#fma 2003 fans where u at!!!!

[dapper-nahrwhale]

What makes fma 2003 all the more Tragic is the reason for all the death and destruction and despair caused by the creation of the stone is all for something so mundane and petty and vain. It's not some grand lofty goal to become unto a god, it's to extend someones already ridiculous and pointlessly long lifetime for just a few more years. All this just so one person who has lived for centuries can go on for a few more years then the cycle starts all over again. All the corruption in the military, all the wars, all the massacres, everything carefully crafted just so, for dante to live a little longer in her big empty house in the middle of the woods doing nothing. It's all so meaningless. It's not some big earth shattering disaster, it's so much more human and flawed and tragic because of that.

That's really part if what makes it so compelling, the real Tragedy it all is that the end goal isn't something world ending thing, it's just a bitter old lady who strayed so far from being human she forgot how to be anymore. Dante thought she should be able to live forever and so many people payed the price of that. All this suffering is for an old lady to get to be a little bit older so she can do it all over again in a few years. The real tragedy is that all this pain and death is for nothing.