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Idea 1: Try to do everything seen in the movie, adding a couple of things to make it feel longer and avoid the feeling of "it lacked screen time." Even though Al and Ed spent about a year together working on machines and rockets, it all feels very brief. And let's not even talk about Noah, who only spent a couple of weeks with them (or a month, I think, I don't remember). But even so, they didn't show much of how they spent their time (I mean, the little they show to emphasize the message, yes, but they don't show me anything more everyday to make me feel relaxed with the characters and start to care for them more). I also like to think that Noah and Alfons (that's what I call the one from Germany so we don't confuse him with the real one) represent parts of the life that Edward misses and tries to cope with by living with people who remind him of his world, Al represents his brother, science, experiments and his way to learn and discover a way to return and perhaps a kind of way of adopting the role of brother with Alfons, as he would have liked to spend time with Alphonse (real), as if to compensate for the time they lost on the journey to recover their bodies (4 years). And Noah would represent Ed's subconscious desire to escape that world and his longing for home and loved ones, subconsciously reminding him that this isn't his home, his brother, or his acquaintances. But she's also someone who accompanies him, understanding his situation and desires to some extent (like how she idealizes the world Ed remembers, simply because she hasn't seen all the bad things and only saw the good ones). This is part of Noah's character development, and as is repeated several times in the story, a person from this world cannot cross through "The Gate." Alfons and Noah are like the two hemispheres of Ed's thoughts.

Idea 2: Regarding the characters' endings, I'm not a big fan of "sad" endings, but it can also be seen as relatively bittersweet from a certain perspective. For example: Alfons wanted to be remembered and contribute something to his world, to prove that he existed and not be forgotten over time. By being a key figure in Ed's resolution and helping him escape and return home, he will be remembered forever by Ed (even though he didn't die) as a friend who helped him when he needed it. All the memories, the work, becoming like brothers. With Noah, although she loses both her friends—one leaves and the other dies—she returns to where she was at the beginning, but she doesn't feel the same. She sees the world from a different, slightly more optimistic perspective about her gift, and doesn't feel like she doesn't fit in. Instead, she accepts being part of it and seeks to create her own warm and happy memories instead of longing for the memories of others. (Obviously the funeral scene remains)

Idea 3 (and the most experimental and out-of-place): That Ed and Noah have a romantic relationship. In one part of the movie, Alfonse tells Noah that: "Ed is showing interest in a woman," "he's always indifferent to everyone," "he doesn't usually interact much with people," as if the rest were a reminder that he doesn't belong there (let's add to that the fact that Edward indirectly killed the Ed of that world). I would like to see an Ed who makes some "mistakes" or "out-of-character actions." At least in this version, I could believe him acting somewhat "selfishly," indirectly. I mean, in the movie, Alfonse criticizes him for being so focused on his otherworldly and escapist ideas that he didn't even notice he was sick, or tells him to quit his life's work because he's working with Nazis (I'm on Ed's side for that, but I understand Al).

I also think he drew parallels with his father, Hohenheim (with Dante and Trisha, plus the idea of being driven by personal reasons), and although Ed doesn't want to admit it, he resembles his father (but with clear differences). I also saw people in TCOS who think Ed is an alcoholic; I don't know if it's true, but it would be interesting. And finally, the most controversial idea, which I might not include because it's too out of character or tone for FMA 2003, is that Ed and Noah... it's implied that they spent the night together, in a romantic way. I won't show anything, but I'll treat it with the seriousness it deserves, without it being just "for the sake of it" or "for the thrill of it." I mean, Ed is older now. On his journey, he hasn't focused on women because it was irrelevant to him. Regaining their bodies is the priority for both of them. Leaving him in this scenario doesn't seem so bad to me; I feel it would make him more human. Besides, I like the idea that he might succumb to some of the seven deadly sins (not excessively), but like everyone, he has them, and it would even show that he's not the perfect hero (giving more meaning to the 2003 message that not everything in the world is perfect).

I partly liked this last idea, but I still don't think it will work, and it's just "the spirit of a 14-year-old shipper" possessing me to think of these things. Even if it doesn't work, I know how to make Ed and Winry reunite in a way that feels like an emotional and happy reunion.

When Winry finds out about Juliet Douglas, she says she's going to contact Ed and Al to warn them not to trust the military, but... that's where it ends. She doesn't tell Ed and Al about the homunculus with their mother's face, she doesn't tell them that the Führer's secretary is a homunculus, she says nothing. Ed and Al figure it out on their own. Maybe I'm missing some details or explanation. What do you think?

I know the mystery lies in not explaining how it happened, but it always intrigued me. In my headcanon: Dante (as an old woman) tells Lyra to find Greed's bones and prepare a trap for him, as he approaches the house. Everything is ready when Lyra is ready to protect her teacher. Dante simply approaches calmly from behind and changes bodies. Dante's old body is perhaps destroyed by the transmutation, or I don't know. If you think about it, it seems like a scene from a horror movie.

These are the changes or additions I would make:

1. Give Lyra a little more time or some kind of motivation or attempt to improve as a person, so that later it feels tragic that she dies, since I'm also going to do that part with a certain mystery and horror approach (imagine that the sweet old lady that you are taking care of and who is your teacher out of nowhere starts acting in a sinister way, in a dark house in the middle of a forest)

2)Dante's role as "Lyra", I want to feel the sensation that although the viewer knows that something is not right, that the audience intuits it with subtle clues, trying to disguise Dante's attitude a little, as if she were playing to pretend that she is Lyra (having already lived with her and knowing how she acts), people do not usually consider how difficult it is to actually impersonate another person, he should imitate the gestures, way of speaking, personality (and let's not talk about the fact that how we act with one person is not the same as with another) but I think I'm already searching a lot. In short, I want it to sit there but not be seen at first glance, I feel that the anime does it well but if you see it twice it is more than enough and it becomes too obvious to ask yourself "I really didn't see that coming?" And more than anything, one already knew that something was wrong, I just wanted to know how it happened.

3. show a little more of Envy's "true" personality, a bit of a parallel like Wrath's with Sloth, but with Dante, for example she doesn't have Envy's human remains, so one wonders "why does she listen to him without revealing herself?" human, I don't explain myself well, something like a kind of twisted maternal role where she encourages him to behave like the son of **** that he is throughout the series so that he acts as a good tool, but when the topic becomes very personal (like when he finds out that Hohenheim returned, he begins to disobey, I don't like parallels, remember that in this series being a homunucle is basically a curse, I like, for example, how Envy reacts when Dante erases Gluttony's way of thinking (and how he gets scared for a moment) as if he thought what he could do to him when he wants to be clever. Also, he always considers in Headcanon that Envy is the strongest homunculus of the 7 because of the way he was born (Supposedly, according to theories, he was born when the eastern city was destroyed to create a complete human being, I want to assume that it was Hohenheim trying to revive his son with some type of more powerful transmutation like that of the "grand arcanum" and try to make parallels with Ed and Al, (and that he did not kill them before when they were children because Dante did not let him), also along with the part of how Sloth dies, who at first is enjoying eating Ed and Al fight against his "mother" but then gets angry when Sloth says those words of encouragement to his children before dying, something that reminds him of his misery and that Dante never I would say.

4. this is the fastest of all, I don't like the idea of the machine gun in the mouth, it seems very silly to me, even for a world where alchemy exists, there are homunculi and artificial implants/prostheses, talking chiemras and other things, I just don't think it works for the rules that the world of FMA itself applies. Tell him that maybe he has a hidden weapon, not in his shoulder or knee (like Paninya)

5. I already know that the "relationship" of these 2 is not the best of all (in this version) but it never hurts to have some scenes at the right moments so that it feels like something more natural or that due to circumstances it cannot function as it should, I also feel that Ed prioritizes more than anything that Al has his body again before his own happiness, I mean it would be in bad taste to be taking advantage of all the benefits of having a body while your brother is an empty can of metal, I understand why They never focused on that, but I would have liked to see even a little more of the two of them, as something tragic, that by the time Al recovers his body and does not believe that they will be able to live in peace and interact more (because I do not think that at this point Ed will mind not having his arm and leg), in the end he ends up not being able to enjoy spending time with his already recovered brother or with Winry, stuck in another world

6. put a little more on Rose (as in the case of Lyra) show how she comes up with the idea of ​​"the holy mother" to help the people of Liro, using manipulation with a holy or messianic figure (as Conrello did) but unlike him, she does it in order to help and protect the inhabitants of Lior who have already suffered a lot. and give her a little more of that personality of "get up and move on" or "help others get up" and make it seem like she and Lyra are friends (we know you already know that) and that when everything seems darker, that the villains are going to win and those who have been suffering and enduring the entire series, in the end they are rewarded and Rose lives peacefully in Rasembool until they rebuild Lior (Reole) in The conqueror of Shamballa.

7)I always liked how there were fights in the openings/Ova)Ending that did not appear in the series, I would have liked to see them but I know that the plot is justified so that there are not those fights but hey, I would like to see some excuse so that Al can fight at the end and the entire end is not on the ground until he gets up and uses the stone. I don't know any narrative way to think about it, I also really liked the idea of ​​a fight with the homunculi in a cemetery and I was thinking of some way to implement it.

Okay, first of all, this idea was pure chance, and I'm not going to include it in my fanfic because I simply don't think it fits with the story or the essence of Fullmetal Alchemist, nor with the FMA audience (the majority of the public). Okay, my idea would be, what if, for a brief moment, Ed and Noah were romantically involved? Before I sound like a typical fan who likes to ship characters just for the sake of it, let me ask you this: setting aside fan thinking and thinking like a director or writer, the romance between these two could serve a purpose in the plot, and not just for the sake of it. Both characters have things in common, and I honestly feel that Noah could have been developed further. I'm not saying she'll do everything, but if she can "read people," she could have interacted more. Besides, she could be one of the few characters who understand Ed, plus the theme of Noah feeling like he doesn't fit in anywhere because of his social standing and his "psychic abilities." I don't know. Also, many say that Fullmetal Alchemist is "darker and more mature," but I think they're sticking to the basics or what they consider dark. And even though this version doesn't give us much development of Ed and Winry's relationship (like in Brotherhood), it seems like people take what little there is and make headcanon out of it. Whether they end up together or subconsciously associate Ed with Winry, I don't know, I'm getting way off track. I'm just saying that, IN MY OPINION, it's not so bad that Ed and Noah are a couple (for a very short time, due to plot developments). Besides, they could explore previously unseen facets of the character, like how he relates romantically to someone, or something I saw in another post about whether "Ed had trauma from his past experiences" or "is an alcoholic." Those would be interesting topics to explore. What do you think?