Don't you just love when your iPod dies in the middle of writing your post and so, therefore, most of it wasn't saved? There were at least 2 rants in there. Gold. And it's all gone.
Well, no way am I gonna rewrite all of that again.
Basically, I said that I've been included in Scaehime's group of friends who put me as their beta (for a story that turns out to be too romancey for my own tastes but I can't exactly back out now), and I explained my reasons for why I'd never made a Google+ account until now after all this time G+ has existed (which were because I thought it wasn't worth it, I didn't want to put my real name onto all my Google-related stuff, and just doing it out of spite at Google).
Now, a few months ago (near the beginning of the summer, I think), Scaehime had given me a one-word-prompt: lamppost/centaur. (It's supposed to use either, not both.) of course, I thought "lamppost" would be much easier, and I actually thought of a few half-baked ideas for it, but none of them were concrete enough for me to start writing. It frustrated me so much that I just couldn't think of a good story for either word.
Then, two nights ago, the solution came to me:
Everything in the FMA-verse is the same, except Colonel Mustang's a centaur- he's an actual mustang.
I know it's lousy, but it's seriously all I got, okay?!
I presented the idea to Scaehime in chat yesterday, and she said back (paraphrasing), "What if everyone's a human-animal hybrid?"
Thus, what I'm just gonna call the Animal!AU was born.
My thought is to write a whole one-shot where as many characters in their hybrid forms can be presented, the focus being on Ed and Mustang.
Ed... It was a little hard to choose what he'd be. Mainly, I was thinking between a cat and some sort of dog or animal related to a dog. He probably actually acts more like a cat, but Neko!Ed is a little overused and often put into disturbing situations.
I ultimately decided dog because I realized that Risembool's villagers would probably all be some sort of sheepdog.
I actually looked up breeds of dogs. I first looked up the oldest breeds in the world (because of Van) and chose the Saluki, then looked up herding dogs and decided Trisha would be Corgi or Collie. Collie won out when I drew dog ears on Trisha (I didn't take a pic because her face isn't looking so hot in the drawing since her face wasn't the focus), but I figure she might still be part Corgi. Ed could say that's why he's short (if he ever actually admitted his lack of stature). *laugh*
I quickly tried doodling Ed with dog ears on him- mainly Collie- and I think it came out surprisingly well.
His bangs have never looked better (by my hand).
I forgot to put his braid, but let's just pretend it's out of sight~
My idea is that, in this world, everyone is a hybrid- they're basically chimeras, but they were born that way. If you know FMA, you know there's kinda different ratios of human to animal- in the case of Dolcetto, for example, he had the heightened senses and loyalty of a dog, not the physical features of one. In this AU, that's the case with everyone- some people that are part cat won't really have anything to show for it, and some people look a little too much like a cat, with whiskers and fur and everything. In Ed's case, he probably ended up with dog ears and maybe a tail (sounding like Neko!Ed, but oh well), and Mustang... Well, he got a whole lotta horse, so much he's basically a centaur.
I'm kinda trying to figure out how Al would look if he wasn't in armor... Did he match his brother when they were kids? I feel like he'd either have the same features or less.
This one-shot is gonna need a lot more careful consideration than most of my previous one-shots if I want it to actually be good enough to face any other eyes, even Scaehime's.
Man, I really miss those rants that got erased. *tear* WHY, IPOD?! WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?! DIE AT THE WORST MOMENT?!
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