I mentioned in Envy’s Ask with Choso how I figured he’d crash Ed’s debut shoot. I considered including him here, too, but I figured it’d be better to just focus on Ed and Mustang’s dynamic a little instead.
Unlike Todo, I don’t think Choso is very likely to refer to someone as his brother unless there’s a literal familial connection. Without trying to be funny, I think his brotherly bonds tend to be much more about blood. So, with that being the case, I couldn’t really have him answer this question in the affirmitive.
However, I did have a crossover pairing I wanted to do with him. I’m not sure what exactly made me want to draw Choso with Envy. It might be just because I already had an FMA connection in my head due to Choso’s debut (and, in fact, I’m certain these two met when Envy tried to crash Ed’s debut shoot), or it might be they’re the only two males so far who don’t wear nail polish in canon but do in Studio (to the best of my knowledge). I do also kind of like the image of them painting their nails together. Whatever the case, though, it was a pairing I wanted to do and this Ask seemed like a good chance to do it while also addressing my reading of Choso’s brothers needing to be literal.
This is a Lord Tier commission for one my top level Subscribers, featuring Choso from Jujutsu Kaisen and Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist. Ed’s pictured here with his body intact, per the commissioner’s specifications. My interpretation here is that Ed’s gotten his full body restored/healed in the process of coming into the Studio, where this pic is set. Probably if he shows up in Asks or anything, it’ll be with this design. Of course, if I draw him in anything set within the canon of FMA, he’ll have to have his automail.
I haven’t seen Brotherhood, just the original anime, but I don’t really remember Mustang and Envy having the same sort of sexual tension as, for example, Goku and Frieza. However, I know plenty of people would probably enjoy seeing something between these two, and I figured an answer like this from Mustang might work for that.
I was thinking over this question, and I thought it might be fitting of Envy was motivated by a bit of jealousy towards all the other characters (and there are many) who’ve been paired with Goku over the years. I don’t think he’d just admit that, of course, but I tried to play into that motivation in his response here. Of course, mostly I just thought they’d result in a cute pic, and I hope some of y’all will agree.
Envy’s one of two boys who won the last First Shoot poll I ran. Like Mystique from X-Men he could, in theory, look like anyone for this shoot, but that’s not what people voted for! His lottery partner was a surprising one, though. Amber O’Malley is a character from David Willis’s Walkyverse webcomics (first Shortpacked!, though the one time I drew her it was Dumbing of Age). At the time I kinda thought my niche might be drawing webcomic characters, so there’s a bunch of random characters from webcomics I was reading in, like, 2012 or so sitting in the 1 Club. I tried to take these two in an interesting direction despite being such a random pairing.
Last year I finished my ongoing series of Mace and Jackie’s Christmas Carol, so this year I was in search of something to replace it. I went through a few ideas, but none of them felt quite right, until I hit on this. A few years ago I had the idea of an ongoing comic set in a Studio orgy, basically jumping from place to place within the orgy without any real story or anything. I didn’t think the idea had the legs for a regular comic, but I’ve kind of reworked the concept here. So, every year for Christmas, I’d like to do a little montage comic like this one highlighting a few little scenes from that year’s Studio Christmas Party. I think this series could be fun, and I hope y’all will enjoy it. I started this one late because I was having trouble coming up with a concept, so once I had it I just drew the first few ideas I had. Unfortunately, none of them ended up being yaoi, but I’ll try to rectify that next year. In the meantime, please enjoy and Happy Holidays!