I feel like doing some memes! Because classes are done (mostly; one more lecture tomorrow that I don't have to pay attention to totally doesn't count), and I don't feel like starting final papers tonight
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1.) Over the course of the several years he's spent in his metal body, Al has found ways to cope with the long nights he spends awake while everyone else is sleeping. His favorite way to pass the time is with books, and he's always happier when he and Ed are staying with people instead of in a hotel room or hospital, where books are harder to come by. He'll read whatever he can get his hands on, so in addition to fiction and, of course, books about alchemy, he's also read and become really educated through books on subjects ranging from history to gardening to knitting. Every book he reads leads him to add more items to the list he has in his head of the things he'd like to do when he has his body again. He also finds he learns a lot about the people who own the books from the books they read, and it complements his inborn skill at understanding people
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I like thinking about Al as an adult. My headcanon is kind of going 'splodey. The first phrase that comes to mind is, "an absolute darling," and the second is, "really fucking formidable."
He's a complicated character! And also my absolute favorite in the series -- which anyone who knows me would have predicted going in. I LIVE for kind, good characters who suffer horrible physical transformations.
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And that COMPLETELY makes sense that the lack of need for sleep would complement his natural introspectiveness/studiousness.
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I like thinking about Al as an adult. My headcanon is kind of going 'splodey. The first phrase that comes to mind is, "an absolute darling," and the second is, "really fucking formidable."
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