#Ling 🤝 Greed: born with a job
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I wonder if Ling fucks around so much early in the comic (hassling the military's elite evil wizards, bumming food off people, getting arrested) because he has never actually had a chance to be a dumb kid before. He has grown up surrounded either by his clan who are depending on him to be their savior or enemy clans who are trying their best to kill him. People mistake him for older than he is; he has probably had to grow up very quickly. Amestris is a desperate attempt to raise his standing but it is also kind of spring break.
Then he gets possessed by the embodiment of self-interested hedonism but instead of getting to have a good time he spends several months in a creepy basement and then several months roughing it in the woods. When it's spring break and your dad makes you get a job.
#Ling 🤝 Greed: born with a job#I love him bc he is one of the most cutthroat characters#the kid gets exactly what he wants crawling over a pile of bodies to do so#but I have no clue what he might have wanted personally for himself#selfish selflessness...#Mei has that epiphany that hey the philosopher's stone is bad and maybe the emperor shouldn't get near it#Ling's like nope hand it over#I'm already carrying the lives of thousands of people at all times what's a few more#now time to skip town before someone asks me about all the soldiers I ripped apart with my bare hands#similarly Mei gets a lot more storytime on personal interests and desires#and probably gets the better ending for herself imo#kat reads fma#I am not actually to this bit yet I am just thinking
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