New Vid: Wait Behind The Red Line (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Video Details
Title: Wait Behind The Red Line
Song: "Southern Belles in London Sing" by The Faint
Video Artist: Fabella (wistful_fever)
Summary: A message from someone left behind. Roy, Roy/Ed (m/m). Made for Sweet Charity, made for Jain.
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist (series and movie)
Length: 2:59 min
Format: avi
Warnings: implied male/male slash (or yaoi).
Dedication: For Jain -- It may have taken me a while, but I hope you like the final product.
Download Details
Links Last Updated: 07/12/07
55mb @ animemusicvideos.org (permanent link)
54.9mb @ MediaFire
54.9mb @ Megaupload
54.9mb @ sendspace
Watch Streaming @ Imeem
Downloading/Watching Information
a) You're going to need a xvid codec to play this.
b) Quality is directly related to size.
c) I'll re-upload the vid as often as I can, but depending on circumstances, it may take a while for me to get to it. Or you can always watching it streaming at Imeem.
Brief Video Notes
I really went for a character study perspective to Roy/Ed, focusing on what drives them individually, what drives them apart and brings them together. Making this was difficult at first. Roy/Ed was not my pairing of choice before I began it, though I had no distaste for it. Through clipping and re-watching, I began to understand the pairing, and more than that, appreciate it. No, erm, I might look for a fanfiction or two. Damn you, Sweet Charity! I began the video (well, the notes/planning for the video) believing I was going to go for a linear perspective, thinking that I would follow the chain of events that happened in the series, but after listening to the song more and more, it began to feel very impressionistic to me, like a lifetime of waiting, of moments of stillness, of memories, mixed, slightly with this odd connection between them. And that's how my understanding of the Roy/Ed relationship then evolved. There's this comment Roy Mustang makes to Edward in episode 13: "Full Metal One, why not settle down for a while?" At that point, I don't see anything romantic between the two, but I think the seeds of attachment are there, be it a romantic or a more platonic relationship. It's important to Roy that he take care of Edward, so much so that he isolates himself from the world and from his alchemy abilities when he's not sure if Edward is alive. Edward's feelings are, for me, harder to decipher. There's so much he's devoted to outside of Roy, and more than that, he spends a lot of his time resenting his position as Roy's subordinate. So yeah, I think my opinion that Edward isn't sure what Edward wants comes through in the video. I hope.
I've always been nervous about how a video is received. I'm more so with this one. I'm happy with it. I love it. But I've never done *anything* with anime before, and I worry that maybe I'm just blinding myself purposely. Hopefully that's not the case.
Will do mostly anything for feedback.