its 8:30am and i havent slept and i havent even thought about fma meta in a WHILE but hear me out… the way edward bonds alphonse’s soul to the suit of armor foreshadows how he gets al’s body back at the end. since ed had just seen the truth that means he had just gained his clap-transmutation ability, only for that to be effectively taken away through giving up one of his arms (of course he got automail which made up for it). and at the end al sacrifices his soul to give ed his arm back but specifically to give ed back the ability to use clap-alchemy. and after that ed gives up his ability to use alchemy ALL TOGETHER to get al’s original body back. full circle. the answer was always right there. if you want your brother you gotta give up your alchemy.
Rose Lalonde would absolutely be heavily invested in the Percy Jackson series. She would know that the Last Olympian gets released in May 2009. She would wake up one day on the meteor and realize that the world ended just a couple weeks before it was released. She would be absolutely livid and nobody would know why
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
behold… a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
