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[Sept. 2] [Fullmetal Alchemist] Hypothetical
Title: Hypothetical
Day/Theme: Sept. 2, 2010 "in ten years the world will have changed"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Solf J. Kimblee, Ed
Rating: PG
There are two ways I see the future headed, Fullmetal. Your way, which, for all your optimistic dreams, probably isn't really the way you want at all, and my way, which isn't so much a specific end goal I yearn for, but a path to follow, a road I can walk and survive when other humans fall and fail. Whichever one of us wins, in ten years the world will have changed.
Let's talk it out. You win. Maybe you even save everyone you love. Maybe you even get your body back and your brother's too. Ah, I'd applaud for you then, Fullmetal. That'd be quite a feat. So let's suppose that happens. Maybe you don't even have to kill anyone either. I like to imagine it best that way. We live (though with the Homunculi it's difficult to see how), or Mustang or someone else kills us. This country is a mess. How do you even begin to fix it?
As I see it, even if you win, even in ten years, Amestris will be little better than it is now. And it will be weaker, so it might be worse. There might not be any Amestris anymore at all. But, Fullmetal, I can tell you're a bit like me. You're a survivor. Whether in Amestris or anywhere else, you'd make it.
I'd like to see that. To see you forced to claw your way to the top, as the nation disintegrated into a mountain of corpses. I'd like to see how you'd manage your ideals along the way. I'd like to see how many people you'd save.
There are so many ways it might go. Mustang wants to reach the top? Watch him be assassinated along the way. Watch him turn tyrant. Olivier Armstrong wants the top as well? Watch her bulldoze her way into führer-dom. Watch Amestris expand just like it always has. I quiver at the range of possibilities. This country, born from blood, can never be washed clean.
Fine. I'll keep it to my pleasure to myself- the dreams I dream of war and chaos. It's a world that wouldn't be a challenge to me. But it would be a beautiful world and one I could live in all the same.
Now, for "my" way. The Homunculi win. Humanity perishes but for a select few, strong enough to stand where all others have fallen.
A bitter, gritty world where...
Where...
(Your world, Fullmetal. I think I like it better.)
Day/Theme: Sept. 2, 2010 "in ten years the world will have changed"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Solf J. Kimblee, Ed
Rating: PG
There are two ways I see the future headed, Fullmetal. Your way, which, for all your optimistic dreams, probably isn't really the way you want at all, and my way, which isn't so much a specific end goal I yearn for, but a path to follow, a road I can walk and survive when other humans fall and fail. Whichever one of us wins, in ten years the world will have changed.
Let's talk it out. You win. Maybe you even save everyone you love. Maybe you even get your body back and your brother's too. Ah, I'd applaud for you then, Fullmetal. That'd be quite a feat. So let's suppose that happens. Maybe you don't even have to kill anyone either. I like to imagine it best that way. We live (though with the Homunculi it's difficult to see how), or Mustang or someone else kills us. This country is a mess. How do you even begin to fix it?
As I see it, even if you win, even in ten years, Amestris will be little better than it is now. And it will be weaker, so it might be worse. There might not be any Amestris anymore at all. But, Fullmetal, I can tell you're a bit like me. You're a survivor. Whether in Amestris or anywhere else, you'd make it.
I'd like to see that. To see you forced to claw your way to the top, as the nation disintegrated into a mountain of corpses. I'd like to see how you'd manage your ideals along the way. I'd like to see how many people you'd save.
There are so many ways it might go. Mustang wants to reach the top? Watch him be assassinated along the way. Watch him turn tyrant. Olivier Armstrong wants the top as well? Watch her bulldoze her way into führer-dom. Watch Amestris expand just like it always has. I quiver at the range of possibilities. This country, born from blood, can never be washed clean.
Fine. I'll keep it to my pleasure to myself- the dreams I dream of war and chaos. It's a world that wouldn't be a challenge to me. But it would be a beautiful world and one I could live in all the same.
Now, for "my" way. The Homunculi win. Humanity perishes but for a select few, strong enough to stand where all others have fallen.
A bitter, gritty world where...
Where...
(Your world, Fullmetal. I think I like it better.)