor as Al lost his physical form to the gate, Mustang and Hawkeye coming to Resembool looking for two adult Alchemists only to find out their sources were wrong and learned of the human transmutation as well as the fact that Ed and Al are like 11-10, Ed getting the automail surgery and then a year later getting into the military, Barry the chopper shit; Y'know, everything up to where FMA 03 diverges itself from Brotherhood and manga. At that point the Chimera! Ed AU diverges as well.
(*Giovi note: As much as I'd like to mix elements of FMA 03 and FMAB for this AU, this AU will follow FMAB more as honestly I remember more from Brotherhood; I need to rewatch both 03 and Brotherhood if I'll be honest, but yeah.)
The trip to Lab 5 doesn't go as planned. Ed and Al go, fight both the newly soul possessing armor Barry the chopper as well as the slicer brothers, the homunculi show up and incompacitate Ed. Blah, blah, blah. But, instead of giving Ed to Al; They put him in the hands of some of the scientists who were working on Chimera research and creation in the 5th lab (They most likely moved to a different location to continue their work after it was destroyed by Envy, and Lust.) as to monitor their sacrifice more closely. In turn keeping him from getting killed if he went on more missions as well as just to 'have fun' with him, in a sense.
This would lead to the eventual transmutation experiments that lead to Ed becoming a Chimera.
(*Giovi note: I know most people probably think of cats or dogs in terms of animals to use for chimeras, when I was first thinking of this AU I actually went over other people's works on AO3 of their Chimera Ed's as to see how most would view him behavior wise as well as which animal to pair him with. I saw a few of Ed with dog/wolf, at least one of him transmuted as a cat Chimera; So my assumption that people typically chose such was correct. However, I personally am straying away from that thought. For starters, I don't think they'd believe it to be a good idea that the Fullmetal Alchemist, known for his temper and being a protector, to have a predatory animal mixed into his mindset and body. If anything, that could make him more dangerous to the people working on him, or even the homunculi themselves. Therefore I believe they'd mix him with a prey-animal. As means to both humiliate him, reducing him to a panicked, skittish mindset as well as smaller attributes to be taken even less seriously if he were to go out into public again. This is why I chose an armadillo for Ed, a prey-animal known to curl up and hide when in distress and act rather docile in most situations unless cornered as well as to eat bugs. An animal seen as diseased by most. Honestly, I do think the armidillo is very fitting of Ed. But I digress.)
So, yeah, he goes through various experiments; Having his automail crudely removed as to keep him from preforming Alchemy as well as to keep him from hurting the scientists too badly. When the homunculi aren't constantly hovering over the experiments, possibly going to check over Alphonse to make sure he's still kicking in his rust bucket, Ed is able to make his escape. He had tried to escape a few times in the past, but without his automail, that'd probably make it a lot harder. So he'd try escaping, hiding out within the vents and such of the lab or building they chose to turn into a lab as he finds his automail; Promptly attaching the leg automail limb to his body, of course after getting some basic tools as he wandered the vents into different rooms. It is already painful to have someone else attach automail, let alone reattach, now it is probably a lot worse when its done all by himself; Him being an amateur at best, with only one usable arm and lack of energy from however long he had been hiding in the vents before finding and therefore reattached his limbs. He most likely vomited from the pain alone, shockingly not passing out (But it's Ed, with his determined ass he probably would keep himself from passing out for as long as he could; Especially with such an adrenaline high he probably got on from the pain.)
He most likely reattached the limb wrong, probably not connecting a good few of his nerves; But enough to still allow some movement, to help him escape faster. But not enough to help him out if he were to get into a fight, probably shorting out. His arm was practically useless, having frozen up back initially in the 5th lab when Envy approached him, so he never attached the limb. He just tied it to his back; With a cloth of some sort, taking some hanging up scientists coats and putting them on as well.
When he did make his escape, he was nearly found out, having ran through a corridor he had watched scientists leave through even through days of the initial transmutation and the experiments that shortly followed that. If it weren't for Havoc conveniently searching the area for a different threat (Scar probably, he had split up from Mustang to search. But they also had been searching for Ed after he went missing, it being much harder to do with how tight lipped Al, Ross, and Brosh were being about the whole situation. They still had their jobs to do though); Ed probably wouldn't of escaped successfully.
The only issue was, Havoc's first instinct when seeing Ed was to point a gun at him; At first unknowing that it was indeed Ed.
Ed's appearance had greatly changed after the experiments occurred. These experiments being much lower budget, most likely kept from Bradley himself given Ed was "called dibs on" by him, and probably were to conclude whether or not Chimeras could be made using cheaper methods. (So unlike the Devil's Nest gang) Ed now looked more animalistic and smaller, his back unnaturally curved like a macaroni noodle, his face furry and almost shrew like with little whiskers and a snout, his eyes cataracted and white like Nina's had been when she was transmuted with Alexander, his right arm now only containing three fingers with long claws at the end of them. Rounded ears on top of his head. Yet he still had his long, golden hair with golden bangs. Still had that, although much dimmed out, fire in his eyes that inexplicably made everyone know who he was. And his voice. His voice sounded just like his own, yet with a bit more squeakiness to it. In the back of his throat, he seemed to emit a squeaking, almost beeping sound. Especially as he looked over Havoc when he was found.
So yeah, that's basically sumerizes the context you'll need of the AU once I start drawing out it's comic. It may take me a bit to draw the comic out, however, please be patient with me. All posts with the tag "#Chimera ed au" , "#Chimera ed" all pertain to this AU. That is going to be how ill organize the posts for now.
Anyway, if you have any questions, wanna give suggestions for the AU, or even just wanna tell me to stfu about the AUs; Use the ask box on my acc or just comment. I'll answer whatever I can. :)
Reblogging this bc I thought of a silly question for y'all.
By answering 'yes', that means you guys can interact with the comic through my ask box or by commenting; By answering 'no', you don't want that and you'd prefer the story to be non-interactive.
I just want opinions from you all, especially given this AU was the most requested in my earlier poll.
Here is the consensus of the Chimera! Ed AU;
Be warned there's spoilers I'm pretty sure.
This AU starts out just like the Canon sources: Ed and Al doing human transmutation, it leading to Ed loosing his leg and only moments later his arm due to bonding Al's soul to a suit of armor as Al lost his physical form to the gate, Mustang and Hawkeye coming to Resembool looking for two adult Alchemists only to find out their sources were wrong and learned of the human transmutation as well as the fact that Ed and Al are like 11-10, Ed getting the automail surgery and then a year later getting into the military, Barry the chopper shit; Y'know, everything up to where FMA 03 diverges itself from Brotherhood and manga. At that point the Chimera! Ed AU diverges as well.
(*Giovi note: As much as I'd like to mix elements of FMA 03 and FMAB for this AU, this AU will follow FMAB more as honestly I remember more from Brotherhood; I need to rewatch both 03 and Brotherhood if I'll be honest, but yeah.)
The trip to Lab 5 doesn't go as planned. Ed and Al go, fight both the newly soul possessing armor Barry the chopper as well as the slicer brothers, the homunculi show up and incompacitate Ed. Blah, blah, blah. But, instead of giving Ed to Al; They put him in the hands of some of the scientists who were working on Chimera research and creation in the 5th lab (They most likely moved to a different location to continue their work after it was destroyed by Envy, and Lust.) as to monitor their sacrifice more closely. In turn keeping him from getting killed if he went on more missions as well as just to 'have fun' with him, in a sense.
This would lead to the eventual transmutation experiments that lead to Ed becoming a Chimera.
(*Giovi note: I know most people probably think of cats or dogs in terms of animals to use for chimeras, when I was first thinking of this AU I actually went over other people's works on AO3 of their Chimera Ed's as to see how most would view him behavior wise as well as which animal to pair him with. I saw a few of Ed with dog/wolf, at least one of him transmuted as a cat Chimera; So my assumption that people typically chose such was correct. However, I personally am straying away from that thought. For starters, I don't think they'd believe it to be a good idea that the Fullmetal Alchemist, known for his temper and being a protector, to have a predatory animal mixed into his mindset and body. If anything, that could make him more dangerous to the people working on him, or even the homunculi themselves. Therefore I believe they'd mix him with a prey-animal. As means to both humiliate him, reducing him to a panicked, skittish mindset as well as smaller attributes to be taken even less seriously if he were to go out into public again. This is why I chose an armadillo for Ed, a prey-animal known to curl up and hide when in distress and act rather docile in most situations unless cornered as well as to eat bugs. An animal seen as diseased by most. Honestly, I do think the armidillo is very fitting of Ed. But I digress.)
So, yeah, he goes through various experiments; Having his automail crudely removed as to keep him from preforming Alchemy as well as to keep him from hurting the scientists too badly. When the homunculi aren't constantly hovering over the experiments, possibly going to check over Alphonse to make sure he's still kicking in his rust bucket, Ed is able to make his escape. He had tried to escape a few times in the past, but without his automail, that'd probably make it a lot harder. So he'd try escaping, hiding out within the vents and such of the lab or building they chose to turn into a lab as he finds his automail; Promptly attaching the leg automail limb to his body, of course after getting some basic tools as he wandered the vents into different rooms. It is already painful to have someone else attach automail, let alone reattach, now it is probably a lot worse when its done all by himself; Him being an amateur at best, with only one usable arm and lack of energy from however long he had been hiding in the vents before finding and therefore reattached his limbs. He most likely vomited from the pain alone, shockingly not passing out (But it's Ed, with his determined ass he probably would keep himself from passing out for as long as he could; Especially with such an adrenaline high he probably got on from the pain.)
He most likely reattached the limb wrong, probably not connecting a good few of his nerves; But enough to still allow some movement, to help him escape faster. But not enough to help him out if he were to get into a fight, probably shorting out. His arm was practically useless, having frozen up back initially in the 5th lab when Envy approached him, so he never attached the limb. He just tied it to his back; With a cloth of some sort, taking some hanging up scientists coats and putting them on as well.
When he did make his escape, he was nearly found out, having ran through a corridor he had watched scientists leave through even through days of the initial transmutation and the experiments that shortly followed that. If it weren't for Havoc conveniently searching the area for a different threat (Scar probably, he had split up from Mustang to search. But they also had been searching for Ed after he went missing, it being much harder to do with how tight lipped Al, Ross, and Brosh were being about the whole situation. They still had their jobs to do though); Ed probably wouldn't of escaped successfully.
The only issue was, Havoc's first instinct when seeing Ed was to point a gun at him; At first unknowing that it was indeed Ed.
Ed's appearance had greatly changed after the experiments occurred. These experiments being much lower budget, most likely kept from Bradley himself given Ed was "called dibs on" by him, and probably were to conclude whether or not Chimeras could be made using cheaper methods. (So unlike the Devil's Nest gang) Ed now looked more animalistic and smaller, his back unnaturally curved like a macaroni noodle, his face furry and almost shrew like with little whiskers and a snout, his eyes cataracted and white like Nina's had been when she was transmuted with Alexander, his right arm now only containing three fingers with long claws at the end of them. Rounded ears on top of his head. Yet he still had his long, golden hair with golden bangs. Still had that, although much dimmed out, fire in his eyes that inexplicably made everyone know who he was. And his voice. His voice sounded just like his own, yet with a bit more squeakiness to it. In the back of his throat, he seemed to emit a squeaking, almost beeping sound. Especially as he looked over Havoc when he was found.
So yeah, that's basically sumerizes the context you'll need of the AU once I start drawing out it's comic. It may take me a bit to draw the comic out, however, please be patient with me. All posts with the tag "#Chimera ed au" , "#Chimera ed" all pertain to this AU. That is going to be how ill organize the posts for now.
Anyway, if you have any questions, wanna give suggestions for the AU, or even just wanna tell me to stfu about the AUs; Use the ask box on my acc or just comment. I'll answer whatever I can. :)
The results are in!
The Chimera! Ed AU comic will be interactive! (Bc holy fuck 100% voted yes.)
I will go over things now as to prepare everyone or give people a head start on asking questions. (This is only if you want to, these questions should be directed toward the main cast of FMAB but I will explain later on in this post!)
There are a few rules, not that anyone should have a problem following them nor won't they be common sense, but I'm stating them regardless. Y'know, just in case.
1.) No ships should be brought up within this particular AU, especially ships *involving* Ed. You can ask characters their thoughts or relationships with fellow characters as to establish a feel for them. But no questions or statements of "oo you should get together with so-n-so.". Those comments/asks will be ignored unless I can think of a funny reaction a character may have. However, Ed specifically will *not* be shipped with any characters within this AU; Mostly because I feel really uncomfortable having a borderline animal having a relationship with a human (I'm also not shipping Ed with other chimeras.)
2.) No OCs should be asked to be in the au or anything. But, I will give a little leeway in the sense of drawing said OCs as literal background characters. They will serve no point in the plot unless there are some good suggestions (e.g. someone's oc could be one of the lab scientists or smth.) This is a flexible rule but a rule because I will most likely not put people's OCs in the background. The shipping rule also pertains with OCs and Canons (but please don't get me wrong, I love OC x CC, but just not in this AU. Maybe if I were to make a public rp I would give leeway but as far as the comic goes: No.)
3.) No sexual or NSFW questions/asks. I will not entertain those asks/comments. ESPECIALLY if it involves a minor (aged) character. Suggestive asks (to an extent) will be allowed with *only* adult characters. (The miniskirt shit doesn't count as suggestive but if it were, that would be OK to talk to Roy about for example.)
4.) No racial slurs in asks/comments, even if you can reclaim; I cannot and therefore will not add that into the comic.
5.) No physically interacting with characters (ONE EXCEPTION)! This'll lead to things getting confusing, but if you do want to interact with the characters physically ill make it so that you can; Just ask!:)
That's all for rules, simple? I think.
Moving on to characters you as the viewer can interact with!!
- Edward Elric:
He will view the comments/asks as him hearing things, therefore he will most likely panic or act skittish.
- Alphonse Elric:
Asks/comments will be in the form of cats he stashes in his armor, or rather cat; Specifically the yellow striped one he was seen with a decent amount in the 03 anime and GBA game. Al is the only exception to the "No physically interacting" rule. Because asks for him is a cat, so you can (within reason) physically interact with him.
- Scar:
He will probably ignore asks/comments at first! That being said, he thinks it's his brother communicating to him through his arm; Or victims of his arm.
- Roy Pisstang:
He will probably view asks/comments similarly to Ed, but process them with much less panic. Probably believing it to be his gut or intuition.
- Riza Hawkeye:
She is the same as Roy in the ask/comments sense.
- Jean Havoc:
This bbg will think that he's finally reached his breaking point mentally, however, he will entertain the asks/comments to an extent. He is much more relaxed for such with a cigarette.
- Alex Armstrong:
He's just insane and probably thinks his big ass muscles are talking to him. Idk. Or his fucking tuff of hair.
For now, as of the beginning of the comic, these are the characters you as the viewer can interact with!
You can interact in many ways: Ask questions, give advice (do not spoil upcoming events, this takes place in the beginning of manga/brotherhood. Lab 5 went different, read the linked post!)
Anyway. Ask questions, give advice, talk to the characters, torment Ed: As long as you follow the rules, I'm happy.
Ok so I'm loosing motivation again for tonight so I got some sketches for the Al centric AU I was talking about with his soul inhibiting a plush or stuffed animal rather than the suit of armor. Yes, it's impractical for the plot or whatever; But I think it's silly so I will be silly.
This isng a ref sheet or anything, it's just some random doodles that came to mind before I said fuck it and gave up.
I'm gonna call this AU "plush al au" in the tags, just a heads up.
The place where I put the blood seal is temporary until I either figure something else out or whatever. Idk yet, this AU is very early stages.
I am trying not to scream but it is too late because I already have cried from how BEAUTIFUL this is. The emotions, the music, the expressions!
The amount of details in this as well 😭❤️ everything is just well done and I love this and most importantly, I love the human who drew this for me 🫂
I suggest you guys look at Lynn’d worked and arts because they are incredible 😩🤌🏻💖
“ Took my kids? Take my fire now.” is my longest fic yet. It isn't for everyone, as it contains heavy themes, such as death, blood, depression, murder, torture, and the list goes on. Proud of it and it is work of hard labor haha. One thing I could say that this fic has a very happy ending and God I hope I can finish it before December ends
If you can't read that fic- just enjoy this video. Pretty sure u watched it over 200 times since Lyly sent it to me
A brief video I made for @awesomedurraworld back in the beginning of October for her fic, Take my Kids? Take my Fire Now! on ao3! I have now gotten permission to post so I hope you all enjoy, and I hope you all go read her fic!!