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What are your feelings on the relationship of Ed and Al? Do you think it can be compared to that of Jon and Arya’s?

I think they’re fundamentally different relationships. Both positive siblings relationships, but totally different.

1) Ed and Al only have each other. Though they were lucky to be taken in by Pinako, it does not change the fact that they were each others only family. They lost their dad when he left without an explanation, they lost their mother when she died of her illness, they lost her a second time with the failed resurrection, and then they lost their house, the last vestiges of memories of their mother. This left them alone, with a shared trauma and tragedy, and made it so that they had to depend on each other and protect each other. It’s isolating and lonely, but they had each other.

Jon and Arya were not alone. They had other siblings and a happy childhood, and they still have other siblings they can turn to and depend on.

2) Ed and Al’s journey is (mostly) taken together. They go out and learn alchemy together, they learn to fight together, they study together, they go through the same trials and challenges up until near the end where they were forced to separate for a period of time. Their character development and growth happens while they are basically in arm’s reach of each other.

Jon and Arya, however, go on their own journeys, totally separate. They have to fend for themselves and survive alone, and while they often think of each other, it does not change the fact that they are thousands of miles away from each other and likely won’t reunite until near the end of the series.

3) Ed harbors immense guilt over what happened to Al during their failed transmutation. He blames himself for not protecting Al and feels that his brother losing his body is all his fault. He is driven by that guilt and love for his brother to find the solution that would bring his brother’s body back. His journey centers around his brother, and is propelled forward by his feelings of loss and guilt and shame.

Jon and Arya on the other hand, don’t have that element in their relationship at all. There’s no guilt, no shame, neither of them inadvertently brought about some cataclysmic event on the other— it’s just a normal, healthy relationship. The only goal they share is reuniting with each other.

So no, I don’t think their relationships are comparable at all, though they both belong in the “best siblings ever” category.

You’re like my favorite asoiaf blog ever and you share my fmab love too, so I wanna rec you my most favourite fmab fic ever. Catalysis by aventria and iluxia. Can be found on both ffnet and Ao3. But be warned it’s a work in progress, hasn’t updated in 4 years -but author promises she’s working on it. It’s also gonna have a gay main pair in future – fine if you don’t read that but it’s ed’s pov and has mind blowing world building. Roy mustang is portrayed as uber politician to the t. Try it? 👍

thank you!!!

mapsfromearlierdays:

quoththeqrowin:

I love how in FMA, you have all these longstanding friendships/partnerships with romantic undertones as most of the love stories.

And then there’s Al and Mei. Al meets Mei, and she instantly gets these incredibly unrealistic expectations of how manly and gentlemanly and perfect Al is. And, normally, a show would have her learn he’s not all that. But instead FMA has Al proceed to prove every single one of her expectations right and the fantasy is never broken for a second. 

What a fucking stud.

you might say he’s a knight in shining armor