Here is the One-Shot comic for September, a selection of Fullmetal Alchemist scenes. Like always, this is based on a script submitted by one of my Subscribers on SubscribeStar. I’ve been drawing Ed with all his limbs for Studio-set pics, but since this one is set in FMA itself I felt I needed to give him his canon limbs. There’s a few characters introduced here who people have been asking me to draw for a while, so I hope fans of this series will enjoy seeing them all here.
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.
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.
I’ve been struggling to find the right way to use Envy for any content, but I figured this Ask calling back to how he entered the Studio might be fun. It also gives me a chance to use Thorfinn again, a character many people like but I just don’t have a ton of passion/ideas for.
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.
