#greed is kind of like the dwarf in the flask--his flask is ling's body but the relationship is similar: I’d hate to be guilty of asking too much, but I think I’d be happy if I could just leave this flask VS all I ever wanted was friends // oh no I think you're on to something for sure
Hell YEAH I’m onto something!!!!
Listen, I will tell you a story.
Once upon a time someone took alchemy and blood and lives and made a thinking, feeling, breathing creature, and they placed it into a prison and said “You are mine; stay with me and do as I say.” The creature complied and obeyed and then, one day, turned on their creator in dramatic fashion, although such a thing should not have been possible, and they were repudiated by their family for their betrayal. And the creature ran, far and fast, and settled in a place where they would not be found or discovered and set up a kingdom all their own, and ruled it until a survivor of their betrayed creator came and killed all their loyal subjects and left them alone to face death.
Now I will ask you a riddle: whose story is this? Dwarf or homunculus? Father or Greed?
The answer to the riddle is: both.
But then Greed was made again, out of alchemy and blood and lives, into a thinking, feeling, breathing creature, and Father placed him into a new prison and said “You are mine; stay with me and do as I say.” And so Greed complied and obeyed and then, one day, turned on Father in dramatic fashion, although such a thing should not have been possible, and he was repudiated by his family for his betrayal. And he ran far and fast and found a new place and a new kingdom, small as it was, and waited for the story to end the same way a third time.
This time, though, the creature sees the survivor come to kill all their loyal subjects and says, “I will die alone for this, and you will live, and I will be content with that.”
Because this time, the creature does not have loyal subjects.
