Fullmetal Alchemist Fans Will Say Shit Like 'tbh Him Getting Impaled Was One Of My Favorite Moments In

a comic where serizawa and reigen get into a tense conversation about counsellors and moms (and maybe actually about other things, too).

this is a bit experimental, and may be a bit rough around the edges. i mostly did it bc 1) i wanted to explore reigen and serizawa's flaws and relationships, 2) try to make smth out of serizawa mom's OVA drama cd gag, 3) explore the idea of courage, again. (i think it's also hilarious that reigen just insists on not telling seri abt his lack of powers despite telling mob and tome(after like a month??). and seri just knows and rolls with it. despite sincerity being his whole thing, i think he's good at accepting lies.) some dialogues are also intended to have extra weight with context from reigen separation arc and final ???% arc. i'm not sure if they came across well. but if not, i hope you enjoyed it anyway!

thank you for reading! edit: now also on ao3.

Honestly love tall Shigeo he deserves to tower over short king Teru. He either finally gets to be taller than Ritsu too or Ritsu is just barely clinging on to like 1cm over him and its too close for comfort. Reigen is dying inside over his kid all too quickly growing up and having the audacity to be taller than him while he's at it. Serizawa is just happy for him growing up. Bonus points for buff Shigeo the Body Improvement Club paid off so going into like college or something he's an absolute mountain of a guy and still the nicest most polite creature on the planet. Truly embodying the spirit of the Body Improvement Club ✊✨

One thing that makes the mind control in the Divine Tree arc sooooo creepy to me is how much the brainwashed characters still act like themselves. A lot of the time in fiction when characters are mind-controlled they become zombie-like or robotic, with their original personalities suppressed. Or sometimes they become actively sinister, an "evil version" of themselves.

Obviously Divine Tree doesn't do that. Dimple's telling the truth when he says he hasn't changed anyone's personality, he's just given them something new to care about. "A blessing for those who have nothing and long for a place to belong." And that's horrifying. Both because it feels like in some ways a deeper violation than simply making someone pretend to be a person they're not, and because it means that the effect it creates is basically the same as people who have been taken in by cult rhetoric in the real world. The Divine Tree doesn't use magic to create effects that can only be achieved by magic; it uses it to speedrun the radicalization process.

The Divine Tree Arc isn't the horror of having someone you know replaced by an alien consciousness. It's the horror of knowing that the person standing against you is really your friend, your classmate, your brother, your mentor--they just care about something new now. And it's the horror of knowing that when push comes to shove, they're always going to care about that new thing more than they care about you.

Made Teru extra sparkly cause he deserves it

ok but what if i

ABoT does DnD. It’s like Actor AU except they’re a group of frustrated nerds arguing about stupid details at 1 am on a Friday night in Mogami’s basement

Ft. these scenarios probably break all the DnD rules but we’re having fun

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