loved first: Edward. He's built SO WRONG - he doesn't try to resurrect his mother out of any kind of stupid childish irrational grief, it's pure hubris, and the achievement of that level of hubris at the age of eleven? Oh my god, Ed, you are NOT RIGHT. And somehow I find that absolutely delicious.
love more now: Riza, who was underdeveloped in the first anime run, but who was a wonderful surprise in FMA:Brotherhood. I'm pleasantly surprised at the fact that not shipping Roy/Riza doesn't impede my liking her at all - she's written as a character independent of that romance, and that's something bloody special.
don't get the love: The Briggs crew, with the exception of Olivia. I don't know why, but I haven't been able to access a lot of narrative interest in them. Something about the timing, maybe?
who do people hate in this fandom? Um, gotta take a raincheck, I've no idea.
love less now: Probably Al - I was much more into a sort of insular/Elric-centric reading of Hagaren at first than I am now. I have a Thing for Crazy Space Incest style ships, and Ed and Al got slotted into that - but then I fell hard for Roy Mustang, and the landscape of my affections shifted somewhat :)
kiss: ROY. ROY ROY ROY COME ON OVER HERE BABY AND LET MAMA GIVE YOU SOME HOT SWEET SUGAR. CAN I HAVE TWO, AND THROW MAES HUGHES IN AS WELL? BEING A PANTS-MELTINGLY GOOD DADDY AND ALL-AROUND BOSS? Ahem. Yes well.
be: Izumi Curtis, who is badass but still compassionate, driven but loving, absolutely in the right and able to forgive anyway, scary as hell and don't you forget about it. Best. Rolemodel. Ever.
slap: fucking Hohenheim. I really hated that smug bastard in Brotherhood - lecturing Ed like he had some fucking right. Shut up and go away, old man.
pairing that I love: Ed/Roy. It's just soooo goooood, I don't even know why, it is like good drugs & sweet candy. Something about the - the breathlessness, the fervor, the passion.
pairing I don't: Ed/Winry. Winry deserves better - she's smart and awesome and together and could do way better than someone as fundamentally freaky and messed up as Ed is. The only way it could work would be to normalize Ed - as canon does - and that makes me sad because I LIKE Ed weird best!
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love more now: Riza, who was underdeveloped in the first anime run, but who was a wonderful surprise in FMA:Brotherhood. I'm pleasantly surprised at the fact that not shipping Roy/Riza doesn't impede my liking her at all - she's written as a character independent of that romance, and that's something bloody special.
don't get the love: The Briggs crew, with the exception of Olivia. I don't know why, but I haven't been able to access a lot of narrative interest in them. Something about the timing, maybe?
who do people hate in this fandom? Um, gotta take a raincheck, I've no idea.
love less now: Probably Al - I was much more into a sort of insular/Elric-centric reading of Hagaren at first than I am now. I have a Thing for Crazy Space Incest style ships, and Ed and Al got slotted into that - but then I fell hard for Roy Mustang, and the landscape of my affections shifted somewhat :)
kiss: ROY. ROY ROY ROY COME ON OVER HERE BABY AND LET MAMA GIVE YOU SOME HOT SWEET SUGAR. CAN I HAVE TWO, AND THROW MAES HUGHES IN AS WELL? BEING A PANTS-MELTINGLY GOOD DADDY AND ALL-AROUND BOSS? Ahem. Yes well.
be: Izumi Curtis, who is badass but still compassionate, driven but loving, absolutely in the right and able to forgive anyway, scary as hell and don't you forget about it. Best. Rolemodel. Ever.
slap: fucking Hohenheim. I really hated that smug bastard in Brotherhood - lecturing Ed like he had some fucking right. Shut up and go away, old man.
pairing that I love: Ed/Roy. It's just soooo goooood, I don't even know why, it is like good drugs & sweet candy. Something about the - the breathlessness, the fervor, the passion.
pairing I don't: Ed/Winry. Winry deserves better - she's smart and awesome and together and could do way better than someone as fundamentally freaky and messed up as Ed is. The only way it could work would be to normalize Ed - as canon does - and that makes me sad because I LIKE Ed weird best!