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Oh yeah I need to post this before I forget.

Hiiii, @lucys-art-log ! Happy holiday, here's a silly for you.

Ed, Leo, Rick, and Winry riding horses :3 (I didnt know how yo place Al on a horse without looking weird...)

Silly ramble under yhe cut

Everyone praises the scene in which Ed acknowledges his racism, but we forget the conversation was ultimately prompted by Leo turning on Scar, as well as his rage and frustration at everything that had happened to him by that point in his life. Ed saying he didn’t want to kill Scar, that he didn’t want to kill anyone, is something we as the audience know is sincere, but to Leo, it’s just more empty words. He liked Ed better when the latter was willing to kill Scar because it was exactly how he felt.

Leo always channels his grief into anger. When he thought his mother had betrayed him and his little brother, he was furious. He swore off religion and kept that flame of hatred burning in his heart. Finding out about her failing eyesight may have allowed him to properly grieve for the mother who loved him, but it didn’t exactly make all his pain go away. He still harbored so much resentment. In a complete 180, he embraced his mother’s faith and clung to it as he and Rick continued to struggle on, and when Scar became a big part of his life, he clung to him as well. Then everything at Kishua happened, and Leo felt even more betrayed, not just by Scar (who had committed the taboo and therefore also “betrayed” his mother), but by everyone and everything. The world wanted him dead, and he hated the world for it. When they were all caught and he and Rick were shipped off to the “residences” anyway, it was just more confirmation for his deeply held resentment.

I don’t think anyone can blame Leo for lashing out at Ed, something that, quite frankly, was less than he deserved (and more, if you look at it from the angle of how it benefited him). For his part, Ed had such a limited understanding of Leo’s situation. After all, it was Al who heard the whole story, not him. All Ed knew was that Leo had hated his mother, and now he didn’t. All he knew was that Leo had loved Scar, and now he wanted him dead. The reason Leo gave was about how Scar had gone against God, which Ed recognized as something Leo had been taught, not something he truly felt. Why get so angry about Scar if he didn’t really care? So even though in some ways Ed still didn’t get it, I think he was successful in using the tactic he did. Ed knows very well how things taken as a given by society can lead one down the wrong path. He accurately surmised that what Leo actually thought of Scar was different than he let on, so he prompted him to rethink what Scar had actually done, what he actually meant to Leo, because it was infinitely more important than what he thought he should feel.

No matter how Leo decides to take Ed’s advice, no matter what he comes to believe—about alchemy, about outcasts, about Scar—he needs catharsis and the space to grieve. Blindly condemning Scar did not help him; it only hurt him. Until he can acknowledge the man he knew and respected had committed the taboo, but that he loved him still despite this, Leo will never reconcile his faith with his emotions. He will never move past Scar’s death. He will never reach that catharsis.

So... yeah. Where was the scene of the news of Scar’s death reaching the Ishbalan community? Where’s my scene of Rick and Leo grieving the loss of a man they had loved, who had loved and protected them? What about Scar’s teacher? How did he take the news? I mean come on! Once Scar was dead, the Ishbalan characters were written off completely. We don’t even get to see them in the movie.

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