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sparkpenguin — PRO III: the Sin and the Snake

Published: 2006-10-29 11:41:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 2069; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 8
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Description FULLVIEW/READ/COMMENT APPRECIATED. i know it's long but please bear with me. it's relevant. and intelligent. and FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! Profanity blames herself for the fall of Ishbal. Maybe that's why she drinks so much and is such a little asshole all the time. A SHOT EACH FOR THE FALLEN SOULS OF ISHBAL... A joke character at first concept, Profanity has undoubtedly become the brainchild of something important (besides the bishies and the superscience) that drew me into FMA/HNR in th first place. THE FUCKIN POLITICS!! basically Ishbal is like, an ingenius satire of the war on terror and the annihilation of the native americans COMBINED. who knew arakawa-san was so punk rok?

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down in the sleepy valley town, the lanterns are still burning in a rural ishballan mosque...

"Caliana... Wake up...
Our shepards have spotted people from the West... But it's too late, they've come for us. They're inside. We have very little time to defend this place with our lives.

Are you ready?
Have your years of service in this temple prepared you to give your life to Ishballah? To destroy the evil that will defile our land and bring war to our people with brute force and disgusting lies? Along with this sleeping town, are you prepared to commit your soul into the hands of the Lord? Then take this...
The devastating hellfire that a flick of this switch will bring shall be enough to annihilate them, whatever their numbers. You will show us all the way home."

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she never got the chance. turns out priest-man takes the low road the fuck out of there, and lets everyone else die. when pro watches him flee downstairs she panics, and hurries to execute their final means of defense. debris from the initial attack round the amestrians fired falls and cracks her in the head (DENTED HELMET) and she drops the switch. as she's worm-crawling reaching for it, someone stamps on her wrist, and when she turns around the last thing she sees in her human existence is martel's knife swooping down to carve her trachea clean out of her throat. they glare at eachother a moment and then she dies. when "profanity" is reborn as a clumsy, zombie-like abomination in lab five, the use of maaany prisoners (including a skilled alchemist) and her badly-patched original body maintain her memories of her life and death. but her mocha skin is now a pale pink-grey. her beautiful dark hair and eyes are a ratty lilac color. she bears the devil's mark upon her "new" body. about a year before everyone else does, whacked out on a red-stone power trip, she eventually breaks out. she swears to never forgive the amestrians and to destroy them when she is most able, and turns her back to ishballah. not of course, before a lot of spitting and swearing at him for failing to save her and her people. she still harbors the same pride and disdain for the government as she always had as an ishballan, oddly enough. she just hates god. that's profane.

she was kept apart from the ex-soldiers in the chimera ward. that she catches up with them YEARS later under greed is... ludicrous. but as a minor sin not fostered by dante, none of the other homuns would tolerate her existence. she keeps her indentity a secret and battles the still-confusing female feelings she was raised to suppress in ishbal. THAT GUY MAKES MY NO-NO-PLACE TINGLE, WTF IS THAT ABOUT SRSLY. she openly hates on martel, though, regardless of their likeminded hatred for the military and their unity in cause. no one really knows why until her true gender and background are revealed. then hilarity ensues. (with jello wrestling and fluid exchange)


PRODUCTION
lyrics are © immortal technique. and he'd probably shoot me for using them. not joking, i feel kinda lame. but it fit the subject matter. the crescent moon and the AK were hand vectored (no font cheats here, fags)
FUCK GRADIENTS FOREVER. I NEVER WANNA SEE ONE EVER AGAIN. only on like ten or so layers, but all the different opacities/blend modes made late-production edits a pain in the ass. AND IT WAS FRICKIN HUGE too many forms. i had to restart my computer a few times before i decided to downsize it DEET-DEE-DEE. i have to keep things more simple. my SFX aren't worth the effort. too fade-y and jumbled. recognize the fire? it's from Moon over Marin 's construction file (which i luckily saved). that fire sucks. stupid motherfucking RAM-eating fire.
and wtf is with the goofy greed, you ask? he appeared there very early on and i just never had the heart to give him the chop. so he doesn't really fit in. he's also been reversed so he doesn't look right as he did when i drew him facing the other way. and the stars look like he drew them. starting with the FUCK YOU finger, this was originally intended to be a very lighthearted/comical piece (profanity was smiling.) the elements just kept building.

i don't think i need to disclaim. i am a political loudmouth but i am broke and harmless. that, and no one should be offended by a TV show.


any thoughts ?

GREED: OMFGGGGGG PRO SHUT THE FUCK UP. EVERY FIVE MINUTES with you it's "INFIDELS" this or "ISHBALLAH" that. if you don't shut the hell up, right FUCKING now, i am dressing you up as the skankiest harem girl EVER and FORCING you to dance for me! in fact.
skip the part where you disobey me again and let's cut straight to lapdance. nn;

and PUT SOME MOTHERFUCKING MAKEUP ON.

PRO: D:
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Comments: 63

SumGui In reply to ??? [2006-10-29 17:46:48 +0000 UTC]

That the name of my club..... ?????

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sparkpenguin In reply to SumGui [2006-10-30 02:12:59 +0000 UTC]

if there is a club named that, then i guess so o_o

it's not in reference to greed, though. i was gonna call it the sin VERSUS the snake... i like the alliteration. even if it's corny

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SumGui In reply to sparkpenguin [2006-10-30 02:24:57 +0000 UTC]

I figuered that it was refering to Profanity. I kind of don't get why you had martel kill her human self though.....

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sparkpenguin In reply to SumGui [2006-10-31 01:55:10 +0000 UTC]

just because pro was an ishballan. what do most ignorant americans think of those cultures? i can think of ten racial slurs off of the top of my head, and they have some for us. war makes people hate people they've never met. that's why i improvised their debriefing officer's instructions.
in all good conscience i had to make them make up after greed dies. they agree to meet up and start again after they finish their business but... sadly... martel dies before they ever reunite and start a she-punk band and go to protests and fly kites or something.

but the bottom line is if martel didn't kill pro then they both would've been blown up and couldn't have been given a second chance. but only an audience could see the silver lining in that... the characters are just angry at eachother until they grow up and get over it, in hindsight. fighting over a man never helped two girls be friends, either... --;

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SumGui In reply to sparkpenguin [2006-10-31 02:05:01 +0000 UTC]

Uh..... Isn't Martel from Amitres, which is Germany?

Shame the man isn't interested in comentment. And that all he cares for is sex.

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sparkpenguin In reply to SumGui [2006-10-31 02:34:22 +0000 UTC]

that's why it's so annoying that they fight over him, and how one gets mad when he fucks the other... even though it changes like every day. they don't get mad when he takes the fluzies upstairs either. it's just eachother. y'know... anime antics and such.

amestris has been transliterated as amestria, both are... acceptable titles. whichever way you slice it, it's not so much a take on germany as a take on 1910's US/europe in general, and as far as the europe part, austria in particular. arakawa even blends the names together. america+austria (just like islam+allah). rolling countryside and quaint architecture, white folks roaming the land... but it's not old-world enough to be solidly european considering the time period. the quintessentially german "furher" was used in the english text, but the japanese word (like daisoto or something) just means "the leader guy supreme."

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SumGui In reply to sparkpenguin [2006-10-31 02:38:05 +0000 UTC]

Anime is so crazy. D= Greed you damn player. Get a soul and stop fooling around.

Greed: No.

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sparkpenguin In reply to SumGui [2006-10-31 03:41:44 +0000 UTC]

PRO: *pulls a huge sword out of hammerspace and chases hookers away* GONE problem solved.
damn hos sure can run fast in those high heels o_o

souls are overrated...

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SumGui In reply to sparkpenguin [2006-11-02 15:32:10 +0000 UTC]

Greed: TIME OUT FOR YOU PRO!!!

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sparkpenguin In reply to SumGui [2006-11-03 05:00:35 +0000 UTC]

PRO: HASSAN CHOP!

...i mean i'll be good ._.

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AmzarahGunn In reply to ??? [2006-10-29 12:00:37 +0000 UTC]

The fire...is so pretty. It's such a difficult thing to draw, too.

I love how the silhouette person in the background is grinning and looking all YOU CAN'T SEE ME MUTHAFUKERS. The lighting on him looks great too, and the stars are so pretty and glowy and omg i want to touch one.

The blood is gorgous as well. Haha. Trust me to mention that.

I love the story behind this...and reading it made the lyrics make so much more sense. They do suit really well, methinks.

LOL at the dialogue in the end of the description. *falls out of chair*

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sparkpenguin In reply to AmzarahGunn [2006-10-30 02:19:59 +0000 UTC]

oh they want eachother and they know it. the indispensible antics can't be avoided though

i love the subject matter i chose to deal with. i'm a very un-american... uhh... american i guess. i'm not islamic or even descent of that part of the world either, i'm white. i just hate what goes on and how it's slanted. i love my land, but.... i'm sick of assholes in charge giving me a bad name by proxy. and i'm sick of being hated by the world for my home and the color of my skin when i've done nothing wrong and am just as dirt broke as any asshole out there. this country shits on us, too, y'know.
i had more typed up about the politics of FMA and the real world, but it was lengthy and i know lots of folks hate that. it's just so parallel to the actual assholery of this nation's past and present. ishbal is such a perfect analogy... and outrage at the government is just so punk rok.

anf for the last time.. FUCK THE FIRE x_x but thanks for liking it, and taking the time to look into it.

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