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Otherwise known as this is where my brain goes when I'm up before seven-thirty a.m. and the only thing I grab to read as I'm out the door is volume one of D.Gray-man and I live with a Harry Potter RPer. I have tea to try and counteract the lack of sleep + caffeine in my system, but who knows how long that'll take to kick in. 8D
Also, a whoretastic whoring kitty who's bigger than my lap and trying to cuddle, but hey. :D He's warm, which is better than I am.
Now with a little Fullmetal Alchemist thrown in for FLAVOR. Haha.
So, really, I've seen a handful of people trying to compare D.Gray-man and FMA, for whatever reasons -- I think it may be because of the whole "trying to revive a beloved dead parent" and the whole "there just ain't something right with that boy's arm" and the "fifteen year old (or thereabouts) boy attempting to atone for mistakes" but really, maybe in actuality, they've got it all wrong.
I mean, after all, D.Gray-man and Harry Potter both have (trying not to be spoiler specific, though it's probably good to be at least somewhat up-to-date with both♥):
- a young protagonist with a prominent scar on his face, given to him by the enemy, which allows him a strange mystical connection WITH said enemy
- "protection," of sorts, from said enemy by parental figure because of scar [depends, I guess, on whether you count Allen's curse as protection -- it lets him know his enemy, at least!]
- heroes that recieve specific acknowledgement/targeting from the Main Bad Enemy
--further, big mumbo-jumbo destiny that they will be the one to destroy said Main Bad Enemy
- minions of the Main Bad Enemy that are hideous undead creatures that take sustenance from draining/destroying human life
- an "inner circle" of baddies that report directly to/are loyal to the Main Bad Enemy (the Noah Family and the Death Eaters, though my bias tells me that Tikky Mik by himself could wipe out the Death Eaters without much trouble -- but I think Tikky Mik is totally cool beans, so hey!)
- hell, we even have a Trio in D.Gray-man, Allen's situations in the most recent chapters nonwithstanding (Allen, Ravi, and Rinali)
I mean, if we're to compare Allen to Ed (which I've seen done) -- ultimately, I feel Allen is a lot more mature than Ed, even by the end of the anime (manga!Ed, I think, is slowly growing -- but I've only read to what's been collected up to v11, so); I've always had the feeling, watching the series, that Ed never quite understood what he'd done to his mother as WRONG in a strange way; that if Al hadn't lost his body in the process, Ed would have certainly tried again.
This could be speculation, but I don't think that, on some level, Ed really acknowledged what happened, especially with his refusal to let go of his mother, and his obsession with projecting her onto every woman he meets. Allen, on the other hand, by the start of the series, seems to have acknowledge that he committed a sin, but he's also let go of that -- he's still got Issues over Mana, but it's not the sort that could potentially render him unable to act for a crucial second, which I think is Ed's issue.
... and from now on, I will attempt to actually have the tea fully consumed and working before I try to write entries like this.Or not♥
Also, a whoretastic whoring kitty who's bigger than my lap and trying to cuddle, but hey. :D He's warm, which is better than I am.
Now with a little Fullmetal Alchemist thrown in for FLAVOR. Haha.
So, really, I've seen a handful of people trying to compare D.Gray-man and FMA, for whatever reasons -- I think it may be because of the whole "trying to revive a beloved dead parent" and the whole "there just ain't something right with that boy's arm" and the "fifteen year old (or thereabouts) boy attempting to atone for mistakes" but really, maybe in actuality, they've got it all wrong.
I mean, after all, D.Gray-man and Harry Potter both have (trying not to be spoiler specific, though it's probably good to be at least somewhat up-to-date with both♥):
- a young protagonist with a prominent scar on his face, given to him by the enemy, which allows him a strange mystical connection WITH said enemy
- "protection," of sorts, from said enemy by parental figure because of scar [depends, I guess, on whether you count Allen's curse as protection -- it lets him know his enemy, at least!]
- heroes that recieve specific acknowledgement/targeting from the Main Bad Enemy
--further, big mumbo-jumbo destiny that they will be the one to destroy said Main Bad Enemy
- minions of the Main Bad Enemy that are hideous undead creatures that take sustenance from draining/destroying human life
- an "inner circle" of baddies that report directly to/are loyal to the Main Bad Enemy (the Noah Family and the Death Eaters, though my bias tells me that Tikky Mik by himself could wipe out the Death Eaters without much trouble -- but I think Tikky Mik is totally cool beans, so hey!)
- hell, we even have a Trio in D.Gray-man, Allen's situations in the most recent chapters nonwithstanding (Allen, Ravi, and Rinali)
I mean, if we're to compare Allen to Ed (which I've seen done) -- ultimately, I feel Allen is a lot more mature than Ed, even by the end of the anime (manga!Ed, I think, is slowly growing -- but I've only read to what's been collected up to v11, so); I've always had the feeling, watching the series, that Ed never quite understood what he'd done to his mother as WRONG in a strange way; that if Al hadn't lost his body in the process, Ed would have certainly tried again.
This could be speculation, but I don't think that, on some level, Ed really acknowledged what happened, especially with his refusal to let go of his mother, and his obsession with projecting her onto every woman he meets. Allen, on the other hand, by the start of the series, seems to have acknowledge that he committed a sin, but he's also let go of that -- he's still got Issues over Mana, but it's not the sort that could potentially render him unable to act for a crucial second, which I think is Ed's issue.
... and from now on, I will attempt to actually have the tea fully consumed and working before I try to write entries like this.
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