I keep thinking about Lujon from FMA03. Like, this guy is such a mess. He’s an alchemist, and his town is being plagued by a horrific illness, and he feels terrible about it. And I get it! Alchemists are “Be thou for the people” and all. (Unless that’s only the State Alchemist creed?) He’s also engaged. Yet, a woman who literally calls herself Lust waltzes in and helps him and he falls in love with her while she teaches him what’s basically low-grade necromancy. I get being cagey about names, sometimes names can be a tricky thing, but she calls herself Lust. That is how she identifies herself. He ends up leaving his fiancée for Lust, and at no point does he consider he could be becoming the protagonist of a particularly heavy-handed fable/Aesop on the importance of fidelity and the dangers of hubris??














