Best thing about FMA:B is that Nina is still remembered and a very defining part of a lot of their convictions towards people and alchemy. Al's conversation with Gracia highlights even some of the seemingly unimportant plot-related arcs from the very beginning still have large ripples through the FMA storyline. Because Nina originally felt like a lesson in human cruelty, but ended up being a lesson on humanitarianism.
This is also one of my absolute favorite little details. The biggest complaint I have about a lot of long-running, save-the-world type shows is that the characters will go through so many traumatic experiences thatāfor the sake of convenienceāthe writers just start to forget the early ones. There will be something so vital, so life-changing that happens in early episodes that just kinda getsā¦phased out. The writers are bored of it. The writers have decided bigger/cooler things need to happen instead. The writers just frigging forget, or change their minds, because that was still test-phase stuff for their characters and they want to renege on the characters caring so much aboutĀ āearly traumatic eventā
Not Fullmetal Alchemist.Ā
The impact she has on the Elrics is lasting. Itās consistent. Itās real.Ā Itās never. damn. forgotten.Ā
The final chapter. Within the final 20 pages of the entire series, we get this
Here Al is trying to overhaul his and Edās entire life philosophy. He is attempting to reject the core ideas of alchemy. Heās trying to prove an entire different system of equivalence. Because he has not forgotten Nina. Because Ed has not forgotten. Because they refuse to forget.
And it is her memory that motivates the boysā final actions in the final chapter: chapter 108
Because the consequences in this series are real, and the effects are lasting, and nothing is done just for shock, and nothing is thrown away
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