I think in the anime they had him draw it in blood -- and in the manga, you continue to see the scars whenever they show his hand, for chapters and chapters
They do so in the anime too. I only noticed it when I was watching some of the later episodes, where you can still see faint traces of the scars on his hand.
I'm just now starting to poke around in the fic; I'd been trying to avoid it earlier for fear of spoilers. I remember from my earlier forays into the fandom that it seems like it used to be dominated by Roy/Ed slash (not my cup of tea).
I browsed a bit on fanfiction.net and a lot of it seems to be Roy/Ed. Also, a lot of it seems to be not very well-written but well, that's partly ffn. And partly me being spoiled by SGA fandom. (I enjoyed my foray into FMA fic but tonight I'm really looking forward to that SGA AU you rec'd the other day!)
... speaking of, I don't have any Riza fic but I spent two nights reading a rather enjoyable bit of Roy-whump which I found during my otherwise unsucessful search for post-ep fic for ep 19. It's a 83,000 word gen ensemble fic, Altered Perception (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4298613/1/Altered_Perception). It comes with angst galore, but I'd say it's in tone with the show... I mean, this is one very angsty show. ;) I have no idea where it's placed in canon - probably during the first anime. Riza is in it but not as much as I'd have liked. There is more Roy&Ed/Havoc/Hughes, but that stuff was actually really interesting. (And strictly gen! When it comes to yaoi I'm very much 'do not want' right now.) But I really like Ed in this, all the characters in fact.
I like the others (this is one of those series where I really don't dislike anyone, except the characters who are supposed to be unlikable, and even they have their moments)
I was gonna say 'me either' but I just realized that I really don't like Hohenheim. Weirdly enough I've just been starting to wonder whether I have a problem with father figures in fiction... during the hate-of-fictional-women debate I was trying to think of characters I have a knee-jerk dislike of, and remembered that that is very much the case for Gibbs' mentor on NCIS as well as Dad Winchester on SPN, and I can't even say why. I find it just weird because my own Dad is a really cool guy and I'm grateful for that. Maybe just coincidence.
Anyway, I don't know if we're supposed to dislike Hohenheim; he's a pretty shady figure - I have no clue what his gig is - and he left his little boys. Maybe it'll become clearer in the next eps. (My most recent one 35 - up in the north - was pretty cool!)
[eta: eh, I just noticed a little tidbit about him that I completely overlooked on first viewing... that's what you get for not paying enough attention...]
I ended up buying a lot of my books from Japan and struggling to get the gist of it with a kanji dictionary and a vague (... very very VERY vague) understanding of Japanese grammar. I certainly couldn't have done a translation; it was the best I could do to get a general understanding of each scene from the art and what words I could read.
Wow, that's impressive. I mean, I know the grammar and even so I have just a general understanding. /o\ Though it's getting easier to understand after a while, I notice.
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They do so in the anime too. I only noticed it when I was watching some of the later episodes, where you can still see faint traces of the scars on his hand.
I'm just now starting to poke around in the fic; I'd been trying to avoid it earlier for fear of spoilers. I remember from my earlier forays into the fandom that it seems like it used to be dominated by Roy/Ed slash (not my cup of tea).
I browsed a bit on fanfiction.net and a lot of it seems to be Roy/Ed. Also, a lot of it seems to be not very well-written but well, that's partly ffn. And partly me being spoiled by SGA fandom. (I enjoyed my foray into FMA fic but tonight I'm really looking forward to that SGA AU you rec'd the other day!)
... speaking of, I don't have any Riza fic but I spent two nights reading a rather enjoyable bit of Roy-whump which I found during my otherwise unsucessful search for post-ep fic for ep 19. It's a 83,000 word gen ensemble fic, Altered Perception (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4298613/1/Altered_Perception). It comes with angst galore, but I'd say it's in tone with the show... I mean, this is one very angsty show. ;) I have no idea where it's placed in canon - probably during the first anime. Riza is in it but not as much as I'd have liked. There is more Roy&Ed/Havoc/Hughes, but that stuff was actually really interesting. (And strictly gen! When it comes to yaoi I'm very much 'do not want' right now.) But I really like Ed in this, all the characters in fact.
I like the others (this is one of those series where I really don't dislike anyone, except the characters who are supposed to be unlikable, and even they have their moments)
I was gonna say 'me either' but I just realized that I really don't like Hohenheim. Weirdly enough I've just been starting to wonder whether I have a problem with father figures in fiction... during the hate-of-fictional-women debate I was trying to think of characters I have a knee-jerk dislike of, and remembered that that is very much the case for Gibbs' mentor on NCIS as well as Dad Winchester on SPN, and I can't even say why. I find it just weird because my own Dad is a really cool guy and I'm grateful for that. Maybe just coincidence.
Anyway, I don't know if we're supposed to dislike Hohenheim; he's a pretty shady figure - I have no clue what his gig is - and he left his little boys. Maybe it'll become clearer in the next eps. (My most recent one 35 - up in the north - was pretty cool!)
[eta: eh, I just noticed a little tidbit about him that I completely overlooked on first viewing... that's what you get for not paying enough attention...]
I ended up buying a lot of my books from Japan and struggling to get the gist of it with a kanji dictionary and a vague (... very very VERY vague) understanding of Japanese grammar. I certainly couldn't have done a translation; it was the best I could do to get a general understanding of each scene from the art and what words I could read.
Wow, that's impressive. I mean, I know the grammar and even so I have just a general understanding. /o\ Though it's getting easier to understand after a while, I notice.