my 2 favorite things to draw......the devils nest and Face Shapes. this concept was made for me

under the cut is some rambling about the gang in an actual dungeon meshi au (ft Major Spoilers)

the chimeras would all still be beastmen obviously. every day i thank ryoko kui for my life for putting chimeras in her thing. roa and dolcetto i think would have been pit fighters as an equivalent to being soldiers, martels also ex military but i feel like "got blown up, woke up half snake" would translate well to getting fused with a monster in a dungeon. and then bido would have a more izutsumi type backstory

greed would have earned their loyalty somehow but im not fully settled on What his deal would be. like conceptually the original homunculus is very similar to a demon (weird mystery entity) (bound to serve) (eternally Craving) (trapped in a thing and wants out) but greed specifically is, like, a chill version that i dont think would want to eat peoples desires because he likes it when people have those. and i dont know if a Chill Demon is justifiable lore-wise. counterpoint though: he would really love having a fursona. tell me YOUR thoughts in the comments below i guess (or my askbox whatever)

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL ROUND FIVE: GROUP TWO

the union isn't the only team that's survived by banding together. four bald old men (okay, three old, one nebulously middle-aged) have persevered throughout the rounds where other old men have failed-- even narrowly evading defeat at the hands of old man mcgucket-- and forged a friendship so strong it's given them all BEAM ATTACKS. but their opponents are formidable in their own right. the iterators have swept every one of their polls by at least 17% of the votes, managing to thrash avatar aang himself, without having to use their special ability even once.

it may be their last chance. their SUPERSTRUCTURES are struggling to process five rounds' worth of data. if this poll, somehow, gets at least three hundred votes more than either of the other two in this round, and the iterators have lost the match, a tie will be called instead!

meanwhile, the BALD BEAM... hasn't grown any more powerful, because wallace's clay head isn't very shiny, but just like last round, if the old man brigade gets within 8% of the iterators, the dazzling display will overload the robots' optical sensors, also forcing a tie!

(old man art by @rats2 i am SO sorry for forgetting to credit you last round. there are so many steps to this thing)

your blog is so cool!!! can i ask if you have any special greed + devils nest gang headcanons to share for this humble anon's rewatch session?

aw tysm <3 I definitely have way too many thoughts about them rotating in my head constantly, let's see what we can grab today

one of the things that I actually really like from 03 is Greed busting out the chimeras when he's breaking himself out of the lab, so even though it doesn't exactly line up with what we're given in mangahood canon i like to hc something similar having happened anyways! (gonna be a lil vague because this loops back to a fic I'm writing a bit) "guy who's been locked up for who knows how long and isn't all there mentally's first instinct being to save people when all he can think about is needing to get out" does something to me yk

the chimeras having different sorts of chronic pain issues from being experimented on is so real to me that I forget it's not canon. I will die on the hill that Dolcetto's arm bands are actually braces to support his wrists. Greed catches any of them overdoing it when they're having a bad pain day and he will personally drag them off to bed whether they're in the middle of a conversation or work or anything. This is regular taking care of your possessions behaviour and not him being worried about his friends thank you very much

Roa just has the Vibes that he does most of the cooking for their group, but Greed definitely does quite a bit too (mostly when he can use excuses like "I'm the only one who can't get sick so I might as well be the one to make food" when there's something going around, or "Well I made this for Me because I need to eat all the finest things but I happened to make enough for everyone and being greedy means not letting things go to waste so you better have some" -guy who won't admit to himself or anyone else that everything he wants for himself is for them too)

Dolcetto being the main bouncer! most people would probably expect it to be Roa or Ulchi but he's a damn good guard dog thank you (being able to smoke more because he's outside the entrance is a bonus too) I don't have too specific hc's for what most of the others do during working hours other than Martel working the bar, but I kinda see Ulchi as dealing with fights that break out inside when he's not part of them himself (Roa helps with those ones it's ok)

I used to be obsessed with fullmetal alchemist, specifically greed and his first group of chimeras. Anyway now that I'm older and more enlightened i thought it important to say greed and all his buddies were gay and dolcetto is trans

Hi! I enjoy your headcanons. Do you have thoughts on what types of animals any of the unnamed chimeras are fused with? I personally think that the one with the gas mask could be something aquatic, blondie is a housecat, and doc is a corvid of some kind, like a magpie, but would love to hear your own thoughts on the matter.

Hello!! I'm really glad you like the headcanons, I've wanted to start posting them again ^^

I do think the gas mask chimera could be something aquatic, unfortunately we don't get to see much of them in the manga or animes :/

Blondie has claws, (something else with his fingers that looks like it could be fur if you squint?? Or skin?) and sharp canines (but that might not be from the fusion) in the manga, so maybe some type of big cat? I do like the idea of him being a house-cat though :>

Doc absolutely does have corvid/magpie vibes! I've always thought of him as a bat for headcanons, but I think corvid fits him v well!

So a small, fun fact for my fellow Devil’s Nest enjoyers: Roa shows up in the Ishval flashbacks, in chapters 59 and 60, respectively.

We know from something Dolcetto says to Al(?) during the Dublith arc that at least some of the chimera from the devil’s nest were soldiers, him and Roa included, but it’s really cool seeing Roa show up in the flashbacks? We now know he, at least, was present in Ishval - and in this case, present for the betrayal when Brigadier General Fessler (who wanted to continue the extermination despite the Ishvalan priest surrendering) gets shot by one of Grant’s men.

💭 + The Devil's Nest

"I don't drink myself but it's a nice bar. Fairly open but generally serves a, ah particular people.

Oh and I think they do offer Virgin drinks if you don't want alcohol.

We're open most nights and sometimes we'll offer temporary lodging if you're really introuble, Greed the owner of if can be a big picky though so it mostly depends on him who's allowed to stay.

Since coming to Amestris its become my home and everyone their are kind of like.... family

If you ever come around you might catch me playing the guitar, Greed's started having me play more.

The Devil's Nest is honestly quite an inviting space, a safe haven for those of us ehk don't quite fit in as it were.

Of course we do get people who come for other reasons.

It certainly does live up to the name Devil's Nest."

Happy holidays @courviknight ! I did your piece this year for @fmasecretsanta! You said you like Greed with animals, so he gets a kitty for Christmas (or whatever the Amestrian holiday equivalent is) :)

Happy Holiday's @dragontamer05 ! I am your secret Santa for @fmasecretsanta this year! I wish you a happy and unstressful holiday!

I love that in your Homoncus!Hugues AU Greed is just. There, hahah. It's a very relatable feeling like "yeah i know he's dead and also i was gonna tell a different story but also Greed should be there. Bc we love him. There. Get loved idiot." Absolute mood <3

first / prev / next

“get loved idiot” more like “realize in hindsight that you had a found family unit and that you have to move on now because they’re gone”

if i had access to Stickers Making Technology

Youl never guess what im reading once again!!! devilsnest loser guys

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL ROUND 2, GROUP 3: A MINIBOSS APPEARS!

he's shifting into poll mode! are either of these scurrying little animal guys funnier than legendary sitcom character George From Seinfeld? well, we've never watched that show, so we have no idea. the more important question is, are they FUNKier? and even more important than that, are they BALDER?!

Maybe this is a controversial take (it shouldn’t be, its in the text) but.

People really need to come to terms with the fact that Edward ‘loves a good maim‘, ‘made some poor bloke eat his own toes for a laugh’, ‘thoroughly enjoyed whippies/yardies/turtle vs crab/Calico Jack’s Whole Deal’, ‘Blackbeard always wins and I don’t even have to try and I’m bored of that’, ‘first instinct is to go for the gun’, ‘gouged an eye out of some lad’s skull and called it an anecdote’, ‘set a ship on fire with people still inside and called it a technicality’, ‘capable of becoming the Kraken’ Teach enjoys violence. (No moral judgements here, violence is rarely taken seriously by the narrative and he’s literally a pirate)

On the flip side: Israel ‘flashy sword work without so much as scratching Stede’, ‘concerned about the loss of lives of the Queen Anne’s crew’, ‘offers a quick death for Stede to Edward’, ‘loser is banished from the ship’, ‘negotiated for only Stede to be killed despite the rest of the pirates on the ship’, ‘takes away rations instead of flogging for insubordination’, ‘wants Blackbeard because people don’t fight Blackbeard’ Hands does not, actually, enjoy violence. He puts on a lot of bluster but ultimately everything he does is meant to keep himself (and Edward) safe, which requires a reputation for violence but necessitates a lack of actual serious violence (for the sake of violence at least).

Ed likes violence because its enrichment for his perpetually under-stimulated ADHD mind, he is the tiger with the meat pumpkin. Izzy doesn’t like violence because he just wants to survive and its so much harder to do that if you’re getting in needless fights.

I don’t necessarily agree that Izzy is a cut and dry masochist, it might be the only way he knows how to connect (intricate rituals and all that) but I don’t think its something he’d go for first if he knew there were other options that were safe to want (its why he’s so perplexed by Lucius, who has the connections without the violence), but even if you do think he is: its a different kind of violence. Its not violence for the sake of violence. Its an exchange of trust. ‘I trust you to hurt me but not to harm me.’

Idk I feel like I’m always repeating myself in my meta posts lmao, but like. I can’t just not say something and let people continue to be wrong about fictional characters on the internet can I? lmfao That’d be awful.