You Know I Do Think It's Interesting How Strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) Makes The Point That Bringing

You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

The beach definitely has a anthem but idk what it would be but like hatter wouldn’t just not pick one


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10 months ago

I understand that in cannon joker is like the second or third tallest, but in my heart he’s the shortest. Man’s got that tiny French person complex and won’t admit it. His metaverse outfit has lifts in his shoes. He fluffs up his hair to add an extra inch in hight despite it looking bedraggled. He’s an ankle biter.


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3 years ago

As a child Arisu got mad that he wasn’t allowed to light his own birthday candles so he stole the box of matches and hid in closet to play with them. However the door got jammed and he couldn’t get out of the closet. To make matters worse the matches then caught the clothes on fire. He was trapped in that closet for a while before his parents found him but strangely he had no burns 


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3 years ago

at the beach there is definitely an inflatable kiddie pool that was originally filled with like idk vodka but now its used for its intended purpose and sometimes Hatter sends people there as punishments.   so now imagine Arisu sitting in a inflated kiddie pool hugging his knees to his chest awkwardly because Usagi forced him to wear duck covered arm floaties. 


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