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Okay, /cm/. I recently started watching FMA (I know, I'm late, lol) and I need to know now, before I get to the end of the series and get really disappointed--is there a 'love interest' introduced for either Ed or Al?
>> Anonymous
No, not really.

Slash them all you want.
>> Anonymous
Well, it's very obvious that Winry has a crush on Ed, but he goes out of his way to avoid her most of the time, and seems to only see her as a sister. In fact, the only canon romantic relationships are Hughes and his wife, and Ed's mom and dad, and to a lesser extent Dante and Hoenheim.
>> Anonymous
Winry.

Both brothers love her.
>> Anonymous
>>139035
And Roy and Hawkeye. Scar and (to a small extent) the woman Lust was created from.

And Ed avoids her for the same reason he avoids everyone; but he still shows interest in her.
>> Nissan Power !2/mdxV4DLY
>>139036
Platonically? Or do they want to stick it in her pooper? Just asking!
>> Anonymous
>>139038
They wanna stick it in her pooper.
>> Anonymous
>>139036

Absolutely NOTHING in the series indicates that either of them love her more than a very close friend.
>> Anonymous
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>>139074
>>139035
Volume 14 Chapter 58 Page 12. Bubble Burst.
>> Anonymous
>>139102

stereotypical romance GET!!
>> Anonymous
it doesnt really matter whether he actually loves her or not, he never ends up with her. i think a possible love interest for ed would be noa
>> Anonymous
>>139102
Wow, did I fall behind! How old is Ed now? Sixteen? Seventeen? He looks so grown up <3
>> Spiffy
>>139139
Too bad Noa went bye-bye on the gypsy cart. I think Ed and Al are just gonna end up jumping each other, eventually. D:
>> Anonymous
>>139162
the gypsy cart? wasnt that driven by scar and lust? didnt they get on with her?
>> Spiffy
>>139165
Hey wow, I guess they did. My bad. But I don't think they planned on sticking around, soyeah.
>> Anonymous
>>139126
Sure, cause anything male/female is stereotypical romance. *eyeroll*
>> Anonymous
>>139248
No, anything that two different sex childhood friends end up together romantically is stereotypical romance.
>> Anonymous
>>139249
So is the concept of him sticking it in his brother's pooper.
>> Anonymous
>>139249
The word you are looking for is cliche. And just about everything is a cliche.
>> Anonymous
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If you ask 10 people, you get 10 different answers. I think the creators left relationships up to the mind of the viewers. There's plenty of tiny things that happen between the characters that could make a varieties of couples canon. So it's entirely up to you to interpret how you see the various possibilty of pairings.
>> Anonymous
>>139102
Uh, what drugs are you taking? That proves absolutely nothing. Ed freaks out over a helluva lot of things, very often. He'd do the same thing if she asked if he loved Roy or Rose or wanted to screw the dog, or if she tried to make him drink milk.
>> Pride
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Eeeh,not really.They love each other so much,sure...but not in that way...It´s a strong bond between them,no related with sex.But fans can made wonderful things with imagination,fanarts,fanfics...teehee^^

Ed have a crush for Winry,no doubt about it,but I think he prefer to keep it in secret,and he have a hard mission,and probably don´t want to put her in danger.He´s focused in his plans I think.Al likes her a lot too.But I´m sure Winry have a really big crush for Ed.

And that´s supposed to be a platonic relatioship between Roy and Riza too.

>>139102

LOL XD That´s most funny than Vol.4!Poor Hayate-chan...
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>>139258
After all, every day is a repost.

Anyway, have some grown-up Ed. Let's see how many people complain about Winry.
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>>139290
Uh. Roy/Riza? Platonic? Barely. Hottest het pairing for the show.

Also, I think Edward's to obsessed with 'getting Al's body back' (perhaps so he can stick it in his pooper) to give Winry a second thought. Though I think the movie proved she had a thing for him.

But whatever, fandoms work in mysterious ways.
....Someone give me some Hughes x Roy.
>> Anonymous
*laughs*

I WOULD like to see him screw Roy though.
>> Anonymous
Roy and Ed....Roy and Hughes...Roy and Havoc....

Face it. Roy's hot no matter who he's with.
>> Anonymous
>>139102

If you noticed OP said s/he was WATCHING FMA. Meaning the anime.

Since the anime and manga are so different, and we're talking about the anime here, yes there is still NO evidence either of them care for her as more than a friend.
>> Anonymous
>>139322
There's no evidence in the manga that they care for her as anything more than a friend either.

More and more they act like siblings, and they are all close friends, but still nothing remotely romantic. Winry does have a bit of a crush on Ed, but it's just a crush, not deep lusty love. If all of a sudden Winry tried to kiss Ed, you can bet your britches he'd get out of there in a stuttering hurry. I'd like to see them together, but it just isn't gonna happen outside of fanfiction. Or if it is to happen in the future, a LOT of careful work and planning is needed to bring them into it. I honestly don't see that happening.
>> Anonymous
>>139328

Me either.
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Look, guys, face it: Ed/Winry is canon, and so is Roy/Riza. That, quite obviously, doesn't mean you will stop shipping Roy/Ed, Ed/Al, or whatever you like. Just, you know, stop deluding yourselfs.
>> Anonymous
>>139353

*laughs* That's a very interesting pic.
>> Pride
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>>139353

Yep,we know yaoi things will never really happen in manga or anime.Fanarts and fanfics are just for fun,heehee
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>>139373
=D That's the attitude! Here, have Green/Envy
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>>139377
Greed*. Damnit.
>> Anonymous
>>139353
It isn't canon until something happens, or interest is shown. I said I want to see Ed and Winry together, so I'm not hoping for Elricest, but the way their relationship is and the way things are going, it isn't going to happen without a miracle. Ed/Al isn't going to happen either, but it's only slightly less likely than Ed/Winry or Al/Winry. Ed could just as easily end up with Riza or an as of yet unknown girl/guy.
>> Anonymous
>>139381

I love that pic of Envy.
>> Anonymous
>>139396

I REALLY don't see Riza/Ed happening. EVER.
>> Anonymous
>>139373

That's a really cute one of Ed. Anyone know what the Japanese characters mean?
>> Anonymous
>>139410
the blue says "niisan are you okay", the red is ed laughing, and im pretty sure one of the ones in the pink bubble says "roy ed" but im not sure about the rest
>> Anonymous
>>139410

Like>>139470said, but I think I know what most of them say. Starting from the top left, going down and across right: EnEdo (EnvyEd), RoiEd (RoyEd...), OruAi (Original Love, I'm assuming it means original romance stories), AsuKira (now this is interesting because the only AsuKira I know in the anime fandom is Athrun Zala and Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED {Asuran [Athrun's name pronounced in Japanese] x Kira}), I don't know the next three are but the bottom right says RoiEn (Roy x Envy)

And the book Ed's holding says "Adult Book" and "By Roy Mustang" but I could be wrong on the "By" part because the kanji is REALLY small.
>> Anonymous
So that whole "We use to fight over Winry a lot" conversation between Al and Ed meant nothing?

If you wanna go into incest land, Ed would probably stick it in his Mom's pooper, and then turn it into a family threesome. What with the brother complex and mother complex he's got going on.
>> Nissan Power !2/mdxV4DLY
>>139322
OP here. Wow. I wasn't expecting a squabble, but you guys have been very helpful! ^^;;
>>139569
Lmfao. Incest is best--put your mother to the test!

This is sort of random, but I'd kill for a cute picture of Al with his random kitties...
>> Anonymous
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Spoiler, Winry does have the hots for Ed in the manga version, at least. But to me their relationship seems more like that of a brother and sister...I hope they won't end up together. :\ I'm not a big fan of HagaRen-yaoi, either, I guess I just want to keep Ed all to myself. :D
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>>139569
speaking of the scene where they used to fight over her, have a parody! I think its a repost but oh well..
>> Pride
>>139377

Tehee,cute!

>>139410

XD This one is cute!I love this doujin!

Basically in the pic,Ed is wondering about so many pairings he found in that book(HeiEd,AlEd,OriAi...).He looks amused XD

>>139611
>> Anonymous
Okay, I'm>>139102who posted the manga image.
Just want to make it clear to the person who suddenly thinks all of the anime of FMA is canon.

It isn't.


At all.


The second part of the anime took a huge turn away from being canon. This includes the movie.

Canon in the japanese animation world is where the animation follows the ORIGINAL ideas of the creator. Even FMA's creator didn't like how the anime turned out.

The lesson is, the couples that ended in the anime/movie are not canon. The ones in the continuing manga are canon.

>> Anonymous
Stop the watching the anime and read the manga.
Manga is the winnar in all areas evar.
>> Anonymous
>>139206
>>139165
Not Exactly Scar and lust, but other people resembling them.
>> Anonymous
>>140625

Seconded.
>> Anonymous
>>140468
listen to>>139279>>139328and>>139396
>> Anonymous
Both are good. Just view them as two separate worlds if you want, like what they did with the Escaflowne series and the Escaflowne movie.
>> Anonymous
>>140468

Bullshit. Arakawa herself was a consultant for both the anime and the movie, and specifically told BONES to go off in a different direction from the manga, because she didn't want her ending to be spoiled by the series before she'd even gotten it out in print.
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>>139279
The fuck you're talking about? He's not "freaking out", he's nervous. If Riza had asked him if he liked Envy/Roy/whoever, his answer would have been something along the lines of "WHAT THE FUCK?! NEVER, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS, ARE YOU SICK?!" (perhaps more nicely put, this is Riza and he likes her, after all).

Is like another manga chapter, when he's talking with Winry on the phone, and someone says "Hey, is that your girlfriend?" and his wound opens. He didn't went and screamed at the guy after that.

Geez, get over it already.
>> Anonymous
>>140860

That pic is adorable!
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>>140866
^^ Thanks, I have a few like that.
>> Anonymous
>>140874

Cute, and yet so bizarre.
>> Anonymous
>>139569

Ew.... >_< I did not need that image in my head.
>> Anonymous
>>139532
>>139470

Thank you for explaining the characters.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>140880
Oh, and how could I forget the rest of the family? There is also Hoenheim and Envy; maybe even Dante for some nice stepmother lovin'.

Incest fun for the entire family!
>> Anonymous
>>139569

So you're saying every young kid that says something like 'I'm going to marry you, Bob!' when they're that age, or argue over someone is inherently in love with that someone? Kids say a lot of very stupid things when they're too young to even know what love or real relationships are. Heck, my own little brother said he was going to marry me when he was about 3 because I was one of the only girls he knew. I could care less about whether either of them has feelings for Winry, my FMA OTP is EnvyxEd and it requires absolutely NO consent on Ed's part, but you're putting things in that just aren't there. Yes, they probably have crushes on each other, but ultimately nothing is 'canon' since nothing has happened between them yet.
>> Anonymous
Fails for pairing wars and "OMG THIS IS CANON, THIS ISN'T!". Can't we all just sit back and enjoy the smut?
>> Anonymous
>>139126
AGREED. That's the main reason why I prefer the anime to the manga.
>> Anonymous
I hated Ed AND Winry. They can have each other.

Same goes for Heero and Releena.
>> Anonymous
>>140910
Hate Ed (OMGSHOCK), like Winry.

I'd prefer to see her with Al.
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>>140910
>>140912
LOL, Ed haters in a FMA thread
>> Anonymous
>>140923
You can thank the mpreg fangirls for that. Pretty much killed his character for me, and now I can never look at him the same way again.
>> Anonymous
>>140934
o.0 How on earth could bad fanfics/art/dumb fans ruin a character for you? I have seen many things: bara!Bridget, mpreg Hiei x Kurama fanfics and art, fics that may as well be about a different character because he/she would NEVER behave that way, mind-fuck pairings that are so stupid it hurts your brain (namely cross-over. Sesshoumaru getting assraped by the Backstreet Boys anyone? -_-), Mary-Sue, etc., and none of that changes anything about the actual characters or how they should be perceived. Lol@U for having retarded mental hang-ups.
>> Anonymous
>>139569
that's right, it meant nothing. when I was a little kid, I wanted to marry my neighbor across the street. here it is 15 years later and not only do I have no feelings for him, but also I never did and never will because I WAS A KID.

jesus christ, you all fail. the series is over. if there were going to be characters hooking up, it would have happened before the series ended. if characters are going to hook up in the manga, they will. you just have to be patient, and if you don't like the outcome then go cry in a corner or something.
>> Anonymous
>>140934
You fail.

If I allowed bad fan stuff to ruin a character for me, every time I visited /cm/ and /y/ I would have another character ruined for me.