Miscellaneous

Here are just some random points that wouldn't fit anywhere else.

1. It dawned on my one day that my two favorite FMA characters spend most of the series without bodies.

2. I resolved that Greed would be my first cosplay. I have dubbed the assembly of the costume "Mission: Nothing Is Impossible" after the strange way the manga translators worded Greed's favorite phrase. If anyone knows where to get or how to make a fluffy vest, let me know.

3. I mentioned early on in this essay about how in the English translation of Fullmetal Alchemist, they censored the image of Greed on a cross and turned it into a slab of rock. Well, in Volume 27, there's a little flashback panel of that in which they forgot to turn the cross into the slab of rock.

4. As fangirly as I am, I don't want to be in love with Greed. No good will come of falling for a fictional character. Even if I existed in the FMA universe and we were to cross paths, he wouldn't return my feelings. Besides, he's not human, and he eventually dies, anyway. That's why I don't do romantic fan fiction. It dishonors the character. I think a lot about Greed-- more than I should-- and I feel like I relate to him a bit. But I don't want to love him. After all, Greed is not mine.