DaleWin doodles

You have some of the cutest ocs ever! Dale is the first oc paired with Winry I actually like. Most are just generic automail mechanics and I totally find it boring that Winry would meet her future husband through work. I think that the shorter hair as grown up makes Dale more mature looking and doctor like. I love that he has similar interests to Winry in that he is a doctor but not too similar to come across generic and boring. In fact I find the idea of Winry marrying an automail mechanic so boring that even good oc maker like Bitter-Cherry using it makes me immediately dislike the character and stop giving the romance a chance.

I also love that Dale and Jen met Ed, Al and Winry as children, it's very cute idea. Yet I like that you didn't make it so that it's love at first sight thing with them deciding they are gonna marry as kids and so on. I also love how you have designed most of their families. I like that Dale and Jens parents have memorable designs and I can imagine your designs of the older Allen and Tess interacting with all of their grandkids etc. I also love that you gave Dale and Jen aunt, cousins and grandma. Though I'm kind of wondering about Tess and her family since you haven't really written/drawn much about them.

And on to the DaleWin kids. I love Sallys design. She has good mix of both of her parents features and seems like she has grandma Tess' eye shape. I like that her hair has that slight curl Dales hair does so she doesn't at quick galance look like Winry with brown eyes. Sally has really friendly and kind face which I like since it gives some sense of personality to her.

I like Julies desing and your desing of Sara. Julie has strong resemblance to her grandmother without looking excactly like her. I also like that her hair color is kind of halfway in between her parents colors. It adds this realistic thouch to her. I don't know why but she comes across as slightly shyer and sweeter than Sally. And I love that you don't shy away from using pink on your ocs. That chibi EdJen family pic all of the "girls" have pink clothes and you gave Julie a pink hairband. I think that pink is very cute color and you are good at choosing shades of it that suit the characters colorschemes and don't over use it and make your ocs too pink and cute and girly.

Gabe is cute and I like that you went with messier hairstyle for him. It gives him this little boy wibe you know how many little boys don't give a damn about how they look like so they don't see a reason to put an effort in to their looks. The messy hair comes across like he can't be bothered to brush his hair more than once a day to satisfy his mom about looking neat but then just getting it messed up while playing.

I also like that since Gabe is the youngest you drew that cute chibi shot in the corner where his sisters seem to be going on about how adorable he is and Gabe is all like I'm 10(8?) already stop embarassing me in public by treating me like a baby. It adds sibling relationship feel.

Honestly you have the best EdOc and WinOc pairings and fan kids and I love that you used the 2003 anime and that you ship EdWin in manga (the EdWin kids are cute and have personalities so the use of the manga clone!kid designs in your art makes them not seem like Ed and Winry but kids that strongly resemble their parents). Mostly because I'm a huge EdWin fan and even the great EdOc pairings for manga/brotherhood can't really keep my interest for long since I just start seeing similarities to EdWin in some really generic aspect or  this story would work just as well with EdWin so why bother making a oc.

I want to see more of Al/Lorraine. She is cute and sweet and what I have seen so far of them they would be a great couple. Have you made any designs for Al and Lorraines kids? Because I think they would be the most adorable kids ever since their parents are like the cutest ever.

I'm not that fond of the 2003 anime because I watched Brotherhood first and read the manga so I focused on the changes and plotholes of the story more. I also kind of found most of the fillers at the begining boring and the manga storylines drawn out and losing most of their exitement because of it. But I still love reading/learning about ocs and other stories set in the 2003 continuity because it does allow a lot more freedom in developing the future stories. Also in that Ed and Winry can be interepted as just friends so it's easier to pair an oc with either of them in that continuity.

I love it when oc maker actually likes canon pairings. Because of that EdJen and DaleWin come across more as you wanting to make an interesting and different story and less like you hating/loving one of them and because of that making oc to pair with one of them. You happen to actually be one of the few people who makes the idea of their oc crossing the gate to go after Ed and later return with both Ed and Al exiting. Mostly that is because you have made so many interesting supporting characters and family for Jen that I want her to be able to reunite with them and EdJen kids to be able to interact with their grandparents.

Could you maybe draw some pic of the EdJen and DaleWin kids hanging out together? It would be so cute and since they are cousins they would probably meet each other more of then than kids of EdOc and WinOc who are not related to each other. What I want to know is where said families live. I mean to me it makes most sense that Winry continues her familys automail business and lives in Resembool no matter who she marries but Ed and Jen could live in both Resembool but also closer to Jens family as well.

Sorry about the huge wall of text. I just got exited and happy about giving DaleWin a chance and it turning out to be great idea and Dale being a great oc rather than just some guy you came up with so that people wouldn't bash you for leaving Winry alone but pairing up Ed.