How about a meme?

[sholio]

Nicked from trobadora:

Name me a character! I will tell you:

• How I FEEEEEL about this character
• All the people I ship romantically with this character
• My favourite gen relationship with this character
• My unpopular opinion about this character
• One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Any character, any fandom, even if I'm not active in it - as long as you're pretty sure that I'm familiar enough with it to answer the questions. *g*

ETA: This might go without saying, but answers to the questions will include plot spoilers for the character I'm discussing and often for the show in general.

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Alphonse Elric. :)

[sholio]

Alphonse! Wow ... as much as I love Alphonse, I don't think I've really thought about him a whole lot; this is going to be hard. :D

1. I do love Alphonse a lot. The contrast between his big, intimidating body and his sweet child's personality (and high-pitched little-kid voice in the anime) will never stop being adorable. And he's so wonderfully devoted to his big brother (and vice versa). Another thing about Al is that even though he's young, and usually in his brother's shadow, he's really quite brave and resourceful all on his own; I always enjoyed the storylines where he was separated from Ed for precisely that reason, because when he's around Ed he usually stays back and lets Ed take the lead (partly because he's the little brother, partly because it's just the kind of person he is), so it was always nice to see Al get to shine on his own for a change.

2. I have trouble shipping Al with anyone because he's so firmly in the "little kid" category in my head ... even though I know that little kids get crushes and grow up eventually, I just can't bring myself to ship him. I find Al/May cute, but still a little weird/awkward for me to think about.

3. Ed and Al, of course; who else? *g* I am a sucker for sibling relationships in general, and Ed and Al's devotion to each other makes me love them so much.

4. Hmm. I don't think Al is a character where I have firm enough head-canon not to be able to bend with the flow of fanfic and/or canon.

5. The one big thing that I wanted, I got -- Al getting his human body back. FMA was a manga where I was at least halfway convinced that there was no happy ending (of any sort) waiting at the end of the road, and I made little squeaky dolphin noises at that whole section of the final chapters. *g* I'm pretty sure there's nothing I wanted with Al that didn't actually happy in canon.

[stultiloquentia]

Yay, thanks for rooting around for thoughtful answers for somebody you haven't thought much about. I love Al. I also love FMA futurefic, so I've been thinking about him a lot, working out what he's like as a grown-up, in my personal canon. (Answer: formidable.)

I'm pretty sure there's nothing I wanted with Al that didn't actually happy in canon.

Bweee! Best Freudian slip ever. :)