barukvanja: barukkatharine: elcentric: ishvalan ed HOLEEE SHIT LIKE HOW DIFFERENT WOULD THE STORY BE
barukvanja:barukkatharine:elcentric:ishvalan edHOLEEE SHITLIKE HOW DIFFERENT WOULD THE STORY BE IF ED WAS ISHVALAN?I AM SO HERE FOR THISLike, so Trisha is Ishvalan and when she’s still quite young she ends up in Resembool somehow. Maybe she’s orphaned and Pinako raised her. Maybe her parents were like ‘shits gonna go down’ and got the hell out of Dodge, or just sent Trisha out of Dodge on her own. Maybe Amestris had Ishvalan Boarding Schools happening.When Mustang shows up it’s entirely I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. Like, even more so than it already was. During the State Alchemist trials they’re just humoring him and not planning on letting him in until he blows them away the way he does and then Bradley is like OVERRULED because he knows. The military doesn’t publicize the fact that Ed’s Ishvalan, and so a lot of the time people don’t believe him when he says he’s the Fullmetal Alchemist. He’s been accused of stealing his pocketwatch.Scar shows up and he’s like “I’m looking for the Fullmetal Alchemist”and Ed’s like “that’s me”“you’re not the Fullmetal Alchemist”“yes I am”“you’re really not"I really am”"wtf”.Al looks more like Hoenheim. He’s got the gold eyes of Xerxes, and his hair is a tiny bit yellow, his skin a tiny bit lighter. But he still looks Ishvalan other than his eye color. After the Homunculi Shenanigans they both help Mustang in his plans to help Ishval. They started out fairly sheltered in Resembool, because Trisha was quite Amestris-ised and they were raised that way and yeah they stood out a bit but they didn’t face the racism they found in Central and elsewhere because everyone knew them. So they start learning during their journey and then after that they live with the Ishvalans a bit learning their mother’s culture more fully. Eventually of course Al goes East and Ed returns to Resembool permanently, but they still visit often.But Scar thoScar leaves Ishval and goes to Amestris and is like “I’m going to kill all the alchemists in revenge for my people”And then he meets this Ishvalan kid who’s also an alchemist? And he’s just what the fuck why is there an Ishvalan kid here? Why is he a state alchemist?And Ed and Al know nothing about their culture and this is not gonna fly with Scar, okay? Scar is not letting these kids not know their heritage. And this is how Scar ends up training Ed and Al. Which of course leads to even more disbelief because oh look it’s two Ishvalans and a suit of armor what do you mean one of them’s a state alchemist?Anyway so Scar gets a “redemption” arc earlier in the story and Ed ends up wearing the clothes in the pictures instead of the Amestrian clothes he had been wearing and getting sorta-adopted by Scar.(“Your dad is gone and your mom is dead? I’m your father now.” and this is how Scar turns into Valjean.) -- source link
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