This is my entry to Scenic’s fight scene competition. The basic rules were that the wall had to have 2 or more people in a fight scene, and the wall had to be scenic. Im just gonna do a little shameless advertising here… Join Scenic! Lol! For any of you out there who love making scenic walls and already have a scenic wall in the gallery, joinz! ^^

Ok so anywho, back to the wall. I was looking for a good fight scan and came across this fight scene scan between Ed and Scar. I really have to admit that this was the most annoying vectors I have ever done... There were soo many
lines and some parts on the scan were so dark, I couldn’t even see what I was doing. I won’t be doing another complicated vector for a long time *that’s a lie*. So I vectored the scan, which really took about 70% of the entire time I spent on this wall. I used stock images for the buildings, but then I realized that they looked too realistic so I had to paint the buildings and some parts are vectored. I also painted the sky and made the raindrops. The water splashes that are coming off of the characters were vectored from the original scan. And I had to completely remake the blue and red flashy things. Even though this wall really was a pain in the neck (my neck actually really hurts T_T) im really glad I went through with it, and it was actually kinda fun! (once the vectoring was over)

Also while researching FMA I came across this really pretty quote…

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Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle: that all things do come at a price, that there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise between my brother and me. A promise that someday we'll see each other again.

so this is basically where I got my title from.

And I’d like to thank `Deto15 for all his help and support during my random nagging sessions and times of need. ^______^

So enjoy the wall! ^^ comments are welcome plz!

Layers: 94
Time: 10 days

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*line art without edited flashy blue and red things >___<''