This was the ending they earned. The past is what it was, the present is now, but the future? Well, who knows what the future will be?
as always, finishing up @taakitzweek with a bang! thanks for all of the positivity and support, it was one wild and stressful ride but i had fun!
[id: digital art of taako and kravitz at various points in their relationship, with the central focus being them kissing at their wedding. there’s a ribbon winding behind them that goes up to the top of the image with smaller scenes of them colored in purple along the ribbon.
at the top is a small drawing of kravitz in his skeletal form shouting at taako, who is looking at him with a smile. taako is wearing his spacesuit from the crystal kingdom and a wizard hat, and he’s holding the umbra staff.
the next scene is of the two of them with glasses of wine, with a pottery table in front of taako, and this time kravitz appears as a human. taako has his elbow on the table and his head resting on his hand, and he’s smiling over at kravitz. kravitz is wearing a suit, has gauged ears, and his hair is in locs. he’s holding his wineglass and looking over at taako with a content look.
below that is another small scene, presumably on the day of story and song. kravitz is wearing his cloak, and appears as a human. he is holding taako’s hands, and the two of them are smiling at each other.
the bottom image is the largest and most detailed, and the only one rendered in full color. it’s of the two of them from the waist up, kissing, with their hands on each other’s faces, and both of them have their eyes closed. kravitz has dark brown skin and dark brown hair that’s in locs. he’s wearing a black and white tuxedo with a blue bowtie, gold gauges in his ears, and a gold septum piercing. taako is an elf with brown skin, long, blonde hair that’s braided, and has three piercings in his ear. he’s wearing a white tuxedo with a blue bowtie, and a white cloak with blue flowers that’s billowing around the two of them. there is one large crown of white flowers that is laid over both of their heads, and blue flower petals are falling around them.]
Their boobs move. Like…realistically move. As in, the way actual breasts would motion if a woman made that movement without an over the top exaggeration and the camera is framed in a way so that it’s clearly not supposed to be sexual the way most anime would stage it. The scenes in question are meant to be taken seriously so the animators and direction is take things seriously. Either it’s just a character walking down a hall or clapping her hands.
If this were any other action/adventure anime, the camera angle would’ve been something like this for Winry’s introduction:
This is weird, but what I find so sexy about Riza is, well… How she isn’t sexualized. Like, she isn’t a pure sex object in nonstop sexy outfits. She’s a beautiful military woman, and she dresses appropriately for the role. Along with that she’s NEVER used as the ‘sexy distraction’ trope that women often are used for. She has a good role, she’s a fighter, but also has a kind heart for her friends.
That and more are reasons Riza is my favorite female anime character, and FMAB is my favorite anime.
Well said my friend.
I think there was only one instance of jiggle physics and that was with lust but that was when they were trying to make a joke about havoc having a thing for boobs and the joke was more about havoc than lust having big breasts.
“You fell into my booby trap” (proceeds to paralyze Havoc afterwards)
What I also love is that their boobs are in equal proportion to every other body part. Like, yeah, a character might have bigger boobs, but she also had a big waist/hips/legs/etc to go with it, so the largeness doesn’t feel fake. Plus, they never draw attention to the sexual stuff, and the only exception was the joke with Havoc. And it was posed in a way that made it feel like less of a raunchy boob joke and more of a joke on Havoc and how his attraction to boobs is what led him to be deceived, which doesn’t leave female viewers uncomfortable, or feeling like their body is constantly the butt of a joke, like some other animes do
That’s a good point that I didn’t realize. All of characters in the show have equally proportioned bodies.
Ed’s muscles get larger as he gets older but never reaches John Cena level of jacked since he’s still under 6 feet tall. He’s always presented as ripped and not ‘bulky’ like Sig or Alex.
Riza is about the same height as adult Ed, but they have different body styles thus the word for her would be toned. She’s still lean but her muscles and body shape are the same aren’t ‘compact’.
Fmab follows the basic body designs for males and female characters and doesn’t exaggerate a specific feature to the point where it’s comedic. It makes it’s bed, and lies in it.
Every time I see a girl in just about any other action/adventure (shonen) anime I just think:
“is your back okay? You need a doctor? Hey Thomas! Call Lucy a chiropractor!”
or better yet:
“Good Lord! Get this man a sandwich!”
The only real exception to the whole body proportion thing is ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG
But his ridiculously bulky muscles are used largely as a comedic element, in which the overly toned nature of his body is commented on as the “freak of nature” kind of idea and definitely not presented as if that’s some kind of expectation for anyone else in the show.
#fma#whispers: its bc a woman made it
don’t fucking whisper it scream it from the rooftops: IT’S BC A WOMAN MADE IT.
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