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⌈ Secret Post #3057 ⌋

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[Polandball]

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[The X-Files]

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[Nick Lea/Krycek]

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[Plague Inc Evolved]

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(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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[Grimm]

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[Discworld]

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[Magi the labrynth of magic]

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[The Clangers]

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It's been a long time since I read any FMA, but your portrayal of Al strikes me as a pretty good example of how to develop a character in an alternative universe. I'm thinking about how he behaved after the "Two Guardians" episode where that one suit of armor ("Barry the Chopper"?) suggested to him that he wasn't...well, him. And he became a little obsessed with his identity and whether there was an actual Alphonse inside that armor of his, and he lost his trust in Ed and eventually they had a fight? So I think Al is capable of being obsessive and mistrustful. The insistence on doing everything himself even sounds fairly Ed-like, actually.

I think that often the fandom will reduce a complex, multifaceted character to one note, one quirk, and ignore all the rest of their canon characterization, and when an author doesn't do that, they're told the character is OOC when they're really not.

I think that often the fandom will reduce a complex, multifaceted character to one note, one quirk, and ignore all the rest of their canon characterization, and when an author doesn't do that, they're told the character is OOC when they're really not.

Yeah, that's exactly it. Fanon characterization in a nutshell :|

Regarding Al - that's exactly what I was playing off of! Al has some darker moments, it's just that people don't often write his characterization in that direction. Al is mostly the kitten guy.
In this case, another element of his development was that after Ed vanished and everybody was sure Ed was dead and Al was sure he wasn't, Al wanted to keep Ed's memory alive. So some of what he did was to dress like Ed, and act in the way that he thought Ed would approve of - but he was basically emulating the version of Ed from newspapers and from people's stories. Very exaggerated and over-the-top. Then, when Ed actually did show up, Al was kind of shattered and confused and had to start figuring out how to be *himself* and not an Ed-knockoff.

I'd read the hell out of that.

Well, if you actually want to - the fic is Mirrorworld.

A few notes about it, though:
1. The fic is a post-2003 anime Ed/Alfons Heiderich pairing. The main plot is how Ed convinces Alfons that he truly is from another world, and Alfons starts getting into helping him open the Gate to go home. It basically ignores the movie and goes from there.
It's a romance, but there's a lot of plot, and later on a whole bunch of characters get characterization too. Most of the Al stuff is in his two interludes, and in the 3rd story arc (which is about 100k).

2. The fic literally gets better as it goes along. I began it years ago, and you can watch my writing develop chapter by chapter, haha.

3. It WILL be completed. There's only one chapter to go.

If you still want to read it, enjoy XD

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