Al’s sweet. The fandom understands that Al’s sweet. There’s no denying that. But I think people let that perception of Al mask the fact that he’s sassy as shit. Especially toward Ed.
Alphonse “Ohhhh great, now my arm fell off because my brother’s a big fat idiot!” Elric Alphonse “No way we look nothing alike. I don’t have a mean face like my brother. And I’m way taller!” Elric Alphonse “How do you plan to make this work? Because Scar literally tore us apart last time, Ed.” Elric
Alphonse is saucy as all hell and he takes none of Ed’s shit. The boy 400% definitely encouraged the most ridiculous tall tales about the Fullmetal Alchemist which spread around Amestris.
You are 112% right. Gluttony attacks the lot of them and Mustang’s flame attack doesn’t work, so Ed, Al and Mustang just start sprinting for their lives. While they’re running Al’s plan b is literally “Hey let’s leave Mustang behind.”
The exact exchange in the dub is
Ed: sarcastically “Hey, that worked well!” Mustang: “You’ve got something better, be my guest!” Al: “Or we could just leave you behind, Colonel. You’re the one he’s really after!”
The scanlation is even more brutal
“Don’t follow us. It’s targeting you.”
Ice cold, Alphonse Elric.
I answered this ask two years ago and I just realized anon said “short tales” instead of “tall tales” and frankly, that’s canon.
Seriously you guys. I can’t describe in words how much I love this moment, and how DAMN IMPORTANT it is for Ed and Hohenheim’s relationship. There were so many things they didn’t fix, but Ed’s expression in that second to last panel is undeniable. Pure surprise and realization. He realizes his father truly did love his mother in this moment. There’s so much damage his absence caused that couldn’t be undone, but for Ed to know that his father truly loved Trisha is so important. In my humble opinion, that’s probably one of the driving factors behind his decision to not use Hohenheim’s last life to bring Al back. Even though he didn’t have many opportunities to show it openly, Hohenheim did love his family. This moment of vulnerability is just… PERFECT. Ed tried to teach his father a lesson, but ended up learning something himself.
this poor man got cursed with immortality in a way that was highly traumatizing, and yet he refused to get angry at the souls making him immortal, because he recognized they had no say in this situation either. so instead he talks to them, even though the number in the hundreds of thousands, and treats them like people, and keeps their memory going.
Van Hohenheim is too damn pure and good and i’m extremely emotional
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