I'd by that she's kind of falling in love with him, but they don't know each other for long enough in the film for it to be already love.
But the plot you've set up doesn't fit with the events of the movie. It sounds more like an AU movie. The Thule society wants Noa so they can get her to extract the information/knowledge about alchemy from Hohenheim, whom they've captured, in order to forge a permanent gateway between worlds. Later, they're hoping to get Ed's knowledge from her too. But Edward ends up opening the gate himself anyway, and Noa just sort of gets tossed aside in the resulting chaos. She initially resists the capture, but finally does, believing that the world beyond the gate (Ed's world) is a place she can go and be happy: Shambala, Shangri-La, and any other paradise world. She also wants to give Edward a chance to go home himself.
A big part of Noa's character in the movie is the fact that she's alone in the world, a person with no country and now (thanks to her being sold), no companions either. She's also discriminated against heavily being a gypsy in 1920s Europe. When she first meets Edward she touches his shoulder and says to him that they're the same, that he also has no country. In fact, all through the first half of the movie Ed is disappointed and almost bitter about the fact that he's alone and homesick (his father's long gone off somewhere.) In the end the fact that Ed and Al leave with the gypsies only emphasizes the fact that Edward (and by proxy Al, who refuses to be left behind again) are nomads/gypsies themselves.
I think emphasizing Noa getting her family back would feel off, because she's portrayed as being without anyone. And when her companions sold her, she didn't have a big emotional reaction, just surprise, so I think they weren't her family, just people she was travelling with.
Having Edward get ill is an interesting idea, but it'd have to be set after the movie because Ed's healthy as a horse when the movie ends.
If she were falling in love with him, I'd buy that Ed was being obtuse about it while being her friend. That certainly fits with his character in the tv series. Though (and I'm reaching a bit here) based on the film... he's definitely more mature in the movie, especially about reading people. And there's this one really weighted look he gives her in the movie when he travels through the gate and deliberately leaves her behind... If it were his movie self I think he'd be aware that she had a crush on him, and either react two ways: accept it and possibly return it, or not return the feelings, ignore her crush and pretend it's not happening. Both of those I see as more likely than him being oblivious to it.
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Re: FMA Fanfic
Date: 2005-10-27 01:46 am (UTC)But the plot you've set up doesn't fit with the events of the movie. It sounds more like an AU movie. The Thule society wants Noa so they can get her to extract the information/knowledge about alchemy from Hohenheim, whom they've captured, in order to forge a permanent gateway between worlds. Later, they're hoping to get Ed's knowledge from her too. But Edward ends up opening the gate himself anyway, and Noa just sort of gets tossed aside in the resulting chaos. She initially resists the capture, but finally does, believing that the world beyond the gate (Ed's world) is a place she can go and be happy: Shambala, Shangri-La, and any other paradise world. She also wants to give Edward a chance to go home himself.
A big part of Noa's character in the movie is the fact that she's alone in the world, a person with no country and now (thanks to her being sold), no companions either. She's also discriminated against heavily being a gypsy in 1920s Europe. When she first meets Edward she touches his shoulder and says to him that they're the same, that he also has no country. In fact, all through the first half of the movie Ed is disappointed and almost bitter about the fact that he's alone and homesick (his father's long gone off somewhere.) In the end the fact that Ed and Al leave with the gypsies only emphasizes the fact that Edward (and by proxy Al, who refuses to be left behind again) are nomads/gypsies themselves.
I think emphasizing Noa getting her family back would feel off, because she's portrayed as being without anyone. And when her companions sold her, she didn't have a big emotional reaction, just surprise, so I think they weren't her family, just people she was travelling with.
Having Edward get ill is an interesting idea, but it'd have to be set after the movie because Ed's healthy as a horse when the movie ends.
If she were falling in love with him, I'd buy that Ed was being obtuse about it while being her friend. That certainly fits with his character in the tv series. Though (and I'm reaching a bit here) based on the film... he's definitely more mature in the movie, especially about reading people. And there's this one really weighted look he gives her in the movie when he travels through the gate and deliberately leaves her behind... If it were his movie self I think he'd be aware that she had a crush on him, and either react two ways: accept it and possibly return it, or not return the feelings, ignore her crush and pretend it's not happening. Both of those I see as more likely than him being oblivious to it.