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tentative word-by-word layaout for a Full Metal Alchemist music video.. Spoilers for up to about episode 36

Video Plan – This Woman’s Work : Izumi’s Lament


CREDTS:

00:00-00:03.0
"RASHAKA PRESENTS"

Izumi smiling

00:03.5-00:11.7 [I hold you]
"A FULL METAL ALCHEMIST VIDEO"

Ed and Al with Izumi

00:12.8-00:19.4 [I hold you]
“ IZUMI’S LAMENT ”

Izumi sad with husband

00:21.2-00:28.6 [I hold you]
"MUSIC BY KATE BUSH"

00:30.4-00:33.1 [Pray God you can cope]

Izumi to Ed & Al

00:34-00:37.9 [I stand outside]

husband and brother

00:38-00:40.1 [this woman’s work]

Izumi being motherly, alchemy

00:40.2-00:42.6 [this woman’s world]

Izumi hurt and sad -- because of alchemy “her world”

00:43.2-00:46.9 [Oh it’s hard on the man]

husband comforting Izumi

00:47.3- [Now his part is over]

husband standing back

[Now starts the craft]

husband & Izumi

[of the father]

Izumi’s child

[I know you have a little life in you yet]

Izumi hurt on bed

[I know you have a lot of strength left]

Izumi standing up, hurt

[I know you have a little life in you yet]

Izumi bleeding

[I know you have a lot of strength left]
Izumi looking determined


[I should be crying but I just can't let it show]

Izumi with Ed and Al

[I should be hoping but I can't stop thinking]

Izumi looking pensively at Ed and Al

[All the things I should've said that I never said]

Izumi turning away from them, flashes of them doing alchemy as if she never warned them of her own experience

[All the things we should have done that we never did]

Izumi looking sadly at Ed & Al

[All the things I should have given but I didn't]

Izumi yelling at them

[Oh darling make it go]

Izumi being comforted by husband

[Make it go away]

Ed and Al taking in her comfort

[Give me these moments back]

happy training days

[Give them back to me]

Izumi comforting them again

[Give me that little kiss]

Izumi hugging them

[Give me your]

Izumi and Ed and Al sad together

[heart] / [I know you have a little life in you yet]

Izumi holding out BabyWrath / Izumi hugging the newly found Wrath

[I know you have a lot of strength left]

Izumi and Wrath

[I know you have a little life in you yet]

Izumi and upset Wrath

[I know you have a lot of strength left]

Izumi and smiling Wrath

[I should be crying but I just can't let it show]

Izumi strongly defending Wrath

[I should be hoping but I can't stop thinking]

Izumi looking at Wrath regretfully

[All the things we should've said that we never said]

Happy Wrath

[All the things we should have done that we never did]

Izumi carrying Wrath out of danger

[All the things that you needed from me]

Izumi hugging Wrath

[All the things that you wanted for me]

Izumi and husband / Izumi and Wrath

[All the things I should have given but I didn't]

Izumi facing the rightfully angry Wrath

Flashes of many things and many regrets: Elric brothers, husband, wrath, children, alchemy

[Oh darling make it go away]

Izumi with Wrath at neck-point

[Just make it go away now]

Wrath with Izumi at neck-point, her closing her eyes in defeat

Go dark
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The plan is that the video has three main parts-- Izumi's angst, her motherly angst for the Elric brothers, and then Wrath's angst, which goes full circle back to her angst.

I can see this so clearly in my head. Subtitles would have to be worked around, but... I can see it so clearly.