[fma] I have this longstanding idea in my head for a referential comic that is mostly about undead!Trisha and navigating her Gender Troubles. The magic system would be looser, maybe Pratchettesque. The Elric stand-ins leave their absent father's crystal ball out on a table by a sun-facing window, and when they come home one day,,,
you know
house gone!
grateful forever that 03 so repeatedly throws the Elrics into relief with other sets of brothers, because spending so much time writing from Scar’s perspective, it makes me inevitably think about what a grotesquely privileged impulse choice that was.
can you imagine the boys trying to explain their tragic backstory to like. Rick and Leo. and it ending with them INTENTIONALLY incinerating their house?? lol. lmao, even.
maybe even Ed isn't that thick. but it does tie so very nicely with his end-series growth about Living In A Society And Fucking Acting Like It.
I support this
I really want to make it, it'd be a lot about pastoral isolation, indicting the inevitable failstates of the nuclear family, the loss of identity to Motherhood, tradwifing is simultaneously a pillar of white supremacy and also holding your deliciously seasoned face out specifically to the leopard cage...
maybe she ends up with another monster woman and it turns out she ate Hohenheim at some point lmao
I highly support that
the conclusion, of course, is meaningfully integrating with a community
and lesbianism
maybe I take a page out of manga for once and do actually give hoho a Heroic Reason to leave, then I can integrate that with the "wants to save the world, doesn't do dishes" of it all
because I don't think that analysis is present in the text, at least not in a more challenging way than ed being kind of justified in hating him
cool motive, still a deadbeat and a bastard