I can't make tests ALL the time

[cornerofmadness]

It only feels that way (giving 4 this week). And in the process I needed a brain break. I read #75 of FMA and had a thought for the post-movie story I'm working on. Well not so much a thought as a question. Maybe someone on the list knows. In the anime/movie did Rose's son ever have a name?



Actually it wasn't the volume that made me sad but more so the implication. To be honest the beginning bored me. I really didn't need to see them digging the array ditches. I can't say any of it was exciting but it WAS important to know revealations. father turns out to be pretty much who I was expecting based on 74 and Hoho got the way he did also as I figured he would. Still, again, drastically important info. And his revealtion to Izumi, critical. (granted if all Ed had to do was ask for his father's help in restoring Al, I think the boy will hang himself with his own braid)

So what made me sad? Well...almost thinking about Ed's future. I mean Hoho was a cute kid but geez, he grew up ulgy. Here's hoping Ed has enough of Mom in him to avoid the big square head and honking beak of a nose. Or at the very least please don't grow that beard. I hate beards. And seriously Hoho, it's been centuries find a new style.

No the sadness is from the thought of wow, now we know so much. Izumi is bound to find Ed and tell him and Al what she knows. Roy and Riza, Ed, Al, Winry, Fuhrer and Homunculi all look to be poised for the final count down. I think this chapter hit it home that soon, this story might be over (and unlike Bleach where I thought maybe it would end with the recovery of Rukia) and doesn't look like it will continue long beyond that grand finale. (I could be wrong of course). As much as I read, I hate endings (I find them hard to write for the same reason I hate to read them), it's like saying goodbye. Maybe because I do it so often in RL, i move for good every few years, I'm always saying goodbye. I'll miss it when I don't have a new episode to look forward to. I'll move on. I always do but I'll miss it just the same

and since i polevaulted over the word count AGAIN. let's see if i can get to 30 K by the end of the week

27,016 / 30,000 (90.1%)

Comments

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

You think she might not have told him? I can't believe that. I mean...sure, I could see Hoho not asking about his kids, because he's got that weird uninvolved parent thing going on, but I can't see Pinako not telling him.

I don't know what she knows. She probably does suspect something's weird with him, but maybe she figures it's better not to ask, or that it's his business? Who knows.

And I'm wondering if in order to save Al, Hoho has to do to Al what was done to him and he might see that as a fate worse than death

that's a possibility. he still seems really amazing unconcerned about his children though, despite all the new knowledge we have about him.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well since we don't know what Pinako told him it's hard to say. I figure she HAS to know he's not human. He's at least her age and not aging. She might feel the brothers are better off without him.

I see Hoho as no longer human. He doesn't think the same way any more. He's ALWAYS been aloof, almost frightened of his children